Is Trump doing the Greenland thing or was that all talk?
no hate- serious question- what about the political enemies thing? any arrests or just talk? again no hate just curious
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@samueltyler2
Any move for the US to plant a flag on Greenland to call America's very own would technically be called a declaration of war on Greenland. The same would apply to Trump's attempt to annex Canada.
The real question would then be, would the USA really want all of NATO showing up on America's doorstep to show Trump who's really in charge of the world?
That's the question that America should really be asking itself before it shoots itself in the other foot as well since Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and most recently Iran, all of which revealed the Achilles Heel of the US military without exception.
The US has always had an abysmal track record at winning wars that it started, meaning that the US military has not won a single war that America started in the last 213 years and which includes The War of 1812.
But if the US tried to annex Greenland anyway, NATO would hand America it's own fat asss on a silver platter and America's attempted annexation of Greenland or Canada for that matter, would all be over before it ever really got started and Hegseth knows that, but Trump still doesn't.
Any move for the US to plant a flag on Greenland to call America's very own would technically be called a declaration of war on Greenland. The same would apply to Trump's attempt to annex Canada.
The real question would then be, would the USA really want all of NATO showing up on America's doorstep to show Trump who's really in charge of the world?
That's the question that America should really be asking itself before it shoots itself in the other foot as well since Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and most recently Iran, all of which revealed the Achilles Heel of the US military without exception.
The US has always had an abysmal track record at winning wars that it started, meaning that the US military has not won a single war that America started in the last 213 years and which includes The War of 1812.
But if the US tried to annex Greenland anyway, NATO would hand America it's own fat asss on a silver platter and America's attempted annexation of Greenland or Canada for that matter, would all be over before it ever really got started and Hegseth knows that, but Trump still doesn't.
chrisCA · M
@samueltyler2 It would be funny if the people of Greenland expressed a desire to join Canada as a province.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@chrisCA
What is becoming more of a reality with each passing day is the people of the USA expressing a desire to join Canada and become Canada's southern Territory after the economic fallout from Trump eventually happens ...and get added to the ever-growing list behind The Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Territory. What would you think of that?
What is becoming more of a reality with each passing day is the people of the USA expressing a desire to join Canada and become Canada's southern Territory after the economic fallout from Trump eventually happens ...and get added to the ever-growing list behind The Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Territory. What would you think of that?
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@chrisCA
You're open to it? I've studied Canadian culture and American culture as well and as an outsider who lives a very liberalized, open-minded cultural life in Sweden, I can objectively tell you that Canadian versus American cultures are so vastly opposite to each other that neither group would be able to tolerate the other for much longer than a holiday weekend together!
Progressive American States, which are those more center-left leaning States which may happen to share a common northern border with Canada, are only "progressive" as progressive is defined by American culture but not the Canadian culture. This is because even center-left leaning Americans are by definition, center-right leaning by Canadian standards.
America's version of 'liberal' is Canada's version of 'conservative'. This is because Americans are more like the British when it comes to open-mindedness than Canadians are. Canadians in opposite comparison are more like Scandinavians when it comes to Canada's definition of open-mindedness as an Nation.
Both groups from that progressive subset of groups may agree on a certain 'direction' to take, but neither group would be able to agree with the other on how the course should be set to attain that common direction.
This is because of the cultural differences between Canadian and American culture, which are instilled in each group from the age of 5 onward and at no time do those cultures ever converge to become 'equal' with the other, even for a short time. They may parallel each other's course, but they don't ever intersect.
You're open to it? I've studied Canadian culture and American culture as well and as an outsider who lives a very liberalized, open-minded cultural life in Sweden, I can objectively tell you that Canadian versus American cultures are so vastly opposite to each other that neither group would be able to tolerate the other for much longer than a holiday weekend together!
Progressive American States, which are those more center-left leaning States which may happen to share a common northern border with Canada, are only "progressive" as progressive is defined by American culture but not the Canadian culture. This is because even center-left leaning Americans are by definition, center-right leaning by Canadian standards.
America's version of 'liberal' is Canada's version of 'conservative'. This is because Americans are more like the British when it comes to open-mindedness than Canadians are. Canadians in opposite comparison are more like Scandinavians when it comes to Canada's definition of open-mindedness as an Nation.
Both groups from that progressive subset of groups may agree on a certain 'direction' to take, but neither group would be able to agree with the other on how the course should be set to attain that common direction.
This is because of the cultural differences between Canadian and American culture, which are instilled in each group from the age of 5 onward and at no time do those cultures ever converge to become 'equal' with the other, even for a short time. They may parallel each other's course, but they don't ever intersect.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SandWitch my niece lives in her husband was born there and he and his friends are vey far right and would have voted for TACO if they could.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@samueltyler2
Do they live in the Province of Alberta?
I'm told that Alberta is Canada's version of Texas, which includes grown men wearing cowboy hats to church.
Do they live in the Province of Alberta?
I'm told that Alberta is Canada's version of Texas, which includes grown men wearing cowboy hats to church.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SandWitch sorry, I thought I said, Toronto.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@samueltyler2
Ontario is Provincially 'center-right conservative' when it comes to voting time, but the mandate of the Ontario Provincial Government is just as progressive in it's own mandate as Canada's Federal Liberal Government is at the Federal level. In fact, when I study both, it's hard to tell the two apart because they're both cut from the same 'progressive' cloth it seems. The term "Conservative" in Canada does not mean 'to conserve, to withhold, to deprive'. What it means in Canada is, to constantly advance forward with caution at each step, not race into the fire of the unknown while betting the farm on it's potential success.
To find a far-right, TACO loving extremist in Ontario, would be like looking for a needle in a haystack from what I've observed. In the Province of Alberta however, almost everyone there has the same mentality as the January 6th rioters on the US Capital building. The funny thing is, everyone in Alberta is either a farmer or a cattle rancher, predominantly high school graduates (or less) and do not come from a cosmopolitan background under any stretch of the imagination. Those dudes want to separate from Canada and become part of the USA, despite none of them having a plan for the long term in that venture.
What seems very odd to me is how your daughter could have hooked up with someone as far-right as she did who eventually became her husband from Toronto, of all 'centrist' places in Canada to meet a far-right TACO lover.
Ontario is Provincially 'center-right conservative' when it comes to voting time, but the mandate of the Ontario Provincial Government is just as progressive in it's own mandate as Canada's Federal Liberal Government is at the Federal level. In fact, when I study both, it's hard to tell the two apart because they're both cut from the same 'progressive' cloth it seems. The term "Conservative" in Canada does not mean 'to conserve, to withhold, to deprive'. What it means in Canada is, to constantly advance forward with caution at each step, not race into the fire of the unknown while betting the farm on it's potential success.
To find a far-right, TACO loving extremist in Ontario, would be like looking for a needle in a haystack from what I've observed. In the Province of Alberta however, almost everyone there has the same mentality as the January 6th rioters on the US Capital building. The funny thing is, everyone in Alberta is either a farmer or a cattle rancher, predominantly high school graduates (or less) and do not come from a cosmopolitan background under any stretch of the imagination. Those dudes want to separate from Canada and become part of the USA, despite none of them having a plan for the long term in that venture.
What seems very odd to me is how your daughter could have hooked up with someone as far-right as she did who eventually became her husband from Toronto, of all 'centrist' places in Canada to meet a far-right TACO lover.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SandWitch did I say daughter, I meant niece. I agree about being shocked with who she married. Both of her daughters are somewhat progressive, her son I don't know yet. One of her daughters, my great niece, married a son of a billionaire, so I assume he is more right.
Believe me Toronto, from my personal experience of meeting many citizens, is fiscally very far right. They hate the PM, they hate their taxes.
Believe me Toronto, from my personal experience of meeting many citizens, is fiscally very far right. They hate the PM, they hate their taxes.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@samueltyler2
Then I can only say that if your personal experience of meeting many citizens from Toronto were very far-right, it could only be because you are attracted to those who are of far-right persuasion because that is a Law of the Universe.
We attract to ourselves who we are at our core.
If you saw Toronto as "fiscally very far-right", it is because you are a fiscally very far-right person yourself.
Believe me Toronto, from my personal experience of meeting many citizens, is fiscally very far right. They hate the PM, they hate their taxes.
Then I can only say that if your personal experience of meeting many citizens from Toronto were very far-right, it could only be because you are attracted to those who are of far-right persuasion because that is a Law of the Universe.
We attract to ourselves who we are at our core.
If you saw Toronto as "fiscally very far-right", it is because you are a fiscally very far-right person yourself.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SandWitch then you have totally misread me.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@samueltyler2
I have not misread you, I am only responding to what you wrote about YOURSELF without you knowing that you were actually telling me about you!
I have not misread you, I am only responding to what you wrote about YOURSELF without you knowing that you were actually telling me about you!
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SandWitch I won't argue with you, but you are totally wrong. I am anything but one of the right wing radicals. You have read many of my postings. You just seem to want to argue with me. I will just stop answering now.