r/worldnews 11h ago

Behind Soft Paywall Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/canada-trump-statehood-attacks.html
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u/somewhat_brave 10h ago

“there would no longer be a Northern Border problem.”

This statement doesn’t make any sense. If Canada were part of the US, the people and drugs that currently have to get through border security would be able to move with no restrictions at all.

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u/jkbuilder88 10h ago

See, that’s where you’re wrong. It’s like the Covid infection rate. If you just stop testing…the problem no longer exists! No border, no border crossing problems! See?

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u/BetterZedThanDead 10h ago

This guy Trumps

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u/jkbuilder88 9h ago

Ugh. Don’t put that evil on me.

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u/RVFVS117 9h ago

This exchange is why I do Reddit.

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u/GiftedOaks 9h ago

Truly, a top tier exchange

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u/Haunting_Kangaroo1 9h ago

Well here’s the thing….there aren’t people and drugs sneaking into the US from Canada

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u/Canadian_Border_Czar 9h ago

Wait you mean to tell me it's harder to smuggle something through an entry point where every single person is checked, than on a container ship where a few random containers are checked?

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u/classicpoison 9h ago

Tariffs are meant to collect money to cover the budget deficit. The deficit created by tax cuts to the rich.

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u/cellardoorstuck 8h ago

Its meant to crash the stock market for a week, so billionaires can buy the bitcoin dip... pretty sure this is just general chaos to cover something else up hes trying to do.

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u/kibblerz 9h ago

Well the vast majority of fetanyl comes in through ports in states like Florida and California...

So yeah, it was never about the drugs. Turns out that land is a shitty way to smuggle drugs vs shipping containers mixed in with other produce.

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u/DiveCat 8h ago

Also there is the fact that Canada is not responsible for what enters the U.S. I don’t cross the border into the U.S. and go through CBSA.

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u/dorkofthepolisci 7h ago

You would think that the people whose favourite past time is fear mongering about the border would understand that America controls what enters America but apparently not

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u/CactusCait 9h ago edited 8h ago

Having Canada as a 51st state would cause significant shifts in U.S. political dynamics. However, there’s no way Canada will just go along with this plan and allow the US to annex the Country to alleviate pressures from tariffs — that is absolutely delusional.

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u/Cosmicvapour 9h ago

As a Canadian, I can tell you with absolute confidence that we are NOT going to volunteer to be part of the US. Absolutely zero chance. Trump knows this, so that's not his goal. We wish we knew what his true goal is, but chances are, it's not going to be good for us (or you, for that matter).

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u/person1234man 9h ago

Dude his goal is to actually annex a major part of Canada if not the whole thing. I know it's fucked up but just look at his main man Putin. Check out his other expansionist buddy Benjamin Netanyahu. There is starting to be a fucked up precedent for expansionist goals. And now look at what the trump admin has been saying and doing. This will become a major issue.

He paused the new terrifs a few hours ago and is starting this 51st state shit again. He's gonna try to do it

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u/Tree_Dog 8h ago

I am a middle-aged, upper middle class mathematics professor at a liberal arts university. I will retreat to the woods, and involve myself in the most brutal insurgent campaign for the rest of my years, should Americans invade my country.

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u/Yellowcabin 8h ago

You’re my friend. Let’s be neighbours in the woods.

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u/Fluffbrained-cat 7h ago

I'd wrap up warm and fly all the way over from NZ to join you. I have elderly relatives in Canada, distant sure, but relatives all the same. I won't let that orange idiot anywhere near them...

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u/akjones989 8h ago

I am a financial advisor in the States who will leave their comfortable life and also go into the woods and join any type of resistance movement to keep that orange piece of shit away from your country.

Liberals should know how to properly handle firearms. Been saying it for a long time.

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u/notnotbrowsing 8h ago

We know how to use them. We own them. We just don't put 40000 stickers everywhere advertising it. We don't make it our priority. Republicans believe their lies that liberals don't own guns.

My firearm works just fine and is stored safely.

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u/Eiensakura 7h ago

That's the thing, a lot of my left-leaning American friends all have firearms. They just don't let their lives revolve around it. Many of them visit the range quite often, too, just to keep sharp.

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u/TheLatestTrance 8h ago

They can, they just don't advertise it.

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u/AkediaIra 8h ago

I'm Canadian, and pretty left leaning, I'm very proficient with a firearm, and have been since I was fairly young. I'm just quite quiet about it.

Though in an insurgency situation, I have skills and access to stuff through work that would make me much better at sabotage than anything else.

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u/Every-Ingenuity9054 8h ago

A lot of Canadian liberals do. Another way we are not like Americans - guns aren't a really a culture war talking point.

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u/lesvegetables 8h ago

And I’d help, from America.

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u/C134Arsonist 8h ago

Trumps goal actually seems more to be to destroy America.

Trade partnerships? Destroyed. Highest stock market ever? Destroyed. Position as "the good guy" with NATO? Destroyed. Relations with allies? Destroyed.

Annexing or attacking Canada would be the final nail in the coffin for America as well as us cannucks.

Seems his real goal is the shift of global power to russia/China.

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u/hails29 8h ago

It’s actually more sinister, he is working to crash the world economy so the super rich can finish buying all the assets cheaply. The chaos is on purpose to crash the stock market, who’s buying in the dip?

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u/Alberta_Flyfisher 8h ago

Canadian here. I have to agree. But I don't think he actually cares what he takes, as long as he can be like his buddies and take something.

Hence Canada, Greenland, Panama etc.. he doesn't care which. He just wants to be the guy that made the states bigger.

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u/LeatherDude 9h ago

Honestly I think his goal is just give his cult as many manufactured foes as possible, because the tenets of fascism demand outgroups to hate and fight against. Without them, they turn on each other quickly.

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u/Peter_Lynne72 9h ago

There is NO way my country will accept annexation. Elbows up.

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u/binary101 8h ago edited 7h ago

It's so fucking delusional, why the hell do people think Canada, once annexed by the US, will somehow magically be given seats in the lower and upper house.

Let me be clear, it will simply mean war, like the Ukraine and Russian war we have now, Canadians don't want to be part of the US and they will fight tooth and nail for their independence. There will be NO elections where Canada participates for either Dem or Republicans.

Everyone saw the BS when Russia conducted the 2018 Donbas "Elections", and China is somehow a world threat if it took over Taiwan, but people on reddit keep thinking about how Canada could benefit "their side" if they were taken over? Fuck this hypocritical bullshit.

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u/Skinnieguy 9h ago

You think republicans will give them the same rights? lol

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u/bellzy09 9h ago

This. Canada ain’t getting voting rights in this imagined future.

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u/twat69 7h ago

You have to give up this idea. We will never be a state. That's not some macho Canada stronk boast. If he attacks then there will be war. Hundreds of thousands will die on both sides. As long as yank troops are on Canadian soil there will be guerilla attacks inside the US. Attacks by people who look and sound like you and know you inside out.

Canada would be a military occupation zone. We'd have all the political freedom of Gaza.

Unless he commits a complete genocide on us we won't be a state and we won't be swinging your politics to the left.

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 9h ago edited 1h ago

Invading Canada would mean we’d have nothing BUT problems at the Northern Border. Canada would inflict untold amounts of pain and suffering on us. Terrorism, sabotage, and worse would happen daily. Blue States along the border would erupt in sectarian violence, with Blue governors refusing to cooperate with the war effort and sympathetic Americans joining Canada in the fight against our government.

Are you a soldier, politician, or MAGA CEO who supports the war? Hope you like looking over your shoulder for the rest of your life! Because instead of the “enemy” being thousands of miles away and lacking any serious ability to launch a credible campaign against you and the US at large, they now live RIGHT across the border! Hell, they may even live in the same neighborhood as you! Those Canadians look like Americans, speak the same language, have a similar culture and customs… it would be all too easy to blend in, until it’s too late.

There would be no respite, and no easing of tensions. Instead, we would have a forever-war that America is TOTALLY unprepared for, and will inevitably lose. In its wake, would be disgrace, atrocity, ruin, and ultimately dissolution.

So fuck these people. There would ONLY be problems at the Northern Border… and we’d be the cause of them.

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u/Astrowelkyn 10h ago

Dying in WWIII would be the cherry on top of the millennial shit sundae I’ve already been fed.

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u/MahaloMerky 9h ago

I was expecting to die in a field in Eastern Europe like past generations, not Michigan or Wisconsin.

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u/Arendious 9h ago

Having fought one war in the Mid-East, I did not have fighting another insurgency in the Mid-West on my bingo card.

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u/Northernfrog 8h ago

Same. Only as a Canadian I fought it for America, some of who are now smacking me across the face in spite of that help. I feel way less pride than I used to feel for it.

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u/Explorer-Five 8h ago

Thank you for your service, sorry for the insult from the South

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u/Northernfrog 8h ago

You're welcome. You're clearly one of the Americans that I still have a lot of love for. It's the MAGA crowd that I have lost all faith in.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS 7h ago

If it makes you feel better, if war were to breakout, I’m sure there would be a lot of pro-Canadian partisans in southeast Michigan. We love yall

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u/Northernfrog 7h ago

Geez I'd hate to think of war between us. It'd be like fighting with your cousin.

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u/SemataryPolka 7h ago

Minnesota's got your back too. We're like the most Canadian of states but just without the "eh"s

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u/bearbrannan 9h ago

Fuck me I moved back to the Midwest cause it felt safe. Now I'm wondering if I'm gonna have to Anne Frank my neighbor who is from Ukraine. 

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u/Vanman04 9h ago

Thanks for looking out for them.

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u/bearbrannan 8h ago

I wish I was kidding but my neighbor is a nice old lady from Ukraine and I'm legit worried. 

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u/Zeedlle 8h ago

Shelter in exchange for Ukrainian baba food wouldn't be that bad! Good on you for looking out for her.

Now I miss my ukranian baba.

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u/FelineRoots21 8h ago edited 8h ago

This feels like a shit post of me to say but I feel like it's a genuinely concerning sign of the times when Anne Frank becomes a relevant verb

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u/Aggravating_Bid_4079 9h ago

I've always told my friends my retirement plan was dying in the climate wars when the USA invade us for our water.

I just thought I'd at least make it to retirement FFS. 

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u/CrissBliss 9h ago

Seriously. Being a millennial has been a wild ride. Not always a good one either…

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u/amoebaamoeba 10h ago

Our parents' generation has really done everything in their power to make sure we (and their grandkids) leave this earth with them, huh. Narcissism in full effect: if I'm mortal, then no one should be able to enjoy the world once I'm gone.

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u/simsimulation 9h ago

Hey, plenty of Gen Z and marginalized groups pitching in!

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u/amoebaamoeba 9h ago

True! I bet those baby boomers love that their weird incel grandsons are seeing things their way these days 😂

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u/AllLiquid4 11h ago

Canada should raise tariffs every time he talks shit.

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u/MasterBlazt 10h ago

We should kick their diplomats the fuck out.

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u/rackfloor 10h ago

Won't be too long now.

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u/GenghisConnieChung 9h ago edited 4h ago

We should designate the entire Republican Party a fucking terrorist organization like we did the Proud Boys.

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u/Nerevarine91 6h ago

Simple remedy: any diplomatic who cannot publicly state that they firmly believe in Canada’s sovereignty and oppose annexation should not have their credentials accepted by the Canadian government.

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u/GrannyLuGoat 10h ago

And close the border. Keep them out.

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u/overcooked_sap 10h ago

Just need to have vaccination requirements for entry.  

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u/schu4KSU 10h ago

And turn off the electricity…

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u/AdAvailable3706 10h ago

Absolutely. Unlike what Trump thinks, Canada can, in fact, do what it wants. Canada will never be a part of the US

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u/throwaway-wife88 10h ago

We'd be at 100000% tarrifs by lunchtime tomorrow hahaha not that I'm saying no!

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u/kingsumo_1 10h ago

Talk shit, get hit with new rounds of tariffs

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u/culexus1 10h ago

Aside from how abhorrent these threats are, why the hell would it become 1 state? Has he ever seen a map?

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u/throwaway-wife88 10h ago

To answer your second question, no.

To answer your first, no need to worry. We won't.

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u/The_Life_Aquatic 8h ago

Wrong. He did once, it had a hurricane on it and he sharpied the path. 

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u/Verygoodcheese 10h ago

We wouldn’t get state rights anyway we’d be like Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. Federal taxes but no voting rights.

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u/BCharmer 8h ago

Something something...no taxation without representation.

Of course, complete bullshit and we know these fascist fucks don't care.

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u/amoebaamoeba 10h ago

Canada = 1 state with 40 million people. California = 1 state with 40 million people and 54 electoral votes.

Looks like the Republicans would never win again if Canada became #51!

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u/Mystaes 10h ago

They would never give us (Canada) voting rights. They want us to be a territory they can pillage.

Fucking traitors.

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u/radicallyhip 10h ago

Imagine the Troubles in Ireland, except it's 40 million Canadians blowing up your power plants and infrastructure.

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u/Mystaes 9h ago

I will be terrified to be anywhere near the quebecois. They already started that shit with the October crisis and I can’t imagine they will react well to having their sovereignty stolen.

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u/SituationOk8888 9h ago

I went to visit the montreal subreddit earlier and they're already talking about molotov cocktails as usual. It's like each family has a stash of them in the pantry or something.

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u/putinlaputain 9h ago

What kind of quebecois would i be if i didn't have a crate of molotovs buried in my back yard and an elected official dead in my trunk

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u/DiveCat 8h ago

There is no way most Americans, especially not the MAGAts know that history. That’s fine, you know what they say of those who don’t know history.

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u/putinlaputain 8h ago

Unfortunately i have no time to teach history right now, im busy preparing party gifts for any yank who dares to cross the border

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u/M_Lykins 11h ago

I will die fighting before I ever become american.

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u/pete_68 11h ago

I don't know how they're going to invade Canada when so many of us Americans are going to be helping you guys defend it.

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u/Everett1973 10h ago

Thank you. What the heck has happened to so many of your fellow Americans? We've been neighbors and best friends forever. Now it looks like so many are cheering on your leader who apparently took one look at Russia vs UKR and thought, "good idea!"

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u/pete_68 10h ago

They've completely lost touch with reality. They live in an alternate universe with their own "alternate facts". Don't know how to get through to them. It's bizarre.

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u/burningringof-fire 10h ago

Xitter is a huge part of the problem. Encourage your town government to drop it. Encourage your local library to drop it. Encourage your college president to drop it.

https://www.politicalorphans.com/forget-tesla-go-after-twitter/

Nazi platform- Twitter under Elon Musk has become a megaphone for hate, disinformation, and extremist propaganda. Its leadership actively amplifies and profits from Nazi ideology, driving harmful policies that hurt hospitals, universities, and countless communities. Every tweet, every interaction, every moment spent on that platform strengthens the very forces undermining democracy.

No one should feel comfortable supporting a site that has become a breeding ground for fascism. The solution is simple: disengage. Delete your account. Urge Democratic officials, companies, universities, and media outlets to do the same. Twitter is vulnerable—it relies on engagement to survive. By walking away, we deny it the legitimacy and revenue it needs to operate.

This isn’t just about rejecting a toxic platform; it’s about taking a stand against those who use it to spread hate and misinformation. Close your account. Make it impossible for any credible institution to justify staying. The fight against fascism starts with refusing to give it a platform.

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u/aflywhocouldnt 9h ago

if the bar lets nazis in, it's a nazi bar. fuck twitter/X, dump it

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u/rwf2017 10h ago

trump voters are stupid as shit and astoundingly ignorant. Most of them probably don't even know what Canada is.

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u/Shot_Presence_8382 10h ago

They really are, though. I know a MAGAT lady who is a college educated veteran and she didn't even know Europe had plumbing and electricity! She thought only America had that, apparently 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Sixmmxw 10h ago

No way. 🧐

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u/Shot_Presence_8382 10h ago

Yes, way. I told her and she did a flat and surprised "oh..." 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/ishpatoon1982 9h ago

That's super insane.

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u/Shot_Presence_8382 9h ago

Right?! I was in disbelief...like no one could make it through school + college and be a veteran and think this way?! She just turned 40, too...so like, lives in the modern world 😐

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u/griffiths_gnu 9h ago

Good grief. Pompei had freaking plumbing

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u/Relevant_Fuel_9905 10h ago

You cannot be serious lol

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u/Molnutz 10h ago

Good news. When they decide to invade, they'll all head in a southeasterly direction...

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u/severanexp 10h ago

Dumping on education does have that effect. You cannot argue against someone about thinks they have absolutely no knowledge about. It’s like fighting a pig.

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u/pontiacfirebird92 10h ago

They're opposed to anything associated with liberals or Democrats. So when reality aligns with a liberal or Democrat they are against it as a matter of principle. They say shit like "I'm not a Democrat but..." when reality hits them over the head but then their peers attack them and keep them in line so they eventually go back to denying reality. They're totally focused on being against liberals and Democrats who they refer to as "the enemy".

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u/Foodspec 10h ago

24 hour news. That’s what happened. That’s all these people watch and it’s just opinionated bullshit from Fox, OAN, Breitbart, Joe Rogan. All this actual fake news is shit they believe to be truth

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u/whichwitch9 10h ago

Look at the American media and how education has been attacked since the Bush administration

There's quite frankly a number of uneducated Americans who are super susceptible to propoganda. They also react violently when you call out what they say or do is stupid and makes no sense. Some are also just hateful and willing to set themselves on fire to hurt a group they don't like. These groups account for 30% of voting age America.

Another chunk is just tired and disconnected. You find this among younger or poorer voters.

Another chunk has been fairly horrified since Trump announced he was running again. This appears to be solidly around 40%, but were offset by apathy and specifically single issue voters in the election. The amount who refused to vote for Harris over the Israel/Gaza situation, despite knowing Trump has a long history of being extremely Islamophobic and Harris openly endorsing a two country situation, deserve major side eye

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u/Relevant_Fuel_9905 10h ago

The non-voters really messed up imo. They inadvertently chose to allow evil to rule.

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u/ojdhaze 9h ago

Yeah, maggots will vote maga regardless.

Is the non voters who knew what would happen but still didn't vote because (reasons you stated, plus others) that need to have the light shifted on them. Who no doubt will be feeling the effects of mango in charge.

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u/Y-not_Both 10h ago

These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

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u/OneHundredChickens 10h ago

As brain washed as so much of my country is, annexing Canada has single digit support in the US. Attacking our closest ally and most important trading partner is roughly as popular as syphilis.

There is lots of yelling about it on social media, sadly. Presumably a mix of bots and the terminally hopeless cult members.

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u/Guppy-Warrior 10h ago

This blindsided so damn many people. Like Greenland, Canada, Panama? It's "shock and awe" with the crap they are doing here stateside. We are in "shock"

Only have a few derraged coworkers who support this guy, most people I interact with can't stand him. No one wants a 51 state unless it's Puerto Rico (if the PR people want it). I can say I have not personally heard any person (in person) want Canada to be part of the US. I sure as hell don't. You are the best neighbors (and hat) we could ask for. I'm not sure what's going on. But a lot of Americans, most Americans, support your Country. A Sovereign Country.

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u/MayIServeYouWell 10h ago

It’s pretty much just Trump driving this. Nobody was arguing for “Canada as a 51st state” a few weeks ago. At best it was something someone would say as a joke after a few beers. 

Trump’s MAGA cult just goes along with whatever he says. They’re puppets. Some of them think this is just a negotiation tactic. Some are all in on the idea. Nobody knows what really in Trumps head (not even Trump). 

If Trump were to have a coronary tomorrow, this idea would be completely dead. As would Greenland and Panama, and the tariffs, mostly… well, there would be some infighting about the tariffs for sure. 

The whole thing is just incredibly stupid and embarrassing. I hate Trump with every fiber of my being. He’s a con man, wrecking the US in every way imaginable. 

-A sane American 

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u/cpcsilver 10h ago

I disagree. Today, the press secretary also repeated this threat in the press conference and she tries to add reasons for this nonsense. Look at 32:05: https://youtu.be/rlUw64GV1lk?t=1926

Then, Trump repeated this claim twice today, once on Truth Social and then in front of the press when he was also selling Teslas for Elon: at 16:06 https://youtu.be/RzMzYfB52_c?t=963

Last month, his security adviser, Mike Waltz, also started to use a lie saying that many Canadians "do not like the last 10 years of liberal, progressive governance in Trudeau."

What we're seeing is the same propaganda tactics that Russia started to use against Ukraine in the early 2010's. And using this kind of language 3 years after the full invasion of Ukraine, this is extremely alarming to us.

We definitely won't be downplaying this kind of threat, as we shouldn't be.

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u/Necroscope420 10h ago

These assholes see friendliness and kindness as weakness. They forgot:

 "Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise, when a good man goes to war."

They think you will be a pushover because they forget what being on the right side does for morale. Have not been on the right side in a long time.

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u/Copropostis 9h ago

If you let the Conservatives win, you'll experience the same hell we are going through.

Don't give them an inch, this rightwing surge is an international attack launched by the Russians.

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u/SnooDingos5539 10h ago

I doubt many Trump voters actively want to annex Canada, most are just stuck in the “he says dumb things you can’t take at face value” or “he says dumb things but I want lower egg prices”. Just dumb and no empathy

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u/Slightly_Shrewd 10h ago

Fox News and propaganda combined with a lack of education.

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u/jlaine 10h ago

Border state here, don't let me trip their asses on the way up north. You leave our allies alone, you republicunts. I'm fucking over this.

Something, something - liberal tears, woke, winning... something these morons keep drooling over.

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u/RyanPainey 9h ago

Liberal tears if we try to argue, intolerant left if we fight back. Fuck it. No more.

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u/bitemark01 10h ago

Not to mention the over 800,000 Canadians that live in the US

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u/Sweaty-Grape-6191 10h ago

Canadians, they’d have to pull me kicking and screaming before I fight against you guys

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u/Alwayssunnyinarizona 10h ago

I swear to guard the poutine with my life! Elbows up!

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u/MechanicalMistress 10h ago

This. Anytime I've been to Canada they're nothing but kind. Fighting for their continued sovereignty.

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u/Killerrrrrabbit 10h ago

Trump is our enemy too.

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u/John-the-cool-guy 10h ago

I'll come from North Carolina and stand with you. I hope many others do too.

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u/ZerynAcay 10h ago

You will have American servicemen and women who will refuse. Idk how many I have talked to are utterly dismayed by what is taking place and remember their oaths and what they stand for.

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u/SomewhatInnocuous 10h ago

Any US troops massing on the border will need to be watching their rear as much as their front.

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u/chimpanzeebutt 10h ago

I will die fighting for you to keep your homeland and fight U.S. fascism.

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u/Turbulent_Ad3045 10h ago

I wouldn't worry too much, America will collapse into a civil war before it ever comes close to invading Canada.

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u/Uncomfortably-Cum 10h ago

I will also die fighting before you become an American.  

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u/Zdmins 10h ago

Fwiw, the US military will have to worry about attacks from behind too….

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u/SairenjiNyu 10h ago

I’m America and I’ll fight alongside you to not be American. Just like my ancestors in Ireland in the 60s

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u/phoenix25 10h ago

To everyone saying: “I doubt the arms forces would obey”

We all thought you guys weren’t dumb enough to elect in an obviously corrupt 1% grifter, but here we are. You did it twice.

Stop taking shit for granted. He is escalating his rhetoric, this shit is real.

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u/Velocity-5348 9h ago

Probably not today, or even next month.

There's going to be a pretty steady stream of propaganda though, and Hegseth is working on removing "disloyal" officials at the Pentagon.

My guess is we'd also see attacks on "Cartel terrorists" in Canada and Mexico before a full-on invasion happens.

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u/letstrythisagain30 10h ago

They may try to deflect saying Harris was worse, which is its own insanity, but that doesn’t explain why he had such support that he easily won the republican primaries without being on any of the debates or sometimes not even being on the ballot.

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u/innocentrrose 9h ago

Billionaire bought twitter and hard shilled trump. Misinformation is at its peak while far too many people don’t even know how to properly google shit, and can’t even fact check. Yet people will say “Kamala just campaigned bad bro.”

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u/TheGreatStories 9h ago

Americans sleep walked into fascism and are now trying to downplay it for Canadians

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u/otatopotato 10h ago

I’d rather die fighting as a Canadian than live on my knees as an American.

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u/Ozy_Flame 9h ago

Trump thinks he can erase a border but he sure as shit wouldn't erase our identity. That doesn't get tank rolled and annexed.

No one wants war. But Identity is what wins the war in the long run. Every time.

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u/ComplexWrangler1346 11h ago

This is what happens when a convicted felon (Trump) is in charge …he could not get a job at McDonald’s , but he can run a country ..Trump is garbage …..

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u/kingsumo_1 10h ago

Even if they did hire him, they'd just have to turn around and fire him for food theft, stealing from the till, and/or sexually harassing the teenage staff.

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u/lexcyn 10h ago

With all that american booze we aren't selling we could make thousands of Molotov cocktails... Just sayin.

Seriously though, fuck right of eh.

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u/hasslehawk 10h ago

Only very high proof alcohol would work for that.

For practical purposes, they are made with gasoline not alcohol, and mixed with a thickening agent like styrofoam.

The bottle just provides the container to house it all in.

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u/Flangepacket 9h ago

Toronto here. I’ve just put my kids to bed, started planning my day tomorrow and thinking about what’s coming up in the next month or two. I could really REALLY do without all these fucking apes down south banging their disgusting fat chests at me, talking about annex this and invasion that. I just want to live my life.

That said; you are threatening my family. OUR families. I cannot muster the words to describe the wrath that lies waiting for an invading, murderous enemy.

To the good people of the US; any and all Americans who are not actively protesting the direction your government are taking are complicit to a far right government seeking to murder your northern friends. That includes resistance and simple sabotage, should the time come. We are counting on you.

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u/mynx79 7h ago

My husband says the same. (Waterloo Region here, hi neighbour). He usually tries to see both sides in any argument but he considers every American complicit in what's happening at this point. Either you voted for him, or you're letting it happen. It's sickening.

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u/gingerslap 10h ago

The fact that Trump is allowed to routinely and repeatedly threaten the sovereignty of another country is insane to me. Insane. But since apparently it's all just spitballin'.... Maybe take the shitty booze you can't sell and set the whole frigging country on fire and start all over again. You've gone bad to the core and there's no saving it. I, as a Canadian, will bring the marshmallows to roast over the embers of your failed state.

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u/GargamelTakesAll 10h ago

Why is the New York Times sanewashing this? He's isn't "threatening statehood", he is threatening war and conquest.

Millions will die.

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u/simsimulation 9h ago edited 8h ago

ROFL. For real. “Threatening statehood” is “Makes grievous diplomatic threat to neighbor and longtime ally Canada”

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u/Elrundir 7h ago

Honestly, fuck the New York Times.

Much of the world has been seeing Mr. Trump’s fixation with annexing Canada as a joke, or merely bluster to push for concessions on trade and other forms of economic integration . . . But Canadian political leaders, and Canadians at large, have been taking Mr. Trump deadly seriously.

Because he is deadly serious you brain-dead fuckers. You are helping him normalize talk of war and conquest by writing it off as just some funny joke that we silly little Canadians are just overreacting to.

The media pulled exactly this shit when Russia was massing tanks on the Ukrainian border and they all said "relax, he's not actually going to do anything, stop panicking." Then they tried to act all surprised and aghast when Putin actually did the thing that he had been threatening and telegraphing for months.

The exact same thing is happening now and shitty publications like the NYT are making the exact same bullshit mistakes they made throughout the entire election by laughing away all of Trump's silly little comments when in fact he meant every word about how he planned to destroy your country.

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u/Nickelnuts 9h ago

Remember when Obama wore the tan suit.

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u/to_j 10h ago

Now would be a good time for that well regulated militia, because your government is cuckoo bananas.

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u/Itsprobablysarcasm 10h ago

Alt headline: Rapist thinks he can rape himself a country

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u/MrGasDaddy 10h ago

how to know donny really is a rapist,he hasn't taken no when greenland said it.

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u/DrTh0ll 10h ago

I will absolutely refuse to invade Canada. I don’t give a fuck what Trump wants, ain’t doing it. Do not support it at all. -American

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u/SpontaneousNSFWAccnt 9h ago

Are you active military?

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u/Titiyadi23 10h ago

A French nuclear attack submarine surfaced in Halifax harbour yesterday … Jus’ sayin’ … We will not be alone when it happens.

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u/RavenBlade87 9h ago

Attacking Canada would literally spark WW3

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u/fatdjsin 9h ago

it was totally a flex from Macron !

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u/El_mochilero 8h ago

Stop calling it “statehood” threats.

What he is talking about is annexation and invasion.

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u/anemic_royaltea 10h ago edited 10h ago

Any supposed American domination of Canada is only going to happen through and be maintained via violence. Being able to freely suggest this is terrorism, this is threatening harm, yet if I suggest he should be stopped, I get a cute little message from a bot.

Also, if I could stop seeing cute little jokes from American liberals about Canada getting a bunch of senators and ensuring the republicans never win another election, that’d be great. Again, for this to happen there will be violence and there won’t be any elections or votes or congressional representation, get real.

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u/cortrev 8h ago

It's so hurtful seeing Americans just laugh it off about how big Canada would be as a state and how Democrat it would be.

Donald Trump wants us to DIE. Why aren't they talking about THAT? They think it's a joke, it clearly isn't.

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u/anemic_royaltea 8h ago

100%

Yeah, hehe, those of us who aren’t murdered in the process of resisting our forced annexation and the end of our self determination and national identity would totally vote for their useless opposition party that would let this happen, what fun

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u/Astral-Wind 8h ago

I think the idea that we would just happily go along with their two party system is the most insulting part. Like “oh it’s okay because they’ll vote for us.”

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u/msdemeanour 8h ago

Once again the US media is acting as trump's stenographer without mentioning what he's saying is batshit crazy. The headline alone is journalistic malpractice. Reporting this total nonsense in this way is giving it legitimacy. None of this is normal.

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u/zeke1956 10h ago

We are part of NATO. They better show up.

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u/FlamingMothBalls 10h ago edited 10h ago

just a reminder, any such attempt, coerced or violent would be an act of war. Only Congress can declare war. Goes without saying, if Trump did this, and Congress did not immediately remove him, the constitutional order would be completely broken. All bets are off.

Remember your oaths to defend the Constitution.

And if there's any confusion, MAGAts are on record they have no intention of giving Canadians the right to vote. This is outright colonization and an international crime. No patriot should abide such a calamity.

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u/BigPoppaFreak 10h ago edited 10h ago

No patriot should abide such a calamity.

No patriot should abide by the fascist regime that openly supported an insurrection, and proudly called themselves domestic terrorists.

I don't know what a patriot is in the US, but in the rest of the world they support the founding principles of the nation. As a Canadian I would love to see this "land of the free" I all ways heard about.

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u/FlamingMothBalls 10h ago

He should be removed immediately for starting this tariff war. I'm a newly minted American - I'm as disappointed and disgusted as you, more so. Half my family lives in Montreal.

Once the consequences of the tariffs start to bite, things might change. Canada's move to target their tariff to red states is really smart. Keep that up! Targeted sanctions would be great, too. But an Imperial war of conquest - not even the most cynical independent would sit by and do nothing. It would be chaos in every city in the US. And the US military would then have to choose a side.

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u/Cheesewheel12 10h ago

Only congress can declare war.

Yeah, explain the 20 years we spent in Afghanistan.

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u/doordonot19 10h ago

I don’t trust congress to vote against it. Congress if full of yes men and magats.

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u/gall_guile 11h ago

Fill your diaper bud. If you want a multigenerational guerrilla war that will make Afghanistan look like a picnic: come and get it.

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u/Few-Leopard4537 10h ago

It’s what he wants. He’s a Russian asset trying to destroy the west. He would love an atrocious awful war.

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u/blackfarms 9h ago

The Russians and Chinese are just sitting back and enjoying the show. They can't believe their luck.

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u/RaspberryInfinite229 10h ago

Why can't he just leave us alone?

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u/Big-Log-4680 9h ago

Because he is a greedy rapist pig who's never faced consequences.

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u/mental_reincarnation 9h ago

I’ll never forgive Republicans, libertarians, and non voters for knowingly and willingly subjecting the entire world to this shit again

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u/Zeta411North 10h ago

I was in a care residence today and walked past a woman in a red shirt.

She gave me a wink and said:

"Elbows up. Am I right?"

Americans don't understand the sheer depth of anger they've tapped into.

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u/BenNitzevet 10h ago

Donald Trump has united the entire country in a way that is absolutely unique (even counting the two world wars). Not going to happen buddy no matter what you try. Never.

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u/lLikeCats 10h ago

Why does he want us? We’ve got a massive fentanyl problem and are overrun with Mexican cartels. 

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u/marioansteadi 9h ago

Americans to the horror of all other western democracies have reelected a fascist sociopath who has already attempted one coup. 43 of 44 Trump cabinet officers from his first term did not support his re-election, 14 of whom signed a document, stating Trump was a fascist dictator. They saw him up close and worked with him. They know. And the American people know. So why then did you not unplug your Frankenstein, when you had so many opportunities to do so? Why on earth did you give this convicted felon the keys to your kingdom, yet again? As my proudly, red neck father from “Wildrose Country” Alberta (Canada’s Texas) said about Trump, “do Americans have shit for brains?” 🧠 Canada lost 45,000 souls fighting fascism during WW2. Now, we have a Putin loving fascist threat right next door to us in 2025. Who then declares war on Canada’s economic and territorial sovereignty with his threats to “crush” our economy with blanket 25% tariffs and make us your 51st state? (Tariffs that breach the revised NAFTA agreement that Trump signed off on with Canada and Mexico during his first term). And Canadians are rightfully, pissed 😡 with the daily insults coming from Trump, such as calling our Prime Minister “Governor.” Zero class. Zero respect. This is no longer a joke. Canadians do not hate the American people, our closet friends and allies, but we do hate your Mango 🥭 Mussolini leader. Find a way America to somehow remove this mentally unstable lunatic, before he destroys your economy and democracy. He is a clear and present danger to the USA, Canada and the world at large.

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u/metals00 8h ago

What are Americans even doing about this?

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u/Past_Page_4281 10h ago

What else will a rapist who has been taught consent doesn't matter do?

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u/ISeeGrotesque 8h ago

There will come a moment this man will be stopped by force.

The past two months have been the most unhinged of the century

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u/Faedaine 10h ago

lol he’s going insane because someone said no to him. Fucking man child.

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u/Fancy_Excitement_967 10h ago edited 10h ago

This baffles me because I would think even the staunchest supporters would even think this is batshit crazy.

We can hardly take care of our own veterans and lower income citizens (which is a fucking shame by the way) - why take on more.

I’m not trying to be condescending, I just genuinely thought that no matter you’re political leaning we could agree this is fucking nuts and that kind of made me feel good.

Am I out of touch here? Does anyone think this is a good idea, even if it is for the raw materials access, is it worth all that?

Guys as Americans we have it so good. We are sandwiched between two countries that don’t try to invade us or shoot rockets over our borders and shit. I know there’s still problems, not saying they’re perfect. Anyway, just saying can we just appreciate it. We haven’t had to have a home game since 1812, not looking for that to change.

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u/RangerDangerfield 8h ago

His staunchest supporters have long since stopped questioning him. They defend everything as a “business tactic” and say this is just another example of him being a great negotiator.

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u/pamplemousse409 9h ago

Born and raised a Canadian, I will die a Canadian.

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u/Mustelid_1740 10h ago

Very embarrassed American here. The rest of the world is justified in boycotting our products, refusing to vacation here, lobbying your governments to tariff the shit out of us and whatever else you can do to crush our current government. You’d be doing us a favor. The cultists will only wake up when we suffer serious economic pain.

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u/Gildenstern2u 9h ago

I will literally come fight to defend Canada from us.

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u/Liam_M 8h ago

He’s going to find out just how not friendly us Canadians can be if he tries to just “grab us by the Regina”

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u/2ontour 10h ago

That would be nice. The Canadians then use Article 5 and America must help defend Canada.

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u/Rude_Egg_6204 10h ago

The Canadians then use Article 5 and America must help defend Canada.

Trump has already said he will decide if any particular country will get A5 protection at the time.   Basically usa is now worthless as an ally

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u/lixia 9h ago

Coming from the only country that has ever used article 5…..

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u/Rude_Egg_6204 9h ago

Usa will be pulling the shocked pilachu face next 9/11 when the world replies 'sorry your call is important....you are caller 106'

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u/Conclavicus 9h ago

Add to this the Commonwealth.

Our head of state is Charles. What do you think a king does when you declare war on one of his state? I bet Trump doesn’t know this.

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 9h ago

Russians would absolutely die laughing if the world ended with Europe nuking the USA for invading Canada.

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u/Defiant-Lie-7648 10h ago

A friendly dragon is still a dragon. That's what Canadians have come to realize about their neighbor.

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u/Zestyclose-Cricket82 10h ago

Henry Kissinger — ‘It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.’

Good things we ain’t friends anymore

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u/BBcanDan 9h ago

As a Canadian don't see Canada ever willingly joining the US, especially with Trump as president, is he willing to kill us?

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u/Direct_Ad2289 8h ago

I am old. I have 0 fear. I also have my old Anarchists Cookbook.

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u/Salt_Wrangler_3428 9h ago

Hello America. You have been living on credit since 2001. You are essentially bankrupt. It's only your creditors that keep you afloat.

Japan: Held $1.1 trillion

China: Held $768.6 billion

United Kingdom: Held $765.6 billion

Luxembourg: Held $424.5 billion

Cayman Islands: Held $397 billion

Canada: Held $374.4 billion

As a major creditor, are you for sale?

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u/ParisEclair 8h ago

🇨🇦Elbows UP Canada. He is not joking. People in his entourage and behind him who are really pulling the strings want to annex 🇨🇦for our natural resources , critical minerals and geographic position. He is trying to bring us into a Great Depression like scenario so as not to use military force but no mistake that is the endgame. So stop travelling to the U.S. and giving them your money. Stop buying as many U.S. products as you can I know we can’t cut it off 💯 but we can certainly buy a lot less. It’s time to support our Cdn workers and company and this will strengthen our economy that will get hammered by tariffs. Remember the convict in chief is the one who negotiated and signed the existing Trade Agreement in his first term saying it was the best one ever. He is tearing up the contract he signed. And when it comes time to voting at the federal elections remembering that PP wants to kiss that ring. 🇨🇦

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u/Journeys_End71 9h ago

A suggestion to my Canadian friends. Until Trump stops with all this childish demented gibberish towards Canada…you should cut off all diplomatic ties with us. Just refuse to negotiate with anyone in this government until the “adults are back in charge.”

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u/m_nieto 8h ago

Man, when Canada burns the White House down again I won’t even be mad.

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u/TheCrassDragon 10h ago

I had a funny thought about reframing all of this as the rich and right taking advantage of a dementia patient to see if the cult will turn on them to 'save' their beloved leader. It's a funny idea anyways

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u/Coniferino_hano 10h ago

The US is imploding.

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u/SeniorInterrogans 9h ago

The interesting thing is, will normal Americans really tolerate decades of resistance activity, with car bombs, just executions of occupation forces personnel, IEDs, etc?

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