He thinks the 38k lives lost building the Panama Canal were American!? Bro is terminally dumb.
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I could google it, but as a Canadian would you kindly correct the record here for others like me?
This is what I could find
The construction of the Panama Canal was a monumental engineering endeavor that came at a significant human cost, with estimates suggesting that between 25,000 to 30,000 workers lost their lives during the project.
Causes of Death:
Disease: The tropical environment of Panama was rife with diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. The role of mosquitoes in transmitting these diseases was not yet understood during the early phases of construction, leading to high mortality rates among workers.
Accidents: The construction process involved hazardous activities, including the use of explosives for excavation, operating heavy machinery, and working in challenging terrains. These factors contributed to numerous fatal accidents.
Worker Demographics:
French Construction Period (1881–1899): During this phase, a significant portion of the workforce comprised laborers from the Caribbean, particularly Afro-Caribbean workers from the West Indies. The French effort resulted in an estimated 22,000 deaths due to disease and accidents.
American Construction Period (1904–1914): The United States employed a diverse workforce, including a large number of laborers from Barbados and other Caribbean nations. Over 5,000 workers died during this period, with many of the deceased being from Barbados.
The majority of the workforce during both construction periods consisted of Afro-Caribbean laborers who endured grueling working conditions, disease exposure, and, in many cases, discriminatory treatment.
This shouldn't be normal behaviour for someone who holds such a high position. The highest in the world you could say. It's baffling how you could hold one of the highest positions in the world and act like a child.
Acting like a child is not a problem, but being as intelligent as an average person his age (dead) is.
If Canada was to become our 51st state
The last time that was attempted forcefully, it ended up with them burning down the White House. Canada is also one of the major reasons we have international agreements banning the use of chemical weapons in warfare.
So... maybe let's just leave Canada to their own devices.
We would appreciate it. No offence but you guys can be pretty rowdy neighbours and quite frankly a bad influence on this household.
Making up my 2025 bingo. Putting "Invade Canada", "Invade Greenland", "WW3", and "We're the baddies" on it.
one is an inbred privileged rich kid with a criminal history... and so is king charles.
One of them is the brother of a pedophile and the other is the pedophile's former best friend.
He forgot to wish Merry Christmas to the millions of illegal criminal immigrants who are eating our pets, stealing our women, and doing our jobs while getting free Healthcare from our government.
President Elon Musk needs to get his butler under control. This is an embarrassment to 🇺🇸.
Great. Another four years of constantly being disgusted by the absolute moron put in power by my fellow citizens.
Eggs were just too expensive, a fascist with dementia will fix it.
I'm hoping these continual word salads mean the aneurysm in his brain is continuing to grow. Not that his vp moving into the presidency would be any better though, but hot damn would him croaking be so fucking satisfying. Hope he had plenty of hamberders as his xmas feast.
He must've felt really clever writing that.
To be honest this is about the same level of inane fuckin waffle that king Charlie came out with yesterday
At least Jug-Ears tried to be nice.
I'm actually pretty sure he's as sound a bloke as you could be, given his position. But man, someone made him read a speech yesterday that was religious in the extreme; there must've been a reason for it
The dude is The Defender of the Faith.
I guess I'm out of the loop. Does China occupy/control the Panama Canal?
Also, people want Greenland because after global warming melts the rest of the northern Arctic region, it'll be a big shipping lane and Greenland will be a major landmass/port/base for security. Meaning, everyone knows it's real, and just denies it for political reasons.
No. Panama does. You may be out of the loop, but Trump is loopy.
There are also other reasons that Greenland is valuable. Not just mineral rights on newly-exposed land due to melting glaciers, but those glaciers themselves are going to get more and more valuable in a world rapidly running out of fresh water.
The U.S. is already pumping more groundwater than is getting replenished. It's going to get worse, especially when they keep building more and more water-hungry data centers.
I don’t think he knows how to use capital letters
The list of things he doesn't know but should would probably be longer than Wikipedia.
This list of things he doesn't know is Wikipedia.
He just can't leave Joe Biden alone, can he?
Nope. He'll be ranting about Biden and Obama until he chokes on a hamberder on the toilet or whatever other stupid way he dies.
That was one of several offensive Christmas posts by the Dictator Elect.
That one was from last year. Note the date.
Not surprising you didn't realize since this is an annual thing for him.
It's absolutely fucking insane to me how anyone ever could post this and get elected president of the United States of America. This single post alone would mean political suicide in almost any other western democracy.
It's just - what is happening?? I'm absolutely dumbstruck by this lunacy. I cannot for the life of me understand how someone could look at this dumpster fire of a human being and say "Yes, that's who should represent me in the world and shape the policies of my everyday life." Holy fucking shit what the fuck is happening