The Sizzle: What the News Won't Tell You (Feb. 8, 2025)

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Welcome to the latest installment of The Sizzle, which provides a deeper assessment of what the news won’ttell you when rattling off typically deranged headlines and untruthful narratives. These musings cover items and stories making the rounds in the news from February 4-7:

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I. Trudeau Lets it Slip on Canadian Statehood

Justin Trudeau, the outgoing Prime Minister of Canada of bend the knee to tariffs and “Justin from Canada” infamy, was taken by surprise when garbled audio from a Toronto economic summit made its way into the press yesterday.

“I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have, but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51^st state. They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those.”

Once the secret was out, it got even better when the president of Alberta Federation of Labor, Gil McGowan, pitched in his opinion:

“Yes, I can confirm that Trudeau said his assessment is that what Trump really wants is not action on fentanyl or immigration or even the trade deficit, what he really wants is to either dominate Canada or take it outright. Tariffs are a tactic towards that end.”

Why would these comments be surfacing if the Canada talk (and by extension, Greenland talk) represented Internet banter on par with building alligator-filled moats along the border with Mexico? I would suggest the increasing anxiety of these public officials has to do with the fact that the public is not privy to the internal dealings of these administrations and their calls and closely guarded communications initiated behind closed doors. Apparently, they are much more serious than we have been led to believe.

Personally, while I believe the United States under Trump has an eye to the future, which increasingly deals with Arctic dominance regarding military and economic strength, I think the purchase of key slivers of Canadian and Greenlandic outposts (think the Northwest Territory and Nunavut, for example) may be a more feasible goal, and perhaps the one that is intended beneath the surface.

I have always been astonished at the global community of statists and leftists, and at how they will rush to the defense of other leftists around the world, no matter how despotic, totalitarian, or otherwise inexcusable they may be. In this case, watching American left-wingers lose their minds over Canadian statehood is quite amusing, and further suggests that they lack the most basic of critical capacities to see beyond their own emotions. Imagine if the next Democrat president (there will eventually be one, unless God wills and end to the party itself) baked up a plan that would introduce 63 new electoral votes to the United States, and with extreme likelihood, ones that would unanimously vote for the Republican presidential nominee for the foreseeable future. What would we do?

Of course we would give the green light. Not so the self-proclaimed American liberals, who want to deny Trump any victory whatsoever, even one that would doom the Republican Party in electoral politics for 50 years or longer. I wrote all of the math up so you don’t have to scratch it out for yourself on the back of a napkin:

We will wait and see where this one goes. I think the United States assuming some Canadian interests, along with Greenlandic ones, makes economic sense and isn’t without precedent, but if the narco-state to our South reneges on its cooperative security agreement, we might as well take over all the Mexican states that share our southern border as a tactical buffer zone.