What are the protocols/powers involved in declaring something a national emergency? Like what decision power does the president gain in that scenario?
EDIT: This site seems to cover a lot of the benefits gained and what protections are in place to limit overreach, but given the current state of affairs I can’t imagine why Congress would reign in the abuse.
The national guard, on the Canadian Border perhaps, nearest the manufacturing and farming corridor of the neighbor he has been openly threatening to annex, in one of the most heavily populated areas in the country with access to be the largest volume of fresh water in the world…
Fuck you Trump
The only people it makes sense to, for Canada becoming a US state, is the people in the USA.
We have land and resources they need, that we are happy to sell them, year over year.
Also, just to mention, the dairy thing? Yeah, that’s on dairy products beyond a certain cap. It’s there to encourage the use of Canadian dairy, instead of relying on foreign dairy… You know, so our dairy farmers don’t go broke.
Looking at the records, that import limit has been hit… Carry the one… Yeah, exactly zero times.
🖕
Sincerely,
- Canada
I’m in the US and making Canada a state makes 0 sense to me
That’s fair. There’s still sensible people in the USA.
I was a little unclear before, the set of people who think this makes sense is entirely within the set of people in the USA. Which doesn’t and shouldn’t imply that all people in the USA believe that this makes sense.
I apologize if there was any implication of lumping all Americans into the same pool of stupidity. That’s an insult to you and I am sorry.
Have a good day neighbor.
Nah we’re good. I totally get the intent and point. And I’m one of the ones hit by the electricity thing. Sucks, but y’all have to fight back.
I don’t even think the people who voted for Trump had annexing Canada on their minds when filling out their ballots. Was it mentioned once during the campaign? I wasn’t listening, I knew I wasn’t gonna vote for him 9 years ago.
I mean, until last month when cross-border relations got kicked in the teeth by the diaper in chief, what did I need the State of Canada for? I had the Nation of Canada right there. It’s not like we weren’t hugely cooperative trade partners or anything.
I guess he’s also admitting to his desire of never having any new elections? As Canada would get like over 50 seats in the electoral college…
Canada would never be state. A territory of unending insurgency at best, until the US killed every last one of us.
I’ll cherish Trump when he’s 6 feet underground eating dirt for eternity + a day.
Hopefully this afternoon.
When is this fat fuck gonna get it through his head that we will never be a part of the US, and there’s nothing he can do about it?
I like to keep my pension and EI benefits thank you very much.
Cherished. Hah.
I’ll cherish commiting war crimes if it escalates.
We’ll invent some new Geneva suggestions. It’s not a war crime if it’s the first time.
Invade my country? There are no rules.
The man wants to make deals, right, so make a deal. (warning I’m an American and know just enough about Canadian government to be dangerous)
“Join” the United States of America under these conditions:
- Mexico can join too if they want
- Each Province or State of joining countries becomes a State
- The Constitutions of all countries apply only to the States it previously applied to while a new Constitution is written
- The rules of the Constitutional Convention must be agreed to by both a majority of the joining States and 2/3 of all States
Please make this deal. Our governments are all too old to work great in this age but maybe we can forge a new design fit for the 2000s if we erase most of it and start fresh.
we should increase export taxes on all fronts to the US, until they agree to stop this bullshit 51st state crap etc.
Automatic export tax for the US goes up by 100% each time their Orange Mussolini or one of his underlings says it.
I think there should be a ratcheting structure, like an additional 5.1% everytime it’s mentioned publicly by his regime.
Won’t someone assassinate this senile fat fuck?
Ronald McDonald has been trying every damn day.
I’ve never been so viscerally irritated in my life. ELBOWS UP
Canada will be waiting for you fuckers!
Elbows up!
I like to remind my fellow Americans who think Canadians are push-overs that the Nazis feared fighting Canadians more than any other Allied force because of how much more relentless they were on the battlefield.
Canadians are nice, then we’re not. We are savage AF.
Take no prisoners, invent a new war crime - our motto in wars we do not want to fight
I never did beat Bear Hugger and his little woodland critter friend he kept under his cap in Title Defense Mode.
And we’ve had a few months to think up new ways. Come get it.
We like our women with bodily autonomy and with the right to choose.
We like our right to protest without the fear of being jailed and deported.
We like our heads of state to be respectful and respected on the world stage.
We like our right to privacy without surveillance, and our civil servants free from Krasnov’s oligarchs.
Most importantly, we like our beer to be unshittified!
Sincerely,
The Canadians who haven’t already fallen victim to your propaganda.
-We like our right to protest without the fear of being jailed and deported.
Maybe you should tell our universities, corporations and the RCMP about this.
Might be time for a EU expansion
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We’re having a bit of trouble with the protest one but I like your spirit!
Just found the response:
Dear President Trump and the Republican Party of the United States,
Canada is a federation of 10 provinces, each with sovereignty equal to, if not greater than, the states in your Union, whose sovereignty and rights you are such great champions of.
Therefore Canada would not become the 51st state. It would become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th states. Each with two senators and a proportional number of representatives in Congress.
Your kind offer of joining your Union has been accepted. Please prepare accommodations for 20 new senators and dozens of new representatives, and kindly inform Senator John Thune and Congressman Mike Johnson there will be new elections for Senate majority leader and Speaker of the House.
Please do not worry about security for the new senators and representatives, which will be provided by units of Joint Task Force 2 that will be arriving shortly in the DC Metro area.
Looking forward to working with you,
Yours truly,
Canada
All good, except we Canadians don’t want to be Americans. Like ever. Under any circumstance whatsoever. I’ll die Canadian.
Fucking rights.
Don’t forget our three territories, all of which need full representation…
And our provinces are so large they should each be split in 5, making us the 51-102 states.
A reverse electoral conquest would be galaxy brain levels of geopolitics
it’s cute but no, he’s fucked up enough that he might accept and I have absolutely no interest in being part of their union under any circumstances.
Not an actual option, of course, just to get them to remember the saying “Be careful what you wish for…”
Yup, Canada is freer and richer* than the US.
*Note that the common measure of “economic success” is GDP, which does not include public sector or exports. As a result the country with the smallest public sector per captia and the least amount of exports looks significantly better than it actually is.
Is it really a “longtime tariff” when it was implemented a week ago? I guess when you have the memory of a goldfish…
