# I'm an old Canadian and America is starting to freak me out **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546 "2016-11-03T18:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/101 "2016-11-05T03:35:57Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Once the baby boomers die off enough, things should start to improve. They have been in control too long and are trump’s biggest supporters. Once they are no longer a voting power and also not the majority of our politicians, things will improve. Another Boomer who would rather choke to death on her own vomit before voting for Trump. Please don’t generalize. You’re sure to be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/102 "2016-11-05T04:34:55Z")
Fuck Canada. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/103 "2016-11-05T07:38:22Z")
Why anyone would imagine that people born within a particular span of time would form a cohesive demographic eludes me. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/104 "2016-11-05T11:19:11Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It’s Trump, so they’ll be bad checks and negative balances. I just wanted to say that this is a beautiful riposte. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/105 "2016-11-05T12:57:37Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Another Boomer who would rather choke to death on her own vomit before voting for Trump. Please don’t generalize. You’re sure to be wrong. My immediate Boomer circle of friends & family agree that President Trump would be a total disaster. Even the “radical” Bernie fans among us (no, they weren’t all kids) know that voting for Hillary is now necessary. However, My Generation does include far too many Trump fans. And figures indicate that most of us _do_ tend to vote. So those whippersnappers better get off their asses & down to the polling places! (Note about those generational generalizations: Isn’t the iconic Boomer, Gen X-er or Millennial always _white_? That’s a rather short-sighted world-view.) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/106 "2016-11-05T13:01:59Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > There are a lot of fucking misconceptions in American pop culture, though considering the number of Canadians employed in its creation, maybe that’s partly our fucking fault, sorry. Is that pronounced “fooking?” > [@Balthisar](#): > > Having lived in Canada, I’m amazed how Canadians come to predominately American forums and spout how different they are, whereas most Canadians that I’ve gotten to know very well are pretty much exactly like us. Born in another Southern Canadian province, Minnesota, and the rest of the US is…odd. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/107 "2016-11-05T14:07:55Z")
Baja Canada. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/108 "2016-11-05T15:10:17Z")
Ontario Sud, merci beaucoup. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/109 "2016-11-05T16:50:26Z")
Don’t have to beg for mercy, just surrender. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/110 "2016-11-05T18:56:23Z")
We did already. That aside, I have no end of respect for my Canuckistani brothers and sisters. Normally it’s not your fight, but there you are with your blue helmets. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/111 "2016-11-05T19:16:43Z")
Little troubled about how they are lining up just the other side of the border. Kinda glowering, in what might be a menacing sort of way if they weren’t Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/112 "2016-11-05T19:21:03Z")
Keep it up and finger wagging could break out! You’ve been warned! ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/113 "2016-11-05T20:15:32Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Fuck Canada. Use a condom please … Canada has enough Maritime Provinces already … ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/114 "2016-11-05T20:36:00Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Red Green would be a vastly better candidate than Trump. _Tom_ Green would be a vastly better candidate than Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/115 "2016-11-06T00:47:10Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > I was trying to hijack the thread by pointing out that it wouldn’t matter who won the Republican nomination … the rhetoric would be the same … Nonsense. It’s true that Democrats would be criticizing the Republican nominee, whoever it happened to be, because a Republican nominee would be bound to hold views that we Democrats strongly disagree with. But I would never say that, e.g., Ryan or Kasich or Cruz is not a serious national politician or doesn’t have any considered policy positions. I don’t think that Ryan or Kasich or Cruz would be a good President because I think they have a shit-ton of bad ideas. But at least they actually HAVE ideas, and at least they would actually CARE about being a good President according to their own lights. Trump, on the other hand, is merely a lying showboater whose demagogue schtick is entirely divorced from practical governmental realities. He absolutely could not care less about anything that would happen to the country on his watch, as long as it provided publicity and advantage for Trump himself. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/116 "2016-11-06T01:10:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Tom Green would be a vastly better candidate than Trump. Mr. Greenjeans, too in fact, everyone pretty much ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/117 "2016-11-06T01:14:17Z")
What if he used his Evile Powers for good? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/118 "2016-11-06T01:44:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Red Green would be a vastly better candidate than Trump. > [@Finagle](#): > > Well, they’re both handy. Just in different ways. Finally, something to make me smile in a Trump thread. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/119 "2016-11-06T03:38:55Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Chill the fuck out already. Trump is not going to win. Even if he somehow does win, it will make no perceptible difference in your daily life. You’re a fucking Canadianstanigan. Your country gets along with everybody. The rest of the world will look forward to your stories about your crazy neighbor. And Trump probably won’t nuke you by accident. I hope. He will win. He always wins. He wins more than anyone. He wins yuge. he wins bigly. When he loses, it isn’t because he lost, because he always wins… it’s because he was cheated. Emmy awards, Oscars, Nobel, Preakness, he wins all of them all the time - except that he always gets cheated 😃 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546/120 "2016-11-06T04:51:13Z")
I can understand where the OP is coming from. I am an old American, and I am slightly afraid of where America seems to be leaning. As the polls show right now, whether Trump wins or not, the very fact that half of the people in this country want and support a Trump presidency, indicates to me that the United States is not the country I thought it was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-old-canadian-and-america-is-starting-to-freak-me-out/770546.md?page=7)