Kevin O’Leary has volunteered to lead the charge in making Canada the 51st state of the U.S., but many Canadians aren’t standing with him.
In a Fox News interview posted to his personal X account on Wednesday, O’Leary appeared to vouch for Canadians, suggesting that citizens are interested in joining forces with its southern neighbours.
“I like this idea and at least half of Canadians are interested,” O’Leary said.
“The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal.”
He’s a piece of shit so there’s not much I won’t believe about his shitty behavior, but according to the details in that article it’s not exactly shocking that they crashed into a boat with no lights on in the middle of a lake at night.
I would consider helping “negotiate” a US takeover of Canada to be an act of war against Canada or a preparatory act.
Criminal Code section 46:
46 (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,
(a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
(b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or
I’m writing this as a quarter-part reply, and 3-quarter-part rant, and it’ll probably hang in the middle of somewhere, as I always do when I rant. Forgive me.
Fact checks are important and useful, but can only go so far. Truth, laws, norms, and everything really, has no meaning in Trumpism. They are just tools to drive towards some goal, or are avenues for exploitation.
They’ll say whatever tf they want regardless of facts, because they have enough people that will believe them, and enough people to further spread these disinformation to those who don’t know or care to know about the truth for themselves, and that bolsters their numbers. There’s a quote that goes something like if someone says something false, it’s untrue, but if tens of thousands of people say the same, it becomes ‘true’ to the minds of these people.
They’ll sue whomever their target is over some batshit crazy claim with no care of the outcome, and only to use the legal process to delay or divert, or simply to cripple someone financially, especially individuals with no access to immense wealth.
They don’t believe in any higher power, but will use it to further gather support, which is particularly effective in a world where the religious feel like the world is moving away from religion and thus stripping away their legitimacy.
Trumpism doesn’t play by harmonious social norms. Humans values and emotions are simply tools to them, and they will continue to trample on human dignity as long as it serves their purposes. They’ve learned how to fully utilize the weaknesses and blind spots of our institutions to attack everyone else and keeping themselves safe.
How do we fight and protect ourselves against a force like this? I don’t know. All I can think of is proper education on critical thinking and instilling people with the will and equipped with the knowledge to seek facts, but that would take decades, and will easily be disrupted by those who are on Trump’s side, and there’s also no guarantee that the process would be effective, given how underfunded our education system is, and how there’s also little to no political will to do anything, as they are more incentivized to seek short-term solutions.
I can currently think of two reasons why you say so. Your statement either implies that you think Musk is of a higher power, or that you’re just trying to say that these bastards believe in Musk in jest and wrongly quoted the statement about believing “something”. If it was the first one, then I would have an issue with your statement. I’m going to assume that the second is why I’m seeing your comment.
But even with the second reason, I’m not sure if I find it funny. I don’t think they believe in him at all, and instead think that they are simply using each other to further their goals, and will gladly cut each other off or even throw each other under the bus the moment doing so outweighs their continued alliance. If that counts as “believing” to you though, then I can see that being funny, though I would fail to see how it fits into this egoistic and maniacal image I have of them.
Lower than I thought. Once youre out of southern Ontario and the lower mainland of BC, patriotism absolutely vanishes, successive federal governments have treated the “hinterlands” so poorly no one cares anymore about some bullshit eastern tim hortons national image.
God, that’s still over one in ten. I feel like before Trump roughly zero Canadians would like to become Americans. This brain rot is spreading and I don’t know how to stop it and I hate it.
It’s really funny talking to my conservative friends who like to say that anyone to the left of them doesn’t understand economics and then they proceed to talk about things like carbon tax in a way that shows they don’t understand economics.
My other favourite hits from those guys:
“They don’t actually have a billion dollars, a lot of it is tied up in assets!” (And now I have to explain why wealth and liquid assets are not relevant to the context of the conversation we are having, and that literally everybody understands this, and why having wealth as assets is usually for tax evasion reasons in the guise of fuelling industry, yada yada)
“You know free healthcare isn’t free! That money has to come from somewhere!” Literally everyone understands how taxes work you brain dead fucking moron. This one actually makes me angry when people say it to me in person. The whole idea is that single payer is actually cheaper because you are cutting out a useless middleman and removing the profit incentive for letting people just fucking die. Nobody thinks that it’s literally magically free.
I’m willing to consider that the number has grown recently, but it definitely wasn’t anywhere near zero before. There are a lot of areas, often very conservative, that idolize the States.
For example, in the Bible Belt of Manitoba, I wouldn’t be surprised if close to, if not a majority of residents would support this. There’s a independent streak bordering on libertarian, and many are VERY socially conservative. I didn’t spend all that much time there, but I heard multiple people say how they wish they didn’t have to pay for other people’s healthcare. They’re so close to North Dakota, even doing cross boarder trade and many see the higher mean income (sum of all income divided by number of residents) in the US and ignore the lower median income (50th percentile of income).
13℅ Canadian is roughly the same as 50℅ American, as they have more people per capita. Or something like that, I don’t really understand American math.
Remember when Kevin O’Leary considered running for the leadership of the Conservative party, but dropped it because he’s too stupid to speak French? I love the fact that our two official languages saved us from getting our own Trump wannabe.
It’s the same rich dipshit who said that “being wealthy is easy. All people have to do is have $100k sitting in their bank accounts for unexpected expenses and that they should invest the rest”
He’s wealthy enough to change his citizenship and just become a full US citizen … they can have him and he can leave us if he feels so strongly about this.
If he feels so strongly and confidently about all this … let him give up his Canadian citizenship and go join the US … he’s got the money and influence to do it … go ahead and take the first step.
Even today amongst a certain segment of Americans they still revere the concept of “Manifest Destiny”, whereby the entirety of North America will eventually be under American (and traditionally, white Christian) rule.
This wasn’t always envisioned as being done via force; typically it was simply believed that the American system was so perfect and blessed by God that everyone in North America would eventually want to be part of it, and would simply join the US as an inevitable eventuality. To their minds, the entire concept of full American control of North America was ordained by God itself, and so couldn’t be wrong.
Of course, as with any pseudo-religious prophesies when the expectation doesn’t happen some will want to cause/force it to happen. When their Manifest Destiny doesn’t come to fruition, it’s not because of a fault in the concept (to their minds), but that the Canadians/Mexicans (and now Greenlanders?) are standing in the way of inevitability.
There are Americans who continue to believe they’ll eventually control all of North America. You can’t just ignore them and pretend they don’t exist.
I’m glad there are still people who remember that the American belief in manifest destiny, and general American exceptionalism has been around for decades.
And they’ve been slowly and steadily moving on that though commerce, through our increasing branch plant economy and through overwhelming cultural exports since before WW2.
Making Canada the 51st state would make it the largest continental one, usurping Texas. While I wouldn’t support the idea seriously, triggering maga Texans with the idea is hilarious.
This is just goading and manipulation to get better leverage on those tariffs, which is real. I don’t know the scam he’s aiming for here. It just feels like everyone is going to suffer an inflationary war.
Making numbers up to make the proposal seem much more popular than it really is, first he says its 50% support then he changes it to 80%, when in reality its only 13%.
It’s the thought that counts. You don’t try and add a country that votes against you unless you’re a complete fucking moron (looks at Trump - Oh, he is).
Unfortunately, we are currently trying to beat the gammons back down with a stick. We had 4 years with an idiotic government, making extremely self-serving decisions. We feel for what you’re going through, but we aren’t in a good place to help.
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Kevin is a slimy fuck. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kevin forced his wife Linda to take the fall for that boat accident.
He’s a piece of shit so there’s not much I won’t believe about his shitty behavior, but according to the details in that article it’s not exactly shocking that they crashed into a boat with no lights on in the middle of a lake at night.
…while drunk.
Someone please, make this idiot STFU.
Kevin O’Leary is now a traitor to the country.
I would consider helping “negotiate” a US takeover of Canada to be an act of war against Canada or a preparatory act.
Criminal Code section 46:
Okay buddy. Still trying to shift the spotlight away from when you sang high praise of SBF?
Poll suggests 13% of Canadians think Canada should become the 51st American state. Just a liiittle less than “at least half”.
I’m writing this as a quarter-part reply, and 3-quarter-part rant, and it’ll probably hang in the middle of somewhere, as I always do when I rant. Forgive me.
Fact checks are important and useful, but can only go so far. Truth, laws, norms, and everything really, has no meaning in Trumpism. They are just tools to drive towards some goal, or are avenues for exploitation.
They’ll say whatever tf they want regardless of facts, because they have enough people that will believe them, and enough people to further spread these disinformation to those who don’t know or care to know about the truth for themselves, and that bolsters their numbers. There’s a quote that goes something like if someone says something false, it’s untrue, but if tens of thousands of people say the same, it becomes ‘true’ to the minds of these people.
They’ll sue whomever their target is over some batshit crazy claim with no care of the outcome, and only to use the legal process to delay or divert, or simply to cripple someone financially, especially individuals with no access to immense wealth.
They don’t believe in any higher power, but will use it to further gather support, which is particularly effective in a world where the religious feel like the world is moving away from religion and thus stripping away their legitimacy.
Trumpism doesn’t play by harmonious social norms. Humans values and emotions are simply tools to them, and they will continue to trample on human dignity as long as it serves their purposes. They’ve learned how to fully utilize the weaknesses and blind spots of our institutions to attack everyone else and keeping themselves safe.
How do we fight and protect ourselves against a force like this? I don’t know. All I can think of is proper education on critical thinking and instilling people with the will and equipped with the knowledge to seek facts, but that would take decades, and will easily be disrupted by those who are on Trump’s side, and there’s also no guarantee that the process would be effective, given how underfunded our education system is, and how there’s also little to no political will to do anything, as they are more incentivized to seek short-term solutions.
OK, I take issue with this statement.
They believe in Musk.
I can currently think of two reasons why you say so. Your statement either implies that you think Musk is of a higher power, or that you’re just trying to say that these bastards believe in Musk in jest and wrongly quoted the statement about believing “something”. If it was the first one, then I would have an issue with your statement. I’m going to assume that the second is why I’m seeing your comment.
But even with the second reason, I’m not sure if I find it funny. I don’t think they believe in him at all, and instead think that they are simply using each other to further their goals, and will gladly cut each other off or even throw each other under the bus the moment doing so outweighs their continued alliance. If that counts as “believing” to you though, then I can see that being funny, though I would fail to see how it fits into this egoistic and maniacal image I have of them.
I would like to punch every single person who said that in the mouth.
I’d like to see a poll on Canadians’ opinion of lashing O’Leary to a dingy and pushing it into an Arctic Ocean current.
13 percent is way higher than I expected
Lower than I thought. Once youre out of southern Ontario and the lower mainland of BC, patriotism absolutely vanishes, successive federal governments have treated the “hinterlands” so poorly no one cares anymore about some bullshit eastern tim hortons national image.
God, that’s still over one in ten. I feel like before Trump roughly zero Canadians would like to become Americans. This brain rot is spreading and I don’t know how to stop it and I hate it.
Oh this train wreck will accelerate with P.P. in charge. Carbon tax bad is all that matters according to my dad.
It’s really funny talking to my conservative friends who like to say that anyone to the left of them doesn’t understand economics and then they proceed to talk about things like carbon tax in a way that shows they don’t understand economics.
My other favourite hits from those guys:
“They don’t actually have a billion dollars, a lot of it is tied up in assets!” (And now I have to explain why wealth and liquid assets are not relevant to the context of the conversation we are having, and that literally everybody understands this, and why having wealth as assets is usually for tax evasion reasons in the guise of fuelling industry, yada yada)
“You know free healthcare isn’t free! That money has to come from somewhere!” Literally everyone understands how taxes work you brain dead fucking moron. This one actually makes me angry when people say it to me in person. The whole idea is that single payer is actually cheaper because you are cutting out a useless middleman and removing the profit incentive for letting people just fucking die. Nobody thinks that it’s literally magically free.
With these types try “Basically Free at Time of Access” and “Won’t bankrupt you”
The problem is that there is nowhere to go. far right goverments are popping up everywhere.
Our right and Americans are not the same.
I’m willing to consider that the number has grown recently, but it definitely wasn’t anywhere near zero before. There are a lot of areas, often very conservative, that idolize the States.
For example, in the Bible Belt of Manitoba, I wouldn’t be surprised if close to, if not a majority of residents would support this. There’s a independent streak bordering on libertarian, and many are VERY socially conservative. I didn’t spend all that much time there, but I heard multiple people say how they wish they didn’t have to pay for other people’s healthcare. They’re so close to North Dakota, even doing cross boarder trade and many see the higher mean income (sum of all income divided by number of residents) in the US and ignore the lower median income (50th percentile of income).
That number is appallingly high.
At least one in ten people will pick the dumbest answer on any survey just because they think it’s funny.
And there is the other way of people chose the least controversial answer when doing a poll.
13℅ Canadian is roughly the same as 50℅ American, as they have more people per capita. Or something like that, I don’t really understand American math.
Remember when Kevin O’Leary considered running for the leadership of the Conservative party, but dropped it because he’s too stupid to speak French? I love the fact that our two official languages saved us from getting our own Trump wannabe.
It’s the same rich dipshit who said that “being wealthy is easy. All people have to do is have $100k sitting in their bank accounts for unexpected expenses and that they should invest the rest”
He’s wealthy enough to change his citizenship and just become a full US citizen … they can have him and he can leave us if he feels so strongly about this.
If he feels so strongly and confidently about all this … let him give up his Canadian citizenship and go join the US … he’s got the money and influence to do it … go ahead and take the first step.
Don’t fall for MAGA ragebaiting. This was never seriously discussed and posts like this are just feeding the trolls.
Even today amongst a certain segment of Americans they still revere the concept of “Manifest Destiny”, whereby the entirety of North America will eventually be under American (and traditionally, white Christian) rule.
This wasn’t always envisioned as being done via force; typically it was simply believed that the American system was so perfect and blessed by God that everyone in North America would eventually want to be part of it, and would simply join the US as an inevitable eventuality. To their minds, the entire concept of full American control of North America was ordained by God itself, and so couldn’t be wrong.
Of course, as with any pseudo-religious prophesies when the expectation doesn’t happen some will want to cause/force it to happen. When their Manifest Destiny doesn’t come to fruition, it’s not because of a fault in the concept (to their minds), but that the Canadians/Mexicans (and now Greenlanders?) are standing in the way of inevitability.
There are Americans who continue to believe they’ll eventually control all of North America. You can’t just ignore them and pretend they don’t exist.
I’m glad there are still people who remember that the American belief in manifest destiny, and general American exceptionalism has been around for decades.
And they’ve been slowly and steadily moving on that though commerce, through our increasing branch plant economy and through overwhelming cultural exports since before WW2.
That doesn’t seem what gp is suggesting, though
Making Canada the 51st state would make it the largest continental one, usurping Texas. While I wouldn’t support the idea seriously, triggering maga Texans with the idea is hilarious.
This is just goading and manipulation to get better leverage on those tariffs, which is real. I don’t know the scam he’s aiming for here. It just feels like everyone is going to suffer an inflationary war.
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This whole plan is to get territories that Putin wants
I need about 50 Luigi’s, right now.
Idk…seems like at least 500 would be needed to get us where we’re going…
Edit: And so began the clone wars…
trump wants canada as a 51st state, o’leary says “YES GOOD IDEA” then trump wants wayne Gretsky as the “governor of canada”
Making numbers up to make the proposal seem much more popular than it really is, first he says its 50% support then he changes it to 80%, when in reality its only 13%.
And the rest of Canadians who aren’t morons would vote against republicans in every election if we got annexed.
doesn’t matter, we’ve less population than california.
It’s the thought that counts. You don’t try and add a country that votes against you unless you’re a complete fucking moron (looks at Trump - Oh, he is).
And no one in Canada ever votes Conservative. You’re gonna be pretty sad sometime this year.
Only the fucking stupid ones.
(Looks at the last ten years) Kay bud. sure. Vote for that morons party again, we can have 5 million more hindus by 2026.
Found the uneducated racist. Thanks. Added to my block list.
The Red Coats should return to the USA and press reset.
Unfortunately, we are currently trying to beat the gammons back down with a stick. We had 4 years with an idiotic government, making extremely self-serving decisions. We feel for what you’re going through, but we aren’t in a good place to help.
Alternate headline: “Canadians are offended by Kevin O’Leary”.
Just in general.