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2025-03-23 Britain
Trump weighs in on British Commonwealth offer
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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11152 views ]  Top

#1 Trump downplays Canada’s liberal lean from Oval Office, calls border an 'artificial line'
Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-22 10:51||   2025-03-22 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 "Group of 300". I always believed there was such a group, though not by that name.

I feel like I've missed a lot about that group.

What do you all know?
Posted by Crusader 2025-03-23 00:59||   2025-03-23 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 See Wiki
Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-23 01:19||   2025-03-23 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm reminded of a pre-world-war-I question from some German or another when an alliance with Austria was proposed:

"Why should we tie the powerful German battleship to the leaky old Austro-Hungarian galleon?"
Posted by Mercutio 2025-03-23 10:07||   2025-03-23 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump is more retarded than I thought. This hairbrained idea is absurd beyond belief.

Trump has three loves: The Crown, Israel, and Big Pharma.
Posted by DooDahMan 2025-03-23 10:48||   2025-03-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump's negotiating for Canada and Greenland alignment, defensively and re: minerals etc.

Posted by Vortigern Speaking for Boskone4685 2025-03-23 11:23||   2025-03-23 11:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "Nice doggie!", he said while calmly reaching for a rock.

As for the cricket and monocles and crap like that, true. But on the plus side, maybe we could get them all to drive on the right (meaning proper) side of the road.
Posted by SteveS 2025-03-23 11:36||   2025-03-23 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 President Trump speaks and negotiates to accomplish results. He doesn’t seem to much care whether the path is straightforward or when putting a bit of English on the cue ball to kiss an object ball off another will achieve his goal indirectly.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-23 11:42||   2025-03-23 11:42|| Front Page Top

#9 I think Trump is going for a three peat. If Charles lasts two years, I will be surprised.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-23 12:11||   2025-03-23 12:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I love Trump's domestic policies and much of what is being done in foreign policy and the historic U.K special relationship, but this is symbolically wrong. No!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-03-23 14:43||   2025-03-23 14:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe theyre finally getting together to discuss UFOs and aliens?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2025-03-23 16:47||   2025-03-23 16:47|| Front Page Top

#12 As me and milady learned raising our two, sometimes yes is the best answer for fussy children. The reaction from the commonwealth is now perhaps, "OMG, now what do we do?"
Posted by Cured Romantic  2025-03-23 19:22||   2025-03-23 19:22|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't trust Daily Mail to neutrally frame a situation any further than I can throw a tantrum.

"I'll think about it, send me your proposal." is something I use often to end a sales pitch. Sounds to me like some sort of rhetoric trap, like "Well what if we offer you something disgusting as asking Canada to be a state?"

That said, what if the offer is a deciding leadership and policy directing position with said association? A sort of turn-key business acquisition?

Those two considerations deserve something better than 'fukov', plus DM being hacks and on the heels of why WWIII would be good for the UK story pivot.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-03-23 22:26||   2025-03-23 22:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Good point, swksvolFF.

If Charles lasts two years,

I never expected him to outlive his mother, so it’s nice for him that he actually got to sit on the throne before passing it off to Wills.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-23 22:35||   2025-03-23 22:35|| Front Page Top

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