People who don't threaten physical violence often... you know, softies, the part-time tough guys... they don't anticipate how long-lasting the negative reaction from their victims will be.

The annexation talk, the 51st state talk, none of that stuff will be directly linked to whatever counterpunch Canada cooks up, but it'll be hardening the hearts of the Canadian voters to be in favor of ever-more-draconian countermeasures.

I hope those Twitter threats felt great to issue, because we'll all be paying for those for a good long while on every agricultural transaction (among others!) that we make with our closest ally in the coming decades.