I am dreading Election day

Depending on the outcome, you may want to pretend to be Canadian for a while.

I know right? Ww must all have experienced the collapse of a superpower in another life. :roll_eyes:

Yeah, i guess we understood you, and just think you are spectacularly wrong.

About that: there is an old saying that goes “when America sneezes, Canada catches cold.” There isn’t an old saying about what Canada does when America drops trou, shits itself and rolls around in its own filth laughing but there is a new one: “When America drops trou, shits itself and rolls around in its own filth laughing, Canada elects people like Doug Ford and Danielle Smith as premiers.” Please send help.

It’s not as catchy. Just saying.

Shit may roll downhill, but the stench drifts upward.

Tell me you’re a right wing asshole without telling me you’re a right wing asshole.

Any talk of you working for the Ds is clearly just bullshit. You are definitely walking and talking like a duck.

It either means a person is “weak” (as defined by toxic masculinity), an enemy whose suffering is deserved, or hypersensitive, or an attention-seeker depending on who is using it for an insult.

From context I think the second version is involved here, they come across as the sort of anti-American person who thinks America is the source of all evil and Americans deserve to suffer. I’ve often gotten in arguments with such people using similar rhetoric, who think any cost is acceptable for doing any harm at all to the Ultimate Evil of America.

Basically imagine a crusading religious fanatic, then exchange “Satan” for “America”.

Sort of like repubs thinking being ‘Woke’ is wrong and are trying to use it as an insult. Not that they could define what it means.

And oh yeah. MadMonk. Your mad, but no monk.

When I meet people in the Caribbean who say they’re Canadian, I always ask them if they’re really Canadian, or just too embarrassed to admit they’re from the US.

Lol, when Bush the younger was president, i tried to pass as Canadian when i was traveling. I never actually claimed to be Canadian, but maybe i wore a maple leaf or adopted a slightly Canadian accent.

Yes, we’re “triggered” the same way Europe was in the 1930s.

Hey, that’s not cool, buddy!

Agree. You have to own up to the bullshit that this country has become. I didn’t vote for any of them.

We were in the Caribbean after Obama’s first win. People were downright jubilant about the US. We were hugged everywhere we went.

It’s very convenient for them, since they don’t have to actually specify what’s making them angry at something. Just scream about “wokeness”.

Even our legitimate president “is concerned about what they might do” about the election. (The link goes to AOL.)

Citing Trump, Biden says he can’t guarantee election will be peaceful in president’s first remarks from White House press room

Citing his predecessor’s history of inciting violence, President Joe Biden on Friday warned that he could not guarantee that the coming presidential election and transition period would be a peaceful, as he made his first appearance in the White House press briefing room since taking office 1,353 days ago.

Asked if he has confidence that the 2024 election would be both free and fair as well as peaceful, Biden told reporters he has confidence that the November 5 election will be “free and fair” but he demurred on the latter, citing previous actions by his predecessor, former president Donald Trump.

“The things that Trump has said and the things that he said last time out when he didn’t like the outcome of the election were very dangerous,” Biden said.

He added that Trump’s running-mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, has also not said whether he’d accept the outcome of the coming election if he and the ex-president do not win.

“So I’m concerned about what they’re going to do,” Biden said.

There is more at the link.

I knew kids pretending to be Canadian way back in the 60s and 70s on their year abroad trips. Most Europeans couldn’t tell the difference, so it was easy.

I never actually claimed to be Canadian. But i sure tried to avoid anything that suggested “USA”, and it’s easier to look Canadian than to look Irish.

I think they believe “woke” means “Cats with two mommies living in the basement of pizza parlors operating the Jewish Space Lasers remotely to turn everyone gay.”