He's trying to normalise the idea of the US taking control of Canada. It's utterly insane, but if he repeats it enough plenty of people will just switch off or subconscious accept that Canada "should" be part of the US.
I really doubt that it needs to be said a second time for the tramps and I really doubt that its gonna sound any better for normals even if it repeated a billion times!
Tramp exclusively replaced his staff with yes man, lest they would never let him do the tariffs…
If he was really smart, he would start pressuring other countries to not refer to Canada as a nation, and start pushing other governments to stop direct interactions - but he already burned all of his bridges.
I hate that you’re right. Normalization is the goal, but this is far from fucking normal. Even language like “51st state” betrays a wild ignorance of Canada and the U.S. procedures for admitting new states.
As a US citizen, Canada should not become part of the US.
It’s been 77 years since the US admitted a new state and almost 100 since we’ve raised the number of representatives. D.C. residents make up a large portion of the federal workforce and even they don’t have representation in Congress. Quite frankly, there’s no political entity in the US with experience bringing in a new state and all the logistics and legal work that it requires.
There is no path for Canadian annexation where the Canadians will be treated fairly.
The US is just a temporary union of entities with an experimental system of governance. Some states should consider joining Canada under a democratic political system that has worked for hundreds of years.
The entirety of the east coast rightfully belongs to Canada and a huge chunk of the SW rightfully belongs to Mexico, the "purchase" was made under duress, there was no real consent involved, they're prolly lucky they didn't receive the Native American treatment being mostly of Spanish descent.
For many years, the government was operated by the people who conceived and operated the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and they knew the difference between the truth, and their propaganda.
But now most of those people are dead, or near it, and we are now being operated by those idiots whose entire political education came from the illogical, nonsensical, immoral spewings of the Conservative Propaganda Machine. They are so poorly educated in logic and critical thinking skills, and have been so deftly manipulated by professional liars like Rush Limbaugh and his disciples, that they think The Truth is anything they claim it is, and worse, they truly believe their own propaganda - to the point that they will create policy based on their own lies.
The difference between a cult and a religion: In a cult everyone truly believes in what they are being told and the person at the top knows it’s all bullshit, when that person dies it’s a religion.
Yeah, it's more like keep repeating the lie until people start believing it. It's the same way FOX news works. I couldn't go more than a day without hearing Hunter Biden's laptop pertaining to everything. State secrets and national defense issues, his laptop. Why Russia is invading Ukraine, laptop. Why dinosaurs died, his laptop.
And this is why you don't negotiate with Trump. This is why you don't capitulate to Trump. You don't appease him. You don't even act polite about it. He sees those things as weaknesses that he can exploit and will believe that whatever he's after is now his by divine birthright, and your capitulation to him is a subtle acknowledgement that you know he's right.
This started as Canada responding to Trump's original threats by committing $1.3 billion to a fentanyl problem that didn't actually exist in order to appease him and shut him up. And they were rewarded for their appeasement by Trump increasingly turning up the rhetoric ever since. Because that's what Trump does. That's all he does.
A response to Trump needs to be immediate, forceful, unambiguous, and aggressive. Anything else is perceived as weakness. The first thing Canada should have done (and the same thing every other country should be doing) is responding accordingly. "Canada is a soverign nation that will under no circumstances be joining the United States under any conditions, and we resent the implication that we will just give up our position as a free and independent nation or will just roll over to the United States on Mr. Trump's say so. We demand that Mr. Trump make no further implications that Canada ever has or ever will consider becoming a part of the United States. Further statements on this subject risk doing severe and permanent harm to the diplomatic relations between our two countries. We will also be launching investigations into Trump and Trump-affiliated properties in Canada as we cannot and will not allow the leader of a foreign nation to set up shop in Canada and use the profits generated from those businesses to fund actions that will be harmful to our country and its sovereignty."
Trump offered Canada two options to be covered under Trump's so-called "Golden Dome" program. The first is to become a part of the US. The second is a $61 billion price tag. For the government of a foreign nation the size of Canada, that's basically pocket change.
Canada is not considering becoming part of the US. But they are considering his $61 billion offer.
And that consideration is all Trump needs. Again, they didn't give a forceful and unequivocal "no", which just gives Trump wiggle room to believe that there's still a there there. Give Trump that opportunity and he will exploit it to push his own agenda. And that's exactly what he's doing.
I'm almost afraid to ask what Golden Dome is? If it's SDI 2.0, we need to stay away in droves. I think there's some merit in sinking a bit of R&D into dealing with emerging threats like drones, and maybe upgrading the ancient DEW line radars? But if this is another Star Wars missile shield over the entire continent proposal, that was a costly boondoggle in the 80s and I see no reason to believe it wouldn't be one again today.
Hey Trunp and Trump fluffers: Fuck off, you can fuck right off, and when you’re done fucking off, you can fuck off some more. To the power of infinity.
Alt right canadians will say out of one side of their mouth that carney is terrible and selling canada out to the us and out of the other say this is a wonderful idea amd Alberta should join them.