Kill him. He only deserves a bullet.
U S perspective here.
I keep remembering that oath our armed forces repeat so much: “… To defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
What in the flippin’ hell do these bastards gotta do to be considered “domestic enemies”‽
Because apparently directly provoking all our neighbors to attack us out of self defense, or allying with friggin’ Putin, along with a million other treasons, aren’t qualifying enough? Who over there is gonna actually protect and defend the Constitution and the People of the United States of America?!
Because dammit we haven’t lived this frickin long, through countless crises and bullshit, just to get shot or bombed by a Canadian we should’ve been sharing pancakes and beer with!!!
FULFILL THAT OATH YOU LIKE TO RECITE SO MUCH. OR COUNTLESS INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE OVER ORANGE CALIGULA’S EGO.
The best option would have been for someone in the military to have put a missile into that golf course the day of the election.
I think you all should start fucking up his favorite golf courses.
Because that’s not how the military works.
And in the end, it isn’t up to them. Trump won the popular vote. Not by much, but he’s in the White House legally and legitimately. Doesn’t matter what his ‘popularity ratings’ are now. We The People put him there, and We The People are the ones responsible for removing him.
Do you really want the military to decide ‘I know the majority of y’all voted for this, but we’ve decided we don’t like that, so we’re overthrowing the government’ for anything?
Fair disclosure: Haven’t watched the video yet, but I’m honestly very appreciative of your counterpoints here. And I agree! A militocracy ain’t good news, either.
And you’re right: Taking him out over “unpopular policy” doesn’t make logical sense under a reasonable society.
I’m also aware that our civil checks and balances that should be putting the brakes on stupid policies are falling apart, because they’ve been carefully staffed by zealots heavily in favor of a single-minded, monolithic ideology.
However, I’m honestly wondering where the line is, that a leader’s blatantly criminal activity can officially brand them “unfit for office” and bear consequences.
Like if he actually tried to just kill someone for no reason in Times Square, as he boasted he could, could anybody stop him? Or is it just “rules for thee, not for me” and we actually have a king now?
Because you know if “We The People” stepped in to stop that, we’d all get gulag’d.
If he decides “lol yeah let’s annex Canada.” Can our forces deny such a stupid order? Even though he is, technically, “their boss”?
Impeachment historically seems like a “strong suggestion” more than a solution.
According to USA.gov:
The presidents impeached by the House were: Andrew Johnson in 1868 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton in 1998 Donald John Trump in 2019 and 2021
Presidents Johnson, Clinton, and Trump remained in office following acquittals by the Senate on all charges.
It sounds like The People can’t really do much but demand that their officials follow through, but even then, it sounds like justice is never actually carried out.
It’s honestly terrifying to think about, and I wish we knew what to do that was actually effective to reverse course on this absolute insanity.
The line is usually ‘where the majority party in Congress thinks it is’. That’s why even though they got impeached, none of those presidents left; look at which party was in charge at the time.
Make no mistake; the Republicans could have him out on his ass and facing criminal charges before you could blink if they wanted to. They don’t want to, because he’s doing exactly what they want him to do. 40-odd percent of Americans also think this is great.
And so, yes, he could shoot someone in Times Square and totally get away with it.
That’s the real problem. Trump and fascism are symptoms, not the cause. If the disease wasn’t there, like it wasn’t with Nixon (or at least, it was just starting to develop then), none of this would be an issue.
Preventing a shit show like this was literally why the second amendment was written
The second amendment was written so that there would be militias, who could act quickly, in spread-out, often frontier locations, in case of foreign incursion, giving the military proper time to respond.
That’s too kind
There’s something very irritating to me about the President using the word “trolling.”
Maybe I’m being a stick in the mud, but the Leader of the Free World using Internet slang just doesn’t seem right to me. It’s petty, I know, but still.
It is not, however, as irritating as people defending the shit he does to throw the global economy and international community into chaos, by saying he’s just trolling.
He learned stuff from Elon. That is worrying.
The term has entered the mainstream lexicon now. It’s not really just Internet slang anymore.
Wait wait, I’ve seen this one before!
I wish Canada would annex the U.S. I want dat universal healthcare 😌
The compromise is adding the proper pronunciation of the letter Z to the kindergarten curriculum, and highschool gets French courses.
“I’ll be aboot time you say zed correctly!”
I’m okay with this. I will make this sacrifice. 😔
They’ll also need to learn to spell the word ‘that’ without using a d
How is election security in Canada? There was fuckery in the last presidential election here, and I don’t doubt they’ll try it in Canada too.
Thanks to Elections Canada it’s actually a lot better than the states. We also get answers sooner. There’s nothing like an American election to make Canadians thankful for Elections Canada.
Yeah, our Elections Canada is quite solid.
The influencing of support for our right-wing party endorsed by Elon Musk/Trump/Jordan Peterson via X, Facebook, and campaign financing is the real issue imo.
Christopher Tidus just did two hour and a half long podcasts with a guest. He never has guests. The guest is a veteran that has teamed up with a data analyst and a computer geek. They have the data. The election was stolen. They used every single method from kicking voters off the eligible elector list, to vote switching, to ballot box stuffing. The election was a sham that shows a clear Russian Tail.
Honestly? I know who Chris Titus is. Never figured he’d not be a Trump supporter. Know nothing about him really, and I guess my impression of him was completely wrong. So…uhmmmmm…cool! Thanks for sharing!
I’m about 10 minutes into the first part. And, yeah, this is really really…idfk…fuck. Thanks. I’m really glad you shared this.
Edit:
The “mildly tangential ranting” on this comment I made yesterday I think is kinda relevant to this…if only tangentially…
I refer to him as a left leaning Dennis Leary. I can understand why you’d think he was right leaning. He’s got the “middle aged white man funny rant” style of comedy down pat.
I remember his network show and stand up specials, always been a fan
Commenting for later viewing.
This guy seems like he might know what he’s talking about but is there a version that isn’t a 3 hour video?
Like an article or something?
https://electiontruthalliance.org/eta
That’s the organization that the guy founded. You can find a fair bit there.
Once again: not “Trump”. It’s “Republican Party” planning and doing all this
Its funny, we use “eh” here in Australia but spell it “A” or “aye”. Wild how a letter can have an accent in text
How did Canada come up with its country name?
C “eh” N “eh” D “eh”
I’ll show myself out
The word means “Come meet the villagers” In native Algonquin tounge.
Not everyone knows that “the Fonz” was Canadian.
Make sure you talk about this stuff and how unacceptable it is in public.
I ain’t going to El Salvador
They really want Fallout to happen.
This didn’t work out well for the US last time.
I’m gonna be brutally honest here: unless it’s possible to reverse climate change impacts, the US was always going to invade and annex Canada. Even if we had a string of only progressive Presidents leading up to that point. The southern half of our country is about to become agriculturally useless and nearly uninhabitable. The only place for the US to go is north.
Hi, you’re not invading us. If you do - everyone dies. Canadians are extremely fucking petty. If we can’t have what belongs to us - no one is getting it. We’ll uranium the waterways, and burn our own power stations. We will burn our earth and torch the sky before Yanks take one square centimetre from us. You will see.
I absolutely support this response. The US shouldn’t be allowed to swing its military might around to extort or absorb its neighbors. That said, it absolutely will and I hope it pays dearly for it.
The US can flatten our cities in 5 mins but there’s a lot more to Canada besides the cities. We would torch it all before letting the fucking Yanks take it.
Many of us are already prepping for this circumstance. Just try…
As an American, just let me know how I can help.
Depose your dictator.
Words are meaningless.
Because the US is inherently a “murder and pillage” kind of nation, right? You’re certainly not saying things couldn’t be worked out in the long run between understanding and humane people, right?
The U.S. IS inherently a “murder and pillage” kind of nation, yes. It’s kind of the only thing we’ve ever done. If you’re from the U.S. (like me) and you keep asking yourself “how did we get here?” Or “what happened to the America of my youth”, then reading a little bit about history could be helpful. Or shit, talk to any Native about what their history, culture, language is, and then follow up with “What happened to them?”.
The United States of America is a failed experiment. It’s time to put it down.
My soul is rock hard after reading your reply. Having said that, I wish those who are more ignorant than evil could be saved from the coming shitstorm. 😔
Or, the southern part of the US dies the fuck off, and the average IQ of the US increases at the same time.
Did you notice even the last Top Gun movie had Tom Cruise dropping bombs and stealing planes from a country that looks VERY MUCH like Canada?
Translation: he’s probably trolling.
The problem isn’t Trump, it’s his followers. One of those followers will think it’s a good idea to invade Canada.
Yes he is. It’s the sleight of hand you’re supposed to be watching while the other one is in your pocket looking for everything you’ve got.
It’s trolling til it’s not. He plants seeds and they fester in our angry wounds and suddenly it becomes the cure.
May as well be cuz it ain’t happening
At least make the offer enticing, give Canada the option to join as 10 states (one per province); giving them an allotment of the 435 house seats and 20 senators.
I’m pretty sure that would be more than enough to swing the house, senate and presidency towards the left for the next few generations at least.
Canada could literally save the US if that were the case.
Fuck off with that bullshit. We have no interest in losing our freedom, healthcare, safety and rights to save the usa.
Maybe you should try fixing your own house.
Also, there are 10 provinces and 3 territories.
I’ll keep my sovereignty, Healthcare and safe children, and defend that with my life.
Try to do something and see how your army does against 30 million insurgents who you can’t tell from your own citizens. You couldn’t beat Iraq, wouldn’t be good against Canada, nato and the commonwealth.
Elbows up
41 million insurgents
I think something around 10% of Canadians would be okay with it
If even 1% of Canadians became insurgent (many more would) that would be more than enough to fuck shit up for any US invasion.
The US has never fared well with insurgent groups protecting their homeland, case in point: Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Korean War.
We don’t exist to fix your broken country. Y’all need to stop buying in to stupid ass theories on how this would be good for the US. It won’t, many of us Canadians would rather be dead than to be American.
A better solution for your political would be for the USA to break up and no longer be a country. If you honestly believe your politcal problems can’t be fixed without someone giving up their country, then it should be you willing to give up your country, not someone else.
A better solution for your political (situation) would be for the USA to break up and no longer be a country.
As an American, I endorse this plan. Let it all just dissolve
13 Commonwealths you say?
2 quick points;
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I’m not American and I don’t want to see Canadians lose their sovereignty.
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I was using argumentum ad absurdism to point out that this entire “proposal” would be self-defeating for Trump and the Republicans. It’s an absolute non-starter.
One quick point: the USA is currently absurd in reality. Attempting to to use absurd hypotheticals to point out something wrong is not an effective way of arguing anything now, if it ever was.
I’ve noticed Americans tend to make abhorrent statements and if called out for it they just say “it was only a joke!” Your abhorrent statements followed by “it was just argumentum ad absurdism!” doesn’t seem all too different to me.
Canadians are not going to fix your problems. We were your allies and so we did our best to help the US because that’s what allies do. But you make us an enemy then our only goal will be to destroy the USA, not fix its problems. THERE IS NO SCENARIO WHERE CANADA IS THE 51ST STATE. There are scenarios where we are your ally and there are scenarios where we are your enemy. Those are your only choices.
Y’all need to stop having fantasies and understand the reality the problems your country has created and understand you are responsible for fixing those problems. Clean up your own mess FFS.
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Suggesting that invading and annexing a country is an “enticing offer” if they’re given voting rights instead of becoming an enslaved resource colony is a hell of a take… “But it’ll be good because the USA will benefit!”
Stop sanewashing a horrific invasion with selfish American-centric reasons. I’m trying to say this in the nicest way possible but this is one of the reasons the world despises the USA right now.
I see these types of comments constantly and it blows my mind that some Americans think this is reasonable and not a deeply offensive and ignorant thing to say.
I’m an Australian, so I feel kinship with Canadians over this entire issue.
I wasn’t being serious in the argument, rather using absurdism to point out that the entire “Canada as the 52st state” is unworkable - and would gloriously blow up in Trump and the republicans face.
It’s honestly a much less stressful thought exercise than the potential balkanisation of the United States - nuclear power experiencing a civil war would not turn out well for anyone.
Yeah, that’s the thing. Even if you buy the idea of Trump’s policies (which TBH have a few grains of truth), the implementations of them are so full of nonsense. Like, ok, get Canada into the US, let’s just roll with that for the sake of argument… It might make Canada and the US stronger, like the openness between the states does. It would consolidate many federal functions. Canda could retain their culture like individual states do. Sounds plausible.
…And your plan is to get them to join as one state, and only if they grovel to you, by harassing them on Twitter, offering zero details? Like, what world is he living in?
Fucking Americans. You all should just shut the fuck up. You’re not helping yourselves.
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