Art Of The Troll

Robert Graboyes sees that and more;

In several social media posts, President-elect Trump referred to “the Great State of Canada” (or “the 51st state”) and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau. It’s a nonsensical idea, and I suspect Trump knows it’s a nonsensical idea. The president-elect likely raised the idea for four reasons:

• To give the nettlesome prime minister a diplomatic swirly. If doing so contributed to Trudeau’s downfall, then Trump’s trolling constituted a Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.

• To distract the legacy media, for whom the absurdity of annexing Canada is an irresistible shiny, rotating object. If they’re focused on Canada, journalists lack sufficient bandwidth and attention span to focus, as well, on Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, or Tulsi Gabbard.

•To intimidate and disorient Canadian authorities prior to tariff negotiations. These functionaries haven’t sufficient bandwidth or attention span to deal with tariff minutiae while journalists badger them about Trump’s irredentist impulses.

•Because he can.

Related: Justin Trudeau abruptly leaves the Liberals’ caucus meeting after 30 minutes, saying he has “work to do as prime minister.” The meeting, which included all Liberal MPs, lasted for six hours.

44 Replies to “Art Of The Troll”

    1. He’s a smart fellow. And a good writer. But he needs to stop grabbing boys! It’s bad form, and distracting.

  1. It also seems to me that he might have said “Have at it, I’m gone”. Or could have, but don’t expect this “new leader” to be nominated/elected any day now. I say Trudeau will see out his Premiership.

    1. I think Trudeau is trying to pull the Trudeau 1 stunt, where PET announced his intention to step down as leader. The Liberals etc., then forced a non-confidence vote before the Liberal leadership convention and the Clarke government was defeated.

      Pierre ‘unretired’ and won the resulting helection.

      I don’t think Justin will win an election, but he’s setting things up to try and repeat what Trudeau 1 did. The only question is can he pull enough votes away from Singh.

      1. More to your thoughts, let’s expand on that.
        Clearly, the Wretched Spawn has no plans to leave whatsoever, he has been ordained as the saviour by Klaus.
        His plan appears to be as thus: the awful Orangeman is the true enemy of Canada. The tariffs will be applied, putting this country into an economic tailspin, the dollar crashing, and interest rates rising to compensate. T2 will ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN WHILE NO NEGOTIATIONS OCCUR.
        It’s clear he wants every citizen of this to country to hurt and feel the economic pain, BUT, a big But, IT WILL BE ORANGEMAN’S FAULT.
        That will be the Spawn’s election strategy, to run against the Bad Orangeman, and by extension, Orangeman’s puppet, PP. The strategy will be tarnish PP with the same brush. It’s so transparent to see what he wants to do.
        All at our expense and cost. Trudeau is truly an evil, psychopath.

        1. In a real country, a true nation, he’d have been removed by the Army Chief of Staff already. The fact that he hasn’t is how you know Canada is not a country, nor a nation.

  2. It also seems to me that he said – “Have at it, I’m gone”. Or could have, but don’t expect this “new leader” to be nominated/elected any day now. I say Trudeau will see out his Premiership.

    1. Probably at least a little bit. Trump’s shiny new antics are already dominating the news cycle and almost completely supplanting other stories like “OMG, srsly, Pete Hegseth?”

      Since there’s only so much bandwidth, as Graboyes noted, and since elected politicians have to pay attention to public opinion to some extent, the disappearance of any story from the media’s hyperventilation zone means it probably won’t be on the Senators’ radar quite as much. Some of them might even feel a bit of relief that they’re not under the proverbial klieg light quite so much wrt the appointments.

  3. Trump rubs the left’s nose in their hatred of Canada.
    According to them Canada is a post-national state with mass graves filled with thousands and thousands of murdered native children along with white supremacists, anti-vaxxers, global warming deniers, Freedom lovers, homophobes, transphobes, Albertans, rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

    Suddenly all sorts of liberal elites are wrapping themselves in the Canadian flag.
    It also pumps some air into the separation of the normal part of Canada, meaning Alberta. Sask, and parts of BC.
    MSM Toadies: “Western Canada will never separate, blah blah blah..”
    Trump: “Better get your shit together Canada, Alberta and Saskatchewan have some real options now.”

  4. Our western Canadian leaders need to use this distraction to their own advantage and take power away from Ottawa.
    Where to start hmmm bill c69, equalization , carbon tax in general but at the very least the stupidity of no carbon tax on home heating in the Atlantic but everyone else pays.
    Post nation state and this is the result, the allowed separatist party from Quebec to hold power in Ottawa is a disgrace. Give them what they want and let’s become a Republic.

      1. That anyone anywhere in Canada is even paying one dollar of carbon tax is a disgrace and proves that Canadians are terminally stupid.

  5. I do hope that sane Canada recognizes that Trump’s target is Trudeau, and woke-ism everywhere, and not Canada in general.

  6. Trump creates assets out of thin air. Greenland was not an asset to anyone until he he focused on it. He is kicking sand in Canada’s face to get everyone’s attention. Canada hasn’t paid its way regards the military in forever. What bargaining power does Canada even have to respond with?

  7. If Canadians were happy with the state of affairs, the trolling wouldn’t work.
    As it is now, I’m seeing a fair increase in the number of folks I see regularly who support joining the USA, or at least separating.

    Also, I’m not tired of this, though I’m tired of covid vax supporters in general, and folks who think EV will be adopted soon here while there’s no new electricity production to draw on to power those vehicles, and I’m tired of Toronto Maple Leaves supporters talking up their 57th chance in a row of winning the Stanley Cup.

  8. Canada is full of FILTHY LIBERALS and he is putting their self Loathing misery and Fake Patriotism on display. It is a Beautiful thing to hear my fellow retard Leftists try to explain how he is wrong and Parliament this and blah blah blah.

    EAT SHIT FILTHY LIBERALS.
    YOU CREATED THE SOLUTION
    We took shit from you for 10 years. 2 Tweets later and you are ready for MAID. DO IT!! THIS WILL NEVER STOP.

  9. ” …leaves the Liberals’ caucus meeting after 30 minutes, saying he has “work to do as prime minister.”

    I bet p’tit Joostaihn has a bad case of the shits.

    1. Yes, “work to do as prime minister” certainly sounds in the circumstances like a euphemism for “explosive dump”, doesn’t it?

  10. I’m awfully worried about the USA invasion. The Government of Canada doesn’t have a large enough military to defend the country.

    Trudeau has to increase military procurement, training, and spending immediately. And he needs to send all able bodied willing people actual assault rifles, grenade launchers, and machine guns for their own defense. Or at least allow such people to buy their own.

    1. You are joking right? Canada doesn’t have enough military to defeat Luxembourg. And the Turd has made gun ownership so difficult canadians wouldn’t know how to use them, and the ones who would don’t really feel like defending the Laurentian Elite. Biden emptied Gitmo, wouldn’t it look great full of our “betters”?

      1. What sane person wants to die playing at being Denmark to Trump’s Germany of 1940?

        The Danes lasted, what, two days?

        Elections have consequences.

        1. ” Trump’s Germany of 1940″

          An apt comparison. Good to see you’re just admitting that he’s Hitler.

  11. Can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Maybe he’ll run away to the cottage.

    Trudeau’s toast. Have a feeling the caucus wants him gone sooner than later. And behind the scenes? Imagine the machinations going on there.

  12. ” … likely raised the idea for four reasons:”

    5. If he’s talking about territorial expansion it sends a message to Pootin that the US isn’t going to worry very much about the Russian incursions.

  13. So, Justin is in the room for 30 minutes then leaves and appears to be in absolute delight, stating he has PM work to do.

    1) What kind of meeting could possibly capture the attention of the entire Liberal Cabinet for 6 hours that didn’t require liquor? Lots of liquor!!

    2) Were there calculators and tax lawyers present in that meeting? Because the only thing that Liberals can agree on for that long is strategizing how to extract more money from the Canadian taxpayers to break this country once and for all.

    3) Did Castreau leave in a gleeful hurry to run off for one of his favourite duties as PM, another photo shoot or making of another video amplifying his basic dictatorship’s next wonderful task?

    4) Was the PM heading out for a date? He sure looked eager to get somewhere!!

  14. The unmarked Liberal graves at the Laurentian elite schools will be casting votes in the Liberal leadership race.

  15. Trump’s engaging in the classic tactic of misdirection. It’s done to distract the audience’s attention from some other issue. Penn and Teller acts do it all the time. In Trump’s case, he knows that he has inherited a recession (along with every other industrialized nation if you follow the bond market lately) and he’s hoping to distract people from that concern.

  16. I actually believe that Barron is now operating his dad’s online presence. His kid knows the POWER of the meme … the POWER of the Troll

    1. I can only guess that Trudeau screwed over Tesla in Canada or something. Elon’s got a real hard on against your soon to be former PM

  17. Even the cowardly Liberal MPs without any morals recognize that PM Shitstain is a dead man walking.

  18. I find it hilarious that the “Post-National” Liberals to wrap themselves in the flag as if they could be taken seriously as patriotic nationalists.

    1. I know. And watching the UnMe’s flip from “Canada is a colonial genocidal pirate state with no right to exist” to “Canada is a proud, free, independent nation that will never bow to the US” is so pricelss.

      Guys, UnMe and his girlfriend Trudeau have shown all of us just why ph@ggsex is such a bad idea!

      1. You can hallucinate those strawmen as hard as you want, they still won’t be friends with you.

  19. We get it. You’ll run whatever retarded evil stuff comes out of Trump’s mouth through a BS translator in your brain so that he means whatever you want him to mean. Not interested.

  20. It’s one thing to joke about Trudeau’s weakness, but joking about invading another country is a step too far. You can do whatever mental gymnastics you want to justify it, but that just shows you will blindly follow Trump no matter what he does. It is ok to criticize him. No man will do exactly what you want. The Trump religion is becoming akin to the Global Warming religion.

  21. Question to ponder. Did Jr Castreau run away from the meeting because the MPs were saying nasty things about him to his face or did the caucus send Jr Castreau out on a Timmies run if he promised not to come back? Either way Jr Castreau had Prime Ministerial duties like crawling under his desk and curling into fetal position as he sucks his thumb crying for Mommy.

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