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In a virtual speech at the World Economic Forum, Trump suggested Canada could become a U.S. state to avoid his proposed tariffs on imports.

The remark elicited gasps from the audience.

Trump claimed the U.S. does not need Canadian lumber, energy, or vehicles, vastly overstating the trade deficit between the two nations.

He reiterated his intention to impose tariffs, potentially as high as 25%, on imports from Canada and Mexico starting February 1.

Economists warn such tariffs would raise prices for U.S. consumers.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LMAO..

HE ACTUALLY SPOKE THE TRUTH, that his intention is POSSESSION & SUBJUGATION/slavery, not collaboration-with??

You will notice that this has been updated, with the head-wound "miraculously" cured,

..though I insist that the original-prophecy referred to mental head-injury's cure, & that that hasn't happened, yet..

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

You will notice that the ancient biblical prophecies were about someone extraordinarily possessive, eh?

I wonder just how much corroboration has to happen, before the Christians begin taking it seriously..

  • shruggeth *

The ancient Jewish & Christian prophecies are accurate, in this case.. ( so are the Indigenous ones, but most don't care about those.. interesting, though, when such predictions get sooo much right, that's certain, in empiricism.. : )

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[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

The antichrist is said to be given power for 42 months and then die in revelation so if trump dies July 2028 (Trump was given power in Jan 2025) then we may only have a few more years in this world. Enjoy it while you can. If you're lucky enough to enjoy it.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 241 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

The US consumers voted for Trump to lower the price of eggs.

The price of eggs is soaring today. Why? Because bird flu is killing chicken.

So what does Trump do? He cancels research on bird flu. Surely the irony won't be missed on the magats who voted him in.

And now this: aggression against allied nations that will result in more price hikes. More irony for the maga morons to enjoy.

It's only been 4 days. It's gonna be a long 4 years...

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Trump won't tolerate the 2028 election to remove him.

The Civil War Part2 ocean-of-slaughter begins then.

Please do not rely on hopium to protect you & your loved-ones.

Please begin getting capable, or out, now.

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] chaosCruiser 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If he slaps massive tariffs, the prices will go through the roof. If USA annexes Canada, the prices should go down, and I guess that’s was the plan.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Been a while since Canadians burnt down the white house. Looking more and more like the Americans need another spanking to put them in their place.

[–] zib@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this rate, I think a few Americans might help.

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

The stupid fucking idiots in the maga party will blame Biden.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Surely the irony won’t be missed on the magats who voted him in.

Oh... You have some completely unrealistic faith on Humanity...

Of course they will miss the irony. And in 4 years, they will claim the constant 4 years of inflation on Biden.

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[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 133 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I'm going to keep posting this every time I see a reference to US tariffs against Canada.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

The TL;DR is that tariffs would violate the NAFTA / USMCA treaty in which Canada agreed to respect US copyright law in exchange for free trade. No free trade? Canada doesn't need to respect US copyright any longer and can become a flourishing economy of products to compete with US products that are massively overpriced. Think printer ink and other stuff.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're misunderstanding the situation, then, sorry..

Trump isn't rational, he is narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopathic.

IF Canada retaliates like that, THEN Trump may well declare war against Canada.

They would only need to drop a single large conventional-bomb on Ottawa, & then claim Canada as their "manifest destiny", declaring all Canadians to be "illegal aliens & criminals", & their "problem" would be "fixed".

He may not have the guts to do that this-week, but he is progressing psychologically, & the end-point of that progression, about 4y in our future, is as the most-murderous-dictator-on-the-planet.

He will be the complete-set: narcissistic, machiavellian, psychopathic, nihilist, sadist, systemically-dishonest, & hate, before the transformation is complete.

Tread carefully, when one is near a heavily-armed psychiatrically-defective giant, eh?

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[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I think you're right. Other times I think that couldn't possibly be true.

I've studied many of the bigger wars and they've all mostly have been started by far less severe events. It's scary that one person could wield all that power, unchecked and unaccountable.

It sounds like it's time to build a bunker.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sweet. Host all pirate sites in Canada.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Idk if it's just for individuals, but our ISPs generally don't care about pirating already. I use a VPN to pirate here but just set to another city in Canada. I only even do that because I run jellyfin and have terabytes of downloads a month.

Worst case scenario is the ISP sends you a notice that the media companies are mad, but that's the end of it. They won't pursue anything further because they don't care

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

That's amazing. He's going to absolutely tank the US economy in his first financial quarter of his term.

[–] runeko@programming.dev 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, please, Canadian produced pharmaceuticals + 15% tariff = an order of magnitude cheaper than what we can buy in the States.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 113 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why the fuck is this asshole fighting with fucking Canada? Goddamn I can't wait until he dies.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

You will be waiting until 2031 or 2032, then.

He won't tolerate the 2028 election, so Civil War Part2 begins around then..

Only when "either his or NOBODY's" has finished butchering Turtle Island, will he be "finished".

People are living in hopium, instead of understanding the actual context, with the fascists allying globally, to butcher the whole world, for their "glory", or self-worship..

Please live strategically: too many are going to be wasted-lives, when things go to hell, for real: this is only the appetizer, I'm afraid..

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I want to piss on his grave. Seriously, they better have that shit locked down or at the top of a mausoleum or something. Otherwise, I want to try and make it a national pastime.

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 22 points 1 week ago

I’ll make it a holiday. I’m going to have to remember that.

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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago (9 children)

So many people are extremely missing the point here

Trump is purposefully threatening Canada to give his canadian conservative buddy Poilievre something to "fight" against, to make him look good

"Wow Poilievre is standing up against Trump, I'm gonna vote for him!"

That's the game plan, in reality the two dipshits are best buds and can collude together to fuck over both countries extra hard, after conservatives get a majority over here.

It's a stunt to get conservatives in charge over here "against" Trump, which is so fucking stupid and yet it's probably gonna work cuz so many people are gonna fall for it.

I don't think the liberal party has a good play against it, other than if our new liberal leader challenges Trump and musk to a boxing match and literally bears the shit out of them on live television

I unironically think the Lincoln "I'll fight you let's go right now" leader who seriously fucks up Musk or Zuckerberg or any of those dipshits on live television would actually win by a landslide here

It's fuckin stupid but that's what works apparently...

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Conservative Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, is already doing that. I've heard his ads on the radio calling for Ontarioans to give him a majority government so he "can stand up to Trump". The guy spent his time as Premier standing up to nurses and bike lanes. This new stand up against Trump shtick is just more faux populism.

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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump is purposefully threatening Canada to give his canadian conservative buddy Poilievre something to "fight" against, to make him look good

This theory is predicated on 1) Trump remembering who PP is, 2) caring enough about who is running Canada to have it drive policy.

I don't think either of these things are true.

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Canada if you're listening, you should burn down the white house like it's 1812

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 90 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Putin hired him to start pointless nonsensical arguments with our nearest and most vital allies and that's what he's gonna do.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 85 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Here's the plan. The Northern US states all join Canada. The Southern Half of US states join Mexico. The US is gone. Canada & Mexico join to become 1 huge nation. (putin shits himself!) And then we deport ALL the conservatives out of North America, and live happily ever after. Problem solved. You're Welcome.

[–] Minnels@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Deport them to... Where? Space? I hope. Without oxygen.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember when he said he was gonna end the war in gaza and ukraine?

Or cut the prices on gas and food?

Yea, this is abuse of the news cycle. It's just manipulation of news cycle so you don't think about any losses, mistakes or other shit.

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[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Besides this being a distraction, it's more likely that in this case Canada would end up politically annexing the USA:

  • The 2 Senators and 50 something electoral votes for "Canada State" would mean that Canadians would end up controlling US politics. :D

Of course if one assumes that elections remain binding in the Turd Reich.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm willing to die not to join the US.

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[–] _bac@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Canada please join the EU!!!

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still remember fondly the Trump speech at the UN when the whole assembly laughed at him.

I suspect that there's going to be a lot more of that to come.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Canada collectively tells him to go fuck himself. Seriously, he really thinks that will make them want to join him?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There are a lot of MAGA idiots in Canada, weirdly enough, and Canada is about to elect the Conservatives under a MAGA-style populist hate-monger who borrows his promises directly from Republicans. As a Canadian, I don't wholly trust Canadians to resist this hard enough, especially with almost all Canadian media being right wing and the Conservatives promising to shut down what isn't.

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Since we are talking fantasies: Any US state the joins Canada avoids tariffs.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Putin's Sock Puppet taking orders from Moscow to divide the NATO members. For starters, the Canadians should stop buying US made weapons, because the current US leadership is unhinged and unreliable. If anything, the Blue States should become Canadian Provinces.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

So much political theater and me without my opera glasses

Cutting off trade with Canada would devastate the US economy overnight

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How does this lower the price of my god damn eggs?

Also he does know that Canada would be yet another blue state right?

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"could" raise prices for americans?

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I would welcome fifty new Congressional districts, the overwhelming majority of which would vote Blue within an American political framework.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Surrender to my imperialism or I'm going to ruin your economy"

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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ummmm.. we'll take the tariffs. Some offense, Americans. (jk love you guys)

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