Trump calls Trudeau 'governor' of 'the Great State of Canada' in overnight posts (www.politico.com)
from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 14:52
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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 14:54 next collapse

Is this a threat? Does this indicate imminent invasion of Canada soon after Trump resumes power? Is this how he means to deal with border issues, by erasing borders with Canada? What about Mexico? /s

ptz@dubvee.org on 10 Dec 14:58 next collapse

Not sure. But if Canada wants to invade…I’d be A-okay with that, eh.

Nomecks@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 14:59 next collapse

Canada is America’s Ukraine. Giant land full of natural resources and no nuclear weapons.

HikingVet@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 15:05 next collapse

They can fertilise our maple stands.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Dec 15:18 collapse

I… I’m not sure if that’s a euphemism or not

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 10 Dec 15:24 next collapse

Sorry

HikingVet@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 18:03 collapse

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palordrolap@fedia.io on 10 Dec 15:17 collapse

And a people largely indistinguishable from their own.

Edit: Note to self: Subtly pointing out that Trump wouldn't want to invade Mexico because he's a racist is not the way to go in the Fediverse because people will think you're the racist.

niucllos@lemm.ee on 10 Dec 15:51 collapse

I think you probably got down voted by Canadians who don’t want to be associated with the US fwiw

xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu on 10 Dec 16:32 next collapse

Yeah the dude completely forgot that 1/5 of Canadians don’t even speak the same language as Americans…

phdepressed@sh.itjust.works on 10 Dec 17:29 next collapse

And they other 4/5 of you make fun/dislike them for that.

palordrolap@fedia.io on 10 Dec 18:12 next collapse

I guess 80% doesn't qualify for the adjective "largely".

HK65@sopuli.xyz on 11 Dec 11:46 collapse

More Ukrainians don’t speak Russian proportionally than Canadians not speaking English.

palordrolap@fedia.io on 10 Dec 18:15 collapse

And Ukrainians probably don't want to be equated with Russians either.

capt_wolf@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:00 next collapse

He’s already floating invasion of Mexico… No /s

It wouldn’t surprise me if he also tried Canada.

alexc@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:18 next collapse

I suspect about 40% of the population would approve. Our rural population is very similarly aligned with rural Americans, which is why they’re all rooting that that vapid, low impact Trump-alike Polievre who is running essentially unopposed right now. I can see him rolling over if Trump and his good squad came a-knocking.

It’s also possible that Trump watched the first twenty minutes of the movie Canadian Bacon and thought it was his daily brief.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Dec 16:06 next collapse

Dude is a zionist who supports the theft, ethnic cleansing, and colonization of palestine.

Why not canada?

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TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee on 10 Dec 15:04 next collapse

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pimento64@sopuli.xyz on 10 Dec 15:14 next collapse

Remember, non-voters: this is what you chose.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:34 next collapse

But Kamala never promised me a pony. How was I supposed to vote for her?

IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:17 collapse

Well they are all the same…

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:32 collapse

Trump: First US President to try to invade Canada (since Alan Alda).

xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 10 Dec 15:57 next collapse

I fully agree - though my Canadian coworkers weren’t even offered a vote!

pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online on 10 Dec 18:03 next collapse

And 3rd party voters

rammer@sopuli.xyz on 10 Dec 23:25 collapse

The fact that a plurality of voters actively chose Donald Trump, again, tells you just how badly the Democrats have failed the People.

You can’t just explain it away. The income inequality is worse now than it has ever been. People are willing to try Anything different. Even if it is objectively bad for themselves. Status quo doesn’t cut it anymore.

pimento64@sopuli.xyz on 10 Dec 23:28 collapse

This is true. Allowing Trump to win will still be worse. Both things can be true, and that isn’t radical centrism.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:26 collapse

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aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:35 collapse

Watching this malarkey from Japan. I’m ~80% sure me and my family are safe.

rammer@sopuli.xyz on 10 Dec 23:26 collapse

Just wait until Trump starts a trade war with your country.

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works on 10 Dec 15:08 next collapse

Following the dinner between Trump and Trudeau, where Trump reportedly made a joke about Canadian statehood, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters that they knew “the conversation was going to be lighthearted” and that “the president was teasing us.”

Trump doesn’t tell jokes, he’s not a comedian.

FelixCress@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:37 next collapse

Trump doesn’t tell jokes, he’s not a comedian.

He is more of a clown.

pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online on 10 Dec 18:04 next collapse

Like Nick Kroll said, the dude is entertaining as hell. So give him a talk show, not the presidency.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com on 10 Dec 23:52 next collapse

The whole circus

rayyy@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 03:18 collapse

Certainly the rest of the world is laughing at him.

Mirshe@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:13 next collapse

Also, anyone who’s actually been involved in international politics, LIKE TRUMP DID FOR FOUR YEARS, should know that one does not “joke” in international politics. One assumes that the words coming out of one’s mouth will be taken at face value, no matter how many “it was a joke” retractions and posts and apologies you make.

morbidcactus@lemmy.ca on 11 Dec 13:01 collapse

Trudeau and Freeland handled the last term better than anyone around here expected.

Definitely helped having a PM with experience working with children.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Dec 15:11 next collapse

So I guess he’s given up on buying Greenland as the 51st state.

MyOpinion@lemm.ee on 10 Dec 15:24 next collapse

Poopolini at it again.

PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works on 10 Dec 15:33 next collapse

I’ve had a chuckle about Canada being the 51st state before, but this is just ridiculous

ramsorge@discuss.online on 10 Dec 16:44 collapse

Canada is like our cousin who has a different last name and never comes to our family reunion and really hopes none of their friends find out that we’re actually related.

cabron_offsets@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:34 next collapse

Guy’s fucked in the head.

FelixCress@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:39 next collapse

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. …fandom.com/…/United_States_annexation_of_Canada

NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz on 10 Dec 17:11 collapse

I mean if they give me a winter power armor and gauss rifle maybe it’s worth a shot

r00ty@kbin.life on 10 Dec 15:41 next collapse

Face it USA. You have 4 years of internet trolls governing by meme.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 10 Dec 16:38 next collapse

Are there social media hazmat suits to distribute among current allies?

YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 17:50 collapse

BuT tHeY’rE sO WeIrD tHoUgH!

Hegar@fedia.io on 10 Dec 15:47 next collapse

This is Russia targeting the core alliances of the US.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Dec 16:05 collapse

Is russia in the room with you right now?

HikingVet@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 16:23 next collapse

Now that you’re here.

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shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Dec 15:51 next collapse

America blink twice if you need us to liberate you

Entheon@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:11 next collapse

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Konn@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 17:19 collapse

Damn, I’ve lost count of how often they were blinking

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 10 Dec 20:01 collapse

You need to convert from blinks per square feet to metric first.

eronth@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:57 collapse

If you can, please do.

lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com on 10 Dec 19:49 collapse

We Europeans want to invade and establish a democracy…

Is next Saturday fine?

AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 02:09 collapse

I’m not doing anything I can’t put off. Come on over. I’ll make iced tea and burgers. Who’s bringing the sides?

Hawke@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 15:57 next collapse

Canada is a state, just not a part of the United States. Why is this controversial?

Edit: ah, I see. I glossed over the “governor” part.

Skua@kbin.earth on 10 Dec 16:02 next collapse

"Governor" is the title of the heads of the states of the USA, but not of the prime minister of Canada. He has - probably through stupidity rather than actual malice, not that he is lacking in the latter - basically described Canada as a state of the USA.

Hawke@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:07 collapse

Okay yeah, the “governor” part is wrong for sure.

And I don’t doubt his combination of malice and incompetence.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 10 Dec 16:07 collapse

The governor general of Canada is Mary Simon. Trump clearly doesn’t understand what he’s saying.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 10 Dec 17:50 collapse

That’s because the orange asshole thought he was playing 4D chess when in fact he was playing checkers.

Tell me you think he even knows the difference. /s

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 10 Dec 19:33 collapse

It’s more like he’s the little brother with an unplugged controller. Then mom makes you let him play (hes voted into power) and he fucks up your save file.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Dec 16:04 next collapse

Zios gonna colonize.

elgordino@fedia.io on 10 Dec 16:12 next collapse

It’s the same trivial belittling as making RFK Jr be photographed eating a Big Mac.

Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 16:27 collapse

And in that other scene he made The Deep eat an octopus he was friends with.

Edit: Err, maybe I have him confused with another guy.

Edit 2: It’s hard to tell if it was a prediction, or if Trump watched the show and got ideas.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 10 Dec 16:32 next collapse

hah, the governor of the US oblast is such a funny guy

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 17:01 next collapse

We’ve been here before people. 2016-2020. For your mental health, zone out of anything he says. Only what he does matters.

TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee on 11 Dec 01:43 next collapse

Yeah, I am not reading this shit again. I will not reward the complicit media with clicks and attention for their part in getting him re-elected.

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Spacehooks@reddthat.com on 10 Dec 23:53 next collapse

Candian Bacon was a prophecy!

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 04:23 next collapse

Lol! What do you mean Saddam Hussein wasn’t Mexican? He and his buddy Assad and the guy who we dropped in the ocean in the ebd.

Letsdothis@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 15:57 collapse

Lol trump is fucking funny.