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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / A Moment’s (Bitter) Comic Relief — Or Why We Must All Bow Down to Our New Ailuropoda melanoleucae Masters

A Moment’s (Bitter) Comic Relief — Or Why We Must All Bow Down to Our New Ailuropoda melanoleucae Masters

by Tom Levenson|  November 1, 20104:29 pm| 18 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

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Via Fallows (you know — the actual reporter over at Atlantic.com) comes this momentary antidote to the grim despair that is driving me towards that last bottle of Old Overshoes tucked into the hole in the sheetrock behind the commode.

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The key thing to note here:  this is a bit of Taiwanese comedy, which, as Fallows notes, makes its equal opportunity US/China snark yet more geopolitically fascinating.

And pandas!

With that, back to contemplating whether or not it’s possible for the New England states to reconsider that secession question and talk a little union with Canada…

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  1. 1.

    Cermet

    November 1, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    Sounds really good to me here in Maryland.

  2. 2.

    Morbo

    November 1, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    I was watching NMA videos before they had subtitles. Fuck… am I a hipster now? Oh wait, no, I have to hate on them for going mainstream, and that’s not going to happen because these videos are still awesome.

  3. 3.

    beltane

    November 1, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    If we get President Rand Paul in 2012, is it too much to hope that VT could be adopted by Quebec. We are cute and willing to learn French.

  4. 4.

    morzer

    November 1, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    @beltane:

    Willing to work for maple syrup and snow shoes?

  5. 5.

    Maude

    November 1, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    @beltane:
    Shove over, NJ will be there before you.
    We are entitled because we have Christie.
    He’s a Rand preview.
    Nous parlons Francais.

  6. 6.

    jl

    November 1, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    Don’t let those pics of you and Timothy Pickering get around.

  7. 7.

    matoko_chan

    November 1, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    Canada has healthcare and they love Obama.
    im down.

    et aussi, moi je parle tres bien le francais.
    Jim Manzi has moved to France to get healthcare.
    Canada is much closer.

  8. 8.

    Calouste

    November 1, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    @beltane:

    The state name is already French, so that’s a good start.

  9. 9.

    beltane

    November 1, 2010 at 5:12 pm

    @Calouste: About 40% of the population is of French Canadian descent so they won’t even know the difference.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Dread

    November 1, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    Of course, President Palin will likely invade Canada, so it’ll only be a temporary reprieve.

  11. 11.

    MobiusKlein

    November 1, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    California is joining Mexico – otherwise CA, CA is too confusing.

    Edit – and insulting!

  12. 12.

    JGabriel

    November 1, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    Tom Levenson @ Top:

    With that, back to contemplating whether or not it’s possible for the New England states to reconsider that secession question and talk a little union with Canada…

    New York can come too, right? We’re part of New England, right?

    I mean, c’mon, you can’t have New England without Block Island and Shelter Island and Montauk.

    Right?

    .

  13. 13.

    Stav

    November 1, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    Funny thing is that theme of the original may be correct but for the exact opposite reason the propagandists propose. If 20-50 years from China has surpassed the US it will be because they spent big on themselves during the great economic morass of the early 21st Century.

    Their current stimulus package is 10X greater than the U.S. even though they were stimulating a much smaller economy. When future generations choose to site their businesses where will they go? To a country with a 1950’s era infrastructure and electric grid. Or to place built for life in the 21st Century?

    Great capitalists know that you invest in lean times. Too bad the U.S. has forgotten that lesson.

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    November 1, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    @Stav:

    Great capitalists know that you invest in lean times. Too bad the U.S. has forgotten that lesson.

    The US has forgotten most of what makes capitalism work. Instead, we have a bunch of looters who have focused on converting shareholder value into executive bonuses.

  15. 15.

    Francis

    November 1, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    If Arabs living west of the Jordan can contemplate a non-contiguous state called Palestine, coastal Americans can do the same. We’ll take California, Oregon, Washington (the state of Pacifica), New England down to the Maryland border (New New England), and Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois [coastal to the Great Lakes] (the State of Midwestia) and form a new republic. [Ohio can hold a referendum on which way it wants to go.]

    We can even call it Republica.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    November 1, 2010 at 9:03 pm

    @Stav:

    Great capitalists know that you invest in lean times. Too bad the U.S. has forgotten that lesson.

    Sometimes I wonder if the system we have right now can even be called capitalism except in the most theoretical sense.

  17. 17.

    dopey-o

    November 1, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    i look forward to serving our new panda overlords.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    November 1, 2010 at 11:32 pm

    @Francis: I’ll go. With the economic power just the West Coast has, we could do quite nicely on our own. Or else Washington solves the Oregon Treaty dispute once and for all and reunites Point Roberts with the country finally in a grand Canadian union.

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