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 congress, supreme court, and executive are majority same party — there’s no power left to check or balance.
If we had ranked choice voting, we might not be in this mess. Everything devolving into a two-party system has led us to this.
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.
These nazis obviously did not grow up with schoolhouse rock
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 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.
You can always tell that someone wants to engage in a good faith debate when they can’t even be bothered to actually read what you wrote.
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
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.
The worst part is he’s accelerating towards it so hard that half, or more, of the frogs are going to jump out of the boiling pot. And they will have a civil war at the same time as starting WW3… so they will also lose WW3.
Seems like it’s all going to Putin’s plan. I just hope I live to see the part when Putin turns on them all and stabs them in the back.
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).
Just like his idol handler/idol.
Elbows up Canada!
Perhaps today is a good day to get a slashing penalty.
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
Stay the fuck out of Canada 😡 You’re not welcome Orange man.
This is the exact same reasoning he used to threaten Greenland.
This is the shit everyone was accusing Putin of doing. Does he need to start pushing people out of high-rise windows for Americans to see who he is?
This fucking dumbass thinks he’s Hitler… But he’s clearly both too stupid, and too hasty to get anything done.
He’s literally just threatening our allies at this point. I can’t imagine a more pathetic and dumb person in this entire world right now.
hitler was also on meth, so was trump. hes not that far behind.
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.
Not even the continent. The language they’ve begun using is “hemisphere”
There’s no fascist state without war
Release the Epstein files
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.
1940s France is our best bet.
That hardly recommends itself as a defensive strategy.
Actually, France had a very strong army at the time. Two points here:
- when Hitler moved troops in the demilitarized zone, French president hesitated, but he didn’t move. Apparently, Hitler took a big gambit as he thought that the French army could have defeated him then and there (no certainty but very possible)
- Germany conquered France very fast but lost half of its tanks and one third of its planes in the process. It was quick, but it was mostly brutal on both sides.
So, unfortunately, a serie of terrible decisions allowed Hitler’s Germany victory: an inadapted defense, and a reluctance to attack.
Main issue for Canada as for most of European countries willing to “defend Greenland”: US made equipment and systems: either you have a strong stock of spare parts, or we won’t stand long. And that’s without counting the basic volume advantage of the US military, and that’s without counting the prevalence of US cloud based services everywhere in industry and government agencies.
Same. I’m not even patriotic but I will get rid of all the shit I’ve built up to do this.
Totally.
Unfortunately the NSA has probably seen your comment and you will be abducted or bombed before their invasion truly begins.
Jokes on them I’m behind 7 proxies
He’s worried that Canada won’t roll over for him. And he’s right.
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.
Putins giving him which countries target, in order to expedite US out of nato.
