Canadian tariffs: administration spills the beans…

[Black]

The main purpose of the bullying of Canada and Mexico and Panama and Greenland and Ukraine is to saturate the media while the dismantling of our republic proceeds at a swift pace in the shadows.
Watch what the other hand is doing.

[Fritz]

Black wrote:
The main purpose of the bullying of Canada and Mexico and Panama and Greenland and Ukraine is to saturate the media while the dismantling of our republic proceeds at a swift pace in the shadows.
Watch what the other hand is doing.

xactly

[AllGold]

Ombligo wrote:
Before dismissing this lunacy out of hand, it does have some benefits. With a population of 40 million, Canada would be slightly larger than California. So as a state, it would bring 2 Democratic senators and around 50 representatives - enough to flip the house.

Thanks, but I'd rather dismiss this lunacy out of hand. :wink:

[Lux Interior]

Ombligo wrote:
Before dismissing this lunacy out of hand, it does have some benefits. With a population of 40 million, Canada would be slightly larger than California. So as a state, it would bring 2 Democratic senators and around 50 representatives - enough to flip the house.

That did occur to me.

Even better would be if each province became a state.

But I'm sure they would be like DC, with no representation if King Trump has his royal way.

[RAMd®d]

He feels strongly wants everyone to believe that it would be very beneficial for the Canadian people to be the 51st state of the United States. He wants us to believe they wouldn’t pay be paying for these tariffs and they’d have much lower taxes if they were part of our great country. That's what he's saying now...

FTFH.

What he strongly feels is if Canada could become the 51st state, there would be real money and more empire in it, for him.

[Diana]

Canada becomes the 51st state and:

They lose sovereignty, over themselves and their way of life.
They are subject to US law, and US “justice” and the current US president(s).
They lose their rights to healthcare, as they currently practice them, and become subject to this hell that the US has produced (that, coincidentally, now celebrates as a folk hero someone who killed a man in broad daylight over just this kind of hell).
They get the lawlessness that the US is devolving into.

They won’t have to pay the tariffs on goods, and will have much lower taxes (they are told). Sucker bet there.

The US gets:

More land.
More taxable base.
Timber. Lots of timber.
Oil and gas under said land.
Car parts manufacturing.
Other stuffs, probably too numerous to list.

And Drumpo makes a shit-ton of money on this deal.

Yep. The Great Businessman will make sure that he gets all the good (and profits handsomely from this), and the rest of the US population will get to figure out how to integrate Canada and Canadian people into a country that has historically made fun of our northern neighbor.

He’s a real estate developer, not a businessman. A grifter and conman. And not much else.

[GGD]

And since they never made payroll contributions to Social Security or Medicare, most of older Canadians will never qualify for them when they retire.

[mrbigstuff]

Everything is for sale! you just have to make the right deal!