# We're under attack! They're massing on our border! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570 "2022-06-02T14:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/1 "2022-06-02T14:10:00Z")
Canada has sneakily moved 90% of their citizens to within 150 miles of our border! Clearly this is ominous! Wake up, people! The time to build barricades is NOW. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/2 "2022-06-02T14:18:47Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1q82twrdr0U/maxresdefault.jpg "Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q82twrdr0U) ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/3 "2022-06-02T14:36:16Z")
With the way global warming is headed, Canada is going to have to fend off a 50-million strong horde of Americans trying to buy up northern land/move in illegally by the year 2060 or so. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/4 "2022-06-02T15:06:35Z")
That’s hard to believe. What with the metric system, gay marriage, guaranteed abortion access, strict gun control and SOCIALIZED medicine? Everyone of those things will surely make their heads explode. Plus French? I’m not seeing it! ---
**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/5 "2022-06-02T15:08:44Z")
And a smaller force already in place in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/6 "2022-06-02T15:15:59Z")
He said 50 million, there is over 100 million in favor of most of those things now. As we’re talking in 40 years from now, Millennials and Gen Z are even more so by percentage. Now the French might be a deal breaker, but plenty of Canada where that isn’t a major issue. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/7 "2022-06-02T15:28:33Z")
[Don Novello’s mocking of Ronald Reagan’s scare-mongering about Central America](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQrVKYpMbk) back in the early 1980s feels surprisingly relevant 40 years later. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/8 "2022-06-02T15:35:46Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > That’s hard to believe. What with the metric system, gay marriage, guaranteed abortion access, strict gun control and SOCIALIZED medicine? Everyone of those things will surely make their heads explode. Plus French? I’m not seeing it! “When Canada sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing the metric system. They’re bringing gun control. They’re socialists. And some, I assume, are good people.” ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/9 "2022-06-03T02:55:47Z")
I just remembered Canadians tend to be really polite and law-abiding. So maybe all we need to do is put up ‘Private Country -No Trespassing’ signs all along the border? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/10 "2022-06-03T03:41:17Z")
I have to suspect that the Tim Hortons that have popped up in some border states represent some preliminary excursions. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/11 "2022-06-03T03:49:02Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Canada has sneakily moved 90% of their citizens to within 150 miles of our border! Clearly this is ominous! I, for one, welcome our new Canadian overlords! (I mean, we’re having more than enough trouble getting and keeping our S\*\*\* together, let someone else have a swing at it, and if they still screw it up, well [Blame Canada!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA)) ETA - Sorry, for some reason I’ve been thinking I was funny all day, I’m sure it’ll get better. 😝 ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/12 "2022-06-03T04:31:38Z")
How about the long-ongoing incursion of Canadians in entertainment? From the earliest days (Mary Pickford) to the Golden Age (Raymond Burr, Lorne Greene, Leslie Nielsen) and of course the late 1900s with Michael J Fox, Alex Trebek up to today with Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Keanu Reeves and too many others to name. Most people don’t even realize that so many of them are Canadian–a veritable fifth column of them. And how about Canadians as US Presidents? Not just actor Raymond Massey playing Abe Lincoln; there’s also Chester B. Arthur who may well have been born in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/13 "2022-06-03T04:39:37Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > and of course the late **1900s** with Michael J Fox I never realised that Canada, like Thailand, uses a different calendar. Live and learn! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/14 "2022-06-03T15:18:37Z")
? Looks ok to me …? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/15 "2022-06-03T23:09:51Z")
Watch out for them frostbacks! ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/16 "2022-06-03T23:13:48Z")
You’re gonna’ need a bigger boat. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/17 "2022-06-06T01:21:34Z")
I was curious what led the OP to think of this. Was it the resolution that passed in Ohio on June 1? > **[Republicans in the Ohio House vote to put Canada on a federal watch list](https://www.ideastream.org/news/republicans-in-the-ohio-house-vote-to-put-canada-on-a-federal-watch-list)** > > The Ohio House passed a resolution (House Resolution 194)late Wednesday night that urges the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to add… ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/18 "2022-06-07T11:28:32Z")
That vote capped an all night session in which every other problem in Ohio was solved. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/19 "2022-06-07T12:56:20Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I was curious what led the OP to think of this. Was it the resolution that passed in Ohio on June 1? No. I saw a Youtube video about ‘interesting’ maps that revealed things we might not otherwise be aware of. One was that stat about Canada’s population. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570/20 "2022-06-07T14:22:14Z")
We are building snow forts, and have amassed an enormous number of snowballs. If that fails, you will be pelted with stale Timbits. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-under-attack-theyre-massing-on-our-border/965570.md?page=2)