Corey

Sports, politics. proud left winger. if you like the terms Libtard, snowflake or woke we prob won’t get along. #BlackLivesMatter #ProudAtheist #Canucks 🏳️‍🌈

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@ATRightMovies Se7en

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@DougSaunders @ConsequentialBr Let me guess, Mexico is going to pay for this?

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

Wtf? Dementia and a complete lack of a sense of humour are not a good mix.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@0ivankaTrump1 I would call her correct. But obviously that is an over simplification.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@AntiTrumpCanada The amount of charisma this guy thinks he has is insane. But when he surrounds himself with people who constantly lie to him I get why he doesn’t realize that nobody can stand him.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@TheCinesthetic Dirty Dancin’. Footloose. Grease.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Canada doesn’t need tariffs. It needs an export tax.

Here’s what the US actually cannot replace on short notice:

Potash. Canada supplies 85-88% of what American farmers put on their fields. Russia, the next largest source, covers maybe 9% of that gap. Squeeze this and it’s not a trade story, it’s a farm input cost story, felt at the grocery store within a season.

Uranium. Canada supplied 33% of the uranium that fueled US reactors in 2024, more than any other country on earth. The US is trying to expand nuclear right now to keep up with AI power demand. There is no faster way to sabotage that plan than choking the fuel supply.

Crude oil. Canada is over 60% of US crude oil imports, up from 41% a decade ago. Midwest refineries are built specifically to run heavy Canadian crude. You don’t just redirect that to Saudi light sweet overnight. Gas prices would feel it fast.

Nickel. Canada provides roughly half of US nickel needs. America has exactly one operating nickel mine. One.

Softwood lumber. About 74% of US softwood lumber imports are Canadian. Homebuilders are already choking on tariffs pushing housing costs up. Cut the supply and you make the affordability crisis worse, guaranteed.

Electricity. Ontario and Quebec feed power straight into the US grid. Border states don’t have a backup plan for that capacity sitting in a drawer somewhere.

None of this is about hurting Americans for spite. It’s about pointing out that the “just tariff Canada” strategy assumes Canada has no leverage. That’s false. These are inputs the US cannot substitute in months, some of them not for years. An export tax on any of these turns the pain asymmetric fast, and Washington knows it, which is exactly why potash and uranium got added to the US critical minerals list once this became obvious.

Trade wars run on the assumption the other side has no cards. Canada has cards. It’s just never been willing to actually play them.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@BlackCatsRule7 @ATRightMovies Horrifying

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@CanucksArmy Sami Salo

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@UncleikeX @fandom_david Jesus Christ. Please tell me you aren’t serious.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@CNN As a Canadian I am so over this. Let’s just close the f*cking border. The damage has been done. And it is irreparable as far as I am concerned. The US is beyond saving.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@peepeeLEpuke I very likely will never go back. But that’s okay. There is a lot of the world i want to see. With a lot of kind amazing people. And even lots of Canada I have yet to see. I’m good.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@OutlawsUflb @AvsRobin If you don’t support them then you are saying black lives don’t matter. Not sure what you are trying to say about spelling cat. You should probably go to bed.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@slovak_football I agree. It should have been just Canada and Mexico.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@OutlawsUflb @AvsRobin Right? I get it. Pronouns are so complicated. Also, Messier is a complete and utter piece of shit btw.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@tc118922 @LinstrumJ53505 @historyrock_ He was alright but he wasn’t even the best singer in his band.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@TheCinesthetic The best series finale episode I have ever seen. And it’s not close.

[Corey @Coreyoke1]

@DaniMarie0383 234 is 234 too many. 👍🏻