I'm far from the only Canadian who did a spit-take over Steve Israel salivating in the NYT at the prospect of the US annexing my country. Fortunately, a lot of Americans disagree passionately with him. We could use more of you. A lot more. 🧵 www.robcottingham.ca/2025/02/cana... - ThreadSky

robcottingham.ca • 12 days ago

I'm far from the only Canadian who did a spit-take over Steve Israel salivating in the NYT at the prospect of the US annexing my country. Fortunately, a lot of Americans disagree passionately with him. We could use more of you. A lot more. 🧵

https://www.robcottingham.ca/2025/02/canada-is-not-your-electoral-fantasy-america/

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davidmouritsen.bsky.social•11 days ago

It is disconcerting to have one's country viewed as a poisoned chalice

robcottingham.ca•12 days ago

I am doing my best, as are many of us, to convince folks that the great majority of Americans aren’t with Trump on this. But that can be a hard sell when even some Democrats are talking about carving us up for congressional advantage.

robcottingham.ca•12 days ago

Please don't treat our country as some emergency epi-pen for broken electoral systems. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, corporate manipulation and the Electoral College are all serious issues, but they’re *your* issues. You can have our support and our sympathy… but not our sovereignty.

robcottingham.ca•12 days ago

The online reaction from the Americans I follow has been reassuringly outraged. But this article shakes me to my core, with passages like “the notion of Canada as a state, however farcical and unlikely, has intrigued the political class and been the source of parlor games in Washington.”

robcottingham.ca•12 days ago

Shake your heads, DC pols: Your president is openly talking about naked aggression against your best friend on the planet, and you’re “intrigued”?

robcottingham.ca•12 days ago

Canadians have always been attuned to US politics. We have to be. And we care deeply what happens to you.

But today we’re watching and listening more closely than ever, with grave concern for our own future. Some of us are terrified; almost all of us are furious.

robcottingham.ca•12 days ago

Please: stop playing Electoral College fantasy football with our country. Every time you do, you make the idea of annexing Canada a little more respectable. You bring it further out of the realm of "what if" and closer to "how to."

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