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Old 02-27-2025, 12:47 PM   #6701
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As much as it would be convenient to refer to Trump voters as mentally ill...

A more appropriate analogy would be someone coming to you for help getting out of a cult. Even then, people in your run of the mill cults are only harming a very small social circle of people. Trump voters have and are indirectly causing extensive harm to millions of people, in and outside of their own country.

You've had pretty near a decade to figure out who Trump is and what he is capable of as a politician. Although I will welcome you back into the realm of the normies, I have very little sympathy if you're getting exactly what you've asked for.
The cult was my first analogy and they didn't like it. People get so wrapped up in semantics of crap like that. "Well it's not EXACTLY like that." Yeah, I know. It's analogy. A comparison. It's not meant to be an exact replica of the situation.

The broader point is we need to welcome back our friends and neighbours if/when they break whatever it is that got them down this road or they'll just turn around and go deeper and that helps exactly no one. The people can't just disappear, so the only hope is that they change their minds. I have some great friends and family members that have being warped by this nonsense and the second they come to me and suggest they might have been wrong it will be a sigh of relief and point to celebrate, not attack them for. Because I want them back in my life (for the most part).
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No joke that’s the whistle I use for my dog and it’s the best idea I’ve ever had.
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No joke that’s the whistle I use for my dog and it’s the best idea I’ve ever had.


Lol! I trained my dog using Negan's whistle from The Walking Dead....this would have been so much better.
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####ty person DeSantis thinks the Tate's are too ####ty for Florida

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It would be one of the weirdest Wars in history. I cant pretend that I know how it would go.

Even the most cynical soldier would have to think..."We're fighting Canada? Seriously? Are you sure about this? Can they make a Molotov Cocktail out of a syrup bottle??"

Yes we can. But syrup bottles tend to be either plastic or the really good ones are considerably sturdy vessels of thick glass.

Its been tested.

Also, it could be like a Disney movie. Instead of the birds and deer helping make beds or whatnot we could weaponize Beavers, Bears and Moose. You dont wanna be on the wrong end of that!


We seriously need to weaponize the Canada goose - lethal on the ground, in the air and the water!
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We seriously need to weaponize the Canada goose - lethal on the ground, in the air and the water!
Definitely! The OG SEAL!

Nobody messes with the Canadian Cobra Chicken! We put it on our money for a reason!!
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So Trump met with the British PM today and says he’s open to a trade deal where he won’t put tariffs on the UK. Meanwhile America’s two most important trading partners and neighbours will be tariffed up the ass. Man, f*** this guy. Why does the UK suddenly get a pass?
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So Trump met with the British PM today and says he’s open to a trade deal where he won’t put tariffs on the UK. Meanwhile America’s two most important trading partners and neighbours will be tariffed up the ass. Man, f*** this guy. Why does the UK suddenly get a pass?
They don't have a perfect trade deal negotiated by the best negotiator on Earth for Trump to breach yet?


Pro tip Britain, don't trust the mother####er.
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So Trump met with the British PM today and says he’s open to a trade deal where he won’t put tariffs on the UK. Meanwhile America’s two most important trading partners and neighbours will be tariffed up the ass. Man, f*** this guy. Why does the UK suddenly get a pass?
I am quite positive the British PM told Fat Donny he is so much more handsome in person.
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The cult was my first analogy and they didn't like it. People get so wrapped up in semantics of crap like that. "Well it's not EXACTLY like that." Yeah, I know. It's analogy. A comparison. It's not meant to be an exact replica of the situation.

The broader point is we need to welcome back our friends and neighbours if/when they break whatever it is that got them down this road or they'll just turn around and go deeper and that helps exactly no one. The people can't just disappear, so the only hope is that they change their minds. I have some great friends and family members that have being warped by this nonsense and the second they come to me and suggest they might have been wrong it will be a sigh of relief and point to celebrate, not attack them for. Because I want them back in my life (for the most part).
But until then we can laugh at them, right?
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I agree. When an American soldier has to cross the border and is expected to shoot and kill resisting Canadians, I think you'd see a pretty large contingent of Americans refuse, including high ranking officers. I'd like to think it's not TOTALLY based on racism like Senator Clay Davis suggested, but when I think about the same situation at the southern border, I don't think there'd be the same hesitation to invade Mexico, so...
They are trying to politicize the military.

They are trying doing it across all services, Military, FBI, CIA, NSA.

Once you have MAGA Loyalists in positions all bets are off.

The military is just a cross section of society. There are servicemen & servicewomen that agree with what he is saying.
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-...ce-with-uk-pm/

#### you too, Starmer.

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Canada Republic now. #### Starmer and their stupid useless king.
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How about I redraw your face with a switchblade, you mother####er.


/internet tough pickle
Whoa, hold on. I might be fine with this. We can just draw a straight line, right across from the southernmost point of Lake Erie going east-west and call it a day. And we’ll take Alaska at the same time. It makes it easier for everyone.
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Oh the U.S can keep Alaska. Regardless of today's geopolitical climate they're the shield against Russia up there. They can keep it. No way Russia doesn't lick their chops if the U.S didn't have Alaska. We don't have the defense power to guard that space.
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Fine. Maybe just a little comet.
I'll take it. Just as long as it only kills Nazis
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Measles outbreak and deaths in Texas and New Mexico. Your move Bobby!
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Have you been to any publicly funded school recently? I don't think we are mostly white anymore. At least not in the under 25 demographic.
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Canada Republic now. #### Starmer and their stupid useless king.
Charles the Craven. Britain is absolutely no use to us anymore, and neither is this expensive and inefficient constitutional monarchy. We should be aligning with France and continental Europe.

Also, someone should remind Trump that Russian parliament discussed taking back Alaska not that long ago.

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So Trump met with the British PM today and says he’s open to a trade deal where he won’t put tariffs on the UK. Meanwhile America’s two most important trading partners and neighbours will be tariffed up the ass. Man, f*** this guy. Why does the UK suddenly get a pass?
Do you know how much Russian money is laundered through the UK?
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But until then we can laugh at them, right?
Yes. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't revelling in some schadenfreude. But it's a small internal victory because the reality is that it's genuinely painful and detrimental to our daily well-beings.
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Because we had, at the time, the world's strongest empire at our backs. Now we're facing that. I'll be Wolverining along side anyone, but let's not pretend it wouldn't be a struggle.
I assume you're talking about the Shawnee? I don't think they're going to trust us again.

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With England committed to fighting Napoleon in Europe, few troops could be spared to defend Canada. To augment his limited force, British Maj. Gen. Isaac Brock relied heavily on a Native confederation led by the Shawnee war chief Tecumseh. Opposed to American expansion beyond the Ohio River, Tecumseh, and his brother, Tenskwatawa, or the Prophet, formed a pan-Indian alliance to resist the United States. Brock promised the restoration of lands should England emerge victorious, and Tecumseh cast his lot with the British.

Tecumseh and his warriors quickly distinguished themselves in the opening campaign for Fort Detroit. They disrupted Brig. Gen. Isaac Hull’s extended supply line to Ohio. Tecumseh’s presence during the siege gave the British a psychological advantage that ultimately forced Hull to surrender. Combined with the loss of Forts Dearborn and Mackinac, the victory pushed the American frontier from the Great Lakes to Fort Wayne in Indiana Territory. Warriors soon ascended on that post as well as Fort Harrison outside modern Terre Haute and laid siege. U.S. Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison relieved Fort Wayne in September and began his push to recapture Detroit.
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