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A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.

Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their Canadian counterparts, The Telegraph can reveal.

“Navarro recommended revising the Canada-US border, which is just crazy and dangerous,” a source close to negotiations told The Telegraph.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

You mind drawing it a bit south actually

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Maybe south of Seattle? Lol.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

which had been paused for 30 days after Mr Trudeau agreed to take action against illegal migration and drug trafficking into the US.

Putting a bit of spin on it. Their plans were already in place before Trump came into office. This makes it seem like the US actually got a concession.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

Also more fentanyl comes into Canada from the USA than out... That’s not even mentioning the guns

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah but some Canadian now has a fancy title of "Fentanyl Czar"... So it's totally different

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 72 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If there is an American/Canadian war, I'll sign up on the side of the Canadians. - An American

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is why I don't think it will ever happen.

US Miliary personnel have worked hand in hand with the Canadians half a century doing everything from joint ops to sharing bases. I think a lot of them would simply refuse to invade Canada without congress first declaring an official war, and congress wouldn't do that because it would be horrifically unpopular with the US populace.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago

Congress is majority R, I wouldn't put it past them.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Raise your hand if you believe this was all started because Putin told Trump it was a good idea.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Canada got serious about pursuing the money behind the freedom convoy and designated a bunch of those groups as domestic terrorists. By law Canada can go after everyone who funded them which, unsurprisingly, is largely Russia via right wing organizations in the US.

Trump probably got a letter from the "Canadian bureau of land management" (Putin) which pleaded with him to take Canada in

[–] Art3sian@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sorry America, but you’ve gone Anakin Skywalker. You are now the bad guys.

[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

America is Palpatine.

It just revealed that it was the sith lord all along.

[–] WarlockoftheWoods@lemy.lol 6 points 18 hours ago

Yeaaaaah, a lot of us hate ot here, it isn't like 35% of us that are the douchebags.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Art3sian@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Well, maybe America was always the bad guy, but had (mostly) good people in control of checks and balances. Like, it was always Anakin, but had Obiwan keeping on eye on things.

But now Obiwan is dead and America is in the tower chopping up kids.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is actually fucking ridiculous

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"ridiculous" is a rather generous way to express the absolute lunatic raving idiocy involved in even considering consolidating a sovereign nation (Canada, FFS??) into the fantastical ravings of a Napoleonic miserable little toddler's colonialist dreams in search of some lasting legacy other than first felonious criminal that made it to occupant of the oval office.

🤦‍♀️ 🖕 🖕

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago

“We protect Canada, but it’s not fair. It’s not fair that they’re not paying their way, and if they had to pay their way they couldn’t exist,” he told reporters.

FUCK YOU

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

With a sharpie I presume?

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What in the actual fuck?

What are they (I doubt he's smart enough to pull all of this off on his own) doing while we're all aghast at this stupidity?

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

From the Peter Navarro story linked:

According to Mr Navarro's 2001 book, If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, Vara was a captain in a reserve unit during the Gulf War as well as a doctoral student in economics at Harvard University in the US.

Are the freakonomics guys in the government yet?

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

Dubner and Leavitt are waaaay too qualified to be in this administration.

[–] ImperialATAT@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, I’m cool with redrawing the Canadian border… as long as we add the West Coast to Canada.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

CA here, I'd like to be able to afford healthcare thanks. Our GDP would help Canada tremendously, it's a fair trade.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

When a slight-of-hand trick is in progress, be sure to watch what the other hand is doing.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My guess is that Medicaid cuts are the big one. Cutting Medicaid ain't popular. It would probably be very much undesirable for Trump and more-generally the GOP if that were the major topic of discussion on social media.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Canada is running down the funding sources behind the freedom convoy. A bunch of involved domestic groups have been officially labelled domestic terrorists meaning everyone involved in funding them is on the hook. A whole bunch of that money was laundered through far right wing supporters in the US.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OMG, I'm going to be too embarrassed to move to Canada.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If we put the revised boarder far enough south, you won't need to move

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Make it so say we all.

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Now you're talking!

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works

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[–] regrub@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

What are they gonna use? A sharpie?

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The hamberders can not give this guy a heart attack fast enough.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 day ago

A class of children playing classroom-united-nations would be slammed by their teacher for doing this as "unrealistic".

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

So, what's the distraction for, Medicaid, social security, the slow march into a christofascist dicatorship? (Nah, they like that last one)

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Give Canada Point Roberts, WA and the Northwest Angle, MN.

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In for all of Cascadia tbh

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The Pacific States of America has a nice ring to it

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