In a Fox News interview posted to his personal X account on Wednesday, O’Leary appeared to vouch for Canadians, suggesting that citizens are interested in joining forces with its southern neighbours.

“I like this idea and at least half of Canadians are interested,” O’Leary said.

“The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal.”

  • Sunshine (she/her)
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    104 months ago

    Making numbers up to make the proposal seem much more popular than it really is, first he says its 50% support then he changes it to 80%, when in reality its only 13%.

    • @[email protected]
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      And the rest of Canadians who aren’t morons would vote against republicans in every election if we got annexed.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s the thought that counts. You don’t try and add a country that votes against you unless you’re a complete fucking moron (looks at Trump - Oh, he is).

  • @[email protected]
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    14 months ago

    Out of context as far as I know, what he said in it’s entirety was more wanting an EU style arrangement

  • acargitz
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    This whole crap is just hot air. Dangerous rhetoric of course but it’s all just distraction. We have way more important things to worry about.

    Interesting to see the wannabe traitors and willing quislings reveal themselves though.

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    I’d trust a randomly-picked Minnesotan more than Kevin O’Leary to vouch for Canada.

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    Lol remember when he said he was going to run for prime minister and everybody thought that was such a stupid idea that he dropped out almost immediately?

    Like bro take the fucking hint and fuck off.

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    This film, A Hidden Life, seems like it could be important to Canada right now as Trump is trying to Anschluss Canada.

    Honestly Trump is doing the same thing the NAZIs did to Austria. Hitler even installed bad faith political influencers into the Austrian government just like Trump is trying to do.

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      It’s not new this time, he’s followed the Nazis playbook since before the first election win.

  • @[email protected]
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    Kevin O’Leary is now a traitor to the country.

    I would consider helping “negotiate” a US takeover of Canada to be an act of war against Canada or a preparatory act.

    Criminal Code section 46:

    46 (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,

    (a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;

    (b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or

    © assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are.

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    154 months ago

    Trump told Gretzky to run for Prime Minister?

    This guy just putting pepperoni on the chess-board and calling it a mate. And somehow, he’s the leader of the free world?

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    84 months ago

    I think this goes without saying, but just in case any more of my northern neighbors are taking a break from reality, you don’t want any of this. Most of us down here don’t want any of this.

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      44 months ago

      13℅ Canadian is roughly the same as 50℅ American, as they have more people per capita. Or something like that, I don’t really understand American math.

    • @[email protected]
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      Remember when Kevin O’Leary considered running for the leadership of the Conservative party, but dropped it because he’s too stupid to speak French? I love the fact that our two official languages saved us from getting our own Trump wannabe.

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      54 months ago

      I’d like to see a poll on Canadians’ opinion of lashing O’Leary to a dingy and pushing it into an Arctic Ocean current.

    • Cruxifux
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      God, that’s still over one in ten. I feel like before Trump roughly zero Canadians would like to become Americans. This brain rot is spreading and I don’t know how to stop it and I hate it.

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        I’m willing to consider that the number has grown recently, but it definitely wasn’t anywhere near zero before. There are a lot of areas, often very conservative, that idolize the States.

        For example, in the Bible Belt of Manitoba, I wouldn’t be surprised if close to, if not a majority of residents would support this. There’s a independent streak bordering on libertarian, and many are VERY socially conservative. I didn’t spend all that much time there, but I heard multiple people say how they wish they didn’t have to pay for other people’s healthcare. They’re so close to North Dakota, even doing cross boarder trade and many see the higher mean income (sum of all income divided by number of residents) in the US and ignore the lower median income (50th percentile of income).

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        Oh this train wreck will accelerate with P.P. in charge. Carbon tax bad is all that matters according to my dad.

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          It’s really funny talking to my conservative friends who like to say that anyone to the left of them doesn’t understand economics and then they proceed to talk about things like carbon tax in a way that shows they don’t understand economics.

          My other favourite hits from those guys:

          “They don’t actually have a billion dollars, a lot of it is tied up in assets!” (And now I have to explain why wealth and liquid assets are not relevant to the context of the conversation we are having, and that literally everybody understands this, and why having wealth as assets is usually for tax evasion reasons in the guise of fuelling industry, yada yada)

          “You know free healthcare isn’t free! That money has to come from somewhere!” Literally everyone understands how taxes work you brain dead fucking moron. This one actually makes me angry when people say it to me in person. The whole idea is that single payer is actually cheaper because you are cutting out a useless middleman and removing the profit incentive for letting people just fucking die. Nobody thinks that it’s literally magically free.

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            With these types try “Basically Free at Time of Access” and “Won’t bankrupt you”

      • @[email protected]
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        94 months ago

        The problem is that there is nowhere to go. far right goverments are popping up everywhere.

      • kbal
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        34 months ago

        At least one in ten people will pick the dumbest answer on any survey just because they think it’s funny.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 months ago

          And there is the other way of people chose the least controversial answer when doing a poll.

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      114 months ago

      13 percent is way higher than I expected

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        Lower than I thought. Once youre out of southern Ontario and the lower mainland of BC, patriotism absolutely vanishes, successive federal governments have treated the “hinterlands” so poorly no one cares anymore about some bullshit eastern tim hortons national image.

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      I’m writing this as a quarter-part reply, and 3-quarter-part rant, and it’ll probably hang in the middle of somewhere, as I always do when I rant. Forgive me.

      Fact checks are important and useful, but can only go so far. Truth, laws, norms, and everything really, has no meaning in Trumpism. They are just tools to drive towards some goal, or are avenues for exploitation.

      They’ll say whatever tf they want regardless of facts, because they have enough people that will believe them, and enough people to further spread these disinformation to those who don’t know or care to know about the truth for themselves, and that bolsters their numbers. There’s a quote that goes something like if someone says something false, it’s untrue, but if tens of thousands of people say the same, it becomes ‘true’ to the minds of these people.

      They’ll sue whomever their target is over some batshit crazy claim with no care of the outcome, and only to use the legal process to delay or divert, or simply to cripple someone financially, especially individuals with no access to immense wealth.

      They don’t believe in any higher power, but will use it to further gather support, which is particularly effective in a world where the religious feel like the world is moving away from religion and thus stripping away their legitimacy.

      Trumpism doesn’t play by harmonious social norms. Humans values and emotions are simply tools to them, and they will continue to trample on human dignity as long as it serves their purposes. They’ve learned how to fully utilize the weaknesses and blind spots of our institutions to attack everyone else and keeping themselves safe.

      How do we fight and protect ourselves against a force like this? I don’t know. All I can think of is proper education on critical thinking and instilling people with the will and equipped with the knowledge to seek facts, but that would take decades, and will easily be disrupted by those who are on Trump’s side, and there’s also no guarantee that the process would be effective, given how underfunded our education system is, and how there’s also little to no political will to do anything, as they are more incentivized to seek short-term solutions.

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        They don’t believe in any higher power…

        OK, I take issue with this statement.

        They believe in Musk.

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          I can currently think of two reasons why you say so. Your statement either implies that you think Musk is of a higher power, or that you’re just trying to say that these bastards believe in Musk in jest and wrongly quoted the statement about believing “something”. If it was the first one, then I would have an issue with your statement. I’m going to assume that the second is why I’m seeing your comment.

          But even with the second reason, I’m not sure if I find it funny. I don’t think they believe in him at all, and instead think that they are simply using each other to further their goals, and will gladly cut each other off or even throw each other under the bus the moment doing so outweighs their continued alliance. If that counts as “believing” to you though, then I can see that being funny, though I would fail to see how it fits into this egoistic and maniacal image I have of them.

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      Idk…seems like at least 500 would be needed to get us where we’re going…

      Edit: And so began the clone wars…

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    104 months ago

    Capital has no loyalty and this guy is a regime front whore…

    Is this even legal? Or is he above the law in Canada?

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      He’s above the law, re: the boating accident.

      The wealthy get away with way too much shit in Canada too. Don’t get me wrong, we don’t want to be the USA, please kindly go fuck yourself for anyone thinking that, but that aside we aren’t a problem free country either.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      Unfortunately, we are currently trying to beat the gammons back down with a stick. We had 4 years with an idiotic government, making extremely self-serving decisions. We feel for what you’re going through, but we aren’t in a good place to help.