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Next up: arson attack on US Congress. And then the Enabling Act.

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Didn’t the Canadian burn the Whitehouse down once or something?

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Twice.

Don’t make us come down there a third time, I swear to Gord.

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Honestly, I’m not seeing a downside here.

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American here: genuinely, I would appreciate it if you did.

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Hypothetically, what would trigger you guys? Just asking questions…

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Don’t. Please. Whatever will we do to stop you? /s

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If you go for the hat trick, may Gord find mercy in your heart to annex the TI region on your march back.

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I swear to Gord

Deliberate misspelling of “God“, famous hockey player, or short for Gordon? More than one of the above?

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That’s not true. It was the British, and it happened once in 1814. And it didn’t “burn down.”

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Canadians conservatives burnt down their own parliament too.

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We already had our enabling act, the Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling.

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Yep. All of this talk about the makeup of Congress, and having an opposition party becomes moot when you hand power to fascists.

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My crazy prediction is that trump will try to duplicate the burning of the Reichstag. Except, in typical fashion, he will do so in a comically inept fashion. He’ll try to burn down the Reichstag, and he’ll actually succeed! Unfortunately, he’ll burn down the Reichstag…the actual Reichstag, not the US capital, but the present-day German parliament building.

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