In other words, some Republican senators still want to insert the knife into Caanda, to drain our lifeblood, but they want it done compassionately.
I don’t know if that is a good idea for us. Even if in two years they take back congress and the senate, the next two years after that they could put in another pack of lunatic fascists. I think we should continue with our diversifying strategy and put much more effort into CETA and CPTPP.
It is their entire adversarial culture that needs to change. The Americans HAVE to have an enemy, even if they change a friend into an enemy.
You want us back?
Impeach Trump.
Then, if Vance fucks around, impeach him, too. Then Johnson. Keep going until you find someone who isn’t a fascist asshat.
That would help with America’s “trust” problem.
I think it’s more likely individual states or blocs of them regain our trust by seceding
Nah.
This is the only response needed to any overtures from the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAbATWsvjTE
And sorry Democrats, until you get your Republican problem under control, we can’t trust you either. In 2016 it looked like it might just be a flare-up, but the reappearance of symptoms indicates that the infection is deeper and ongoing.
That video deserves its own post. 😁🙂
As an American: DO NOT TRUST REPUBLICANS.
As a Canadian, DO NOT TRUST AMERICANS IN GENERAL.
My general stance is that, for the most part, Americans are like everyone else is. They’re mostly perfectly fine individually. It’s when you get them all in a group that they’re an issue.
Their entire culture pervades each one, individually. They are definitely NOT like ‘everyone else’. The indoctrination into the ‘American way’ is so pervasive, it is almost impossible to speak to any American individually for any length of time before some aspect of the ‘American way’ comes through. Basically, the ‘American Way’ is summed up by the phrase ‘The entire world is centered around America, and only America maters’.
I’ve known that since the age of 6. lol To me they always seem to hide something, not tell the whole story. And they’re mostly background racists.
Your second sentence is just politicians in general.
From that article,
"He [Carney] announced a $6-billion purchase of over-the-horizon radar systems from Australia in March as part of the government’s ongoing NORAD modernization project.’
A NORAD radar.
From Australia.
That just HAS to sent the Americans a message about Carney’s thinking towards the Americans.
You have to earn the second chance, yanks. And given the size of the betrayal, you got to work hard, very hard, to earn it.
tRump is just a symptom. The USA is and always has been an oligarchy, founded on genocide and grown through slavery, patriarchy and misogyny. The original constitution gave ALL political power to Rich White Males and only superficial changes have been made over the last 250 years, the real power still remains with the oligarchs. tRump has just dropped the mask for the world to see what a fascist shit-stain of a country the U.S. really is at its core. The world (and Canada) will be extremely unwise to ever trust them again no matter which faction of the oligarchy is in power.
When Americans understand what ’ recognition and reconciliation policy’ is all about, they might also understand where they went wrong with Canadians.
This
This motivates me more in my boycott.
Exactly, because it shows our efforts are working.
I might, in four years or so, but probably not. There’s a segment of Americans that have the memories of goldfish.
Not again in my lifetime. (Presumably a lot longer than 4 years)
Hopefully, Canadians will have a LONG memory.
I’ll be fascinated to see who the R candidate is, and if the election is free and fair at all.
FWIW, unlike there, they elect their senators.
If Trump is in any state to do anything about it, it won’t be.
Yeah, that’s where my money is too. He’s ruled out running himself, though, and I believe him just based on him being old and having never been a good fit fit for the actual work of the job.
10 years after you hang that orange Turd we might think about it. Until then fuck off.
“We still love you as much as ever” said senator Tim Kaine.
And we love you as much as ever - but it has never been as much as you think.
Canada and Canadians have always harboured a quiet, seething resentment towards the US - even as our snowbirds have flown south in the winter and we’ve greedily bought crap on Amazon. As proud as we are of Canadian musicians hitting the big time, we’re slightly bitter that we spend more time listening to American content.
I think it’s fair to say that we’ve always - at least in my 50+ years of awareness - felt the pressure of living next door to a ten-ton behemoth that fills our every waking moment just by merely leaking across the border.
And now the dam has broken. Trump has made things so unbearable that we finally have the resolve to break free. It’s going to be tough, it’s going to hurt for a number of years, we’re going to suffer financially in the short-mid term, but I’m confident that we’re going to do it. We will not allow ANY country or trading partner to control our destiny as much as the US has done since 1959.
So thanks for the love, but I’m afraid we’re still getting out of this toxic relationship.
