[image: image.png] Opening thoughts Blue Letter Week-in-Review: Is Trump Going To Invade Canada?? <substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3722532&post_id=159074375&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2bqi05&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDA2NDQ1MTcsInBvc3RfaWQi…>Cliff Schecter Look, we’ve seen a lot of insane headlines in the Trump era, but the fact an actual U.S. congressman felt the need to introduce a bill preventing America from *invading Canada*? *That’s a new level of dystopian absurdity.* Yet, here we are. Rep. Shri Thanedar, Detroit Democrat, has co-sponsored a bill saying, “*no, let’s not go to war with Canada*.” Why? Because we have a frothing, fatuous, clementine-faced madman as president who keeps questioning Canada’s autonomy with expansionist rhetoric about its becoming “our beautiful 51st state.”It becomes no less less absurd, but a lot less funny, when members of our intelligence community leak that if our “President” spoke this way about a non-ally *they’d expect an invasion.* It loses more non-existent luster when you realize *a French-nuclear-attack submarine has docked in Novia Scotia, 300 miles from the U.S. border.* So, whatever, (as Wolverine called Deadpool) “God’s Perfect Idiot” is doing, our allies aren’t taking chances. And the thing about placing nuclear subs in play is *mistakes happen*. So, thanks again, business Republicans. “not voting for the guy but party.” Good job. Also, I know the French and Canadians have said this isn’t related to Trump, that a plan was already in the works. But, tell me if they’d say anything else if its purpose were very different. *Let’s be clear:* Trump’s worldview is driven by resentment and delusions of power. Canada—with a functioning democracy, progressive policies and refusal to bow to him—is like a giant middle finger to the black hole parading around in a meatsuit putting his grubby, toddler-esque fingers on everything he can stroke. …Canada is literally *worried* that the U.S. might, under Trump, become unstable enough to lash out militarily The good news? Canada, besides having a prime minister who can string sentences together, has an actual *functioning* democracy—one that protects itself from aspiring despots part one: Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit. Aaron Regunberg is a contributing editor at *The New Republic* and senior climate policy counsel at Public Citizen. part two: America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore.
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