As I was saying tho...

I mean look folks, we call them "trade wars" for a reason, and when that trade war is attached to a repeatedly stated desire to annex our northern neighbor, the intention could not possibly be more clear. The media needs to start reporting this as "Trump's attempts to annex Canada" but they won't, because the billionaires that own these for-profit companies are very excited about the prospect of looting Canada like they loot every other country the US forces to submit and they're probably already picking out their climate crisis bunker plots in Northern Ontario.

Please note: Trump has apparently deleted the post (twice) because um, trying to annex your closest ally over social media is probably not a "an extremely stable genius" kinda thing to do. Doesn't change the fact that Trump keeps stating his clear intention to annex Canada and the American mainstream keeps pretending this guy, who has never successfully told a joke in his life, isn't serious about doing so - even though he blurts out his desire to make Canada the 51st state every 2.5 days.

Additional Note: the Alt Text box can't contain Trump's blathering so I'm posting the full contents of his Truth Social post here - weird capitalizations and all:

"Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on "Electricity" coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARRIFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th. Also, Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous. I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S. to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada. If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S. which will, essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada. Those cars can easily be made in the USA! Also, Canada pays very little for National Security, relying on the United States for military protection. We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. Why??? This cannot continue. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better, and stronger than ever - And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World - And your brilliant anthem, "O Canada," will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!"

While the American media and political establishment struggles to take Trump's open an repeated threats to annex Canada seriously, the Canadians themselves are having no such difficulties. Please keep in mind this is the national broadcaster in Canada, so more or less their most serious news organization (that still sucks for all the same reasons *our* pro genocide media does, but I digress) - they don't publish things "for clicks" and when CBC is flatly stating that Trump means to take over Canada, they're not employing hyperbole. Also, please take note of the importance of fresh water in the Canadian analysis here and cross reference it with what I said about climate imperialism above.

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(Aside: can we please not do that thing where you folks respond to this with something that more or less means "don't worry, it'll never work" and then start wargaming out a Red Dawn fantasy about how hard Canada will resist a military invasion.

For starters, Americans should be shutting it down in the streets to stop that from ever being a realistic scenario. Furthermore, pretending that the United States does not have a massive soft power and economic arsenal capable of strangling smaller countries until they have to give up without a shot being fired or their people start dying, just demonstrates that you know very little about the US's shameful history of (not so) quiet imperialism in the Americas.

I do not care if Trump will succeed in taking over Canada, what I care about is the fact that he means to do so, is actively trying to get it done, and the American establishment is playing it for jokes on late night TV or ignoring it entirely. )