{"id":646887,"date":"2025-01-13T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=646887"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:33:26","slug":"trumps-trolling-about-canada-becoming-the-51st-state-has-set-our-country-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=646887","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s trolling about Canada becoming the 51st State has set our country on fire."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Brian&#8230;Great Piece <\/p>\n<p>The last time a foreign leader caused such a big stir was in 1967 when France&#8217;s President Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech to a crowd in Montreal. He finished with a rhetorical flourish by declaring &#8220;Vive le Qu\u00e9bec libre?!&#8221;, with particular emphasis on the word libre (Translation: Long live a free Quebec!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada vs Trump is a false choice fallacy.<\/p>\n<p>My allegiance is to my family, my friends, and to my community to protect them from what Canada has become.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you don&#8217;t understand how deeply we have been betrayed by our country and how thoroughly the govt has obliterated the social contract between the govt and the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It all leaves me speechless. How can a culture completely turn its back on everything it once stood for, without any meaningful effort at self-preservation, all because a few pathetic losers have learned to weaponize empathy as a political strategy? Does this country even have a pulse?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juliusruechel.substack.com\/p\/on-being-canadian?\">https:\/\/juliusruechel.substack.com\/p\/on-being-canadian?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Brian&#8230;Great Piece The last time a foreign leader caused such a big stir was in 1967 when France&#8217;s President Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech to a crowd in Montreal. He finished with a rhetorical flourish by declaring &#8220;Vive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=646887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646894,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646887\/revisions\/646894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}