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On December 12, 2025, American commentator Tucker Carlson delivered a series of explicit, uninterrupted statements during a live interview with Matt Walsh that collectively amount to an open endorsement of coercive action against Canada. In the span of roughly three minutes, Carlson engaged in an unprecedented narrative assault on Canadian sovereignty and legitimacy, asserting that:

  • Canada is “not even a country” – overtly delegitimizing Canada’s status as a sovereign nation.

  • The Canadian government is murdering “tens of thousands” of citizens each year – accusing Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program of essentially mass state murder, including of children, and “harvesting the organs” from those killed.

  • The U.S. should consider invading and occupying Canada on human rights grounds – explicitly framing a hypothetical military intervention as morally justified, and repeatedly insisting “I’m not joking even a tiny bit” to underline the seriousness of his advocacy.

  • Canada is “way worse than Maduro” and even “worse than China” – claiming Canada’s alleged crimes outstrip those of Venezuela’s Maduro regime and the Chinese government, thus positioning Canada among the world’s most egregious human rights violators.

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 32 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, he's been on this anti-Canada kick since near the end of his Fox News career. Word was, he'd made a "movie" for airing on Fox News that urged an invasion because Trudeau was a communist. The sooner this propagandist is relegated to the wastebin of history, the better

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

In fairness, you guys do have a lot of oil

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

We were feared by the Nazis. I think everyone forgets were insane.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Feared? Maybe Yaroslav Hunka was startled a bit by the sound of applause. But Canada's got something of a mixed reputation on fascism, historically speaking.

In WWII Nazi troops prefered fighting other people than Canadians is all I'm saying here.

[–] JayTreeman@fedia.io 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know what the above person was talking about, but Canada has a pretty insane military record. Not necessarily a great record. One made up of insanity. Our government is also just shy of explicitly pro fascist. I think the above person was referring to our military record. Not the invite Nazis to be celebrated inside the government record.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

Our government is also just shy of explicitly pro fascist

What the fuck are you talking about?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Uh oh.

I didn’t really realize this. Yeah, Candanian invasion is probably a ticking clock…

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Tucker Carlson is a wholly owned Russian Asset. Tying up the USA in fruitless wars with its immediate neighbors would be a Russian and Chinese wet dream.

Trump is going to start a war somewhere in North or South America to weaken America before Russia and China make their moves on Europe and Taiwan.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago

he even went there like last year to help with thier propaganda.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 hours ago

They will come for us when they need the next out-group to persecute. People like Fucker Carlson are leading the call.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

YouTube and Twitter platform him.

They don’t just host him: they spread Tucker Carlson algorithmically, preferentially, deliberately, because it’s outrageous and engaging, and make many millions doing it. And people nodding along will never be shown this article in their feeds.

If you want a “root cause” boogeyman here, it’s Big Tech. No one would give a shit about Tucker Carlson if it was a “fair forum for free speech” like they pretend it is, and they’re the ones that will percolate this up to the White House.


So, yeah. It’d be great if y’all could ban those sites in Canada, if they don’t fix that.

And the rest of the world.

Ban us. Please. Thanks.

  • An apologetic American.
[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I really wish we'd ban or even regulate American tech companies but the minute we try, we end up getting bullied out of it by your country. I'm still mad that we cancelled it but I'm hoping as we fully cut ties, we'll actually be able to go through with things like that.

Though realistically given our geography, our situation is akin to trying to improve things for ourselves while being caged in with a paranoid and cocaine fueled mountain lion so who knows.

I'm just hoping you guys can get yourselves under control whether that be through balkanisation, complete rebuild of government or anything because while I will proudly fight myself into a grave to defend our sovereignty, I really don't fuckin' want to have to

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Honestly, from my perspective, the US is bad.

People act like things will get better here. But our social media has an iron grip on everything, especially leadership, and now we basically have an influencer government that knows how to work it and wants to entrench social media. Corporations love it. Attention spans are short.

I just don’t see a force that wants to get us out of this spiral. Anecdotally, I have smart, postgrad-educated family that’s repeating stuff from Fox News I never thought I’d hear from them, family working jobs where their CEOs are drinking the Kool Aid…


What’s going to happen is US corporate power will increasingly influence the government, fiscally, politically and psychologically. Unfortunately, I think it will stay central, not balkanize. The States have ceded too much power, and there’s too much vested interest.


Other countries I’ve traveled to seem sensible, though. Even with a Big Tech problem.

My hope is you guys band together with the EU, Mexico, the rest of the Americas, Africa, Asia and such. Lean on the British. It’d be much harder for the US to try something if there’s some kind of pact that would complicate it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 7 hours ago

He should have kept the bow tie. Dude got so scarred by Jon Stewart he's never been the same.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

The dude is living out the opening act of Canadian Bacon.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

If the US invades, we Canadians will be more than happy to update the Geneva Checklist as part of a long, drawn out, insurgency that will make Vietnam look like a sewing circle and Afghanistan a minor quibble about who picks up the cheque.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

finally got his marching orders from the kremlin after being really quiet for the whole year.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago
  • Nope

  • Nope

  • You can try, I suppose. I'd rather you didn't, though.

  • Nope

[–] sixpaque@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm doing research for my blog on "when and where did the US start hating and out-and-out showing hostility towards Canada. No doubt the present US administration is smoken bad shit, and they're presently the culprits with the hostile takeover talk. This is life-changing and dangerous rhetoric for both sides of the border. However, through research, I found that this type of insult from the US appears to have a long history. Now I have to research why? One answer could be: They're still pissed that we nearly burned the White House down hundreds of years ago?