"Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have

[senseandsensibility]

been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts." Ron Filipkowski on BlueSky.

And it's not even his country.

[dalton99a]

1. Yep.

[orleans]

32. just wanted to put this video near the top of thread. (hi dalton99a) 48 minutes in

[ShazzieB]

33. Thanks for this!

I was just to post asking for a link, but definitely decided to check the comments first.

[dalton99a]

46. +1

[LittleGirl]

50. Thanks for posting! nt

[nature-lover]

2. Would the MSM cover a press conference by Dems.?

I think it is a great idea to have one.

[senseandsensibility]

3. You do have a point

The corporate media is not going to make it easy for us. But they need to try.

[DENVERPOPS]

13. To # 2 and #3

You are overlooking the FACT that 95+% of all media in the U.S. is owned/operated by Uber Rich Republican Oligarchs, or UBER rich Republican Corporations........They only help the Republican Party......They all might as well be PRAVDA.....

The only reason for Rachel, Lawrence and others to exist, is that MSNBC makes them a phenominal amount of money from their shows, and as we all know, Republicans love money EVEN MORE, than they love the Republican Party.....

[ancianita]

68. Exactly.Oligarchs who love $$$ more than rethugs will always purge rethugs to get total obedience in handing over $$$

All $$$ before all bros before all women & children.


They all believe this, though some will not if $ causes immediate death -- but they know that lawyers know that all unfair taking of the people's wages is wage theft, linkable to human deaths.

[Magoo48]

23. If presented with enough creativity and gusto, there will be plenty of coverage.

Call the BBC and Guardian beforehand. Call Amy Goodman. There are plenty of good investigative journalists who would show up, but you must have something to say.

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Great choices

[maxsolomon]

12. Which Dems,

which MSM

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Hey #2 & #3

You are overlooking the FACT that 95+% of all media in the U.S. is owned/operated by Uber Rich Republican Oligarchs, or UBER rich Republican Corporations........They only help the Republican Party......They all might as well be PRAVDA.....

The only reason for Rachel, Lawrence and others to exist, is that MSNBC makes them a phenominal amount of money from their shows, and as we all know, Republicans love money EVEN MORE, than they love the Republican Party.....

[luxmatic]

19. Agree but...

If there is no speech there will obviously be no coverage. Self fulfilling prophecy.

I’m weary of many here that say “why do you expect dens to do?” THIS IS WHAT YOU DO.

[634-5789]

24. GReat idea...but the MSM is up Tubby McTraitor's ass. So, probably not

[SheltieLover]

4. Kick

[pandr32]

5. I wish he would not step down.

[druidity33]

6. A link to the speech would be nice. nt.

[rurallib]

7. do you have a link?

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

8. Video link

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/mar/04/donald-this-is-a-dumb-thing-to-do-canada-announces-counter-tariffs-on-us-video

[senseandsensibility]

9. Thank you

[anamnua]

43. Would agree with it all except the bit

about Donald being 'a very smart guy'.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

10. The family of the West must come together to defeat these evil bastards.

We did it three times before. Twice in war, once in a long struggle across decades. We won all three. Russia wants to play rough, we can play rough.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. The enemy is within this time.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

34. Meh. They ain't shit without their Russian masters.

The external factor is the only thing that even made them politically viable. Disrupted the polling models long enough for them to buy power. There is absolutely no internal foundation. Their own puppet-masters have made sure of it out of self-interest.

[Evolve Dammit]

38. Over 70 million will support all of it

[AmericaUnderSiege]

41. A lot, but not enough.

When they're on their own, they do a lot of showy things that don't add up to much. They vent their conspiracy theories on Fox, hold ridiculous country music festivals where minorities are kinda-sorta not welcome, etc.

It's only the external organizing principle that brings them to meaningful action in the political sphere. Russia created this situation. There's no cohesion among the fascists without them.

Severing that line of communication and resources from Moscow is an important strategic goal for Americans to achieve.

[Evolve Dammit]

42. It appears to be increasing

[AmericaUnderSiege]

45. Moscow is activating its internet-cultivated sleeper cells.

It sucks, but better to have them in the open.

[Evolve Dammit]

47. This admin is fine with that. Free license to do whatever the hell they want. And Hegseth cut our ability to respond

[NNadir]

11. It was pretty good except for the white lie.

Before noting that the orange mold in the White House was doing a dumb thing, he referred to him as a "smart guy."

That's obviously nonsense but, that said, you probably cannot deal with the guy by telling the truth about his withered intellect.

[Justice matters.]

15. He's using the widely known tactic needed to deal with...

that insecure child's bruised ego... flattery... putler is using it since 40 years.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. schmoozing is part of the process?

[Spazito]

35. Trudeau was using the Wall Street Journal's words...

re smart, they were not Trudeau's. I have no doubt he cited the WSJ because he knows it is trump-friendly, to say the least, and yet here is trump's 'friend' saying he did a dumb thing. I loved it.

[NNadir]

36. I hear you. Murdoch's people should watch out for face eating leopards.

[Spazito]

39. LOL

[Emrys]

49. His hands were below the podium, obscuring the fact he was making those "air quotes". n/t

[Bev54]

16. It is up to those affected in the US to sue the government for these illegal tariffs.

The only way Trump could do this through executive order was if it was for security reasons, that is why he keeps referring to fentanyl and illegals crossing the border. We all know this is not his reasons and the facts show it is not the problem he claims.

He can be stopped by the courts, somebody just do it.

[DeeDeeNY]

17. Written transcript

https://globalnews.ca/news/11065019/justin-trudeau-transcript-donald-trump-tariffs/amp/

[senseandsensibility]

18. Thanks!

[Mossfern]

20. It was perfect.

[crimycarny]

21. Why aren't Democrats holding their own townhalls?

WTH aren't the elected Democrats holding their own townhalls, or even going to Republican districts and holding townhalls? Why not take advantage of the anger we're seeing at GOP townhalls? At least Bernie is holding events, why the overwhelming silence from Dems? I don't get it.

[nilram]

22. Every fundraising email from Kamala, I think this. -nt

[Evolve Dammit]

28. This x a million!

[mcar]

30. Democrats are holding their own town halls

Local media is reporting on it - MSM is not.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. Trudeau's warning to Trump on tariffs: 'Donald, this is a very dumb thing to do'

I love that he called Donald by his first name

Link to tweet

[nowforever]

31. Dumb is only word

The imbecile child president will remember.

[ShazzieB]

40. And it's a word that will piss him off, too!

Criticism of any kind will ALWAYS get his goat, and the way he's bragged about his "very large brain" is a sure sign that that is something he's insecure about. Way to hit him where it hurts, Justin!

[haryn]

37. But

I wish to hell it WAS his country

[Initech]

44. Justin Trudeau is a real leader. Trump is a coward who complains on Fox News.

Like all his other moronic fascist cultists.

[WestMichRad]

48. Trudeau's comments are balanced and rational.

It’s very unfortunate we don’t have leadership in the national government capable of anything similar.

[krkaufman]

51. To be fair, Trudeau is the head of government ...

… and he came out in that role announcing actions to address Trump’s trade war.

Democrats have no control in Washington.

[LostOne4Ever]

52. Since he is stepping down

Maybe he will come over here and give our Dems so pointers on how to fight Trump!

[DFW]

53. In part of his remarks in French

Trudeau referred to Trump’s actions as a “menace.” I hope the Anglo media present picked up on that and reports it. I consider it noteworthy that he didn’t employ that strong a term while speaking in English. He knew who was listening, and who would understand what.

[Meowmee]

56. I did not get the full version with the french, do you have a link?

[DFW]

57. No, I just listened to it.

I have no idea if there is a transcript or not.

I am in France once a week for work, am on the phone with offices in Geneva, Brussels and Paris almost every day. Since Trudeau spoke in standard French instead of some provincial dialect, I had no trouble following his remarks.

[Meowmee]

58. Thanks I will see if I can find it.. they only had the english version at the guardian

I usually understand his French too.

[DFW]

59. He makes an effort to use standard French in public

I have a friend from Québec who used to be Canada’s ambassador to the USA. When lets loose in pure Québecois, it might as well be Albanian for all I can understand.

[Meowmee]

60. Yes I have heard that

I never learned any French until we came here, but my brother did. Years later my father went to dinner with Quebecois in Paris and he had to translate for them to the waiter, they were upset 😹

[DFW]

61. For reasons both private and professional

I have been speaking French for over 50 years. It's almost second nature to me now, among a few other languages. If a country borders on Germany, where I live, I pretty much have to speak the language (Czech is the major exception).

My friends in Paris like to recount an incident from the Cannes film festival a few decades ago. There was an entry from Québec one year, and the festival organizers ordered subtitles in French for the festival viewers. The filmmakers from Québec protested vehemently that no French subtitles were needed, since the film was in "French." The festival organizers told them they could call it whatever they wanted, but they couldn't understand a word of the dialogue, and if they wanted their film entered, there would be French subtitles. I don't remember what the outcome was, but I imagine the Canadians allowed the subtitles under protest, as that was not as bad as having their film tossed out altogether.

[Meowmee]

62. Interesting...

I have forgotten a lot but I hope it would come back. People used to think I was from the Loire valley when I was there and someone once thought my father was Corsican. I found the upper class accent the easiest to understand, Paris was harder because they speak very fast and swallow their words.

My grandmother spoke several languages including Yiddish /German, Hebrew, Polish, and all the slavic languages and then learned English. Someone here once started speaking Polish to me, lol.

[DFW]

63. My accent is usually taken to be Parisian, especially in Brussels.

I sometimes toss in some confusion for fun and say “septante” and “nonnante” for 70 and 90.

My grandparents were all born in the USA, so all my languages were learned in junior high school or later. Some, like Catalan, Schwyzerdüütsch, French, Dutch and Italian, were through experience and “on the job training,” but others, like Swedish, Russian, German and Spanish were from school or formal University instruction. I can fake it in Norwegian and Danish only because they are all practically the same language as Swedish with regional differences.

[Meowmee]

64. Impressive 😁

Easier to remember than soixante-dix etc. I have forgotten my french numbers and have to think about it now... lol. My parents learned Danish while they were there and were good at it. Supposedly it is the hardest language to learn even for their own children. I only know maybe 2 words.

[DFW]

65. Danish is worse than French when it comes to numbers

74 is expressed as “four and half-a-twenty down from four-times-twenty.”

[Meowmee]

66. omg that is pretty funny, only the Danes 😹

The last languages I tried to learn were Navajo / Dine and Hebrew. I learned some Navajo but got side tracked. The app for Hebrew was terrible because it didn't have anything spelled phonetically in English and expected you to pick out words etc. from the written Hebrew and sound without ever knowing what it was, which was so hard because I don't know the alphabet. Maybe one day. I do know a bit of Hebrew phonetically but not much.

[DFW]

67. I neither read nor speak Hebrew

I do sometimes work with some ex-Mossad guys in Holland, but they are in the private sector now, and I speak Dutch with them.

I think it would be very cool to know some American languages, but never had any real contact with them. I know smatterings of several Asian languages, such as Japanese, Tagalog and Turkish, but not enough to hold an intelligent conversation.

[Meowmee]

70. Cool 😀

I was learning Japanese from dvd then I ended up in the hospital and in my second room after the ICU I was speaking in Japanese to myself. One of the other patients in my room was Japanese and she heard me and said who was speaking Japanese. I said me, lol. She said I had a very good accent. 😹

שלום חבר שלי ערב טוב
shlum haver shli arv tov

Translation: hello my friend have a good evening😀

[Meowmee]

55. Fucking fantastic!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I like that he speaks to Americans first! He cares... "Your government has chosen to do this to you" EXACTLY... the truth. " Working with Russia, Appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator, make that make sense" !!!

Finally a straight talker who expresses empathy and gets straight to the point. Thank you. Made me scream out loud YES to hear this, and laugh and clap... I scared my meezer 😹

[Dem4life1234]

69. He is not only eye candy but an excellent and intelligent leader

So jealous of Canada!