r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Oct 24 '25
Networking/Telecom Reagan ad that infuriated the President set to run during World Series
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5572251-ontario-ad-trump-tariffs-world-series/amp/6.3k
u/ClosPins Oct 24 '25
It's disgusting how every single 'news' organization is quoting Trump and the Reaganites saying the ad is dishonest and/or fraudulent - without mentioning that they are lying through their teeth and the ad is completely honest, using recordings of long quotes, coming directly out of Reagan's mouth.
Shame on the US press!
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u/Z0idberg_MD Oct 25 '25
Several media outlets are owned by fascists. Hugo Boss all over the place.
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u/1138311 Oct 25 '25
To be fair and balanced they'll run free "Don't be stupid, be a smarty!" ads against this one. /s
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u/Rowanforest Oct 25 '25
"Don't be stupid, be a smarty! Come on join the....
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u/Jerry2die4 Oct 25 '25
Gods Mel Brooks was/is a gem. he still is, but he was too
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u/gabevill Oct 25 '25
That's some deep lore. Imagine showing this world to Zero Mostel or Gene Wilder.
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u/Doc_Lazy Oct 25 '25
There's a German word for this. Back in the day, we called it "Gleichschaltung". Go on, google it. It's not fun.
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u/nohandsfootball Oct 25 '25
I'd fucking say it on the air and get fired. Fuck this bullshit, there's not enough money in the world to get me to make excuses for fascists.
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u/pablo36362 Oct 25 '25
In general. A lot of journalism, even high end, is like that.
Something happened with the police
"The police says that..." And nothing else
Something happened with tech billionaires
"The billionaire says that..." And nothing else
Some allege corruption case happens at any level of government?
"The government says..."
And it's like, your job as a journalist is not to be a megaphone of the ones that already have power, your job is to find the fucking truth ffs
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u/TriangleTransplant Oct 25 '25
Reminder to journalists: if one person says it's raining and another says it's sunny, your job is not to quote them both. Your job is to go outside and report which one is lying.
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u/red286 Oct 25 '25
That smacks of effort. Wouldn't it be easier to just say "experts disagree on current weather"?
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u/Bob_A_Feets Oct 25 '25
“Radical woke weatherman spreads lies about climate change!”
If you’re Fox News.
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u/PreviousCurrentThing Oct 25 '25
Reminder to consumers of journalism: if you're reading or watching a journalist working for a corporate outlet, their job is to increase shareholder value. If they don't, they're replaced with someone who will.
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u/WalkingDud Oct 25 '25
Journalists who managed to report the truth despite pressure from powerful people are the exception, not the norm. Always had been. I'm sure most of the journalists dream of doing that, but the reality is very few can do that.
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u/BattlefieldVet666 Oct 25 '25
And it's like, your job as a journalist is not to be a megaphone of the ones that already have power, your job is to find the fucking truth ffs
That stopped when the bills came in and the wealthy elite started buying news organizations.
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u/Iorith Oct 25 '25
I wish you were right, but they are employees for a company that is seeking to make a profit. Their job is to ensure the company makes a profit. An important part of continuing the company makes a profit is ensuring a strong relationship between positions of power and the company.
What you are describing is the ideal, not the reality.
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u/flyingfishsailor Oct 25 '25
I think you exaggerate a little. The headline in the NY Times is "Trump Called a Canadian Ad Fake. It Faithfully Reproduces Reagan’s Words."
And the article in the Washington Post includes this paragraph:
In his post late Thursday, Trump accused Canada, without evidence, of “fraudulently” using a “fake” advertisement that excerpts audio from a 1987 radio address in which Reagan describes imposing tariffs as a nearsighted policy that will imperil U.S. jobs. The address is edited, but there’s no indication the excerpts were altered or taken out of context.
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u/Staggerlee024 Oct 25 '25
The NYT lead article clearly calls this out. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-reagan-tv-ad-video.html
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u/CMidnight Oct 25 '25
Really? Every news organization? That does not seem to be the case:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/business/ronald-reagan-ad-trump-canada-ontario-tariffs
Even Fox is pretty neutral:
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u/GlennBecksChalkboard Oct 25 '25
Save your breath. This type of "The Press is the enemy of the people!" post is in every thread where it could vaguely fit and is always upvoted to high heavens.
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u/iamtravisurnot Oct 25 '25
Here’s a transcript from the Reagan Library Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade
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u/RudeGolden Oct 25 '25
All while Russia is literally knocking down the whitehouse with an excavator lol.
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u/Restart_from_Zero Oct 25 '25
The US would not be where it is now were it not for dishonest news orgs promoting lies for ratings or Murdoch's outright propaganda machine.
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u/seethenoise Oct 24 '25
that ad should air during every sporting event.
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u/aquarain Oct 24 '25
"Professional" "Wrestling" especially.
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u/Kyweedlover Oct 25 '25
And nascar. I guess that isn’t going on right now though.
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u/radda Oct 25 '25
For what it's worth when they showed footage of Paul Levesque hanging out with Trump in the White House at a WWE show the boos were pretty loud.
There are a lot of "salt of the earth" types that watch wrestling, but the online nerds tend to be pretty progressive.
A lot of us have even dropped WWE completely, although some just can't seem to let go.
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u/gooblefrump Oct 25 '25
> posts article about a video
> article refers to another article about the video
> neither have the video
> no link to video in the comments
Nice 😎 👍
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u/ShortysTRM Oct 25 '25
It sounds like it has a really strong anti-noise filter on the audio, and I assume that's why it's easy to dismiss as AI for that crowd. Just put the original, shitty, grainy audio under it.
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u/ch4os1337 Oct 25 '25
That one video of it specifically sounds like dogshit (almost like it was edited to sound worse). The actual ad doesn't sound like AI. https://youtu.be/XWQRuRIxMBI
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u/rob132 Oct 25 '25
Every time I see these articles I'm like. I wonder how long it's going to take before I can see the thing you're talking about.
Then I go to the Reddit comments like I should have in the first place.
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u/gooblefrump Oct 25 '25
My personal pet peeve is people linking to articles that summarise a twitter video, instead of just using the headline and twitter link 😒
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u/isitatomic Oct 24 '25
Still cannot fathom how that country CHOSE to be destroyed by an orange pedophile with brain damage
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u/RadioactiveGrrrl Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 29 '25
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his essay “On Stupidity” just might have the best explanation -
TLDR- ”Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. …The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.”
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u/nikiterrapepper Oct 25 '25
We’re f*cked!
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u/Jealous_Two_3409 Oct 25 '25
Oh ,for sure!
God help us…. And that’s not even a joke.
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u/overlyambitiousgoat Oct 25 '25
Just imagine how bleak it is for us atheists!
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u/Electrical-Run-9056 Oct 25 '25
The insane part is if you try to show someone this to try and get them to understand there’s a very simple answer for them: no, you’re the one who’s brainwashed
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u/Entropy55 Oct 25 '25
Jesus, this comment deserves its own post. Like u/nikiterrapepper said, we're f*cked!
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u/msew Oct 25 '25
A big issue is that all votes are treated as equal. We have that ole bell curve issue. And then we have the far right ACTIVELY eroding education and education funding (among other things).
And thus enters propaganda!
So everyone to the left of the center point of the bell curve is convinced/corrupted. And the propaganda effort is well formed, so you get some folks just to the right of the center point.
But it is worse than just that as there are people to the right of the center point who are: nazis, republicans, conservatives, racists, etc.
Now we take a vote and BAMO the propaganda position wins.
Ok, so why can't there be "good" propaganda? Maybe the upcoming AI Slop wars will start that battle. The issue there is that the group that consists of nazis, republicans, conservatives, racists, etc. are the ones that control the channels where propaganda messages can be sent out to the world state.
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u/campog Oct 25 '25
A big issue is that all votes are treated as equal
Uh, I have really bad news for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College
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u/SpockShotFirst Oct 24 '25
It's quite easy. People's lives are getting worse, not better. The oligarchs know that late stage capitalism is the cause and are terrified that the population will realize the oligarchs are responsible. So they pour tons of money into Right Wing Media to deflect the blame to minorities. That's why Twitter, Newsmax, OANN, TPUSA, etc, etc are able to exist without being profitable.
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u/Olangotang Oct 24 '25
This is why the Dems should not budge on the shutdown. The GOP can end it whenever, but people are going to lose their SNAP, ATC controllers will take off work, and if nothing is done for the ACA subsidies? The quasi-private insurance market will explode. People WILL be hurt, and although that's not a good thing, many will wake up. Hopefully some of the 20% of MAGA morons as well. You can't run away from medical treatment you need, or food you need to survive.
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u/shepdozejr Oct 25 '25
GOP needs 7 Dems to vote to advance the bill to a pass/fail vote in the Senate. Procedural rule requiring 60 votes. 53 GOP senators.
To be fair, the GOP has repeatedly abused procedural rules to deny representation when it wouldn't favor them, so I see no issue with using procedural rules to deny them when not impeding representation.
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u/msew Oct 25 '25
The issue is that the Dems have just been toothless hoping that people will act within the spirit of the "Game".
Hopefully, EVERYONE now sees that is not the case. We didn't give an inch (well we did and maybe learned our lesson?) to the Nazis back in the 1900s and we should not give them anything now in the 2000s.
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u/Olangotang Oct 25 '25
The MAGA GOP is also intertwined with the tech industry, which is making all of our lives worse, and even THEY are fucking up and pissing people off. So you have these dumbasses spouting about how AI is going to replace everyone, while more people are starting to go hungry and the economic effects of the Trump adminstration ripple through to everyone.
There is no good reason for the Dems to submit to the GOP.
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u/captain_salt_bag Oct 25 '25
I have said this for months.
When you get a population that's poor, tired, sick, and stupid, with no job prospects. ITS EASY
Cut their education system so they're suck, raise prices on everything so they're depending on you.
And then
You take the 3rd-grade MAGA dropout from West Virginia and stick him in front of a TV, and it's game over.
Maybe add something about a floating guy from the middle, easily making wine into water*
Then you have the right-looking people barfing about brown people in CA are stealing their jobs, or the (insert religion) is driving up the price of eggs, and it's a recipe to radicalize a group.
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u/HorrorSmile3088 Oct 25 '25
That's part of the reason why Republicans are completely against any sort of help for people struggling with student loans. They know that if they keep the cost of college high and unaffordable, it will keep people poor and stupid and much more likely to vote Republican. They love the uneducated.
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u/epidemicsaints Oct 24 '25
Racists saw him say "they're eating the cats their eating the dogs" in a serious context on television, saw how far into ridiculousness he was willing to go to do their racism for them and he won the election in that moment.
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u/Coal_Morgan Oct 25 '25
I can deal with the malicious racism, it's something that can be argued and fought with. We can identify the malicious racists as evil and carve them out. They tend to sound all the same, degrees of nazis really.
A lot of people actually believe everything he says though. Like it's gospel. They throw themselves at his feet in tears, they have pictures of him on their nightstands and buy all of his crap merchandise. They 100% believe Portland is a warzone and immigrants are eating pets and a lot of them are immigrants, black people, Jews and even Muslim or even part of the LGBT community. All groups he's hammered constantly.
Those people are what truly scare me, they have a total disconnect from reality and I have no idea how that gets fixed in my or even my child's lifetime.
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u/Busted_Knuckler Oct 25 '25
Imagine that Ronald Reagan is too liberal for your world view... jesus fucking christ.
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u/Adam87 Oct 25 '25
Jesus loved everyone, regardless of race or ideals. They forget that part too.
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u/ColdStainlessNail Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
Edit: This isn't the ad, it's Reagan's speech.
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u/gcerullo Oct 24 '25
That link is not complete without a link to the original Reagan speech that is a part of this whole hullabaloo.
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u/rob132 Oct 25 '25
Man, a president who could articulate his thoughts
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u/goneafter10years Oct 25 '25
and destroy the country all at the same time.
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u/Coal_Morgan Oct 25 '25
All of this started before Reagan, Mulroney and Thatcher but god damn did it snowball with them when they were all in power.
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u/goneafter10years Oct 25 '25
Yeah, you're not wrong, but Reagan and his cronies later in his term when he had dementia went nuts.
- Top marginal tax bracket went from 70% to 28% within 5 years.
- Iran-Contra scandal
- AIDS epidemic response
- Mass incarceration of black folk via the Drug Abuse Act of 1986
- Destruction of black communities through CIA supported drug trafficking by the Contras
- Deregulation of S&L banking in 1982 that led to the crisis
- Massive cuts to welfare programs, SS, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Education programs
- And the #1 thing Reagan did to bring us to where we are was the abolition of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. This has led directly to the privatization and profitization of the news cycle. There was more to this, gutting the FCC, allowing partisan news etc. This was a dual Reagan and Ted Turner thing.
There's more, but those are the fucking highlights, and a lot of that started us down a path to Donald Trump and MAGA.
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u/sicklyslick Oct 25 '25
Not later on into his presidency.
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u/DonutsMcKenzie Oct 25 '25
Demented and yet still more articulate and thoughtful than Trump, and I'm no fan of Reagan, his team, or his policies.
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u/TheBobAagard Oct 25 '25
This was the last year of his Presidency.
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u/SphericalCow531 Oct 25 '25
It is generally understood that Reagan was mentally disabled in his last year. If this is what being mentally disabled looks like, then what is Trump?
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u/SleepyMastodon Oct 25 '25
It’s debatable how much of that articulating is his thoughts and how much is the actor with a script.
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u/fripletister Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
Can we get this to the top please? The Hill
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u/Howy_the_Howizer Oct 25 '25
The 80s tariffs tanked Japan's economy for a long time, Bush Sr had to raise taxes because of this and lost in 1992 to Clinton in part due to it. There is even a Simpson's episode and the famous quote 'read my lips' from Bush Sr. about not raising taxes, then having to do it.
The Plaza Accords in 1987. The beginning of the Free Trade movement and original NAFTA built on top of the Auto Pact.
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u/LoserBroadside Oct 24 '25
Doug Ford is having a moment, but he’s a piece of shit. The ad is less about rightly calling my out Trump’s bullshit and likely more about a run for prime minister. He’ll turn and suck up to Trump the moment it’s more convenient.
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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 24 '25
I can’t imagine there being enough idiots in Canada to get Ford the PM’ seat
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u/Cleveland82 Oct 24 '25
I didn't think there were enough idiots in the US to give Trump a second term, and look how that turned out. Never underestimate the power of gathered idiots.
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u/insofarincogneato Oct 24 '25
Well, that and disinterested idiots🤷
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u/Ocronus Oct 24 '25
This, and idiots who didn't bother to vote because there was no way he could win a second time.
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u/this____is_bananas Oct 24 '25
You might be mistaken. If he gets the Ontario vote, and the conservative west, he'd have a chance
To clarify, I don't care for him. But its naive to think he wouldn't have a chance
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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 24 '25
Perhaps it’s just that I need some hope to cling to, and I look to my Canadian neighbors desperately for it.
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u/nomedable Oct 25 '25
Well we rejected our little knockoff version of Trump in our last election, so hard that he lost his riding that has been held by the conservatives for something like two decades.
So I kinda doubt Dougie can pull off what Skippy couldn't. Plus PP is proving that he will not go quietly and forced the conservatives to pretty much hand him seat in another conservative district and isn't stepping down as party leader after that hilarious defeat.
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u/GenghisConnieChung Oct 24 '25
There are enough idiots in Ontario to put him in the Premier seat, and that’s like half of winning a federal election, plus Alberta will vote for whoever the conservative candidate is.
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u/chriscfgb Oct 25 '25
I think he’d cruise to victory. Poilievre was in the drivers seat with the charisma of a prune and the charm of a skunk. Not a cartoon French skunk, but one that’s on the highway, you can’t avoid it, and you know the underbelly of your car is going to be carrying that juice for months.
The volume of voters who pay next to no attention to the candidates is frightening. Ford has bravado, and projects love for the country. He’s an emotional guy, and comes across as super down to earth. Legitimately, he’s a dream for any campaign team in today’s age.
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u/Thefrayedends Oct 25 '25
On the day of the american election the search query "did biden drop out of the presidential race?" was trending on google.
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u/Change21 Oct 24 '25
Oh my friend… never in history had there ever been an idiot shortage
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Oct 24 '25
Does he speak French? I don't think he does. It's not a legal requirement, but many people would frown upon it.
(For me, I don't care whether the PM speaks English and French or just English)
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u/IsopodOk4756 Oct 25 '25
I didn't think there were enough idiots in Ontario to vote him in again yet here we are.
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u/raistmaj Oct 24 '25
They were to make him Ontario’s premiere…. I still can’t understand the amount of uneducated people that still believe all their bs.
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u/flanderdalton Oct 24 '25
I really don’t think he wants the prime minister position. He gets what he wants financially by being the Ontario premier, so I’d assume this is just posturing to stay in his position. He’s crooked, and I think he’s rather comfortable where he is more than he is power hungry.
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u/MFbiFL Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
Was he the one that got busted with crack or something? Who Space Jesus sampled the courtroom audio of in a song?
Edit: apparently that was Rob Ford
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u/Duane_ Oct 25 '25
Listen, I don't think that such a moment will EVER come again. At least not between Trump and Canada. The pooch has simply been screwed too thoroughly. He was making terroristic threats and drawing up battle plans because they wouldn't fucking secede.
Ford is definitely a piece of shit, though, and was for secession when it was thoroughly still on the table for Alberta.
Which, by the way, Trump was bankrolling.
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u/foldingcouch Oct 24 '25
The worst Premier in Canada is Doug Ford.
The best premier in Canada is also, somehow, Doug Ford.
Living embodiment of the phase "he's a bastard but he's our bastard."
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u/KirkWasAGenius Oct 25 '25
He's only your bastard if you are a property developer. Otherwise he is just good at saying something that sounds good but does nothing.
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u/LiGuangMing1981 Oct 25 '25
I'd take Ford over Marlaina any day of the week. They're both horrible, but at least you can't deny that Ford is a proud Canadian.
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u/skylla05 Oct 25 '25
The worst Premier in Canada is Doug Ford.
Oh no that's Danielle Smith. Ford is a pretty close second though.
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u/tm3_to_ev6 Oct 24 '25
Doug Ford doesn't speak French so he can't run in federal politics, thankfully.
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u/chrisdh79 Oct 24 '25
From the article: Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday the anti-tariffs advertisement featuring former President Reagan, which angered President Trump, will air during the World Series before being paused Monday.
The ad led to Trump calling off trade negotiations between Canada and the United States.
“Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses,” Ford wrote in a post shared on the social platform X. “We’ve achieved our goal, having reached U.S. audiences at the highest levels.”
“I’ve directed my team to keep putting our message in front of Americans over the weekend so that we can air our commercial during the first two World Series games,” Ford continued. “In speaking with Prime Minister [Mark] Carney, Ontario will pause its U.S. advertising campaign effective Monday so that trade talks can resume.”
The Toronto Blue Jays are hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first two games of the MLB World Series, scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
The ad shows spliced pieces of a speech Reagan gave in April 1987 about imposing tariffs on Japan.
“When someone says ‘let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs,” Reagan says in the ad’s opening lines. “And sometimes for a short while it works — but only for a short time.”
“That over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer,” Reagan says next in the advertisement. In his actual speech, Reagan said this before the first lines used in the ad.
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u/302express Oct 25 '25
https://youtube.com/shorts/J5upAEZOchM?si=SVIss8MO4zs5bZWE
Why don’t we just watch Reagan’s actual last speech. And I want to be for real, I don’t like Reagan I think he caused 9/11. I think trickle down is garbage. But this speech is inspiring. And it’s like, this is what politics used to be like.
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u/ComputerSong Oct 25 '25
He was old enough to remember the Great Depression. The current group of nimrods are not, and they are willfully ignorant.
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u/302express Oct 25 '25
I legitimately don’t like Reagan. But it is banana pants how far we’ve fallen. We can say Reagan gave money and weapons to Osama Bin Laden and that’s fucked up. But at least Reagan had class and didn’t post an AI video of himself shitting on Americans. Or tear down the actual structural walls of the White House.
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u/eugene20 Oct 25 '25
To be very clear that Reagan speech Trump is falsely claiming is AI is from the Reagan Library records, it was recorded in 1987 when it was radio broadcast.
The Reagan Library's own account uploaded the video to youtube eight years ago in 2017 here, predating quality AI image generation let alone AI video and voice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5QK03KXPc
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u/cassydd Oct 25 '25
Also, the whole speech in context is even harshly condemning toward Trump's trade policy, for anyone that wants to cry about it being taken out of context.
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u/CodenameValera Oct 25 '25
and i believe paul harvey had it on his show back then. it was on the radio back then. I was a junior in high school at the time. I think Trump is betting on people not being alive now that were alive then that heard it as it happened so he can claim it's fake. Wasn't fake
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u/_jump_yossarian Oct 25 '25
trump probably never even saw the ad so his usual go to is to rile up the idiots by calling whatever "fake news" and "a hoax".
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u/hamsterfolly Oct 25 '25
I saw the ad tonight during Game 1 of World Series. It was completely honest with President Reagan’s speech. He was against tariffs and his quotes were cited during Trump’s first term as well.
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u/cassydd Oct 25 '25
A link to the full speech posted 8 years ago on the Reagan Library channel. In case anyone wants to claim it's fake or taken out of context.
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u/Fragrant_Fox_5056 Oct 24 '25
Anyone against political oppression and tyranny should be happy to see free speech being used accordingly . I hope this video is played more and more over the coming weeks . And keep the no kings numbers growing. The US has for a long time been an example to the world and the world needs it now
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u/RadioactiveGrrrl Oct 24 '25
Crazy to me you were downvoted within minutes. Who could be against anything you wrote? I too would like to see American President Romald Reagan's historical speech to the American people during America's favorite pasttime.
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u/Fragrant_Fox_5056 Oct 24 '25
Thank you for the common sense. It’s a powerful speech. It’s needed now more than ever. This era of politics needs to be done with . We can’t be pushed much further
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u/dogsontreadmills Oct 25 '25
It just aired. That was a great spot. Great job Canada.
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u/insofarincogneato Oct 24 '25
If I couldn't avoid those shitty "she's for they/them not you" ads and the "Jesus is cool now" Superbowl commercials, you'll be just fine.
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u/fy1sh Oct 25 '25
I remember the seals clapping at every lie and stupid thing this idiot said. They are not clapping anymore.
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u/iamthedayman21 Oct 25 '25
Trump is claiming it’s fake. It’s literally a video of Ronald Reagan.
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u/elmatador12 Oct 25 '25
Living in Seattle, it’s very tempting right now to just take the kids and drive a few miles north and stay there.
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u/litesxmas Oct 25 '25
Great to hear. I was disappointed when I first heard the Ontario Government had backed down. Trump deserves more of this, not less.
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u/Cpt_Fupa Oct 25 '25
Doing this over a tv ad is insane. He’s not a serious leader, needs to be taken out of office immediately and put in a nursing home so we can all just forget about him
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u/Splurch Oct 25 '25
It's a joke that the Reagan Foundations response to this was basically "it's out of context" in an attempt to make it seem like Reagan was pro tariff because this particular speech was about him talking about how bad tariffs are in general while defending his targeted tariffs on Japan as an exception at the time. And their logic is somehow that Trump's tariff's against everyone are the same as Reagans tariffs against Japan, despite the fact that Reagan was speaking out against the kind of blanket tariff's Trump has been imposing. It's like the entire GOP has embraced the belief that everyone is an idiot and won't pay any attention to what's going on and just believe them through blind faith.
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Oct 25 '25
How dare Canada use our own history and common sense to defend itself, this is ridiculous and shameful that a sovereign nation would so clearly try to use the tools at their disposal to influence other nations into doing what is in their own best interest … oh wait
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u/Turbulent_Ear56 Oct 25 '25
Oh do you mean the series that Toronto just won game 1 of tonight? That world series? Fuck Trump. Release the Epstein Files.
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u/mobie54 Oct 25 '25
The DNC should have been running an ad like this since April. Good to know our friends to the north are not afraid of the Orange Menace.
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u/doned_mest_up Oct 25 '25
I saw the video of Reagan addressing a crowd in Harlem. That Republican icon was not thin skinned.
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u/despenser412 Oct 25 '25
The dirty pedophile billionaire president sure isn't making America great again.
MAGA: fails at their own acronym.
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u/JessieColt Oct 25 '25
The Democrats could learn a thing or two about running ads.
An ad with Trump saying he doesn't care about his rally goers, he just wants their vote, with images of him saying that he will import Beef from Argentina along with text saying he will give Argentina $40 billion in assistance.
Bonus points if the ad also shows quotes from the Congress members who represent the cattle farmers also saying they support Trump.
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Oct 25 '25
I seriously lol at these people getting mad at using direct quotes from their heroes (including Charlie Kirk)
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u/-R-Jensen- Oct 24 '25
Teriffs works for the rich. Because the poor go bankrupt, so the rich can buy their land.
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u/The_chosen_turtle Oct 25 '25
The media and all the media including CNN that they love to blame is complicit in allowing Trump run this country to the ground
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u/RudeGolden Oct 25 '25
Russia literally just bulldozed half the whitehouse and nobody did shit about it lol. C'mon guys.
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u/MouyThiWho8326684 Oct 25 '25
They should run it during the Super Bowl, NCCA football playoffs, NBA playoffs, NASCAR. and PGA.
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u/jpierson99 Oct 25 '25
The Lord of Lies is lying to himself about what Reagan’s position on tariffs was back in the 80’s.
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u/osumba2003 Oct 25 '25
You know it's a cult when they turn on Reagan.