When I saw this Trudeau tweet just now, I couldn't believe it.Dark Justin is here! https://t.co/2FxRuJ5HAw
— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 ✍🏻😷🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 (@CathieCanada) January 7, 2025
Canada will never be the 51st state. Period.
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) January 7, 2025
We are a great and independent country.
We are the best friend to the U.S. We spent billions of dollars and hundreds of lives helping Americans retaliate against Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. We supply the U.S. with billions of dollars of…
Because this is serious, I thinkI would appreciate that anyone who is or hopes to be Prime Minister would find time in their busy schedule today to speak or post a rabid defense of Canadian sovereignty against the suddenly intensified threat to our independence.
— Courtney Theriault (@cspotweet) January 7, 2025
"There isn't a snowball's chance in hell Canada would become a part of the United States." (Prime Minister Trudeau) Believe me: the main, but unspoken, reason behind Trump's threats to Canada is he wants its Water, a key natural resource of our's, essential for our future, but lacking in the U.S..
— westcoastlouisa.bsky.social (@westcoastlouisa.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
But Ed hasn't recognized yet that authoritarians like Trump never respect any limitations, including whatever a bunch of Democrats in Congress might not want to happen.Laura, Laura, Laura...I respect your honest, clear-headed opinions...but Presidents can't just annex another country. That takes an act of Congress and they won't rubber-stamp it. We all knew #Trump was going to say batshit crazy things, why are we panicking when he does it?
— Ed the Sock (@EdtheSock) January 7, 2025
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As H.L. Mencken wrote in 1920 on the quality of political leaders:
The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
It's happened twice to our neighbours. We're next.
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