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Lutnick: "The best way to actually merge the economies of Canada and the United States is for Canada to become our 51st state ... Canada is gonna have to work with us to really integrate their economy, and as the president said, they should consider the amazing advantages of being the 51st state."

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How about a leveraged buyout of the USA by Canada? Get a Canadian hedge fund to put together an offer and fund it by selling off Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and a few other worthless states. Trump pockets the Canadian notes and then the Canadians default. A win all around

Nope! Washington DC has been waiting a long time to be the 51st. We’re already paying federal taxes without representation. DC should be the 51st state. #dcstatehood #dcStatehoodNow #TaxationWithoutRepresentation

Oh please can we go bankrupt by having a simple medical procedure or live in fear of being a victim of gun violence or live under the rule of a madman dictator? Oh and fuck O'Leary he's a clown and he can't drive a boat without killing somebody.

It's worse than booze. They're batshit. Trump has opened the asylum doors and let the nuts roam free. All these wannabe actors get on Fox to entertain the base who no longer discerns fact from fiction. Unreality TV has dumbed down the masses who are obsessed with superheroes & saviors.

So sick of this bull shit. The constant and casual conversation of concluding a sovereign country is absolute insanity and to any media personality or journalist who covers this as anything other than absolute lunacy is part of the problem. Canada should shut off any and all ties to us at this point

Careful what you wish for, shitwit. Canada is filled with pro democracy voters who will keep the GOP in the minority for decades. You & your FOX buddies are nervously laughing because you know the #fearleader has lost it.

Canada has universal healthcare. Employers and manufacturers do not need to provide benefits. Less labor costs. Hence, efficient and less costly automotive manufacturing! Duh. Tariffs will not fix that. Integrate by providing US universal healthcare!

I’m starting to think these idiots just say this crap to piss off Canadians. It’s a running joke to them. Laugh it up baldies, the jokes on you three idiots. U S economy is crashing. ⬇️

"Amazing opportunities" like worrying about your kids at school, possibly getting shot at the store. Getting bugged by cops if you are not white. Have to mortgage your house if you break a bone. Pay out of pocket for everything thats privatized. Ya sounds "amazing" fuck that shit, Canada is better.

No one is looking at the United States in 2025 and thinking to themselves "man, I need to get ME some of that!" Not a single person anywhere. In 2022 or 2023? Sure. Now? No damn way. Why would you trade health care for oppression? Reasonable leadership for stupidity? There's no economic advantage.

Don’t overlook the fact that parents in Canada can send their kids to school without worrying about whether they will survive some random psycho with an automatic weapon.

This is the exact reason I’m trying to convince my wife to get out of America. This shouldn’t be a thought I have to live with every day while my 5 year old is in class.

If I had kids, I would certainly be thinking about it. But we have decided since it's just us, we will stay and fight. I am old enough to need a walker, but it has a seat. I am heading to the Mall in DC for April 5 (I need to budget a bit for unplanned travel) and basically 6a8up residence.

I’m one of the “refuge Canadians.” I keep my spare room available for the day when American resisters have to flee the country. We have your back and we only ask that you make the effort to do whatever it takes to topple the evil in the White House.

Just a heads up - 🇨🇦s would NOT have been interested in this in 2022, 2023 or any decade leading up to this. 🇨🇦s never have and never will have any interest in becoming 🇺🇸. I know that 🇺🇸s think everyone wants to be 🇺🇸 but news flash - not true.

Wasn't that one of the big catalysts behind the American revolution? Canadians didn't want to be part of what would become the US so much that the resulting war sent the colonies massively into debt with Britain and the revolutionary war was about how they didn't want to pay that debt back

That’s a fitting description for lots of the so-called humans running the U.S. government currently too. I never even considered moving out of the country until Trump bought his way into the presidency, twice. He has delusions of grandeur & his cult is helping him make some delusions reality.

It took the British 10-years to get into Europe and they wanted to go. Even then they didn't convert the street signs to kph or their current to the euro... These boring twats have no clue ...

Everyone around Trump knows that making Canada a 51st state is a ridiculous idea and they talk about it in a joking way, kind of. They also have to minimally act like it could actually happen because Trump seems to think it could happen and be a great thing.

It's insane. I think the mainstream media in the U.S. is basically useless except for, like, "there was a tornado in Tulsa" type factual reporting. Every time this Canada bullshit gets brought up they should be laughed/shouted out of the room.

Canada will help blow up the US economy cause a bunch of so called billionaires skipped economics class 101. Tariffs caused the Great Depression to blow up by multiples. Proven facts MAGA morons don't want to hear.

Lower taxes is the conservative myth. I lived in VA for 4 years. Yes, low local taxes. But low taxes means few or no services for citizens. Everything you want comes with a premium. Low income people worked two or three jobs. No health care. Cities and states in constant financial crisis.

Our economies were already effectively merged with the free trade agreement (USMCA - which Trump negotiated, btw!). This is just a wedge to divide Canadians, the USA would never accept statehood for Canada in a million years. Ask PR and DC, who have been seeking representation for decades.

Yeah Canada does not want: mass shootings, medical bankruptcies, force pregnancies, oligarchy rule, millions of dollars in political donations, a corrupt judiciary, poor environmental regulation… honestly fuck off. Oh you can keep O’Leary we can always use one less asshole

The "Canada should be our 51st state" talk is just a distraction from their real goal which is to tear apart our own gov and civic institutions, pillage the environment, engage in corrupt acts and enrich themselves, and align with fascists, bigots and christo nationalists. I doubt C wants that 😂😂🤷‍♂️

They use their money to play chess in a class war with the American people. And the people of this that deserve and demand Justice in our country. This isn’t a traitor’s country. It is the People’s country.

I wonder if it's actually occurred to him that if Canada were a state, it would add enough Democrat representatives to Congress to effectively end GOP rule. Better yet, make all 10 Canadian provinces states. Then we get up to 20 new Democrat senators.

FYI - Canada has a national healthcare system where everybody has full coverage &, yes, the taxes are a bit higher (1-2%+-) but add premiums, deductibles, & the cost of how many things aren’t covered here, it is close to even. Not everyone is covered here & we pay about double per capita for ours!

They talk like this will lead to anything other than an actual war, with real bullets and bombs, but first, power cuts to millions of Americans, and Canada will not bear the responsibility. Is this Accelerationism? Is their intent indeed to destroy the modern world? Can greed make them that blind?

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If I had kids, I would certainly be thinking about it. But we have decided since it's just us, we will stay and fight. I am old enough to need a walker, but it has a seat. I am heading to the Mall in DC for April 5 (I need to budget a bit for unplanned travel) and basically 6a8up residence.

We’re gonna work really hard to make you pricks suffer. Let that bald fuck O’Leary step foot back in Canada. He’ll not like the reception. If you’re an American and you come here spouting this sentiment, you’ll be integrated into our healthcare system. Fuck all the way off with this.

Really most of America does not want you to be a state but stay our friend and ally. We have an idiot in the Presidency with 77 million idiots following him. But that is not the majority of America. Good Luck to all of us!

These fucks drank the fuckin Koolaid. They heard a few MAGA types in Canada - the Conservative Party is full of them - say it’d be a good idea to join the US, and thought that was all of us. Hah.

Please, dear goddess, strike Howard Lutnick dumb, so I never have to hear his bizarrely histrionic lies again. I almost feel sorry/humiliated for him w/his obvious, absurd groveling. If I were in his family I'd be trying to get in the Witness Protection Program to escape the painful embarrassment!

I’m in Michigan so don’t want to speak for Canadians, but feel pretty comfortable representing our neighbor when telling these spineless, brown-nosed,mouthpieces to shut the fuck up about Canada becoming the 51st state.

Sorry hard no. Giving up control of our currency to another country is a non option. Plus giving up our social programs even with their dimples is not replaceable with the non existent ones in the states.

Those guys are nuts! In what wet dream did they ever come up with the idea that Canada couldn’t survive without us?!?!? There seems to be a creeping attitude on the right that we somehow have a right to control other countries assets. The coming recession will certainly change that!

Then there is always the fact that they are a sovereign nation, not in any way beholden to a crazy man with delusions of adequacy just because he happens to sit in a big white house. Walz was right. These people are weird--and that's how everyone should treat them.