Donald Trump said Tuesday that Canada will have to pay US$61 billion to be part of his “Golden Dome” space-based missile defence plan — but would pay nothing if it becomes part of the U.S., a message he claimed to have “told Canada” himself.

The social media post came hours after King Charles III delivered the speech from the throne in Canada’s Parliament, which particularly focused on asserting Canada’s sovereignty and included plans for bolstering national defence.

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      He literally just said Canada has nothing that the US wants but he still won’t stfu with this 51st “state” bullshit (as if he’d EVER allow them to become a full state with the population, voting power, and political leanings of another California… it’s not even a real proposition that anyone would ever take seriously, including himself, but still won’t shut up about it)

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    Canada: How about we stay Canadian, we don’t pay $61B and you go golden shower yourself in Moscow again.

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    again with the mexico will pay for it bullshit, except with canada now

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      Holy fucking shit you’re right. Never looked at it like this. We’re getting a second wall, aren’t we? Fuck.

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          i mean, there is a bit of an excuse for a wall in the border now.

          the same way i suspect there will be a bit of an excuse for a “golden dome” too.

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    I’m glad Trump is finally fixing this problem. Every fucking day I get in my car to drive somewhere and there’s a big pothole, the road is closed, or my destination was directly hit by an incoming missile. The worst are those unguided ones. They don’t even know or care where they’re going to land! The weak democrats are too busy using pronouns and protesting the border to even talk about the problem of the constant missile and rocket strikes entering our airspace and striking our land.

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    Correction, would pay 174B as 51st state,

    You demonize and attack your own states that vote against you. we’re supposed to believe we would A) Actually have rights and not be just a military occupation resource extraction zone, and B) That you wouldnt throw us under the bus with the rest of the democrat heavy states?

    Fuck off.

    The world is far too comfortable with Fascists, having taken hold in America, Russia, and far too many other places.

    We need to go back? yeah. to when Fascists swung by the neck on a rope.

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    He’s genuinely a worse negotiator than kids.

    I bet he has his hand backwards when playing poker, showing everyone else what he has, but not seeing what he has himself.

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      This.

      • they pay us to build it
      • they pay us to run it
      • our people only collect data
      • they get a copy of that data

      … As long as they keep paying their bills.

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        It’s what Orban did, and other Authoritarians, on whom the whole administration based their plan on. They get other aspects “right”… but I guess that is when Trump isn’t the one talking.

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    Days after the USA ambassador in Canada said Trump was done with the 51st State shit. I suppose Trump will rename the ambassador function to embarrassador by an executive order.

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    the mafia used to be good friends with old school unions back in the day. they would help them create “forever projects” like subway systems that went nowhere, or roads that went nowhere, sewers and drainage systems that werent necessary. mainly to get money from government contracts that would keep everyone paid. usually by bribing or threatening officials to sign off on the contracts.

    this is “forever project” for elon.

    pointless. as satellites can be easily hacked by “bad actors” as china and russia have proven already, and with the advances in AI automated systems advancing every day, or even them succumbing to “poisoning” with misleading data. this will be, much like the wall, full of fucking holes. this is just another way for them to drain more money out of americans, while attempting to scare canada into giving up “the cookies” and enriching those contracted to build these projects. which will be of course, subpar, abd wont work as advertised, if it ever actually gets off the ground.

    it is possible for ANYONE to mess with a satellite, with the right know how and equipment. you dont have to be a world super power to do it. russia and china have demonstrated that they can already target and deactivate satellites. i literally watched a guy on youtube demonstrate how to do it with scrapped dishes from ebay and DIY arrays. fucking anonymous has done it several times to russia already.

    long story short. its fucking stupid and it will likely cost as much as they want it to. based on a more realistic metric than the one they provided, somewhere just shy of 1 trillion dollars. 850 + or - billion. i would not be surprised if somewhere down the line they would find the need to “upgrade the existing system” and give even more tax payer money to billionaires and contractors for more of these forever projects.

    its a big fucking expensive ass show.

    and if anything it might also be possible to have those satellites turned AGAINST the US, to block their own nukes, while the enemies hit their now unguarded targets.