“increase your military power for free”… what’s the portion of the federal budget that is allocated to defense again ?
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It’s like he’s campaigning for the liberals. Almost no one in Canada wants to hear this and I bet they will vote against whatever they see as aligned with this.
This stuff is first and foremost meant for the eyes of his supporters
Exactly. He’s normalizing the idea of the violent annexation of Canada to his supporters.
But honestly they seem to think it is fucking meaningless. They’re more forgiving about it, but they’re still out there calling it asinine.
This is the distraction you’re meant to be paying attention to- watch his other hand, that’s where the damage is going to come from.
He doesn’t need distractions anymore. He can do as he please, and he knows it. This is just him enjoying himself.
He knows he’s not getting Canada. This is part of his Flood the Zone nonsense. Don’t fall for it.
What a plonker
FYI, this is unpopular among Canadian voters. Conservative underdog, tries to deny being a lapdog, or supporting the idea, but this unfiltered BS doesn’t help him. It’s just a sign that Trump is completely out of control surrounded only by people who must restrain themselves on pushback to only far stupider things he might say.
I wonder if he realizes shit like this is really helping the liberals
A few months ago it seemed like a sure thing conservatives would win, til Trump changed all that
Canadians saw the US shooting themselves in the face and went oh hell naw
There are still a disappointingly large amount of Canadians who will vote for pp
He’s literally too dumb for that.
I’m unironically in favor of border abolition
Not like this though
right. smash Canada and the USA. no borders, no nations.
Just blow up the whole earth
I was aiming at anarchist utopia
oh… well thats fine too
Yeeaaaahhh, another one of those things that sounds nice on paper… No thanks, but thanks.
Like what we have is better? Fucking look around. There’s plastic in our blood.
ending all oppression just isn’t your style?
Oh of course it is.
My problem is that you apparently are one of those “if it isn’t my way it’s the wrong way” kinda guy on this topic.
Anarchism isn’t the only alternative, so to say, and very much not the best one as in reality it won’t scale Because human beings are a bit of a dick, in general. Same goes for communism, it requires you to kill a lot of people and basically become a dictatorship.
I’m very much for a highly limited form of capitalism (which at it’s core isn’t bad, it’s the freedom to freely trade) with loads of laws in place to limit the size of it (no company larger than 1000 employees, no company larger than networth of 50 million, no personal net worth larger than 10 million, that sort of stuff) and loads of taxes to apply those laws (no taxes for the poor, richest pay up to 100% income after certain level, etc, to always make sure nobody gets too rich, too powerful
Right, but then just doing it by including more countries in the schengen agreement or something similar.
Is my English grammar lacking or is there something wrong with the “if” in the first sentence? Shouldn’t that be a “by” ("by Canada becoming […] )?
Commas can be used to identify parts of the sentence that can be cut out e.g. “… wisdom to cut your taxes in half … If Canada becomes the 51st state.”
Now, here, the comma was used for a list so it shouldn’t have been used that way but I’m sure his meth head brain probably got lost partway or the AI bot that mimics his speech patterns is just that dumb.
I don’t have an issue with his use of comma but I found it weird to say “Elect the man who has the strength […] to cut your taxes in half, […] if Canada become the cherished 51sts state of the [USA]”
But English is not my mother tongue, so it could just be language interference.No, it’s terrible. Your English is better than his. Just because there’s some sliver of sense doesn’t mean he even did it on purpose.
I would not ordinarily recommend Hitler’s tactics and strategies as a general rule, but he sure knew how to solve the Hitler problem, at the very end. Donny, maybe look into that.
Will. Never. Happen.
Canadians will literally die before living for a milisecond as Americans.
And - this is a declaration of war by the US president. Cause it would take a military invasion to violently turn Canadians into Americans.
It has long been the case, that if you confuse a Canadian for an American they are offended, but if you confuse an American for a Canadian they don’t mind.
okay, but, can I become a canadian? Because I would really love to be anything other than American right now.
If the US invades, breaches our borders etc you can defintely help us from within.
I like how he wants Canada as one state. Keeping the Provinces split would push the Senate to the left for quite some time.
Unfortunately if Canada got 20 senators they still wouldn’t have a 60% supermajority to remove Trump, undo citizens united, or enact public option healthcare with. It would be 47+20 = 67 and out of 120 that is 55.83%
Only if you assume elections will keep happening.
They likely will, in a similar fashion to how NK , or russia, or China does it
Elections so clean the result will be known before they start.
Is he that dumb or does he just want the other guy to win? I’m pretty sure even he knows that this bullshit is why the other guy now has a chance.
The guy is ranting about a criminal investigation into why his polling numbers are so low. He’s quite literally a demented old man. I think he really isn’t rational enough to see that that he is harming the man he wants to win.
TBF he promoted himself and others in the USA and that went fucking swimmingly for him somehow.
Hypothetically, if canada becomes a state, would they flip our house of representatives blue? I guess more likely they’ll become like puerto rico or guam or something.
They’d annex the land, and then deport all the Canadian foreigners that illegally immigrated in the US.
I don’t think they are getting statehood right away
I guess more likely they’ll become like puerto rico or guam or something.
This is what you need to keep foremost in your mind. There is no conceivable reality in which the US conquers (yes conquers, they can call it annexation all they want but at the end of the day Trump wants a conquest to his name) Canada and gives any semblance of voting or personal rights to Canadians. Hell, even if Canada was somehow persuaded into voluntarily joining the US, this regime would never, ever honour any kind of arrangement that gave Canadians a fair deal. They are fascist bullies, as close to actual evil as we’ve seen in North America in a very long time, and they have no interest in any sort of fair bargain.
Population wise it’s like adding another California
But I thought we were pretending to care about states, not individual voters.
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