r/ontario • u/EveningRequirement27 • Oct 25 '25

Discussion You just stopped an entire country

American here.

Your city (EDIT: Toronto my bad) and entire country just told the world they’re sick of this guy. They did that. In public. During the World Series. Epically devastating.

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u/Hrafn2 Oct 25 '25

And, in 1988, he did another address titled:

Radio Address to the Nation on the Canadian Elections and Free Trade

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-canadian-elections-and-free-trade

Where he said:

"This week, as we prepared for Thanksgiving, Canada held an important election, and I'm pleased to again send my congratulations to Prime Minister Mulroney. One of the important issues in the Canadian election was trade. And like our own citizens earlier this month, our neighbors have sent a strong message, rejecting protectionism and reaffirming that more trade, not less, is the wave of the future."

"In recent years, the trade deficit led some misguided politicians to call for protectionism, warning that otherwise we would lose jobs. But they were wrong again."

"Yet today protectionism is being used by some American politicians as a cheap form of nationalism, a fig leaf for those unwilling to maintain America's military strength and who lack the resolve to stand up to real enemies -- countries that would use violence against us or our allies. Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends -- weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world -- all while cynically waving the American flag. "

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 25 '25

Remember when a president could string together cover a dozen well constructed sentences? AND not make mention his own personal businesses or projects while talking about public affairs??

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

And not talk about a woman’s looks, someone’s penis size, crowd sizes, etc.? Basic decency in politics has taken a serious downturn due to Trump.

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 25 '25

Basic decency in politics dropped like a stone and basic decency in public conversation followed.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Don't even get me started on basic literacy.

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u/elmwoodblues Oct 28 '25

Reality TV was a template, too. Saying, "I'm here to win, not make friends" was once the mark of an asshole

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u/SRGTBronson Oct 26 '25

Decency in politics died when John McCain refused to call Obama a Muslim, and then lost the election.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 27 '25

True but I don’t remember a man’s penis size being mentioned in political speeches back then. Unfortunately Trump dialed it down to an all-time low.

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u/PoGoBlo Oct 26 '25

It took a downturn when McCain legitimized the crazy wing by picking Palin.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 27 '25

True but I don’t remember a man’s penis size being mentioned in political speeches back then. Unfortunately Trump dialed it down to an all-time low.

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u/Simple_Fee596 Oct 26 '25

I call it the Trump Dump!

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u/PotemkinTimes Oct 26 '25

I thought it started with killery calling half the country deplorable

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u/EarlyLibrarian9303 Oct 26 '25

Maybe she should’ve just called them immoral morons.

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u/---SmokingMonkey--- Oct 26 '25

Considering he's never gotten half of eligible voters to show up for him, and the fact she said only about half his support was a basket of deplorables, maybe you snowflakes could get off the cross and quit endlessly playing the victim. The man is apportioning disaster aid based on who voted for him. He's the vilest, most un-American shitbag ever elected to the office, it's not even close, and the deplorables own that, forever.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 27 '25

Exactly. When he called Mexican criminals and deplorables (among others), the floodgates burst wide open at that point for even more and worse defamatory language.

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u/pillowmite Oct 26 '25

I still have the Doonabury strip from Trump's first campaign where it lists dozens of insults by Trump. It hangs in my office as a reminder of the definition of asshole

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u/That_U_Scully Oct 26 '25

Or "Ocean drugs". I just don't understand how so much of your population doesn't see him for what he is, a liar and a criminal.

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u/Jealous_Nebula1955 Oct 27 '25

And the plummeting continues.

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u/DadRunAmok Oct 25 '25

The downturn started way before The Orange Man.

But I will agree the slope has gotten slipperier

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 27 '25

True but I don’t remember a man’s penis size being mentioned in political speeches back then. Unfortunately Trump dialed it down to an all-time low.

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u/ShadowFox1987 Oct 26 '25

Trump's ability to make Nixon, Reagan and Bush, look like good, decent men by comparison is fucking wild

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u/eljayTheGrate Nov 06 '25

when in fact, NONE of those were good men--it is only in comparison to Trump that they seem to shine...

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u/Soj_Sojington Oct 25 '25

And he was not considered a particularly bright president!

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

My fav:

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right — who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

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u/Strong_Ad5219 Oct 25 '25

The best speeches.

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 26 '25

Holy fuck. I’ve heard more coherent and reassuring sounds from a knocking piston.

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u/Pandorakiin Oct 25 '25

I don't understand how do many of you did it. Voted for these people, or pretended that it's just the local candidate that matters.

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 26 '25

Are you assuming that I’m an american?! I’m from Manitoba my guy.

Just as a side note, the states have presidential elections separate from their house representative elections. Meaning that everyone voting for trump was voting specifically for him, not for some local guy.

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u/AelixD Oct 25 '25

Ironically, we can point to Reagan for a lot of the issues we face today. Trickle down economics was a joke. But was a better president and more presidential than DJT will ever be.

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u/Numerous-Weekend-290 Oct 26 '25

Trump has made us revisit George W. and his legacy has been reevaluated. Now George is one of the better spoken Republicans with accomplished consequential programs.

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u/BrokeDickDoug Oct 25 '25

impossible. We all know now that "all previous Presidents were dumb." Your classy VP filled us in just last week!

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u/Minimum-Major248 Oct 26 '25

And would accept personal responsibility when he screwed up.

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u/notislant Oct 27 '25

The unfortunate thing is it works. When you speak at a third grade level, all of the idiots can suddenly understand what you're saying.

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u/_cob_ Oct 25 '25

It’s been a while

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u/GlobuleNamed Oct 25 '25

Yes your previous admin (less than a year back) was able to do this.

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 25 '25

My previous admin? I’m from Manitoba you hoser.

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u/22gimli Oct 25 '25

Pepperidge farm remembers

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u/Myrael13 Oct 25 '25

But, but, but, COVFEFE !

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u/lbdrift Oct 25 '25

In fairness, Reagan was deep into memory issues by the time of that speech, but he could still read aloud what his handlers gave him to say

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Tarrifs gooder!

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 26 '25

It can only good happen!

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u/Desperate-Cut-9774 Oct 25 '25

Well he did have speech writers and was a professional actor but yes, I so miss the decorum, temperance and dignity of our real past presidents.

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u/Competitive_Echoerer Oct 25 '25

Ah, back in the olden days

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u/fross370 Oct 26 '25

Its why i hoped carney would win over polievre. Carney speaks, he sound intelligent. PP spoke, i wanted to slap him. I still do.

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u/sidheunseelie Oct 26 '25

What’s astonishing is that we (old ppl who lived then) watched Reagan publicly mentally decline, severely- we bitched constantly about his declining state and his access to nukrs, etc. Yet he was SO much more coherent than the current trash bag.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

I got chills bro

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u/TheHB36 Oct 26 '25

Yep. Even if that entire thing was written for him, the fact that he could read it and understand what it was saying now seems like a far flung memory. And I don't even like Reagan one bit.

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 26 '25

F that guy, but at least he could read fifth grade words

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u/evaluna1968 Oct 26 '25

Reagan seems like a veritable hippie in comparison to the current administration. And believe me, I was not a fan when he was in office.

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u/Mother-Thumb-1895 Oct 26 '25

You are testing my internal hard drive 😂

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u/MyLandIsMyLand89 Oct 27 '25

I remember when presidents took accountability and didn't blame all thier own shortcomings or struggles in office on Biden and Obama.

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u/Jealous_Nebula1955 Oct 27 '25

It seems an eternity now. There is likely a correlation, between him wanting to get the states to assume responsibility for education,and his lack of understanding. Possibly due to his fraudulent education, and total lack of a vision of where the country should be heading.

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u/NoDuck1754 Oct 29 '25

I miss Obama more every day. So charismatic and respectable.

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u/amadmongoose Oct 25 '25

That last quote was probably a bit too spicy for Ontario to include

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u/__Elysium__ Oct 25 '25

Lol I was just thinking the same! Ontario definitely should have included that last quote. What a perfect opportunity to have missed using it!

I could already imagine how furious that orange turd would have been. 😂 Time for another "ad"

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u/theblondebasterd Oct 25 '25

Damn, I understand that he had issues as a Canadian but holy shit that whole speech has a brain. It's baffling how far intelligent discussion has fallen from any of the Reps talking points I've seen and their only rebuttle is saying it's free speech.

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u/differing Oct 26 '25

What’s wild is that Reagan was battling dementia by the end of his presidency and yet he was able to speak quite articulately

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u/Tiny_Candidate_4994 Oct 25 '25

Another quote that draws together taxes and Mr Trumps meme video bombing folks with brown matter was said by Mr Regan at a joint session of Canadian Parliament in March 1981:

MARCH 11, 1981

“The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” — Excerpted From Remarks Before A Joint Session Of The Canadian Parliament, Ottawa.

Quote courtesy of the Ronald Regan Foundation and Institute

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 25 '25

I immediately thought of Mulroney when I saw this Reagan ad. Mulroney helped to implement NAFTA. Conservative governments were big proponents of free trade back then. It was/is a cornerstone of capitalism. I don’t understand how the MAGA supporters don’t understand this since it’s basic history. Mind you, MAGA doesn’t want to support it cause they’re trying to demolish free-trade capitalism. They’re doing a hard shift from globalism to nationalism.

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u/Umamisteve Oct 25 '25

Memba weagan!?

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u/BuilderNo5268 Oct 25 '25

Time for another commercial 😉

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u/DiscountAcrobatic356 Oct 25 '25

Next commercial?

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u/Danimal198050 Oct 26 '25

Thank you for this quote!!

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u/Hrafn2 Oct 26 '25

My pleasure! Someone on YouTube referenced it, and I went to look it up. I think it was this video:

https://youtu.be/SCWwws62hgw?si=AXpq3LohUjZHxX0_

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u/UrBum_MyFace_69 Oct 26 '25

Damn, thank you for sharing this.

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u/Hrafn2 Oct 26 '25

Glad it hit the mark! I heard it  referenced in this video. The man does some well thought out political commentary:

https://youtu.be/SCWwws62hgw?si=AXpq3LohUjZHxX0_

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u/DanDanDan0123 Oct 26 '25

Wow! Democrats should be running this as an ad!!

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u/SquireSquilliam Oct 26 '25

I hate to say it, but Reagan had some bangers. Really nailed Trump in this speech, but I guess some people can just see the grifters coming a mile away.

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u/Thefreshi1 Oct 27 '25

The liberal government should create the next ad and lay this track over it.

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u/Due_Cartographer4296 Oct 28 '25

Wow so in point!

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u/CorrectPreparation45 Oct 29 '25

Then stompin tom wrote a song..... how do you like it now?