Honestly, I never took it seriously. The joke is on the US though. I don’t give a shit about tariffs, but you’re never getting this much (hostile) land and calling it a single state. Try 11 states and I may pay attention.
When I say hostile, I’m not referring to Canadians per se, but to the weather. You can’t handle it here. Canada is a special place in hell that is known for putting people in their place. Nobody survives here without some kind of divine intervention.
We have the most corrupt institutions, the highest taxes, the most criminal organizations per square foot, no health system at all, and we’re healthier than you. God is clearly on our side, although we don’t admit it often enough.
If you are really really nice, you may get BC where all the fentanyl and money laundering is. Good riddance it will be.
Update: I want to add that the annexation threat fails the credibility criterion of the common law test for whether something constitutes a “threat”. Everyone knows that the threat is neither credible nor imminent, therefore cannot be reasonably perceived as a threat. And is therefore pure bullshit. I wanted to make that distinction, it is not me who is patriotic, it is the so-called threat that is a distraction.