Sweet poutine-eating, maple syrup-pouring, hockey stick-wielding Christ, I’m so sick of the demented orange shitbag insulting and threatening our favorite neighbor:
I say “our favorite neighbor” because Canada is overwhelmingly more popular with Americans than any other country, and it’s far more beloved in the U.S. than Combover Caligula ever was. Donald Trump started his second term with a sub-50% approval rating (could be his high-watermark, given the frantic pace of his many fuckups). Meanwhile, about 76% of Americans have a very or mostly favorable view of Canada.
When Dumbfuck Hitler first started inanely and insultingly referring to Canada as the “51st state” and calling its then-PM “Governor Justin Trudeau,” a certain brand of U.S. pundits snickered. It wasn’t funny then, and it’s definitely not funny now.
Trump is escalating the rhetoric and appears hellbent on plunging the continent — perhaps the world — into a recession for no reason other than that he’s an addled old fool who doesn’t understand how anything works and is fixated on yet another moronic, self-aggrandizing notion.
Canada, you don’t deserve this anymore than Mr. Rogers would deserve Idi Amin moving next door. I know it’s not much, but I am sorry, and I’m rooting for y’all. I know plenty of other Americans are too.
In fact, you would have my enthusiastic support if you sent a flock of your meanest geese to converge on the shithead’s golf course, besiege his cart, pull him out onto the green and angrily hiss at and peck him until nothing was left but a sticky and unattractive pile of tangerine-colored goo on the grass. Those geese would be greeted as liberators!
The end.
Trollhattan
At this point I think Trump would have a WH staffer killed for suggesting orange juice instead of Coke® for breakfast. Anybody who says “no” to him is instantly The ENEMY and must be DESTROYED.
How many years left of this?
Bg
He hates them because they’re nuce
[email protected]
I cannot believe I’m having to root for Doug Ford. I guess loud, rude, and racist is a pretty good description of a dollar-store Churchill.
We’ll see how long it takes Trump to realize that Trudeau has been replaced with Carney.
Doug R
Don’t be soory, get mad and keep calling your reps.
Or enjoy everything made out of steel and aluminum costing 50% more.
bjacques
Several days of this and no mention yet of Roger Moore’s brilliant comedy “Canadian Bacon”?
I am disappoint.
Old School
A National Emergency on Electricity?
So we’re going to start drilling for oil in New England?
...now I try to be amused
You missed the part where the geese shit all over him.
tobie
Time to raise the Canadian flag at my house. I don’t own a flagpole but I’m thinking of buying one just to piss off my Trump-humpin’ neighbors.
Parfigliano
Send a big flock of geese to shit on his golf greens. Makes them tough to play.
suzanne
I’m sure the Canadians are starting to envision what it looks like when 100 million (more or less) refugees start crashing through their southern border from that shithole country down there. Not awesome.
schrodingers_cat
The belligerent talk against Canada is very Putinesque. Putin did the same thing before he invaded Georgia and Ukraine
I am sure that the Canadians are taking this seriously.
JoyceH
What gets me is the ABUSER rhetoric! Trump trashes Canada every which way and then promises to “cherish” them as the Fifty-First State. Like they should believe that? And what’s the deal with wanting to make an independent nation or that size and that population, natural resources and industrial base ONE state? Join us and have the same political clout as North Dakota?! How about one state per province? Acccctually – let’s think about that. We’d never have a Republican president or Republican congress again. Universal health care, gun control… I can see some advantages.
jackmac
Slightly off topic but in the wake of all the Musk/DOGE threats to basic EARNED benefits, I’m scheduled to receive my monthly Social Security payment on Wednesday. I’ve never had to question the reliability of those payment, but I went to check my account for the first time to make sure money is coming.
Payment pending … for now.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
Jesus fucking Christ.
I’m going to have to spit on returning servicemen from the Ontario front in airports, aren’t I?
Nukular Biskits
Currently on conference call about lack of funding for our contract and plans for what happens if (when?) CR isn’t passed.
This is what happens when you let idiots run the government.
Deputinize America
Time for a name change, I suppose.
Betty Cracker
Via ABC News:
Florida has lots of Canadian snowbirds, probably other Sunbelt states too. It would seriously hurt the economy if they found a warm place that isn’t currently ruled by a demented fascist.
suzanne
I’m harkening back to TFG’s first term, when GOP Senators and Secretaries denied he called them “shithole countries”…. but that’s only because they said he called them “shithouse countries” instead. God.
Deputinize America
@Betty Cracker: It would be a shame for Florida real estate if Canuck snowbirds chose to winter in Holbox, Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Puerto Morelos, Playa Del Carmen and Mahahual instead….
schrodingers_cat
I would take Trump at his word. He is broadcasting his plan to invade Canada and Greenland.
Betrayal of Ukraine is going to set off a nuclear arms race. And if we continue on this path we are going to become a global anathema.
@Deputinize America: Good nym!
martha
@Betty Cracker: We just got back from the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, etc.) in Southern California. We go every year for a few weeks to escape the cold. It is Canadian snowbird heaven and many many Canadians own second homes/condos there. They come and stay for at least 4 months every year. Honestly, we thought it was quieter than usual (MUCH easier to get meal reservations) and we met very few Canadians in our wanderings, when we typically meet multiple nice people every day.
Percysowner
I voted against Trump 3 times. I have to admit my reasons did NOT involve the idea that he might invade Canada! Frankly I have had to revise my Bingo card to include WWIII starts over trying to annex Canada and also add WWIII starts over trying to annex Greenland. Both are nuttier than hell and suddenly both are not completely out of the question.
Kelly
@jackmac:I’m planning to start Soc Security payments next year, Mrs. Kelly the year after. Hoping the SSA still work by then
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BethanyAnne
Didn’t really expect to ever see Fallout’s fake history of the US annexing Canada happen in real life, but here we are on the dumb road pointed that way.
M31
@Betty Cracker: no kidding — route 95 during snowbird migration season boasts a whole lot of Quebec license plates
I used to live there, and woo hoo pissed-off Quebecers are something to see.
Trump and his merry hordes of dogey magats doesn’t get what level of violent insurgency they are courting with this “51st state” crap.
LeftCoastYankee
I think he wants to have a legacy of making the country physically bigger. He’s that simple.
Can’t we just dump some landfill off Palm Bach and call it Trumpland?
Medicine Man
We are taking this talk seriously. We have no choice but to do so. And personally, I’ve already made the connection between “Ukraine is a fake country” and the way trump is talking about us.
The main consolation I find in the situation is that trump is a white collar criminal not a KGB gangster, and I know that the majority of Americans are sick of military adventures and endless occupations that please only certain critters in Wash DC. If they follow through on those threats while also impoverishing the American people and destroying every actual service the government provides, I think they could actually swing.
And don’t worry, we’re not going to buckle under the pressure of this bullying. I can’t adequately explain how that “51st state” jibe lands with us and the “join us so you’re protected and the tariffs stop” is so nakedly a protection racket that even our magaheads are not fooled. We are however depending on y’all getting this under control eventually. We can’t fight him for you. We can only follow you down the shitter, if that’s where things go.
Medicine Man
I think invading us would destroy both countries in the long run. That said, I really hope he doesn’t tee off on Mexico. That would be far far worse for everyone involved. I shudder to think of what would happen if he gave everyone down there a common cause and reason to fight for their survival.
M31
lol was just remembering that the most hard-fought, vicious, take-no-prisoners sporting event I ever saw was a Montreal city rec league hockey game
it was the under-14 girls league
SiubhanDuinne
Huh. I say “our favourite neighbour.”
artem1s
The Anschluss has started.
Jeebus wept.
Sister Golden Bear
@Old School: We’ll be clear cutting Yellowstone and Yosemite for firewood.
Raoul Paste
@Medicine Man: Thanks for the good wishes. We wish Canada the same. My wife and I were thinking about a trip to Quebec City, but she now worries that we are not welcome, and we can understand why
Old School
From a Canadian cafe:
schrodingers_cat
@Medicine Man: Until the 2026 the only thing that can stop this malevolent craziness is if Ds take back the Congress by the Special Election route (iffy) or if Red State white R voters are visibly unhappy with their electeds (even more iffy)
AKA The Man
Keep talking, Trump. All the better to guarantee a Pierre Poilievre loss
WTFGhost
Canada should transmit the exact same offer back: if you become our 12th province, we promise to continue to share the wealth of your generous Blue states with the impoverished red states – we consider *all* citizens to be deserving of the benefits of civilized government! – and with your additions to our defense force, we might even need to continue using your Pentagon!
ewrunning
@schrodingers_cat: Exactly. Remember how Drumpf praised Putin’s savvy, genius move when he launched the full invasion of Ukraine. And we know Putin never tires of explaining to him that Ukraine isn’t a real country. I can just see Trump’s few remaining functional synapses latching onto the idea, “Hey, Canada’s not a real country either. We can take it and suddenly the USA gets a lot bigger (and a lot whiter).”
Ruckus
@jackmac:
Same here but a week later.
I can’t imagine how many friends he’ll make/lose if SS payments are late or don’t come. I mean sure, I can’t be any more disgusted than I already am but still, I can get a lot more pissed off, especially if the money I paid in for a not insignificant number of decades so that I’d have my earned retirement fund – doesn’t show up on time. I do wonder how many of his supporters are in the same boat as us (and millions of others….) and will not take it lightly if their money is not paid on time and in it’s normal amount.
Deputinize America
It would be tempting to shut down the early warning bases, and give American personnel there 48 hours to clear out before cutting the feed. Maritime cooperation to stop, traffic borders to shut down.
That cut library could get locked down, that sweet little school arrangement out in in the sound in Washington could close.
Make it clear that nothing resumes until he shuts the fuck up.
Old School
Geminid .
@M31: I’ve seen plenty of Canadian plates when I visited I North Carolina beach towns like Nags Head and Kitty Hawk in thesummer. I saw a couple motels with signs welcoming Canadian tourists. I expect it’s the same for Virginia Beach.
The tourist boycott is aleady hitting Adirondack area businesses, and the tourist industry up and down the East Coast will feel it soon. Those people were probably looking forward to a good year not that long ago.
schrodingers_cat
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Kristine
@Ruckus:
Or when they receive word that a family member’s extended care/nursing home coverage has ceased and they need to pony up or come pick ’em up.
Ruckus
@BethanyAnne:
When you have a complete and utter jackass with his name on the highest office, you are always going to be on the dumb road. ALWAYS.
JetsamPool
Madly adding future headlines to my list for bingo card generator.
Sloane Ranger
@LeftCoastYankee:
This. More than doubling the size of the USA will make him the greatest, bestest President ever! He will go down in the history books. And besides he hates Trudeau and probably no-one’s had the guts to tell him there’s a new guy on the block.
I’m also not sure he realises who the Head of State of Canada is. If the State Visit to the UK actually happens, it could get quite interesting.
Ruckus
@LeftCoastYankee:
Can’t call it trumpland unless we are dumping pure bullshit. Which of course would be far more truthful.
Trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Palm Springs sends their heartfelt regards.
BethanyAnne
@Ruckus: He’s just so stupid and mean.
Trollhattan
@Old School:
Say a lie often enough….
These People have One Weird Trick and aren’t shy about using it.
MattF
Just to note that Trump threatening Canada imitates Putin threatening Russia’s immediate neighbors.
Melancholy Jaques
@schrodingers_cat:
Yesterday I listened to three speeches by Trudeau, Chrétien, and Carney. All three were adamant that they were not going to be bullied by Trump or America. Elbows up!
At this point I would guess that opposition to Trump would be necessary for anyone running for office in Canada
Lily
Makes me think of the type of 1950s guy who believes bullying is required, no reason other than to show you’re “a man.” The guy in the Charles Atlas comic book ads who kicks sand in the faces of women and male nerds? They thought he was the one to be.
Old School
Emily B.
@Medicine Man: I worry that Americans are not taking this seriously enough. When the American president starts talking about redrawing international borders, that’s not just a trade war. I know Canadians get this…. Americans are slower on the uptake—in part because WTF? None of us except Trump want a fight with Canada.
Of course, when the US gets bogged down in active hostilities with Canada, that will be Mexico’s cue to reannex Texas…and meanwhile Russia can grab Alaska back.
Aggression toward Canada does NOT make us safer.
Lily
I read that Ford in Ontario says price increases for power they supply to a number of states will go into effect until T’s tariffs are removed.
A Ghost to Most
I grew up near Niagara Falls, played hockey with Canadians, and spent much of my summers there. If they need help, I’m there.
Sloane Ranger
@M31:
Last year I was on holiday in Italy. We were mostly British but with one Canadian lady in late middle age. She was a typical Canadian, polite, soft-spoken, self-effacing. A few of us took a local bus and there was a mob of Germans trying to get on as we were trying to get off. One made the mistake of pushing her and she suddenly turned into a berserker. She pushed, she shoved, she used strategically placed elbows and they fell back before her.
Once we were all off we looked at her and all she said was “They were rude!”
Jager
My maternal great-grandparents were Canadians from Toronto. My grandfather was a decorated WWI veteran and later a district court judge. My mom’s cousin was awarded a Silver Star for his actions on D Day, his son played on a National Championship Legion baseball team. Americans who were always proud of their Scots, English, Welsh, and CANADIAN heritage.
WereBear
@bjacques: I loved it!
WereBear
@Betty Cracker: Heck, Canadian Border states are popular in the summer. We have it earlier and longer.
Lily
As if Trump wants voters unwillingly forced to give up their Canadian health care … Oh, they won’t be allowed to vote US because they won’t be a real state? He imbibes TV ratings like they’re the elixer of eternal life.
Captain C
@Old School: Either she’s really dumb or a huge liar and doesn’t care.
Lily
@Lily:
Correction to what I wrote.
New headline: Ontario suspends electricity tariff, PM and Lutnick to meet Wednesday
Doc Sardonic
@Betty Cracker: A fairly sizable number of property owning, winter resident Canadians live in the Four Corners area of Florida. For non-Floridians this is where the borders of four large Florida counties, Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Polk meet.
This will leave a mark…
Old School
New Yorker Daily Cartoon – Tesla
Timill
@Sloane Ranger: “Tonight’s State Banquet will be held at the Tower of London.”
schrodingers_cat
@Captain C: Nazi Barbie is pretty white woman, plus she is a Republican so I am sure she doesn’t get the disrespect that Jean Pierre had to put up with.
Trollhattan
@Emily B.:
Americans are; Trump voters think he’s just fine.
Trollhattan
@schrodingers_cat:
Don’t overlook Jen Psaki, who could only tolerate a year and a half of their malarkey.
artem1s
gonna be another great day for the Dow!FYI TCF is buying TeslaDirect from the convicted felon taking bribes and straight into Soutpiels pocket.They think they can force people to buy their shitty products instead of buying American made cars that are assembled in Canada. Ask Xhitter’s advertisers how that worked out.Everything he does is all about lining his pocket.
revising comment…The report is he’s buying a Tesla, not shares. I doubt the bump will help much and if we are very lucky he’ll insist on seeing all the bigly flaming features when he test drives it (sits in the front seat and makes vroom vroom noises).
Deputinize America
@Lily:
Lutnick: “He doesn’t believe the stupid shit he says. Relax!”
Carney: “Fuck you. This is your one chance to get him to shut the fuck up.”
StringOnAStick
This quote lifted from Adam’s last post tells us everything about how we ended up here, and that Putin is 100% behind it. From Wired.com:
Thor Heyerdahl
Markets were down a lot yesterday. So like a WWE storyline, T—p had to find something to distract the media (and had to goose the market and scoop the profits). Rinse and repeat, ad infinitum.
RaflW
@suzanne: Canada would likely reject the overture, but I’m starting to think the eastern third of Minnesota should secede and ask to join Ontario. But it would make sense, because then Canada wouldn’t have to make room for a bunch of us, and the new P.M. could tax the US grain exports passing via Duluth.
Lily
@Betty Cracker: Yeah like the site to register your entry/exit dates (and make a fingerprint appointment !!!) will even work. And after you apply for the very expensive expedited service, and turn over yr fingerprints to an unsecured file system, you’ll be contacting the AI-powered office for over a year because your ID card w fingerprints never arrived.
Cathie from Canada
Thanks Betty! If anyone wants to know how Canadians feel, it’s “Elbows Up” – a term from hockey that says we’re ready for a fight!
Check my website for my recent posts too.
Doc Sardonic
@artem1s: Not sure why he is buying a new Tesla, as far as I know the only thing he knows how to drive is a golf cart…..
sixthdoctor
This might be a good flyer to slap on Teslas, Polestar is offering up to $20K savings on a lease to Tesla owners.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@WTFGhost: toss in Canadian universal healthcare for all new citizens & you’ll be able to win by plebiscite.
Old School
@RaflW:
But then it would have to become the Mall of Canada.
twbrandt
My maternal grandmother was a Canadian who grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Her brother, John D. Robins, was a prominent Canadian author, humorist, and professor at the University of Toronto. I’ve been all over – Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and many other places. I’ve skied in Whistler and Lake Louise. I love the country.
That our great neighbor now regards us with hostility and contempt due to the actions of that asshole saddens me no end. And I can’t blame them one bit.
RaflW
Interesting (as in, ugh) exchange:
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
Leavitt: “Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khali. Under the immigration and nationality act, the secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the USA.”
Domestic Enemy Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social
Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”
RaflW
@Old School: The Mall of North America, obvs!
rikyrah
They are their own phucking COUNTRY
THEY WILL NOT BE THE 51ST STATE
WTFGhost
@Ruckus: I sometimes criticize overuse of Murphy’s Law, because a lot of things go *right* that could go wrong, and one shouldn’t forget that. However, I think you’ve stated a deeper truism.
@JetsamPool: Add “NATO (and/or NATO+Japan) propose and create 5th gen fighter that is cheaper and easier to fly than the F-35 as a Manhattan-style project; new planes are being shaken down in Greenland where they are participating in wargames, involving the destruction of a major nation’s aircraft carrier….”
I’m not *betting* on that, okay? At the same time, if someone told me they’d bet against that, at two-to-one odds, I’d wonder if they knew something I didn’t. “Wouldn’t 50-to-1 be more fair?” I’d think.
@Trollhattan: Seriously, after a while, you wonder how many of the “one weird trick”s are the same.
@MattF: I’m morally certain Putin put the idea in Trump’s head, insofar as *anything* is morally certain when Trump’s around.
@Emily B.: I hate to say it, but… damn it, this was how Hitler’s Final Solution happened. No one thought anything really *terrible* was happening, they were just shipping prisoners with no clothing, medicine, or food, which means, *duh*, death camp. A lot of people probably thought “someone, who isn’t me, must do something!!!” but there was no one who was willing to decide it was their job to defy the Nazis, and save lives.
I’m not *as* worried about an invasion of Canada. That would require actual work, and Trump is a lazy emeffer. But I do worry about him vanishing enemies.
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
THEY NEED TO SELL THOSE HOMES
rikyrah
@jackmac:
The Democrats need to be cutting an ad with him saying that about SS and Medicare and playing it 24/7 in those Florida special election districts
rikyrah
@schrodingers_cat:
as they should. they need to be taking it very seriously
Citizen Alan
@Sister Golden Bear: I really do need to visit Yosemite asap before it gets sold off.
Citizen Alan
I will never stop hating Trump voters. I might possibly forgive idiots who didn’t vote. But there was a guy in the gym the other day sporting a MAGA t-shirt, and if I had the power to kill with my mind, his brain would have exploded on the spot.
Sister Golden Bear
@Citizen Alan: Also visit Sequoia and Kings Canyon. They’re literally day trip distance from you.
FWIW, I’m thinking about doing a road trip to see them later this spring. (Probably late April-ish when the remoter roads reopen.) Maybe a mini-jackal meet up?
Cathie from Canada
Thanks Betty! Canadians are now using a hockey term “elbows up” to describe our fight against Trump. As Trudeau said, we’re not angry against Americans but we are furious with your government.
I have several posts about it on my blog if anyone wants more memes etc
kindness
An Electricity National Emergency? Never heard of it. Maybe Trump is expecting Doug Ford & BC to make good on their threats to cut off electrical transmission? Sure seems as if Trump is provoking them to do it. I guess Trump sees New England and Washington state as ‘blue’ so he doesn’t care if it hurts them. We are being led by a selfish spoiled child who no one ever said ‘No!’ to. He coulda used more of that.
Elizabelle
Dumbfuck Hitler is a perfect description.
Citizen Alan
@Sister Golden Bear: I am conflicted. Because on one hand, I want to see these beautiful natural wonders while I can. On the other hand, I am a lazy fat-ass who has never for one second actually enjoyed the outdoors. :)
Maxim
@schrodingers_cat: I have been talking to some Canadians and they are grimly terrified. They think Trump is going to invade and have no intention of letting that succeed. That’s the mood up there.
Stevo
I don’t think MAGA gets that a whole lotta people wish our states would join Canada, not the other way around.
Canada plus New England, New York, and the West Coast (WA, OR, CA) would be a powerhouse and the rest of the remaining Murrica would be a desert/jungle third world country.
u
@…now I try to be amused: Canadian geese are tough! I used to have a dog who was half pitbull. She was afraid of nothing — except Canadian geese!
twbrandt
@Stevo: Hey! Don’t forget us in Michigan! We have a huge amount of cross-border ties.
ron
@Stevo: need to add PA, CO and the mid-Atlantic states.
BC in Illinois
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JetsamPool
@WTFGhost: Added a much shortened version of your suggestion because of space limitations. I have almost enough for a good spread on multiple cards.
NotoriousJRT
@JoyceH: I gag every time Trump uses the words “cherish” and “cherished.” Thank you for helping me further articulate why it nauseates me so. My explanation was that no person ever demonstrated less understanding of what it is to cherish something than Trump. Also, the word is embedded in traditional wedding vows to demonstrate lasting devotion and commitment, behaviors that fat orange blob cannot understand let alone practice. But, the abuser aspect you point out adds an even finer point to it all. It helps me comprehend why my skin crawls at his use of the word. I will never be able to hear it again without feeling that it has been utterly devalued for me.
Aziz, light!
No American states will ever be part of Canada because Americans will never give up their guns. The rest of the world thinks we’re nuts. Go figure.
Medicine Man
@Emily B.: From what I can see, the normalcy bias is pretty strong in the US. Many trump voters see his threats as “tough negotiating” and others across the spectrum treat it as his usual bluster.
We’re horrified but not wallowing in denial up here. That said, I may be more calm about these threats than many people on this board. Your president may admire Putin, but he isn’t Putin himself. Nor is America russia. Nor are Americans russians.
The country of russia goes to war at the pleasure of Putin and his siloviki. For all your problems and divisions, the USA is a nation of citizens. Your nation only goes to war when enough Americans are convinced you have to, usually because you’ve been attacked in some way. I’m concerned that your government may employ state force against us and fear the harm they’ll inflict, but I actually pity what happens to the cretins in Wash DC if they take your nation to war while most of the people aren’t interested in it.
This isn’t blind faith in Americans or your voters either. I know even maga voters are sick of military adventures that are a splendid idea to DC bobbleheads but an expensive, bloody burden to the public. Also, it’s one thing to go to war overseas and on the television, quite another to go to war on your own borders against a country not threatening you, whose citizens are related to your own through blood, marriage, and history.
Knowing your leaders are dumb enough to make the mistake and the opacity of where normalcy bias shatters in the US are what worry me, not any sense that Americans will apathetically acquiesce to anything.
Medicine Man
TLDR version: I lose sleep over the safety of my country and am having trouble focusing on other things, but I’m actually more worried about how your government is going to hurt Americans.
Jay
@Medicine Man:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-paranoid-style-in-maga-policy
Balloon-juicer’s are not your ordinary, average American.
Tim in SF
Uh… what? WTF? We’re fingerprinting Canadian visitors now? This is such an insult. It feels like Trump is throwing rocks at my neighbor from my own back yard.
Barry
@jackmac:
“Payment pending … for now.”
Front-pagers, please put any reports of Social Security not coming through up top. It’ important to know when this is actually happening.
Barry
@Medicine Man: “and I know that the majority of Americans are sick of military adventures and endless occupations that please only certain critters in Wash DC.”
I’ll believe that the Tea Party critters are actually not still imperialist b*stards when they revolt against another war.
Medicine Man
@Jay:
I know that, man. I’m not basing my opinions on the internet. I also have in laws in the midwest and relatives who live and work down there. My sense is there are plenty that would be fine with some empire, but no where near a majority.
Jay
@Tim in SF:
The new Visa and fingerprinting program is part of a two part program.
The first part is to make the US more attractive to Canadian tourists, Snowbirds and Expats.
The second is to create more jobs for Americans in the Entertainment industries by making Hollywood less attractive to Canadian actors, comics and musicians.
Jay
@Medicine Man:
They don’t need a majority.
sab
OT: Our office roof Canada geese normally migrate south for the winter and then back up here to raise their babies. They hadn’t turned up this yearr and I was afraid bird flu had knocked them off. Ohio is top in the nation for bird flu.
But a few of them turned up this morning, landing with thuds and honks on the office roof.
sab
@Percysowner: Fionna Hill says WWIII started 10 years ago when Putin invaded Crimea, and I believe her.
toine
I just received my American Invasion Resistance Plan. It’s pretty easy to follow… Smile, be friendly, and tell them they are in Wisconsin and must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Thank them for their service, wish them luck and point them south…
WTFGhost
@JetsamPool: Yes, I’m kind of swinging through mildly manic phases, due to weird physical symptoms. Talk about a run-on BINGO suggestion :-).
Cathie from Canada
@toine: I love this! The other trick I heard was to let them invade during the winter and don’t teii them about block heaters. First cold day, their transport will freeze solid.
Also, poutine!
Jay
@toine:
@Cathie from Canada:
Sadly, being polite, kind and helpful will give away the fact that they are in Canada.
bluefoot
@StringOnAStick: I think blaming it on Russia elides the fact that most people either actively wanted this or didn’t care enough to stop it. Yes, Russian propaganda influenced some people, but at the end of the day, people wanted this and voted for it.
I’ve asked it before: if there is all this propaganda and algorithms on social media to capture young folks, especially young men, what’s the counterprogramming we can offer?
Ruckus
@Kristine:
That too, and likely other situations. This is not an insignificant sized country/group of humans. And a lot of us are retired, millions of us. We worked and paid into programs, with or without actually wanting to, on the premise that we’d have a monthly paycheck when we got old enough and had worked long enough. If the concept that people without enough money (multi millionaires and above might be high enough…) have to work till they drop, a significant number in this country will, I bet, be rather pissed off. At the very least.
toine
@Jay:
There was a big argument about whether we should say Wisconsin or Minnesota… maybe Minnesota would have fit better with nice. No matter, when the gloves come off we still have Celine Dion…
StringOnAStick
@bluefoot: People wanted this and voted for it thanks to the media/propaganda sources they have fallen into and now believe completely, and that’s a Russian op. It doesn’t matter which was the chicken or the egg, what matters is the result and Putin scored a huge hit on us by exploiting this feature of the American character. As long as there’s far right wing media and so called centrist media cleaning it up a bit and publishing it because their wealthy owners want it that way, we’re screwed.
Jay
@bluefoot:
Not much. All the Social Media companies tailor the algorithms to push extremism. Even as a Tech Savvy adult, one needs to curate their Social media feeds carefully.
Finland and Sweden teach High School students how to be “better” social media consumers. Can’t see that ever being a thing in the US.
Gvg
@schrodingers_cat: yeah but I don’t think any but a very few Americans actually seriously want to go to war with Canada, or Greenland or Europe. I mean really, they did not do anything to us (no 911) and we don’t imagine we have historical claims to them. I guess there might be a few who still think we should have the Panama Canal, but not enough. We like being a popular ally that other countries let lead them, sure, but Trump is marching to a different drummer and it is to sudden and different. If he calls for support for one of these wars, it’s going to land like a lead balloon. Resistance by sloth and malingering and flat refusal.
Jay
@toine:
24/7 loop of Nickleback songs on every P/A, radio station, all websites, all TV channels at full volume until they go deaf or leave.
David Collier-Brown
@suzanne: I recommend moving to Canada immediately if you’re a target. Apply in the normal way. Applying as a refuge from the US involves too high a hurdle right now.
When Mr Trump starts killing, then expect that to change quite quickly.
David Collier-Brown
@Betty Cracker: I suspect the change to 30 days is so that Mr Trump can seize them and send them to Guantanamo as “illegal aliens”.
JKC
@Emily B.: What makes you think Mexico would want Texas (or at least Texans)? ; )
David Collier-Brown
@Raoul Paste: If you’re in Canada, we’re likely to figure you don’t like Mr Trump. MAGA folks don’t come here. Heck, they don’t go anywhere that requires a passport
If asked, say you’re taking a vacation from Trumpland. And maybe shopping for a new country (:-))
David Collier-Brown
@Old School: And a optional high-tensile form of crazy glue.
David Collier-Brown
@Sloane Ranger: My old landlady was pretty crippled up, but when a young man shoved past her into a bus, she hooked around the neck with her cane and toppled him out onto the pavement.
Canadians queue quietly.
toine
@Jay:
Yikes!! Not sure we are ready for full-blown war crimes just yet. :-
ps: we do sincerely apologize for Nickleback…
David Collier-Brown
@sixthdoctor: A colleague was contacted by a former Tesla owner who knew he has a vinyl cutting machine. They asked he could make something like this for their current (non-Tesla) vehicle. I think this would be a fun little project 🙂 .
Followed by a picture of a Kia, with a sticker that says “I bought this after Elon went crazy”
David Collier-Brown
@Aziz, light!: Actually Canada has a whole heck of lot of guns. Mostly hunting rifles and shotguns, but we did have to ban assault rifles as not suitable for hunting
Jay
@David Collier-Brown:
127 million guns for 40 million people.
Kayla Rudbek
@Betty Cracker: that’s going to make the Cayman Islands even more crowded for vacation…
Paul in KY
@JoyceH: That’s why he says 1 state! Will never happen, but at least his sycophants know that 9 new states would probably give 14 new Democratic senators.