It’s blatant extortion now.

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    Trump needs to be removed for this and it’s not an exaggeration to say there are at least a dozen other unconstitutional things he’s done that he should be removed for as well. But the GOP-held congress doesn’t care about the constitution either so this is only going to continue to get worse.

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    The US’ most important good is intellectual property. They rely on other countries to protect their IP. If you no longer rely on them for trade because theyre tariffing the shit out of your country, you don’t need to appease them anymore by protecting their IP.

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      Up until the early 90s, the Dominican Republic had a local cable TV network. This network pretty much had a monopoly, it was dirt cheap and included all the premium American satellite/cable TV networks. You name it, it had it.

      Obviously this company never bothered to license any of it and just sent some dude to Miami from time to time to renew his individual satellite package so it could be pipe to an entire country. Neat “business model”, not local laws where broken and the US companies couldn’t do much about it.

      The fun came to a stop when the US threatened to revoke free-trade deals it had done with the State and pressured the Government to clamp down on the cable TV provider.

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      I miss the good old days when he just obsessed about fucking his daughter instead of my country.

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        It worked for Bush Jr. but only after he fucked up everything with the “War on Terror”. We’re still picking the pieces up from that mess.

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      They don’t have to! We just want the dirt part of Canada.

      Just like he wants the dirt part of Gaza. The people should move on to magical lands such as Greenland, Blue land, but most preferably brown land south.

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    Well this shit is likely not helping american military moral, which is good since this war will be rough and Canada needs every advantage/deserter available.

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      I do not want to see my military try to engage in any kind of combat with the hockey playing back to back war crime champs up north.

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      Also imagine being so stupid as to, among other things, threaten to annex Greenland and then also ask Denmark to export eggs to America.

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    In case people don’t realize. Canada shares an Arctic border with Russia and Russia is trying to take Canadian land and regularly crosses into our waters to steal resources. It is of benefit to Putin for Canada to be weak and distracted by Trump, since Trump works for Putin, it’s very clear why he’s doing this