At the first Trump cabinet meeting, he stated his intentions clearly. He restated blatant lies and disinformation, and he won’t really be questioned on it from the press or from any US politicians. The US is the enemy of Canada and should be understood as such. Take heed of his treatment of Ukraine - when he noted that they would lose the war without US help - and consider what he will propose when he uses the same argument on us. He makes it very clear in the video.

And very carefully consider which of our political leaders will stand up to Trump when he makes the argument that we need American military in our country to protect us.

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    So step up the game already, Canada. Become a threat to US Sovereignty. Make a real offer for the blue states to join and be willing to protect them with military force when Trump retaliates. Enact an American refugee program to bring the best and the brightest across your borders. Get Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker and Walz to the table and start making real deals.

    Because as a Californian, I’d rather be a Canadian on the side of democracy and justice than an American on the side of fascism.

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      We don’t want to annex part of the US. We don’t want to import more conservative voters from the US. We just want to be left alone and our responses are going to be symmetrical in keeping with that unfortunately.

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      I live in Illinois please make me Canadian I’ll grow weed for you guys we have really good soil

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        There is only one cou try in the world who would have a chance of standing up to America in conventional warfare, and it definitely isn’t Canada. I don’t think #2 would win either, but they have a chance.

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          You underestimate Canadian geographic advantage I think. I would love to see America try to occupy the rockies in the winter and I hope they wear bodycams when that happens so we can laugh after the fact

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            You can’t hide an army in the rockies. You couldn’t even really hide them in the Shield. But if there’s an invasion I expect there will be a holding withdrawal and then a lot of guerilla groups with well-trained leaders will suddenly appear.

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              Something in the neighborhood of ¼ of Canadians has a registered firearm. That’s pretty close to 10 million folks. With our long-standing hunting culture, if even half the people with a firearm decided to join an insurgency effort, and a relatively small amount of the rest of folk run support? That’s gonna be a bad fucking time for the US.

              Remember kids, until Canadians teamed up with the Polish, it was a Geneva Checklist. And we’ve already burnt the Whitehouse down twice…

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      You’d need part of your military to turn on him which likely won’t happen. Our military isn’t even remotely capable of standing up to yours.

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        Problem is, CA and TX are both littered with bases and a shitload of stuff that goes boom, similar with other red and blue states. Seceding means war between states that have the economy and war fighting capability to beat whole countries on their own, so our only hope would be officers following their oath to enemies foreign AND domestic

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          That’s probably some of our best bet. The more they fight themselves, the less they’ll be able to fight us.