• 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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    Wonder why he doesn’t want Mexico as the 51st state?

    Or puerto Rico?

    Or anything else South or across an ocean?

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      Mexico poses no threat. Easily controlled by throwing it further into disarray, backing a cartel or installing some other dictatorial wannabe. What we have always done south of the border.

      Canada poses a threat because of it’s ability to remain sovereign. It has shown itself to be able to retain a functional democracy independent of US and kremlen influence. For the most part anyway. If Canada joins the EU, Krasnov’s enemy in on his doorstep which makes it even more important they try and succeed to become part of the EU before Krasnov supplants all democracy in the US which is likely before the midterms.

      There is also the fact that he sees Canada: white, Mexico: brown. Racism defiantly playing a huge factor in his every decision.

      Puerto Rico is a US territory already, he doesn’t care about. Not rich or white enough.

      Across the ocean, I think he is interested in South Africa. Musks homeland. Possibly a strategic place for invading Australia when Krasnov and putin start their martch.

      He has already expressed interest in Greenland. Natural resources and military advantage, keeping Europe separated from Canada/US when the new Axis of Ameri-rus begin to march.

      Trump is not smart enough to set the chessboard but competent enough to follow orders from the kremlen.

      Just some thoughts on what might be behind the motivation to annex Canada, Greenland and possibility South Africa.

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      He’s awful confident it’s a good plan, so they fully intend to make that a non-issue in elections. We are going to have to fight for our right to vote in the next election.

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      Better yet. Let’s make the border between the two countries fluid. Any US state that borders Canada, or any Canadian province that borders the US, can vote to switch countries at any time. Require a large 2/3 majority threshold. Which nation does a better job providing for its citizens? I say we let states/provinces decide for themselves and vote with their feet.

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        This is actually a really good idea. Make national scale regions fluid so that you can create them and merge them together as desired and make it Democratic. Bolo’bolo suggests something similar

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        I really don’t think Canada should take the first shot. Surely there must be some capable people on the US side.

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        Yeah, and what kind of response would that get? I’m sure Trump’s handlers would love to make him a martyr and have justification for going to war.

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    I mean if it happened it’ll destroy the GOP and conservatives electorally so silver linings.

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    I haven’t seen anyone talk about this and I think it needs to be considered. When considering this clip, consider how trumps supporters will see it.

    What we know about Trump supporters:

    • trumps supporters have turned off their critical thinking skills
    • Many of them have below an 8th grade reading level
    • They always have Fox News or another right wing news source turned on - they are addicted to it
    • They already like and trust Trump, and believe him to be some kind of mastermind
    • They are not a majority, but there is a concerning amount of them

    That means what they will get from this clip is:

    • Canada should have already belonged to the US
    • The US has a right to Canada
    • Because trump called Canadians “nasty”, there is a reason to invade Canada, and Canadians deserve it
    • Canada has a lot of resources that the US can use.

    To most people, Trump sounds like an imbecile, but to his supporters, he sounds like he knows what he’s talking about, I personally think he feeds them reasons to be upset without actually making any logical arguments. We all can see that but his supporters can’t. What I’m trying to get at is MAGA’s public opinions about Canada will change because of this interview. This isn’t just bumbling Trump giving a bizarre interview, it’s intentional propaganda to change his viewers’ allegiances.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      It is in the mind of a narcissist like Trump. He has always assumed the world revolves around him.

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    This is a great example of what is, to me, the most bizarre part of this bizarre timeline - this stinky-assed overgrown toddler actually believes this.

    The way it works in his warped mind:

    • He wants to annex Canada, therefore annexing Canada is just and right and proper and smart and best, because everything he wants automatically is. (And a side note - his Kremlin handlers almost certainly planted the idea of annexing Canada in his mind in the first place, though it’s an open question whether he knows that or not).
    • Canada unsurprisingly opposes annexation.
    • But it’s his idea (not really, but that’s a distinction he’s not equipped to make), therefore it’s the bestest and beautifulest and perfectest idea ever in the history of ever, and Canada’s just being nasty and disagreeable about it.

    And that’s it. That’s the extent of the thinking in his overgrown toddler mind - "I want and you won’t give so you’re mean.

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      He said they would be the most objectified… I mean, valued state, and so, just like a good woman they should bask in his praise and do whatever he wants. Otherwise they are a nasty whore.

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        Ooh… nicely spotted.

        That’s a thing with his spoiled toddler emotional dysfunction that I’ve recognized but never really given a lot of thought to. He self-evidently has some seriously warped ideas regarding sex, but they don’t fit neatly into a toddler worldview, since toddlers are ignorant of sex. So I knew there was some way that he’d essentially adapted sexual desire to that extreme degree of emotional immaturity, but hadn’t sorted out exactly what it is.

        And everything clicked with the idea of objectification. I have no doubt that that’s the link I hadn’t sussed out.

        And it’s undoubtedly been recursive - like he started out objectifying women and thus treating their refusal to have sex with him the same way that another toddler would treat mom’s refusal to buy him a candy bar at the supermarket - but then over time developed a set of more specific ideas to better frame things - like “nasty” as a descriptor of someone who refuses his advances - which then melded back into his broader worldview.

        When I wrote that last one, I had a hard time fitting “nasty” in. He’s obviously using it to represent bad/mean/awful, but the word has a specific spin that I couldn’t quite get a grip on, since it doesn’t seem to quite match up with any of the common usages I was considering.

        And I have zero doubt that you’re right - that inside his own head, it’s playing the same role it would in the phrase “nasty whore.” And for the same reason - from his cripplingly self-absorbed viewpoint, he’s already recited the incantations about how beautiful she is and how cherished she’ll be, so it’s time for her to lie back and submit. And the nasty whore refuses…

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          Yeah, I recognised it immediately by his body language and facial expression, tone of voice etc. That creepy coaxing…yuck. It’s actually kinda rare to see in the wild because someone would have to have zero insight to act that way so brazenly.

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            Ah… that makes sense.

            Even with my fascination with character analysis and the rich vein of freakishness Trump provides, I generally can’t watch him - he’s just too creepy and unsettling.

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              Same. Especially when he does the exaggerated and arrogant sneering ‘voices’. Kaamaalaaa.

              It’s weirdly like how some people talk down to children.

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            And for someone who acts like this to develop a cult of personality and be elected to Supreme Leader?

            The fucking fuck man… This is the stupidest shit that has ever happened on this planet.

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              It sometimes feels like we’re going down in a blaze of shit. We were supposed to be better than this by now. Not even just america, it just seems like our advances as a species mean nothing when a significant proportion are acting as badly or even worse than ancient peoples did.

              And the rest of us are using our species’ advances to watch in real time and commentate, make predictions about what stupidities and indignities will be thrust upon us. It reminds me a bit of Wall-E.

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    He really does have a stunted vocabulary. There’s nothing in his head but vanity, greed and pig-ignorance, and a compulsion to be subby to Putin.