Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]

"increase your military power for free"... what's the portion of the federal budget that is allocated to defense again ?
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- Yes

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.
- 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.
- He keeps referring to the disproportionate US export income to import costs. Something like 2 trillion in exports to 3 trillion in imports. 1 trillion lost from the US every year, and ~30% to Canada that's his math

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.
- Let's be honest here it's going to be just a territory for quite a while.
- #1 Ontario being the population of Pennsylvania
  #9 New foundland being the population of Wyoming
  #10 Prince Edward Island only has 150k, could lump in 150k from northern territories
  20 senators for 40m, 5.0E-7 senators per person
  200 senators for 340m, 5.88E-7 senators per person
  It seems pretty fair
  
  I'd love to have the Canadian conservatives in the USA. It would hopefully calm down the magat zombies we have in office.

Can’t wait for the senate and congress to flip Dem. Nothing will get done. But I’m sure plenty of Trump operatives will be jailed for breaking congressional subpoenas.

Wait, you have a serious candidate that wants to surrender to the US?
- Well Poilievre, who's party lost tonight, has been extremely limp-wristed in his opposition to Trump's threats, but he hasn't outright said he'd surrender, just implied it with his weak rhetoric. More likely to me is that Trump in his dementia ridden mind was literally calling for people to vote for him. Like somehow enough Canadians would write Trump on their ballots that it would "win" the election for him, which demonstrates such a fundamental lack of understanding about our electoral system that I don't even know where to begin.

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.
  
  He knows he’s not getting Canada. This is part of his Flood the Zone nonsense. Don’t fall for it.

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 don't think they are getting statehood right away
- 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.
- Population wise it’s like adding another California
  
  But I thought we were pretending to care about states, not individual voters.

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.
- It has long been the case, that if you confuse a Canadian for an American they are offended, but if you confuse an American for a Canadian they don’t mind.

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.
- The guy is ranting about a criminal investigation into why his polling numbers are so low. He's quite literally a demented old man. I think he really isn't rational enough to see that that he is harming the man he wants to win.

FYI, this is unpopular among Canadian voters. Conservative underdog, tries to deny being a lapdog, or supporting the idea, but this unfiltered BS doesn't help him. It's just a sign that Trump is completely out of control surrounded only by people who must restrain themselves on pushback to only far stupider things he might say.

I encourage Canadian conservative voters to write in Trump's name on their ballot
- LOL some smooth brains no doubt will. Will be counted as spoiled ballots.

Absolutely unhinged. Nobody would have believed this “tweet” even 1 year ago, and now this is the new normal
- 1 year ago? How about 5 years ago?
  
  Honestly, even then. 45 was always unhinged but 47 has really lowered the bar more than was ever thought possible.
- I mean if he was unhinged but was making your lifes better I would understand but the guy doesn't even care and it's making your lifes worst. I'm I crazy to think that american are crazy to vote for him, or is he making your lifes better in any way?
  Not a critic, just really want to understand
  
  It's a combination of very stupid/uninformed voters, and hardcore fascist voters who don't care how bad their own lives get, as long as immigrants and trans people get gassed. A lot of people think the latter group is a minority, but I actually think it's the other way around. I think most people who voted for Trump are just fascists and the uninformed are maybe 20% max.
  
  He is making the lives of women and minorities worse; that's what Republicans voted for
  
  TRUMP is the GREATEST GODKING EVER because he will FINALLY GET RID OF the d*mn WOKEDEIDRAGILLEGALSQUEENIMMIGRANTS that sleepy joeBUSSED into our great country🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 GOD BLESS AMERICA AMEN
  
  No, a large swathe of Americans are just that stupid/insane/brainwashed

I like how he wants Canada as one state. Keeping the Provinces split would push the Senate to the left for quite some time.
- Only if you assume elections will keep happening.
  
  They likely will, in a similar fashion to how NK , or russia, or China does it

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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  I like this way more.
  Awwww man! I accidentally squeezed the box while inserting the straw and now it looks like I peed!
  Also, I peed.
- Thank you for that.
- Lmao I think that’s genuinely the best summary of his writing style that I’ve ever seen
- I don't often run across a piece of pure poetry in the wild. Well said!

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
  
  Exactly. He’s normalizing the idea of the violent annexation of Canada to his supporters.
  
  But honestly they seem to think it is fucking meaningless. They're more forgiving about it, but they're still out there calling it asinine.

He sounds exactly how Kanye would ramble and its fucking scary <~<;
- Am I correct in the assessment that his recent antics are because being a nazi no longermakes him special?

I would not ordinarily recommend Hitler's tactics and strategies as a general rule, but he sure knew how to solve the Hitler problem, at the very end. Donny, maybe look into that.

Trump: "NO BORDER!"
- And America will pay for it!
  
  They would. Just not in the way they'd prefer.

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.

Fuck you and die, cheeto

Astonishing it's not satire
- I'm still trying to figure out how everything in the last 15ish years isn't. Why do we have to be in the dumbest timeline.
  
  This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.
  There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.
  So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.
  As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.

I'm unironically in favor of border abolition
- Right, but then just doing it by including more countries in the schengen agreement or something similar.
- Not like this though
  
  right. smash Canada and the USA. no borders, no nations.

Day 1, deport Canadians.

This fucking moron is INSANE

I wonder if he realizes shit like this is really helping the liberals
- A few months ago it seemed like a sure thing conservatives would win, til Trump changed all that
  
  Canadians saw the US shooting themselves in the face and went oh hell naw
- He’s literally too dumb for that.

Hundreds of billions! Of micropennies! Aaaaaaaaah!
- I read this as micropenises xD
  
  I mean, I thought it was a glorious confusion.

I wonder if americans will ever learn, that there is no such thing as bad publicity...

Is my English grammar lacking or is there something wrong with the "if" in the first sentence? Shouldn't that be a "by" ("by Canada becoming [...] )?
- Commas can be used to identify parts of the sentence that can be cut out e.g. "... wisdom to cut your taxes in half ... If Canada becomes the 51st state."
  Now, here, the comma was used for a list so it shouldn't have been used that way but I'm sure his meth head brain probably got lost partway or the AI bot that mimics his speech patterns is just that dumb.
  
  I don't have an issue with his use of comma but I found it weird to say "Elect the man who has the strength [...] to cut your taxes in half, [...] if Canada become the cherished 51sts state of the [USA]"
  But English is not my mother tongue, so it could just be language interference.