Lebensraum.

Canada is useless therefore I want it - Trump

You have infinite Energy? enough wood?

Pay your workers! let people have houses!

let them take breaks, give them affordances!

let people have houses

Have you seen the house prices in vancouver?
- Have you seen Trudeau claiming Canada has unlimited energy?

far better military protection

From whom? Polar bears? Santa Claus?

Yeah fuck Trump, but also please take a geography lesson.
Emus naturally. They already won the war against Australia
"Nice country you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it" -Trump probably

forces tariff

"Cmon guys, I can liberate you from these darn tariffs"

FYI he is probably using the word subsidy when he really means the phrase 'trade deficit' which is less than $100b actually.

But he's an idiot buffoon with no business leading out on the economics of a small village not to mention the largest economy in the world.

Largest economy... for now
Money can be used to pay for goods and services 😳

.....is this a real thing...? Was this actually officially posted...?

I genuinely can't tell anymore.

Everything hurts.

I had to scroll through a lot of bullshit to find it, but it is real https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113934520197790682
- If we don’t want anything Canada has, why want them as a state? Why tariff their useless goods?
  
  So fucking stupid.
- ok thank you
  
  I appreciate your effort
I had the same thought... What the fuck bro this is insane
Musk has also gone full on tin foil hat, accusing USAID of funding Bioweapons and Terrorism.

losing healthcare surely is worth all that !

Not to mention they actually pay the same amount in taxes. At least until higher incomes.

If you have unlimited oil (?) why are you getting so salty about having to buy it from Canada ?

Exactly... just cut off the pipelines. That'll will surely make the liberals cry.

Bold words coming from the prime minister of New South Saskatchewan

You mean the gobernador of New Old New Mexico?
I would love it. Don't let us vote though, just bring us that healthcare and stuff.

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGPfdW7OSY4 First place I ever heard that quote is here
My bestie had this poster on her door when I was a kid. Indelible impression left.
im14andthisisdeep
- Weird. This is the reaction I'd expect for a toddler, not a 14 year old.
  
  Huh.
- You'd like to think so. But a shocking number of grown ass adults won't get it.

Do you want Canada to pivot to China? Because that's how you get Canada to pivot towards China... I think.

I'm just a dumb tropical dweller from the deep south, so I will not pretend to understand Canuck politics or the whims of their people, but history shows that even liberal, democratic nations sometimes turn to tyranical regimes for protection against bigger threats. See Finland during WW2.

Something, something, enemy of my enemy...

Canada is delaying the bulk of their retaliatory tariffs for 3 weeks specifically to give Canadian companies to find alternative sources.

Canada's population is roughly 1/10 of the US. I also suspect that a decent portion of the deficit is due to things like Caterpillar manufacturing tractor tracks in Canada and improving to the US for assembly.

Canada will find alternatives or live without most things imported from the US and will likely not go back if the tariffs would be lifted.

No one wins a trade way, but I think Canada could be in a better position in the end. And it won't be because they become a state.
- The US soy farmers still haven't gotten all their customers back from Trumps last trade war. Once we find a new supplier, why go back to such an untrustworthy one as the US?
  
  iirc the US only has a deficit because they buy so much of our crude at a SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT, hence the only 10% tariff on crude.
  
  I am just glad we have an adult at the helm here, for the time being.
Do you want Canada to pivot to China?

President Xi, our people yearn for freedom.
As far as I've watched across the world, when China gets angry or antsy they shoot down a canadian Fighterjet or two and then everything is "alright" again.

Because they cant really provoke the big, fat second-grader, so they bully the teeny-weeny 3rd grader to the north.

Following that, Canada would do hell before joining hands with the Chinese of all...

Is Canada supposed to be afraid of a country that couldn't defeat Vietnamese rice farmers and Afghan goatherders?

I think this is less a question of Canada being afraid of America and more a question of the US/Canadian working class being terrified of a bunch of hotheads feeding the rest of us into a military meatgrinder to assuage their bloated egos.

To paraphrase the legendary boxer Mohammad Ali when he refused enlistment to the Vietnam War, "I Ain't Got No Quarrel With Them Canadian Mounted Police".
I mean, the US military absolutely can and will roflstomp traditional governments and heirarchies. Both the Taliban (2001) Saddam's gov't were steamrolled. The followup of holding territory and "winning hearts and minds" is where they fall on their face.

And this threat really seems to be for the Canadian government and 'elite' rather than the people.
- Both the Taliban
  
  You didn't get the memo? The US ran from Afghanistan with it's tail between it's legs, while the Taliban rules there and is now literally untouchable. The US's "steamrolling" isn't as impressive as you believe it to be.
  
  “winning hearts and minds”
  
  The US can't even win "hearts & minds" in Bumfucksville, Arizona any more.
- Yep. The US sure starts with a great big hard-on. But always always gets limp and cannot finish.

Just claim random insane bullshit that be easily disproven by a 5 year old, and don't worry about it because the conspiracy theory and maga idiots will eat it up. You're always right, remember?

Fuck it. Close the borders. We good.

Let the queer folks come over first plz, we promise to be good Canadians.
- Of fucking course!! If you can get to Ontario and need help getting settled/staying here please DM me. All queer folx are welcome at my house and in my country!!
- Canada has always been refuge / safe haven for America's downtrodden, starting with African victims of their transatlantic slave trade.
  
  The Fugitive Slave Acts, passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850, mandated the capture and return of escaped enslaved people to their owners, even in free states. The 1850 law was particularly harsh, denying accused fugitives the right to testify or have jury trials. Federal marshals faced $1,000 fines for non-enforcement, while anyone helping escapees faced six months imprisonment and fines. The law prompted fierce Northern opposition and drove approximately 15,000 free Blacks to flee to Canada.

Let's all become vassal states of Orange land.

... Oh wait, yeah, hard pass.

I'm pretty sure that Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to the Netherlands.
- As a Canadian, we should strongly consider Dutch unification.
  
  Schengen zone membership and EU passports yes please.
- Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to most of the world. Right now the US and Israel are among those countries that most Canadians probably would like to move away from.
- During WW2 Canada sheltered the Dutch royal family and declared the hospital where princess Margriet was born to be Dutch soil. We could just declare the whole rest of country to be Dutch...
- Yes, 't Kikkerland can always do with more friends and allies, but technically 't Huis van Oranje became extinct several centuries ago 😇
  
  As for the Orange in charge at Canada's southern border, not so much.
Western countries are already vassals of the US.

Anschluss (2025 American edition)

I was thinking more August 1939 Poland.
- Yeah. The Anschluss-Thing is a little bit more complicated than just "Germany annexed another country because it wanted to".
  
  The German unification was just ~60 years beforehand and during this time it was a real possibility (or at least it was widely discussed) that all german speaking territories would join the newly formed nation, including the german speaking part of Austria-Hungary. The idea was again discussed after the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918. So the idea was still in the heads of the people.
  
  Additionally Austria had a strong pro-nazi movement, so a large part of the country just accepted the new leadership.
  
  In present day Canada there is no strong movement to join the US. There is a huge cultural divide. The last time the idea, that Canada should join the US, was seriously discussed over a hundred years ago. The last time the border moved was in 1908. So for basically everyone alive, the US-Canada-Border is just a fact of life.
Anchovious

How stupid can one single person be? And he is considered a valid person to be a president?

I've played enough Civilization to know that Aluminum is pretty important.

Good guy Trump just wants to rebalance the Senate in favor of Democrats

Britain looking at the US going all rampant colonial again: "There's my boy".

less like "Lebensraum" and more like an attempts at "Anschluss"

I think the orange Cheerios still does not understand tariffs. Right now Canada isn't paying any tariffs on imports, the people in the US n the other hand are paying tariffs on Mexican, Canadian, Colombian, Chinese .... products.

More like he knows his base doesn't understand tariffs, and when they make things worse they'll believe it when he blames somebody else

that's just opening the border with extra steps

I think old Orangie wants to be your king, since the Queen is dead now. Just lie tell him," yeah we are the 51 state like Puerto Rico and your like the king." Bingo tariff problem solved. He will sit in his shit filled diaper happily ever after...

Jesus jumped-up-fiddling Christ what a fucking downgrade that would be. In literally every regard.