Hah, LOL no. Sadly, I have no illusions there will be any accountability in this regime.

Perhaps his admiration of despots like Putin, and his seemingly desperate desire to become like them, to be considered an equal by them, is the thing that drives him. It could be that he just truly, truly wants to be like Putin, so does anything he can to impress or aid him.

If that’s true, then there’s really nothing anyone can do. (Well, nothing I can mention, that we all know full well, without being on some lists).

Never mind the reasons – this is patently illegal and violates security clearances. Yet another reason, as if more were needed, to oust him and then prosecute him.

The Americans do not even let their existing citizens vote when demographics are unsuitable to Republican successes, such as in Puerto Rico or Washington DC

This, 1000%. Anyone who thinks they would let a new “51st” state, especially one with so many ‘left-leaning’ (compared to US metrics on political views) people living there, have full statehood, is hopelessly naive.

We’d end up being some second-class territory without full voting rights, a true vassal state, enslaved and disenfranchised.

Maybe they’ve got something really, really big on him. Something he values beyond all else – even money, even fame, even attention, even power, since those seem to be all he loves.

Maybe Putin convinced him years ago he will bump off Ivanka if he doesn’t obey, or something.

Hmm, guess that’s tacit permission for Canada to do the same with our southbound water then eh? >:(

Oh but being Texas they sure as F would’ve told her parents if she was expressing gender dysphoria right? Ye gods what a dumpster fire of a society.

Hell yeah. Another good reason!

First they’ll need to fight to even have a fair election in 2026 and 2028. (Hell, even to have an election).

Thank you for being open to the possibilities of that. I wish none of this were happening and feel for those in the US who are going to have to endure what is to come. I can only count myself fortunate I’m not actually there, and only adjacent.

He must know the end is near, and the idea of his grave being pissed on repeatedly until his headstone has crumbled and he is forgotten… bothers him somehow. Boo hoo.

Yeah, well fuck her IMHO. And the oil companies too. They’re rich enough to endure a few months of economic leverage applied where it counts. If they squeal (and we know they will), well then they need to be called out and forced to publicly take a side in this whole situation.

EDIT: uncensored :P

I hope Canada applies a massive export tax to oil & gas… and redistributes the revenue to steel and aluminum workers here to ease the effect of the tariffs on same.

Make the US people feel higher gas prices and they’ll turn against him. History has shown this is the best way to sink a president and his party’s support.

May’s definitely not a Russian asset. She just has a good sense of humour.

Note the idea was joining Canada as-is, or forming a “Cascadia”. I think the latter is much much less realistic myself :)

I sure as heck wouldn’t want B.C. or any Canadian province to split off from Canada.

EDIT: I think you’re absolutely correct that separatists ignore their own region’s dependencies on the parent state. Quebec, for example. The separatists there always hand-wave away the question of how they would deal with losing access to the rest of Canada’s resources (physical, cultural, economic and political).

The “Cascadia” idea wouldn’t be viable IMO. It would be better for all to just add the newcomers to an enlarged Canada. (I 100% wouldn’t want B.C. to leave Canada, just to be clear, nor any Canadian territories to be ‘exchanged’ or lost).

I’d be against any absorption that brought US gun ideology to Canada… if they’re splitting from the US, they’d better be doing so for the goals of taking on the more pacifist and commensalist Canadian values.

Yup. Guess those who want to stay out of a Repub hell-hole would want to move to Cascadia (or more realistically, an enlarged Canada) while they still could, then.

The National Post seems to have taken down the article so linking to archive.is

No freedom of religion without freedom FROM religion.

Resist a theocratic state.

Time to consider kicking the US out of the UN. They never respect it when a ruling goes against them anyway, so let’s just drop the charade that they are members in good faith. (A few other nations need the same treatment, for sure.)