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Donald Trump reiterated his claim that Canada would be better as the U.S.’s 51st state, citing trade imbalances and lower taxes.

He also announced new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada, despite a recent 30-day reprieve.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has not formally responded, but a government source said they await official confirmation.

Trump criticized Canada’s defense spending and border security, despite recent Canadian commitments.

Canada previously retaliated against similar tariffs in 2018 before a 2019 trade deal resolved the dispute.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I thought conservatives couldn’t afford eggs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

also scruples

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why would Canada join the US, only to be rewarded with a shitty health care system and a low national minimum wage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Elon Musk and the nazi sad boys will just dig up cases, where chain smokers having lung cancer getting treatment, etc. In Hungary, some try to divert the nager created by the constant defunding of healthcare (some of which was done by diverting money into building football stadiums "to encourage children to do sports thus be healthy") to the sick and the disabled...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

At this point I refuse to believe this is real life. We are in a simulation run by shitty AI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This just The Boys season 5.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

needs more eye lasers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

that feeling is called dissociation btw

[–] Adderbox76 22 points 15 hours ago

I unapologetically woke up this morning hoping to read that someone took a successful shot at him during the Superbowl.

Put me on whatever list you wish.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

This man shits worthless click bait out of his mouth daily, why does media fall for it?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

Fall for it? They're grateful he's made their job insanely easy. They used yo have to investigate things and then risk running afoul of the powerful. Now they just have to print whatever the latest outrageous bullshit comes out of Donald's mouth and reap the clicks and ad dollars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

What do you want them to do? Not report on the most powerful man in the world? They need to report this, people need to see it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

What's in it for Canada? Expensive ineffective healthcare? Why would they go for this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Don’t forget the gun violence

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago

Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?

I'm not seeing the upsides for Canada.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Orange Nero is full of bullshit, Canada is not a red run welfare state.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I think he seriously under-estimates how many Americans will side with Canada, with force.

[–] NotSteve_ 9 points 15 hours ago

I can imagine we'd end up with a bigger army than the US if Canadian service guaranteed citizenship

[–] theacharnian 1 points 10 hours ago

Now that's heartening to read.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Live close to the border. If I see Canadian tanks rolling through my town, I'm throwing them flowers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Poppies. They'd love for you to have a fe poppies on hand. They earned those the hardest way possible.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

He also hasn't considered the destruction that 30 million occupied dissidents (from a country known for their prolific war crimes) can unleash on their oppressor.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

How would a whole country be a single state? Wouldn't it become 13 states (or however many provinces/territories Canada has)?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago

No no, that would give too many senators to people who understand the value of universal healthcare. Can’t have that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Giving them more than two senators might lead to a senate that isn't perpetually gridlocked. That makes them dangerously close to being able to pass progressive legislation instead of nothing but mandatory funding bills with 37 pages worth of riders and pork.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Everyone assumes Canada is super liberal country just because of universal healthcare. They forget that Alberta is basically snowy Texas, and the other prairie provinces have more in common with the Midwest than New York.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Isn't Texas snowy Texas? I guess Alberta commonly gets more snow and is more used to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 37 minutes ago

even with that, Alberta is still politically to the left of Texas

[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

This plan leaves out the fact that the majority of Canadians don't want to join. They may have their challenges right now, but there are some things they aren't willing to give up, like nationalized health care and national identity. I suspect many Canadians will fight to the death over this, the same way Americans would fight if forced to join Canada. They are our neighbors and that's about as close as people want to get.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Yup, already had the "flee or stand and die" convo with my partner a few weeks ago. I am firmly willing to risk death to defend the progress we've made as a Province and Nation. We aren't perfect and are early in the process but we're trying to recon with our history of colonial genocide and embrace a truer multiculturalism which the US refuses to even acknowledge. We have made commitments to the health and well-being of all citizens, not just the productive bodies which fuel the markets. It's incomplete but aspirational and walking it back would be a disgrace.

The American democracy is an outdated shambles that has fallen into ruin and I will not be bound by it by choice. There is no freedom or opportunity the USA can offer us. Only more oppression on rights we already have enshrined.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago

If I have to fight for my country and defend it, then I'll happily do so.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago

He doesn’t treat his own states any good why would Canada fare any better

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Hey, uh, if he wants another state…

What about Puerto Rico?

I'd love to hear the excuse against that vs. Greenland and Canada.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago

Theres a reason why he isn't making the same threats against Mexico.

There's a reason he wants to resettle Palestinians before redeveloping Gaza.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What a hell of 4 years that await us...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago

We hope only 4 years

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