Ownlee teezinng
Well, you can call it a “light jab,” or you can call it a stupid childish insult from the stupidest, most childish, peak epically vulgar head of state on the planet.
US President-elect Donald Trump took a light jab at his Canadian counterpart on Tuesday, referring to Justin Trudeau as the “governor” of the “Great State of Canada”.
Imagine Trump considering it a “light jab” if some wag said he was the governor-elect of Florida.
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump remarked that Canada should become the 51st US state – something that was “in no way a serious comment”, said Public Safety Minister Dominic Leblanc, who accompanied Trudeau to the dinner.
“The president was telling jokes, the president was teasing us,” he told reporters early this month.
No he wasn’t. He thinks he’s better than everyone else, so his “jokes” are never mere jokes or mere teasing (and “teasing” is in general lightly disguised bullying anyway, even when it’s not Trump doing it). People shouldn’t make light of Trump’s disgusting manners.
“Lighten up, it was just a joke!”
– every misogynist, ever
…and yet, I’m torn. Trump’s apparently trying to get rid of the dumb annual time changes, and just might do it :-P
His ‘jokes’ are his way of floating an idea, putting it into the public sphere to see the reaction. It officially becomes a joke when he sees the inevitable public rejection.
As if Canada would only be one state. Saskatchewan alone has more people than Wyoming.
The “Great State of Canada” brain fart is the Trump equivalent of the Monroe Doctrine.He must have been reading ‘How to Lose Friends and Nauseate People’ or some such.
Colin Day, #3:
Canada has roughly as much people as California. There are other glaring issues in the same vein, though: size comes to mind. Some quick Googling tells me that Canada has about six times the area of Alaska, and fourteen times that of Texas. It would be rather unconvenient to administer a territory this big as a single US state. (And of course, that’s assuming an annexation could be pulled off succesfully, which is already preposterous.)
To judge from what I read at Quora, there are plenty of people in the USA who imagine that Canadians are jealous of the USA and would love to be part of it. Who cares about affordable health care? Who cares about the lack of guns in public places? I suspect that those sort of people think that the orange felon was making a serious offer that Canadians would welcome.
Almost everything has more people than Wyoming. The nearest Safeway has more people than Wyoming. The high plains are not a good place to farm OR live. It was all a big mistake.
Having lived in both Canada and Chile, I sometimes say that Canada is more like Chile than Chile is. What can such a bizarre statement mean? Only that the population of Canada is strung out in an extremely long thin line close to the border, whereas that of Chile is concentrated in the central zone, say from Los Andes to Los Ángeles, which is not particularly thin. What does it mean in the present context? That putting, say, St Johns and Vancouver in a single state would make no sense.
Yes Canada is quite interesting when you look closely – that vast enormous gigantic space north of the thin strip, that has almost no people in it. It’s like an ant in the Pentagon.
We’d be better off making the US a province of Canada. If nothing else, we’d get a better flag and anthem, along with the universal healthcare and rational gun laws.
Trump is Florida-Man-in-Chief. That’s the only title he deserves (along with the attendant prison sentence.)
#7-8,
Edmonton is not in that strip (300 miles of the US border), and has more people than Wyoming
Yes. I knew that, but Edmonton is far from typical (it’s like saying that Canada extends further south than Oregon: true, but misleading). The last time I checked it was the only significant North American city north of London. I flew to Edmonton in 2001, not long after the 11th September (at the end of October, to be exact). I was surprised to see the airport staff dressed in Hallowe’en outfits. I thought that was odd.
Of course, we’d have to accept Canada’s trans policies along with that. It would be at best a mixed blessing.
I thought it best to draw a veil over those. Maybe worse than those of the USA and UK, and certainly not better.