It's too bad they don't have an opposition party to represent them.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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“Americans elected a dumb asshole, and natural consequences followed.”
Look At yourself in the mirror if you wanted this. You are this.
A year ago, this Canadian would have felt a need to help our neighbours.
Right now, this Canadian is laughing and waving my bare ass in a southerly direction.
This is what you voted for you fucking idiots. You're proudly burning down your own house. Best of luck you soup brained simpletons.
Some of us tried voting blue, you know... No need to group us all as the same.
those who voted blue are also kind of assholes. You guys should get real democracy going: Ranked Choice Voting. Burn the current senate, congress and Supreme court down. Build them back properly.
It's not that easy, the system will take a lot to change and it will take years. It only comes down to two options. Red or blue. Didn't have much of a choice. That doesn't make us assholes, that makes us at the very mercy of the system. Not voting or voting for the niche party means failure.
Man, if only that were possible. Every time anything local has tried anything to get ranked choice voting in or get rid of gerrymandering, it gets shot down, and if people tried any direct action they would really get shot down.
Though that second option seems to be more viable each day here.
Go ahead and laugh but you should thank us. You all were about to elect Pollivierre until we showed you what going down that road will lead to. As the US goes down in flames we can comfort ourselves that we've served as an example to others. We celebrate that Australia also sees the light. As you point and laugh, remember that "there but for the ~~grace of god~~ ability to learn from the mistakes of others go I". I remember in the '90's when Americans were gloating over the collapse of the Soviet Union I said, "Don't laugh, we're probably next." Yes, it took longer than I expected but here we are.
I agree you guys helped stop us from electing Canada's version of trump but I highly doubt the lesson learned will stick.
The vote was way too close for comfort and we had to sacrifice our left leaning party to do it.
My bet is after another term of the liberals doing fuck all to fix our problems the conservatives will get their majority next election.
I'm just shaking my head at people acting like the guy you replied to as if this country wasn't filled with dumbfucks.
Anyway best of luck to the sane Americans we will be joining you guys shortly.
I agree you guys helped stop us from electing Canada’s version of trump but I highly doubt the lesson learned will stick.
Well, maybe it wouldn't stick if what we've seen so far was the worst of it, but unfortunately it's just the beginning. The lesson will be getting much more intense soon.
Anyway best of luck to the sane Americans we will be joining you guys shortly.
Thanks and I hope not!
We're showing the world what voting for conservatives means. Sometimes a ~~person's~~ country's purpose in life is to be an object lesson.
The silver lining for the world, honestly. Maybe this will be the singular time in American history we can learn. Or maybe this is a death spiral.
I mean we were already more conservative than most Western countries. There was pretty much no other outcome than becoming more authoritarian if the right won. Trump is just doing what would've taken any other GOP President a few years or decades even.
object lesson.
abject
adjective
(of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree.
(of a situation or condition) extremely unpleasant and degrading.
(of a person or their behaviour) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing.
Not sure why you're putting a definition of abject here? Are you saying that they should have said abject instead of object? That would mean something different.
object lesson
noun
something that serves as a practical example of a principle or abstract idea
Examples of object lesson in a Sentence
His life story is an object lesson in how not to run a business.
Maybe they were suggesting a new term of art? I don't know. I avoided up or downvoting because I couldn't tell if they were trying to be clever or confidently wrong.
I try to assume the best in people but... the world is full of all kinds. I'm hopeful, though.
Keep in mind that many of us voted for Harris, way too many of us either didn’t care enough to vote or withheld voting because Harris wasn’t ready to nuke Israel, and the rest voted for shitler.
So no, motherfucker, this isn’t what I voted for. Edit: In case I wasn’t clear: I voted for Harris.
I don't think his comment was written to you personally, and I do think it is fair to put the blame of election results on the population as a whole. Although guess it's fair enough to remind people the vote was"t unanimous.
I'm not sure how you could have helped. Positive energy? Good vibes our way?
Kind words and sympathy seem like the things that would have been exchanged in greater amounts but its become ironically canada first sentiments.
I personally am thankful that because of the events we didnt elect PP as consequence. But Ide much rather have better world unity right now.
None of us are united right now. Perhaps more polarized than we would have been, but we have to respond to how the world is, not how we wish it was, or how it will be after we respond, however that is.
And im sorry, Jordan Petersen is apparently your problem now. Feel free to charge him personally all the tariffs you can throw at him
You have a lovely ass and we do not deserve to bask in its glory.
At least fart in our direction…
Switch that recession into a depression. This is gonna rival 1929.
One big difference. Every country on the planet used tariffs to create the 1929 Great Depression. This time there is only one country creating a tariff war, while the rest of world circumvents the USA and continues trading under normal conditions.
The protest crowds this summer will be massive and MAGA will lose their goddamn minds over it
How long until our very own tiananmen square?
What the hell, I thought we were gonna do the roaring 20s first; that's early
Nah man that was the Biden admin when we had high employment and got inflation under control.
We are already in a recession lol
No that’s Biden’s fault or some shit
Ppl buying into US stocks now are fucking insane. Check back in a month.
Also US houses.
I'm ready for a "Hot Tariff Summer." By Christmas, 75% of Americans will be out of their minds about HitlerPig and his MAGA Nazis, and a good portion of the remaining 25% will be outwardly supportive, but inwardly worrying badly. A few will be loving it, but they're just pyschopaths.
At that point it's going to start getting really, really ugly. The plan is make people so angry that the protests will get violent, and if they don't get violent on their own, he'll encourage his RedHats to instigate it. Then he'll send in the military to quell the violence with even more ferocious violence. This is why he is keeping Hegseth, no matter how poor his performance at the Pentagon - he is confident that Hegseth will order American troops to fire on American citizens who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
Hegseth will also launch a nuclear weapon, if ordered, and that day is coming.
I cannot fathom that two officers in the military, no matter how deranged the government is, would ever agree to turn the key against a domestic target.
I decade ago, I would have thought it was impossible, too. I no longer believe that. There are people in our government who would love to nuke a blue city like Portland, just to prove how scary they are.
While Trump seems morally capable of doing such things, nothing about his history has suggested he has the competence for it to be a coherent master plan.
It's not that complicated a plan, even a moron like HitlerPig could understand it, but that doesn't mean he will actually accomplish his objective. It is likely that in the end, we will be saved by his virtuosic incompetence.
as per usual the cops get violent
& yes, the amendments will become endments
You say that but military attacking your assistance would be the worst movie they can make, because that one not only make the regime look extremely bad it also puts lead ammo on the playing field, something that neither side and wanted to escalate to last time. Two can play that game.
I was just looking for some screws on Amazon and it said "out of stock, we're working to get more soon". Could this be it?
About to?