Donald Trump is not joking about making Canada the 51st state, Justin Trudeau warns in hot mic comments

[bassturd@lemmy.world]

I just had this conversation with my boss yesterday. He said he thinks the comments are funny because he thinks he's joking and just making everyone mad. I said no, he may present it as a joke to test how far he can go, but if there's not enough pushback, he keeps going.

[ifitwasuptome@lemmy.ca]

Fuck yeah brother, I’m with you

[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

Two things to remember about that guy:

1)Trump is stupid

2)Trump is the president

Whatever we do, we all must work around those two things. Point 2 implies that he is not permanent, but who knows what the future might hold.

[fartventriloquist69@sh.itjust.works]

I used to be like you, but then I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

[billiam0202@lemmy.world]

Fun, totally unrelated to absolutely anything fact:

Three of the top ten longest confirmed sniper kills were Canadian.

[satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world]

I'm building explosive filled toques.

[satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world]

Americans genocided the indigenous people and created a whole genre of entertainment, cowboys and indians.

Not sure if that's the best example to make.

[conditional_soup@lemm.ee]

This might go very badly for Canada. I want it to go badly for the US, but let's try to be real here for a second. Doesn't a very, very large proportion of Canada live in like five cities? The USAF could have that paved in an afternoon, more or less by itself.

Trudeau needs to take this shit serious and start looking into bringing EU and Aussie troops over for long term "training exercises". If you're Canadian and reading this, you need to be preparing. Get out of the city if you can; if not, start preparing a big out bag, keep your gas tank over half full, and start preparing enough supplies to shelter in place for at least three days for however many people are in your household. Count on losing power, water, gas, and other utilities. If you have a gun, make sure you know how to aim it, use it, clean it, clear any jams, etc. before you need it. If you don't have a gun, give some real thought to it; ask yourself what Vasily Zaitsev would do. I hope it doesn't come to this; I want to apologize that this is happening, though I know it's not worth the pixels it's printed on.

I have hope that it won't happen. Most USians have a very positive view of Canada, and this anti-canadian rhetoric is way, way, way out of left field for a wide majority of us. I can't see any but a very small minority of people thinking this is good. I have a small hope that our military will make the right choice if the time comes.

[shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It's basically our military specialization

[donjuanme@lemmy.world]

The air force isn't bombing Canadian cities, GTFO with that.

Unlike Ukraine Canada has nukes, so yeah....

[skunkworkz@lemmy.world]

Trump is using Putins playbook. Constantly threaten to annex your neighbors. Neighbors take those threat seriously and start to build up a standing army at the border. Convince populous that the neighbors are preparing for an invasion. Yada yada yada. Declare war against neighbor and invade.

[gift_of_gab@lemmy.world]

I don't know who downvoted you, but whomever did go check out Danielle Smith in Alberta. She sure likes Trump, and Ford over in Ontario used Roger Stone as a campaign advisor.

Trump has created a problem for the Cons, though:

"The start of a tariff war with the United States is changing voters' moods. It's harder to talk about a broken Canada when there's a growing sense of patriotism," another Conservative source said.

Our Cons need bogeymen to rile up our Centrist voters. They rail about borderguards or evil carbon taxes (that are given back to the vast majority of Canadians) or whatever, only now we're getting Nationalist Cons rising up, despite their favourite leader Harper being a vanguard of International Conservatism.

We have an absolute issue up here with our Con voters, (when Léger asked Canadians about the Biden-Trump match up in the fall of 2020, 41 per cent of Conservative voters sided with Trump.) and they are extremely susceptible to Russian propaganda:

[conditional_soup@lemm.ee]

Ah, I thought I had seen elsewhere that they didn't. Good.

[tarquinn2049@lemmy.world]

Currently, Trumps team is just trying to get something boiling so that if/when polievre gets in power, the situation can be "resolved" without bloodshed.

[gsus4@mander.xyz]

Damn, Wolf Warrior diplomacy is even more odious when the US does it.

[transplantedsconie@lemm.ee]

I don't think you have time for "serious public discussion on the matter".

Once all the 2025 assholes are in place it's go time.

[not_that_guy05@lemmy.world]

You have my understanding and support. Canadians please take care of yourselves.

You had our back in Afghan/Iraq, you have brothers and sisters in the US that will help.

It will take the unity to sabotage any Nazi/maga plans.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

We don't, I don't know where the guy above got his info, but we ratified the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in 1969 and then completed deconstructing them in 1984.

Someone can post citation otherwise, but I have lived here my entire life and remembered the articles from when they were all decommissioned.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

I am certain we do not. Do you have a citation?

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

Don't trust uncited information. I am sure we do not have nukes. Look up the nuclear nonproliferation treaty for Canada, we not only don't have any, but haven't stored them for any other country since 1984.