He is not trolling. He is genuinely threatening our sovereignty, and we are taking that seriously. The United States is an enemy nation.
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Are you guys arming yourselves via a rearmament program like pre WW2? Because you should be if you take him seriously. The best don’t tread on me animal is a porcupine. Defensive
If the US invades, there's no amount of rearming that would stop them from completely destroying us. Acquiring nukes would be our best bet.
The US military has always proved to be very vulnerable to guerilla warfare, they've lost a few wars due to guerilla warfare. Canadians know their landscape and they know how to hunt and shoot, they'd put together an excellent guerilla force, and they could easily blend with American soldiers. They are also comfortable with the cold. A MAGA invasion of Canada in the Winter will be like the Nazis invading Russia. Also, all of Europe will suppport Canada.
A good portion of the US military will refuse to follow orders to invade, and resign, defect, or go AWOL, and whoever is left will be nearly universally unmotivated to invade Canada. Many military leaders will work behind the scenes to sabotage the illegal invasion. Those disenchanted military personnel will find the competent, experienced military that HitlerPig fired, ready and waiting to build a strong, motivated military force to oppose MAGA on Canada's behalf.
In addition, 2/3+ of America will never support the invasion of Canada for ANY reason, and will align with Canada. HitlerPig will be forced to waste resources dealing with the uprising at home, distracting him from his foolish invasion.
Any HitlerPig military operation will be defined by virtuosic incompetence, which is his most reliable characteristic. He will be fighting his own military and citizen population every step of the way.
100% this. Which is why I kind of chuckle when I hear people worried about martial law.
Even with every cop and military officer in the country you still could not hope to restrain a properly motivated American population. They have no hope of even restraining half of the population.
People know their own turf and this country is far too big for that. Wanna do it to Canada? The country with some of the most consistently capable and highly regarded soldiers of the past 100+ years? Good luck. Lmao
Yeah, it'd be a three day special military operation. Just like when Russia took Ukraine.
Americans are extremely averse to casualties and pain. We could make an invasion hurt. I doubt they'd be able to endure a genuine war that genuinely enters their homeland. Not for long.
The porcupine's only weak spot is its face. Which is why the pine martin eats the porcupine's face. Not sure how that affects this metaphor but it's a cool nature fact.
He got elected because people thought he was trolling, and thought it was funny. Now he's actually doing those things, and worse. So why would anyone not take these threats seriously?
He literally said he was not trolling.
And even in the most insanely charitable world where we assume he is "trolling", he's still saying an intensely offensive thing to Canadians without any reason other than "lulz." That's the most charitable possible interpretation and it's still awful.
Of course, most Americans don't realize it's an intensely offensive thing. That's a major part of the problem.
Of course, most Americans don't realize it's an intensely offensive thing. That's a major part of the problem.
"America is the greatest nation on earth, why wouldn't another country want to be part of it?"
That's what happens when a population is spoon-fed "patriotism" from birth. All the nationalism and propaganda is doing its job promoting American exceptionalism while diminishing empathy and critical thinking.
Reciting every day in school how great your country is, is peak brainwashing to me. When I learned about that, it was so weird to me.
Yeah after a while I just stayed seated during the pledge, seems goofy as hell to be performed everyday at school.
No way in hell would I want to be part of that dumpster fire shit hole.
As someone who lives in America, I don’t understand how anyone DOES NOT think it’s offensive and threatening and a horrible stance for a president to have. But the ones that don’t think it’s a big deal is how we got where we are and I’m disappointed in my country… again.
I wonder if Musk taught him this trick. He keeps pulling it out of his ass every time negative news (that he actually cares about like his recent polling numbers) comes out and he wants to distract from it. This is exactly what Musk used to do before he took the mask off.
Don't confuse not knowing with not caring.
How about you worry about your own shithole country.
If Canadians seeing this can take anything from the last few months, it's that they have got to get out there and vote.
“Don’t you want empty ports too???”
Big beautiful ports. The biggest ports.
Canada could use another few provinces... California, interested?
We’re interested. Oregon, Washington and Hawaii is onboard too.
Then make an alliance with Mexico (and countries in Central and South America) and 2/3 of America will be surrounded by hostile territory.
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I'm actually kind of glad to see this. Should drive turnout for Carney.
I can't think of a more helpful thing he could have said.
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So he can destroy their economy and international standing too?
Of course he couldn't keep his mouth shut for the whole month. Gonna be consequences, Donny.
Sorry… is hectoring supposed to be heckling? Trump is the hector in this case; he can’t make Canada the hector. When the first non-proper-noun word out of a writer’s keyboard is that far off what they meant, I have difficulty taking anything else they write as anything but regurgitated vaguely understood hearsay.
Ackshually it's only Hectoring if you drag them behind your chariot, otherwise it's just sparkling heckling.
That reminds me, Troy deserves a rewatch soon. Love those fight scenes.
Isn't that movie notoriously terrible?
For whoever is interested in reading it, I quite liked the Peter Green translation. Fair warning though, it's quite long, longer than the Odyssey.
Oh I wasn't saying it was a good movie. It does have a greased up Brad Pitt flying through the air stabbing dudes with a spear though. Sometimes that's all you need from a film.
Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.
I'm keeping my cents on the Simpsons timeline.
Doomberg says he thinks he wants Carney to win, since the only way a pipeline is getting built to Europe is if a left leaning government does it.
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