Not going to happen.

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      Or, maybe it’s not (just) distraction. Maybe he is seeding interest amongst the Canadian magatards. Maybe this is designed to give traction to Dani Smith and her ilk, to create division and internal strife.

      Maybe Trump and the repubs have been following a playbook for all his Canada talk… maybe Putin’s playbook on Ukraine.

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      “From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: Warfighting” -Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War September 30, 2025

      One of these threats is not a distraction

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    Trump’s latest remarks come only days after Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, said it’s Canadians who are fixated on the 51st state talk, and that sort of rhetoric is now in the past.

    These idiots can’t even keep their bullshit consistent.

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      CANDU doesn’t use enriched uranium. So unlike other nuclear powered countries we haven’t built enrichment capacity necessary for power and weapons.

      Worse, the new SMR projects being built make us dependent on the US for fuel since they use enriched uranium.

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      Well, we have treaties. With countries other than the United States.

      Might still be worth gearing up to breach them if need be, though. I suspect most of them will understand.

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    Trump’s latest remarks come only days after Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, said it’s Canadians who are fixated on the 51st state talk, and that sort of rhetoric is now in the past.

    We Canadians just knew Trump would keep babbling about it.

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    oh look, another few years added to how long it will be before I consider going back there

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    Yea time to start playing with switches at Niagara substations around the time the stock market opens again… Wonder how much that would wipe off the market

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    I will never become a worthless piece of shit American.

    Trump can fucking die already. America sucks. Fuck you America!

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      I feel like they’d do better as territories. Even the more left leaning US states have a very different political culture that I wouldn’t want imported into Canada

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        They should just be independent countries for a while and see how that goes before they even consider asking to move in with someone else.

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        I don’t know about you but as a lifelong Albertan my life would improve if my city had even a little bit of the culture of like, Seattle. I’m not guessing, I have been there and it would be a place I’d consider moving if they weren’t under fascist dictatorship keen on eradicating my people.

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        Nah we’d be a “protectorate” like Guam, Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands. Plus a neverending insurgency for good measure. 🖕🇺🇸♾️

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        I actually think he means statehood, since he very noticeably never offered it to the less-traditionally-white nation of Greenland.

        It’s still a booby deal in several other ways.