About that last sentence-Is he actually offering to purchase anything?
Yeah, but he’s not offering to actually pay for anything.
As far as I can tell the plans were for us to buy Greenland, take back what was rightfully ours with Panama (possibly by force), and have Canada join us by the popular demand of its citizens.
I’d love to see the conversation dice set he’s using to come up with these “brilliant” ideas.
Yeah but I suspect DJT would be happy to let Panama keep the canal provided they agreed to stop charging fees for US registered ships that pass through. That seems to be a big part of what he’s bitching about. Maybe he thinks he can get rent payments from them as well.
The Canada thing strikes me as mostly a way to troll Trudeau and hopefully cause his government to fall. The hope for the idiot is probably that the replacement would be more deferential and never challenge his policies. Or maybe he really thinks “Hey, country of mostly white people, surely they would prefer to be a part of the great U.S of A.” But I suspect mostly it’s about Trudeau.
Greenland is more of a puzzle. Considering the population is less than 60K maybe he thinks we could just deploy troops and take it. I could see him being stupid enough to take the position that surely Denmark wouldn’t retaliate since that would be a direct attack on a NATO ally. Yeah, I know that’s stupid but I can see DJT saying exactly those words.
He’ll make Mexico pay for it, d’uh.
Yeah! He’ll make sure they pay in dolores. Not that funny money peso nonsense. Dolores!!! Big, beautiful Dolores. He grabbed a Dolores by her pu**y once. Nobody else ever got to do that. DOLORES!
What brakes are there on the Trump train? MAGA will have control of the whole government in a few weeks.
What about Trump makes you think he will be restrained in what he tries to do?
Maybe Trump can’t do all he wants but he will try. He’ll throw all the poo at the wall and see what sticks. Not to mention Project 2025 which is a roadmap for seizing power.
Undoubtedly, it’s about Trudeau. He’s not terribly popular in Canada anyway nowadays—as has been said elsewhere, he’s past his best-before date—but while he is still popular among many, he governs at the NDP’s pleasure in order to command a majority in the House of Commons, and if the NDP withdraws its support for Trudeau’s Liberals, he loses on a confidence vote, and we have another election. Welcome to a Westminster Parliament, Donny-boy.
And right now, if we were to have an election, Trudeau would be swept out by Pierre Poilievre, a Conservative. Not conservative in the American sense, but definitely to the right of Trudeau’s Liberals. Probably somebody Trump would like. Until Poilievre does something Trump doesn’t like, and we back to Trump hating Canada.
If I read my fellow Canadian citizens correctly, nobody wants to be American. Trump has fallen for the jingoistic “Everybody in the world wants to be American” line that is seemingly taught to every American schoolchild, and which many Americans of all political stripes believe. Well, few if any Canadians want to be American. We like what we are.
No question. Trump is a moron who doesn’t understand the first thing about international geopolitics. But he is a savant when it comes to one-on-one personal grudges. He has a bug up his butt about Trudeau, so he must destroy him. Literally nothing else about the situation makes a ping on his emotional radar.
Will fears that Trump-47 will spell the literal “End of American Democracy” come true? Probably not.
But he supposedly plans to replace thousands of career civil servants with MAGA loyalists, to abolish many regulations, to censor free speech, to arrange mass deportations, and to inflict economic damage with tariffs, favoritism toward donors, etc. His policies will lead to continued increases in government debt; this could shake world confidence in the Dollar.
I fear that some of these policies may cause irreparable damage.
Someone needs to tell him this old Canadian joke. An American tourist is visiting Canada, and gets to talking to a local in a bar.
American: Man, Canada is just great! Of all the countries I’ve visited, it’s the one I like the best. Heck, if I weren’t an American, I’d want to be a Canadian!
Canadian: You know, I feel the same way!
A: Really?
C: Yeah, if I weren’t a Canadian, I’d want to be one too!
He should also be forced to watch The Canadian Conspiracy. And by “forced”, I mean “Clockwork Orange”-style forced.
With all the fire power the US has around the world, what kind of global crisis could arise where there weren’t already enough ships on one side or the other of the Panama Canal?
He wouldn’t get the joke and he’d not pay attention to the movie (even forcibly) if it weren’t about him.
Canada should annex the West Coast. But I’d settle for Canada annexing Washington.
Back in the… '80s? There was a skit on TV where they set up a border crossing in the U.S. and staffed it with actors dressed as Mounties who explained that the border has been moved and people were not crossing into Canada. It may have been in an episode of Almost Live.
It’s pronounced “Mulva.”
I’m 57 and that was never taught to me. Canadians are our buds to the north. We love them. Great place to vacation too.
Trump is a mutant. And MAGA are mentally dysfunctional (really…scares me too). Please do not think all Americans dislike Canada. I think most really like Canada and its people. I sure do. (Not kidding when I say the friendliest people I have ever met when traveling.)
ETA: If I had one complaint about Canada it would be that they need not spend a lot on their military because they know the US would never tolerate anyone invading Canada and would rush to their aid. So, Canadians got a big tax break when it came to military spending. Still love them though.
Realistically, the only country that could invade us is the United States, and there’s no way we could ever spend enough to stop that.
Historically, we’ve only ever really spent money on the military when we actually needed to use it, participating in various foreign wars. That can cause problems, but at the same time, it has its advantages. It’s often been noted that, in actual wars, Canada tends to punch above its weight class. Not having a large standing army is part of that. We go into a war without a lot of old soldiers with fixed ideas about “how to fight a war”, and so we figure out the new way of fighting that actually applies to the current war. The Battle of Vimy Ridge is a classic example.
Historians attribute the success of the Canadian Corps to technical and tactical innovation, meticulous planning, powerful artillery support and extensive training,
We actually paid attention to what was working, and what wasn’t, and that was a big part of our success.
Short of building nuclear weapons. But even if Canada went that route, then it still wouldn’t need or benefit from the rest of its military being large.
But that is still relying on their neighbor to the south to protect the continent.
If Canada can not or does not want to maintain a big military maybe they should kick in $50 billion/year to the US to do it for them (or some number).
Trump might actually ask that. He has NATO on notice about paying more and many European countries are seriously looking at increased military spending. That’s a mixed bag for the US but, here we are.
Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him.