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Trump, kindly go fuck yourself.

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[–] fourish 1 points 1 day ago

Trump is a total fuckwit. No way we’re becoming American. I kindly invite any Canadians who want to be American to GTFO.

[–] vatlark 3 points 1 day ago

Not a snowballs chance in... in.... Canada?

Those are actually decent odds.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I specifically immigrated to Canada from America. I refuse to go back.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

xmunk is ours now trump

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Same. This eyeballing of Canada has me a little stressed out that my life will go back to being absolute shit and I won't have healthcare or be happy.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Canada can come down here and burn down the White House. Again.

I'll provide the marshmallows.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I prefer Elizabeth May's invitation to California, Oregon and Washington.

USA can stay red, impoverished and ignorant. The adults in the room can get on with Nation Building.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The irony that if the reverse happened so much would actually improve for the ex-Americans, Canada, and most of the World.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Only the northern border and the coasts. The rest is pretty unfixable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Utah can fuck off too. The mormons at least.

That beautiful land is wasted on them.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

In the past, Trump has accused Canada of accepting a $100-billion subsidy from the United States. It's unclear exactly what he is referencing, but it may refer to the trade deficit between the two countries.

But on Tuesday, that purported $100-billion subsidy rose to $200 billion. CTVNews.ca has reached out to Trump's media office to clarify what the $200-billion figure represents.

"I love the Canadian people, they're great," he said. "We're spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada. … We can't do it forever."

It sounds like what is going on here is, Trump is doing the normal Trump thing of starting with a conservative narrative (austerity, cutting off moochers) and brazenly lying about the state of the world to fill in the blanks of that narrative, knowing his supporters are happy to live in a fictional world, knowing he can't be called out on it in a way that will matter, knowing that it will get people to continue paying attention to him.

[–] billwashere 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m not gonna last another four years of this insanity…

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It's fascinating rhetoric if he is talking about the trade deficit. It really speaks to his habitual refusal to pay for products and services rendered.

He thinks paying for shit is for suckers.

[–] DicJacobus 4 points 2 days ago

Last time they lived in a world of alternate facts, is it so hard to believe that they've evolved into alternate reality?

They are looking more and more like Russia every day,

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[–] Fisherman75 8 points 2 days ago

All I can say is freedom isn't free. Maybe that's something Canadians need to learn, I don't know - I don't really want to assume. But I got a cascadian flag tattoo on my left arm like a soldier's patch for a reason. I've been thinking in neomedieval military terms since I was a teenager at an alternative high school in the late 2000s.

Freedom needs to be constantly defended. If you can't give up any kind of tribute to a governing authority or series of governing authorities to defend it for you or don't find any existing entity as authentically defending it then you frankly have to defend it yourself. Same principle for arguing in favor of participatory democracy - if you don't participate in democracy in some meaningful way you are bound to lose it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump lied about anything and everything. It's impossible to call him out on any of it because he is so good at creating these bullshit headlines. Inflation, Ukraine, healthcare, abortion, doesn't matter, if he needed to say something in the campaign to win he said it.

Now in a short time, we will know what he is actually up to, but for now, he generate so much bullshit that becomes a cls command. The media, headlines, social, all his bullshit. Everything he said before, cleared off the screen (front page).

The man is an literal technocrat with extreme skill: Techno: skill Crat: power

He has everyone wrapped around his finger. Well played Mofo.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“What do they want from me? I'm good-natured. I'm good-hearted. I'm good-looking. Every day, I'm out there trying to make the world safe. For ~~Germany~~ America. I don't want war. All I want is peace. Peace.

[singing and dance number start]

A little piece of ~~Poland~~ Canada, A little piece of ~~France~~ Greenland, A little piece of …”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I immediately went to "Mambo No 5."

A little bit of Canada in my life

A little bit of Mexico by my side

A little bit of Greenland is all I need

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If Canada were to be annexed into the United States, it would rank as the third most populous state, and the second largest in terms of GDP.

As it is the second largest country in the world, it's size would be unmatched by any U.S. state. In length and girth.

[–] DicJacobus 5 points 2 days ago

with the foreign interference report in the news in canada, canadians need to be reminded that america is also foreign actor that intereferes with our country's affairs. They are just as Malicious as the Indians, Chinese and Russians. At least the intereference that comes from the EU is still in our own interests, unlike the robbers, theives, killers, and hopeful Suzerian's of the others

[–] essell 10 points 3 days ago (12 children)

"In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Its almost as if nobody realised decades ago that putting all our eggs in one super nation state basket for world protection, a super nation that had been known to have Hollywood politics corrupt to its core, was a bad, bad idea...

[–] Sam_Bass 2 points 2 days ago

Shouldnt even dignify the orange moron with an answer

[–] MyDogLovesMe 13 points 3 days ago

For now…

Once PP gets the reigns, Trump will just push him around like the spineless demagogue he is. …just a ‘lesser Trump’. Canada will be sold out by PP. Mark my words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Trump must have visited bumfuck nowhere Alberta and extrapolated that to the rest of the country

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