Trump trolls Trudeau by promising Canucks he’ll lower taxes if Canada becomes ‘51st state’....

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday trolled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by promising to cut Canucks’ taxes if they agree to become “our 51st state,’’ while urging them to draft NHL great Wayne Gretzky to lead the country.

“I just left Wayne Gretzky, ‘The Great One’ as he is known in Ice Hockey circles,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“I said, ‘Wayne, why don’t you run for Prime Minister of Canada, soon to be known as the Governor of Canada – You would win easily, you wouldn’t even have to campaign,’” the president-elect said.

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Trump trolls Trudeau by promising Canucks he’ll lower taxes if Canada becomes ‘51st state’ — and backs hockey legend Wayne Gretzky as PM

President-elect Donald Trump trolled Canadian Justin Trudeau with an enticing offer to Canucks..

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[1LoverofGod]

This is amusing indeed but if you think about it, maybe Trump just might be somewhat serious behind the trolling humor.
He did establish the UMCA treaty that formed a united trading partnership between US, Canada and Mexico.
On the surface that may not mean a whole lot, but put it all together and then think about the coming Ten Kings, as some believe are actually Ten Regions, with North America being one of those Ten Regions.
If the formation of a OWG is in the process of laying it's groundwork, maybe unwittingly Trump may have plans on bringing the North American nations together in some way, and ultimately leads to one region.

So, joking about Canada being a 51st State just might have more behind the simple just for fun trolling about it.

 

[Tall Timbers]

If Canada becomes a state of the US, or maybe several states, we Americans can all start ending our sentences with eh to welcome them into the Union, and Canadians can start consuming biscuits and grits to demonstrate assimilation.

 

[Margery]

Wont' happen.

Canada would have to want it, but most of us, even the conservatives wish to remain our own separate nation. Those who want to become Americans move south if they can afford it, and haven't the family ties to keep them here.

Right now Trudeau is hoping to resurrect his political career by positioning himself as the Anti Trump and destroy Poilievre by pointing out that Poilievre's economic vision is in line with Trump.

Trump was careful not to play into Trudeau's game though, and by mentioning Gretzky instead of Poilievre, he's avoiding giving Poilievre a big headache.

Well played Trump.

As long as he doesn't come out supporting Pierre Poilievre, then Poilievre is good to win. Unfortunately the more he trolls Trudeau (who has earned it) the more the avg Canadian thinks that they should support Trudeau because the avg Canadian believes the media up here and it's against Trump. The one thing that makes people nervous about Poilievre, is that he is a fiscal conservative (like Trump)

So in a sense, the more Trump trolls Trudeau, the more the average Canadian sees Trump and America as a threat, and national identity becomes even more of an issue.

I think we are set for 25% sanctions as soon as Trump is in office, the Canadian dollar will tank even further and Trudeau will do more stupid stuff to make it worse. That can't be helped, and I think Trump is putting good pressure on the system up here to stop the flow of migrants and drugs which we all want.


It'll take a little time to settle out, but I don't think Canada will be the 51st State any time soon. With one possible exception that I can see looming up on the near horizon.

And that is financial collapse and the replacing of the dollar with digital. If you go that way, we will too. If the rest of the world goes into some kind of world digital currency to cope with collapse, then I DEFINITELY think the Economic Zones that were proposed by The Club of Rome back in the 50s will come into effect. That would put Canada, USA and Mexico together as one trading bloc.

But with Trump in office, I don't see that right away, in fact I continue to see that as an aftershock of the Rapture.

 

[Margery]

If Canada becomes a state of the US, or maybe several states, we Anericans can all start ending our sentences with eh to welcome them into the Union, and Canadians can start consuming biscuits and grits to demonstrate assimilation.

I've got grits in my amazon cart!!!! just sayin'

 

[1LoverofGod]

If Canada becomes a state of the US, or maybe several states, we Anericans can all start ending our sentences with eh to welcome them into the Union, and Canadians can start consuming biscuits and grits to demonstrate assimilation.

What would the "asylum" seekers who "fled" the US to Canada when Trump was re elected do when they realize they are Back in The US of A, eh ?

 

[Margery]

What would the "asylum" seekers who "fled" the US to Canada when Trump was re elected do when they realize they are Back in The US of A, eh ?

Shock and Horror! Mass meltdowns. Crayons, colouring books, screaming fits, protests. Probably burn something down.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Shock and Horror! Mass meltdowns. Crayons, colouring books, screaming fits, protests. Probably burn something down.

Well there are always "Safe houses", what used to be called Psych wards .....

 

[Tall Timbers]

I've got grits in my amazon cart!!!! just sayin'

You are a leader among your people, eh.

 

[Margery]

Well there are always "Safe houses", what used to be called Psych wards .....

Unfortunately we tore those down, and they are our version of street people now.

But we could force feed them biscuits and grits and see if they turn back into their original species!!!

 

[1LoverofGod]

Unfortunately we tore those down, and they are our version of street people now.

But we could force feed them biscuits and grits and see if they turn back into their original species!!!

Too funny
I thought of the "Safe houses" because of the word
"Asylum" because it's a synonym and can refer to a Psych Ward, but today's generation prefers using "Safe Houses".

 

[Margery]

Too funny
I thought of the "Safe houses" because of the word
"Asylum" because it's a synonym and can refer to a Psych Ward, but today's generation prefers using "Safe Houses".

Do you still have asylums down there? We can't lock the really crazy people up anymore till they commit murder and even then it's only if it's a particularly bad murder. The murders that don't hit the news seem to be catch and release.

I pray for the ambulances police and fire engines that are our "first responders". Most of their calls are now drug related. It's really sad.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Do you still have asylums down there? We can't lock the really crazy people up anymore till they commit murder and even then it's only if it's a particularly bad murder. The murders that don't hit the news seem to be catch and release.

I pray for the ambulances police and fire engines that are our "first responders". Most of their calls are now drug related. It's really sad.

No. As far as I know Asylums were "outlawed" in the States.
I believe in the past, at first, an Asylum was usually where people were "committed" involuntarily. Then the laws changed to where the "average", person with mental illness would be "hospitalized" on a volunteer basis, unless the person was deemed a danger to self or others but this would have to be a court order to put people on a "hold".
Here in California, the city here has a place that was an institution for long term in patient mental health. But by the 1970's it was converted for the "criminally insane".
It was for sentenced criminals that were found "guilty by insanity", and rather than be incarcerated in a regular prison, that's where they would go.
But Cali Governor "Nusense" began to commute convictions and gradually let criminals out of both prisons and the hospitals for the "criminally insane", and would place them in ironically, Safe Houses, for rehabilitation, ya right
But over the past few years, in particularly since Covid, many of those people ended up in the streets, like what you describe.
The Streets of San Francisco, and I don't mean the television series, turned into a drug infested city and to only make things worse, the city officials, decided to "help" the addicts from getting diseases from sharing needles and city officials began their help in passing out "clean" needles to the addicts. Then went as far as letting them shoot up right in front of City Hall and the Police department and pretty much anywhere they chose to shoot up they were permitted to do it and that led to dirty needles being thrown on the streets everywhere throughout the city of San Francisco and then..... Oh my, these homeless addicts started defecating anywhere and everywhere on public sidewalks and the City had to form a special unit just to pick up that "mess".
Oh California is ughh a nightmare of a place to live in anymore.
Political leaders here who have bought into the DEI wokeness allowed sympathy for the criminals, both sane and insane, to roam freely without care about the normal citizens.
This has to be the far most worse State in the Union of America.
One conservative news outlet refers to California as
"West Coast Messed up Coast".

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

If Canada became the 51st State, where, oh where, would the draft dodgers go

 

[Tall Timbers]

If Canada became the 51st State, where, oh where, would the draft dodgers go

I think the US draft dodgers were forgiven way back when.

 

[mattfivefour]

If Canada becomes a state of the US, or maybe several states, we Anericans can all start ending our sentences with eh to welcome them into the Union.

You already do that, brother. Every time you say the name of your country-- U.S.Eh.

 

[Tall Timbers]

If I'm not mistaken, the individual Canadian provinces could secede and request to become a state of the U.S.Eh. But the Territories don't have that power.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Could the woke parts please secede before the rest of Canada becomes the fifty-first state?
i.e., we don't need another DC (Ottawa), or any more hubs of academic liberalism (London, Toronto, etc.), etc.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I think the US draft dodgers were forgiven way back when.

They might not want to be back in the "good 'ole USA"

 

[Tall Timbers]

They might not want to be back in the "good 'ole USA"

The ones that wanted to return, returned.