I've been in Canada for a few days and I can say that Canadians are pissed. Everyone wants to talk to me about how pissed off they are. People are telling me it's the end of America.
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hope it might ɓe useful as a more coherent framework for understanding what to expect & how to prepare.
Anthropology meets economics
Mercantalism, epistemological change & a return to a pre world war era, type of order.
I’m going in April and I hope I’m not treated badly. I love going to Canada. It’s my number 1 spring and summer destination, and I always have a great time.
Damned right we are pissed. Your country betrayed our decades long friendship and now is destroying our economy because you all voted in a freaking criminal who is extorting Ukraine, threatening Denmark, planning to invade Panama and upsetting global alliances. WWIII is about to happen!
Yes, we're pissed, we're angry, we're furious, and we'll never trust the United States again in our lifetimes. The US has become a threat, even an enemy, to our sovereign country and to our very existence as free Canadians. This is unforgivable and shameful.
Like a teacher I want you to show your work. All I see is Chucky rolling over and a bunch of whinging. Up here we’re reading about counterinsurgencies. My wife who was a pacifist until we were threatened wants to buy guns. We are fucking beyond livid.
Do you blame us?
Trump threatening to do to us, a sovereign country that has helped the US time and time again, invade, just like his bum buddy has done to Ukraine?
I'm fucking seething with the heat of a thousand suns!
Blame Canada? Hell no. This American blames the Orange Turd and the morons that voted for him. I hate what Trump has done to our closest allies. Stay strong Canada!
I am very sorry but not me isn't ok. Your country is like Germany back in the 1930s. I know for a fact that Poland and other countries were not happy to hear not me, because my family fought in WWII and as a small child I listened to their stories. (Yeah I am old) Some day you all (more⬇️)
2/2 will have to own up to the suffering and destruction your country is unleashing onto the world. So "not me" does not excuse you from responsibility. You are allowing this to happen. The onus is also on *you*.
Fucking magat idiots were more concerned with the less than 10 trans athletes in the NCAA than the economy and everything else this country ever stood for
Pissed does not even begin to describe how we feel.
Do you understand the level of anger and fury one has to feel for even QUEBECERS to feel patriotic???? For Anglos and Francos to be united for a common goal????
They're not alone. I was pissed after the election in 2016 because I lived on the East Coast long enough to know exactly what an ignorant and crooked scumbag Trump is.
They would see it more clearly than we would. We are Kremlin 2014 level of state propaganda right here, right now in the good ol’ US of A.
Putin and trump, two aging strongmen ready to burn it all down to satisfy their own twisted “destinies”. Obviously Putin is just using trump, and BOY IS HE.
Our family hasn’t bought anything made in the USA in over a month my son is in Mexico was supposed to go to the USA but changed his plans because of the political situation in the USA. I don’t see this changing even if the tariffs end
I think they're right, unfortunately, but it's not all bad news. Maybe the new society that replaces this one can be built on people, not profits; compassion and not cruelty. When this over we may not even be one nation anymore.
Just as a forest fire makes room for new growth, I think that the current destruction will provide an opportunity to build something better from the ashes. The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Seeing so many people speaking up and protesting gives me hope. It could be the beginning of a movement that just needs the right catalyst to coalesce around.
They are very pissed. I see it on social media. I would like to tell them that we are with them, and would be much louder about it if we weren't putting out 100 other raging forest fires.
And scared. I have a small business and two of my suppliers are in Canada. I had a long conversation with one the other day and he was feeling exactly like a lot of us are. Iassured him its NOT the American people, its the administration.
Less than half the country actually. In the US we have the electoral college which is why there are "swing" states. You can win the popular vote and STILL lose the election. That happened in this election. Trump did not have a mandate.
I am not sure why you think people outside your borders don't know about US politics. We have Maple MAGA conservatives and if they were in power I would accept responsibility even though I would never vote for them. Until you all clean up your admin you are responsible for what they do.
I'm glad you understand our politics. Why would you take responsibility for something you voted against? I understand you have an election coming soon and the party with a slim lead may make it easier for trump to achieve his goals if elected. If you voted against them are your responsible? No.
I take responsibility for whatever actions my government takes. That is the difference between your liberal democracy (everyone for themselves) and a social democracy. If my government took action that hurt another country it is my responsibility to try to either stop it or make amends. (More below)
I’m a Canadian, and though I acknowledge it may not be the end of America, I would put money on it being the end of American Democracy and the end of America as world leader.
I don’t say this out loud often, but it’s entirely possible (likely?) that the US will Balkanize. The fault lines from the Civil War still run deep. I’ve been thinking this since shortly after 9/11.
They should be pissed--one anti-intellectual, uninformed man's ego is blowing up our relationship with them. I mourn this and I foresee years and years needed to repair it.
That's always been the problem with Canadians. Hyper emotional, always freaking out, full of rage.
They need to mellow out a touch if they've ever want to fit in.
They’re absolutely right. We’re on a dark path that won’t end well for anyone. It’s astounding how quickly things have fallen apart. It shouldn’t be that easy.
No, I don't blame Canadians.
Yes, this does seem to be the end of America.
Yes, I do know that Canadians are good people and have every right to be pissed.
Yes, half my family is Canadian.
And, yes, I would love to teach at your Canadian university. 🥰
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Canadians who visit Arizona every winter (and provide more than $1.5 billion of economic impact in the process) are leaving early this year, listing their properties for sale in record numbers, and many vowing not to return. I don't blame them either.
Probably a smart move. Several seasonal neighbors have listed theirs. The market has slowed but there's such a shortage here, things are still selling. For now anyway.
It very well could be. The President can raise and abolish taxes himself, create and destroy gov't offices himself, decide which rulings to follow or not. There is no point in Congress, it becomes vestigial if the CR cloture vote goes through.
“Pissed” is an understatement. This is not how you treat an ally. Society needs to raise its collective standards - the annexation rhetoric should *not* be dismissed as something as light as a joke.
Yes it is. My 20-years-ago self would be absolutely shocked that a sitting U.S. president could be talking about such naked aggression towards countries that have done nothing wrong. He sounds like Hitler talking about needing lebensraum.
PSYCHOPATH Trump has been PSYCHOPATH Putin’s bootlicker for decades. (See Craig Unger’s books.)
Trapped within the behavior patterns of their disorder, WORLD DOMINATION/ENSLAVEMENT is the agenda as RUSSIA’s Republicans—also cultivated over decades—destroy America/Americans to pave the way.
They’re right! America’s greatest superpower has ALWAYS been our alliances & their belief in US! That belief is now understandably gone & cannot be easily recovered (if at all). Also gone is their trust that America wants all allies to thrive & will use its resources twd that end! #AmericaInDecline
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hope it might ɓe useful as a more coherent framework for understanding what to expect & how to prepare.
Anthropology meets economics
Mercantalism, epistemological change & a return to a pre world war era, type of order.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1RPkNgbcmwSQcMM9vnlcIH?si=lJKNqQ1-RaajGXFxEZ9xrw
Trump threatening to do to us, a sovereign country that has helped the US time and time again, invade, just like his bum buddy has done to Ukraine?
I'm fucking seething with the heat of a thousand suns!
Please fight with us if it comes to that.
That's it. That was too much. Being NICE to n*****s and f*gs was simply UNBEARABLE.
Do you understand the level of anger and fury one has to feel for even QUEBECERS to feel patriotic???? For Anglos and Francos to be united for a common goal????
#ElbowsUp
Putin and trump, two aging strongmen ready to burn it all down to satisfy their own twisted “destinies”. Obviously Putin is just using trump, and BOY IS HE.
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I don't know how this trump/elmo/maga madness is gonna end up, but I do know we will never be the same country again.
Americans need to hear it
Canadians are pissed
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Fuck Chuck Schumer and his Appeasement of Trump
They need to mellow out a touch if they've ever want to fit in.
Yes, this does seem to be the end of America.
Yes, I do know that Canadians are good people and have every right to be pissed.
Yes, half my family is Canadian.
And, yes, I would love to teach at your Canadian university. 🥰
📧 me
(which I misspelled in the op and took down because that's no way to apply for a job)
Trapped within the behavior patterns of their disorder, WORLD DOMINATION/ENSLAVEMENT is the agenda as RUSSIA’s Republicans—also cultivated over decades—destroy America/Americans to pave the way.