This is about the Ambassador bridge being owned by Manual Moroun, a MAGA buddy who extorted $60M a year for trade.
He’s thankfully dead, but his asshole family still has ties to Pedonald. Moroun was even sued by his own family.
This is a shakedown for the Morouns.
That bridge was paid for by Canada to help trade flow between the 2 countries. And Canada gave U.S. 50% control over the bridge as a partnership…
Wtf is trump going to demand ? He probably wants it to be called the trump bridge.
“Oh, they want something. Clearly that means I can shake them down for something I want, too.”
Dealing with this fucking toddler is exhausting
All the well deserved vitriol aside, there’s a really straightforward explanation for this. The Maroun family owns the competing Ambassador bridge, and has been using it to extort cross border traffic for a generation now. This competition is bad for them. And guess what? They’re Trump donors. So this is just standard, run-of-the-mill gangster capitalism again.
Which bridge are we talking about? Is it the soon to be renamed ‘Epstein-Trump Memorial Bridge’?
Don’t open this one. Close the Canadian side of the ambassador bridge. Fuck that guy
At this point I say we should just cut our losses and just let that bridge sit unoccupied for now
And close the Canadian End of the US private bridge.
Nah, leave it open to the border, and let Canadians throw rotten tomatoes across. Could also turn it into some sort of plaza with artisan shops and whatnot. Make it a tourist attraction.
Dear Americans, we’re not locked out. You’re locked in with him…
I saw a Guard the Leaf video about the Bad Bunny half time show today, where the guy talked about using Americans as someone who lives in the US is wrong there are two contents that make up North and South America. I will never call myself an American but I am from North America.
the guy talked about using Americans as someone who lives in the US is wrong there are two contents that make up North and South America.
I get so fruatrated at that splitting hairs argument.
Yes, the continents have those names.
But on those continents, there is only one country with America as the prominent part of their country’s name. Only one country whose national anthem includes the phrase “God bless America”. Only one country whose citizens refer to themselves as Americans.
If you say “Americans” to any non-pedantic person anywhere in the world they will think of one, and only one, country.
Yah it’s so odd we have Africans,Europeans, Asians but what do we call birth or south Americans. Maybe we need to change the continent names to distance from the US.
Way to show us what a reliable trading partner you are.
Wtf is he on about with banning hockey? That’s the weirdest part of the whole thing. This is the second time he brought it up.
You know, alongside the comment about China “eating us up” and leaving them the leftovers sounding like obvious projection, I wouldn’t doubt anymore that banning hockey in Canada is something that admin has talked about in their annexation fantasy.
I think he bought the “Big book of Canadian Cliches” and took to read on the toilet. Then his legs fell asleep after an hour or two and he dropped the book in the toilet.
Unfortunately he only made it through two or three. So we’re stuck with hockey comments until someone can teach him some new Canadian cliches.
the yella man gon’ take yer srup!
Canada paid for, and built the bridge. We should just ban any vehicle with US plates from using it. Although, no Canadians should be crossing anyways.
Hold on let’s put a toll station on it. USA plates $$$, Canadian go free.
Oh ABSOLUTELY, those are our tax dollars at work, we need to milk the ROI on it now – and taking traffic from the Ambassador Bridge and cashflow from the Moroun family is just the extra high stick to the face we like to see.
i call it US tariff toll entering canada.
And Michigan still owns it with Ontario
Why would we try to stop this. Leave it closed.
Why so dramatic. You don’t have to threaten the economy and demand talks, just call, I’m sure he’s got the number.
There are no concessions to give and no trade deals to be made. A bad faith negotiator who has no checks and balances from courts or congress is less than pointless. Just shut it all down.
While I realize it was built to facilitate trade (and paid for by Ontario & Canada), it seems like its existence is a security threat now seeing as those fat stupid yanks have designs on destroying us economically with an aim to annex us….the bridge should go.
What’s a little extortion between friends?
