Several White House officials revealed to NBC News that President Donald Trump is growing increasingly “worried” over Canada regarding its ability to defend its borders, with one official saying that Trump’s concern stems from his “vision of ‘solidifying’ the Western Hemisphere,” the outlet reported Sunday.
I fucking hate my president, but the whole government is complicit.
Supreme Court? Nah, team fascist.
Congress? Nah, team fascist.
Where the fuck are the SEPARATION OF POWERS and CHECKS AND BALANCES we learned about in civics class?
Turns out checks and balances don’t mean shit if no one actually defends them.
Also helps when civics isn’t taught in 70% of the school system
If your country survives this, you are due a serious overhaul of your supposed checks and balances and, more generally, of your political system. Too much assumes common decency, which the rest of your political and economix systems have been working hard to eliminate.
Electoral college? Hyper powerful president? That stuff needs to go.
Despite all the (phony) reverence for the document in the U.S., the Constitutional Convention fucked up, badly. The Founding Fathers disliked political parties, considering them divisive, so they drew up a system that assumes that all office-holders are independent. That system is supposed to leverage the mutually-opposing interests of the representatives to check and balance each other. It simply can’t work if a group of people with aligned interests control multiple branches of government.
They signed their new constitution in 1788, and by 1792, Alexander Hamilton formed the first political party. Whoops.
You forgot the Democrats, are also on team fascist. Other than a few they are on board being the complicit corporate owned opposition.
I didn’t mention Republicans either. I mentioned Congress as a whole.
Congress is currently led by… Republicans Supreme Court is currently majority… Republicans President is… Republican
The Democrats that should be loudly opposing in every stage of government for the most part aren’t.
I am agreeing with your point but there should be another side but they are paid by the fascist donors to be complicit.
Rainbow corporate fascism VS Nazi corporate fascism
No kidding? It’s almost like the system was built to function this way from top to bottom. I’m surprised it’s taken this long for people to notice.
Alexis de Tocqueville pretty much predicted this 200 years ago when he did his study on democracy in the US. He pointed out that there was nothing in place to actually enforce the separation of powers and it would take only one despot to throw the whole thing in the trash. The only thing that would surprise him today is how long it took for America to reach this point.
Before Trump, politicians at least played the “game”
I don’t really see it. The U.S. has never been a particularly good example of a functioning democratic system. Hell, gerrymandering is a prime example of that, and it dates back to the 1800s.
It’s cute that anyone thinks that anything short of a coup is going to actually make a difference at this point.
A coup on a national scale, too. Way too many hands in this fascist cookie jar.
The entire system needs changing. I live in a country where anyone’s free to start a political party, and a part needs around ~4% to make it into parliament. We have eight parties in our parliament and I still don’t feel adequately represented. I don’t condone it, but I definitely get why people don’t feel like voting over there. That is entirely by design.
I also really don’t get how gerrymandering is a thing that’s legal. Absolutely bonkers. Everyone’s vote should count. Sure we have districts but they don’t have any bearing on the national vote, in that regard it’s purely for division of labour.
Nothing is going to change… this isn’t a learning moment for the US, it’s a turning point. This is just the start.
You traded them for cheap chinese tat.
Reagan with relaxing corporate oversight and then Bush with the Patriot act and lastly Trump packing the Supreme Court really made a fascist’s utopia out of a system that barely had any accountability to start with.
Not to mention Citizen’s United.
This bone spur dodge drafting trust fund snuff film making rapist dementia riddled Russian agent is going to initiate WWIII and send thousands of innocent Americans into the meat grinder.
All done while giving the order to invade safely from his Florida golf course with people dressed up as dogs dancing around him while he’s eating caviar.
Fuck sakes Americans. Enough is enough. Find a fucking back bone and overthrow this government.
Your sons and daughters lives may just depend on it.
innocent Americans
Half of them want this, half of them are not innocent (N = 1000).
The ones getting invaded are the wholly innocent (in this context).
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Elbows up Canada!
Better get some gun training and some cardio in you. I think we might be about to go to war.
send in the candian geese armada.
They’re getting more than elbows if those fat fucks wanna come up here and invade or annex us.
“Burger” hunting season is open as far as i’m concerned
It is time that every Canadian went out and got their firearms licenses, a rifle, a shotgun, and a range membership to learn how to use both.
We are at serious risk right now, and all hands need to be on deck for this one.
Yep. The Feds should be providing free licensing and training nationwide at this point.
I cannot agree with this enough. It will likely come to that if things heat up more than they already are. But we know how slow the Feds can be, and it is best to take a reimbursement later over waiting for the program to kick off. haha
By all means, get firearms licenses and training, but be ready for something much more insidious than troops coming across the border if the US takes things this direction. We are already infiltrated by political and militia movements that are aligned with the US, and our own security and intelligence forces are deeply integrated. Worse than that even, we are on a giant island with them, any allies that might come to our aid are an ocean away, and the US has the capacity to easily blockade our major ports and cut us off from trade with the world. The US is positioned to break our society down economically and socially, utterly empoverishing and dividing our populace before making any move at actually seizing control of government and calling us a state. This is what they do to destroy countries. They do it with sanctions elsewhere, but they have even more powerful tools than those to use against us because of our shared geography and integration. So, yes, get firearms training and arm yourself, but be ready for internal chaos and to push back against domestic movements to align and capitulate, not just little green men coming across a border. Also, think about how to support & collaborate with Americans who are trying to fight fascism domestically. They are the front line, and our best hope may be their civil war if the US goes this direction.
I hear you, I disagree with you, and I am thankful PM Carney has been jet setting around the world shoring up other alliances and trading partnerships since day one knowing Plan A with the US was never going to work.
Which part do you disagree with?
The tone, the lack of realism based on facts considering how the US has been taking action (RE: Venezuela, Greenland, Iran), and the wall of text not easily read by anyone.
I especially disagree with working with anyone from the US to clean up their own backyard when we have our own problems, especially considering the US has never actually been our ally. This President is just openly talking about what has always been US intention. If you don’t believe me look what Biden did with the Tariffs imposed in the first Trump Presidency.
Hint: They weren’t dropped, and most were increased. (An example is softwood lumber which if memory serves went up 10% under the “Good guys”)
The US just likes to use us for resources, and troops to support their imperialism. The only reason we aren’t a smattering of states is because every time they Fuck around they find out, and it looks like we are fast approaching the find out phase once again.
They broke Venezuela with sanctions for 20 years before what they did to them this month. They’ve broken Iran’s economy with sanctions similarly, including the snapback sanctions recently reimposed by allies. The currency crisis that initiated the recent Iranian turmoil was precipitated by outside manipulation. Their main strategy is to break and divide targets from the outside before taking any action that risks their own assets. The trade war against Canada is part of the same kind of technique, as is support for Alberta secessionist movements, and for Maple MAGA more broadly. These are applications of the technique, but they have the capacity to escalate much more dramatically in extending that approach.
Also, you’re misinterpreting what I’m saying about Americans opposing fascism. I’m not saying Canadians should align with the Democrats. They are useless. The people who Canadians should support are the Americans actually going to the streets, organizing, and hopefully building towards real domestic resistance at scale, whether that be armed or peaceful. If they are squashed domestically, the US will be able to direct more resources outwardly. Also, should it come to direct conflict with the US, we should treat those people resisting fascism domestically down south as assets to support. The US already is doing this to us by treating Canadians sympathetic to MAGA and fascism as assets in undermining Canada.
I appreciate the “we’ve done it before, we’ll do it again, so FAFO” spirit, and I’m not disagreeing about being ready for physical invasion, but it’s not 1812 anymore. We don’t have the British Empire at our back, and war has evolved dramatically since then. Preparing in 2026 means preparing for something much more comprehensive and much more challenging than 1812.
Again, they can clean their own backyard. We have our own problems which you have cited regarding sympathetic Canadian assets.
If you want to say it is not 1812 and we don’t have British Empire support, you cannot ignore the fact that we have far more in way of support from other countries than we did back then.
In regards to sanctions, those have been in place long before Trump and he isn’t waiting around and taking it slow. He is openly threatening Sovereign nations, and Territories, with military force including NATO allies. He is not going to wait to break economies for 20 years. The real threat is force, and ignoring it to talk Economics is a waste of time.
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I would prefer development of anti drone technologies using small current electric fields instead of clogging up Air space on the battlefield. Also bird shot is great for taking down drones.
Stay the fuck out of Canada 😡 You’re not welcome Orange man.
This is the exact same reasoning he used to threaten Greenland.
There’s no fascist state without war
He wants the entire continent under
UShis control. He already admitted having Greenland is “psychologically important” for him. He won’t rest until he owns it all and that still won’t fill the giant hole in him that fuels his constant need for more.Do you recall on 9/11 when Trump bragged that he now had the tallest building in New York?
I have this sneaking suspicion that what makes this all so “psychologically important” to him is that he wants to make the US the largest country by area on Earth. Stupid, I know, but that’s par for the course for this fucking guy.
Fafo. I know if they try to take Canada I along with alot of other Canadians will go full insurgent. Honestly we need to shut the border like we did with COVID. Y’all wanna play then none of you can visit.
You wanna laugh?
travel.gc.ca still classifies the USA as “take normal security precautions”
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states
Actually, that’s not funny. What the fuck is the government of Canada waiting for? We’re basically Austria in 1937.
Same. I’m not even patriotic but I will get rid of all the shit I’ve built up to do this.
1940s France is our best bet.
Totally.
You can try to take it but you will never keep it. The Canadian identity is caged in outward politeness under a quiet bedrock of anger, spite, and a creative disregard for the Geneva Convention when pitted against bullies.
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Putins giving him which countries target, in order to expedite US out of nato.
This is coming from the man that told us to increase our border security.
He’s insane to think he can justify an invasion or take Canada anytime soon, but I’m sure we will see even more disinformation campaigns and political interference in an effort to speed up that process.
