Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him
Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him
Having evaded accountability when he was out of power, he’s running amok today.
gee if only there was some sort of historical evidence that appeasing fascists didn't work.
We need to call out those who enable him.
Yeah we really do. I'm still very annoyed at Carney for his recent submission with the digital tax.
While I am not happy about the dropping of the DST I can also see why. I don't see it as appeasing him, I see it as buying time while we hammer out the other things being worked on. We are unfortunately not in the best position to play hardball, and the money the DST was going to bring in would be immediately offset by the tariffs that were being planned for all Canadian goods in retaliation.
It's like giving the bully your lunch money. Now that he knows you'll give him free shit he'll just ask for more. It's literally rewarding him for bullying you.
I always fought back or at least shit talked the bullies until they got so mad they left. Gonna fuck with me it’s going to be hard time for you. As an adult I have not changed, I see someone yelling at a7-11 clerk I just start going off on them.
He’s a bully. That’s how bullies operate. Never give in to bullies, because it just reenforces their idea that bullying works.
Have you considered that the people "appeasing" Trump are actually on his side pretending not to be? Not that "both sides same" bullshit, but that conservatives have been really good at pretending to not be.
What are conservatives pretending?
To be Democrats.
Well, yeah - he's a stereotypical bully (just notice how he uses the threat of lawsuits to bully small contractors supplying his companies which he doesn't want to pay) and those invariably see appeasement as proof of the weakness of the other side and will double down on the bullying if they get concessions to extract even more.
Bully, get concessions, bully some more, get more concessions, bully some more, get more concessions and so on is a pretty standard process for bullies.
The way to deal with bullies is to do the exact opposite of giving concessions: go in the very opposite direction and fuck them up, don't just respond in kind, respond with a more hurtful response than their original action. If they react to this by pushing harder, push them back even harder and they always end up backing down, especially if they can come up with some bullshit to save face: China has perfectly demonstrated this process with Trump's tariffs.
Every Canadian should know: Carney has financial ties with Jared Kushner, Trump's inlaw.
We're not led by an adversarial PM, that guy is just a banker that got coronated by the liberal party.
Everyone in a liberal riding should add their representant's phone number to their quick dial and get on their ass the second news like the digital tax drop. They will not fight for you, they might actually be captured altogether, you can't just sit by and expect Carney to be your white knight.
True: Brookfield’s 2018 lease deal with Jared Kushner and Qatar's financing involvement. Misleading/Unverified: Carney’s condo in Trump Tower, bailing out the Kushner family, and a direct role in the 2018 deal. Contextual nuance: He wasn’t involved in the original lease deal, and while the HQ move happened under his watch, it was a board-level decision.
FYI anyone can fact-check an article easily with links to quotes and references using your favourite LLM.
Claim Verdict 2018 lease — true ✅ Confirmed $1.1 B upfront, Qatar funding — true ✅ Confirmed Carney involved in 2018 deal — false ❌ Misleading Carney owns Trump Tower condo — false ❌ Unverified Carney personally bailed out Kushner — false ❌ Misleading HQ move under his influence — nuanced 🔶 Partly true Senate inquiry — true ✅ Confirmed FYI anyone can fact-check an article easily with links to quotes and references using your favourite LLM
As long as you understand that the LLM is just a word generator, and it doesn't actually "understand" anything. The LLM will cite its sources, and that's the information that can be used. The LLM is a shortcut, not the final answer.
Never appease, never negotiate with bullys, nor terrorists.
Mark Carney ought to know this, and was elected based on his promises not to appease Trump. But a few weeks in he has already caved. It's pretty infuriating.
We are all Neville Chamberlain on this glorious day.
(War is) Peace in Our Time!
I mean, duh?
If only there was some historical precedent, you know, in recent history, that could have given us an indication about the probable outcome of appeasing a fascist leader.
I really did Nazi it coming. I read over a few books, but I haven't Hitler on anything that sounds quite like this...
Just to be clear, all of this is well known and has nothing to do with Canada.
It absolutely does have something to do with Canada, we do trade with them...
too bad the supreme court is avoiding the whole topic of his behavior through technicalities such as "we have not addressed the merit of the matter in this ruling" and kicking the can down the road
I am hoping that Carney capitulated just to restart the talks so we can finalize them by July 21st. Whatever deal is reached, from that point on we can just wash that Trump right out of our hair, then we can look elsewhere for our trade opportunities as a new normal part of moving forward.
No way.
No shit Sherlock.
to no one's surprise...