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America has not been subsidizing Canada. Canada has been subsidizing the US.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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About every country forced to hoard USD for business purposes subsidises the US.
That’s correct. I want an immediate end to Canada selling discounted oil, gas and hydroelectricity to the US.
Don't forget Lumber too
Conservatives still claim hes joking about the 51st state of Canada.
What is it with Trump and always "being subsidized by us" and "take away from us" while the US has trillions of debt in other countries? 300 billions to my home country alone, which doesn't even compare to some other countries.
Because Trump is a troll. He doesn't give a shit if what he says or does is correct. Trying to make sense of the schmuck gives me a headache.
He is incapable of understanding mutual trade and cooperation. To him every human interaction must have a winner and a loser. So if Canada is benefiting from trade with the US in his mind it must be at America's expense. It's a disturbingly simple view of trade and cooperation, and one that makes actual good faith discourse with the US near impossible.
He doesn't understand what "trade deficit" means.
He trusts that his followers don't, anyway. Based on some arguments I've seen online, he's right about that.
I mean, he always calls trade deficit a "subsidy", and has since 2016. I honestly don't think he understand what that concept means, he's not that subtle with manipulation.
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Man, the dumbest thing about this nonsense is repeating that Canada will only be one state. It's already broken into provinces, dickhead, at least make a better offer than two senators.
Fuck that it will not and should not happen .so fuck off even thinking about it
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"increase your military power for free"... what's the portion of the federal budget that is allocated to defense again ?
All
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Aged like milk…
Absolutely unhinged. Nobody would have believed this “tweet” even 1 year ago, and now this is the new normal
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What a plonker
It's like a truck carrying punctuation got into an accident with a train carrying words. This is so hard to read.
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It's like he's campaigning for the liberals. Almost no one in Canada wants to hear this and I bet they will vote against whatever they see as aligned with this.
This stuff is first and foremost meant for the eyes of his supporters
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I encourage Canadian conservative voters to write in Trump's name on their ballot
In the States we encourage our conservatives to write in Jesus Christ for President.
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Hypothetically, if canada becomes a state, would they flip our house of representatives blue? I guess more likely they'll become like puerto rico or guam or something.
I guess more likely they’ll become like puerto rico or guam or something.
This is what you need to keep foremost in your mind. There is no conceivable reality in which the US conquers (yes conquers, they can call it annexation all they want but at the end of the day Trump wants a conquest to his name) Canada and gives any semblance of voting or personal rights to Canadians. Hell, even if Canada was somehow persuaded into voluntarily joining the US, this regime would never, ever honour any kind of arrangement that gave Canadians a fair deal. They are fascist bullies, as close to actual evil as we've seen in North America in a very long time, and they have no interest in any sort of fair bargain.
They'd annex the land, and then deport all the Canadian foreigners that illegally immigrated in the US.
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Hopefully the expected Liberal victory by wide margin is a sign of what is to come in the USA Midterms.
Will. Never. Happen.
Canadians will literally die before living for a milisecond as Americans.
And - this is a declaration of war by the US president. Cause it would take a military invasion to violently turn Canadians into Americans.
okay, but, can I become a canadian? Because I would really love to be anything other than American right now.
If the US invades, breaches our borders etc you can defintely help us from within.
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This is the distraction you’re meant to be paying attention to- watch his other hand, that’s where the damage is going to come from.
He doesn't need distractions anymore. He can do as he please, and he knows it. This is just him enjoying himself.
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Is he that dumb or does he just want the other guy to win? I'm pretty sure even he knows that this bullshit is why the other guy now has a chance.
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Elect someone who isn't even running, a very likely outcome
Poilievre alrady said he wants to align more with Trump's America. He'll absolutely sell us out.
I like how he wants Canada as one state. Keeping the Provinces split would push the Senate to the left for quite some time.
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