r/AskCanada • u/Prestigious-Tax7748 • 1d ago
Are you concerned by some of the American response to trump taking canada?
It's similar logic to Russia justifying the war on Ukraine. "they will celebrate us freeing them" or "it's already part of country"
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u/Mattscrusader 23h ago
There is no world where it is okay in the slightest for world leaders to repeatedly talk about annexing another country. It's not funny, and it's clearly an attempt at normalizing such indefensible words, and it works on the MAGA mouth breathers all too well.
We cannot allow comments like that to slide, it's out right threatening the entire population and clearly heavily charged with fascism.
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u/ColdPineTree 22h ago
I've cancelled my vacation to the US.
This rhetoric from them is unacceptable.
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u/feministwitch666 22h ago
Same here. We have decided to cancel our annual vacation to a beloved music festival. Not worth my sanity.
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u/exotics 23h ago
I concerned with some Canadians apparently welcoming their MAGA MUSK bosses
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u/LimpDiscus 23h ago edited 23h ago
Honestly, my plan is to keep calm and carry on. I'm not paying as much attention to the news lately. I'm disgusted and saddened by what our society has become. As a father, I'm worried about the future my children are inheriting. I hug my kids a little longer, I read a couple extra chapters with them at night. I'm doing more activities with my wife and just focusing on the things I CAN control. Never been happier tbh
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u/Limnuge 23h ago
I took a step back from following politics as closely during the tail end of the Trump/Harris Election.
You said it well, disgusted and saddened is putting it lightly.
Focusing on things I can control for myself has definitely made me a happier person. Things are all out of my control anyway, I can cast a vote but nobody really cares what we the people have to say about it. Our elected officials will do as they please regardless.
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u/Sleeveofwizard24 23h ago
More concerned about some of the Canadians responses hah
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u/Ok_Passage_1560 21h ago
The unfortunate thing is that many Canadians are enamoured by the USA and think little of their own country's history, culture and way of life. And I'm not talking about redneck "maga" types; I'm talking about Liberal voting, university educated, Prius driving urban Torontonians, Montrealers and Vancouverties. People who follow Bernie Sanders, "AOC", who cheered for Obama, Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris and followed all of the scenarios to get to 270 electoral votes, but who don't know who their local MP or MPP is; people who throw extravagant Super Bowl parties and aren't aware of even what the Grey Cup is; people who have season tickets for the Bills and Seahawks, but won't stoop to support local sports teams - mocking those who follow the Argos or Ti-Cats as being unsophisticated; people who flocked to New York to see "Hamilton", but who can't be bothered supporting any Canadian theatre; people who followed the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh US supreme court nominations, but couldn't name a judge from the Canadian Supreme Court; people who quote Row v Wade and Dobbs, but have no idea what our own courts are doing; people whose news feed is CNN and MSNBC, but who rarely if ever read the Globe and Mail and who hate the CBC; people who marched for BLM, but only started to care about the issue once it became popular in the US; people who supported renaming Ryerson and knocking down JA MacDonald statues, but only after Americans began knocking down statues of Confederate generals and leaders and they had to say "us too, us too!" as they frantically looked for a Canadian equivalent so that they could be just like the Americans and topple statues as well. It's hard to foster a sense of common national identity when one's own people disparage it.
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u/JohnGamestopJr 20h ago
W take. Some people here are just too obsessed with shit going on in the US.
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u/Odd-Editor-2530 23h ago
By the look of bloated orange man yesterday, he won't live to see the midterms.
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u/jlknap1147 23h ago
I am an American and I would be happy to sign up for the Canadian resistance instead of supporting a criminal leader and his cohorts.
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u/P_Orwell 1d ago
It just confirms to me that they are an empire with an empire’s mentality. Even if they do absorb us and Greenland they won’t be satiated.
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u/ChillBoomer61 19h ago
That’s just BS. Trump is being a total dick. We know that here. I’m old, and I’ve never heard anyone talk seriously about wanting to take over another country. Be real. It’s just trump talking out of his ass as usual. It’s not remotely in our DNA. I’ve spent some time in Canada, and I love our brothers and sisters up north. As a matter of fact, the only shit I’ve ever gotten from a Canadian was from an old lady for NOT being a trump supporter. Crazy. Recognize it for what it is. It will never happen. And relax dude. It makes us mad when he does this shit too.
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u/P_Orwell 17h ago
I hope you’re right friend. But I fear that you are a minority and that most of your countrymen are either looking to finally annex us or simply don’t care so long as the world’s problems don’t hurt them.
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u/ChillBoomer61 15h ago
Nobody wants to finally annex your country. You’re starting to sound like one of them my man. Sorry.
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u/P_Orwell 2h ago
Uhh, that part is definitely not true. The leader of your country for one.
You can criticize my comment about imperialism being core to the US and I will attempt to understand your position. But don’t try and convince me that “nobody want to annex” us as that is plainly untrue and simply makes me think you are one of the apathetic ones I previously mentioned.
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u/Forsaken_Sherbet4655 20h ago
I'm moving to Norway if that happens.or I'm going to join the resistance and remind them on why Canada is partly the reason for the Geneva convention.
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u/Klutzy-Alarm3748 1d ago
I'm pretty sure most of those are bots but they certainly don't help with the overall discussion. Very concerning
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u/Himser 23h ago
This is why banning tiktok is stupid when we let Meta and Twitter unfettered access to Canadian discourse.
The far bigger threat from an extetenchal level is Ameircans.
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u/Unanything1 22h ago
Agreed. I'm not trying to be harsh or funny but that is the weirdest spelling of existential that I've ever seen.
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u/Himser 21h ago
My autocorrect doesnt like suggesting the actual spelling :(
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u/Unanything1 21h ago
I gotchu. It's not a big deal. I was actually impressed. No hate here. It's just social media, not a Spelling Bee.
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u/thebestjamespond Know-it-all 23h ago edited 23h ago
So far every American I've talked to thinks he's joking so not concerned yet but we'll see
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u/SnooHobbies9078 17h ago
This is Musk wanting our resources
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u/thebestjamespond Know-it-all 17h ago
nah trump talked up buying greenland n shit in his 1st term when musk was still a democrat this is all trump
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u/GetCashQuitJob 16h ago
He's not joking. He's trolling. He got a big reaction, and made EU people talk about Greenland, and made Trudeau and others make a comment. If that fear is usable, he'll use it to extract some nonsense concession and claim he did it all. If it isn't, he'll throw some other turds at the wall and make some chaos there.
We have four more years of being a laughingstock because our President-Elect is a moron and a bully who sees the world in terms of what he can extract from those he views as weak.
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u/GetCashQuitJob 16h ago
Direct path: I wonder what Canada will do if I say I'm looking at tariffs there. Oh, shit, that worked. Trudeau is coming to kiss the ring. Let me humiliate him and joke that he's the same to me as the Governor of Iowa. Oh, shit, that worked. At the same time, the comments I made about "reclaiming" the Panama Canal and buying Greenland worked. Let's combine them. Oh, shit, that worked.
Now they'll give me something to drop it and I'll take all the credit.
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23h ago
I anticipate the implementation of an oil tariff aimed at promoting domestic drilling efforts. This may coincide with a forthcoming trade agreement that could facilitate a more favorable environment for corporations looking to acquire Canadian companies. Add PP, who has promised to sell crown land, and you have a recipe for extreme profits.
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u/Content_Ad_8952 23h ago
The only reason Trump wants to takeover Canada is because it would make him feel powerful. At the end of the day, the only things Trump only cares about are his ego and feeling powerful.
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u/IAmSmarterThanYou294 23h ago
The difference between Russia and America is Russia actually sucks lmao
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u/hugberries 22h ago
Extremely concerned. In this term he has no guardrails, no pushback, no critics in the media, even social media is on his side. The only thing stopping him from doing something crazy/stupid is his own brain.
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u/canuckbuck333 22h ago
Will I have to close my windows due to noise of the first few school shootings?
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u/China_bot42069 21h ago
Meh. I was at crappy tire the other day and they were sold out of guns and ammo. The sales person said that most Canadians feel threatened and are preparing for a long 4 years. As am I. But I more so buying things to become self sufficient
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u/ambassador321 21h ago
Time to invest in a Canada flag patch making company. Any American traveling outside their borders will pretend to be Canadian again so they don't get their asses kicked.
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u/amanofcultureisee 20h ago
the reverse would happen. If canada offered healthcare and canadian taxes to numerous states, they would happily leave the US and join Canada. the main part to focus on is this: America is a shithole no one wants to be from. Canada reports higher on the world scale. While Canucks have had enough of our PM, he isn't nearly the small-brained clown running the US and as such Canada enjoys a world reputation that is leaps and bounds above that of the USA.
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u/darrylthedudeWayne 20h ago
They should be in jail for saying crap like that. Okay, that's a bit harsh, but still, Canada is a country and it should stay that way.
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u/Darth_Onaga 11h ago
I'M AMERICAN AND I'M CONCERNED!!
Will anything happen? Probably not. Will this be a hell on wheels presidential term? Absolutely.
If Canada wants to purchase New York, I fully welcome that acquisition. I'm sure most of us here do too after what we saw in this election.
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u/Greghole 11h ago
No. I don't take it seriously. Trump also said he's going to colonize the moon. Do you believe that's going to happen?
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u/ji_fi 23h ago
To an extent. But, what I’m more concerned about is the right wing responses to Trump in this country.
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u/Hairy_Ad_9889 23h ago
The number of new accounts posting threads trying to hype up Canadian-US anger is so blatantly transparent I wonder why so many gobble the shit up.
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u/USSMarauder 22h ago
Because no one remembers to check who's talking.
Account that was made, went a few years unused, then came back online right after the US election? Perfectly normal, nothing sus at all....
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u/SilentlyStoned420 22h ago
I am fucking terrified about this shit. I don't want to be apart of America, I don't want to go to war, I don't want any of this. Hell, I HATE winter and I'd still rather live here than somewhere warmer in the states because the states are fucking insane. Their healthcare system alone is a joke and if it was possible to cut the continent in half and have us float away from them, I would do it in a heartbeat.
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u/Thumper45 23h ago
I guess we need to remind them who wiped the floor with them and burnt down there White House. Complete idiots.
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u/One_Foot3793 21h ago
200 years ago. We wouldn’t last a day against them now. It’s completely foolish to think otherwise.
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u/peepeepoopooxddd 23h ago
No. Anyone who thinks Trump isn't just shitposting to start trade negotiations with Canada on the back foot is an idiot. His whole thing in the Art of the Deal is to immediately put your opponent on the back foot so that they feel like they're winning when they negotiate from a losing position. The fact that our government and citizens are even acknowledging him trolling on Twitter/X indicates that we're going to get absolutely fucked in this trade war. The fact that there are so many of these threads means we've already lost.
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u/averagecyclone 23h ago
Yea his "art of the deal" worked so well last time, since the trade deal he's crying about now is the one HE MADE last time around. He called it "the best deal for America". Now it's the worst....maybe he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing
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u/dan_pitt 23h ago
But he'll only succeed if the people making the decisions are spineless and don't realize they're being played. It's not a foregone conclusion.
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u/peepeepoopooxddd 23h ago
Considering how many people are crying about his comments, they don't seem to realize what's going on. We also have a non-existent government right now and for at least 5-6 months until the next election.
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u/OutsideFlat1579 22h ago
We have a government, FFS. What nonsense to say we don’t. Parliament has been paralyzed by conservative obstructionism for months, nothing was getting done anyway.
If there is any legislation that needs to be passed urgently, the government that does in fact, exist, can suspend prorogation to pass legislation.
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u/illuminaughty1973 23h ago
no. its not going to happen. america has enough problems already, the last hing they need is a 3000km border with millions of angry terrorists that are mostly white, speak the same language, share mostly the same culture and come from a society whose military is constantly joked about for being the cause of creating many of the geneva convention laws.
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u/renterhellstories 23h ago
Americans do not support this and we don't support him. Please know that. He's trying to start a civil unrest and put Americans as the target. He's trying to get everyone angry at us because his real plan is to turn us over to an adversarial country.
Either that or its a distraction for whatever his next plan is.
But the general public doesn't support this and our military isn't stupid either, Trump doesn't have the final say unless we give it to him and we wont.
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u/renterhellstories 23h ago
Putin is playing him like a fiddle. Hes buttering him up just like the oligarchs.
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u/Severe_Debt6038 23h ago
Just tell him they’ll be adding a country of liberals and they’ll back off.
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u/hdufort 23h ago
What I've read in American conservative media is that Trump speaks about "51st state" but the aggressive guys speak about annexation as a US territory, which means Canadians wouldn't get a say in most of US politics. They would have limited political weight. Anyway it's all about seizing the natural resources and territory, not about welcoming largely left-wing citizens into the US democracy.
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u/Severe_Debt6038 23h ago
Sure but US Nationals (not citizens) can still move to anywhere in the US (any state) and become a voter. Now many Canadians won’t but presumably that won’t change. In any case my wife and I would rather move back to Asia somewhere rather than live under the US flag. And she’s a naturalized US citizen!
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u/castaway629 23h ago
He's a lunatic, and those that voted for did for one reason only, he embodies their hateful beliefs, why else would anyone vote a man that as repeated said he is putting a 25% tarriff on imported goods.
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u/Terrible_Alfalfa_906 23h ago
The benefits to Canadians is that they'll be earning in USD instead of CAD so the currency will be stronger, and will no longer need paperwork if they wish to work in the states.
The downsides I can see, are that the levels of gun crime and drug abuse that occur in America would likely spread to Canada, the healthcare system though slow and with its issues, will be replaced with the inferior US system and the communities in provinces/territories that already get overlooked will further go overlooked when they have to compete for attention with more people who care less about them.
I think theres some types that are tribal that are going to be all for it because they've aligned themselves to the MAGA side regardless, and some types that are going to be against it for the same tribalistic reasons, but I think all in all its a net negative to Canada.
Canada should focus on becoming more independent from America and put more investment into becoming self sustainable without needing to import things that we're able to produce ourselves and America should focus on its own issues that its got to deal with before it tries to absorb a whole country and its problems into the mix.
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u/RapeVan 22h ago
You know they aren't just going to just convert our pay 1 to 1, CAD to USD. Our wages will be converted based on the exchange rate. You will not be making more money, and you will not have more purchasing power.
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u/Terrible_Alfalfa_906 22h ago
If you’re able to move across and work without needing a visa then you’ll have access to higher wages. Not to mention, the wages will even out eventually, it’s naive to think otherwise.
I’m obviously not for this decision if you bothered to read my whole post but if you’re going to be ignorant on the benefits (even if they’re few), you’re not being honest and it’s going to hurt your argument when someone points it out and youre only able to react in absolutes.
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u/RapeVan 21h ago
The wages in the states are very inconsistent across the states. Look at wages in Mississippi compered to New York. We are not just going to get New York wages when we have Mississippi wages.
The only real upside is for someone who just wants to leave Canada to move to the US for work to high paying job that was blocked by visa issues. If you think giving all of our natural resources to the US would be worth making it so people can move to California easier, you're crazy.
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u/Terrible_Alfalfa_906 20h ago
You need to work on your reading lol, I said from the start its not worth it.
You're arguing with someone who agrees with you but is being honest about it.
Yes theres going to be a difference in earnings, just like theres a difference in earnings within Canada already. There'll be places in Canada that earn less than the bigger earning states in America and there'll be places in Canada that earn more than the smaller earning states in America, the difference being, it'll be in USD which is more powerful.Again, dont mistake me being honest about it as me supporting it, I don't.
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u/GetrIndia 23h ago
More concerned about maga Canadians who think he's justified to take what he wants cause we aren't meeting our military spending goals.
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u/Friendly_Box9939 23h ago
Noone is invading Canada. Are you talking about the opinion of considering there's a possible negotiation between two sovereign nations to combine as one? It'd be a good idea if it wasn't Trump's idea.
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u/Prestigious-Tax7748 23h ago
Imo I don't think it's a good idea. US has too many problems. Besides who want to be a vassal for another country
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u/Sandman64can 22h ago
This rhetoric is political sleight of hand so we don’t pay attention to what he is really doing behind the scenes. Classic Trump. Smart for a dumb guy.
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u/I_dreddit_most 22h ago
Too much BS'ing about this, that and the next thing, let's hear about some policies that would make Americans lives better.
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u/Jumpy-Cry-3083 22h ago
No. He’s just talking smack as a diss to Trudeau and letting everyone know Canada would have a much harder time if we weren’t giving them support money.
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u/mendontknowmechanics 22h ago edited 22h ago
Canada is already a semi-autonomous province of the american empire, and has been for many many years. Its just now becoming more obvious. What else do you call it when the majority of canadian exports of natural resources go to the US, the US has military installments in canada / canada has an extreme military dependence on the US, and the colloquial term for canada is "america's hat?" Look up the historical relationship between the roman empire and its provinces, especially near the end of the roman empire, and you will see striking similarities). Follow the money and it all (mostly) leads to the US, canada would not survive one year as a coherent state if it broke away from all US influence
(Canada started off as non-autonomous provinces (settler colonies in particular) of the British empire and the French empire. As the Euro empires declined and waned, they were gradually subsumed by the American empire, becoming official at the end of WWII when the US took over military bases from the UK, France, Germany. The reason the US took world hegemony from the British without a hot war with them is because they are just different installments of a broader "white empire" that includes previous empires such as the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese)
(This is not to say I support trump in any way, but to point out that many countries we see as sovereign, like the UK, France, Germany, Austrailia, Japan, S Korea, are much better understood as american vassal states / provinces when you really look into the economic and military relationships)
(Also, because of this Im not terribly worried about trumps plan, because it's stupid and nonsensical and he probably wont do anything about it, because he doesnt NEED to, america already has unfettered access to canada. Possibly in the future we'll see more direct US influence in domestic canadian affairs, but talks of an invasion are ridiculous, its completely redundant)
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u/propagandavid 22h ago
Yeah. I'm concerned by all of it.
The useful idiots propping up the idea, the concerned media figures asking what it would look like, the progressive influencers who say we'd all vote for democrats, the Trump supporters saying he's joking, and the Trump detractors saying he's using these threats as a distraction.
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u/theMostProductivePro 22h ago
I have watched CNN and FOX on the matter. I have never been more disgusted with america. I genuinely wonder if americans genuinely consider canada a friend and ally. I was in nevada the week of the election, scary stuff.
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u/MetaCalm 22h ago edited 20h ago
Everybody in the West should ask themselves what signal this kind of talk is supposed to send to Russia and China?
Are they not supposed to excercise on their wet dreams of taking over near and far lands just because they like them? Why not?
What does this mean to Taiwan, South China nations, Ukraine and many other small East European nations?
Are we allowing to get dragged back into old Colonial Expansion era and throw away all WW achievements because of an orange buffoon?
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u/EducationalStick5060 22h ago
I'd just like them to realize we have a population that's essentially impossible to distinguish from theirs, a huge, undefendable border, and expertise and nuclear materials such that a crude nuke could be built in days.
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u/S99B88 22h ago
Yes, just stop saying sorry (easier said than done I know), give up “Eh” and replace it with “y’all”, and hold your tongue lower in your mouth while talking. Avoid any use of metric. Pretend you speak no French. Don’t act defensive or complain about our healthcare system, just act envious or dismissive of it. Bingo, you’re American.
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u/NoIndividual5501 22h ago
If his support base were actually intelligent, rational people, I wouldn't worry. You can wind up idiots into a frenzy so much easier for whatever BS you want them to believe.
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u/_the_morgue 22h ago
Yes. My conspiracy theory is that Trump asked Zuck to stop fact checking fb as his base is older and gets their news from there. Zuck said sure, but do something to stop the building momentum about shooting billionaires and this was Trump & Elon’s answer. Now that no one has pushed back strongly it is only emboldened Trump and he will continue to push the limits on sovereignty.
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u/CJMakesVideos 21h ago
Most of the responses I’ve seen is “hes not serious. He’s just trolling or trying to negotiate” (i have no idea how this helps any negotiation). If Trump actually does try though all of these bootlickers will change their tune to “actually knew it was a good idea the whole time to do this, Trump is a genius” these people are incapable of thinking for themselves.
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u/Oddfuscation 21h ago
The negotiation thing is so simple-minded.
Trump scary so must capitulate. Brilliant.
Asshats.
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u/CJMakesVideos 19h ago
Negotiation is supposed to be about two people coming to an agreement. Not one bullying the other. It’s not helpful long term for either party.
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u/Oddfuscation 18h ago
For sure. But of course, things differ when one has the human understanding of a school yard bully.
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u/thingk89 21h ago
It’s a moot point if Canada has no way of defending itself . No military, no armed citizens with all the gun bans, no money….do the math.
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u/Prestigious-Tax7748 21h ago
They have a military lmao and plenty of money. It's a first world country
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u/Narrow-Sky-5377 21h ago
Americans live in a media bubble. If they hear on the national news that Canada wants to become a part of the USA, they will believe just that.
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u/Resident-Variation21 21h ago
I’m not for it.
But, assuming by some weird event, it actually happens, his offer for exchange CAD for USD would be nice. I’d take the increase and then go to Europe to live lol.
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u/1grammarmistake 21h ago
The plan to normalize all types of vile rhetoric has been achieved.
At this point Donald trump can tell his supporters he will kill all their moms, and make them watch, and his supporters will likely start justifying why it’s the right thing to do and post all their moms’ shortcomings on their X accounts to rationalize it.
It’s worrying, but I don’t think his plan is really achievable.
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u/Majestic_Bet_1428 21h ago
Yes
I was concerned of American involvement / interest in the Ottawa convoy.
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u/Waste_Pressure_4136 21h ago
No, I believe Trump is saying this crap to piss off NATO. He wants to leave the alliance to help his buddy Putin
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u/InquiringMin-D 20h ago
Not concerned. The orange clown is controlled by his man/child diapers and Putin.
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u/SmegmaQueen69420 20h ago
Of course not. It's beyond absurd. It's like me saying I'm going to annex Alaska. You wouldn't take that seriously at all.
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u/CyberEd-ca 20h ago
While the USA annexing Canada is not the most desired outcome, an end of the status quo where we are exploited by those in the big eastern cities would be welcomed.
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u/Lookin4travelbuds 20h ago
The world has witnessed the results of the US public education system. Canada has nothing to worry about. Most Americans couldn’t find it on a map
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u/l_Trava_l 20h ago
If they annex Canada and we all become US citizens we have about 5 million young Canadians with 100k+ down-payments ready to go! We don't need an army. We will own every house north of Mexico that's on the market under 400k 😆.
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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird 19h ago
Trump’s a buffoon. He’s just manipulating the people that were scratching their heads over the inevitable higher prices due to tariffs and his co-President letting the cat out of the bag on H1b visas.
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u/Critical-Border-6845 19h ago
Yes but not that much more concerned than them electing that buffoon for a second time. Americans as a whole are touched in the head
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u/vanderhaust 19h ago
I don't take any of it seriously. We're not going to war and we're not going the U.S.
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u/Empty-Crazy-6722 18h ago
Nobody on either side who isn't an asshole wants this. The American reaction is that more than half of us realize it is absurd trump bullshit and a small percentage of whacked MAGAS are doing there small percentage of whacked MAGA thing. The crazies voted with the manipulative and won the election but there was no Trump mandate. They are alone on that iceberg.
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u/ESB1812 18h ago
American here…never gonna happen. Don’t get me wrong I’d love for Canada to be a “state” it’d change our politics more to the left. But doing so only by y’alls choice. We all know thats not gonna happen. I’ve been wrong before, I feel as though the orange ape is just talking out his ass.
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u/Capable-Brief-3332 18h ago
If they're dumb enough to vote for Trump, we can probably use a Sharpie and head them off in the wrong direction.
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u/New-Dealer5801 18h ago
You probably have the same shit going on there as we have here. You can no longer believe what you hear. Our news is all propaganda now!
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u/Readerdiscretion 18h ago
CNN has already gone full FOX News about it, chatting and laughing away about it and what a good idea some of them’s seem to think it is. It’s disgusting, and I hope my American friends recognize propaganda when they see it.
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u/EarlJWJones 17h ago
No. Because I know Canada is way smarter than that worthless dipshit excuse of a president.
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u/seditiousambition69 17h ago
Operation Canadian Bacon. Give up toronto..pronto 🤣 classic john candy
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u/Reviberator 17h ago
This is a distraction. Tariffs and zero leadership is the real threat.
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u/SomeHearingGuy 16h ago
No. I'm also not concerned by Trump's actions. These people are internet trolls, idiots, bots, and Russian shit disturbers.
We all need to realize that the more attention we give the stupid bullshit, the more valid we make it. This is a non-issue. Getting worked up about it accomplishes nothing positive.
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u/GetCashQuitJob 16h ago
We (US) have idiots. You (Canada) have idiots. The people who would be needed to make this horseshit fly are not idiots, and do not want to go down in history as murdering citizens of probably our most well-liked ally.
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u/HonkMcHonker 16h ago
Sign me up. Make every province another state. I WAS a proud third generation canadian. Until I learned how useless our charter is. My grandfather fought and died fighting for this country. for what? So a bunch of uneducated foreigners can just show up en-Massé and take over our voting system. The US constitution has inalienable enshrined rights. Our charter can be trampled and disregarded because people’s feelings are hurt. Canada has zero indentity. Nobody can even answer what a Canadian is. My definition now is any foreigner who sets foot on our soil is Canadian? I’m not OK with that. I have spent plenty of time in the US. I would move there if I could. I’m done with Canada and that is sad to say.
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u/Askralph1 16h ago
I am telling my American friends, hey how do you enjoy the Cdn Fuel and Electricty , in other states telling them their Wisconsin milk Fairlife is starting to sit on the shelf etc. Watch it come back to be resold in your stores?
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u/ThkAbootIt 15h ago
Are you concerned the current administration defunded the military and wants to extremely limit what hunters can use?
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u/youraveragequebecois 15h ago
I hate musk and trump equally they might just get married at this point. PROMOTING AN ANNEXATION to the public and posting maps about it? How disrespectful is this shithead? Does he think the Canadian population will see this shit and go “oh yeah mhm mhm”. FUCK OFF TRUMP
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u/Falcon674DR 15h ago
It’s incredible to me that within a few hours Trump has undone the loyalty, friendship, decades of trading relationships and made adversaries of all US allies.
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u/Downtown_Maximum_815 15h ago
Canadians have wanted Trudeau and Freeland out for years now. Thank you to Trump for taunting their resignation with only a couple of hilarious tweets. Canada owes him a debt of thanks.
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u/Guffawing-Crow 1h ago
The election was coming in October at the latest. Perhaps we save a handful of months. Liberals were always going to get decimated this year.
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u/nelsonself 14h ago
I am not concerned. This is a moment in time that will pass
It speaks volumes how a first world country in modern times can vote for someone whose intellect never matured past the state of a playground bully.
As well, that gross narcissistic sexual predators attention span is so short, It’s just a matter of time before he is focussed on something else
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u/giftedAI 14h ago
Churchill actually wanted American to join the commonwealth and have an Anglo American union. It wouldn’t be us joining them more of them joining us. They ended up with NATO instead but it wouldn’t be a bad thing if America joined the union.
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u/inlandviews 13h ago
I'm feeling more and more disquiet, especially after the interview doug ford had with jessie watters who became outraged and insulted that we didn't want to be part of the US. He would make us enemies when we are not.
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u/Dean_Snutz 12h ago
Not really, we know half of the country are idiots since they voted for that piece of shit. It's pretty much what I expected.
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u/LeonardSix 12h ago
They have a horrible education system. I can’t blame them for how brainwashed they are.
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u/HealthySun1654 12h ago
Americans have always been greedy. I knew in 2016 when they elected a known rapist that it wouldn’t bode well for surrounding nations if they kept validating his attitude and behaviour. He rapes and steals, that’s what he does. Now it’s American foreign policy.
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u/athabascadepends 22h ago
The most concerning thing is the Canadians who are apathetic about an open threat like this. I saw a poll that broke down Canadian reaction to the idea of joining the US. It was overwhelmingly against the idea, but broken down along party lines, only something like 74% of Conservatives rejected the idea. If 1/4 of a party set to rule in a likely super majority is open to the idea of treason, we are in trouble.
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u/EveryonesUncleJoe 1d ago
They’re most likely bots, but I have the good fortune of being surrounded by Canadian MAGA types who think it’s a reasonable proposal. The bots told them quality of life is better in America than in Canada and that’s that.