Canada should become 51st state

Counter offer: Blue states should join Canada.

Deal

That’s not a joke, it shouldn’t be written as “Trump jokes”.

That’s how he honestly feels and I for one am very concerned. This is my much edited down version of my initial comment, which was very vulgar.

Since this psychopath's previous administration I have advocated for Canada to pursue a nuclear weapons program. I was attacked for it. Does anyone else have any bright ideas on resisting this increasingly aggressive state? Preferably without decades of guerrilla warfare.

This is genuinely the only reasonable sovereignnty guarantee in the current geopolitical climate. We haven't had a nuclear deterrent since the 80s, time to reaquire it. That's just dreaming though, Canada simply lacks decisive leadership under any part, at least that's the evidence of the last 30 years or so.
Canada defending itself with nukes makes about as much sense as a lone citizen defending themself from the state with firearms. And if it comes down to me not getting my way vs innocent people getting nuked, I'd rather die.
How does a nuclear weapons programme help Canada's sovereignty? In what situation would it be advantageous to us to actually launch a nuclear attack against our literal neighbour? Even if it wasn't intercepted, and we somehow managed to land it on a high-value target like DC, the US would simply liquify every Canadian city from East to West in a matter of hours. And even if they somehow showed restraint in the face of a nuclear attack and didn't counter with their own massive arsenal, the fallout alone would kill or injure millions of Canadians and destroy our economy for a generation... assuming our initial volley didn't trigger automated MAD policies around the world and end the world in a nuclear winter.
It's an objectively terrible idea.
Now, if you really are concerned about invasion from our crazy neighbours (a reasonable position to take), then a more effective approach would be a mandatory service model, where everyone is trained in small weapons fire and counter insurgency. If the Americans choose to invade, they should know going in that they'll pay dearly for every hectare.
- The entire point of a nuclear deterrent is that it's incredibly disadvantageous for everyone involved to use it. We would presumably not be dumb enough to develop one missile and call it a day. Your proposal would put us in the position of Ukraine against Russia, only against a more well funded military and without the weapons injections coming from the USA. The best we could hope for is decades of guerrilla resistance which, I don't know about you, but I would rather have another alternative.
If to protect ourselves from our enemies we have to become like them, I prefer to give up on Canada and go somewhere else.
- I would suggest that making themselves difficult to invade isn't the part of them I find distasteful. If we're ever in a position to annex them and do, I'll agree with you.

Trump suggested that Trudeau would be the governor. Even better, it would be separated in 2, the conservatives part (I guess alberta) and the liberals part (I guess mostly Québec).

Maybe West Canada and East Canada, or Upper Canada and Lower Canada? 51st and 52nd state? Trump is fucking crazy

Fix the headline

OK stupid Trump comments aside, I do think it's a diplomatic blunder for Trudeau to say that the tariff would kill the Canadian economy. Even if it would, better not to admit it, because pleading with a demon is guaranteed loss while at least a bluff could get some result. So I just hope this is hearsay and not really how things went down during those talks.

Listen, Americans. I like most of y'all. But if Trump ever tries to make that happen, I'm the first person picking up a gun and heading to the front lines. Don't care if you've been drafted or volunteered, I will shoot your ass.

Please god no.

That might not even be in my top 10 choices to be annexed by.

"Trump just finished the first episode of Fallout on Prime, confuses it for a strategy" - better headline. Serously, if it weren't for the fact that this clown is president-elect, we would have collectively ignored him a long time ago.

Fuck off Trump.

Hopefully the US Military would hold up their vows not to follow illegal orders should he try to do anything.

But don't you dare call them fascists....

It'll happen whether we want it to or not. We have fresh water they desperately need

Shhhh we need to keep our mythical taps that hide freshwater from Arizona secret!

Lets not get pulled into America's descent into plutocracy. We need to be more like Denmark.

America's descent into plutocracy.
Us is an Oligarchy and always has been

I'm still saying it would be a funny power move to join Schengen.

Trump even posted a picture on his IG https://www.instagram.com/p/DDIaWssBLiA/

Wait, wouldn’t this swing the next election assuming Canadians wouldn’t vote republicans as much on average compared to Americans?

Wait, they would probably have classes to gerrymander things until it doesn’t.

All of our federal party leaders are CIA stooges, and so this proposal would give Canadians representation over our rulership.

Surely 10 individual states is more appropriate.

We'd be in a much worse pension and healthcare position, and would be bailing out US federal debt. US debt levels are literally on the verge of collapsing the country. Not only is like minded US states joining Canada a far better alternative to fascism and prevents divisiveness symptom of collapse, the appropriate timing of such a merger is after the US defaults on its debt.

lmao thank you for the analysis and so valuable sage stoic advice