cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41085312

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating 51st state threats.

And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of annexation would likely not be the intelligence agencies directed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.#

  • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Nothing’s happening. They will win. Do you see anyone actually doing anything? These protests don’t really do anything. The government people aren’t doing anything. The citizens aren’t doing anything. Canadians have done far more than Americans. America has no heart.

    People opposing trump have acted like that the whole time… They just talk, or hold signs, they don’t don’t actually do anything, they aren’t even playing the same game.

    americas bringing a floppy slice of American cheese to a gun fight and wondering why they are getting turned into Swiss cheese.

    • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      20 years ago I wrote an email to my dad saying that this was coming. “If I were to start a fascist government, I would let everyone say anything they wanted online and nothing would be heard above the noise.” There was more to it, but he said I was overreacting.

      After Trump was reelected, we were talking on the phone. He said, “well, you were right. What now?” I had no answers, but was surprised he remembered that.