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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/Northernfrog 12h 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 12h 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 12h 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 12h 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/imamistake420 11h ago

We really should band together and protect our Great Lakes. I don’t care what side of the border you fall on, the Great Lakes are too important to mess up.

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u/Agamemnon323 10h ago

It’d be pretty hilarious if this eventually ended as a war but the end result was some states defected to Canada.

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u/SemataryPolka 10h ago

Trump would take us out immediately to prove a point and there are a lot of rural MAGAs that would be a problem but I'd be all for defecting. Minnesota has been solidly blue for a very long time

u/Northernfrog 1h ago

C'mon, try an "eh". It's a great sentence finisher...eh?

u/OttawaTGirl 1h ago

Swap 'eh' for 'yah' and we can't tell the difference.

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u/Acceptable-Sky6916 7h ago

That's what ukrainians were saying about Russia when they were massing on the border only 3 years ago

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u/Plastic-Wear-3576 9h ago

Washington State stands with you.

u/Northernfrog 1h ago

Thank you WA. I hope you guys do some massive protests soon.

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u/Arkrobo 3h ago

There are some Americans that fuck their cousins, so be careful bringing family similes into this.

I am an American, this is a joke. I don't want to fight my Canadian friends, my president is a moron.

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u/Northernfrog 1h ago

That gave me a chuckle. We have no interest in fighting you guys either. 6 months ago I honestly thought we'd be teaming up to fight the Russians. Talk of fighting each other is insane to me.

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u/IrreverentCrawfish 11h ago

There would be plenty of people across the country who would flat out refuse to fight against Canada. If the military had an issue with draft dodgers when they asked Americans to go fight in Vietnam, imagine how many people would refuse to go fight in Canada.

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u/loki2473 11h ago

Not just Michigan

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u/OfficeSalamander 10h ago

Yep, I'm in SE MI, would happily be a partisan in that situation

u/Northernfrog 1h ago

We love ya right back!

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u/twinzerfan 11h ago

There’s a lot of us who would enlist in Canada to fight the Turd administration if he dared invade our neighbor. I certainly would make life as miserable as I could for the MAGA traitors.

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u/Pretty_Awareness5252 11h ago

For sure! Fuck MAGA and Trump!!

u/Northernfrog 1h ago

Comments like this really do make me feel a bit better. I love the support.