• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    Following the dinner between Trump and Trudeau, where Trump reportedly made a joke about Canadian statehood, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters that they knew “the conversation was going to be lighthearted” and that “the president was teasing us.”

    Trump doesn’t tell jokes, he’s not a comedian.

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      Also, anyone who’s actually been involved in international politics, LIKE TRUMP DID FOR FOUR YEARS, should know that one does not “joke” in international politics. One assumes that the words coming out of one’s mouth will be taken at face value, no matter how many “it was a joke” retractions and posts and apologies you make.

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      Trudeau and Freeland handled the last term better than anyone around here expected.

      Definitely helped having a PM with experience working with children.

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    We’ve been here before people. 2016-2020. For your mental health, zone out of anything he says. Only what he does matters.

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      Yeah, I am not reading this shit again. I will not reward the complicit media with clicks and attention for their part in getting him re-elected.

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    Is this a threat? Does this indicate imminent invasion of Canada soon after Trump resumes power? Is this how he means to deal with border issues, by erasing borders with Canada? What about Mexico? /s

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      Canada is America’s Ukraine. Giant land full of natural resources and no nuclear weapons.

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      I suspect about 40% of the population would approve. Our rural population is very similarly aligned with rural Americans, which is why they’re all rooting that that vapid, low impact Trump-alike Polievre who is running essentially unopposed right now. I can see him rolling over if Trump and his good squad came a-knocking.

      It’s also possible that Trump watched the first twenty minutes of the movie Canadian Bacon and thought it was his daily brief.

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      He’s already floating invasion of Mexico… No /s

      It wouldn’t surprise me if he also tried Canada.

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      Dude is a zionist who supports the theft, ethnic cleansing, and colonization of palestine.

      Why not canada?

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    It’s the same trivial belittling as making RFK Jr be photographed eating a Big Mac.

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      And in that other scene he made The Deep eat an octopus he was friends with.

      Edit: Err, maybe I have him confused with another guy.

      Edit 2: It’s hard to tell if it was a prediction, or if Trump watched the show and got ideas.

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    Lol! What do you mean Saddam Hussein wasn’t Mexican? He and his buddy Assad and the guy who we dropped in the ocean in the ebd.

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      Canada is like our cousin who has a different last name and never comes to our family reunion and really hopes none of their friends find out that we’re actually related.