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The opposite of progressive is not conservative, it’s regressive. Backwards. They are regressive.
80-year-old angsty teen… how can anyone take this man child seriously?
We don’t want to be the 51st state. The idea repulses us, actually.
Elbows up, guys!
Unfortunately, too many Americans did, so now the rest of us have to
The dipshits that voted for him didn’t take him seriously either, they just wanted to fuck over the left, who they’ve been told is a enemy and threat for the last 25 years on Fox and AM radio. The other group that didn’t take him seriously were the ones who sat out or protest voted.
Elbows up!
Canada will be waiting for you fuckers!
I like to remind my fellow Americans who think Canadians are push-overs that the Nazis feared fighting Canadians more than any other Allied force because of how much more relentless they were on the battlefield.
Canadians are nice, then we’re not. We are savage AF.
Take no prisoners, invent a new war crime - our motto in wars we do not want to fight
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Elbows up!
What are the protocols/powers involved in declaring something a national emergency? Like what decision power does the president gain in that scenario?
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Blackmail
I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada.
This shit is ominous. This demon is ready to invade and take control of the Québec-Windsor corridor.
I think Ontario has already paused the Export tax unfortunately. But I would absolutely call his bluff. An attack on Canada would mean a full-blown article 5 crisis before Trump has all of the cards that he wants. While he might be that stupid. Others in his administration aren’t.
Just in case, a good show from Carney would be to deploy the military to the area because of an increased threat of terrorism.
He can’t attack a nato member
Legally, no. But why should he follow the rules when he’s gotten off for every other crime he’s committed?
What Trump can or can’t do is absolutely meaningless to him. He doesn’t care. Chaos is the point.
Yes, but actually maybe
He’ll pull out of NATO 5 minutes before his troops cross the border
Then it’ll be FLQ 2 electric boogaloo
He’s just like Putin, he won’t do shit.
Im pretty sure Putin did shit.
Won’t do anything except invade your country while commiting human rights violations for years?
Bring it.
As a Canadian, I do not want to be at the center of a stupid war. I like to hope we got more intelligent in the last 100 years but seeing how many people want bloodshed sure isn’t a great sign.
The issue isn’t so much that most Canadians don’t like war, it’s that war is on our doorstep and all the efforts we’ve made to avoid it haven’t worked.
I know a couple of men who can’t be reasoned with or cajoled into doing what’s right. They’re the type who will murder someone because they felt offended.
That’s what Trump is like as well. There is no half-way, no compromise. It’s his way or the highway. So essentially we have little to no choice in the matter. We either fight or we become the 51st state (or more likely a tereitory that has zero say in gov’t but who are taxed like they do).
And that’s the mindset that drives wars. Misdirected anger. We aren’t mad at the average american, not even their soldiers.
Who do you think wins? The soldiers that have been martyred on either side? Or the sociopath sitting beside the fire chuckling at the chaos they manifested?
Nobody wants bloodshed, but if the US brings it, we will make sure there is as much American blood spilled as possible.
Thats war. Nobody wants war, but if you bring it to our soil we will fight. That simple.
I mean, the US has been a major violator of human rights for…decades? Longer? Since it’s inception possibly? I mean just look at their prison system. Or the whole Guantanamo thing. Or the ICE concentration camps.
Fuck off you demented old fool.
Narcissistic abuser tactics, as usual. “I’ll be so good to you, babe, the
beatingstariffs will stop if you become mywife51st state.”I’ll cherish Trump when he’s 6 feet underground eating dirt for eternity + a day.
Hopefully this afternoon.
No one wants to be america. People want to be human beings that are able live as human beings. People don’t want to be pawns to a machine that sucks humanity and souls from living bodies.
Am American. Can confirm, would really like to be something else.
Same. Like, damn, I’m a queer leftist woman who takes an SSRI. This administration wants me in a camp for sure and I would happily change nationalities if it were possible. I’m rooting for the Canadians (and the rest of the world that isn’t insane), except PP and his ilk.
…are you me?
Add being an anti-zionist Jew, and we could be twins.
Americans don’t even want to be American
Am American, can confirm.
It’s true. It feels like the only place on the planet that rewards being that ignorant and hateful lout at the party who thinks compassion is some type of gay sex.
This is so true, lol. And it’s just like America to attach sex to everything little miniscule thing. If they weren’t serious it would be comical.
Another thing. Sex/nudity is only okay in media. Anything goes when it’s sold mainstream, but if you have kink… Bam! You automatically a pervert, and if your are gay, your a pedophile rapist pervert.
And what wild is they create these people they hate. These sexual deviances probably wouldn’t happen if America wasn’t so prudish in real life. There’s such a a dissonance in terms of sexuality, nudity, media and reality.
It’s funny how mericans are always like ‘I’m 1/8th Irish and 2/3 German’ as if they are a breed of dog
Do Canadians not do that? I’d have thought so considering Canada has had waves of settlers much like the US; but I’ve not met many Canadians, so I wouldn’t know.
Better than being American?
No one wants this, this old diapered man needs to go back into the home
Cherished. Hah.
I’ll cherish commiting war crimes if it escalates.
We’ll invent some new Geneva suggestions. It’s not a war crime if it’s the first time.
Invade my country? There are no rules.
This broadcasts his insecurities about being clueless how the economy or anything works, and has surrounded himself with yes men idiots that can’t even bail him out of this hole he dug himself. A big tell is he is so pissed he is giving them over 4 wks to lift their electricity premium.
As an American I say Canada should just go the “we don’t bargain with terrorists” approach and just cut the electric today. Call the bully’s bluff.
Sad thing is is Ontario has already taken the surcharge away, because he is going down to DC to get the shake down.
I hope he comes back and just turns the power off.
Ford is loving every minute of his US media tour. I hate that he’s our spokesperson down there though.
Just found the response:
Dear President Trump and the Republican Party of the United States,
Canada is a federation of 10 provinces, each with sovereignty equal to, if not greater than, the states in your Union, whose sovereignty and rights you are such great champions of.
Therefore Canada would not become the 51st state. It would become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th states. Each with two senators and a proportional number of representatives in Congress.
Your kind offer of joining your Union has been accepted. Please prepare accommodations for 20 new senators and dozens of new representatives, and kindly inform Senator John Thune and Congressman Mike Johnson there will be new elections for Senate majority leader and Speaker of the House.
Please do not worry about security for the new senators and representatives, which will be provided by units of Joint Task Force 2 that will be arriving shortly in the DC Metro area.
Looking forward to working with you,
Yours truly,
Canada
it’s cute but no, he’s fucked up enough that he might accept and I have absolutely no interest in being part of their union under any circumstances.
Not an actual option, of course, just to get them to remember the saying “Be careful what you wish for…”
Yup, Canada is freer and richer* than the US.
*Note that the common measure of “economic success” is GDP, which does not include public sector or exports. As a resupt the country with the smallest public sector per captia and the least amount of exports looks significantly better than it actually is.
All good, except we Canadians don’t want to be Americans. Like ever. Under any circumstance whatsoever. I’ll die Canadian.
Fucking rights.
Don’t forget our three territories, all of which need full representation…
And our provinces are so large they should each be split in 5, making us the 51-102 states.
A reverse electoral conquest would be galaxy brain levels of geopolitics
