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BumRushDaShow

(146,207 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 04:05 PM Saturday

'Hit him back twice as hard': Canadian leader puts Trump on notice over threats

Source: Raw Story

January 25, 2025 10:47AM ET


While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the face of Canadian opposition to President Donald Trump in his first term, that role now appears to belong to Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

In a lengthy interview with Politico magazine, Ford made it clear that while he hoped for good relations between Canada and the U.S. over the next four years, he wouldn't hesitate to be combative with Trump should the second-term president antagonize the United States' northern neighbor. Politico's Alexander Burns noted that Ford often sports a blue hat with the same serif-style font seen on MAGA hats that reads: "CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE."

Ford, who is 60 years old, accepted comparisons of his political style to professional wrestling. He likened himself to a "brawler with a reflex for combat," according to Burns.

“I’m a street fighter in politics,” said Ford, who is the brother of the late former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. “If someone throws a punch at me, I’m going to hit him back twice as hard.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-canada-2670996075/

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'Hit him back twice as hard': Canadian leader puts Trump on notice over threats (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Saturday OP
Good! Joinfortmill Saturday #1
one hopes the US democrats take notice... nt msongs Saturday #2
They won't! tableturner Saturday #3
on this anniversary of hitler become chancellor, one should study what happened to his opponents nt msongs Saturday #4
Yeah, I'd hope that too, but the only ones that seem to have any spine are the progressives. PatrickforB Saturday #8
pretty much nt msongs Saturday #9
You don't beat a bully by giving him your lunch money. al_liberal Saturday #5
Or when they threaten you and punch, your big sister comes along and turns him into a bloody pulp. GreenWave Saturday #6
THAT doug ford? well okay then. I guess this is good. nt Javaman Saturday #7
The real goal is homegirl Sunday #10
This is exactly what is needed! hamsterjill Sunday #11
Not America First but America Only? SomewhereInTheMiddle Monday #12

msongs

(70,467 posts)
4. on this anniversary of hitler become chancellor, one should study what happened to his opponents nt
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 05:05 PM
Saturday

PatrickforB

(15,144 posts)
8. Yeah, I'd hope that too, but the only ones that seem to have any spine are the progressives.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:03 PM
Saturday

AOC, Crockett, Warren.

I'm still mad at Pelosi for putting a 76 year old with esophageal cancer on Ways and Means instead of AOC because apparently we 'need' an institutionalist in that post. God forbid we get people in there who fight tooth and nail and never give an inch. Fuck working across the aisle.

We need to be using the same strategy the GOP used on us beginning in January 2009 - they opposed EVERYTHING the Dems proposed in lockstep. That is what we need to be doing. Make them fight, fight, fight for every single inch. Every. Single. Inch.

GreenWave

(9,858 posts)
6. Or when they threaten you and punch, your big sister comes along and turns him into a bloody pulp.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 06:43 PM
Saturday

True story.
Then he tried to challenge me (Original problem. He was taking two seats on the bus and my sis needed a seat)
Little green Wave: If you'[re so tough why don't you come over here and knock me down?
So he charged like an enraged bull but at the last split second I ducked and he went face first into the sticker bushes, He cried out for help, but none came.
Later at home my mom was doing her thing, sharpening knives. A loud knock at the door. I am Mr. Christianson and both your daughter and son beat up my boy and I...
He must have noticed the butcher knife... Mom "Well I don't care if you are Christianson or Atheist daughter, you get off my property before I skin you alive and teach that boy of your some manners."

homegirl

(1,621 posts)
10. The real goal is
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:17 AM
Sunday
Panama, the rest is diversion. Putin has given Donald his orders! Russia wants access to the Panama Canal. Currently Panama does no give Russia passage through the Canal. Access to the Seas is a long standing challenge for Russia!

Donald has been given his orders and he obeys!!!

12. Not America First but America Only?
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 03:47 AM
Monday

Maybe Trump’s version of Great America is when everything bought in America was produced in America. By starting trade wars with every possible supplier/market, he will force the US to return to self-sufficiency. Because, of course, we have all the necessary resources here that we use in building all our tech and other high-end products. And what resources we don’t have, we can annex territories that do have them.

I dread the next few years.

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