Posted on 11/24/2017 6:05:47 PM PST by mkleesma
It's been over a year since the American election and what we hear in Canada coming from our old neighbour to the South is a thrum of discontent, not really about any single issue (they change so fast), more like baleful glaring across a great divide on everything.
Some days, we read news from the United States and congratulate ourselves on our tolerance and inclusiveness, on our Prime Minister's socks, on our acting in a way that the States doesn't seem to know how to do.
But mostly, it feels as if we've lost something that we didn't know we liked. We miss the American patriotism that seemed to rise above whatever Americans argued about. We miss the stature the U.S. President had around the world, an ability that crossed party lines to respond with dignity when bad things happened. Now, disagreements in the United States seem intractable, personal and political in the worst ways, it's not just politicians hurling rhetoric, even late-night comedians have lost their sense of humour.
Recently, my husband, Andrew, and I were in Florida. We noticed during friendly idle chats in line at Starbucks or in hotel elevators that mentioning we were Canadian prompted a sheepish grin and a comment such as, "Canada, yeah, it's a good place … especially now." The last two words were often a sigh. We'd feel awkward, wanting to say the right thing, to make them feel better.
But in division there are two sides. We knew that other Americans we bumped into thought differently about our nationality, maybe even pitying us for our health-care system with our hospital patients apparently lined up out the door.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Gee, I guess conservatives ARE human after all!
Canadians know little or nothing about President Trump or the populist movement that elected him.
This is because the CBC broadcasts negative CNN like news about President Trump.
Why do you say would the CBC do that?
Its simply, the CBC is funded and controlled by the federal government , and as a network it has a decidedly socialist , leftist bias.
The CBC broadcasts its disinformation about President Trump and the populist movement in the United States, because the political class that runs Canada is afraid that a populist movement could happen in Canada, relegating them to the dust bin of history.
The political class in Canada, whether NDP, Liberal or Conservative, has retarded the economy of Canada by imposing an oil export tax and refusing to build a transnational pipeline. This has been going on for over 40 years. Canadians are beginning to detest the political class in Canada, just as Americans do theirs.
The smugness of Canadians traveling in the USA is ignorance personified. Canada is a country that has screwed its population continually, it does not have operative guaranteed ,constitutional rights or a first or second amendment. The Canadian people are hard working, the country is full of natural resources. But Canadian politicians are the greatest *uckups in history, and have retarded Canada much loner than they should have, with the ample help of the CBC propaganda machine..
Go home smug Canadians. We have enough smug leftists in this country, we do not need more.
My neighbors across the street are snowbirds from Brampton. Other than their license plates, the only impact I see from local snowbirds is that our hamburger stands include malt vinegar for fries alongside catsup. That’s good. It’s a taste I picked up when I lived in Canada.
Individually, I found no difference between myself and the Canadians I met and worked with, other than the ensemble of different accents from the Scots, Brits, and other European immigrants. The Pakis and their culture are a different story.
Canada’s a nice country, but by God, it gets cold.
I am really getting to despise these “progressive discovers other people are human beings” revelations. Am I supposed to be grateful that some progressive now considers me human?
The CBC broadcasts its disinformation about President Trump and the populist movement in the United States, because the political class that runs Canada is afraid that a populist movement could happen in Canada, relegating them to the dust bin of history.
Canadians, by & large, are insufferably smug....the most rotten, vile political arguments I have had on other sites over the last several years have been with Canadians. They drip contempt for the American lifestyle. It’s a shame because the older Canadians that lived & worked in the New England area that I knew when I was younger where decent. This younger generation is pitiful.
And that goes double for those who might have voted for DJT.During Election Night coverage our major networks repeatedly referred to "uneducated white voters" as Trump's victory became more likely.But foreign networks,particularly the BBC and the CBC,also made the same references...usually in tones dripping with contempt.
On that point the world should recognize that DJT carried *college educated* whites as well as those who didn't have college degrees.
, “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
The above, as far as I can tell doesn’t actually make sense. If you don’t think about it it SEEMS to but...
What’s ironic is that the conservative is MORE likely to stop and help someone. Some mincing ponytail with a Bernie sticker? Ha.
Screw being a normal human. I want the Canadian Pu$$ys (**Except the hockey players) to think of us as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
Nafta would be taken care of quickly.
** Hockey and the hockey fans, their special forces and baby seal baseball are the only worthwhile things Canada has given the world. I mean, Justin Bieber???? Ya bunch of hosers!
On either the 2nd,or 3rd,of January in 2014 I spent the night in a small town about 200 miles north of Montreal.When I arrived (about 7PM) it was something like -20F according to my car's thermometer.When I hit the road about 7:30AM the next morning it was,according to the TV in the lobby,exactly -40C.
Curiously,it was that morning that I learned that -40 is where Fahrenheit and Celsius meet.My car thermometer said -40F and,looking it up when I got home,found that fact.
What snarky, snooty presuppositions, figuring Americans are largely boorish and primal.
Canada is cold, open to terrorists, and is rapidly losing its last remaining sentences of free speech.
In Canada, Speech is not a Constitutionally protected Right, it is at best a Governmental approved privilege that is subject to the whims of Leftist Politicians and Judges.
For me, it was February ~1975 in Calgary, Alberta.
I don’t know the temp, but it’s the coldest I have ever been.
Great people, though. With all the fleece-lined leather coats, cowboy boots, and Stetson hats, it felt like being back in Texas.
Check out this quote and compare it to the situation here 100 years later.
Quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958: The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
Old Joke.
A guy gets called into his Bosses Office. His Boss proceeds to tell him what a great Job he is doing and then he offers him a promotion, a new Job running their Office in Toronto.
The guy responds, Toronto, there’s nothing but Hookers and Hockey Players in Toronto!
The Boss says, my Mother lives in Toronto.
The guys says, really, what Team is she on?
Damn glad I’m Albertan, you seem to really dislike Canadians.
A lot of Americans made it home because of our efforts from overseas.
Albertans are different - they’re by and large self-reliant, hard working and independent - as most Americans consider themselves to be.
What I absolutely can’t stand are the insufferable liberal and media elites from Toronto. Go online and read the daily USA-slash-Trump-slash-conservative bashing provided by the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star. Makes my blood boil.
Stop it, you low life liberal...The fact that it was a Trump supporter means there was a good chance the young man was a Christian...And being a good liberal you know full well that any racism, bigotry and general hate comes from the liberals...
The deal is, you saw yourself driving that truck and don't understand why ANYONE would have stopped to help someone else, because you certainly wouldn't...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.