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No, Joy, I think they actually fought Britain - you know, the most powerful empire in the world at that point - because Canada wasn't exactly its own independent country yet.

Also, we lost? I'm pretty sure we signed the Treaty of Ghent and that it was pretty much a truce. We didn't lose anything, they (Britain, not Canada) didn't lose anything.

1 posted on 03/22/2025 6:37:23 PM PDT by airdalechief
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2 posted on 03/22/2025 6:41:29 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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"Joy Reid thinks...."

The first three words tell you this is a work of fiction.

3 posted on 03/22/2025 6:42:42 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Ummm...Joy. The war of 1812 was fought with Great Britain. The Dominion of Canada didn’t come into existence until 1867, you dumb bitch.


4 posted on 03/22/2025 6:43:25 PM PDT by econjack
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> Canada beat us in the War of 1812! <

Joy Reid is correct about that. And that’s why we’ve been speaking Canadian ever since.

Eh?


5 posted on 03/22/2025 6:44:07 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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Joy Reid gives stupid c*nts a bad name.


7 posted on 03/22/2025 6:45:38 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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There’s only 40 million people in the whole country. That’s a wee bit more than in the single state of California.


11 posted on 03/22/2025 6:47:29 PM PDT by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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It is a fair criticism, I believe, to state that Americans are too reliant on their technology for their prowess. I’ve heard several times from Canadian soldiers, who are still using 60 year old rifles, that they’ve beaten Americans in war games.

A war game, however, is not the same as a battlefield.


13 posted on 03/22/2025 6:49:51 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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Just wait until Trump agrees to our being a member of the Commonwealth. Then we’ll be Canada’s kid brother.


15 posted on 03/22/2025 6:49:58 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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That is some 1st rate “logic” lol
40 million vs 350 million amd the Canadian military sure, but only these dummies really think Pres Trump wants to take Canada

What a world theu live in


16 posted on 03/22/2025 6:50:02 PM PDT by blitz128
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I saw that. She is a loon.


19 posted on 03/22/2025 6:55:51 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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I’m pretty sure the idiot thinks (whatever that process may happen in her mini-brain) that Canada beat us in hockey in 1812!


20 posted on 03/22/2025 6:56:39 PM PDT by exinnj
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Canada itself—post-Confederation in 1867—didn’t cede vast swaths as an independent nation, but Britain, administering Canadian territories, transferred lands to the U.S. through treaties before and during Canada’s formation.

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!

21 posted on 03/22/2025 6:58:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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Ya can’t fix stupid.🤪


23 posted on 03/22/2025 7:06:46 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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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.


24 posted on 03/22/2025 7:08:11 PM PDT by mabarker1 (I(Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!)
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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.


33 posted on 03/22/2025 7:17:45 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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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.”


37 posted on 03/22/2025 7:26:46 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS!
39 posted on 03/22/2025 7:43:09 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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The Royal Canadian Mounties kicked our butts.


42 posted on 03/22/2025 8:54:59 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Be kind. Poor thing has no more staff, and that was 90% of her brain cells…


43 posted on 03/22/2025 8:55:47 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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joy reid was fired from MSNBC ... why does anything she supposedly thinks or says warrant being posted on FR?


44 posted on 03/22/2025 8:57:43 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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