I don't think Canada can be any clearer to Americans who think we'd be happy to join the USA. Our collective response, barring a few weird MAGA-like oddballs (less than 5%), is:
"GO FUCK YOURSELVES"
Canada is a sovereign nation, and will remain that way. Woe to the power that tries to change that.
Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...
His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:
> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.
The Panama canal, maybe.
The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.
The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.
So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.
[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.
#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian
Questions and an idea for my #USAnian friends...
Your ~~feral~~ federal government is currently being commandeered by an executive that believes that it can rewrite the U.S. constitution via executive orders. One of the primary techniques they are using is usurping the congress's "power of the purse", by either refusing to spend congressionally-allocated funds, or by spending those funds on things other than congress allocated them for.
If the executive branch thinks it's fine to ignore your constitution and screw taxpayers with tax dollars, then...
1) Most of the feds' tax income comes from income tax and various #employment taxes.
2) Employers collect these taxes and remit them to the government.
3) Q: exactly *who* do they remit them to? Based on history, I would think this would be a state agency, who would keep the state/municipal portion and remit the rest to the federal government. Is this correct?
4) "Blue" states are, in general, net payers of tax dollars vs. federal services received.
5) "Red" states are, in general, the opposite - they receive more in federal services / support than they remit in taxes.
So, depending on the answer to (3), my #idea is: why don't blue states stop remitting funds to the federal #government? Don't steal it, just hold it in trust until the feds can be made to follow the law correctly.
I would think this would hurt the feds, a *lot*.
#American #taxes #remissions #remit #income #spending #RedState #BlueState #trust
This time, I agree with Justin Trudeau on something. Uninviting - banning - the president of the USA from attending the G7 summit in Kananaskis in June.
He's the elected head of the government of a member state of the G7; he clearly must be allowed to attend.
But they should *totally* make him sit at the kids' table.
#USPol #G7 #Canada #Canadian #USAnian #trump #child #Kananaskis #Trudeau #JustinTrudeau
The thing that is the problem here isn't actually patriotism, though it masks itself as such.
It's the "my country, right or wrong" jingoism that calls itself patriotism, but which actually substitutes for rational thought. It serves as a litmus test to "other" anyone who doesn't believe in the innate and permanent superiority of a country and its people over everyone else.
It's what's responsible for a lot of what's going on in the developing hell to our south.
Real patriotism is concerned with how we treat everyone - our less fortunate citizens and the other peoples of the world. It is concerned with our values, our morals, our ethics. It is about being proud of our good deeds, without shying away from turning a critical eye to the ones where we did not meet our own high standards.
I worry about this sudden outbreak of jingoism in Canada as well. We're not "better than everyone else WOO" like USAnians, but this is not a good portent.
#jingoism #patriotism #pride #proud #Canada #Canadian #USAnian #USA
@jwz refers to the fediverse scolding brigade as the "Mastodon HOA", and if you're familiar with that peculiarly USAnian institution, full of wannabe-dictators and fun police, it's quite apt.
I alt-text my images. But not because randos show up in the replies demanding it -- despite them.
#Mexico and #Canada, and every nation in the #EU, should now insist on proof of vaccination against all generally preventable diseases from Americans prior to entry into their country.
If you want Bobby Brainworm in charge of your public health, it's your funeral, but you don't get to spread those germs in our countries to those of our citizens that are too vulnerable to be immunized.
#RFKjr #BobbyBrainworm #vaccine #vaccination #proof #USAnian #USPol
Nice to hear from you, and thanks for your kind words. We know not all USAnians fit the stereotype, but it's still pleasant to run into the counter-examples.
Regarding "real country up there" -- I have to admit, some of us have been looking southwards lately and wondering if the USA is really just three banana republics in a trench coat ...
Re: tariffs, trade wars, and insane rapist degenerates who think they're kings...
The rest of the world probably knows this, but for our #USAnian friends, the single most offensive thing about President Felon's actions in violating our trade agreements with the USA -- trade agreements which *he* signed -- is this little addition:
> An official told the newspaper that these tariffs contained a retaliation
> clause that would ratchet up American tariffs if Mexico, Canada or China
> tried to place their own tariffs on US goods in response.
"We're going to violate our signed trade agreement, which has the force of law in both our countries, and you're just going to sit there and take it. You can't retaliate in kind or we'll get mad."
*That* is the American "exceptionalism" that the rest of the world hates. The sheer hubris that leads anyone to expect that edict to just be obeyed because We're American is the reason for the world's contempt.
Individual Americans can be, and frequently are, lovely people. But something happens in the aggregate that makes you absolutely insufferable at times. This is one of those times.
#Canada #trade #hubris #exceptionalism #American #Canadian #tariff #TradeWar #MangoMussolini #insufferable
You did, and full credit to you.
It's kinda weird. For 40% of the US population, that is as obvious as the sun rising, but for another 40%, they don't see it even if it's happening, to them, right now.
Denial, river in Egypt, etc, etc.
I really hope, for the sake of all my #USAnian friends, that the veil is lifted from many eyes in time for the mid-term elections in 2 years, and you can get a functioning, reality-based congress of adults to at least put the brakes on the stupid a little.
Mr. #Trump is greatly misinformed about #Canadians wanting Canada to be the #USA's 51st state. Well, he's greatly misinformed about most things, but this is recent.
Mr. Trump, please find a good book on each of the following points, and get one of your #toadies to read it to you:
1) None of Canada's 10 #provinces and 3 #territories is named The #Sudetenland.
2) The last time a #US #president decided he'd like to take over #Canada, we marched to #Washington and burned it to the ground. You might have heard a song we wrote about it.
3) We're the reason the White House is white. It didn't start out that way.
Jingoism, bluster, lies, delusions, and dementia isn't a great combination of characteristics for a U.S. president. Why'd you Americans decide to add "convicted felon" and "sex abuser" to that list?
#CanPol #USPol #illiterate #DJT #rape #rapist #SexAbuse #felon #ConvictedFelon #MangoMussolini #WhiteHouse #WarOf1812 #USAnian #American #history #fascism
With the orange one's blathering about slapping #tariffs on #imports from #Canada, #Mexico, and #China, lots of people are pointing out (correctly!) that it's #USAnian #consumers that will pay the (literal) price of the tariffs. Manufacturers and importers pass their #costs along to the final buyer; there's no other way it can work.
The claimed "cost of living" MAGA voters are going to get a really nasty shock as these price increases work through the system, particularly the China one. Dear Leader has said he wants an eventual 60%, or even 100% tariff on everything from China.
To a first approximation, *everything* in Walmart except food is made in China. And much of the food comes from Canada and Mexico. Ditto for virtually every other low-price retailer.
How is that cost-of-living voter going to feel when the price of everything at Walmart goes up by 40, 50, 60% or more?
Either Cheeto Mussolini is going to get a very swift #economics lesson, or his billionaire backers are going to get him to back down on tariffs.
#consequences #UnintendedConsequences #EconomicsInOneLesson #HenryHazlitt #CheetoMussolini #OrangeOne #MadeInChina #USPol
Yup, you can't just "come to visit" and forget to leave. If you arrive as a visitor (no visa needed atm for USAnians), there is a maximum time you can stay, and you can't work. Violators will get deported, and likely banned from ever re-entering Canada.
If you want to move here, you would need to apply (while still in the USA) for the appropriate immigrant permit/status.
Umm... how lame, and imitative.
Surely someone thought of "Canuck One", at least?
