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Conservatives still claim hes joking about the 51st state of Canada.
Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]
Submitted 11 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hopefully the expected Liberal victory by wide margin is a sign of what is to come in the USA Midterms.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 months ago
America has not been subsidizing Canada. Canada has been subsidizing the US.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
About every country forced to hoard USD for business purposes subsidises the US.
CircaV@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
That’s correct. I want an immediate end to Canada selling discounted oil, gas and hydroelectricity to the US.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Don’t forget Lumber too
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Aged like milk…
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
“increase your military power for free”… what’s the portion of the federal budget that is allocated to defense again ?
critical@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Yes
easily3667@lemmus.org 11 months ago
All
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
What is it with Trump and always “being subsidized by us” and “take away from us” while the US has trillions of debt in other countries? 300 billions to my home country alone, which doesn’t even compare to other countries.
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Because Trump is a troll. He doesn’t give a shit if what he says or does is correct. Trying to make sense of the schmuck gives me a headache.
AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
He is incapable of understanding mutual trade and cooperation. To him every human interaction must have a winner and a loser. So if Canada is benefiting from trade with the US in his mind it must be at America’s expense. It’s a disturbingly simple view of trade and cooperation, and one that makes actual good faith discourse with the US near impossible.
Alaknar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He doesn’t understand what “trade deficit” means.
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He trusts that his followers don’t, anyway. Based on some arguments I’ve seen online, he’s right about that.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 11 months ago
He keeps referring to the disproportionate US export income to import costs. Something like 2 trillion in exports to 3 trillion in imports. 1 trillion lost from the US every year, and ~30% to Canada that’s his math
Cocopanda@futurology.today 11 months ago
Can’t wait for the senate and congress to flip Dem. Nothing will get done. But I’m sure plenty of Trump operatives will be jailed for breaking congressional supers.
LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Wait, you have a seriuos candidate that wants to surrender to the US?
paperazzi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, indeed. If you check out Poilievre’s platform, he almost entirely mimics Trump’s, right down to promoting Canada’s own version of DOGE. That’s why there was such a huge turnout at the voting booths. The writing was on the wall with that guy and becoming American was not what the majority of us wanted.
AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Well Poilievre, who’s party lost tonight, has been extremely limp-wristed in his opposition to Trump’s threats, but he hasn’t outright said he’d surrender, just implied it with his weak rhetoric. More likely to me is that Trump in his dementia ridden mind was literally calling for people to vote for him. Like somehow enough Canadians would write Trump on their ballots that it would “win” the election for him, which demonstrates such a fundamental lack of understanding about our electoral system that I don’t even know where to begin.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
Man, the dumbest thing about this nonsense is repeating that Canada will only be one state. It’s already broken into provinces, dickhead, at least make a better offer than two senators.
Gtownjim@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Fuck that it will not and should not happen .so fuck off even thinking about it
lorty@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Let’s be honest here it’s going to be just a territory for quite a while.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
#1 Ontario being the population of Pennsylvania
#9 New foundland being the population of Wyoming
#10 Prince Edward Island only has 150k, could lump in 150k from northern territories
20 senators for 40m, 5.0E-7 senators per person
200 senators for 340m, 5.88E-7 senators per person
It seems pretty fair
Landless2029@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d love to have the Canadian conservatives in the USA. It would hopefully calm down the magat zombies we have in office.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]uienia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He doesn’t need distractions anymore. He can do as he please, and he knows it. This is just him enjoying himself.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
FYI, this is unpopular among Canadian voters. Conservative underdog, tries to deny being a lapdog, or supporting the idea, but this unfiltered BS doesn’t help him. It’s just a sign that Trump is completely out of control surrounded only by people who must restrain themselves on pushback to only far stupider things he might say.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hypothetically, if canada becomes a state, would they flip our house of representatives blue? I guess more likely they’ll become like puerto rico or guam or something.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’d annex the land, and then deport all the Canadian foreigners that illegally immigrated in the US.
lorty@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I don’t think they are getting statehood right away
AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I guess more likely they’ll become like puerto rico or guam or something.
This is what you need to keep foremost in your mind. There is no conceivable reality in which the US conquers (yes conquers, they can call it annexation all they want but at the end of the day Trump wants a conquest to his name) Canada and gives any semblance of voting or personal rights to Canadians. Hell, even if Canada was somehow persuaded into voluntarily joining the US, this regime would never, ever honour any kind of arrangement that gave Canadians a fair deal. They are fascist bullies, as close to actual evil as we’ve seen in North America in a very long time, and they have no interest in any sort of fair bargain.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Population wise it’s like adding another California
zqps@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
But I thought we were pretending to care about states, not individual voters.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Is he that dumb or does he just want the other guy to win? I’m pretty sure even he knows that this bullshit is why the other guy now has a chance.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The guy is ranting about a criminal investigation into why his polling numbers are so low. He’s quite literally a demented old man. I think he really isn’t rational enough to see that that he is harming the man he wants to win.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TBF he promoted himself and others in the USA and that went fucking swimmingly for him somehow.
CircaV@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
![](lemmy.ca/…/33162e46-a86c-4513-8ff6-41d4bdabeff3.
Will. Never. Happen.
Canadians will literally die before living for a milisecond as Americans.
And - this is a declaration of war by the US president. Cause it would take a military invasion to violently turn Canadians into Americans.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 11 months ago
okay, but, can I become a canadian? Because I would really love to be anything other than American right now.
CircaV@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
If the US invades, breaches our borders etc you can defintely help us from within.
Oaksey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It has long been the case, that if you confuse a Canadian for an American they are offended, but if you confuse an American for a Canadian they don’t mind.
pseudo@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Is my English grammar lacking or is there something wrong with the “if” in the first sentence? Shouldn’t that be a “by” ("by Canada becoming […] )?
BigPotato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Commas can be used to identify parts of the sentence that can be cut out e.g. “… wisdom to cut your taxes in half … If Canada becomes the 51st state.”
Now, here, the comma was used for a list so it shouldn’t have been used that way but I’m sure his meth head brain probably got lost partway or the AI bot that mimics his speech patterns is just that dumb.
pseudo@jlai.lu 11 months ago
I don’t have an issue with his use of comma but I found it weird to say “Elect the man who has the strength […] to cut your taxes in half, […] if Canada become the cherished 51sts state of the [USA]”
But English is not my mother tongue, so it could just be language interference.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
CptOblivius@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like how he wants Canada as one state. Keeping the Provinces split would push the Senate to the left for quite some time.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unfortunately if Canada got 20 senators they still wouldn’t have a 60% supermajority to remove Trump, undo citizens united, or enact public option healthcare with. It would be 47+20 = 67 and out of 120 that is 55.83%
Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Only if you assume elections will keep happening.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They likely will, in a similar fashion to how NK , or russia, or China does it
rbos@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I would not ordinarily recommend Hitler’s tactics and strategies as a general rule, but he sure knew how to solve the Hitler problem, at the very end. Donny, maybe look into that.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 11 months ago
shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I encourage Canadian conservative voters to write in Trump’s name on their ballot
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
In the States we encourage our conservatives to write in Jesus Christ for President.
CircaV@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
LOL some smooth brains no doubt will. Will be counted as spoiled ballots.
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This fucking moron is INSANE
Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He sounds exactly how Kanye would ramble and its fucking scary <~<;
HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Am I correct in the assessment that his recent antics are because being a nazi no longermakes him special?
edg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rolder@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I wonder if he realizes shit like this is really helping the liberals
CircaV@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
He’s literally too dumb for that.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A few months ago it seemed like a sure thing conservatives would win
Rolder@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Canadians saw the US shooting themselves in the face and went oh hell naw
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Astonishing it’s not satire
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I still can’t tell what’s real or not, lol
thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s like a truck carrying punctuation got into an accident with a train carrying words. This is so hard to read.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Fuck you and die, cheeto
Microw@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Trump: “NO BORDER!”
danekrae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wonder if americans will ever learn, that there is no such thing as bad publicity…
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Hundreds of billions! Of micropennies! Aaaaaaaaah!
Elkot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What a plonker