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floofloof@lemmy.ca to CanadaPolitics@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 months ago

Trump tells Trudeau Canada should become 51st state if it doesn't like tariffs: report

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Trump tells Trudeau Canada should become 51st state if it doesn't like tariffs: report

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President-elect Donald Trump told the Prime Minister of Canada that if his country can't deal with his tariffs, maybe they should become the 51st U.S. state, according to anonymous sources speaking to Fox News.Justin Trudeau "flew to Mar-a-Lago unannounced after Trump threatened to impose sweeping t...
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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    How about the US can become the 11th province and trump can eat shit.

    • whithom@discuss.onlineBanned
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      How about we just laugh in NATO at this dumb fuck and pop him for treason.

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        If only Biden would grow a spine.

        • whithom@discuss.onlineBanned
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          He can’t even feel his spine at this point, so I think we are asking a lot for that

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      You don’t want us.

      Hell, I’m one of us and I don’t even want us. Lol

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      Territory. They wouldn’t be able to become a province for a couple decades, I think.

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      It would have the same effect due to their population

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    A new blue state with 40 million people? I don’t think he’s thought this through very well.

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      Canada isn’t as blue as you think unfortunately

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        According to a Leger poll, 64% of Canadians would vote for Kamala Harris, while 21% would support Donald Trump, with 15% undecided. Conservative voters in Canada were nearly evenly split, with 42% supporting Harris and 45% backing Trump.

        https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/majority-of-canadians-would-vote-for-kamala-harris-in-u-s-election-poll-1.7086714

        Trump would lose the election if Canada were a state, barring any electoral college shenanigans.

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          Electoral college logic: Alberta gets its own statehood and 25 votes, BC gets 4 votes because it gets absorbed into Washington State, and the Victoria and Olympia Reps have to share one chair in Congress because they couldn’t buy another one somehow.

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        It’s blue enough as far as presidential elections are concerned. With the electoral college system, you only need a slim majority voting Democrat, and Canada as 51st would reliably provide that. Even where Congress is concerned, it would become significantly harder to elect a Republican majority I think, though there would be more of a battle there.

        The logical candidate for 51st state, of course, is Puerto Rico, and the GOP is not super-enthused about them either. It’s hard to say how they would vote long-term, but they certainly have a strong and well-justified hatred for Trump.

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    This is starting to get ridiculous.

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      Late 2015 called

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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        These were the jokes that were said and laughed at at the time. “If Trump got in he’d annex Canada”.

        Look where we are 9 years later, staring down the fact this guy said this right to the PMs face.

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    Hey Canada, can I convince you to adopt us in Minnesota?

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    All of a sudden you’d have leftist domestic terrorists to deal with

    I don’t think Trump understands how much Canadians hate Americans

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    Alberta:

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      D. Smith came

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        For the first time in her life.

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    This isn’t a logical statement.

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      This isn’t a logical statement.

      That can be assumed of any statement that Trump makes.

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    Looks like the comment was made in jest.

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      Bully humor and “just joking” are characteristics of the far right though, and they deliberately blur the line between jokes and threats. I’m not particularly reassured that this is where Trump’s mind goes, even if he’d say it’s just a joke.

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