‘F*ck You!’ Canadian Podcaster Loses It Over Hockey Players Shaking Trump’s Hand Amid Threats to Seize Country as 51st State
https://www.mediaite.com/media/sports/fck-you-canadian-podcaster-loses-it-over-hockey-players-shaking-trumps-hand-amid-threats-to-seize-country-as-51st-state/
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Aeao@lemmy.world · 82 pts · 201d
I’m about to say sounds silly but I say it often.
“He wants to make all of Canada a single state…wouldn’t you break it up into multiple states? With Canada as the 51 state be the new powerhouse? Like California? Because Canada is like a whole ass country”
And I know that’s not the issue. The issue is that he’d threaten war at all… but imagine the entirety as Canada as one single state. Also Venezuela is the 52 state. Iran and Greenland are combined to the 53 state because fuck it its nearly 5 o’clock”
Puerto Rico will remain not a state
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 201d
Everything is bigger in canada
Aeao@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 201d
Bro I live In Texas. I just saw this in all.
Everything, and I mean everything, is bigger in Texas
Except budget, taxes, healthcare, eduction, over all happiness, morals or freedom
But we’re number one in having an Alamo.
To be clear this is satire.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 201d
We truly live in the blursed timeline.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
I felt I had to add that because we live in the crazy timeline
Edit: I couldn’t help but notice you didn’t mention YOUR Alamo? We had a whole ass Alamo and you didn’t.
Satire
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 201d
I'm not so sure about that, the airport terminal near me also has an Alamo. I guess maybe Texas is tied for number one on that.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
There’s also Alamo rental car. Don’t come at me with your “it’s called alamo” unless the most famous not Texan (Davey Crockette ) weighed your luggage.
Off topic joke I worked at a leather shop in Florida but again I’m from Texas. We sold very large knives to scary bikers.
Anyway one guy said to me “a Bowie knife make everyone think twice lol”
Me: I don’t know man, you know who else had a Bowie knife? Jim Bowie. And he fuckin died.
moakley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
Excuse me while I take a break to drink my large soda from Whataburger.
It's gonna be a while.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
It better be a dr. Pepper! And that’s just to hold you over until you get to the drive thru bar. Thier specials have been pickle flavored for a while, who wants to get drunk on that?
Someone@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 200d
You definitely have bigger toast.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 200d
I don't get the bigness thing about texas, Ontario is one third bigger.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
I really don’t know where the “bigger in Texas” thing comes from. I know when traveling to Florida is a two day trip. The first day is all Texas and the second day is traveling thru the other 3 states. I know king ranch is big enough if your car breaks down you are in real trouble. People die walking thru king ranch it’s so big.
I don re know about Canada but there a whole lot of nothing in Texas. Driving for hours and seeing nothing but land.
LeFantome@programming.dev · 15 pts · 201d
If Canada was a state, the Republicans would never win the electoral college again. There would never be another Republican president.
And the House of Representatives would be permanently blue.
And even just 2 more senators would be a massive risk for the Republicans too. If each province was a state, it would be game over in the senate as well.
California, Texas, New York, and Canada would all be blue in 2028. There are only so many Floridas and Texas is not guaranteed.
And if the Canadians in Florida and Arizona and Nevada could vote, they may not be as red anymore either.
Canada will never be a state. But it would certainly kill the US Republican Party if it did.
krashmo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 201d
I don't think you are accurately accounting for the popularity of politicians who align themselves with MAGA policies in Canada
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
Yeah, a few make it through, but not nearly enough to affect the chaos they want to, unlike our southern neighbours...
Aeao@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
I’ve got bad news we are all mostly already blue. Replicocans only win because voting is a pain is the ass by design. When democrats when they don’t even try to fix things, they just put thier hands up and say “I’m so pissed but thier nothing we can do other then complain quietly to ourselves. Thats a shame.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 201d
It's kind of a pain, especially in certain districts in red and purple states where they make it intentionally hard to vote... but for the vast majority of non-voters, either they just don't care or they think it won't make a difference who they vote for.
It's as much a mind game as a foot game.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
I’d love to go back to not caring about politics. I’d love to go back to never wondering if the surgeon general has ever practiced medicine in thier life.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
That's how it got into this position in the first place, casual disinterest in the mechanisms of the government.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
You can give trump credit for that. He certainly got me interested in politics.
Before he ran for president I was a fan of trump. I also work in sales and at that time I thought he was a great bullshit artist. I had trump vodka, I went to his casino. I was a fan.
When he said he was running for president I thought it was halarious. I thought about running myself just so I could say “high I’m Micheal former presidential candidate for the Republican 2020, 2024, and 3056. I’d like to order the chicken quesadilla with cinimon twists and a Baja blast thank you”
My point is I was on board for the silly mess but I voted for Hilary obviously. Who would ever let a bullshit artist run a country!
I love bugs bunny, would I give him nuclear bombs? Absolutely fucking not. If you made me president I’d remove Fluoride from the drinking water and add cocaine. Maybe don’t vote for me and I probably should never be rich or powerful.
Trump was like “why not be president “ and that’s when I was like “no bro… if you bullshit your way thru a presidency people are gonna get hurt”
You don’t give bugs bunny executive privilege and law making abilities.
TLDR: Donald trump is a joke I found funny before he started running for political office.
fourish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d
You think there will be free and fair voting under a Maga that wants Canada? Interesting.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 200d
Trump doesn't spend time thinking about the practicalities of something like this, because when he says "51st state" what he means is "The latest expansion of my kingly domain."
He has zero intention of letting newly subjugated Canadians vote. He doesn't even want to let Americans vote. These are the fantasies of an autocrat, not carefully thought out plans.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 200d
He's just a spoiled rich kid in a toy store, demanding everything he sets his eyes on: "I want Greenland! I want Canada! I want everything!"
His parents were monsters, so they indulged him, and so did everybody around him for his entire life, and now he thinks that's what life is - he gets whatever he demands, because he's better than everybody else, obviously. And for some reason, those around him continue to indulge him.
What he needs, is a spanking, and a time out.
big_slap@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 201d
pr does not want to be a state, trust me. they are better off not becoming a state
Aeao@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
I’m aware some territories do and some do not. This is America and we are simple minded folk. If they don’t become a state than they aren’t are people. And even if they do join they’re kinda brown… it’ll still be a thing
big_slap@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
yeah, I hear ya. racism makes zero sense lol
Aeao@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
It makes less than zero. If I told you I was starting a new society run by people with a mole on thier face you point out that that’s a ridiculous metric
Like the phrase “don’t judge book by its cover”
Our society promotes “Judge them entirely by thier cover”
It’s not only bad it’s a inefficient way to run a society.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
Keeping it a single state means fewer senators. Not that Canada is like a communist haven or anything, but they're FAR from our MAGA bullshit and they don't wanna dilute the power they've accumulated in that chamber of congress.
Also, Canada would be the 3rd or 4th highest GDP in the US if it became a single state. California and Texas have it solidly beat. NY is neck and neck with Canada.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
California doesn’t fuck about. While a higher gdp than new York’s is still nothing to ignore
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 201d
GDP seems to be a high score for wage slavery.
Canada does things slightly differently.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
That’s very true. I’m living with a dictator who insists the economy is great because stocks are high. That’s not really how the average persons measure life.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 200d
Making it 4-5 states would hand the Dems the senate. They want another Puerto Rico with no real representation.
bluejade@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 201d
I feel a certain kind of way towards Canadians who are willing to take foreign money to promote separatist views that would be used to extract from them. I feel a certain kind of way towards Canadians who would work with our enemies against us and sowe pointless division between us
zeppo@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 201d
Media outlets should not repeat “51st state”.
streetfestival@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 201d
All mainstream media does is give publicity to Chump
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 201d
Why not? Let people know he said that.
Not reporting on it before Trump is how people thought it started with Trump.
zeppo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
No, that’s not accurate. One, reporting on what before Trump? On what? Next, using his idiot terminology as if it is legitimate does not help anything. “51st state” is a disgtusing, moronic and nonsensical phrase he uses and they are legitimizing it.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 200d
American 51st state threats. If they had been reporting on it before Trump then people would realize it didn't start with Trump.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 199d
This is a really stupid line of reasoning.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 199d
How do you figure? America makes these threats for years, no one cares to report on it then it gets reported on with Trump and the loser thinks it shouldn't be reported on.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 198d
Because they weren't real threats when the government wasn't the ones saying it...
I don't care about random pundits saying bullshit
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 197d
US doesn't have real media,they just push a thought until it's popular enough for the government to do it.
Taco2112@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 201d
I thought it was known that a lot of NHL players vote for and support Republicans.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 201d
Like that traitor Gretzky.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 201d
That’s wild to hear. I always thought of hockey as a sport of diplomacy. It’s heart breaking to hear the ethical hockey players are choosing a more aggressive approach to politics. The “might makes right” viewpoint.
It you are playing hockey the goal is finding a solution not just hurting people until you win.
Very disappointing.
Satire.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 201d
Hockey is globally perceived as the winter white privilege sport. Tennis is the summer counterpart though I'd argue tennis is less homogenous.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
Which is weird because tennis has one of the lowest entry costs of any sport, provided your municipality provides public nets.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
It’s the only sport I know of where the balls expire. Tennis lessons for my son was kinda expensive. Also he hated it after like three days lol
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 199d
All balls expire.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
If I need answers on boobies I’ll ask you. We are talking about balls here. You are out of your element!
yucandu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
You can play with year old balls just fine, they're just less bouncy. Which is actually what i recommend for new players since they tend to get a bit more control that way. I never had lessons. Just ran around for fun.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
I forgot I wrote that and just saw “you can play with year old balls” in my notifications. lol.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
Do Russians care about white privilege?
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 201d
Hockey is the sport of peace, they are all intellectuals and their opinions on politics should always be considered relevant. /s
Aeao@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
They do have more teeth than someone from Texas… fair point.
moody@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 201d
I hope this is a joke
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 201d
The comment ends with saying it's satire.
generallynonsensical@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 201d
The obvious solution would be to not let American players in the league if this was a problem.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 201d
I say this from the US, only shake my president's hand if you spit on it first.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 201d
"The only place to spit in a rich man's house is in his face" - Diogenes
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 6 pts · 201d
On the president?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 201d
*on your hand, visibly while looking him in the eyes so he sees, then offer your hand with a smile
Aeao@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 201d
I don’t know that’s close to a blood bond and trump is mentally 9 years old. It might confuse him.
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 201d
I seem to remember seeing posts online where people claiming to be ex-military claim to have given Bill Clinton a "stink palm" where one runs their hand up their ass crack before shaking someone's hand.
Krankenwagen@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 200d
Something from this podcast stood out to me.
He talks about how Austin Matthews is a great guy because he spends a lot of time at Sick Kids playing with the children. Does Austin sucking up to known big league pedofile Trump cast that in a different type of light? Just speculating.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 200d
The single most important purity test is Trump. Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mr Rogers, and uhh Eleanor Roosevelt would instantly become terrible people if they shook Trump's hand, regardless of anything else they did or accomplished in life. That's how it works. It's like King Midas kinda.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 200d
King Mierdas
alltomorrowsregrets@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 199d
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
Doesn't surprise me tbh. I'm pretty cynical about powerful people in general. I think if we knew everything there are very few who would survive with reputations intact.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 199d
westingham@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 201d
Steve Dangle is a real one
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 200d
I fully agree with Steve Dangle. When will a Canadian NHL team finally take the Stanley Cup?
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 200d
If Buffalo wins it, would that count?
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
LOL! Man, I feel sorry for Buffalo, the Bills had numerous chances and the Sabres (in 2nd place!!!) drought continues. Are there Canadian Sabres fans watching from west bank of the Niagara River?
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 199d
Probably. I've seen some Leafs' fans declare they've jumped ship, for the rest of the season at least.
One said they feel bad for the Eastern Conference bc there won't be a "Get Out of 1st Round Free" card since the Leafs won't make the playoffs.
Gathorall@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d
Professional sports are state sponsored to promote patriotism. Sports leagues are made to empower and legitimize people like Trump.
Bullerfar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
As a European, I disagree hard on this. Sports is mostly about community, local clubs and entertainment for the 9-5 worker. To have something that takes away the thoughts of the housing loan, ensurance bills, health, kids, job, etc.
Gathorall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
Well, I thought the bread circuses side was so obvious it wasn't worth a mention. Docile and irrationally in support of the state is the kind of people sports are made to make.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 200d
Lol.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 200d
I wouldn't shake Trump's hand. It has been up someone's asshole, and they didn't consent.
orbitz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 199d
It may be worth it if you had a chance to say 'how tiny' as you clasped his hand. Though representing the NHL not like they could do that, or most people in his insulated environment.
decapitae@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 201d
✊
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 200d
That doesn't really seem newsworthy. Basically, "podcaster says something".
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
Finally, somebody with balls.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 200d
I was disappointed in Jared Keeso trying to sanitize Gretzky in the last season of Shoresy. Either he wrote and filmed that season far in advance or he's completely tone deaf to CDN hockey fans.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 199d
Now all those American players can go back to their Canadian teams and continue to suck in the playoffs and never win a cup.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 201d
elibroftw@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 201d
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 200d
Wow! That guy is more angrier than that Canadian curling guy! I can't fault the team players for being thrown into that weird political situation. They will laugh at almost anything that is intended to be a joke just to show welcoming respect to authority (even if they don't mean it and even if it is wrong to do so). Their visit to the SOTU address is more about the committees running things than about the players.
maplesaga@lemmy.world · -26 pts · 200d
Does someone have a citation on the threats?
I'd heard him mention he wanted Canada to join the US, I'd not heard him threatening it, nor bringing tanks to the border.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 200d
Get fucked. It's 3 seconds on google to find reputable articles about his threats to canada, videos of him threatening canada, or even his own fucking posts on truth social.
The only reason it hasn't happened is because his people distracted him with invading Venezuela, then threatening Greenland, then Iran, now Cuba, or maybe still Iran.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 198d
Every time I see this guy, he is always spewing bullshit. Just block and move on.
maplesaga@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 200d
Can't you just link it or tell me what he said so i can search it, it had to take longer than 3 seconds to type that.
I feel finding an article on tanks at Canada's border would be easier to find if it was true.
grue@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 200d
You're sealioning and you fucking know it. Nobody's buying your bullshit.
maplesaga@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 200d
OK. I assume given the downvotes and responses with no citation its emotionally driven and people are upset about tariffs.
Magnum@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 200d
What’s wrong with you? There’s active‑duty military personnel deployed in Canada, yet you seem to ignore that the United States, arguably the most heavily armed and volatile nation on the planet, shares a border with Canada. I don’t care that you haven’t shown up at my door with a loaded gun and threatened me personally. The letters you sent, the posts you made, and the fact that my neighbor is armed to the teeth are already more than enough to make me feel unsafe. It’s enough to imagine our entire apartment building turning into a “crater of doom” without you even leaving your unit. That's how fucking armed you are.
maplesaga@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 200d
Sorry what is it you're wanting to do to protect us from these nukes?
Magnum@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 199d
Hey asshole, if you want to have a conversation, pull your head out of your fucking ass, at least a little! But the way you are engaging is a draining hardship.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 200d
And yet, here you are, like Oliver Twist, hat in hand asking "please sir, may i have a link?"
maplesaga@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 200d
I can't find anything when I searched.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 199d
X to doubt
otter@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 199d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_expansionism_under_Donald_Trump#Canada
Sources are embedded in this section, and can be found at the bottom of this page
Magnum@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 200d
Fucking moron
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 200d
You just log on to the internet? World news in general?
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 200d
Thats a recursive citation?
Nobodies given me a single thing that isnt this same video.
lobut@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 200d
I think the tariffs are apart of the "threat" ... he said he would remove them if we "joined. The thing with Trump is he says that he doesn't "need" anything about Canada and then talk about all the freshwater we have. So it's a lot of "dog whistling" mixed in with actions like the tariffs whenever we do things like make deals with China.
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
Ah, I tend to believe every country should have the ability to control their own trade policy. Paul Krugman a far left leaning economist called it a more politically expedient VAT tax, which most US economists say we need a VAT due to massive US debt accrual.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYqvK_oVN8
It is a tax, and generates revenue for the US, which is something many left leaning people want for things like a minimum income. I'd be curious if a Democrat did it and used the proceeds to establish a minimum income would people be seething with rage and calling it a betrayal?