Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Absolutely unhinged. Nobody would have believed this “tweet” even 1 year ago, and now this is the new normal

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1 year ago? How about 5 years ago?

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly, even then. 45 was always unhinged but 47 has really lowered the bar more than was ever thought possible.

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean if he was unhinged but was making your lifes better I would understand but the guy doesn’t even care and it’s making your lifes worst. I’m I crazy to think that american are crazy to vote for him, or is he making your lifes better in any way?

    Not a critic, just really want to understand

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He is making the lives of minorities worse

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    • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      TRUMP is the GREATEST GODKING EVER because he will FINALLY GET RID OF the damn WOKEDEIDRAGILLEGALSQUEENIMMIGRANTS that sleepy joeBUSSED into our great country🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 GOD BLESS AMERICA AMEN

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    • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, a large swathe of Americans are just that stupid/insane/brainwashed

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    • void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a combination of very stupid/uninformed voters, and hardcore fascist voters who don’t care how bad their own lives get, as long as immigrants and trans people get gassed. A lot of people think the latter group is a minority, but I actually think it’s the other way around. I think most people who voted for Trump are just fascists and the uninformed are maybe 20% max.

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• BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s like he’s campaigning for the liberals. Almost no one in Canada wants to hear this and I bet they will vote against whatever they see as aligned with this.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This stuff is first and foremost meant for the eyes of his supporters

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    • CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly. He’s normalizing the idea of the violent annexation of Canada to his supporters.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But honestly they seem to think it is fucking meaningless. They’re more forgiving about it, but they’re still out there calling it asinine.

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• thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s like a truck carrying punctuation got into an accident with a train carrying words. This is so hard to read.

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amazing

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like this way more.

      Awwww man! I accidentally squeezed the box while inserting the straw and now it looks like I peed!

      Also, I peed.

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  • NotBillMurray@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t often run across a piece of pure poetry in the wild. Well said!

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lmao that’s genuinely the best summary of his writing style that I think I’ve ever seen

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for that.

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• shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I encourage Canadian conservative voters to write in Trump’s name on their ballot

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  • CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LOL some smooth brains no doubt will. Will be counted as spoiled ballots.

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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the States we encourage our conservatives to write in Jesus Christ for President.

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• edg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man, the dumbest thing about this nonsense is repeating that Canada will only be one state. It’s already broken into provinces, dickhead, at least make a better offer than two senators.

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  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    #1 Ontario being the population of Pennsylvania

    #9 New foundland being the population of Wyoming

    #10 Prince Edward Island only has 150k, could lump in 150k from northern territories

    20 senators for 40m, 5.0E-7 senators per person

    200 senators for 340m, 5.88E-7 senators per person

    It seems pretty fair

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    • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d love to have the Canadian conservatives in the USA. It would hopefully calm down the magat zombies we have in office.

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  • Gtownjim@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck that it will not and should not happen .so fuck off even thinking about it

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  • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s be honest here it’s going to be just a territory for quite a while.

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Elect someone who isn’t even running, a very likely outcome

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Poilievre alrady said he wants to align more with Trump’s America. He’ll absolutely sell us out.

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• Microw@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trump: “NO BORDER!”

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And America will pay for it!

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They would. Just not in the way they’d prefer.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is it with Trump and always “being subsidized by us” and “take away from us” while the US has trillions of debt in other countries? 300 billions to my home country alone, which doesn’t even compare to other countries.

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  • Alaknar@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He doesn’t understand what “trade deficit” means.

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    • RaccoonBall@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He trusts that his followers don’t, anyway. Based on some arguments I’ve seen online, he’s right about that.

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  • AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He is incapable of understanding mutual trade and cooperation. To him every human interaction must have a winner and a loser. So if Canada is benefiting from trade with the US in his mind it must be at America’s expense. It’s a disturbingly simple view of trade and cooperation, and one that makes actual good faith discourse with the US near impossible.

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  • ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because Trump is a troll. He doesn’t give a shit if what he says or does is correct. Trying to make sense of the schmuck gives me a headache.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He keeps referring to the disproportionate US export income to import costs. Something like 2 trillion in exports to 3 trillion in imports. 1 trillion lost from the US every year, and ~30% to Canada that’s his math

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck you and die, cheeto

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hypothetically, if canada becomes a state, would they flip our house of representatives blue? I guess more likely they’ll become like puerto rico or guam or something.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Population wise it’s like adding another California

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    • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But I thought we were pretending to care about states, not individual voters.

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  • AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess more likely they’ll become like puerto rico or guam or something.

    This is what you need to keep foremost in your mind. There is no conceivable reality in which the US conquers (yes conquers, they can call it annexation all they want but at the end of the day Trump wants a conquest to his name) Canada and gives any semblance of voting or personal rights to Canadians. Hell, even if Canada was somehow persuaded into voluntarily joining the US, this regime would never, ever honour any kind of arrangement that gave Canadians a fair deal. They are fascist bullies, as close to actual evil as we’ve seen in North America in a very long time, and they have no interest in any sort of fair bargain.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’d annex the land, and then deport all the Canadian foreigners that illegally immigrated in the US.

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  • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think they are getting statehood right away

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• Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He sounds exactly how Kanye would ramble and its fucking scary <~<;

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  • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Am I correct in the assessment that his recent antics are because being a nazi no longermakes him special?

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• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  America has not been subsidizing Canada. Canada has been subsidizing the US.

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  • CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s correct. I want an immediate end to Canada selling discounted oil, gas and hydroelectricity to the US.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t forget Lumber too

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    About every country forced to hoard USD for business purposes subsidises the US.

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• CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ![](lemmy.ca/…/33162e46-a86c-4513-8ff6-41d4bdabeff3.

  Will. Never. Happen.

  Canadians will literally die before living for a milisecond as Americans.

  And - this is a declaration of war by the US president. Cause it would take a military invasion to violently turn Canadians into Americans.

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  • Oaksey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It has long been the case, that if you confuse a Canadian for an American they are offended, but if you confuse an American for a Canadian they don’t mind.

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    okay, but, can I become a canadian? Because I would really love to be anything other than American right now.

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    • CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the US invades, breaches our borders etc you can defintely help us from within.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Astonishing it’s not satire

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m still trying to figure out how everything in the last 15ish years isn’t. Why do we have to be in the dumbest timeline.

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    • blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.

      There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.

      So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.

      As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.

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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still can’t tell what’s real or not, lol

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• CptOblivius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like how he wants Canada as one state. Keeping the Provinces split would push the Senate to the left for quite some time.

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  • Sybilvane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only if you assume elections will keep happening.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They likely will, in a similar fashion to how NK , or russia, or China does it

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately if Canada got 20 senators they still wouldn’t have a 60% supermajority to remove Trump, undo citizens united, or enact public option healthcare with. It would be 47+20 = 67 and out of 120 that is 55.83%

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• SirMaple__@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is he that dumb or does he just want the other guy to win? I’m pretty sure even he knows that this bullshit is why the other guy now has a chance.

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• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “increase your military power for free”… what’s the portion of the federal budget that is allocated to defense again ?

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• WrenFeathers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is the distraction you’re meant to be paying attention to- watch his other hand, that’s where the damage is going to come from.

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would not ordinarily recommend Hitler’s tactics and strategies as a general rule, but he sure knew how to solve the Hitler problem, at the very end. Donny, maybe look into that.

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• CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Conservatives still claim hes joking about the 51st state of Canada.

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• wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aged like milk…

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FYI, this is unpopular among Canadian voters. Conservative underdog, tries to deny being a lapdog, or supporting the idea, but this unfiltered BS doesn’t help him. It’s just a sign that Trump is completely out of control surrounded only by people who must restrain themselves on pushback to only far stupider things he might say.

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• LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, you have a seriuos candidate that wants to surrender to the US?

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• gndagreborn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This fucking moron is INSANE

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• Rolder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if he realizes shit like this is really helping the liberals

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hopefully the expected Liberal victory by wide margin is a sign of what is to come in the USA Midterms.

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• GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hundreds of billions! Of micropennies! Aaaaaaaaah!

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• Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can’t wait for the senate and congress to flip Dem. Nothing will get done. But I’m sure plenty of Trump operatives will be jailed for breaking congressional supers.

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