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Trump Team’s Secret Meetings With Group Plotting to Break Up Canada Exposed
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I heckin' HATE the Alberta Prosperity Project! If we ever went "independent" we'd get Venezuela'd immediately!
Alberta wouldn't ever be "independent." At best they would basically get annexed by the US, same way Russia took Crimea, claiming that the presence of separatists justified their actions.
That's the STRATEGY.
Thank you for making it explicit.
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Thank you for making me see that it is a strategy!
Yeah, they all talk a big game about independence, but it's all hogwash.
Do not underestimate Alberta. the last election was about sovereignty and 92% of ridings went to MAGA.
92% of ridings != 92% of Albertan Voters. The UCP only got 52.6% of the vote.
ETA: Land doesn't vote. Maps can be misleading.
Who cares, that's not how elections work in Canada. "Only 52%" voted MAGA -proud of that?? That's enough to win a separtist referendumb.
So l'il PP lost, and the party then makes a US citizen the leader AGAIN, and yet another AB riding elects MAGA. So yeah, they would become North Montana in a heartbeat.
I'd like to see a referendum to kick out Alberta because the country is sick of their right-wing bullshit polluting our politics after hijacking the PC brand.
Why are you mad at me? Lol. I was pointing out that it's not as bad as the riding count makes it look. I am not your enemy guy.
You can be a douchebag and advocate to kick Alberta out, sure. I'm not that big of a defeatist though. We had an NDP gov a few years ago, and support for the UCP is getting flaky. There are a lot of progressive grassroots movements that are going through the province.
Alberta has always dreamed of being a US state.
That's why its the target. They'll still be debating among themselves as APCs roll in.
I feel like it's a safe assumption more Americans in border states want to join Canada than the other way around.
I think even Cali would told it came to a vote and they'd already gained terrority adjacent to Cali thru the Pacific Northwest
That would be a true death low to the American Empire, without Cali we'd be fucked.
It would never happen, but it'd be worth Canada to hype it up just because if trump has to play defense, he just stops playing the game and starts a new one. That's whY the whole TACO thing is, but because someone on social media made up a buzzword, no one really understands what's happening
Shit, I live in NJ and I’d like to join Canada, minus the whole monarch head of state part. I’m willing to overlook that for obvious reasons. I like hockey guys, let me in! I suspect that I should probably keep the fact that I’m a flyers fan on the down low.
We overlook it a lot too. Like, the Governor General is appointed by the reigning monarch, and has final say on laws and such, but it's mostly a ceremonial role. I don't think we've ever had royal assent refused? I am no political scholar tho.
Monarchy has no power in Canada. At all.
Then why do all my quarters have big ears now 😭
I'm pretty sure the Gov. General can revoke royal assent on behalf of the monarch. That doesn't happen a lot, but I think it could technically and legally still happen. But yeah, the royals almost no impact. Except for the time the royal couple people visited Slave Lake after the fire (JK).
Trump dictates that other countries comply & submit to his bullying, ELSE US's tarriffs will bludgeon their economies until they obey.
Now extrapolate Trump's curve, from the 1980's, when The Kremlin Papers indicate Putin was investing in him, until now, & keep the acceleration in that curve.
"Majority opinion" or whatever it is that you're believing rules, now, ISN'T what rules:
He's on-track to break the US Constitution's significance within months or weeks, probably by the Insurrection Act.
ICE's purpose isn't even obvious, yet: once he "de-naturalizes" all who won't vow allegiance to him, directly ( as he apparently already does for senior beaurocrats in multiple federal agencies ), suddenly are "illegals", & that means 100's of millions of "illegals", & then the reason he insists they have TOTAL immunity will become blatent.
Deathmatch, between his authority vs the disintegrated, not-organized, "woke", & if everybody is destroyed, so long as nobody-else won, then he wins.
Negative-Sum game ( competitive-nihilism ) combined with Zero-Sum game ( competitive-narcissism ).
IF a country WON'T prevent DarkTriad from gaining authority, THEN that country will be ruled, & probably destroyed, by DarkTriad's ruling it.
Karma, aka "sow->reap law".
We WOULDN'T prevent DarkTriad from ruling our countries, .: we're about to be getting fatal consequences.
The rules are fundamentally changing beneath us, right now, & shortly the tippingpoint gets crossed, then Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance
begins all-out.
Canada, too, gets torn up, by the prejudice-enforcers in Alberta & Quebec ( & the Anglo-supremacists who bully Quebecois validity, & the rest of the factional-supremacists: ALL sides have them, including Indigenous people, Whites, India, Chinese, ALL kinds of saboteurs of Canada's viability.. it's natural, given how little we invested in establishing common-experience, like what Katimavik used to do )
Prep, if you want to live long in the next stage of our world: it'll be violent, once the right-wing has shed rule-of-law for rule-of-authority, completely.
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Which is why the EU is currently making trade agreements with just about everyone on the planet. The USA handing out tariffs like candy is a lot less relevant when you can pivot your trade elsewhere on fairly short order.
Such an agreement with Canada has been in the works for the last ten years. All that's currently missing is for it to be ratified by all involved countries, which might go a bit quicker now given how the States are behaving.
This is double upsetting for me, since I’m fleeing the US to go to Alberta, hahaha. That would be some fucking irony.