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https://newrepublic.com/article/215233/canada-iran-trump-republicans-midterm-election-pain
Sep 10, 2026 4:39 PM
TheLastSpaceman
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https://newrepublic.com/article/215233/canada-iran-trump-republicans-midterm-election-pain
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
But Trump can promise money he will never give and his followers will forgive him like the sheep they are
brendino87
Lol he promised more money that'll never come to these idiots if they vote red in November
They all clapped it up like the seals they are
Pulsifer
As long as he has a 6-3 majority of Supreme Court judges to protect him from any consequences or fallout, during or after his presidency, he doesn't have any weaknesses. Just new, future grievances to feed the MAGA faithful in their diet of fear, hate, mockery and contempt. Becoming a lame duck who can't push through his handlers' agenda just gives him more time to demagogue and focus on rigging the next election. The 2028 campaign starts the day after the midterms.
AdrianDunne
Presidential immunity is the dumbest fucking concept. The president can try to break any law they want, and if they're stopped, there are no legal consequences.
Poppypoppoppop
The real question is "Is your country shit enough now for you to go vote the right way come November?" to all Americans voters, even Trump voters. If their reply is no, don't worry, Trump will get the country there by 2028
Osiricus
Goddamn, he was never well, but he has moved into super unwell territory. Like, you're dementia addled great uncle that you hide the kids from now runs the country while you can see fresh pus coming out of his pores, unwell.
backrideup9
Please let it be poison.
DustyBibbles
Or a few life sentences and then poison
Mezinov
Need one of those O'Brien mind prisons that let you serve a life sentence in a day. Then just keep puttin' 'em back in.
Cantbetruetoday
He’s just so much a fucking piece of shit!
suggestedCleverUsernameGenerator
I say we just turn off the electricity from Niagara Falls and cut off the US. We’ll turn it back on when the US elects adults who are going to do their jobs.
MiserableBustard
That would be a great way to kill a lot of people.
flordelasantillas
Canada could initiate rolling blackouts to northern states red districts who rely on Canadian electricity.
NKato
What I'm happy about is the fact that Iran no longer treats our government as legitimate - when Trump keeps breaking his word, there's no reason to trust him. Being a holdout until the next presidential election is a smart play.
GentleTex73
They've been screwing with other countries for decades. It's our turn to turn up the heat under their asses.
urusername2
Good link!
rbudrick
I aint reading that. Just tell us what the Achilles heal is.
NoPantsOhClock
Not entirely sure I like Canada and Iran being in the same sentence as making the US take damage, self inflicted or not. Drumpf might see it and start confusing the two.
dripstone
some of the rhetoric that I've seen about Canada being a 'nuclear power' is scary too.... Yes we do have nuclear power up here...
lifeisadadjoke
Like The Islamic State of Japan.
ToSisPoS
Well W convinced his country that Iraq perpetrated 9/11, so that is a real concern.
AWarningToOthers
"confusing the two" is tRumps default setting.
lickwidghost
Tbf it is a very complex shape compared to the first number.
Buffoonery
"confusing the two"...even if it's just one thing.
rubypilgrim
Guys, hear me out. Canada should get a trial test at being the 51st state. Just give them a taste of being American, give them voting rights and see if they like it. They get to keep everything they already have otherwise. They just get to vote in Canadian and American elections in the next three elections, and if they don't like it, they can hand the mess back. I'm sure they'll ALL want to vote with Trump in mind.
SilverFoxChaser
Smokescreen so they can attempt to invalid the election.
quietwalker
What does this image mean? What am I not getting, or is it just so stupid that I can't get low enough to get it?
TheLastSpaceman
Look at the grease on his face!
blahblahbushes
Less administration and more defenestration.
mohavewolfpup
Amnesty period for any countries who need to do some housekeeping. Just leave the museums alone in Washington DC and surrounding areas please
TheLastSpaceman
Oh man, you don't know what happened to the Smithsonian yet, do you?
mohavewolfpup
The tampering of history to remove "woke" signage and such? Have heard about that at museums and national parks
TheLastSpaceman
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/arts/design/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-resigns.html
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Good. I want the US to fall. They will be an empire no longer.
DukeDarkwood
I live here, and want us to stop being an empire. The time of superpowers has passed, and we're very bad at it, anyway.
I don't want us to fall completely apart. I DO want us to fall from grace, and leave the world alone while we sort this all out. Root out all the corruption, close the loopholes, restructure the whole dang framework - that's easily 15-20 years, at least. Then the next 30-40 would be rebuilding ourselves. And only THEN, do we rejoin the world - as petitioners, not as
DukeDarkwood
the entitled jerks we have been for decades. Nations should be working together on policy, not following the biggest economy and/or military in the room just because they're big.
And if we CAN'T do that? Then we deserve to fall. I won't like it. But if the world cared what I liked, we wouldn't be in this screwed up Regime in the first place.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
I completely agree, but I also would prefer the US balkanize in the process. I know the process would be destructive, but every process at this stage is destructive. Whether you wanna make the US better or have it keep getting worse, there will be destruction. So, imho, it should just stop being a country. Break into a few dozen independent states.
DukeDarkwood
Yup. I am aware of this, and while I don't know if we will fully Balkanize - splitting into multiple nations, each with a government - that 15-20 years of rooting out the corruption is going to be accompanied by GREAT instability, both civil and political.
Putting ourselves back together after will be easier if we don't Balkanize, so I kind of prefer it on that grounds; remaining separate would lead to, well... the same problems that plagued the Balkans.
Also, the more unstable it gets, the
DukeDarkwood
more it will spill over into Canada and Mexico; any riots in border cities will spill over, and mass emigrations are likely in any event.
Whatever we deserve here in the U.S., I don't want Canada and Mexico to have to deal with the collateral. And a reminder: as vast as Canada is, a majority of its population live within 100 miles (160 km) of the U.S. border. I expect at least 20 (32) of that to be the "splash zone", sitting too close to the stage.
ButtblasterMcAssmaster
Ideally it should split into 4-5 smaller nations. Pacific, Midwest, South, and New England. The (almost entirely negative) global influence the US has had and continues to have as a united nation is too great a threat, no matter who's in charge of it.
valen00
My only issue with it all is the nuclear proliferation and war that will happen as a result. Like ya'll could dial it down a few notches and still do that keeping the fuckwits in line thing in return for favorable trade deals and military bases everywhere. That and china will 100% step into the gap.
DukeDarkwood
Yeah, but there is NO scenario where we can both clean out/fix our system AND avoid a huge amount of turmoil. In fact, I'm pretty sure there is no avoiding turmoil in ANY scenario.
Not to mention, the turmoil has already started. But this? This is tame stuff compared to what it could be. I don't mean Trump; the Regime is making its OWN turmoil, on purpose, everywhere it can. I mean domestically. Challenging the Regime will open a whole new can of internal strife.
SirSage
Any chance you can post the whole article for these posts? Because you have the article in front of you to get the first pic. And there have been many bad actors who switch links after they make front page. Or add a link afterwards and it is similarly malicious. Random links online are generally not to be trusted.
ElbowDeepInAHeadlessHorseman
What a crappy framing. "Harry Potter is making life very difficult for Voldemort!"
LilMissWheels
Not a fan of being lumped in with Iran. Definitely could have been worded better.
MySushi
The enemy of your enemy is a friend, even if you don't agree on everything else. Drumpf or rather the cabal of billionaires backing him are an enemy to the entire world's working class people, no matter where we are from
LilMissWheels
No?
Stanning IRAN because they also hate Trump is just goofy. I would get gang raped and then thrown off a roof by the Gašt-e Eršâd if I stepped foot in that country.
MySushi
I probably would be too, same in Türkiye if I expressed who I am. The Maggat cult is working hard to turn North America and the rest of the world into cult following dystopias like that too. Don't forget Iran used to be far more progressive, even permitting women to wear short skirts, go to university, before the American CIA deposed democracy and installed an autocratic regime in the country. The same sort of people are now in power again, albeit far less competent in their goings-on
TheLastSpaceman
Rather be Iran than pedo cult.
Rather be Iran than nazis.
Rather be Iran than Israel.
OldSchoolNewRules
So the republicans are going to blame Canada for them being historically unpopular.
DukeofKMS
The US Achilles heel is that Europe, China and Japan own the gross of US debt. If we sell this debt in larger parts at once, the US would have to lend money at the same interest as dunno… Simbabwe. And t gf at would end you in a few tears
Maviyakuku
Something something Bone Spurs.
futhor
His Achilles heel is basically just any amount of pushback. Dude's been given absolutely everything and doesn't know how to deal with a No.
Talbotous
Because bibi has dirt on every gop and dem. Theyre all in his pocket.
GolbatChan
It's the media. He does something; declares absolute victory, and the average people (who don't watch any news) believe him.
Spiderbubble
Even if they do watch any news, it’s all right wing propaganda these days. If you take two seconds of critical thinking you can see right through the propaganda, but these idiots don’t know what that is.
sme2812
This is what terrible parenting leads to: he was born rich, never was told no, learned to blame everyone else, run away from problems, buy/lie/shout his way out of everything, and now the president shits his pants.
Clayman8
Ironically, its actually excellent timing for it. He's gotten so used to getting anything he asks for that i feel he literally doesnt know how to deal with it now that its...well NOT happening
HandoB4Javert
Resistance1000
No bully does. The last thing they want is a victim who refuses to be a victim and fights back. I was the smallest kid in my high school until puberty finally hit. Assholes on the junior football team bullied me a lot...until I kicked one of them in the balls in a crowded hallway. His pals didn't know if I knew how to fight or was just batshit crazy, but the physical bullying ended that day. The guy I kicked missed four practices, a game, and another practice and was still walking funny then.
NickRivieraMD
Yep. I had a couple bullies in 7th grade. Finally went after one of them in the locker room, landed absolutely nothing, and got myself a bloody nose, but they never bothered me again after that. It's worth fighting back, even if you lose.
thisStanley
when fighting against a bully, it is not whether I win or lose, but that they do not get a freebie. They do not need both eyes :}
iDrawStuff
https://imgur.com/cqMDwU1
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
TACO
nkbenj
“the longtime convention of U.S. administrations avoiding direct involvement in other countries’ elections.”
lolwut?
YouRadicalizedMe
Sixsystems
But you have an entire army unit whose job it is to destabilize governments and train guerilla groups to overthrow.
maday1br
OFFICIAL convention. With the biggest, loudest sarcasm quotes imaginable.
GlenL
Hey now, the CIA arming rebel forces is TECHNICALLY indirect
mangoinparis
And they aren't really getting involved in elections per se. They are technically shutting them down and installing their puppet dictators.
SavageDrums
The CIA doesn't count, for some reason.
unluckyandbored
Since when?
emu314159127001
When? The early 19th century? We've been messing with stuff since TR and Panama at least.
DonL9
Chile has entered the chat...
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Literally - not figuratively, literally - the entire rest of the world would like to have a word.
Helixninja333
And they'd better start with Musk, he's funding nazis in Germany.
IGetAllMyFactsFromHere
not just funding; pretty sure he probably helped manipulate things to get the latest batch of nazis elected too.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
That's what I suspected as soon as I read about the AfD win.
DanOrtega
Also far right movements in Mexico. Which just made us create an exception for presidential candidates. No double nationality holders can aspire to presidency.
DunnowForgot
Stargate SG-1 had a great bit about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dn6NUKvMGs&t=29s
DukeDarkwood
A gif I always love seeing.
"Since when, sir?"
Chaapai
One of the best science fiction series of all time. I am 57 years old. I was playing "Galileo 7" on the preschools monkey bar set. Draining my bark "phaser" to get the shuttle up. SG1 is IMHO one of the best science fiction series of all Time. Trek(TOS) ((but all)) (((TNG!!!!))). We GenX had it made with Trek(all) BSG both. The Orville. All the Stargate series. Alien. Aliens. V.
1Megaton
Love me some SG-1. Have you watched The Expanse? Another excellent one.
NKato
Honestly? Interfere as much as you can Canada. It's at the point where outside help is needed to force change. The power structures and systems currently in control of the United States are no longer functioning to protect and serve the best interests of its citizens. Usually foreign policy ends up by the wayside at the same time.
jackal696
Why don't your states succeed from the union? Then call on the United Nations for observers? Why ask others to do what the usa people need to do?
(Pretend your doing it to another country)
DukeDarkwood
Formal secession would be very difficult to pull off. Each state has not only a governor, but also a state Congress, and they would all have to agree on the motion and on its terms. In the unlikely event it DOES get a consensus and actually secedes, it would be easily a year after first proposition... at least!
And THEN you have the other issue: being recognized as a sovereign nation by the rest of the world. Would anyone in the globe be willing to publicly support, say, the Republic of
DukeDarkwood
California? Of New York? Would Canada? Would the EU? Japan, India, or anywhere not actively hostile to the U.S.? (I'm sure Russia, China, Iran, and some others would be getting the popcorn out. Israel would probably disapprove, because it would be moving forces back to North America.)
Lastly, but LEASTLY, there's the fact that a split like this would look bad to other nations. It did the last time, too. But, honestly, the U.S. already looks terrible to them. And deservedly so.
kmikl
FWIW: CA, TX, NY could cede and be basically fine, most blue states could.
Jeeezisland is fucked, though.
NKato
Take a moment and consider what happened last time states in the United States tried to secede.