Summary
Donald Trump reiterated his claim that Canada would be better as the U.S.’s 51st state, citing trade imbalances and lower taxes.
He also announced new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada, despite a recent 30-day reprieve.
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has not formally responded, but a government source said they await official confirmation.
Trump criticized Canada’s defense spending and border security, despite recent Canadian commitments.
Canada previously retaliated against similar tariffs in 2018 before a 2019 trade deal resolved the dispute.
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At this point I refuse to believe this is real life. We are in a simulation run by shitty AI
that feeling is called dissociation btw
not the “I have no mouth and I must scream” future, just the “I have a mouth and I must groan” present
AM…AMerica
This just The Boys season 5.
If I understand correctly Canada has a kind of similar worldview as Nordic countries. Traiding that to a right wing capitalist shit hole like US would be a no go.
He doesn’t treat his own states any good why would Canada fare any better
He’s currently trying to get a 51st state (Canada would need to be at least 6 or more, in all honesty), but it looks like he’s at risk of losing some states from where I’m sitting.
The only way Canada would join the union would be as an occupied territory, and we would do everything possible to fuck shit up from within.
If he tried to invade Canada, I think he’d quickly be fighting a war on two fronts, because sane Americans like myself and others that are organizing aren’t going to just let that happen. Hopefully, if half our military hasn’t lost their minds too, they’ll join us.
I would hope our NATO allies would fulfill their commitments too!
Multiple fronts I’d imagine.
I’d easily imagine Mexico declaring and starting to fuck shit up at the southern border.
Depending on when it starts, potentially embargoes from Europe. (Right now I think they’re still too skittish, but if Trump invades after he’s spent another year or so destroying international relations, I don’t doubt Europe would slap embargoes on him. At some point, those countries that host American bases would tell them to fuck off back home which in the short term would be bad for Canada since it would be reinforcing the American military, but in the long term destroying America’s global reach.
I’d accept casualties if it meant taking care of American imperialism long-term.
To Americans on the ground invading Canada or even flying over and bombing, it would feel extremely traumatic. Our cities, suburbs, etc look basically the same. Outside Quebec, we speak the same language. To them it would feel like invading their own country, it would feel like a civil war. I cannot imagine morale holding up for any length of time.
Yeah I’m American but live abroad, if he tried that shit I’d fight for the defense of Canada.
I thought conservatives couldn’t afford eggs?
also scruples
Stop giving this foolishness air.
Make preparations on the side. But Stop giving it public attention.
also understand that Canada would never be a state. It would be a generation or two of Forceful and violent assimilation before any region was given “statehood”. For everyone else, it’s poverty, military occupation, and slavery. Which would mean Insurgency and War.
Any Canadian advocating for this is either terminally online and uneducated, living life off article title opinions. Or they are functionally a traitor/quisling/5th columnist and a threat to their neighbors, and should kept an eye of. And if things really did go “there”. they’d be the ones taken out first by resistance.
Why would Canada join the US, only to be rewarded with a shitty health care system and a low national minimum wage?
Elon Musk and the nazi sad boys will just dig up cases, where chain smokers having lung cancer getting treatment, etc. In Hungary, some try to divert the anger created by the constant defunding of healthcare (some of which was done by diverting money into building football stadiums “to encourage children to do sports thus be healthy”) to the sick and the disabled…
America really wants to invite a Canadian sized IRA on themselves, I suppose they can fuck around and find out.
I’m sure there are remnants of FLQ still hanging about. They could teach the rest of us how to operate an insurgency well.
The number of farmers I’ve heard talking about mixing diesel and fertilizer to remove stumps and boulders…
He’s too busy banning paper straws and taking away his enemies security clearances to annex Canada.
90%/ sure someone saw Canadian Bacon and thought that was a good idea.
Love that movie… especially love the scene where they get tickets for the anti-Canadian “signage” not being in French as well lol
Dementia is a persnickety business
and it is his cherished state
Hey, uh, if he wants another state…
What about Puerto Rico?
I’d love to hear the excuse against that vs. Greenland and Canada.
Theres a reason why he isn’t making the same threats against Mexico.
There’s a reason he wants to resettle Palestinians before redeveloping Gaza.
They’re not even hiding the racism any more.
Too latino for him, not enough resources.
He can’t even cherish California, what makes anyone believe him?
So, is the US going to nationalize its health care to match Canada’s?
no
ahhahahahaaha.
let’s just say that canadians will never bitch about paying for parking again.
