The US government is shut down again. I mention this only because if some place like Canada were to come down and run things, we could certainly use the help.
We’ll leave the door unlocked.
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No thanks.
Maybe paint the walls, and get in an interior decorator to stage the furniture. The place is looking a little run-down at the moment. Oh, and air out the tear-gas smell. Worse than cigarettes.
@mattblaze I can't wait for the midterms, got really tired of clowns who suggest we return aid (!) that Pentagon spent on itself, not us. They can get a Sea Sparrow up there ar$e, my latest offer, znd I'm being generous. Impeach now!!
@mattblaze Poor Georgia (ok, Hawaii, but that should revert to the Hawaiians).
[alt text: colour coded map of the US showing state electoral breakdown in the 2020 presidential election]
@mattblaze As a Canadian, I would say that the main obstacle to this is the large number of Americans who have some very peculiar perspectives on the world at large. We have our weirdos, but they are manageable so far (given the influence of American weirdos, this may not last for much longer).
Without the "right" papers and correct amount of melanin that door is at least hard to open.
An honestly, up here, we have far too many pols that look towards the formerly-United States and believe they should follow right along.
@mattblaze I’d prefer Canada’s good government but I think we’re too difficult and poorly educated down below the 49th for our neighbors to easily take on.
"we'll leave the door unlocked"
pretty sure that DHS/CBP/ICE, along with national security advisor, and a host of others have taken care of this with misplaced focus already...
@mattblaze Funny, I was just thinking about The MouseThat Roared for the same-ish reason.
@mattblaze Oh, I don't know. I rather think Greenland ought to be given first crack at it, maybe together _with_ Canada.
@mattblaze I'd be OK with them forcing the metric system on us, but I'm not going to tolerate all those extra u's in words and I'm definitely never going to refer to any letter as "zed."
@richard_merren I feel like everything is negotiable at this point. Just lead with "sorry".
@mattblaze @richard_merren …which will be roundly misinterpreted as a polite apology, unless there's an interpreter on hand to say "Bless your heart!" every time a Canadian says "Oh, sorry".
@mattblaze @ShredderFeeder And the U.S. wanted to take over Greenland, run Venezuela, Gaza, Cuba, etc., etc. They can’t even run their own country.
@mattblaze should we provide bribes?
@mattblaze How should I put it … I'm afraid that more and more governments who know how to run country think of the US more in the sense of "Never interrupt [them] when they are making a mistake."
@mattblaze you can leave the door open, but if you’re not going to lock up the morons of ICE, nobody will ever try to open the door to get in…
@mattblaze In Canada we don't have government shutdowns. If the budget motion fails, that's a no-confidence vote and the Governor General (our head of state, a proxy for the King) dissolves parliament and calls and election. I mean, isn't that how it should work?!
@mattblaze No thanks, it's just so demoralizing when we implement something like sensible Healthcare, and then gun nuts start demonstrating against "communism."
Vlad has the keys to the back door if they're not still under the mat.
By this time it feels the US is like the creepy house on the street nobody goes to or walks by because it gives everybody the heebiejeebies...
Being the only country (as a future Canada, that is) to have invaded the US and burned its capitol down, odds are in your favour.