I never said we did.

De jure means the law as written, de facto means in practice.

Yes, in practice we’re totally independent, but the fact our constitution says otherwise seems like a bigger deal than the cultural ties or whatever.

Bye.

Shit, wrong war between England and France! My bad, will fix.

Doesn’t that imply your plan is to put out the fire? That’s not an option.

FFS, why are you so intent on being a stick in the mud.

I feel like we haven’t been at this nearly long enough for that distinction. It hasn’t even been an hour.

Don’t forget, he already hates Trudeau, and probably won’t love his successor either.

I see little chance that was the only reason for running, and the people he doesn’t like tend to slight him a lot - far more than he could keep track of even if he was intellectually normal. By all appearances, the input -> brain -> shitpost/order chain on the guy is very short and fast.

He could have fired back and said “now it’s 50%”, I guess. It’s also possible someone will remind him. Either way, I don’t think it will resonate as a huge mistake a year from now.

And you need Trump to be vindictive in 12 hours or it won’t happen?

Knowing Trump, yeah, probably.

And the experiment was to figure out if they can actually do it without getting sued?

It’s plays excellently for the domestic audience, and making Trump stop being mean was never an option.

So far, I haven’t heard any response at all from Trump.

It’s 1933 Germany at worst. Give them some credit. /s

I read this as Canada being the second head at first.

Which is actually appropriate, because we have a similar population, and would make sure the Republicans never win another election just like a second California (and besides the, y’know, French-tinged guerilla warfare).

Yeah, that’s like the one part of America that holds mystique for me too. I guess American Samoa has the weird timezone.

I mean, that leaves out the part where Charles III is our de jure (but not de facto) head of state.

That’s not funny. Grocery stores here are filled with people weeding out the American products, too.

It’s kind of weird, but I’m not surprised. Mexico is exotic and just has a lot more historically going on IIRC.

Canada’s history goes something like: The French start trading furs with the natives, the colonial British show up, the British take New France from Napoleon the French, they decide to shotgun-marry the two into a new country after the US civil war, and then the country slowly transitions from being in a geopolitics-free bubble run by the British to one run by the Americans (with a period of worrying about the two fighting each other).

So, the big picture isn’t exactly action-packed - in a way, we’re having the most eventful period in the country’s history now. (Of course, there’s tons of other stuff if you want to look closer, including migrations, minor rebellions, the various schemes the British tried to thwart American expansion, constant flirtation with splitting apart again and Newfoundland joining)

Edit: Oh shit, I forgot the vikings. Yeah, they came and did viking stuff, and left some house foundations. Then all died out. And I should mention it had stuff happening the whole time before Europeans arrived, just no literate cultures to record it, so it’s prehistory.

I mean, they don’t. Their country is self-contained enough they don’t have to bother. I hear Chinese are the same way, if you can understand their language.

Don’t listen to that guy. Canadians know Americans, and we know some of you are fine. Hopefully it gets easier to come here soon enough.

The big, important difference being that in the US the naughty third is in control.

If it hit the middle of the ocean, it could be cool and nothing else.