Comment by palmotea

11 hours ago

> The difference here is presumably for the last hundred years, ending last November, there was simply no chance of a invasion of Canada.

The chance of Canada being invaded didn't change at all in November. The amount of hyperbole about Trump has been utterly astounding, and fears of an Canadian invasion are an instance of that.

And my sense is that actually a fair amount of the bad stuff Trump has done (though definitely not all) is a direct result of the overreactions to him [1], so it's probably best not to overreact.

[1] E.g. Democrats fear and loathe him, so they pursued all kinds of legal actions against him while he was out of office to damage and destroy him. They failed, he got re-elected, and now only in his second term, he's corrupted the Justice Department into a club to attack those very same people.

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kace91  9 hours ago

In the same message you are accepting the president of the United States has corrupted the justice department into a club to attack personal enemies, and claiming people are overreacting. Don’t you see any trace of contradiction there?

And even if you don’t, does that look like a safe partner to have as a neighboring country?

triceratops  10 hours ago

> Democrats fear and loathe him, so they pursued all kinds of legal actions against him while he was out of office

So maybe he should'nt've have broken laws. Not give them anything to pursue.

  • rayiner  6 hours ago

    That would be a valid argument if the prosecutions against Trump didn’t involve legal gymnastics like the ones Google uses to make all their profits appear to have been earned in Ireland: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-was-convicted-...

  • palmotea  10 hours ago

    > So maybe he should'nt've have broken laws. Not give them anything to pursue.

    It's not so simple: 1) everybody breaks laws, and 2) in at least one case those laws were stretched and abused in unusual ways to specifically target him (his felony convictions, which unsurprisingly were immediately turned into an electoral attack). I'm not a Trump fan, but I'm not a Democratic partisan either, and I think that prosecution was really, really gross.

    • triceratops  10 hours ago

      > laws were stretched in unusual ways to specifically target him

      Sure one man's campaign finance violations/embezzlement (I can't recall the details) are another man's politically motivated prosecution. That wasn't the only case against the guy though. It was the only case that concluded. Winning the election saved his skin. He was cooked otherwise.

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    • naijaboiler  9 hours ago

      No sir, everybody does not break laws. Only people who routinely do like Trump thinks everyone else is doing it. That’s why he’s so sure he can find cases against his perceived political enemies only to find out the in thing he can find is the woman bough a second home, which she indicated is a second home, and let her neice stay there.

      Only criminals think everyone else is a criminal

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myko  6 hours ago

Unfathomable that people are still downplaying the disaster trump has been at this point. Extremely sad.

wat10000  8 hours ago

Obviously the chance of invasion didn’t change in November. Trump took office in January.

The chance of invasion definitely changed then. You think the man is incapable of impulsively ordering the military to invade Canada? Or do you think the military would refuse?

You’re using the language of an abuse victim. Don’t provoke him, maybe if we’re quiet and good he’ll be nice to us. That doesn’t work. You have to get out of the abusive relationship.

The man tried to stay in office past the end of his first term with actions up to and including violence. In any sensible country he would have been thrown in prison at that point. This “don’t overreact, it just makes things worse” attitude is the only reason he’s here to fuck with us again today.