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erronis

(15,185 posts)
6. And they really like getting back home after visiting the US. Come here to realize how good
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 04:03 PM
Dec 2018

they have it.

I'm guessing more USers are applying for visas/residency in Canada than the other way around. Health care? Stability? Compassionate people and government? Environment?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

applegrove

(118,499 posts)
13. We are getting lots of computer enginner types from ME, and Asia as the glow
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:46 PM
Dec 2018

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dims on the US as the country of opportunity for some immigrants. Once Trump is gone and the fever breaks i'm sure the US will get them back the experts say. But for now computer science people are pouring in here.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,259 posts)
14. hard to compete with decency
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 09:42 PM
Dec 2018

Trumpers and Republicans have declared war on decency. They seem to want a homogenous society of clones.

Example:

applegrove

(118,499 posts)
15. The pendulum is swinging back. Many more decency people in the
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 10:18 PM
Dec 2018

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US than MAGAs. They just have to get out and vote. And school the independents on how they were used by Trump ( and the GOP over 30 years) to vote using mental shortcuts that financial anxiety and anxiety of the future will make them prone to. They need to vote rationally.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
2. elmac, I needed this moment of shared laughter.
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 01:52 PM
Dec 2018

Canadians and Prime Minister Trudeau are beacons of sanity along our border. thank you one and all

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
8. I think some of y'all are missing the point.
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 04:18 PM
Dec 2018

They are building their hedge to keep US folks OUT.

(And just as a point of interest, when did citizens of the 'United States of America' become just 'Americans'? Canadians, US residents, Mexicans, Brazilians, etc are all ' technically Americans'. They all love on the American continent. He did the US manage to appropriate 'American' and get everyone else to come up with different names?)

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
10. While this is a spoof done in good humor, to agitate tRumpsters
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 04:33 PM
Dec 2018

I think in reality they would build anything they could to keep dumbass tRumpsters out of the country, I know I would. I love this description of the orange Hitler: the U.S. decision to elect a discarded traffic pylon – found in a ditch on the road to nowhere – as their leader.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,259 posts)
11. thanks, Canada
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 05:32 PM
Dec 2018

We have good neighbors.

Toronto Maple Leafs fans finish singing US anthem after technical difficulties




We've fallen a long way, but, if the world survives Trump, Trumpism and the Republicans, we'll rebuild.

There are folks here old enough to remember another very bad time. Maybe some younger ones need to hear this, from 1973:

Buns_of_Fire

(17,158 posts)
19. I've heard some humanitarian Canadians are leaving caches of maple syrup
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 09:04 AM
Dec 2018

in the frontier just north of the border.

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