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

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

The head of our government is a a European king.

[shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The fact that that your comment even makes a bit of sense is so completely fucked. Of course I don't speak for everybody but I think it's fair to say that most Canadians do not want to be a nuclear power. We do not want to hurt or threaten anyone, particularly our American brothers? When Pearl Harbour was attacked we declared war on Japan before America did ffs.. shit is fucked up down there

[kryptoniancodemonkey@lemmy.world]

People give the moron too much credit as a strategic manipulator. He's not that coy. If he says something, it is because he has no filter and he was genuinely thinking it. His people might talk him out of it (or distract him away from it after the fact), or his aging addled mind wanders off to other things, and only then will it have been a "masterful ploy" to misdirect, or rile up the libs, or gain compliance through threats, etc. Every stupid and evil thing he has said aloud, he meant wholeheartedly at that moment. The problem is he may or may not decide to have follow through on it later, so you don't know if you should react to it. But if he said something threatening, it is a threat. It isn't necessarily a threat that will be acted upon. But it absolutely is still a meaningful and serious threat.

[avidamoeba@lemmy.ca]

We don't have any nuclear weapons.

[blakenong@lemmings.world]

I’m pretty sure this is just the playbook now.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

Yeah he thinks this is his way into the history books. And he's like Putin and other dictators that just look at land size and wants bigger (remember when he said Trump tower was now the tallest after 9/11?)

[qprimed@lemmy.ml]

I hope you are right. at this moment in time I put nothing past the cabal and the "official acts" empowered degenerative orange sack in the wh.

just 8 short years ago, could you have seriously contemplated that we would be engaged in this way on this thread?

[gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works]

Resistance is possible in many forms

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

Um it's still NATO. It's just under their command.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Exactly. He has no concept of what a joke is. Or of humor in any way. Have you ever heard him laugh? I sure haven't.

As his fans always tell us- he says what he thinks.

Sure, most of what he thinks is stupid and/or wrong, but he says what he thinks and it's only "a joke" when it's so embarrassing that even he realizes it on some level.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

You should watch Perun's "All blingm no basics". Maintaining a nuclear arsenal is expensive.

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

Nuclear proliferation is always bad. I don't give a damn about the second cold war.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

Well a lot of what he does is distraction. But yeah I think he wants Canada (even though it would shift things left, which he hasn't thought about and likely won't acknowledge).

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

it's a distraction, but it's also very real. everything is a disraction from everything else. they'll get away with whatever they're allowed. use what power you have to sabotage the things you can and do your best to have faith that someone is doing the same for the things you can't help. i with there was more to do. i really do. but right now the biggest, most dangerous force in the battle between good, evil, and indifferent are the indifferent. we're stuck out here desperately trying to convince the indifferent that the news media is fully captured and that the onslaught minorities say is happening is really happening

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

No one said it was good. I said you're too late. The proliferation is happening regardless.

[tunetardis@lemmy.ca]

Hans Island and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, respectively, for anyone head-scratching on this one.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

Well, by that account... There's a bridge linking France and Brazil.

[pivot_root@lemmy.world]

It's not going to shift things left if Canada was annexed. Even if they were given voting rights (which is doubtful), their population is both a magnitude smaller, and Alberta exists.

[alexstarfire@lemmy.world]

Yea, everyone knows it'll be Monday. The worst day of the week.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

How much was the election won by? Pretty sure it was less than 35 million.