I better hit the gym and get back in shape just in case...

He literally just said he wants to take over Canada by "economic force", I wish any articles included the full quote/context though.

At this point anyone advocating for or supporting Trump in Canada is guilty of high treason against Canada.

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Start learning how to resist his nonsense now. With Trudeau's resignation lil pp has adopted an election stance.

The fuckery is about to ramp up.

Me too. I don't want to be a part of the U.S.

I'll do what I can to help from the US side!

I think it’s time you accept your orange overlord

It's not a war crime the first time...

I just hope we don't get to that point.

If that were true, it wouldn't be the mess it is today.

Canada Mexico Panama Greenland now president Musk is talking about freeing the UK. America is on the war path it seems. I think the world is going to be blind sided by this. Europe should get off of US tech. Everything the US says about China is something they can do also.

Manifest Destiny has been America's plan since it won the war for independence from Britain.

Don't forget health care.

(Charter of rights is a sham, nothing in it but removable privileges, it's very obvious the person who wrote it wasn't much for actual rights, and legal scholars back then decried this)

The Bloc Québécois might start getting elected outside Québec to form its own country... with other provinces.

actual conservatives aren't, the problem is moderate conservatism has been taken over to use as a vehicle to normalize ultranationalism and fascism.

Yeah. We have to start having discussions with our family and relatives. We can't keep politics out of conversations anymore. Anyone who plans to vote conservative needs to be convinced otherwise.

I hate how vague that always is. Specific ideas: Join the military, annoy your MP, volunteer for a political party. If it's America that we're worried about none of the edgelord stuff applies anyway.

If only anyone had access to guns actually useful in an invasion. I wouldn't even face off against a herd of feral pigs with a legal gun. Have fun with a five shot pinned SKS or an old bolt action 308 facing off a military

Assuming they have the grace to make us all citizens and allow us to vote. I'm not holding my breath.

canada as a state and voting left, all else the same wrt u.s. presidential election process...

canada would have two senators, increasing the senate to 102 members. and in a reapportioned house, receive 44 seats, 'taking' 5 from california; 4 from tx; 3 from fl; 2 ea from il, ny, nc, pa; 1 ea from al, az, co, ct, ga, in, ks, ky, md, ma, mi, mn, mo, mt, ne, nj, oh, or, ri, sc, tn, va, wa, wi.

using 2024 state results (note: figuring ne and me would basically cancel each other out anyway and to keep my 2-minute spreadsheet simple, i just left those two states all-or-nothing), and assuming the great commonwealth of canada, now a u.s. state, would vote left....

looks like it woulda been 287 for r, 253 for d; with 271 needed to win.

just adding a state doesn't change how electoral college votes are distributed, it's still heavily skewed in favor of low-pop states because states get equal representation in the senate regardless of population. remember each member of congress.. that's house + senate.. gives their state one ec vote. that's why the hypothetical here doesn't change the overall outcome.

if each province became a state instead.. things might get 'interesting', then.

If Canada agreed to become the 51rst state, by that time it'd be Texas.

You mean that country that regularly elects Conservative majorities, with a lower overall population than California?

I wouldn't trade with Russia since they are involved in the invasion of the Ukraine. And China would simply flood our market with their stuff and ruin us.

They’re physically large territories so the map looks very impressive, especially with the Mercator projection.

This is the man who redirected a hurricane with a sharpie. I don’t think there’s any more to it.

Putin's his master and handler. If the United States throws the high ground away and starts gobbling up neighbouring nations, it becomes that much easier to say "the West does it too".

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Maybe Canada will give the bankers and stock traders more thievingsraum?

In essence Trump is trolling, and people are falling for it. The distraction campaign is working.

This 'outrage' trolling is being used as a starting point for constant recycling of political and economic talking points.

It's quite simple. Resource extraction, and coloring more of the map in his country's color.

Russia's reasons for invading Ukraine mostly boil down to the same, although their country is so fucked, they actually need to forcefully graft 40 million people onto their population against their will, just so Russia can survive another generation, Russia is a doomed country demographically, America isn't, America is doing it just because. That's Ultranationalism and Fascism for you. Making enemies to distract yourself from internal strife

He is manufacturing your consent for the takeover.

Those are meaningless questions to ask someone like Trump. It doesn’t matter and never will matter where he gets the statement. He just needs to never admit that he pulled that out of his ass, and accuse every fact checker of political bias or lying. Those are the rules in his playbook.

"Many" equals literally thousands

Because he is taking the helm of the most dangerous country of the West

Because, believe it or not, we can't just toss these statements like they don't matter. The leader of a world superpower, both military and economically, is threatening our sovereignty.

internet and tv rotted peoples brains, been that way for about 10-15 years now. people cant help themselves

Bullshit. I firmly believe that no one in Trudeau's organization cares one whit about that troll, nor would feed it if given a chance.

Trudeau bailed because of internal trolling from the same 'mean girl' opposition which has focused more on his appearance than anything else this entire time, which has been building the misinformation campaign that WILL influence voting.

Essentially, he bailed so the scumbag cons had less to distract us from the issues, like the horribly American platform the cons are offering, as usual. Only by focusing the message on that can we convince the facebook-addicted hillbillies to actually vote IN their own best interests instead of electing conservatives.

That could have played a big part in his decision. But he's also very unpopular across Canada. He's hoping they might choose a new face that the people will love, but I doubt it would solve anything at this point.

They already are, technically. They just don't have a voice on who their leader can be.

Québec will remain Québec, thank you.

It already has a name. No need to give it some colony sounding name.

Québec would probably break off, taking the Maritimes and big parts of Ontario with it. Maybe even Vermont.