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So. We don't have a fentanyl "czar" we have Erin O'Gorman President of the Canada Border Services Agency who has been in the position since 2022 and was not appointed at the behest of Trump. The whole situation with requested assistance to halt the bleed of illegal guns from the USA has been something we've advocated for for a long time but the US tends to not take Canadian affairs very seriously because we are effectively a very small country with only marginally more population than the state of California. Honestly, we've never been prioritized as Americans cannot be made to care that they are shit neighbours.

Additional boarder Enforcement was approved 6 months ago when Trump was elected due to the possibility of another influx of immigrants fleeing the US which happened the first time Trump was in office due to proposed travel bans. It is here to stay as instability in the US is rising. We also dropped the requirements for recruitment to branches of the military because we are taking these threats seriously. If Trump never asked for anything we would be doing the same thing.

Trump essentially just threw a tantrum, we told him we would cover it because he was asking for things already in progress but what he wanted was to crow his strong man tactics to the media which is what he got.

Do not be fooled by media exaggerating the "wins" of Trump. He's just using flash and glitter and misdirection.

Then you stick to your own country. Know that every time Trump says the word 51st state he is threatening us. We do not want the absurd parody of the word that is American freedom. We have our own freedom. I do not need to speak to our Government because they are already doing the right thing. Stay on your side of the line. We will not suffer oppressors least of all ones too stupid to mourn what they have lost.

No. But you are in support of this regime. It is a cacophony of individuals that make this happen and while you are a small atom of that movement without support from all it's atomic fragments it would not be empowered to do anything of this. You are on here crowing about how much fun you're having. How happy you are your man is in charge. Talking about how you are going to infiltrate other communities as a sleeper agent to become a mod and shut down the conversations when there are already spaces where your opinions see the air without question but that is not enough for you. Washing your hands Pontius Pilate will not absolve you. Everyone here is accountable, you aren't somehow magically exempt because you are "just a widdle guy".

Your country is being damaged by the day. It's hemmoraging good will on the international stage, the business deals are going elsewhere, the unemployment rates from the federal government purges racking up will start to hit your country in the next few months as individual citizens stop buying anything but bare nessessities while they search for jobs that don't exist because there will be no replacements.

So rejoice! Today you feast, tomorrow you starve and when you look to blame someone for it save a little share for the man in the mirror.

You are an idiot. Your President is trying to take over our country based on 20 kilos of fentanyl, which is about as much as was apprehended goung in the opposite direction btw and a supposed deficit of enforcement we already voted to step up 6 months ago.

Oh... And is calling a trade agreement he signed and called "the most wonderful trade agreement of all time" at the time suddenly an exploitation of Americans. It's not our fault your lot are fucking insane and talking about annexation like they are doing us a favour.

You're Flavor-aid poisoned. Wake the fuck up.

Oh plenty of reasons to be angry. Your Mad King keeps treating our country like it belongs to him and posturing to take it over. There's citizen movements up here essentially preparing for war and strengthening ties to actual allies.

Your head is firmly up your own ass if you think we have no cause to be fucking pissed.

Glad I'm not there and not planning on setting foot on American soil again until you stop being a failed state. Thanks for asking!

Great. Have fun on the way down.

Nope, who your Presidents are is kind of inconsequential at this point. The system sucks because it was written by people who figured a king was nessisary and you lot never updated it into modernity after and now it's failed due to old age.

The only thing keeping the whole thing on the rails for as long as it did was believing in fairies. The rest of the world looked at that system and when they built their own democracies they fixed the bugs with more modern designs.

Taunt us all you like but enjoy living in a failure that progressively more people can't believe in anymore Tinkerbell.

You didn't read what I wrote huh? Alright. I will keep it short so you can keep up.

It's not Trump.

It's every American President since the beginning. They just used to have to pretend it wasn't true.

It's time to grow up and become a real democracy like the rest of us.

He already is dipshit. American democracy is old as fuck compared to the rest of the world and an American president has undemocratic levels of power compared to most other democracies. Biden and every other President before him was also a King they just played by the expectations not to act like one.

Your system is crumbling old ass garbage half written in archaic obsolete law language. A Democracy beta test written by people who still saw the role of monarch as nessisary. The world moved on from your system a hundred years ago because they unlike you lot didn't mythologize the writers of their documents as Gods of creation and you lot had your heads so far up your own asses you never noticed the joke you were becoming. It might have been cute once but now it's just fucking sad.

You know those are constitutional monarchies right? Their monarchs have effectively less political power than the American President by far and at best hold a symbolic role of paper stamper.

Also they have a solid history of axing them when they overstep (sometimes literally), and bringing their successors back on with further reduced function in government. These days they are basically just overpayed legacy mascots that have lucrative longstanding contracts...

Maybe America should follow suit with the rest of Europe, depose their Mad Kings and make them actual civil servants accountable to the people or just kooky sock puppets to entertain the masses with. It would be a nice change.

Nope, this tracks. Travelling while trans even before the Trump presidency means hastle. Gender markers on passports often mean very little aside from potentially outing passing trans people to asshole agents when they don't match what you look like.

Normally it looks like variations of this : You go through the body scanner and a guard makes a determination based on basically vibes and pushes one of two buttons, a pink or a blue. If you have boobs and the blue button is pressed or a dick and the pink button is pressed you get flagged as having something "unexpected" on you and then are subjected to a body search during which they might just stick you in a holding place for as long as they feel like while they figure out who to send to perform a rather humiliating discussion about your medical history while your privates are checked over by strangers.

Or, someone just looks at you, looks at your passport flags the sex marker or your photo as a "suspicious error" and pulls you out of line. It's remarkable how poorly the whole bureaucracy suddenly operates when you don't immediately fit someone's exact expectations of what a trans person looks like. Most of the time this just wastes a lot of time as you wait around for someone to have a long ass conversation and they run the papers to check them.

These delays can mean missing a flight but the person who missed the flight could be in a place to sue if they don't offer a solution hence... Standby flights. So this is more or less just going back to being the old sucky forms of travel discrimination versus an even worse form. The bar is in hell and folk are gunna feel about it based on what the bar was before it was lowered. Whether that's "oh thank god" or "fucking hell life is shit" is a glass half full/empty reaction. Both are valid.