I’d just like to point out that this is not normal
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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@SenatorCollins@aussie.zone this one right here, sir
Well some of these countries are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all
Very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that countries aren’t safe.
Oh yes they’re built to very rigorous democratic standards, these standards are very rigorous
There's a minimum political party requirement.
Well what’s that then?
One, I suppose.
Pretty sure hell will freeze over before Canada agree to become part of the US.
That or Canadians electing Trump sycophant Pierre Poilievre in the next election who will give it up voluntary.
No way thay doesn't cause something close to civil war. Them murica can swoop in for peace keeping.
Or he tries to promote Herr Musk as your future leader.
He genuinely thinks flattery will convince people to be taken over by a budding dictatorship. Canadians are supposed to forget that the USA is against everything they stand for and say...
"He said we could be the greatest state!!! Who gives a shit about free healthcare and reproductive rights!! We'll be cherished!!!"
Not to mention that he seems the be saying that paying for anything is being ripped off. It reminds me of the documentary on his business practices that resurfaced during his first run. I think it was called what's the deal. The were many examples of him ripping off his vendors and subcontractors saying their work was substandard so he either wasn't paying or wasn't paying the full amount.
Now he seems to be applying the same thinking to imports. Why should America pay full price when he never has? He naively thinks tariffs mean America gets the goods for less overal.
He genuinely thinks flattery will convince people to be taken over by a budding dictatorship.
That's because he is convinced by flattery. It's widely known around the world that if you want something from Trump, you flatter him. That's why he thinks it works on everyone else.
I hate trying to apply logic to something that's so inherently bullshit but even if you were to annex Canada, why the hell does he think it would be one state and not several?
He would not make Canada a state, that’s a complete lie. Trump adding another California to the union? Lmao. At best we would be an unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico
Because he doesn't respect you enough to think that your provinces deserve to remain independent of each other. Or to know that you have provinces.
Because he falls into the common trap of thinking Toronto is Canada.
I think this is the answer I think the man genuinely doesn't know how big it is.
He's also never met the natives or the French.
Because he has that little respect for Canada.
He knows enough to know he would not want to give several states worth of leftish leaning angry states the vote that would take any chance of him remaining in power. Not that there would ever be a vote again in America if he got to the point of taking a run at Canada and Greenland.
He really doesn't know when to shut up, does he?
This won't turn out the way he expects it to. Canadians already seemed pretty happy to stop buying American goods and contributing to tourism, and the rest of the world no longer trusts us. Trying to strangle their economy by stifling trade goes both ways, and it's going to hurt the country that nobody wants to trade with a lot more than the one with plenty of opportunities to form new trade deals.
I think it's more likely to hurt the country that cannot produce most of its own food, rather than the one that can.
This seems a "relatively old" quote. He's been asked to STFU by Carney, and so its only news if he repeats this "stump speech" after told to STFU.
Feels like I'm inside a game of Terra Invicta some days..
So I guess an hour long slideshow from Perun about a hypothetical conflict between eagles and geese is inevitable now.
It's "O Canada!" It's the vocative, you bronze bitchlet, not some interjection. We're not expressing fucking surprise.
We're all just a big toy to him.
Trump is seriously blurring the line between himself and Lex Luthor more and more by the day. Trump was always a very whacky character, but threats to steal like, Canada, or the real estate of Greenland just really completes the picture.
Lex Luther was actually smart and cared about earth as the center of the universe. Earth first!