Posted on 03/22/2025 6:37:23 PM PDT by airdalechief
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Joy: "You can't make Canada the 51st state without going to war with them. And let me explain how that worked out the last time we tried to go to war with Canada. They burned the White House to the ground in 1814! And won the war! Canada beat us in the War of 1812! They probably like their chances against us. We're not going to beat them in a war because we have never been able to do that."
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
The Treaty of Paris (1783), ending the American Revolutionary War, saw Britain cede significant territories south of the Great Lakes—lands then considered part of Quebec (British North America, later Canada)—to the newly independent United States. This included what’s now parts of Ohio, Michigan, and other Midwest states, roughly 10 million acres. While this was a British decision, it effectively transferred areas under Canadian colonial administration to the U.S., as Quebec’s boundaries stretched southwest before the treaty.
The Treaty of Ghent (1814), concluding the War of 1812, didn’t involve major new cessions but clarified and adjusted borders. Areas like parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario) that U.S. forces briefly held were returned to British control, but no significant Canadian land was permanently ceded here.
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) resolved disputes from the Aroostook War, adjusting the Maine-New Brunswick border. Canada (via Britain) ceded about 5,000 square miles (roughly 3.2 million acres) of disputed land to the U.S., while gaining 6,500 square miles elsewhere. This was a net loss for Canada in some areas but a mutual clarification, not a unilateral handover.
The Oregon Treaty (1846) set the 49th parallel as the boundary west to the Pacific, ceding the southern half of the Oregon Country (about 286,000 square miles) to the U.S. This land, jointly occupied by Britain and the U.S., included parts of what’s now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. While not yet fully Canadian (it was British territory), it’s often framed as a loss for Canada’s future western expansion.
Smaller adjustments occurred later, like the Alaska Boundary Dispute (1903), where Canada lost a sliver of coastal access in the Yukon to the U.S. (about 1,000 square miles), settled by a tribunal favoring American claims.
Summary:
* Treaty of Paris (1783): 236,000 square miles.
* Webster-Ashburton (1842): 5,000 square miles.
* Oregon Treaty (1846): 286,000 square miles.
* Alaska Boundary (1903): 1,000 square miles.
* Total: 528,000 square miles.
A HALF MILLION square miles!
Winter eleven months out of the year.
Mayonnaise on everything.
Anne Murray all day, every day…..
Ya can’t fix stupid.🤪
This War of 1812 was right after We dropped 2 Nuke Bombs on Tokyo and started WW-II in the Pacific !!!
That stupid Demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminaziguanopathicpedophilegoatrapering didn’t go to History Class.
I like old-time radio. One my favorite shows is “Sgt. Preston, Challenge of the Yukon”. I always thought it was just good entertainment. Only now do I realize it was Canadian propaganda meant to scare us, and soften us up.
Here’s a sample episode.
https://youtu.be/ypsYOsV9UwE?si=E2kYL7zpXMGqClqm
Yes you can but it requires cutting off the Hosts oxygen supply for 2 hours.
Also, if you bombed a 100 mile swath of the southern Canadian boarder, you’d nail about 80% of the Canadian population.
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Kitteh.
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Treaty of Ghent took some time for word to reach America. In the meantime Andrew Jackson engaged the British in the Battle of New Orleans. It did not go well for the British.
I think joy is hoping that canada comes down here and kicks our ass. That’s a treasonous POV. I think she prolly has a couple of radios linked to beaver command and is giving them intel.
Isn’t the M-16 a 60 year old rifle?
Canadians good soldiers? The Anglosphere produces good soldiers, so I would not say that they are bad. (Don’t know about the Quebequois.) At this point we probably have more men with arms in Michigan and Pennsylvania than Canada has.
When you consider the levels of violence in places like Chicago, Detroit, NY and Washington DC I can understand how Canadians might have some reservations about joining the U.S. (And yes, they have a lot of problems of their own making at this point.)
The technology might be, but I can’t imagine any US soldier using guns that are 60 years old. However, for Canadians, the guns themselves are 60 years old. It forces Canadians to rely less on tech and more on tactics.
The problem here is that the question, no “how stupid can you be?“ is taken as a challenge by people like Joy Reid.
Einstein once said, “two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not entirely sure about the former.”
Well there is precedent: we burned Toronto (then, York) to the ground. Of course they burned Washington in retaliation
That was one of my FAV. radio shows as a child! I even ate shredded whet to collect the Sgt. Preston cards. ;^)
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