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   On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:59:16 -0500, Noah Sombrero    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:39:44 -0800, dart200   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 1/26/26 3:14 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:01:03 -0800, dart200   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 1/26/26 1:53 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:48:07 -0800, dart200   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 1/26/26 5:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Is Canada the new Greenland?   
   >>>>>>> Trump backs off threatening Europe - and turns on Canada   
   >>>>>>> Julius Strauss   
   >>>>>>> Jan 26   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> bruh adding canada to the US mix would be like adding another california   
   >>>>>> to the federal mix and throw the republicans out of power.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> No doubt.  But, you know, getting the r's out of power is not our job.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> sure thing noah: all talk, no responsibility   
   >>>   
   >>> Not my responsibility either.  Although I did vote for kammy.  That is   
   >>> where my responsibility ends.   
   >>>   
   >>> It certainly does not seem a fair deal to sacrifice canadian   
   >>> sovereignty for the sake of removing a single villain from us   
   >>> politics.   
   >>   
   >>it's not about on time u moron   
   >   
   >What is it about, moron?  Is it about what is right and what is wrong?   
   >About us hegemony is incurably disease ridden?   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> Because, you see, himbo is not the problem.  The problem is that half   
   >>> the country sees nothing wrong with him, flocks to vote for him, loves   
   >>> whatever he says, every lie he tells.   
   >>>   
   >>> So, guess what, if himbo is gone, the line of people dying to be the   
   >>> next himbo will stretch around the block.  And once the cement of   
   >>> canadian sovereignty is gone, what is going to prevent half (or   
   >>> enough) of us to vote and put the next jerk replacement in office.   
   >>   
   >>do u even understand numbers or do u operate on feels alone?   
   >   
   >I invite you to understand how canadians feel in huge numbers about   
   >their sovereignty.  The current pm won mostly because himbo came along   
   >and threatened to make canada the 51st state and the opposition was   
   >seen as a wannnabe himbo.  Boom,  opposition looses big time.   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> But if the deal were offered to remove all himboist thinking from the   
   >>> minds of americans permanently in exchange for canadian sovereignty, I   
   >>> would ask all my candadian friends to seriously consider it.   
   >>   
   >>why do u think responsibility ends at the national border? because it's   
   >>convenient???   
   >   
   >What I am not responsible for is the 50% of voters who see nothing   
   >wrong with himbo, love what he says, believe his lies and vote for   
   >him.  I consent to wrestle with wilson here, but you see how years of   
   >doing that has accomplished zero.  And I consent to vote in Oregon   
   >where my vote makes no difference.  Dems win oregon regardless.  Too   
   >bad I didn't have residency in ohio.  But, guess what, very few   
   >elections are won by one vote.   
   >   
   >And I think canadians are entitled to their nice little (big empty)   
   >country.  Let them have it fercryinoutloud.   
      
   There was some counter measure mentioned of inviting the pacific coast   
   states (plus colorado maybe) to join canada.  Nothing came of it   
   though.  Maybe somebody thought they were being funny.   
      
   But yeh, let the us be The United States of Himbo, let them sink into   
   the quagmire of their cesspool and fade into fogottenland.   
      
   >>>   
   >>>> keep up the good work! ?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> like i could support annexing canada based on that alone, and would love   
   >>>>>> it for magatards to fall for it again   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It was, for many, the speech that stole the show at Davos last week.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Volodymyr Zelensky’s words may have received the longest ovation.   
   >>>>>>> After all his country has been fighting a Russian invasion for almost   
   >>>>>>> four years.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> And Donald Trump’s address might have topped the billing. In the   
   >>>>>>> event, however, it turned out to be inchoate, ill-mannered, and dull.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Instead it was Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, who   
   >>>>>>> electrified the room.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> For the first time a western leader had the backbone to stand up to   
   >>>>>>> Trump’s new world without rules and offer a competing vision for the   
   >>>>>>> future.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> True to his roots as a former central banker, Carney’s speech was   
   >>>>>>> hardly a rabble-rousing appeal to the masses.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> But when he spoke of how the US had caused a rupture in the world   
   >>>>>>> order and was resorting to economic blackmail and bullying there was a   
   >>>>>>> sense that finally someone was speaking truth to power.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Carney’s message was relatively simple: the western world has been   
   >>>>>>> living a lie.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It was time to accept that the US was no longer a force for good and   
   >>>>>>> for middle powers to band together and create an alternative centre of   
   >>>>>>> global economic heft.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Carney’s speech, cleverly, didn’t even mention Trump. Nevertheless   
   >>>>>>> pushback was not long in coming. Trump announced that he was   
   >>>>>>> withdrawing an offer to Carney to join his newly-minted Board of   
   >>>>>>> Peace.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> He then said if Canada went ahead with a proposed trade deal with   
   >>>>>>> China it had just negotiated he would slap 100 percent tariffs on the   
   >>>>>>> country’s exports to the US.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Needless to say, given that three quarters of all Canadian exports   
   >>>>>>> head across its southern border, such a move could devastate its   
   >>>>>>> economy.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> What next then? Will Canada ratify the Chinese deal? And, if so, will   
   >>>>>>> Trump push ahead with his threat?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Perhaps. And perhaps.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> But there is an issue at stake that goes beyond Canada. Carney has   
   >>>>>>> effectively dared other leaders to abandon their fawning in the face   
   >>>>>>> of Trump’s aggression and scorn.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> He has also set out a vision that is intelligent, calibrated and   
   >>>>>>> pragmatic at a time when Trump is doubling down on the use of force   
   >>>>>>> and his own grandiosity.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It is a fair wager that Trump is now preparing to kick Canada even   
   >>>>>>> harder.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> The former property developer is notoriously vindictive - he is using   
   >>>>>>> the US justice department to go after several of his political enemies   
   >>>>>>> at home.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> His domestic woes are multiplying. His polling numbers are heading   
   >>>>>>> ever downwards and ICE agents have just shot and killed another   
   >>>>>>> protestor in Minnesota.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> He may decide that a whopper of a distraction would be very welcome.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Amid all the brouhaha over US threats to seize Greenland last week,   
   >>>>>>> many thousands of words were written about Trump’s thinking.   
   >>>>>>>   
      
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