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So it was Canada along.

President Trump blamed Canada for the burning of the White House in the War of 1812 during a call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the administration's tariffs in Canadian steel and aluminum imports, CNN reported

Citing unnamed sources, the cable news network reported that Trudeau asked Trump how he could cite national security as a justification for the tariffs, during a "testy" May 25 phone call.

"Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" Trump reportedly retorted.

The president was evidently referring to the Aug. 24, 1814, burning of Washington by British troops. After defeating American troops in Bladensburg, Md., British soldiers invaded the city in the only occupation of Washington in American history. The soldiers burned several federal buildings, including the U.S. Capitol and White House (then referred to as the Presidential Mansion).

The attack was in response to an American assault on York, Ontario, but Canada did not yet exist as an independent country and was still a colony in the British Empire during the War of 1812. So, the troops who burned Washington were British, not Canadian.

I say we invade Canada and put another star on the flag. Damn Canadians and there jean suits.
 

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On November 30, Broidy wired $200,000 from his Bankof America account to Real Estate Attorneys’ Group. On December 5th, REAG transferred that money to attorney Keith Davidson. Davidson was at the time supposedly representing the legal interests of Shera Bechard, a Playboy model with whom Broidy now claims to have had an affair. (Bechard fired Davidson shortly afterward, when she became convinced that Davidson was actually working in concert with Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, to protect Cohen’s client’s interests rather than hers.) That $200,000 was supposed to be the first of eight quarterly payments that “David Dennison” agreed to make to Bechard, in order to buy her silence about an affair and a subsequent abortion. All this was laid out in an NDA recovered from Michael Cohen’soffice when it was raided last month.
Guess she was right.
 

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Yo Belobog @Belobog you pretty up on shit like this, want to ask. What are the chances that Rudy Giuliani gets Jeff Sessions’ position as AG?
I think it's more likely he'd try to bring over an existing cabinet member like Pruitt to try to temporarily avoid the Senate confirmation process.
 

KWingJitsu

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So it was Canada along.

President Trump blamed Canada for the burning of the White House in the War of 1812 during a call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the administration's tariffs in Canadian steel and aluminum imports, CNN reported

Citing unnamed sources, the cable news network reported that Trudeau asked Trump how he could cite national security as a justification for the tariffs, during a "testy" May 25 phone call.

"Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" Trump reportedly retorted.

The president was evidently referring to the Aug. 24, 1814, burning of Washington by British troops. After defeating American troops in Bladensburg, Md., British soldiers invaded the city in the only occupation of Washington in American history. The soldiers burned several federal buildings, including the U.S. Capitol and White House (then referred to as the Presidential Mansion).

The attack was in response to an American assault on York, Ontario, but Canada did not yet exist as an independent country and was still a colony in the British Empire during the War of 1812. So, the troops who burned Washington were British, not Canadian.

I say we invade Canada and put another star on the flag. Damn Canadians and there jean suits.
What a complete and utter feckless moron.
Trump fumed at Trudeau for burning the White House during the War of 1812 but it was the BRITISH | Daily Mail Online
 

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American Job Openings Now Outnumber the Jobless

Lazy ass liberals lol. They were too happy to get handout from Osama I mean Obama
Canada has been in the same position for years. Yet, I don't credit the Trudeau Liberals for an amazing job on the economy.

So I guess either the Liberals are kicking ass in Canada, as well, or you're getting a little over excited for this stat. We allow a fuck load of 'temporary foreign workers' to fill these low skilled, low paying jobs that have people earning and sustaining below the poverty level. Having job openings doesn't equate to meaningful opportunity.

What are the quality of these job openings included in the stat? Are they full time work? Are they above minimum wage? Are they located in remote areas or areas in which the cost of living is too high for the position being offered?
 
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Canadians claim that burning given the direct lineage of those that did it and those that would be part of Canada's independence.
It is regularly invoked, if only for our ire, by Canadians as being a Canadian doing. This is not a Trump invention.

Today We Celebrate the Time Canada Burned Down the White House | Smart News | Smithsonian

The Canadian study guide for citizenship uses the ambiguity to take credit, "In 1814, Major-General Robert Ross led an expedition from Nova Scotia that burned down the White House and other public buildings in Washington DC"

Of course that was a British expedition, from soon to be Canada, because Canadians didn't exist yet. But that isn't the point and Canadians are happy to gloss over that.


How Canada Celebrates the War of 1812 | History | Smithsonian

“We were outnumbered,” says Thom Sokolski, a Toronto artist who is organizing a bicentennial art exhibit at the Fort called The Encampment. “We were refugees, American Loyalists, British soldiers, First Nations [Native Americans]…a mixed bag of people who realized they had a common land to defend.”

“We showed the Americans of the time that we weren’t just these quiet, timid people of the North,” says Phillip Charbonneau, a resident of nearby Kitchener who was visiting the Fort with a friend on a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-May. “I think we should take some pride in that.”

“We’re a small country,” says Torontonian Al Leathem, at Fort York with his wife Neisma and nine-year-old son Liam. “This is a nice victory to have, beating the Americans back then, right? It’s important for our identity.”
 

KWingJitsu

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Canadians claim that burning given the direct lineage of those that did it and those that would be part of Canada's independence.
It is regularly invoked, if only for our ire, by Canadians as being a Canadian doing. This is not a Trump invention.

Today We Celebrate the Time Canada Burned Down the White House | Smart News | Smithsonian

The Canadian study guide for citizenship uses the ambiguity to take credit, "In 1814, Major-General Robert Ross led an expedition from Nova Scotia that burned down the White House and other public buildings in Washington DC"

Of course that was a British expedition, from soon to be Canada, because Canadians didn't exist yet. But that isn't the point and Canadians are happy to gloss over that.


How Canada Celebrates the War of 1812 | History | Smithsonian

“We were outnumbered,” says Thom Sokolski, a Toronto artist who is organizing a bicentennial art exhibit at the Fort called The Encampment. “We were refugees, American Loyalists, British soldiers, First Nations [Native Americans]…a mixed bag of people who realized they had a common land to defend.”

“We showed the Americans of the time that we weren’t just these quiet, timid people of the North,” says Phillip Charbonneau, a resident of nearby Kitchener who was visiting the Fort with a friend on a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-May. “I think we should take some pride in that.”

“We’re a small country,” says Torontonian Al Leathem, at Fort York with his wife Neisma and nine-year-old son Liam. “This is a nice victory to have, beating the Americans back then, right? It’s important for our identity.”
Cliff notes - Brits, not Canadians (who may or may not want to claim credit).
 

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It may have technically been the Brits, but those Brits were the ones that became the Canadians we are today, so all us Canadians have lineage to punking Americans and burning down the White House haha
 

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Canadians claim that burning given the direct lineage of those that did it and those that would be part of Canada's independence.
It is regularly invoked, if only for our ire, by Canadians as being a Canadian doing. This is not a Trump invention.

Today We Celebrate the Time Canada Burned Down the White House | Smart News | Smithsonian

The Canadian study guide for citizenship uses the ambiguity to take credit, "In 1814, Major-General Robert Ross led an expedition from Nova Scotia that burned down the White House and other public buildings in Washington DC"

Of course that was a British expedition, from soon to be Canada, because Canadians didn't exist yet. But that isn't the point and Canadians are happy to gloss over that.


How Canada Celebrates the War of 1812 | History | Smithsonian

“We were outnumbered,” says Thom Sokolski, a Toronto artist who is organizing a bicentennial art exhibit at the Fort called The Encampment. “We were refugees, American Loyalists, British soldiers, First Nations [Native Americans]…a mixed bag of people who realized they had a common land to defend.”

“We showed the Americans of the time that we weren’t just these quiet, timid people of the North,” says Phillip Charbonneau, a resident of nearby Kitchener who was visiting the Fort with a friend on a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-May. “I think we should take some pride in that.”

“We’re a small country,” says Torontonian Al Leathem, at Fort York with his wife Neisma and nine-year-old son Liam. “This is a nice victory to have, beating the Americans back then, right? It’s important for our identity.”
I'll allow Canada to claim partial credit. Who wouldn't want to burn down the White House?
 

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It's like not giving the American forefathers who fought in the American revolution credit, because when they fought they weren't technically America or something.

Canada whipped America's ass, took a shit on the White House, and that's really all there is to it. The rest is just verbal masturbation. Take your L and get over yourselves.

And to be honest a lot of Canadians are angry at Trump because of the trade war. I'm not, I put the blame squarely on Trudeau. If we had a competent leader, this wouldn't be happening, we'd all be sharing in the wealth. But Trump can sense that Trudeau is an Urkel, a punk, and he's going to step all over him.
 

Belobog

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Unbiased news article.


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