According to the US Supreme Court, a US president cannot be prosecuted for crimes (if they're related to their official duties, but whatever goes, I guess). This means that Canada is faced with the fact that they're being attacked by a foreign power with a ruler not beholden to the rule of law. If they give in, they're going to be conquered by a king who is not bound by a national constitution, legislative body, nor courts. This is an existential threat to their freedom as individuals with rights.
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If they give in
lol, no. The US are about to rediscover why Canadians were so feared in the world wars. Canada literally exists because we didn't want to be part of the US. If you want Washington burned down a second time, keep at it.
Gotta go further south this time. Warching Mar-a-Lago burn will be fun.
I'm down, I know the area well. We can call it the March of the Snowbirds.
Turning North America into Canada, South Canada, and Mexico would be a nice sight
Fuck off. He is a senior Alzheimer patient.
I'm sure Ontario, Alberta, British Colombia ... will all be happy to lose their provincial legislatures for one State House. No local representation. All provincial systems of trade destroyed.
This is idiotic talk.
It's the talk of a hostile mobster nation. It resembles Putin's hostility towards Russia's neighbours.
Yeah, this is the same sort of unhinged "they're not a real country, they're like little children that need to be taken care of" bullshit that Putin's spewed about Ukraine over the years.
The thing that really concerns me is that it's not just Putin. The Russian population as a whole fell right in line with it. And so, too, I fear the American population might. They just don't understand the utter visceral rage Canadians are feeling about this treatment right now. They're treating this like yet another goofy dumb thing Trump is saying.
he has cocaine and adderall induced dementia. inability to control one bowels.
Please remember that all this is noise to hide the great billionaire sacking of america. Smoke screen.
I genuinely thinks he also wants to annex canada though
If he makes Canada a state, he loses control of Congress.
He would never do that.
He would never let Canadians vote. He may never let Americans vote again.
Are you really delusional enough to believe this?
Is this really how far gone you people are on these forums?
Are you so delusional with American exceptionalism that you don't think it's possible for democracy to end in US.
You're going down the exact same path that many other countries have. In all likelihood there will still be elections in the US as there are in Russia. But you should expect the elections in to be rigged in the same way as they are in Russia.
He's already convinced a lot of people that the elections are already rigged, so it's likely they will "fix" what he's called a rigged system.
Media control is already well underway, same as Putin did.
You're twisting your brain into knots to justify all the anti-american propaganda you've been fed by news outlets who profit off of your anger.
Come to the United States and see how out of touch you are with reality.
Is your brain so twisted you don't see the President of the USA saying he wants to annex my country?
That's real, it's not propaganda. He said it. I'm looking at the words of the of the President of the USA, what are you looking at? Fox News?
And the only scenario where I'll be going to the US is if there is a war, and I'd only be going there to blow shit up. I don't give a shit about how nice you think your country is, if your president betrays us (as he's constantly saying he wants to do) I'll be doing everything in my power to destroy your nice comfortable life. That's what war means and you need to start looking at this for what it is. This may be a game for you, but it's our country for us. We will defend our country through every means available to us.
Have these random programs actually helped Americans?
To my naive view, would America not he better served with a far more progressive tax system, in lieu of spending these large sums to foreign countries and various agencies that squander what could be given to the poor?
In what world is giving the poor more money directly not he an effective means of raising their standard of living, which should be the main point of a progressive government?
They are in the process of transitioning to a government that does not care about the people and does not provide for them. People here aren't going to get any benefit. Just like with the Empire, the only ones who reap any benefits are the Oligarchs.
Given the crazy spending how much do you feel in dollar value the low end workers would be getting per year?
They don't get much money back in taxes, no universal healthcare, I don't think child care is covered. So what are they getting for all the spending?
Nothing. The government doesn't care about our votes anymore. We're no longer necessary for the king to hold power. They have no interest in helping Americans because Americans won't be voting again.
I honestly hope this just fuels our country to find other, better, trade partners and to also bring in free trade between provinces.
He says the US doesn't need Canada, we should do the same.
Canada should join BRICS
They should join the EU or something like that with the rest of the west that isn’t fascist.
... You think BRICS is fascist?
Russia and China are involved so that poisons it for me
It's an economic bloc, not NATO. They just trade.
Yeah, look what just trading with the wrong partner has done for us so far.
... are you arguing that BRICS is going to place sanctions Canada if they join? Literally what consequences would there be?
They are evil anti democratic shit holes. No one should be trading with any of them.
Why do you hate Brazil?
I’m only referring to China and Russia like I said. Those two poison it for me.
Why isn't Hungary and Victor Orban poison to you? He's pretty clearly a fascist.
Hungary is a member of BRICS?
Hungary is a member of the EU, a supposedly "good" trading partner.
Not nearly as significant for whole EU as Russia and China are for BRICS. And not nearly as poisonous.
Germany's unlimited support for Israel's genocide is fine too, then? And their heavy persecution of Jewish anti-Zionists? And the way Germany (and pretty much every country) has put Syrian claims for asylum on hold, despite the country clearly still being unsafe, merely because they're racist and hate refugees?
I gotta be honest, I don't see how China is worse. Russia I understand, they're militaristic and hostile, but what has China done that's actually worse than the many sins of Europe? Colonialism wasn't that long ago, and it never really ended.
China's development is peaceful. Do you just hate them because they're a one party state?
I would rather fucking die.
In case people don’t realize. Canada shares an Arctic border with Russia and Russia is trying to take Canadian land and regularly crosses into our waters to steal resources. It is of benefit to Putin for Canada to be weak and distracted by Trump, since Trump works for Putin, it’s very clear why he’s doing this
We need our own nuclear force.
How would that help?
Just look up mutually assured mass destruction and you'll understand.
Besides theoretical guarantee you would need a will to wreak havoc to both of worlds. Will someone in Canada launch nukes with fist step of the first soldier on Canada's land? If no, when?
In MAD, nukes are launched when against an existential threat to the nuclear power.
existential threat to the people or to the country?
Canada, this guy ain't gonna learn until you burn it down a second time.
With the help of American military.