Haven’t they been saying that shit for like three weeks now?
Yeah, but they’ve been claiming it was just a joke.
We know better, of course, but that was what they were pretending.
Canada should coordinate with the Hague. Invite trump to Canada at the same time the ICC issues a warrant.
Click bait. Just quote her here directly.
She said Canada could avoid the tariffs by “becoming the 51st state”
utterly deranged
“Is that how the US will be treating all of their allies from now on?”
Would have been an important follow up question.
Shocking how few of these there are. Where the hell is the White House Press Corps? Don’t answer that I know they don’t really exist anymore and haven’t for close to two decades now.
No use in being a us ally.
“President Musk needs ALL the rare minerals required for electronics”
What about Mexico? Could Mexico become the 52nd state? Lol.
They already got half of it in the 1800s. 1900s were busy times. The 2000s are for northern expansion: Canada and Greenland. God bless Donald Trump /s.
Maybe if we do the rain dance. Like George Carling said… Does it rain during practice?
What about puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam and the Virgin Islands?
Thankfully, Mexico is probably safe due to racism. They thought about stealing all of Mexico when the US invaded in 1846, but decided not to because all the brown people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement
On the other hand, Canada…
Right, buy the US can just Gaza all of my mexicano to Paraguay. And then the orange turd can build a huge paradize for white people. It will be an indoor thing, we all know white people can’t be outside too long or they cook. Kinda of like us brown people up in the north, we need tanning lights to get vitamin D or we go flat and puff away.
Wouldn’t that be amazing? All this blatant racism and hatred of Mexican people and suddenly they all end up citizens? That would be wild. I’m sure that’s why they’re not saying it. Though I would wager it wouldn’t take long for them to justify the annexing of the territory without giving citizenship to the people there.
Putin wants US alliances to crumble. As his pawn, Trump will continue to sew chaos.
sew
sow
Obvious follow up question: if Canada becomes the 51st state, wouldn’t that remove the barriers that is keeping all that imaginary fentanyl out of the US?
Do journalists even have brains any more?
I imagine they think the military occupation required will solve the problem.
It always feels like they have real reporters in the seats at these things, and a bunch of younger reporters asking softball scripted questions standing around.
Am I the only one that feels this way?
She is as dumb as she looks
Not that any of this is sensible or reasonable, but… why? Why is there any obsession at all with adding Canada as a state? Where did this idea even come from and for what purpose?
I’ve been hearing Americans “joke” about Canada becoming the 51st state all my life. The fact that there’s a country on the same land-mass as them, who’s people largely speak the same language as them and who has a similar culture to them doesn’t want to be part of their country runs counter to the “Greatest Country in the World” propaganda that they’ve been indoctrinated with since childhood.
Most of the time, however, the politicians elected to high office are educated enough to know why annexing Canada would be a bad idea, but Trump’s mentality never evolved beyond the schoolyard, and those are the ideas that he’s bringing to the White House.
Yanks have always been upset we didn’t join them way back. That and they cannot let go of manifest destiny.
IDK, man. Indiana born and raised, and I’ve never in my life have I even heard about the notion or desire to have Canada merge with the US. It seemingly came out of nowhere and now a ton of idiots are acting like it’s genius and even an absolutely imperative now.
But other expanding the US’s land and people, and eliminating another sovereign state, what would even be different? Is the expansion the point itself, some weird compulsion to gain control of our neighbors? Or is there some other motivation? It’s probably oil isnt it… it’s always oil.
what would even be different?
The Republicans would immediately become unelectable, for starters, because you’d be adding a lot of population that skews much further left politically than any part of the US. And most of us would be extremely pissed off.
On our side, we’d be getting issues we really do not want with health care (and social services in general) and with gun control.
It would likely all end in guerilla warfare. Or worse. Overall, it’s a bad deal for both sides.
he did say that Canada would be annexed with no representation… so no worries about left shift… also think that whatever party would be in power that surrenders to POTUS47 would immediately become local unelectable pariah, considering polls currently it’d be Libs. So the pressure is rather to push for Cons… what they can’t comprehend is that Canada is not US and it creates some serious pusback
The US could not stop us from committing mass voter fraud. A large percentage of the Canadian population consists of English-speaking white people with accents that are pretty much the same as a large swathe of the United States—the group of people that receive the least scrutiny in most parts of the US. It’s unlikelly they would even be questioned when attempting to vote. (That’s also what makes potential guerilla warfare so messy.)
what would even be different?
So this sounds like ignorant American exceptionalism. Stuff that fucking noise.
YOU may not have heard it (and I can’t link sources), but I have in modern media and from dipshits on the internet.
So this sounds like ignorant American exceptionalism. Stuff that fucking noise.
That is certainly not what I meant, nor is American Exceptionalism a sentiment I hold. I meant that we already enjoyed free trade between our countries before Trump. Already share resources back and forth. Already have closely related cultures and history. Already have military joint operations. Canada has been our closest ally for centuries. Becoming a state, then, doesn’t seem like it would make a ton of differences that the average US citizen would want or even see on the whole. I can see where a narcissist like Trump wants to bully people, take control, be a dictator, etc. But it would make as much direct difference to my life as losing Iowa to the Portuguese would. Obviously if you are in Canada (or Iowa) and suddenly belong to a new county, that will make a make huge difference to you. But if you’re a Tennessean tobacco farmer, why do you think it’s really important that Canada joins the US? They certainly seem to all of the sudden. That is what I meant by “what would even be different?”
He didn’t mean for Canadians but Americans.
FWIW, I first heard about manifest destiny in history class at my Canadian elementary school.
Well, yeah, they taught us the same concept in history class too. Obviously, American expansionism is not new. But I have never heard a single modern day person talk about America annexing sovereign countries until now. The closest thing was turning some of our territories like Puerto Rico into official states.
Water, rare earth minerals, other natural resources, labor
And control of all this water, important strategically for Russia, I mean the USA. And Russia.
This one image really brings the whole situation into perspective.
Shhh! Don’t spoil Trump’s War On Christmas plan to drone strike Santa Claus!
Is… There still any ice in the Arctic?
Yes. It’s not actually all blue water like it looks here. But there’s less and less, and Russia has ice breakers that can deal with a certain amount of ice. Arctic shipping routes are becoming more useful and valuable as the Arctic warms.
My presumption is that the goal is to establish one homogeneously plutocratic and oligarchic landmass, broken up only by the Bering Strait, running all the way from Florida to Eastern Europe.
Trump sees himself as an emperor. He wants to expand the empire and claim that as his legacy. Simple as that.
O&G, water, lumber. You name it
Under the hypothesis that Russia influences Trump, the point is to drive a wedge between the USA and all other Western democracies, the same way it attempts to create conflict between factions within the USA and other democratic nations.
Why is there any obsession at all with adding Canada as a state?
Because Trump is trying to do to Canada what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Why? Because taking over a major food supply source is where the money will be at (because global warming is slowing shifting the hot zones northwards).
Add to that Canada’s almost unlimited fresh water supply, lots of spare hydro electricity, a fair amount of rare earth minerals, a large oil source, and a huge portion of the Arctic region (that will soon be ice-free).
I also wouldn’t be surprised if he just wanted to conquer an independent nation just for like chest-bumping, wanna-be strongman reasons.
This is more likely. These vast conspiracies like the one you replied to are giving him too much credit. The guys just not that well thought out.
Hasn’t Trump already said this? This isn’t the press sec saying anything Orange Mussolini hasn’t already been explicit about. It’s one of their talking points.
Yeah it was stated in the state of the union too
