Saturday, October 11, 2025

Compare and contrast: Canada vs US - "how about those hellholes, eh?"


I saw several tweets today about events in Canada and the US:

Making the school lunch program permanent will burn Maple MAGAT PoiLIEvre's and the ReformaKKKlowns' balls, seeing as they were opposed to it and voted against it when it was first introduced. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM

The Trump Administration will oversee deep slashes to the SNAP food-assistance program, and fewer children will be automatically eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch at school.

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— The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) October 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM

“Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs in September,with gains led by manufacturing” This is great news for OUR country. Some perspective: - US added 22,000 jobs in August - No jobs report for Sept www.cbc.ca/news/busines... I’m sure the CPC will find a way to downplay this very negatively as always

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— πŸπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Team Canada ForeverπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM

Lutnick, sources said, also suggested the White House has taken the position of “America first, Canada second” and "there’s nothing Canada can do about it". The hell there isn't. Lutnick and his gang of MAGA thugs are doing a great job of ensuring there is *zero* goodwill from Canadians. #ElbowsUp

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— Irrelephant (@onewheeldoin200.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM

Canadians' chant just upgraded from "Elbows up" to "Elbows up yours"

— Boaz • MyTurn /A Space (@myturnaspace.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
But the people Trump is really hurting are Americans:

Trump threatens China with tariffs. Stock market falls. Buy low. Sell high when we get the TACO klaxon. The US is just one big roulette wheel right now.

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— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
And America is going nuts about "Antifa" while Canada is proud of ours:

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- Kier Atkinson πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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Trump wants you to worry about Antifa, which is about as real as Bigfoot

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— The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) October 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We have a new Poilievre talking point: its all Carney's fault if Alberta doesn't get another pipeline because all Carney has to do is just tell BC to pound sand and voila, the pipeline will be done!
This was a few days ago:

Surprised to learn there is no such thing as Alberta oil and that it is actually Canada's oil. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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— Simon Little 🍁 (@simonplittle.ca) October 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This was today:
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In reality, Carney says, sure, when asked about a pipeline, as long as there is an actual proposal for one, that can meet Canada's standards for a national project:

At an event in his Nepean riding, Prime Minister Mark Carney answers CBC reporter Kate McKenna’s question about whether his government would support a new pipeline to bring Alberta energy to tidewater on the British Columbia coast.

- Northern Variables

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Meanwhile, in America, their cities are just hellscapes now, apparently. Here's the latest:

The hellscape that is battle-ravaged Portland.

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— Boston Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM

Anyway I hope the right keeps talking about the frog costumes. Keep it top of mind for everyone, how sinister and scary the dancing balloon animals are

— Hemry, Local Bartender (@bartenderhemry.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

— Django Wexler (@djangowexler.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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When that Chicago apartment building was terrorized by ICE last week, one of the tenants took in a scared immigrant mother and daughter and hid them for days:

We‘ve gotten to the Anne Frank stage of the presidency.

— I have been a good Bling πŸ˜ŠπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ (@blingdomepiece.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Jimmy Kimmel is asking for more videos from America's "hellholes" and here are some results:

And this is Jesse Welles' latest "Join Ice" video
 

3 comments:

Northern PoV said...

I'll give Carney a little slack in regards to timing
(don't want to poke the orange beast)
but the Lutnick (Nudenik) take on our auto industry means that we should be inviting China to assemble super cheap electric cars here while we drop the tRump-inspired tariffs.

Cathie from Canada said...

Definitely! We could sell them our soybeans too.

Purple library guy said...

So, more pipelines is a terrible idea for a number of reasons. But it kind of looks like the companies that might build them have started to notice the main economic one, which is that peaking and then lowering demand for crude will mean all the expansion Smith claims is going to happen, won't, and so there will be nobody willing to pay to send their oil through any new pipelines and they will lose money. Which would be why all this talk of pipelines kind of founders on the basic "Nobody wants to build them" problem.

The media's insistence on talking and talking about these nonexistent pipeline projects saddens me. They're not even making an attempt to inform people in any useful way. Everyone's just pretending to ignore the elephant in the room, which is that there IS NO ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. We're getting multiple media cycles of yacking about pipeline projects that DON'T EXIST.