If only just for the free healthcare and federally legal cannabis you'd have my vote.

I've seen some Canadian hicks. no thanks.

this whole "thing" screams loudly like a red herring and is only meant to distract from the failures of the incoming administration.

O'Leary is a pompous sack of shit that's only preparing the runway for his golden cash cow, Trump.

Idk....seems like at least 500 would be needed to get us where we're going....

Edit: And so began the clone wars....

Funny thing is he is such small potatoes it's ridiculous. That's like trying to summon Luigi to kill you McDonald's team lead. Like yeah he's an asshole and in a position of power so you have to hear him yammering, and yeah would be nice, but it's almost a waste.

This is the Canadian "we have CEO's at home." Meme. Except I don't recall of he is even a CEO of anything right now...

It's not new this time, he's followed the Nazis playbook since before the first election win.

Making Canada the 51st state would make it the largest continental one, usurping Texas. While I wouldn't support the idea seriously, triggering maga Texans with the idea is hilarious.

Even today amongst a certain segment of Americans they still revere the concept of “Manifest Destiny”, whereby the entirety of North America will eventually be under American (and traditionally, white Christian) rule.

This wasn’t always envisioned as being done via force; typically it was simply believed that the American system was so perfect and blessed by God that everyone in North America would eventually want to be part of it, and would simply join the US as an inevitable eventuality. To their minds, the entire concept of full American control of North America was ordained by God itself, and so couldn’t be wrong.

Of course, as with any pseudo-religious prophesies when the expectation doesn’t happen some will want to cause/force it to happen. When their Manifest Destiny doesn’t come to fruition, it’s not because of a fault in the concept (to their minds), but that the Canadians/Mexicans (and now Greenlanders?) are standing in the way of inevitability.

There are Americans who continue to believe they’ll eventually control all of North America. You can’t just ignore them and pretend they don’t exist.

This is just goading and manipulation to get better leverage on those tariffs, which is real. I don't know the scam he's aiming for here. It just feels like everyone is going to suffer an inflationary war.

I'd like to see a poll on Canadians' opinion of lashing O'Leary to a dingy and pushing it into an Arctic Ocean current.

I’m writing this as a quarter-part reply, and 3-quarter-part rant, and it’ll probably hang in the middle of somewhere, as I always do when I rant. Forgive me.

Fact checks are important and useful, but can only go so far. Truth, laws, norms, and everything really, has no meaning in Trumpism. They are just tools to drive towards some goal, or are avenues for exploitation.

They’ll say whatever tf they want regardless of facts, because they have enough people that will believe them, and enough people to further spread these disinformation to those who don’t know or care to know about the truth for themselves, and that bolsters their numbers. There’s a quote that goes something like if someone says something false, it’s untrue, but if tens of thousands of people say the same, it becomes ‘true’ to the minds of these people.

They’ll sue whomever their target is over some batshit crazy claim with no care of the outcome, and only to use the legal process to delay or divert, or simply to cripple someone financially, especially individuals with no access to immense wealth.

They don’t believe in any higher power, but will use it to further gather support, which is particularly effective in a world where the religious feel like the world is moving away from religion and thus stripping away their legitimacy.

Trumpism doesn’t play by harmonious social norms. Humans values and emotions are simply tools to them, and they will continue to trample on human dignity as long as it serves their purposes. They’ve learned how to fully utilize the weaknesses and blind spots of our institutions to attack everyone else and keeping themselves safe.

How do we fight and protect ourselves against a force like this? I don’t know. All I can think of is proper education on critical thinking and instilling people with the will and equipped with the knowledge to seek facts, but that would take decades, and will easily be disrupted by those who are on Trump’s side, and there’s also no guarantee that the process would be effective, given how underfunded our education system is, and how there’s also little to no political will to do anything, as they are more incentivized to seek short-term solutions.

God, that’s still over one in ten. I feel like before Trump roughly zero Canadians would like to become Americans. This brain rot is spreading and I don’t know how to stop it and I hate it.

13 percent is way higher than I expected

13℅ Canadian is roughly the same as 50℅ American, as they have more people per capita. Or something like that, I don't really understand American math.

I’d trust a baby beaver with a bow tie more than that fucktard.

He's a piece of shit so there's not much I won't believe about his shitty behavior, but according to the details in that article it's not exactly shocking that they crashed into a boat with no lights on in the middle of a lake at night.

The polls currently put our own MAGA-wannabe 20 points ahead of everyone else. I'm not so sure.