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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 weeks ago

“In fact, we don’t want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state.”

So he DOES need things from us. If he didn't need us he'd just walk away and not trade with us. But why would he he want us as a state if we didn't have something he wanted?

He DOES need us, our workers, and our resources but he doesn't like that we're our own sovereign nation. He needs us but he wants us enslaved and controlled.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What cards does this nipple have? None.

Canada has freedom. America doesn't anymore. Canadians are never going to agree to rolling back their rights and freedoms for a has been country headed by a fucking dictator wannabe. Canadians will die before anything like that comes to pass. Canada may be no match militarily, but now that Canadians are aware of the dangers .. that won't be the case forever. Unless of course they decide to invade Canada right now.. Not likely.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So, we’re back to this. His poll numbers are tanking so he has to quickly get control of the news cycle again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm glad he got back to this literally days before a Canadian federal election.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

The USA will need land to move our population to as climate change makes much of the USA no longer livable. His reasoning is evil in this case

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Polite of you to assume they're going to care about the slave population while they live in comfort.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 weeks ago (44 children)

I think this bears repeating.

We will make you forget Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The insurrection will be continent wide and we will just walk over the border and start looting weapons.

We are tougher than anyone thinks and can survive just fine pretending to be homeless or just in your woods or in a looted home.

We will live among you indistinguishable until something good to blow up comes along, or an American needs tied to a tree with their dick in their mouth.

You’ll never feel safe. You’ll never be safe.

Promise.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Just a reminder to non-canadians that a core part of Canadian identity has always been not being American. It’s a quasi-colonized pov. Make it real and it will be life-or-death for many many folk.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that we Canadians would be more than happy to add to the Geneva checklist should it come to this.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's just something to grab the headlines and make people focus on something other than Hegseth and China.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it's not. It's a 1930's that focused on a bloc of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I like to idly game this out because it truly reflects how narcissistic and uninformed he is. So, he's talking about admitting Canada as a single state. Lets assume somehow that happens, even though the Canadians themselves would undoubtedly push for as many states as possible if joining the US were the only option.

You've now got a new largest state by both population and area, and one that has ridiculous reserves of resources and a coast-to-coast infrastructure. It instantly becomes the most important state. It's also full of millions of people who didn't want to be Americans and who've had a hundred years of more progressive governance than the US. Congratulations, Republicans, you've just skewed the Senate and completely fucked yourself in the House for a generation or more. You've also got 8 or 9 million Francophones who weren't even entirely sure they wanted to be CANADIANS, much less Americans, to say nothing of being Americans in a MAGA world. This is how real troubles begin.

So, in return for dubious "improvements" to the trade deficit, and certain (what?) administrative conveniences (I guess) for a military that already had basically all the access anyone would ever need, as well as a giant buffer territory you're not politically committed to defending with the same gusto you would your own soil, you completely upset the balance of power in Congress to your own party's detriment and add a huge population that hates their situation. Brilliant.

Although, I guess if you're just done with free and fair elections then a lot of these concerns evaporate...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Doesn't matter. He wants Canada because it is big on the map and if America had it then America would look bigger on the map and if it was at its biggest when Trump was president that would mean Trump was the best US president ever in every history book for all time. Same thing with Greenland.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

We'd be joined through the Puerto Rico route, as a territory. No representation. The 51 state is just a ruse to get the 17th territory, or whatever the number is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, I guess just assuming ill intent and fascism makes it a simpler discussion that's still perfectly reasonable.

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[–] [email protected] 270 points 4 weeks ago (19 children)

Speaking as a Canadian... Yes, we know.

You guys had the most trustworthy, most reliable ally ever. The faith and trust between Canada and the US was legendary.

That's gone now. It'll be a century or more before you can ever rebuild that trust.

And you threw it away for this drooling moron to play tinpot dictator.

Was it worth it?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

I assume certain short-term things will get better with anyone less crazy than Trump, but I agree the US is no longer reliable for anything long-term, and no other country should deal with us on the assumption that we'll give up certain short-term advantages for a long term stability within our sphere of influence. It's not even that the US was "good" (though I imagine the next hegemonic power could easily be worse), but across administrations, the US was generally intelligent about how to leverage its influence but retain enough goodwill to continue to do so indefinitely.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Can some of us, uh, join you though?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

There's an immigration process, go ahead and apply if you want.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Honestly I've been worrying for years that the only way the US is going to resolve this division and hostility within their country is by breaking up, possibly largely along red state/blue state lines, and hopefully not triggering a violent (or god forbid nuclear) civil war in the process.

But I can say as a Canadian, if it does come to that, and you guys can't take back your country (which I really think you can, once you start to accept what is happening and accept that it's gonna hurt and you dig your heels in anyway, I don't think there's anyone who will be able to take you down, not even Trump and crew), then we would be absolutely happy to quickly rebuild and strengthen our relationship with most of the blue states. And however you end up wanting to arrange yourselves in the end, we'll work with that. And if you guys genuinely wanted our help, our resources, our logistical support, even our protection (what little we can provide), if things were to start looking like actual civil war, I'm sure we'd absolutely be willing to figure out what sort of arrangement is actually going to work. We'd have to at least initially discuss it as equals and as partners though, I don't think we'd ask you or coerce you to give up your sovereignty, any more than we'd want you to take ours. But if the intention to join Canada was a popular attitude, I expect we'd be willing to consider it, probably after some cooling-off period though to make sure it's not just a passing fad. The progressive parts of America are the parts we've always loved. If you guys come knocking on our door needing a couch to crash on we're not going to ask how long you need to stay, we're just going to go find pillows and blankets.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

❤️,seriously.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

It's not him trolling us, it's his dementia trolling us. Or maybe his plain old stupidity. Honestly it's hard to tell at this point.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago

He's so eloquent when he speaks, like listening to a butterfly's wings wafting over a boiling toilet

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China is walking this dumbass like a dog. How about we don't tie ourselves to this sinking ship.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

MAGA: "Haha, he really triggered the libtards!!!"

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We’re taking care of their military. We’re taking care of every aspect of their lives, and we don’t need them to make cars for us,” Trump told Time. “In fact, we don’t want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state.

Then stop importing and we'll see how long before it's a problem for the people.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

ohno he really uttered the word "trolling" thats it its over humanity is done :cry:

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago

Truly the dumbest timeline

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