Canadian Politics Redux

josevolution

Fuck this 🍊piece of 💩 all he does is create havoc he has never been about unity only division! 

Lerxst1992

Zod said:

This is pretty crazy.   I've never felt this way about the US before.  I've spent my entire life hopping the border and adventuring in the US.  Exploring new places, attending concerts, meeting new people.   I've always looked fondly on going there.

This put's a worse feeling in the pit of my stomach than when covid started.   Our biggest ally turned on us.  I'm pretty concerned that it go could beyond economic.   If the same people that voted him in, are coerced by their media that we're the bad guys.  Holy crap :(

It’s pretty bad, but in this country it’s very bad. imagine if some of your family friends and coworkers turned on you and joined  the cult. They blame all their problems on immigrants. 

I’ve raised my voice at my MIL a couple  times at holiday dinner tables, and my wife supported me. I’ve had my life threatened “jokingly” by cultists who were friends.  And when you bring up obvious stupid things 47 does, they turn into zombies. And not the fun song from the nineties. 

Canadians need to remember that about half of the country here are still friends, and hopefully one day we can win back the govt.

If anything, a good bit of advice is to diversify your economy as much as possible. Relying on exports to a neighbor ten times your size, with one political party and their rabid followers uninterested in the truth is risky business long term.

 

mrussel1

dignin said:

The Canadian government has been warned if we retaliate the US will hit us harder.

Chin up fellow canucks. Fuck them and let's dig in.

You guys need to fight this. Much of America we’ll be behind Canada

Hawk123

Here is the orange clowns latest post:

We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!

DE4173

mrussel1 said:

dignin said:

The Canadian government has been warned if we retaliate the US will hit us harder.

Chin up fellow canucks. Fuck them and let's dig in.

You guys need to fight this. Much of America we’ll be behind Canada

Amen!

"We could be fighting together

Instead of fighting ourselves"

josevolution

Hawk123 said:

Here is the orange clowns latest post:

We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!

Boy what an absolute disgrace he is has always been and will continue till his last breath! 

mrussel1

Hawk123 said:

Here is the orange clowns latest post:

We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!

Let’s think this through. Canada becomes a state and now immediately is the largest state by population and the most electoral votes. Anyone think it’s a red state? Seems unlikely. Throw in a few senators and a bunch of Congressmen and suddenly we have a whole new union taking shape. 

Now we don’t need Mexico and as Trump says we can do everything here. It’s called autarky and that’s what we need. Plus my daughter wanted a career in picking avocados, but the Mexican govt was in the way. She can now forget about going to medical school and focus on her real passion. 

Zod

I don't use a lot of social media, pretty much just Facebook, but I find it odd, there's almost nothing about the tariff's on it.  Almost creepy in it's absence.

mrussel1

Zod said:

I don't use a lot of social media, pretty much just Facebook, but I find it odd, there's almost nothing about the tariff's on it.  Almost creepy in it's absence.

It’s buried on Fox News. I don’t think right wing media is celebrating this. 

The headline on Fox is that woke PETAis not thrilled with the treatment of the groundhog. Hard hitting news. No joke. 

jhager79

brianlux said:

dignin said:

The Canadian government has been warned if we retaliate the US will hit us harder.

Chin up fellow canucks. Fuck them and let's dig in.

So, does that mean "fuck you" to all of us in the U.S., even if we are strongly against the tariffs, even if, as I just did above, acknowledge our feeling friendly toward Canada and Canadians, even if we abhor what is being done.  Great, just a big "fuck you" to all of us?  Jesus Christ, man.  Fuck that.

Absolutely, it’s time we start seeing other people. We won’t be visiting you and would appreciate it if you didn’t visit us.

HughFreakingDillon

I literally have zero desire to cross the border now, as Zod mentioned. It’s a weird feeling. 

Was considering the Minnesota yacht festival again. Nope. My concert buddy said the same thing. 

See you in 4 years, America. 

HughFreakingDillon

Zod said:

I don't use a lot of social media, pretty much just Facebook, but I find it odd, there's almost nothing about the tariff's on it.  Almost creepy in it's absence.

Only one friend of mine mentioned it. I have noticed, however, whenever I post a political rant, American or Canadian in nature, I get zero engagement. I guess my friend list is just tired of politics in general. 

HughFreakingDillon

brianlux said:

dignin said:

The Canadian government has been warned if we retaliate the US will hit us harder.

Chin up fellow canucks. Fuck them and let's dig in.

So, does that mean "fuck you" to all of us in the U.S., even if we are strongly against the tariffs, even if, as I just did above, acknowledge our feeling friendly toward Canada and Canadians, even if we abhor what is being done.  Great, just a big "fuck you" to all of us?  Jesus Christ, man.  Fuck that.

I don’t think that’s what dignin meant. 

mrussel1

I changed my mind. If this is what’s happening in Canada, we don’t need you to export your sexual predators. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sea-otter-ollie-killing-river-otters_n_679936dde4b09798def1ffb0

nicknyr15

mrussel1 said:

I changed my mind. If this is what’s happening in Canada, we don’t need you to export your sexual predators. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sea-otter-ollie-killing-river-otters_n_679936dde4b09798def1ffb0

Absolutely agreed. Enough is enough. 

benjs

HughFreakingDillon said:

I literally have zero desire to cross the border now, as Zod mentioned. It’s a weird feeling. 

Was considering the Minnesota yacht festival again. Nope. My concert buddy said the same thing. 

See you in 4 years, America. 

I have a trip planned to Nashville at the end of the month, and am attending a guitar camp in June. Sadly, I expect those will be my last times in the US until leadership changes and sanity is restored.

HughFreakingDillon

I think this might actually have an unintended consequence that Trump doesn’t recognize (and likely doesn’t care about): this is going to unite canada in a way usually only seen during international hockey tournaments. 

benjs

HughFreakingDillon said:

I think this might actually have an unintended consequence that Trump doesn’t recognize (and likely doesn’t care about): this is going to unite canada in a way usually only seen during international hockey tournaments. 

Jean Chretien posted an op-ed where he called for the same thing from Canadian. I'm on board with purchasing more Canadian goods. The scary thing was how quickly Trump has been able to get the world on board with isolationism, after years of promoting global trade as a way to assure we all have strong access to a vast set of goods at reasonable prices. Really not a good sign that this chaos monkey can spread his chaos globally.

Lerxst1992

benjs said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I literally have zero desire to cross the border now, as Zod mentioned. It’s a weird feeling. 

Was considering the Minnesota yacht festival again. Nope. My concert buddy said the same thing. 

See you in 4 years, America. 

I have a trip planned to Nashville at the end of the month, and am attending a guitar camp in June. Sadly, I expect those will be my last times in the US until leadership changes and sanity is restored.

The BC Premier got it right, prohibit sales of req state liquor. So Minnesota should be perfectly fine, and Nashville should be out.

Which makes one wonder about the logic of PJs touring strategy. For many years, political fans dreamed PJ would have some sort of political influence, and line up a tour with a fall election. Their recent touring strategy is 100% the opposite of that.

Last year before the election was primarily blue states, this year the tour is all Trump states. PJ shows should be part of any anti red state boycott. /s

I am participating. When going food shopping, Florida oranges are out, apples are in!

mrussel1

benjs said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I think this might actually have an unintended consequence that Trump doesn’t recognize (and likely doesn’t care about): this is going to unite canada in a way usually only seen during international hockey tournaments. 

Jean Chretien posted an op-ed where he called for the same thing from Canadian. I'm on board with purchasing more Canadian goods. The scary thing was how quickly Trump has been able to get the world on board with isolationism, after years of promoting global trade as a way to assure we all have strong access to a vast set of goods at reasonable prices. Really not a good sign that this chaos monkey can spread his chaos globally.

It’s not just access to goods. Our connected economies are single most important reason we haven’t had an intercontinental war in 80 years. It’s the longest such period in a thousand years. That’s all at risk with protectionist economies.