In other words, some Republican senators still want to insert the knife into Caanda, to drain our lifeblood, but they want it done compassionately.
“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.
Your leaders and their Corpo-Masters have repeatedly made comments about Invading us,
you look for every opportunity to whitewash and shield the Genocidal, Warmongering terrorist regime in Russia, who I might add, considers themselves to be at war with us, and you. And during a time thats basically the opening salvo of WW3, You decide to say its the Europeans and Canadians that are treating you “nastily”
And while all this disrespect and devils advocacy for our enemies, you stamp your feet and scream that we join the team and get ready to go to war with China for you, Hardly anyone in the world had a problem with China, Until America started getting afraid that their hegemony would be challenged in the 21st century. So let me be clear, if Russia and Ukraine isnt your war, China Isnt our war.
and thats all before we even mention the flip flopping trade wars and your insistance on waging a “culture war” in your own country, slowly turning everything in the room to be something the Proud Boys would blush at.
No, America, most of us aren’t on speaking terms with you right now, the best thing you can do , is shut the fuck up and go away for a while.
“I want another chance!”
My 5 year old kid likes to say this, when I’ve finally imposed some consequences for doing something she shouldn’t be doing after she’s ignored my repeated requests to stop doing it. She usually says it while still doing the thing that caused the issue in the first place.
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
As an American: DO NOT TRUST REPUBLICANS.
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.
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’.
U.S. senators urge Canada to ‘give us another chance’
You already had another chance and instead you re-elected the worst president your country had ever had.
Spoken like any abuser to their victim.
I was grocery shopping yesterday and saw ginger root and wanted some. But then I saw “Made in USA” so moved on. But then there was organic ginger root made in Peru and I got it. Not even sure what the price difference was, at the time I figured it didn’t matter if the organic was twice the price, though now I wish I had checked because tariffs might have even cancelled out the organic premium. I’m not even sure what the current status is for Canadian tariffs on US goods.
A few years back, I would have been happy to see ginger root made in USA instead of China. Funny how quickly things can change so much.
Also, any politician who tries to work with these senators to increase Canadian spending on US goods risks affecting their own popularity more than the popularity of US goods here.
Don’t give us another chance until we grow up.
-US citizen
Have you not grown up, or is it the opposite - dementia has set in?
We never grew up. Look at our healthcare situation.
“We’ll be better at it if we’re friends than if we’re just tolerating one another…. I’m just here (in Ottawa) to say thank you, and then to encourage Canadians to take another look and give us another chance.”
You can’t talk about making Canada into the 51st state and then cry for another chance. As far as I’m aware, most Canadians have a backbone. A concept utterly alien to conservatives.
I think you are mistaken. The common American politician, upon biopsy, has been found without a backbone. It keeps its form with an exoskeleton, shed once every 20 years.
Seems more like it’s once every 2-4 years they shed the ol’ exoskeleton. 😅
Depends on the species, but yes some in the genus shed more often than others
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No.
Not woke and DEI enough to receive our trade and tourism dollars, sorry.
There are simply too many reasons to say no. How the US treats people entering and leaving the country. How due process is ignored for people within the country.
In broad terms the US is an unkind society. This is not to say that there are not kind individuals, but they are unable to influence the overall norm that is so clearly on display.
You don’t get to cause so many damages to a partner and then suggest we give you another chance. That ship has sailed and I am ready for us to find other trading partners and address our own internal trade barriers.
The Americans are an adversarial us-vs-them society. There always has to be a loser in the American culture.
That is because they need someone to look down on.
Little do they know how much they’re looked down upon by other, more civilized countries.
Little do they know how much they’re looked down upon by civilized countries.
FTFY
Or just send us your money you would have spent on tourism, since that money is what we really want, not you to come visit.
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