Happy new year 2025...
It was a subtle declaration of war the first time he brought it up. After repeating it a dozen more times, we really shouldn't be ignoring this as a country.
The United States under Trump is a foreign threat with hostile intentions.
He literally just said he wants to take over Canada by "economic force", I wish any articles included the full quote/context though.
At this point anyone advocating for or supporting Trump in Canada is guilty of high treason against Canada.
If the US is willing to adopt a Westminster parliamentary system, the Canadian charter of Rights, official bilingualism (or, well, trilingualism, because Spanish) and give up silly ideas like the 2nd Amendment and life tenure of SC justices, something could be worked out. What do you mean no?
Don't forget health care.
I'm 2020 52% of Puerto Ricans who voted said yes to joining the United States as a full fledged state. What about them, they actually want to be a part of this shithole country.
They already are, technically. They just don't have a voice on who their leader can be.
Trump can get fucked. I'll fight tooth and nail before we become a 51st state.
Start learning how to resist his nonsense now. With Trudeau's resignation lil pp has adopted an election stance.
The fuckery is about to ramp up.
With Trudeau’s resignation lil pp has adopted an election stance.
Oh, it's been going on for a while.
I can't find it right now, but there was a graph posted a few weeks ago showing how much the CPC outspent the other parties on campaign advertising in 2024. It was astounding.
Me too. I don't want to be a part of the U.S.
Don’t feed the trolls! He’s only repeating this because it got attention the last time he spewed this bs.
I hope you realize that by posting this ignoramus' nonsense you are actively a part of the problem.
If you don't, this is me telling you to stop being an active part of the problem by posting this ignoramus' nonsense.
That stupid Nazi fuck may discover just how vicious Canadians can get when defending their country.
I just hope we don't get to that point.
I will say that I think a lot of people are about to get a taste for how much worse we can do than Trudeau.
It's getting to the point where I don't think dicking around on internet forums is good enough. Every time trump repeat the phrase "51st state" it gets a little more serious. We need to start organizing irl like, yesterday.
I like how he says "Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st state", where did he get that? any polls he did recently?
Let him talk as much he want, nothing he can do IMO.
Those are meaningless questions to ask someone like Trump. It doesn’t matter and never will matter where he gets the statement. He just needs to never admit that he pulled that out of his ass, and accuse every fact checker of political bias or lying. Those are the rules in his playbook.
He is manufacturing your consent for the takeover.
Anglo FLQ is going to be interesting.
It's the same reason that Russia used for invading Ukraine and China is using for it's threats of invading Taiwan...
We really need to stop laughing at this.
This.
Dictators love to pretend they are a saviour and use that pretext to invade and mutder
There is little growth left in the US. The natural resources are allocated, the population rinsed for $2 for every $1 they earn. National debt runs at numbers that are practically unimaginable by humans.
What is an expansionist empire to do ?
It’s not coincidence he’s talking about Canada, Greenland in this way. The oligarchs have been going after Europe for a decade.
These aren’t the ramblings of an idiot . It’s Americas plan.
Canada Mexico Panama Greenland now president Musk is talking about freeing the UK. America is on the war path it seems. I think the world is going to be blind sided by this. Europe should get off of US tech. Everything the US says about China is something they can do also.
It might happen if pollievre gets elected. Conservatives are little America worshippers.
The Bloc Québécois might start getting elected outside Québec to form its own country... with other provinces.
He obviously hasn’t thought it through. As one state, with a proportionate number of congressmen and electoral college votes, Canada would end up as the anti-Texas, dragging the political centre of gravity well into a Democratic majority. A Trumpist annexation would have to split Canada into two states, Alberta and the rest, as to gerrymander the outcome.
Assuming they have the grace to make us all citizens and allow us to vote. I'm not holding my breath.
canada as a state and voting left, all else the same wrt u.s. presidential election process...
canada would have two senators, increasing the senate to 102 members. and in a reapportioned house, receive 44 seats, 'taking' 5 from california; 4 from tx; 3 from fl; 2 ea from il, ny, nc, pa; 1 ea from al, az, co, ct, ga, in, ks, ky, md, ma, mi, mn, mo, mt, ne, nj, oh, or, ri, sc, tn, va, wa, wi.
using 2024 state results (note: figuring ne and me would basically cancel each other out anyway and to keep my 2-minute spreadsheet simple, i just left those two states all-or-nothing), and assuming the great commonwealth of canada, now a u.s. state, would vote left....
looks like it woulda been 287 for r, 253 for d; with 271 needed to win.
just adding a state doesn't change how electoral college votes are distributed, it's still heavily skewed in favor of low-pop states because states get equal representation in the senate regardless of population. remember each member of congress.. that's house + senate.. gives their state one ec vote. that's why the hypothetical here doesn't change the overall outcome.
if each province became a state instead.. things might get 'interesting', then.
US deficits/debt are too high to be sustainable. Low taxes come with high health insurance costs. The threat of Russia/China has always been complete BS, but they are not "surrounding us constantly"
The best reply to this asshole would be to openly talk of US states joining Canada as a province. Or to have a constitutional convention with 50 states to decide which 2 countries to form.
We can also offer to trade with China/Russia/others more to lower any trade surpluses we have with US.
I wouldn't trade with Russia since they are involved in the invasion of the Ukraine. And China would simply flood our market with their stuff and ruin us.
This, Greenland... What is Trump's obsession with trying to get more territory? Is he trying to start a war with someone? Does he think if the country is at war he can postpone the next election?
Or is he just copying daddy Putin? Insisting ~~Ukraine~~ Canada wants to be part of ~~Russia~~ the US and that makes it okay to go "Liberate" Canada...
They’re physically large territories so the map looks very impressive, especially with the Mercator projection.
This is the man who redirected a hurricane with a sharpie. I don’t think there’s any more to it.
Putin's his master and handler. If the United States throws the high ground away and starts gobbling up neighbouring nations, it becomes that much easier to say "the West does it too".
Le Anschluss?
Why are we giving a fuck about this guy?
Because he is taking the helm of the most dangerous country of the West
internet and tv rotted peoples brains, been that way for about 10-15 years now. people cant help themselves
Because, believe it or not, we can't just toss these statements like they don't matter. The leader of a world superpower, both military and economically, is threatening our sovereignty.
What's going on Canada?
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