and if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike!

That’s always been his strategy: keep repeating the lie until it becomes true.

The US is just a temporary union of entities with an experimental system of governance. Some states should consider joining Canada under a democratic political system that has worked for hundreds of years.

For many years, the government was operated by the people who conceived and operated the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and they knew the difference between the truth, and their propaganda.

But now most of those people are dead, or near it, and we are now being operated by those idiots whose entire political education came from the illogical, nonsensical, immoral spewings of the Conservative Propaganda Machine. They are so poorly educated in logic and critical thinking skills, and have been so deftly manipulated by professional liars like Rush Limbaugh and his disciples, that they think The Truth is anything they claim it is, and worse, they truly believe their own propaganda - to the point that they will create policy based on their own lies.

Eventually people will become media savvy enough to recognize weasel words. In case you’re not:

‘Canada is considering joining the US’ is not wrong, it’s just misleading.

The reading that most people will take from it is “Cananda is considering joining the US and that consideration is leading them to join the US” as this is generally how ‘considering’ is used in English.

But, it isn’t technically untrue. The ‘Canada should join the US’ topic has been a pretty hot topic in Canada. Overwhelmingly people are against it, but you can’t be against something without considering it.

‘Considering’ is a weasel word that allows for people to imply one thing without technically lying.

You’ll also see ‘after’ used a lot as a weasel word.

“Stock prices fall after oil futures increase” implies a causal link (i.e. that oil futures rising caused stock prices to fall) when, technically, it only states a temporal link: Oil Futures rose and then 24 hours later Stock prices fell. So stock prices fell after oil futures increased.

It’s just as technically correct to write “Stock prices rise after local farmer’s prized cow gives birth”. Sure, those are two things that happened and the sentence is describing the correct order of things but it implies that these two events are linked in some way.

Hopefully this makes you one of today’s lucky 10,000

Canada is NOT considering it. Fuck off US, then fuck off some more. And when you’re done fucking off you can fuck off again. Forever.

And my nan’s considering becoming an Olympic athlete

From the department of “If I joke enough it becomes real”

It’s long past time for the 25th amendment to kick in.

Nope

And this is why you don’t negotiate with Trump. This is why you don’t capitulate to Trump. You don’t appease him. You don’t even act polite about it. He sees those things as weaknesses that he can exploit and will believe that whatever he’s after is now his by divine birthright, and your capitulation to him is a subtle acknowledgement that you know he’s right.

This started as Canada responding to Trump’s original threats by committing $1.3 billion to a fentanyl problem that didn’t actually exist in order to appease him and shut him up. And they were rewarded for their appeasement by Trump increasingly turning up the rhetoric ever since. Because that’s what Trump does. That’s all he does.

A response to Trump needs to be immediate, forceful, unambiguous, and aggressive. Anything else is perceived as weakness. The first thing Canada should have done (and the same thing every other country should be doing) is responding accordingly. “Canada is a soverign nation that will under no circumstances be joining the United States under any conditions, and we resent the implication that we will just give up our position as a free and independent nation or will just roll over to the United States on Mr. Trump’s say so. We demand that Mr. Trump make no further implications that Canada ever has or ever will consider becoming a part of the United States. Further statements on this subject risk doing severe and permanent harm to the diplomatic relations between our two countries. We will also be launching investigations into Trump and Trump-affiliated properties in Canada as we cannot and will not allow the leader of a foreign nation to set up shop in Canada and use the profits generated from those businesses to fund actions that will be harmful to our country and its sovereignty.”

For those who haven’t read the article:

Trump offered Canada two options to be covered under Trump’s so-called “Golden Dome” program. The first is to become a part of the US. The second is a $61 billion price tag. For the government of a foreign nation the size of Canada, that’s basically pocket change.

Canada is not considering becoming part of the US. But they are considering his $61 billion offer.

And that consideration is all Trump needs. Again, they didn’t give a forceful and unequivocal “no”, which just gives Trump wiggle room to believe that there’s still a there there. Give Trump that opportunity and he will exploit it to push his own agenda. And that’s exactly what he’s doing.

I mean, most places are considering it

That consideration is generally “hell naw” tho