I have to admit, I didn’t think it would be this big:
Parts of Florida will be hammered by this. But I’m shocked: seventy percent plus! I hadn’t realized just how unified Canadians are in this.
I suspect it isn’t all the tariffs and Trump’s annexation threats: there’s been significant press of US border services snatching foreigners who are crossing legally but perhaps don’t have their paperwork all right and instead of just sending them back, abusing them and locking them up.
I certainly won’t be traveling to America, probably ever again: after all I’ve insulted Trump repeatedly and said that Israel is committing a genocide and customs officers often search social media. Nothing in America is worth the risk of wind up in some prison camp because I think Palestinians are human beings and shouldn’t be mass murdered.
So far I don’t see evidence of a big drop in European bookings, but if that happens, and there’s plenty of reason to believe in might, well… bad time to be in tourism in America and a good time to be in tourism in alternatives. I think Mexican and Canadian destinations are doing very well out of Canadian’s refusal to visit America.
America wants to be alone, and without allies, and soon it will be. Trump’s hilarious attempts to cozy up to Russia are ridiculous. Putin will do business with America, but he will never, ever trust the US, no matter who is President. Meanwhile America’s real allies are mostly deciding, quite rationally, that one can’t trust America and therefore America can’t be a useful ally.
This will lead to a variety of knock on effects, like diversification from the dollar and use of local currencies in trade, and the American standard of living will collapse by at least a third. Americans have been living way beyond their means, and Trump is bringing that to an end.
So sad.
mago
The United States of Assholes has flushed itself down the crapper. Big time.
Back in the day when I hung out in foreign lands the locals would pause in deference before launching an attack on USofA policies, and I would be like, let it rip baby, that government ain’t no friend of mine either and I’m not its representative.
Mexico and Canada, so far from god so close to hell. Something like that.
I used to visit both countries, but not no more. Sending prayers all around.
miss jennings
Trump’s hilarious attempts to cozy up to Russia are ridiculous. Putin will do business with America, but he will never, ever trust the US, no matter who is President.
Power collectives never really trust each other. They may for a period of time but both the international profit imperative and the domestic politics of these entities don’t ever create conditions for any serious level of trust.
Interests.
The ‘cozying’ goes both ways.
Here is Vladimir Putin quite recently:
‘Rare and rare-earth metals are crucial resources for modern industries. So far, we have not done enough in this area, and we need to do more. The purpose of the meeting today was to direct administrative resources to developing this sector in the initial phase.
By the way, we would be open to cooperation with our American partners – and when I say “partners” I mean not only administrative and government agencies but also private companies – as long as they show interest in working together.
It is important to emphasise that Russia possesses significantly – I want to stress this – significantly larger resources of this kind than Ukraine. Russia is one of the uncontested leaders when it comes to rare and rare-earth metal reserves. We have deposits in the north, in Murmansk, and in the Caucasus, in Kabardino-Balkaria, as well as in the Far East, in the Irkutsk Region, in Yakutia and Tuva.
Developing these resources requires substantial capital investment. We would be happy to cooperate with any foreign partners, including American companies.
The same is true for the new territories: we are open to foreign partnerships. Our historical territories that have become part of the Russian Federation again also hold certain reserves. We are ready to work there with international partners, including Americans.’
https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/vladimir-putin-in-order-to-resolve-challenging-and-urgent-matters-including-on-the-ukrainian-trac/
Interestingly, Putin began the interview by claiming that the US-Zelensky/Ukraine deal ‘has nothing to do’ with Russia despite the fact that anyone with half-a-brain knows it absolutely has something to do with them even if indirectly.
He then goes on to say that he does not have an opinion on the matter and he doesn’t even want to think about it!
‘That has nothing to do with us. I do not have an opinion, nor do I even want to think about it.’
If Putin doesn’t have an opinion on this he doesn’t have a brain.
The game continues.
Oh yeah: Russia is willing to work with its American partners on slicing and dicing the Arctic as well. This is from today in fact:
https://tass.com/economy/1935149
I thought the US-NATO encircled Russia since 2014 (and even earlier) and ultimately forced the SMO which has seen how many Russians killed?
Putin et al still want to work with us?
Vladimir Putin is a really nice guy.
Interests.
Ian Welsh
Russia considers America “agreement incapable”, which is to say you can’t make a deal with the US and expect it to keep it. That goes beyond “interests”.
miss jennings
I know Russia is better at the long game and the US is just beyond stupid…I mean what words do you even use to describe us (I still say ‘us’). There are no words.
Also, the US is imploding at an increasing pace domestically and Putin knows that.
But isn’t it insulting to the Russian people?
I’m suppose the Russians know he’s being artful.
I don’t know. Just cut ties entirely. We’re not worth it. It will help us in fact. If we survive. I sometimes think we’re being set up to be nuclear bombed. Like they’re all gonna go underground into their NORAD-like bunkers. Actually most will leave the country.
But that’s crazy. Nukes go both ways.
I don’t know.
I checked out that Bernie/AOC tour because steppenwolf fetchit made an excellent point that even if you don’t like Bernie/AOC you can nevertheless go and talk to like-minded people, ‘network’ (hate that term) and what have you. I’ve been hesitant to get back into anything after both volunteering for Bernie and giving money I really didn’t have to give (ultimately on me, I know). So I went to the site just to see what’s up and they’re out west now with no east coast shows listed. Shows. Haha. And then when I scroll down the ‘Fighting Oligarchy Tour’ website after having endured all the ACT Blue donation crap I am then met with this:
“This is your movement.
And then I began to feel rather viscerally angry.
I will probably check back as the logic of meeting ‘like-minded’ people is sound. But I’m not dealing with Bernie anymore. Or AOC.
Sending
positive vibesprayers. Thoughts and.miss jennings
I’m suppose = I suppose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepin_Fetchit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCUxJFtTFNk
edwin
It’s not so much that the US is collapsing, it is being dismembered. Like a horror movie it is equal parts riveting and revolting. I and others, I assume, prefer to watch our horror movies from a distance and not take part in them personally. (And in spite of all of this, US policy towards Russia under the Orange is still less dysfunctional than what the Democratic party did.)
I’ve been pretty careful about visiting the US since I renounced my US citizenship.
Been attending weekly demos against Israeli genocide up here in Owen Sound. Many reasons to fear our southern neighbour. Going to be missing some goodbye’s and funerals as relatives get older.
different clue
I have left a comment with a few more Acres USA booksale recommendations at the most recent Open Thread comment thread. 4 more days of sale time left if anyone is interested in a few good gardening/ agronomy books.
miss jennings
But then:
‘Iran shouldn’t put any trust in Russia coming to its aid in a US/Israel-launched war.
The Trump/Putin phone call about Ukraine and Iran readout states:
“The two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel.” I.e. Iran must not be allowed to protect itself against Israeli nuclear weapons.
Putin’s alliance with Israel and the US in Syria is utterly shameful and it reflects badly on the prospects for a BRICS multi-polar better world. Just more of the same. Blatant genocide ignored because geopolitical self-interest rules. Utterly shameful and utterly tragic for humanity.‘
‘they are Zionists pretending to be Syrians.’
‘Jolani is an MIT asset working with the CIA and Mossad to divide Syria.. Wonder why the “rebels” attacked Syrian Air defenses at the beginning of the “civil war”
Hoisted from the comments to a recent Eva Bartlett video.
The recent Russia-Iran thingy doesn’t compel either side to come to the other’s aid in case of conflict/war. It leaves the decision up to each individual nation.
I understand Iran is strategic to Russia (and China) and they’ve had defensive drills together recently along with China and all that but the simple fact remains that the bolded language was in both US and Russian media, i.e. it was made public to their respective populations.
Putin, Trump and Zelensky are working in tandem.
Israel always comes first.
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We know that the US is hopeless. That is the point of Ian’s writing and has been long before it got to this point. We’re told over and over and over and over again how utterly weak, pathetic and hopeless the USians are.
And we have proven them correct.
So, when we read poignant truisms such as this:
“The first ever live-streamed Holocaust”
“The biggest child massacre in history”
“The most ever child amputees”
“The most journalists killed in a war zone”
“The most civilian infrastructure destroyed”
“The first time children were goaded into death”
This is your Zionism
And when UN Special Rapporteur Francesa Albanese says and asks this:
‘I force myself to repeat it, again and again. The destruction of a group as such, of a people as such (i.e. a genocide) can unfold in many horrific forms—through crematoria, machetes, bombs, and more. It’s not the method of destruction: it is the intent to destroy/annihilate a targeted group, that defines it. Israel has so far chosen bombs, starvation, torture, and many other methods.
Question is: when are we going to stop it?’
This obviously isn’t being addressed to the pitifully hopeless American people nor their psycopathic Zionist leadership. It’s obviously not intended for ‘Israel.’
So who is going to stop it?
Russia and China haven’t even uttered the word genocide.
The US has been decried for ‘minding its own business’ in the leadup to WWII before getting involved.
Russia takes great national pride in having defeated the Nazis.
Who will stand up and defeat the Zionists?
Where is humanity?
History beckons.
Bill H.
I used to add posts on my blog about twice a week. Now it’s not even twice a month, ond only on subjects such as Formula 1 racing. At my age I do not have the stamina to cope with what would happen to me if I went public with my opinions on social and political issues of today.
Poul
It’s time for a “Visit Cuba” tourist campaign. Both Canada and Cuba wins.
Cuba gets a economic boost and some foreign currency while Canadians stick it to the USA and Marco Rubio and get to enjoy the sun and some nice rum.
P.S.
Do try the cigars
Forecasting Intelligence
Great news.
US way too expensive recently. Might visit if it gets cheaper!
Mark Pontin
Ian: ‘The American standard of living will collapse by at least a third.’
Yet there will be money to made in the U.S., Ian, just as there was in the erstwhile U.S.S.R. during the 1990s, although with attendant physical risk due to the breakdown of social order.
Jack
some of my friends and I are planning on going to Montreal in May/June, do you think this is a bad idea? Whether just bad taste, or every local might treat us badly, or there might even be some kind of thing in place where Americans won’t even be allowed in?
Feral Finster
Not sure that Canadian tourism really matters that much to the United States, even in states like North Dakota. I do see lots of trucks from Canada, for whatever that’s worth. Although I did see “this was made in Canada” spraypainted on some loads hauled by Canadian truckers, presumably intended to send a message.
Whatever. Trump is like that loudmouth at the corner bar after he’s had a few, full of braggadocio and big talk, but who makes his tough guy moves without considering how others might react and counter.
And that goes beyond Canadians and their travel plans.
Mark Level
I’m with Mago on “The United States of Assholes”; Trump & Little Marco, with the Gestapo-like arrests of foreign students and “disappearing” them to Gitmo-like hellholes in Louisiana, thus putting the ugly, genocidal face back on the Empire that was seen in the Bush Jr. era. At least then they had the excuse of 9/11’s recency. But now it is on behalf of a foreign Ethno-Supremacist Apartheid State. But hey, Miriam Adelson’s bribes are getting paid back.
It’s not just there, either. Grabbing boozhie Germans whose paperwork is slightly botched and jailing and expelling them, a Scottish woman in her early 20s detained for weeks and (being a Vegan) fed only 3 vegetables, damaging her health. These stories get around.
Due Dissidence beat out Ian by 3 or 4 hours on this story. Both of the principals were former tourist guides (mainly in NYC and State, also for Russell in New Orleans) and saw and heard from colleagues what was coming. Link here, about 2/3rds of the way thru in their usual long shows, as I recall. https://rumble.com/duedissidence/live (I hope the link works, seems generic, is from the 27th.)
Russell predicted tourist meccas like New Orleans and Las Vegas will be hit hardest. Interestingly, I note that when Yves Smith on NC did a demographic breakdown of the J6 “Stop the Steal” Cosplayers, a pretty solid majority were small business owners, many included in the tourism/ hospitality industry (one profiteered sending buses up to DC prior to the event) . . . so MAGA is screwing their own!!
I’d imagine that EUrope will get on board at some point . . .
As to somebody OT going off about how Russia is colluding with the US to destroy itself and its allies– lotsa luck on that conspiracy theory. As Ian’s short note suggests, since the (mainly European) Russophobes imagine that the Slavs are “inscrutable Asiatics”, Putin has fun playing along with the stereotype, BSing the BS experts while they take consistent military gains. Trump just squirts his squid ink everywhere, nobody takes anything coming from any US admin seriously or as having any meaning whatsoever.
However, keep the 8,000 lb. gorilla guessing and play for time . . . Iran is being awfully passive and not asserting themselves, letting Ansar-al-Allah be the spear tip at the moment, imho. But if Trump is stupid enough to attack them on behalf of Israel, the Empire is one BIG step closer to its downfall. We just have to be patient (something those “crafty, inscrutable Asiatics” have learned to do as ancient civilizations and not young, stupid, ahistorical countries like the USA.)
The Fat Lady will sing sooner, or later. As the last thread acknowledged “We are all accelerationists now.” Speaking of Yemen, however, Pepe Escobar is IN Yemen and meeting with all kinds of VIPs, with a small Western delegation. He is clear that they are not backing down, & they do not fear the Empire of Lies in the least. Link to the interview with Danny Haiphong here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMeXQK5R67s for those who would rather swim in clear water than the verbal diarrhea-squid’s ink of the Trump “Warriors” bellicose bombast.
Joan
If American standard of living decreases by one-third, I really fear for the people close to bottom rung of the ladder. If the number of homeless increases by one-third that’ll be brutal.
I wouldn’t mind seeing more pedestrians walking around with me, from more people not being able to afford a car or making more trips on foot to preserve their car. More people is more visibility and hopefully more safety.
Mary Bennet
Miss Jennings, I share your frustration, but I would like to point out:
First, purity of intention is not to be looked for in politicians or voters. Most of us persons of good will do what we can with what we have. Furthermore, you don’t convince people by insulting them, and a I am holier, purer than you, nothing you do is good enough, there is always room for improvement attitude is usually experienced as a deliberate insult. And, frankly, we don’t care if the person “didn’t really mean it that way”.
Senator Sanders, at 83 yrs. of age, is clearly in his last term in the Senate. He comes from a generation for which Israel was brave young nation surrounded by bellicose enemies. Those kind of opinions and beliefs from one’s young adulthood are not easily overcome. Nevertheless, I think Sanders has gone as far as he reasonably can in demonstrating his opposition to Netanyoo’s policies. You might perhaps recall that he was the first, or among the first senators to boycott when Bibi invited himself to address Congress over the objections of the Obama administration. Obama himself did not attend, as you might remember. Sanders has also spoken forcefully on the Senate floor against the enabling of Bibi’s murderous policies. Having said all that, I thought at the time, 2016 and I still think that a full-throated wind down the empire, peace policy added to the rest of Sanders’ message, would have won him the presidency.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez would like to be Speaker of the House someday, and I think, for her, with her excellent political skills, that is a reasonable ambition. She knows quite well that no New York City liberal is going to be elected president. Unfortunately for her quite legitimate ambitions the Democratic Party is what she has to work within.
Me, I think the Democrats are toast at this point. They have simply taken too much Zionist money and gotten themselves associated with too many wildly unpopular issues to be taken seriously. Just when the country had reconciled itself to the fairness of gay marriage, now we have the trans thing? It seems like the Dems can never simply declare victory and move on. (The Republicans are making the same mistake with regard to abortion.)
The two developments which the Dumbs are latching on to are the dismay of persons who are being harmed by Trump’s policies and the fact that the genocide in Gaza has destroyed the notion of Jewish moral superiority for at least a generation. So are the Dumbs crafting a principled message to attract the more reasonable of Trump voters? Of course not! the Dumb attitude is “See we don’t have to change anything we do at all. The foolish voters will come back to us.” Talk about famous last words. Is the party willing to say, because we are appalled and horrified by what the Israelis are doing in Gaza, we will accept no more Zionist money? Well, no. Granted, neither are the Rs. The ongoing genocide, plus the attack on Yemen, plus possibly war with Iran, is what Miriam Edelson bought with the vast millions she spent on the Trump campaign. I forgot the exact figure, and I doubt it is anything like the actual, surely larger, amount.
Purple Library Guy
Wow, 70%. That’s quite a collapse. Good for us. And at least some of that will be replaced by Canadians traveling in Canada spending money at home, which will help offset some of the tariff damage.
Agreed with Poul about Cuba, although I’m not into cigars, or really any other “burn stuff and inhale it” product.
different clue
Here’s a comment from BlackTwitter about the most recent PM Carney policy statement regarding the US.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1jm1nk7/how_you_fumble_the_land_of_maple_syrup_and/
elkern
I *do* wish Canadians would be more tactical in this unofficial Boycott of the USA – essentially, boycott Red States, rather than all States.
I live in CT, by I have family roots in Maine, so I follow a fair amount of news from there. Apparently, summer bookings from Canadians are *way* down, in line with the 70% noted in the OP. The other big news from Maine – which may have made national news – is that Trump is in a pissing contest with ME Governor Janet Mills over Trans women in women’s sports. Mills made a splash by standing up to Trump, and as Pulpit Bully, he has to make an example of her. Various Federal agencies have announced budget cuts and more, uh, /kinetic/ actions targeted at Maine since then, presumably at Trump’s behest.
By all means, boycott Floridia (I do), but plz, don’t boycott Maine… eh?
someofparts
Well, Taibbi had this up about the prospect of AOC running for President –
https://www.racket.news/p/the-aoc-train-wreck-is-coming-and
MLevel – Thanks for the link to Escobar in Yemen. Another one I found interesting was Tucker Carlson’s interview with the prime minister of Qatar –
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-qatar-prime-minister
mago
Karma, cause and effect, call it what you will, it’s real. And that Adelson fortune based on gambling is dirty money derived from suffering and being funneled toward greater suffering as in a genocide among other more mundane matters.
Were I a realized being I might even have a measure of compassion for the Adelsons and their ilk, but I’m not and I don’t.
Btw Ms j, mockery is unbecoming and unnecessary.
Ian Welsh
I don’t like AOC, I consider her a sell out.
But then Taibbi is a fucking sell out too. I still have respect for Greenwald, who has some consistent principles he sticks to, Taibbi, no. Good writer, but that’s it.
mago
Definitely second the Taibbi assessment.
different clue
@elkern,
From what I can read and gather, a large majority of Canadians feel like this is their ” Pearl Harbor Moment”. Americans should know what that means at the psychomental-political level. The feeling is not government-directed. It is mass-spontaneous.
Canadians assume the United States has a legitimate government. ( Actually it does not at this point. The Triple-Nazi Revolution Trump Occupation Regime is not a legitimate government. It is an occupation regime.) So Canadians assume the Trump
initiative to Anschluss Canada is a “legitimate American government” legitimate government policy. So “America” is a unitary mass to them and so they will boycott “America”.
How many Americans are willing to view the Trump Regime as an illegitimate occupation regime? How many Americans are prepared to think about trying to destabilize it and topple it one way or another?
If Canadian thinker-planners see a hundred million Americans trying one thing or another thing to topple the Trump regime with an actual goal of actually TOPPling the Trump regime, then these Canadian thinker-planners may start thinking in terms of using what Colonel Lang once called ” the butcher’s cleaver”. At that point Canadian thinker-planners will think in terms of a strategy and attendant tactics to help the American Rejectionaries topple the Trump regime. Whether ordinary Canadian citizens are prepared to think in those terms remains to be seen.
If the Triple Nazis behind Trump decide to let Trump serve for 2 years and a day before Article 25-ing him . . . so as to get 10 years of President Vance to help them further advance and consolidate their Revolutionary Occupation Regime; then Canada ( Gov and People) have abundant time remaining to observe and analyze developments and decide where, when and how to use the butcher’s cleaver ( or not)
to manipulate developments in America in a more Canada-favorable direction.
Meanwhile, Americans considering adopting a “Topple Trump” mindset would be advised to go gray in place at the same time. Assuming President Musk will deploy his AIX company to draw up “disposition matrices” on potentially rebellious Americans for elimination, it may well begin its mass filtration-searches with initial exclusion criteria.
It may well be programmed to consider consistent voting as evidence of continued belief in the existence of a legitimate National government. Consistent voting in National elections may well be a good go-gray-in-place camoflage. So will the consistent use of credit cards, debit cards, etc. to display yourself to the system as being a good little sheep ripe for the shearing.
If you vote in every election, President Musk may not even pay attention to what you are doing between elections. He may, but he may not.
Some things he could not help but to notice. For example, if the people of Maine put a referrendum item on their statewide ballot calling for a vote ( yes or no) on petitioning Canada to be admitted to Canada as a Canadian Province, Musk would notice. But so would Canada. At that point, would the butcher’s cleaver come into play?
Or if Canada imposed road tolls between the Lower 48 and Alaska so onerous that no more overland traffic could reach Alaska, and imposed tarriffs on just-happen-to-be-Alaskan goods so high that zero Alaskan product could get sold in Canada, and then the CanadaGov said things like: ” you know, if Alaska became a Canadian Province, you could at least sell things into Canada, and also drive around in it” . . . would Alaska want to become a Canadian Province?
One may be sure that the NaziMusk regime is considering the butcher’s cleaver against Canada. Where are the cleavage planes of weakness? I have read that many Albertans have felt for decades that “Eastern Canada” has ruled Alberta like a colonial possession in terms of resource policy. Have I read that right? Is this article reality-based?
https://countylocalnews.com/2025/03/06/alberta-secession-sparks-outrage-is-canada-on-the-brink/
If it is, then Eastern Canada may wish to rethink and redo its policies regarding Alberta ( and maybe some other parts of Western Canada too?) so as to stop incentivizing Alberta to get offside and offer Alberta reasons to get back onside?
( Now, if discontent in Alberta is due to the majority population Eastern Canada area refusing to adopt or even validate conservative magachud culture in Alberta, then I don’t know what to say. I certainly will not adopt Triple Nazi MAGAchud culture just to appease the totally inferior garbage which believes in MAGAchud culture here in America. I will never ever become a Coally Roller, for example).
different clue
I just saw ( without sound here at the public library) a little video snippet of Musk being interviewed on Fox News. He was whining about the Evil Governor Walz taking joy in the lowering of Tesla stock prices. The comment thread there was dripping with hatred for Musk and laughter at Musk’s pain . . . which I share. It is titled: ” Elon Musk: ‘Tim Walz who is a huge jerk was running around on stage with the Tesla stock cut in half. He was overjoyed. What an evil thing to do. What a creep. What a jerk. Who derives joy from that?'” ( Well . . . I derive joy from that).
Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1jmg73d/elon_musk_tim_walz_who_is_a_huge_jerk_was_running/
Musk is a key part of the Triple Nazi Regime’s pillars of existence. To weaken Musk is to weaken one of those pillars. To destroy Musk completely and utterly would be to remove that pillar of Triple Nazi Regime support from existence. When our foreign friends and neighbors think of boycotting “America” in general, I hope they give a thought to extermicotting Musk in particular. They have made a very good start on Tesla. ” Half the value down, half the value to go.” I hope they will consider extending the extermicott to every other Musk company within reach.
I realize that a billion twitterX users can’t boycott and unsubscribe from twitterX. They can’t because they are addicted. It is like asking a million fentanyl addicts to give up fentanyl. They won’t because they can’t. That is not a moral failing or a character defficiency on their part.
But something they could do, and I hope they will do, is to make careful note of every single advertiser they see on twitterX, and boycott every such advertiser until they see that advertiser removing its advertising from twitterX. If a “boycott twitterX’s advertisers” campaign became so total and all-encompassing as to actually drive advertising extinct on twitterX, then twitterX might have to raise subscription rates to keep revenue streaming. Perhaps they would have to raise rates so high as to torture a monetarily significant percent of its addicts to go cold turkey due to lack of money.
And perhaps on the way down it would depress Musk so much that Musk increased his intake of ketamine so much that he totally and utterly decompensated in public, perhaps even to the point of alarming certain ” violence processing technicians” within government into deciding that “something has to be done” about Musk.
miss jennings
Btw Ms j, mockery is unbecoming and unnecessary.
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I didn’t mock anyone here. I mock pols, including Russian and Chinese pols.
Anyway, thanks Mom.
Oh, and mago: I’ve been reading this site for years and I’m quite familiar with how people ‘roll’ here inclduing Ian. And the idea that anyone here is above mockery at some level is absured except perhaps for some of the women commenters.
Remember Hugh and bruce wilder going at it? Remember Willy? Remember the comments made to ‘the Indian’ who used to post here who still has his own blog? Remember Plague Species?
I could go on.
But go ahead and police people if that’s your thing. Remember, Ian didn’t used to go through the comments as thoroughly as he does now. So, if the comment was let through then that indicates that the keeper of the blog feels it was worthwhile on some level.
Mary Bennett, if you don’t care for the comments I leave then simply don’t read them. different clue has made this case endlessly here, as have others.
Chuck Teague
@ Jack
Leave the MAGA hat and autographed “Trump 2024” t-shirt at home. You’ll be fine.
Montreal’s a fun town. May’s a bit early in the season, though; may still get a blizzard. Have a nice trip.
– CT
Carborundum
If I was a Yank, I wouldn’t be worried about whether I was going to be treated badly – I’d be too embarrassed to be seen up here.
Public opinion up here can basically be summarized as “fuck you guys”. We don’t hate you,* but we’re very tired of your shit. We’re tired of your MAGA asshats, we’re tired of your ineffectual opposition (who are frankly not as much of an improvement when in power as they should be), we’re tired of being pushed around for stupid reasons, and we’re entirely fed up with your electorate and its endless talk while a Republic is stolen from under their feet.
My advice? You should be doing something more important with your time than a road trip to Montreal.
*Yet. Keep it up and we will.
different clue
@Carborundum,
If y’all end up deciding that we have kept it up long enough that you will hate us now, will you restrict your hatred to White American White people or will you equally hate Black American Black people?
Asking for a friend . . . .
different clue
Here is a reddit entry titled: People demanding Amazon Canada remove ‘insulting’ 51st state merch
Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1jog871/people_demanding_amazon_canada_remove_insulting/
What I don’t understand is this: why is the call limited to removing ” 51st State” merch? Why isn’t the call to extermicott “Amazon Canada” into extinction within the borders of Canada? If “Amazon Canada” is indeed a part or subsidiary of Amazon, then it also supports Bezos as Bezos supports Trump, and calling it “Amazon Canada” is just maplewashing an American company. If I am correct about that, then I wonder why the “boycott America” campaign does not extend to Amazon. Amazon is a whole lot more powerful than Kentucky Bourbon, and successfully exterminating Amazon from existence and wiping Amazon off the face of the earth would have a more powerful effect on AmeriGov policy than wiping corn whiskey off the face of Kentucky.
different clue
Here is another little bit of purely anecdata indicating the “we’ve done enough” sentiment in at least part of the Black American Black community. From blacktwitter, titled ” The Ancestors have Spoken”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1jp6wzs/the_ancestors_have_spoken/
different clue
Here’s a subreddit called ” Ontario” so far as I can tell, and this post is titled:
“Is it appropriate for Americans to visit Canada at the moment?”
And the comments thread consists of Canadians answering that question and giving instructions on proper behavior to any American who is visiting or is going to visit.
Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/1jprsdg/is_it_appropriate_for_americans_to_visit_canada/
shagggz
@different clue,
If going down that crude path, wouldn’t the more relevant delineation be along red/blue, rather than black/white?
different clue
@shagggz,
I am noting a real thing which may be a big thing or it may not. If indeed the vast majority of Black America is sitting this out as long as they can, then it will be black/white in the sense that Black America views this as a White-caused problem and is leaving White America to fix it or not on its own.
So narrowing the focus down to White America itself by itself, then a red/blue division withIN White America would be worth focusing on. Since Blue America is 80 years behind Red America in fostering a personal gun culture and developing its personal and community arsenals, Blue America would be defeated and maybe substantially population-reduced in the Civil War which Red America is hoping to provoke. The subhuman belief in “gun control” will come home to roost. ( By the way, I remember one time at work chancing to hear a couple of my Black co-workers discussing the finer points of guns at the “gun culture” level, which might be better for what purposes in what situations, alluding to elements of their own personal arsenals without going into deep and extensive detail, etc. I didn’t inquire too deeply . . . or at all, in fact. And these were solid working-class Black people with the very same working-class job-title that I have. And no, I am not Black . . . . as far as you know.)
Blue America’s only realistic hope of survival is quiet development of Separate Survival including Survival Economics at the Blue State and Blue Region level. If they can do that, they can start taxing themselves to start setting up Separate Blue State Guards in hope of protecting themselves from Red State agression. And hopefully the Blue States populations would be willing to tax themselves enough to separately fund their own systems of lower and higher and highest education with zero Federal assistance so as to air-gap their education systems from Federal aggression and subversion, on the assumption that “Federal” will mean Republicanazi/MAGAnazi/Christianazi for many years to come.