Summary
Donald Trump reiterated his claim that Canada would be better as the U.S.’s 51st state, citing trade imbalances and lower taxes.
He also announced new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada, despite a recent 30-day reprieve.
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has not formally responded, but a government source said they await official confirmation.
Trump criticized Canada’s defense spending and border security, despite recent Canadian commitments.
Canada previously retaliated against similar tariffs in 2018 before a 2019 trade deal resolved the dispute.
He’s too busy banning paper straws and taking away his enemies security clearances to annex Canada.
Stop giving this foolishness air.
Make preparations on the side. But Stop giving it public attention.
also understand that Canada would never be a state. It would be a generation or two of Forceful and violent assimilation before any region was given “statehood”. For everyone else, it’s poverty, military occupation, and slavery. Which would mean Insurgency and War.
Any Canadian advocating for this is either terminally online and uneducated, living life off article title opinions. Or they are functionally a traitor/quisling/5th columnist and a threat to their neighbors, and should kept an eye of. And if things really did go “there”. they’d be the ones taken out first by resistance.
Dementia is a persnickety business
and it is his cherished state
He can’t even cherish California, what makes anyone believe him?
Reads comments, looks at community. Surprised it’s not c/Canada.
I thought conservatives couldn’t afford eggs?
also scruples
At this point I refuse to believe this is real life. We are in a simulation run by shitty AI
not the “I have no mouth and I must scream” future, just the “I have a mouth and I must groan” present
AM…AMerica
This just The Boys season 5.
that feeling is called dissociation btw
Orange Nero is full of bullshit, Canada is not a red run welfare state.
Why would Canada join the US, only to be rewarded with a shitty health care system and a low national minimum wage?
Elon Musk and the nazi sad boys will just dig up cases, where chain smokers having lung cancer getting treatment, etc. In Hungary, some try to divert the nager created by the constant defunding of healthcare (some of which was done by diverting money into building football stadiums “to encourage children to do sports thus be healthy”) to the sick and the disabled…
I unapologetically woke up this morning hoping to read that someone took a successful shot at him during the Superbowl.
Put me on whatever list you wish.
More flooding the zone. He won’t do this. He is just stiring up more media to distract from him pickpocketing the whole country. His real deviousness is the sovereign fund play. He wants to take taxpayer dollars, which he is actively trying to raise for everyone making less than $500k a year, and put it into an investment fund that buys American stocks. Effectively, he wants to take money from 99% of Americans and just give it to the largest corporations. Everything else he is talking about is just distraction from that fact.
How would a whole country be a single state? Wouldn’t it become 13 states (or however many provences/territories Canada has)?
Giving them more than two senators might lead to a senate that isn’t perpetually gridlocked. That makes them dangerously close to being able to pass progressive legislation instead of nothing but mandatory funding bills with 37 pages worth of riders and pork.
Everyone assumes Canada is super liberal country just because of universal healthcare. They forget that Alberta is basically snowy Texas, and the other prairie provinces have more in common with the Midwest than New York.
Everyone assumes every country’s overton window is aligned with the US.
Canada is no leftist paradise, but their overton window is far more left than the US.
Bernie would a Canadian centrist, or maybe a left leaning politician, for example.
even with that, Alberta is still politically to the left of Texas
No no, that would give too many senators to people who understand the value of universal healthcare. Can’t have that.
This man shits worthless click bait out of his mouth daily, why does media fall for it?
What do you want them to do? Not report on the most powerful man in the world? They need to report this, people need to see it
Fall for it? They’re grateful he’s made their job insanely easy. They used yo have to investigate things and then risk running afoul of the powerful. Now they just have to print whatever the latest outrageous bullshit comes out of Donald’s mouth and reap the clicks and ad dollars.
All the while ignoring all the terrible things being done by Republicans.
What a hell of 4 years that await us…
We hope only 4 years
What’s in it for Canada? Expensive ineffective healthcare? Why would they go for this?
Don’t forget the gun violence
Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?
I’m not seeing the upsides for Canada.
