Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state
Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state
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“In fact, we don’t want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state.”
Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution:
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Trying to remove any and all trade barriers in order to prevent trade.
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If he lands in Canada I hope someone kills him.
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Yes thank you for reminding everybody who knows the truth that you're an actual jackass. Everyone else is deluding themselves, it's driving us crazy.
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The irony is that America is more likely to split up into at least two and probably more countries before any territory a added to the existing boundaries. I give America les than three decades before it splits up.
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Blessed day, Commander
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President Trump in an interview published Friday was adamant that he is serious about his talk of adding Canada as the 51st state
It seriously ticks me off how news organizations are referring to trumps actions.
It's always cutesy, nice, polite.
Trump doesn't want to "add" Canada, he wants to annex it, invade if necessary. This is a hostile dictator talking about destroying our country and I think we should choose words that describe a little better what the fucker is trying to do
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We should but this is a US outlet so... They can't be biting the hand that feeds.
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That's what a free media is supposed to do!
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Even annex is too soft
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I've used the word "conquer" for this, but even then that makes it feel kind of like a board game.
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Yes, please continue to unite Canadians against the conservatives before the election
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I really hope that's what this is doing, but honestly I can't tell at this point. Some people are so disconnected from reality they either don't see this news, don't care, or maybe even like it. I have a coworker that called Trump's clown parade of a government "strong" and just yesterday commented on the voter turnout that "I guess people are really fed up with the liberals".
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A lot of conservatives i know think trump is right and that Canada is being subsidized by the US. One has even started to claim he will move to the first province that joins the US
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I didn't know I had this many walking amongst me. Of the ones I've spoken with they seem to share these values:
They seem to hate that Ontario is forcing "gays" on kids at such a young age. I'm assuming my friend meant teaching about accepting people from different backgrounds, as I don't think sex education applied to the age range he was referring.
They think they're being taxed too highly (that's fine).
They think US Healthcare woes are exaggerated. One said that you don't really pay that fee, it's a different fee and it's not that much. Another said: I don't go to the hospital that often.
They think life will be better in the States with all the untaxed dollars they'll have.
(I will reiterate that these are just the ones that I've spoken with) I'm just wondering why they don't just move there. If you hate being Canadian so much start the process of emigration ...
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So... by joining the us... they think that will stop subsidizing the US? Have they not seen what california already does for half of the country?
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There’s a great scene in a movie with Joe Pesci and a baseball bat.
I fantasize about Trumps fascist face being on the receiving end.
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Canadians would teach the United States the meaning of insurgency.
Given how impotent the US was in the face of resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, how would they be able to cope with an insurgency where all the enemy combatants can blend in and walk among them?
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American: "Hello there!"
Other "American": "Hi! How are you?"
American: "Great, and yourself?"
Other "American": "Good! Great weather we're having, eh?"
American: "What?"
Other "American": "What?"
American: eyes the other "American" suspiciously
Other "American": "Aw shit, my cover is blown." Stabs American
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If it come to blows all Canadians are going to need to forget their EhBC's.
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And, best of all, walk among them in the continental United States. A vast, sprawling country of crumbling infrastructure just waiting for a saboteur's gentle nudge, awash in easily-accessible guns, and demonstrably populated by sheep who can be panicked into decades of self-destruction by a couple of buildings getting knocked down. Who haven't experienced war anywhere except as entertainment on their TV screens in centuries.
Here's hoping that even Trump's idiocy has a limit before it comes to that.
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The Canadians would also find no shortage of Americans willing to help them, as well.
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Exactly.
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He's traveling outside the states for the pope's funeral. I wish the Vatican would arrest him for crimes against humanity.
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Shoot him more like
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The same way France was a province of Germany? #occupationBloodbath
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We don't need anything from the Untied States. I encourage everyone to continue to avoid buying products made in the USA.
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“In fact, we don’t want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state.”
So he DOES need things from us. If he didn't need us he'd just walk away and not trade with us. But why would he he want us as a state if we didn't have something he wanted?
He DOES need us, our workers, and our resources but he doesn't like that we're our own sovereign nation. He needs us but he wants us enslaved and controlled.
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As an ABC voter, I'd like to thank Donnie for the help in during this crucial time of the election campaign. 🍁💪
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ABC Vancouver?
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Everything he says is a lie/confession.
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Schrödinger's Truth
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Trump insists that Canada needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs it
Sounds like a bad ex-relationship
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We have a lower average wage than the poorest state, and house prices that rival the US most expensive cities. Trump might be right when he says we cant govern ourselves, at least when people keep voting for the same cabinet that got us here, there might be something in the water at this point that requires urgent investigation.
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We have a lower average wage than the poorest state,
Wow. Even a cursory Internet search could show that this is wholly and absolutely incorrect.
The lowest Canadian minimum wage is $15/hr, in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The lowest wage is tied between Georgia and Wyoming at $5.15/hr.
The exchange rate means that $5.15 USD = $7.13 CAD/hr. That’s less than half of what PEI minimum wage is. And for the record, even if I were to work at minimum wage, I would enjoy $17.85/hr, out here in BC. That’s 2.5× more!!
And even when we look at averages, the state with the lowest average wage in America is Mississippi, with an average annual wage of $37,500/yr.
When we look at Canada, the province with the lowest average wage in Canada is Prince Edward Island, with an average wage of $56,887/yr.
Again, the exchange rate makes Mississippi’s average wage around $51,952 CAD/yr. That’s 90% of what the average PEI wage is.
Your conservative “alternative facts” are nothing but bullshit.
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US programming for war on Russia and China, amplified by all Canadian media/parties has been very successful. The US's promised destruction of Canada has very little pushback from Americans. The Canadian political consensus of closer ties to Europe only works if Europe(+Canada) has closer ties with China. Otherwise, Europe will choose to suck up to US's larger market instead of Canada, and in colonial sycophancy olympics, promising the US to help screw Canada over is path to get tariff exemptions. Europeans have same CIA programming that we do. A completely mental self destructive attitude towards Russia.
As Canadians, we have the exclusive choice of protecting our sovereignty and prosperity or remaining programmed into US empire's warmongering enemy manufacturing.
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Sorry bud but Canada shouldn't swap out one dictator for another, and hopefully intelligence will prevail this election.
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this is off-topic, but i have to bring it up somewhere because it's been on my mind... i haven't seen any discussion about what he intends to do about quebec (i'm sure there is discourse happening in french-speaking parts of the internet). but, like, french is our second language, and quebec is very serious about maintaining their cultural heritage.
if canada, theoretically, were to become a state does that mean he gets to erase french-canadian culture? or does french become a second language of the US?
he obviously hasn't thought about this, because nothing he says or does is backed by any reasoning. but i just wonder wtf he thinks quebec is, and whether he cares about the culture there being kept
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How Putin of him!
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