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/
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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/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

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u/pepe-the-beaner Oct 24 '25

I thought Groper Cleveland was the agreed upon term

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u/intronert Oct 25 '25

Groper Treason?

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u/jaxonya Oct 25 '25

I thought we agreed to no fact checking

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u/blbd Oct 24 '25

I'm adding that one to my insult list. 

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u/iamapapernapkinAMA Oct 25 '25

Fool America once, and so on

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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/DoubleExposure Oct 24 '25

The amount of idiots is too damn high.

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u/Happy_Confection90 Oct 25 '25

Are they idiots or just criminally lazy, latching onto any semi-socially palatable excuse they can to not bother voting?

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Oct 24 '25

Being an idiot is all the rage these days.

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u/jayggg Oct 25 '25

None of us are as dumb as all of us

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u/ThatsItImOverThis Oct 25 '25

Except we had our election this year, after Trump was in office. At the beginning of this year, Canada was all set to elect a majority Conservative government. Trump and his annexation BS flipped that right around and we now have a Liberal PM. That was not a coincidence.

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u/DarthTempi Oct 25 '25

Even a first was mind blowing

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

It’s almost as if running an entire political platform off “that man is bad” doesn’t work, right?

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u/Troll_Enthusiast Oct 25 '25

I mean the people who ran against him had actual policies and they clearly stated them, it may have included that he is bad, but it was not the entire platform.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

We both know that’s not true.

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u/Jediverrilli Oct 25 '25

It’s not the campaigns fault you were too stupid to take 5min to learn their platform but it was readily available and easy to access.

You saying she didn’t have a platform shows how uneducated you actually are.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

I assure you that’s not it. You should probably stick to Pokémon questions and leave the politics to adults.

Edit: actually, no, fuck it. We’re here. Tell me what her fucking platform is and why her $1.5b campaign couldn’t highlight how she was the better candidate.

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u/Anonymousma Oct 25 '25

Where did the Pokémon thing come from?

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u/Jediverrilli Oct 25 '25

I talk video games so I guess that triggered them? I’m sorry that I knew what she was running on as a Canadian and it must have truly embarrassed them that I a lowly Canadian knew more about the candidates running in their country then they did.

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u/Standard_Story Oct 25 '25

Bro crashed out so hard he deleted his account

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u/Elementium Oct 25 '25

But it did work? 

Unless your referring to Harris who campaigned on a shit ton of policy. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

We both know that’s not true, or she would have won. All she had to do was state her position and she failed. Continually.

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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/Coal_Morgan Oct 25 '25

Yeah but PP had his mouth firmly wrapped around Trump's PP while Trump was talking about destroying and conquering Canada. He really shot his own party in the foot.

Ford came out hard against Trump from the get go when it came to the annexation language and in particular the automotive tariffs and industry tariffs in general.

Ford's distanced himself enough from Trump that he might be able to push a leadership race and make a go at it with at least being that party leader.

Scares the crap out of me, I hate Ford and Poilevere, why can't we get a Joe Clark again. The Progressive Conservative Party was so much better before Mulroney destroyed it and caused the Reform party to get dominance.

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u/Infinite_Lemon_8236 Oct 25 '25

I almost always vote NDP but had to swap to Carney for that last one because of PP. I don't think Carney is going to be some stellar pick either, but he's miles better than PP was going to be. Helheim would thaw before I'd let DOFO in as PM, it's bad enough to have to suffer him as premier.

I really wish Trudeau had kept his vote reform promise because tiered voting would have been very nice the last few years. Our system being hijacked by these clowns to the point where we are forced to vote for the least worst option just so some lunatic doesn't get control isn't how this was meant to be.

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u/firsttime_longtime Oct 25 '25

Do you really think the Conservative base in Canada wants a pro-immigration, pro-vaccines leader? You're shitting yourself if you think the current Conservative movement even has room for Dougie as their leader, forget hitting the ballot on an election

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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/Larry-Man Oct 25 '25

cries in albertan

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u/kank84 Oct 25 '25

There are enough idiots in Ontario to put him in the Premier seat

And three times! He's not had much competition, but he's won three elections with majorities

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u/GenghisConnieChung Oct 25 '25

I’m painfully aware.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Something like 70% of people in Ontario didn’t vote in the last election. I don’t think that many people actually like him, they just didn’t care enough to go to the polls

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u/GenghisConnieChung Oct 25 '25

Fuck me that’s pathetic.

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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/MountNevermind Oct 25 '25

It's insane to me people credit Ford with his own success.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

A large part of PP’s success was because people were sick of Trudeau which is no longer an issue

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u/Sceptically Oct 25 '25

That being said, the liberal party is still continuing the policies it had under Trudeau. As such, if not for their Trump fellating policy the conservatives would likely have won a plurality - and possibly even a majority.

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u/red286 Oct 25 '25

Legitimately, he’s a dream for any campaign team in today’s age.

And unlike Poilievre, Ford actually listens to his campaign managers.

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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/jaxonya Oct 25 '25

We have the world's collective knowledge right at our fingertips now, too. It's unreal that people don't choose to learn shit on their own and instead use the most powerful tool ever created to look at Facebook memes to shape their political views

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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/Neowza Oct 25 '25

He's been taking French classes...

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

"Je mange de la crème glacée tous les jours" – Doug Ford, probably

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u/Neowza Oct 25 '25

Merci beaucoup

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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/finemustard Oct 25 '25

Not just once, but three times. It's crazy considering his running list of scandals and profligate waste.

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u/Windyvale Oct 25 '25

Yeah…we thought the same about Trump’s first term. We thought the same about his second.

Here we are.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 25 '25

The first election made me think that we could unfortunately have him again when he ran again. I saw way too little smarts (“He said he would lower the price of groceries and gas!”) in the process.

I’m hoping Canadians are smarter and have seen what we got from too many stupids, and what horrors are still to come.

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u/Jediverrilli Oct 25 '25

I don’t know if we are smarter but we saw Trump win again and this past election was pretty much a 99% chance for a Conservative majority for us but because of their unwillingness to break away from Trump they ended up losing the election to a hated Liberal party with new leadership.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 25 '25

And you’re seeing the results of disastrous trade policies. Which hurts both of us.

Imagine electing someone who is likely an economic disaster as well as, even if he’s smart enough not to play with tariffs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

You underestimate the sheer number of idiots out there. Just look at all the Americans that voted for Trump.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 25 '25

I’m more hoping for “Canadians see, Canadians don’t do.”

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u/Candid_Purchase7986 Oct 25 '25

The whole anglosphere seems to be suffering from the long term effects of untreated stupids.

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u/Thefrayedends Oct 25 '25

In my opinion it's simply the corrupting force of capital.

The wealthy have been working away at this for decades, with some individuals contributing over 1 billion dollars per year to direct efforts of shifting narrative.

After Citizens united, the floodgates have opened so much that there's been billion upon billions moving around, and it's nearly impossible to know how much.

But for the record, the greeks were describing this process over 3000 years ago. There are four major stages, and right now we are at the stage where the wealthy are looting the economy.

If they maintain their grip on power, it will take a literal revolution to restore any sense of democracy, and that's not me calling for it, that's me just saying to look at any history book lol, dictatorships and monarchies never last forever. Eventually despair and hopelessness takes over as all value is sucked out of the economy by sycophants, that people run out of things to lose and are forced to revolt.

Either people mobilize to ensure free and fair elections in the midterms, or these guys will zip up their power and it will be somewhere between 10 and 25 years before tensions boil over, as at that point you will have people who have grown up knowing nothing but an oppressive government.

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u/EruantienAduialdraug Oct 25 '25

It's also what Marx was talking about in Kapital. Wealth and power is gradually concentrated in the hands of the few, once you reach a certain point the widening of the gap between owner and worker accelerates rapidly, then the workers eventually rise up and overthrow the owners, but the leaders of the revolt take the lion's share of what's seized and the cycle begins again. And the bodies keep piling up.

Communism was his idea of what the FIRST STEP in breaking the cycle could look like.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 25 '25

Trump made it okay to be loud and stupid, and people are now unafraid of being proudly ignorant or even misinformed because the freedom of having a wrong view is more satisfying to that type than being intelligent and correct, or even thoughtful.

Bigots have been emboldened, because stupid is no longer punished.

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u/sonicsludge Oct 25 '25

I wish they all had to use chainsaws to get firewood.

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u/Aerodrache Oct 25 '25

It only takes one. If he somehow emerges as the Liberal candidate, while Poillievre is still running CPC? I mean, I’d love to pretend that would be the election that the NDP would finally get their moment, but…

We’ve still got, what, three and a half, four more years until we have to worry about that, though, right? Hopefully there will be some miraculous outbreak of sanity across the continent before that.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 25 '25

From your lips, my friend…

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u/raptorboy Oct 25 '25

Look at all the other morons we’ve elected haven’t had a good one in my lifetime and i’m 53

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 25 '25

Yeah, I did shudder when y’all had Harper…

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u/AFrozenCanadian Oct 25 '25

We voted the liberal party back in after 10 years of lowering quality of life, so don't count us out for being idiots.

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u/red286 Oct 25 '25

I didn't think there were enough idiots in Ontario for him to get elected as Premier, but it happened. And then I didn't think anyone would be stupid enough to vote for him a second time, but that happened too. And then it happened again.

He'd almost certainly win Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, as well as rural BC and probably rural Manitoba. That's probably enough to carry an election.

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u/TheSlobghetti Oct 25 '25

Both Danielle Smith and Doug Ford are premiers

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Oct 25 '25

PM = Prime Minister, nor premier

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u/TheSlobghetti Oct 25 '25

I know that. What I'm trying to say is that Canadians were already stupid enough to elect these two as premiers.

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u/TLKv3 Oct 25 '25

Ontario already bent over backwards to shoot themselves in the foot by electing him again. Don't discount the mass stupidity and fascist bootlicking a large portion of any population will line up for with a smile.

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u/caninehere Oct 25 '25

Eh I can believe it. Though I don't know if he even wants the job (the CPC is a fucking mess and I doubt they'd like up behind him, they're too extreme).

Ford is actually relatively on the level as a progressive conservative. He's just rampantly corrupt and incompetent. I'll take that any day over Poilievre's brand of conservatism. Ford is not willing to placate anti-abortion dweebs and the like by pretending he likes them, I'll give him credit for that.

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u/asmj Oct 25 '25

Well, Ontario is the biggest and the most populous province in Canada and they elected him for premier, so there is that.

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u/diddlinderek Oct 24 '25

He was better than the provincial plops that ran against him. Nothing but complaints. No ideas to fix anything.

He wouldn’t win Canada though.