2024 was spectacularly awful, but the writing is on the wall and 2025 will be worse

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What a bloody dumpster fire of a year 2024 proved to be. What a dreadful string of years we have been having, going back to 2001, with matters deteriorating precipitously from 2020 onward. 2025 portends even graver circumstances. At least, in the past five years, numerous malefactors were put in their place by yours truly, and not one liked the taste of their own medicine, nor was any remorse expressed on their part. Solitude is vastly preferable to the company of snakes and vultures. The writing is on the wall and I have forever felt, and been made to feel, as a stranger in a strange land, yet never more acutely than at present. 

Multitudes of people and things are going to vanish and be written out of history. The worst among us have been consecrated with absolute dominion over society, and citizens are going to face horrors they never imagined were possible in the United States of America. There is no place for facile optimism, no Polly Annas allowed: we are f**ked, our fate is sealed and I merely supplicate that as many of you reading this as possible shall make it through. Given my overall state, I shall be remarkably ‘lucky’ - which is to say, cursed - shall I somehow persevere through the tribulations that are coming. This most assuredly is not the nation nor world in which I wish to exist, and these times shall not be viewed favourably by future generations (assuming humankind is not extinct).

Copyright 2024, Arthur Newhook. @Sunking278 and @FloydEtcetera on X, and at the same handles on FACEBOOK. MASTODON - @ArthurNewhook@mastodon.world, BLUESKY - @arthurnewhook.bsky.social. DONATIONS GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED at https://tinyurl.com/ArthurNewhook.

About Trump’s quip—if indeed it was that—regarding the sovereign nation of Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States

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NBC News: Trump mocks the 'Great State of Canada'

Were Canada to be incorporated into the United States, either as a singular political entity or, more plausibly, as multiple federal states, the resultant nation would surpass Russia in geographical extent. Moreover, were Canada to be admitted as a unified state, it would immediately become the most populous among all American states, slightly exceeding California's total.

Canada is not Rhode Island or Delaware, and whilst considerable portions of its territory remain sparsely populated, its population substantially exceeds that of Alaska. Regardless of whether the Orange Puppet’s proposition was intended in jest, the hypothetical absorption of Canada would constitute a monumentally complex undertaking, even presuming the acquiescence of the Canadian populace—which, one might assert with considerable confidence, would not be forthcoming. Quebec, in particular, would be problematic in that regard. There is also the matter of Canada being a Commonwealth nation and recognising His Majesty as King.

Canada stands as America's sister nation, formidable in every conceivable way, and is deserving of commensurate respect, honour, and dignity. Indeed, Trump’s previous facetious (or not facetious, whichever it was) suggestions regarding the acquisition of Greenland were inappropriate enough; serious matters of sovereignty and international relations ought not to be the subject of ill-conceived attempts at humour by one whose office demands the utmost gravitas. Thou art not a comedian, Mr Trump; cease pretending to be one. 

Naturally, we have yet to address the genuine locus of power within this impending regime, nor said locus’ aspirations for global domination. For the moment, however, we shall content ourselves with the assumption that Trump, the Orange Puppet, was merely being his charming self when discussing our noble neighbours to the north.

Copyright 2024, Arthur Newhook. @Sunking278 and @FloydEtcetera on X, and at the same handles on FACEBOOK. MASTODON - @ArthurNewhook@mastodon.world, BLUESKY - @arthurnewhook.bsky.social. DONATIONS GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED at https://tinyurl.com/ArthurNewhook.