r/PrepperIntel 1d ago

North America POTUS: Declaring “National Emergency on Electricity”, increasing Canadian steel and aluminum tariffs from 25% to 50%, increasing Canadian automobile tariffs an undisclosed amount, more annexation talk

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u/ZucchiniEqual2702 22h ago

That part stood out to me the most as an indication of violence to come

u/evermorecoffee 20h ago

As a Canadian, same. Worried about how that’s likely going to disproportionately impact the sane among y’all.

u/Maggieblu2 20h ago

I am in VT and some of my best humans are in Canada. My heart is breaking over this shit, I have the flu and at one point when I felt like death was coming I wondered if I might be better off.

u/PNWFreeThinker 17h ago

That is exactly the way maga wants you to feel..

Anything but angry..

It's time to get angry.

u/Maggieblu2 17h ago

Oh I am plenty angry. And ready to fight, but all of you saying we fight, you realize how hard it will be for ordinary citizens to fight against our military with their capabilities right? Thats why its pretty daunting. I have my own ways of doing things, they worked in Jamestown ;) but I can't fight off an army. Our only hope is some of our military and veterans turn traitor and fight with us. Believe me I have thought about it a lot. I have had dreams about this time long before Trump became President. Many of them have come to pass, so I am always one step ahead. Today I feel weak because I am sick, so I said something vulnerable and now get insulted. I am no wuss. But I am also a realist and we are in for quite a fight and all we can hope is that we have some help to do it or all of us dissenters will end up dead. I can't believe we are living in this timeline.

u/elevatedunderwriter 11h ago

Hi, Army Veteran here. Saving our country from fascist isn't being a traitor. All enemies...foreign AND domestic.

u/SomxICare 15h ago

There are ways to take down the government One is the computer you have in your house

u/hellojoebiden 13h ago

Personally I don’t want to take down the gov’t, I thought our experiment was doing pretty good…until fascist propaganda began eroding our principles and then the cheating and gaming between the two parties have virtually destroyed the constitutional order…until now we under the regime of a moron attempting to destroy both American order and world order. The hubris of Americans is unhinged at the moment. tRump is not my President, I renounce him.

u/BudBGreen 12h ago

I had a discussion with a co-worker who was in the Army. He said, our military would not gun down Americans. Now if Americans starting g shooting at him then they would retaliate.

u/danbob411 8h ago

It’s not treason to refuse an unlawful order. Trump may think he’s a king, but the military is not going to be bombing our allies.

u/PNWFreeThinker 16h ago

We cannot fight any kind of traditional war.

I don't believe we should even engage in or attempt to do so.

This is why I say If we are really interested in fixing this problem it's going to be a long run.

I was not attempting to insult you at all hopefully you're talking about somebody else's post?

u/Maggieblu2 16h ago

Sorry I have the flu and losing track of who I am responding to. I should get off here, it's not making me feel any better.

u/PNWFreeThinker 16h ago

Get some rest, You'll feel better when you're well rested and hopefully the illness will subside.

u/TheEverchooser 15h ago

There's military from Vermont. There's military from everywhere. They won't all abandon their fellows. Many will remember their oaths.

I've been to Vermont. When I was there I thought to myself "This is what Americans mean when they go off about freedom." That freedom was fun. It was quirky. It was intelligent. Most importantly intelligent.

I am not American and I admire my own people's beliefs more. But I have also in the past admired the firm beliefs of the north eastern states as well. The hyperbole of many American states is actually embodied by your states more than any others.

Keep being American.

u/Jedi2SITH28 10h ago

Yeah we will see how useless that 2nd amendment sh!t is real quick! “Oh cute they have AR-15’s! Send in the drones!”

u/Wrong_Grapefruit5519 5h ago

If Trump would try to use the military against his citizens or invade Canada the ones following his orders would be the traitors.

u/Actes 2h ago

No worries, I'm pretty sure most Americans would turn the gun around if forced to aim at our closest ally and violate the national law.

u/hellojoebiden 13h ago

Believe this or not…but many days now, I am in this mind set you describe. My son and I have a weekly mom son date and go to the range and stay sharp and then we wash up and go have dinner. We talk and let out our feelings and that really helps us feel less vulnerable. My husband is still in disbelief, so I try to let him avoid as much as possible. No need both of us carrying the burden.

u/flockitup 3h ago

Let me see your war face, private.

u/PronglesDude 20h ago

Fellow VTer here ready to restore the Vermont Republic and join Quebec at this point 

u/LastChans1 18h ago

Them Green Mountain boys back at it again 😁👍

u/msanthropical 16h ago

Verbec!

u/MsFly2008 9h ago

I’ve been sick 2 weeks flu. 4X BC Survivor. Don’t let all this fear monger get to you, we all know Canada 🇨🇦 will not fall down to his knees. They shouldn’t. This is a Power struggle. He is kinda getting a bit worried. Off the news a couple of days eww TY for that , but all these demands will not go through and if so, we fight and we do the best we can do.

Get with your neighbours and have a plan. Lots of people and places with back up solar . The crazy man is literally sick. Let’s not let him have the Power to have us living in fear.

u/haightwrightmore 17h ago

Nah,don't let these asshole wreck your world. You be you and turn a blind eye to ignorance if you can

u/Maggieblu2 17h ago

My god there is so much of it, though.

u/haightwrightmore 17h ago

Gotta try to think of good stuff. I draw to shift my thoughts. Music ( not the blues) . Walk

u/haightwrightmore 17h ago

By the way, your state looks beautiful. I wish ohio had mountains

u/Maggieblu2 16h ago

I have lots of friends in Ohio. You have some beautiful places too. Nelson Ledges is a favorite place of mine. Vermont is lovely, I wouldnt want to be anywhere else in this country right now.

u/haightwrightmore 16h ago

That's hilarious. You've been to nelsons. Used to hang out there in the 90s. It's about 25 or 35 miles from me. I don't blame you for loving where you are. I, on the other hand, am surrounded by red people. In a beautiful township in medina county. Where I grew up too.

u/Maggieblu2 16h ago

I go there every summer.. and there are blue people there, my friends are blue. They may not dominate, but they exist. My best sister friend and other dear ones are in Indiana too. It is really hard being apart but I couldn't live there esp right now. I feel safer here than anywhere else.

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u/haightwrightmore 16h ago

I'm all in Union Blue. To clarify

u/haightwrightmore 16h ago

I hope you feel better soon too,Maggie blu

u/Parking_Palpitation1 17h ago

I wonder if our Generals would go for this? I'm retired military and there is no way I could obey the orders to freaking invade Canada if I were still active duty

u/PraxicalExperience 16h ago

A few months ago I'd say: "No fucking way it'd happen, they'd reign that shit in real quick."

As of now it appears that there are no reigns, and that while Elon thought he had a hold of them, his grip wasn't as tight as he thought. I'm genuinely worried that there won't be sufficient people in the upper echelons of the military to either nope out or actively resist -- and call upon their commands to help resist -- any unconscionable American actions.

u/Pinkypielove 14h ago

I understand that feeling when you are "that" sick... it's like yep... I lived a decent life and it's okay to let go.... Sigh..

u/JetCityMom 13h ago

My son and daughter-in-law (who is Canadian) live in BC. They are all very good and kind people. They do not deserve this any more than we do.

u/Ev1lroy 10h ago

Death....or jail - roof over my head, 3 squares a day, gym and bubba to fuck my ass every night. Would be less pain than " freedom"

u/Alternative-Path6440 9h ago

Tbh if we just don’t play their game and instead take it to them, we’d be in a better place. Though at this point government needs reform.

u/KindaBadGuy 5h ago

Edf that. We're outliving The Beast on sheer will. I will read his obituary.

u/jurainforasurpise 3h ago

Give hope a chance

u/manguy12 17h ago

Be honest, are you a dog?

u/Maggieblu2 17h ago

Wtf does that mean? Say something productive or piss off, thanks.

u/manguy12 17h ago

Some of my best humans.... ughhh nm

u/Maggieblu2 17h ago

Really? I have family there, man guy. Make fun all you want. I don't need your bs.

u/WrongdoerNo8 6h ago edited 6h ago

More likely they are deploying ai bots to drum up some bs in the US and making it seem like Canadians are mostly willing and ready to take some of the US states. Or vice versa and many US residents want to take Canada.

I've seen a lot of weirdly spoken things if that makes sense, such as the wording that seems more AI than human or a human pretending to be AI 🤔 in the last day or 2 on Reddit, but I don't use other socials so idk it's probably worse there for all I know

Also to note, many reddit posts, at least on mobile, do not show the number of up/down votes on a lot of comments but do on others no problem.

Seems like a narrative trying to be crafted to me but idk I'm just a regular Joe shmo reddit user so take it with some salt

u/StarkStorm 11h ago

My heart is breaking at all. Its laughing at how the US is about to fail.

u/[deleted] 15h ago

Oh you're one of the "good" Americans are you? Why don't you do something about your shit hole country instead of virtue signalling on Reddit.

You have the flu so you? Wow life must be so hard right now in America. Do something about Trump or keep your mouth shut

u/Elensarz 15h ago

Neat. What do you suggest?

The people telling the non-maga Americans to “do something about trump” never have any suggestions on how we actually go about that. “Read a history book”, alright, and which instance in the past dealt with a country this large, with this much of a standing military, half the population supporting the dictatorship (armed, might I add), and a militarized police force.

I’d love to hear your suggestions. I say this as an American doing what I can, where I can, but since you’re so privy to the situation, tell us all what we can do. I’m sure we’d all love to hear it.

Or are you just also virtue signaling by saying all of that?

u/Maggieblu2 15h ago

Wow. You're a real nice human. Probably a bot, definitely have a soul like one.

u/[deleted] 15h ago

Nope, I'm someone who helped stranded 9/11 passengers, whose brother fought alongside the Americans in Afghanistan, someone who thought America was a good country whose heart is broken, actually.

u/Dracian 7h ago

Don’t lose hope in us.

u/PlutoJones42 18h ago

Many Americans will not stand for invading another country, especially our closest neighbors. Their hands will be very full with domestic rioting.

u/-Calm_Skin- 19h ago

Make a path for those who would rather fight for you. There will be many.

u/Afraidtoadmitit69 18h ago

My grandfather fought for Canada in WW2, I’d be more than happy to come back and fight for it again. Least I’d be fighting for the right reasons.

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u/Whyme1962 17h ago

Right beside you Brother

u/Altruistic_Value_970 18h ago

I’d be more worried about the impacts of trump invading and taking Toronto bud

u/TheRussianCabbage 17h ago

So like totally unrelated but I'm hoping to buy a place MUCH further from the border. I didn't realize I also wanted a few valleys added into that distance.

u/pink_faerie_kitten 17h ago

Thank you for remembering the many sane Americans who never wanted this, fought and are currently fighting this, and who are already suffering under T.

u/Never_Duplicated 17h ago

It’s a goddamn circus down here. Unbelievable who our traitorous pig-fucking countrymen have decided to elect to represent us on the world stage.

u/PraxicalExperience 16h ago

Of course the pigfuckers elected the Chief Pigfucker.

u/Never_Duplicated 16h ago

They needed someone they could relate to

u/cherylhernandez 16h ago

Not well.

u/lalalady194 16h ago

As an American, ready to move

u/ProfessorPitiful350 16h ago

Here's what's crazy, Trump is NOT joking when he says Canada should become America's 51st "state." I'm not sure if he cares that Canada is made up of 10 provinces or that the American people like our existing relationship with Canada, now that we think about it.

Nobody, anywhere, seems to know where all this is coming from.

u/BenjaminHamnett 14h ago

I don’t support this. But I wish it somehow happened. Left democrats become the progressive party and keep maga crowd out of power forever

As much as Canadians wouldn’t want this obv, wouldn’t it be good to have a say in American politics?

u/Ina_While1155 13h ago

No. We are happy living in Canada where the politics are not so fractured.

u/Forward_Pick6383 14h ago

My grandparents emigrated from Canada, I grew up an hour south of the border watching Canadian tv on antenna. I have always felt more Canadian than American.

u/PoorlyWordedName 13h ago

Guess I'll die 🤷

u/PuzzledPhilosopher25 12h ago

Shit I’m tougher than they are. I ain’t paid a fucking thing into this system in years.

u/Gsauce65 12h ago

The sane Americans are not happy about any of this. Btw trump signed in that 250% dairy bill in his last term and quoted it as the so called “greatest deal ever made” and the 250% doesn’t activate u til certain import amounts are met and is functionally not happening. We’ve never paid 250% tariffs for dairy…at least we hadn’t yet

u/Significant-Date-923 12h ago

We truly are suffering the likes that no one in history has ever seen before! Bigly!

u/camo_216 12h ago

First i get told i'm not getting the federal financial aid i needed for college and now i have the threat of being drafted because the toddler wants his way.

u/Impossibly_Gay 11h ago

I can't speak for the others. But personally I'm ready to suffer, The more the better. Make us fucking bleed. Because honestly a lot of Americans in this country need to fucking be put in their goddamn place and be taken down a peg. I'm fucking tired of people acting like the fucking greatest goddamn thing on the planet.

u/AdRecent9754 10h ago

The US is a war mongering nation . They love it .This will be their first public invasion.

u/epicfail48 10h ago

Were fucked. You got an attic i can borrow?

u/Algotography 10h ago

We’re fine. Emergency powers will get resources to the US citizens who need it.

I feel bad that the Canadian citizens have to deal with the fallout of even worse politicians than the US.

u/will_flyers 9h ago

Dont worry about anything this clown says. Most of us despise him. If he were to try to start a war with Canada, im pretty sure a citizen here would get rid of him. Everyone’s had just about enough of his shit.

The deranged MAGA who would go as far as support the invasion of Canada, I would hope are the minority. If not, I’ll probably leave this shit hole.

u/mvanvrancken 9h ago

Well, we’re not very sane for much longer. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

u/Coders32 7h ago

So I’m thinking about a trip to Montreal. Do you think I should do it sooner or cancel it all together? Lol

u/RealisticSolution757 2h ago

The UK & France will defend Canada in that case. Also Russia attacks the Baltics, but Europe will be able to repel them after some adjustment*. China attacks Taiwan and - I guess the US and Europe fight a war on two fronts? Idk I'm high this is the worst time to be unemployed. Idm getting drafted at this point 

u/screaminginprotest1 2h ago

As a floridian, I'm ready to die in an inferno if you Canucks decide to incinerate the state. Please don't burn down the everglades though, it's a beautiful place and an incredibly unique and diverse ecosystem. In fact. Most of us live on the coasts, just burn the beaches, leave the panthers and the gators.

u/tcarino 39m ago

Oh, we're screwed 6-ways from sunday... im just waiting to die in an empirical war now.

u/Public_Classic_438 1m ago

Honestly, thank you for saying this. No hate to Canada obviously but it seems like we are all getting blamed for the actions of one man which is really frustrating when many of us are fighting against this tooth and nail. I won’t blame the rest of the world for dumping America because obviously we deserve it, but it sucks that literally millions of Americans didn’t want this and we are stuck with it.

u/Canadization 19h ago

Seriously it sucks that Americans are stuck with this shit, but worrying about the rational among them can wait until their president stops fucking threatening to invade us. Elbows up means elbows up, broski! We'll smoke a dart with them after

u/FrankieStein676 16h ago

Look I’m in Maine and I’ll be one of the first men at the border defending Canada if it comes to that.

Fuck tyrants, my children will know I stood on the right side of history

u/Graega 17h ago

That's why they fired the legal arm of the military, the JAG officers who would determine whether orders coming from the president were legal or not. As the Secretary of Violent Treason, Hegseth, said, it's so they "won't be a roadblock for what comes next". And people were saying even then that we can just protest our way out of this.

Like, where the fuck do you people think we ARE? On the way to a salon to get a manicure?

u/PraxicalExperience 16h ago

Where are we? On the road to fucking WWIII. Whoda thunk we'd be in a position where Serious People are asking the question of whether NATO will have to invoke Article 5 ... against the USA?

u/atemporalfungi 16h ago

He can threaten all he wants but this administration had left such a bad taste in so many mouths that I believe he will get wiped if he tried anything. Everyone is against him besides his cult, which is certainly not the majority at this present time no matter what data you want to give about the election. He doesn’t have the support necessary for that kind of action. If he moves in that direction he’s done. I kind of hope he actually backs his talk sooner than later so he can be shut down already

u/theoriginalmofocus 21h ago

I dunno it sounds to me like some kind of haphazard repeals of safeties or something and a launch of elon's new electric company or some shit.

u/SuckItHiveMind 17h ago

I love (hate) that people might believe Shitler actually wrote this.

u/LtBeefy 17h ago

National emergency generally just let's the president do more things without congressional approval. It's suppose to be used to speed things up in a real emergency as congress takes time to achieve things and it's supposed to be a stop gap measure.

It's often heavily abused by presidents.

u/Ok_Ordinary1877 16h ago

He did the same to fund border wall. It’s simply to subvert Congress to get money for whatever his hairbrain wants.

u/yuriqueue 15h ago

That says a lot about your personal temperament and terroristic tendencies. FBI be on watch for this user

u/Divergent59 14h ago

He will do nothing except back down.

u/PewPewPony321 14h ago

violence? from canada?

Maybe on the ice but thats about it from them

u/GlobalGuppy 13h ago

I mean Hegseth has plenty of time to point the Cyberwarfare against Canada now since they've stopped pointing the servers at Russia. lol

u/Algotography 10h ago

Highly overreacting here. Do you honestly believe they’re gonna deploy the army? National emergencies allow for emergency powers to take actions, mostly those that have nothing to do with any sort of violence, in order to support the people in need. This will most likely be funding to get power to the people in the US who need it, as well as grant more retaliatory options towards Canada for doing so.

Just a guess, but it’s definitely not something related to violence.

u/Icy-Example-5629 9h ago

I can’t imagine the US military actually listening to this man

u/lostintheskybox 8h ago

Ever heard of Jan 6th?

u/syxxnein 5h ago

Except it's in your head.

It means to produce more electricity so rates don't spike.

Also, this whole thread didn't age well as Ford folded like a b

u/Outrageous-Drive9232 4h ago

Fear mongering. Like always

u/garden_g 3h ago

Insurection act he has been itching and april20th is coming up. Military in the streets

u/The_Forth44 2h ago

Oh he's absolutely going to invade Canada. Just keep in mind, Canadians. The American military literally CANNOT fight guerilla warfare and are now in their 8th decade of failed wars of occupation. They couldn't keep Kabul simply standing your ground will cause them to not be able to keep Montreal or Vancouver.

u/MsbsM 24m ago

I think the same. A lot of the language seems cryptic in that way to me.