Speed running the nazi playbook.
Sometimes I can't believe how domesticated USians are.
Canada is useless therefore I want it - Trump
FYI he is probably using the word subsidy when he really means the phrase 'trade deficit' which is less than $100b actually.
But he's an idiot buffoon with no business leading out on the economics of a small village not to mention the largest economy in the world.
Largest economy... for now
losing healthcare surely is worth all that !
Not to mention they actually pay the same amount in taxes. At least until higher incomes.
.....is this a real thing...? Was this actually officially posted...?
I genuinely can't tell anymore.
Everything hurts.
I had to scroll through a lot of bullshit to find it, but it is real https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113934520197790682
If we don’t want anything Canada has, why want them as a state? Why tariff their useless goods?
So fucking stupid.
ok thank you
I appreciate your effort
Musk has also gone full on tin foil hat, accusing USAID of funding Bioweapons and Terrorism.
I had the same thought... What the fuck bro this is insane
Bold words coming from the prime minister of New South Saskatchewan
You mean the gobernador of New Old New Mexico?
I would love it. Don't let us vote though, just bring us that healthcare and stuff.
Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
You have infinite Energy? enough wood?
Pay your workers! let people have houses!
let them take breaks, give them affordances!
Do you want Canada to pivot to China? Because that's how you get Canada to pivot towards China... I think.
I'm just a dumb tropical dweller from the deep south, so I will not pretend to understand Canuck politics or the whims of their people, but history shows that even liberal, democratic nations sometimes turn to tyranical regimes for protection against bigger threats. See Finland during WW2.
Something, something, enemy of my enemy...
Canada is delaying the bulk of their retaliatory tariffs for 3 weeks specifically to give Canadian companies to find alternative sources.
Canada's population is roughly 1/10 of the US. I also suspect that a decent portion of the deficit is due to things like Caterpillar manufacturing tractor tracks in Canada and improving to the US for assembly.
Canada will find alternatives or live without most things imported from the US and will likely not go back if the tariffs would be lifted.
No one wins a trade way, but I think Canada could be in a better position in the end. And it won't be because they become a state.
The US soy farmers still haven't gotten all their customers back from Trumps last trade war. Once we find a new supplier, why go back to such an untrustworthy one as the US?
iirc the US only has a deficit because they buy so much of our crude at a SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT, hence the only 10% tariff on crude.
I am just glad we have an adult at the helm here, for the time being.
far better military protection
From whom? Polar bears? Santa Claus?
Yeah fuck Trump, but also please take a geography lesson.
Emus naturally. They already won the war against Australia
Is Canada supposed to be afraid of a country that couldn't defeat Vietnamese rice farmers and Afghan goatherders?
I mean, the US military absolutely can and will roflstomp traditional governments and heirarchies. Both the Taliban (2001) Saddam's gov't were steamrolled. The followup of holding territory and "winning hearts and minds" is where they fall on their face.
And this threat really seems to be for the Canadian government and 'elite' rather than the people.
Both the Taliban
You didn't get the memo? The US ran from Afghanistan with it's tail between it's legs, while the Taliban rules there and is now literally untouchable. The US's "steamrolling" isn't as impressive as you believe it to be.
“winning hearts and minds”
The US can't even win "hearts & minds" in Bumfucksville, Arizona any more.
The Taliban did return, but I seriously doubt that there was much, if any, continuity of leadership between the two governments. We (the Allied Powers) destroyed Nazi Germany, but their ideological descendents still managed to fester and erupt some 80 years later.
The point still holds that the threat made here is not against the common Canadian, but instead to the leadership that would be targeted.
As for your point on Arizona, I'm having trouble parsing it. Do you mean to say that the residents do not support the US government? US adventurism? The Democratic/Republican Party?
but their ideological descendents still managed to fester
That's because the US and their liberal European collaborators went out of their way to preserve fascism in Europe. The US tried to destroy the Taliban - and now the Taliban is essentially untouchable (which they most definitely weren't before). You get a lot of political credibility on your home turf for defeating the US - just ask Vietnam.
I’m having trouble parsing it.
The whole reason there is a fascist resurgence is because liberalism has been exposed as a pack of lies. That started even before the 2008 recession, and now one of liberalism's holiest cows - Zionism - is collapsing right before everyone's eyes.
No more carrot for the US - now there will only be the stick. "Hearts & Minds" had absolutely nothing to do with the brown people they were dropping napalm and willy pete on - the target of "Hearts & Minds" was always the people doing the dropping.
Yep. The US sure starts with a great big hard-on. But always always gets limp and cannot finish.
I think this is less a question of Canada being afraid of America and more a question of the US/Canadian working class being terrified of a bunch of hotheads feeding the rest of us into a military meatgrinder to assuage their bloated egos.
To paraphrase the legendary boxer Mohammad Ali when he refused enlistment to the Vietnam War, "I Ain't Got No Quarrel With Them Canadian Mounted Police".
Fuck it. Close the borders. We good.
Let the queer folks come over first plz, we promise to be good Canadians.
Of fucking course!! If you can get to Ontario and need help getting settled/staying here please DM me. All queer folx are welcome at my house and in my country!!
Let's all become vassal states of Orange land.
... Oh wait, yeah, hard pass.
I'm pretty sure that Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to the Netherlands.
As a Canadian, we should strongly consider Dutch unification.
Schengen zone membership and EU passports yes please.
Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to most of the world. Right now the US and Israel are among those countries that most Canadians probably would like to move away from.
Anschluss (2025 American edition)
I was thinking more August 1939 Poland.
Yeah. The Anschluss-Thing is a little bit more complicated than just "Germany annexed another country because it wanted to".
The German unification was just ~60 years beforehand and during this time it was a real possibility (or at least it was widely discussed) that all german speaking territories would join the newly formed nation, including the german speaking part of Austria-Hungary. The idea was again discussed after the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918. So the idea was still in the heads of the people.
Additionally Austria had a strong pro-nazi movement, so a large part of the country just accepted the new leadership.
In present day Canada there is no strong movement to join the US. There is a huge cultural divide. The last time the idea, that Canada should join the US, was seriously discussed over a hundred years ago. The last time the border moved was in 1908. So for basically everyone alive, the US-Canada-Border is just a fact of life.
I've played enough Civilization to know that Aluminum is pretty important.
Britain looking at the US going all rampant colonial again: "There's my boy".
less like "Lebensraum" and more like an attempts at "Anschluss"
How stupid can one single person be? And he is considered a valid person to be a president?
that's just opening the border with extra steps
Good guy Trump just wants to rebalance the Senate in favor of Democrats
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