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Trump is a total fuckwit. No way we’re becoming American. I kindly invite any Canadians who want to be American to GTFO.
Not a snowballs chance in… in… Canada?
Those are actually decent odds.
Trump lied about anything and everything. It’s impossible to call him out on any of it because he is so good at creating these bullshit headlines. Inflation, Ukraine, healthcare, abortion, doesn’t matter, if he needed to say something in the campaign to win he said it.
Now in a short time, we will know what he is actually up to, but for now, he generate so much bullshit that becomes a cls command. The media, headlines, social, all his bullshit. Everything he said before, cleared off the screen (front page).
The man is an literal technocrat with extreme skill: Techno: skill Crat: power
He has everyone wrapped around his finger. Well played Mofo.
Shouldnt even dignify the orange moron with an answer
All I can say is freedom isn’t free. Maybe that’s something Canadians need to learn, I don’t know - I don’t really want to assume. But I got a cascadian flag tattoo on my left arm like a soldier’s patch for a reason. I’ve been thinking in neomedieval military terms since I was a teenager at an alternative high school in the late 2000s.
Freedom needs to be constantly defended. If you can’t give up any kind of tribute to a governing authority or series of governing authorities to defend it for you or don’t find any existing entity as authentically defending it then you frankly have to defend it yourself. Same principle for arguing in favor of participatory democracy - if you don’t participate in democracy in some meaningful way you are bound to lose it.
I specifically immigrated to Canada from America. I refuse to go back.
xmunk is ours now trump
Same. This eyeballing of Canada has me a little stressed out that my life will go back to being absolute shit and I won’t have healthcare or be happy.
Well, consider what would happen to elections if we join the US. We’d certainly not join as one state and our parties won’t just fold and disappear. The US political bus will swerve hard left by US standards with someone like AOC getting elected prez.
Sir or Madam, I present to you, Puerto Rico, a territory with no federal representation. may I also present to you the United Fruit Company and Nestle. or at least their model.
Canadians wouldn’t have rights in the US, we’d live under a Quisling government for a hundred years or more while the territory is slowly “assimilated” into “American customs”. while Corporations would pilfer the resources and workforce here at gunpoint. maybe after 80-100 years, a couple of small regions would be carved out into new states. but make no mistake, it’d be sold as a prosperous unificaiton, and the receipt would read “Military Occupation and bloody insurgency”
Jokes aside that’s a scary possibility and it dovetails well with uncle Dolan’s rhetoric.
Reminder that the Canadian populace is about 1/10 of America’s.
If in some freak alternate timeline where we actually to get absolved into the States, we 100% lose all autonomy as Canadians and our political preference would be thrown to the wayside and completely outvoted.
Total population, sure, but it’s not like the states are divided by population. I’m not selling for a single state worth of representation. Electoral college is first past the post baby!
assuming Canada is a state and not a territory like Puerto Rico
you’re assuming in a timeline where Canada is annexed by America, that America is still a democratic republic and not a Fascist Warmongeirng Kakistocracy
xmunk’s a keeper, Trump. I won’t let you have them back!!!
Jokes on you. Canada is still in America
Jokes on you. Canada is still in America
with the foreign interference report in the news in canada, canadians need to be reminded that america is also foreign actor that intereferes with our country’s affairs. They are just as Malicious as the Indians, Chinese and Russians. At least the intereference that comes from the EU is still in our own interests, unlike the robbers, theives, killers, and hopeful Suzerian’s of the others
Canada can come down here and burn down the White House. Again.
I’ll provide the marshmallows.
Pretty sure that was the British
just looked it up, it was the british. in an operation led by (drumroll please): rear-admiral george cockburn. i didnt read further and now believe he incinerated the whitehouse with his power of dick rashes
It may come as a surprise for you, but Canadians were once mostly British
There’s a great song about him called The Man who Burned the White House Down by David Rovics
Trump must have visited bumfuck nowhere Alberta and extrapolated that to the rest of the country
Its almost as if nobody realised decades ago that putting all our eggs in one super nation state basket for world protection, a super nation that had been known to have Hollywood politics corrupt to its core, was a bad, bad idea…
I prefer Elizabeth May’s invitation to California, Oregon and Washington.
USA can stay red, impoverished and ignorant. The adults in the room can get on with Nation Building.
Maybe BC would go there to form Cascadia.
ON and MB would join up with IL, MI, WL and MN.
Maritime Provinces & NL would go with New England.
Quebec would finally gain independence. And the territories would have to accept their new reality.
AB can fuck off.
I feel like I am forgetting one… whatever.
I feel like I’m forgetting one… whatever.
sad Saskatchewan noises
(S’ok, I can’t hear them either over the Scott Moe Killed a Woman Due to Recklessness)
As an Alberta I resent the accuracy of your assessment…
In the past, Trump has accused Canada of accepting a $100-billion subsidy from the United States. It’s unclear exactly what he is referencing, but it may refer to the trade deficit between the two countries.
But on Tuesday, that purported $100-billion subsidy rose to $200 billion. CTVNews.ca has reached out to Trump’s media office to clarify what the $200-billion figure represents.
“I love the Canadian people, they’re great,” he said. “We’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada. … We can’t do it forever.”
It sounds like what is going on here is, Trump is doing the normal Trump thing of starting with a conservative narrative (austerity, cutting off moochers) and brazenly lying about the state of the world to fill in the blanks of that narrative, knowing his supporters are happy to live in a fictional world, knowing he can’t be called out on it in a way that will matter, knowing that it will get people to continue paying attention to him.
Last time they lived in a world of alternate facts, is it so hard to believe that they’ve evolved into alternate reality?
They are looking more and more like Russia every day,
I’m not gonna last another four years of this insanity…
That’s their goal, don’t give up.
tune out of the internet a little more often, turn off the TV. stop engaging with people who are obsessed with media/news/politics. cut off some family members if need be.
maybe, just maybe, take a firearms safety course and PAL, and buy a gun if you are really scared, but Id suggest just finding better things to spend time on than worrying about how stupid amorphous strangers on the other side of the continent/world are being
It’s fascinating rhetoric if he is talking about the trade deficit. It really speaks to his habitual refusal to pay for products and services rendered.
He thinks paying for shit is for suckers.
The $200B, I assume, is a made up portion of US military budget “assigned for the protection of Canada”. Perhaps it is the value of Canadian auto/timber/dairy industry, not just exports, but I doubt it. It is a made up number nonetheless.
In other thread, while there is unanimity against 51st state idea, there is desperation among Canadians/politicians on staying the US empire’s bitch. He’s made the exact same threats against Europe. NATO kicking out the US and also joining SCO is the right move to isolate the demonic evil US empire’s reign of terror on the world and “its allies”. Clinging to being US’s colony by desperately increasing the level of sycophancy to its wars, is path to worse domination/subservience. The “freedom and democracy” rhetoric for subservience must stop immediately, because democracy is a complete joke. Israel first rule in US, and US first rule in colonies, is not functional politics.
Canada joining BRICS and SCO as a military alliance with protection from North Korea, Russia, China would eliminate the “US burden from protecting Canada”. Canada buying Michigan would protect auto industry. Offering Provincehood to any US states would allow those states to escape their crushing share of federal debt, and escape oppression that Trump wants to impose on them. World needs to move on from US empire, and shifting trade and military alliances would address Trump’s complaint about Canadian exports, or make them realize that Canada is far more useful as a bitch than independent.
The irony that if the reverse happened so much would actually improve for the ex-Americans, Canada, and most of the World.
Only the northern border and the coasts. The rest is pretty unfixable.
Utah can fuck off too. The mormons at least.
That beautiful land is wasted on them.
I volunteer Washington state as tribute!
East Coast to a point, before you hit the Carolinas would be where I’d draw the line.
“What do they want from me? I’m good-natured. I’m good-hearted. I’m good-looking. Every day, I’m out there trying to make the world safe. For
GermanyAmerica. I don’t want war. All I want is peace. Peace.[singing and dance number start]
A little piece of
PolandCanada, A little piece ofFranceGreenland, A little piece of …”I immediately went to “Mambo No 5.”
A little bit of Canada in my life
A little bit of Mexico by my side
A little bit of Greenland is all I need
A little bit of Putin’s what i see
