Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Mia and James discuss Trump's imperialist drive to take Canada, the Panama Canal, Gaza and Greenland and how it differs from previous versions of free trade American imperialism.
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https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-direct-action
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/politics/trump-expansion-ideas-what-matters/index.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9669319
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/mex/partner/usa
https://www.ilscompany.com/products-imported-from-mexico/
https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/mexico-automotive-industry
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/mexico
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It Could Happen here, a podcast about things falling apart and them continuing to fall apart. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm your host Mia Wong. |
| 0:13.0 | With me is James Stout. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, Mia. |
| 0:15.0 | Glad to hear about whatever's going to shoot today. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, so before we start talking about imperialism, we're starting every |
| 0:21.1 | fucking episode with this until you people stop, until you stop doing this. It is the year |
| 0:25.7 | 2025. We are a quarter of a century into this millennia. And people are still getting |
| 0:34.6 | cettled by cops on bridges. They did this in Occupy in 2011. |
| 0:40.1 | They did it in 2018 during the Occupy ICE protest. |
| 0:42.6 | People did it in 2020. |
| 0:43.7 | People did it last year during the power sign and came and people are doing it again this year. |
| 0:48.8 | Simply do not lead a march onto a bridge. |
| 0:51.2 | Yep. |
| 0:51.6 | Or a tunnel. |
| 0:52.2 | Don't do it. |
| 0:52.9 | For DEI reasons, we would also include a tunnel. Yes, don Yep. Or a tunnel. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do the tunnel either. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.1 | If there's no side exits, just don't. |
| 0:58.6 | Yes. |
| 0:59.2 | Here's the thing. |
| 0:59.7 | The moment you walk onto a bridge, all the cops have to do is take both exits and everyone |
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