War with Venezuela

[MU82]

To bad the AFFORDABLE Heathcare Act wasn't passed

Too bad one team only tried to repeal it a bazillion times without ever once even trying to come up with an alternative.

Unless "let the poors die" was their alternative.

[rocky_warrior]

To bad the AFFORDABLE Heathcare Act wasn't passed

Too bad one team only tried to repeal it a bazillion times without ever once even trying to come up with an alternative.

Unless "let the poors die" was their alternative.

Totally relevant to Venezuela...

[MU82]

Totally relevant to Venezuela...

Agree. Not sure why it was brought up. Not that you need my permission, but feel free to eliminate the posts.

[Pakuni]

Is Colombia next?
A certain someone's spawn has a habit that needs feeding, and Colombia might be able to help.

[Shaka Shart]

Is Colombia next?
A certain someone's spawn has a habit that needs feeding, and Colombia might be able to help.

you keep Ed Wojciechowski Sr's name out of your mouth!!!

[GB Warrior]

The best part of waking up is American imperialism in your cup

[Warriors4ever]

Read a comment on a friend's FB page where a guy is approvingly calling us the Roman Empire and hoping we do more...

[MU82]

Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Canada ... why not?

Why settle for being just a boring, ol' constitutional republic when we can be an empire?

[tower912]

Like I said before, swap out Jews for immigrants and Poland for Venezuela.  Now add in France for Canada, Colombia for Holland.

[GB Warrior]

Read a comment on a friend's FB page where a guy is approvingly calling us the Roman Empire and hoping we do more...

In that we're overextending ourselves and will crumble from within?

[Scoop Snoop]

Is Colombia next?

Yep! It's the second part of his 5-point plan. Cuba is #3, Mexico #4, and last. but not least....Greenland!

After that, it will be time to plan the invasion of Canada, a separate, special plan in itself to add to the US and then carve up into new red states.

[tower912]

All of those non-English speakers.  All of those Canadians used to single payer health care.

[Shaka Shart]

We should sell Venezuela to private equity

[Shaka Shart]

Yep! It's the second part of his 5-point plan. Cuba is #3, Mexico #4, and last. but not least....Greenland!

After that, it will be time to plan the invasion of Canada, a separate, special plan in itself to add to the US and then carve up into new red states.

Having spent several months in Quebec for work, the idea of us trying to tell the Quebecois what to do is darkly amusing

[Scoop Snoop]

Having spent several months in Quebec for work, the idea of us trying to tell the Quebecois what to do is darkly amusing

Ha! Love it!

I remember when my wife and I visited a mill in Northern Wisconsin that supplied our company with truckloads of lumber, and one of the principals had just come back from one of his frequent buying trips to Quebec. "I HATE dealing with those peolple! All they do is argue. About anything!"

And a UCONN grad friend who is married to a French Canadian told me how he is so happy that he does not speak French, because when they visit her family, everyone gets into loud, endless arguments. He just smiles and watches English stations on TV while they fight fight fight. 

I think we should conquer Canada and then give Quebec to Russia.

[Shaka Shart]

Ha! Love it!

I remember when my wife and I visited a mill in Northern Wisconsin that supplied our company with truckloads of lumber, and one of the principals had just come back from one of his frequent buying trips to Quebec. "I HATE dealing with those peolple! All they do is argue. About anything!"

And a UCONN grad friend who is married to a French Canadian told me how he is so happy that he does not speak French, because when they visit her family, everyone gets into loud, endless arguments. He just smiles and watches English stations on TV while they fight fight fight. 

I think we should conquer Canada and then give Quebec to Russia.

Let Quebec be their own country and they'd die happy as their independence far outweighs any ability to function autonomously

[tower912]

Good news.  Taxpayers may reimburse oil companies for their heroic actions in Venezuela.

[NCMUFan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vmzAJvXtWA

[Scoop Snoop]

Let Quebec be their own country and they'd die happy as their independence far outweighs any ability to function autonomously

I'm surprised that you did not see how this would work.

Russians: Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet!

French Canadians: Non! Non! Non! Non! Non! Non!

This would go on for weeks until both sides drop dead from strenuous arguing.

My source (a 9-year-old kid whom I gave $20 to for hacking into Rocky's records) has discovered that Elonmusk, Heisy, Panda, and Muggsy are all (wait for it)... French Canadians. There may be more, but now the kid wants $100 to provide more names, the little twerp.

[Billy Hoyle]

Yep! It's the second part of his 5-point plan. Cuba is #3, Mexico #4, and last. but not least....Greenland!

After that, it will be time to plan the invasion of Canada, a separate, special plan in itself to add to the US and then carve up into new red states.

If Canada beats the US in the Olympic hockey tournament, those hosers are going to pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes within 48 hours.

[JWags85]

Having spent several months in Quebec for work, the idea of us trying to tell the Quebecois what to do is darkly amusing

Honestly, if Trump had said he was going to make Quebec the 51st state, instead of Canada as a whole, most of Canada would have probably said "you know what, sure!  Have fun with that.

My favorite Quebec anecdote is from my wife's best friend.  Total Francophile, took French classes at an immersion school (in addition to her normal public school) since her early teens, studied abroad in Lyon for a year in college, and then while working for L'Oreal, lived in Paris for almost 5 years.  So she not only spoke French to navigate daily life, she spoke it professionally.  She had the fluency of a native speaker by that point.  A year or two after moving back to NYC, she and her now husband took a trip to Quebec City.  Obviously French and Quebecois French differ a bit, but she still assumed it would be some sort of comfort navigating it.  NON NON NON!

She said 2 different shopkeepers got annoyed with her accent and "prononce mal" to the point of being frustrated and rude and the concierge at the hotel at one point said "ma'am it may be better if we just spoke English, no?"  She was so taken aback yet her husband found it hilarious given how Parisians react to anyone speaking French with a foreign accent.

[Jockey]

Good news.  Taxpayers may reimburse oil companies for their heroic actions in Venezuela.

It's not a coincidence that Trump informed the oil companies before he informed Congress. MAGAts got the dictatorship they wanted.

[tower912]

It's not a coincidence that Trump informed the oil companies before he informed Congress. MAGAts got the dictatorship they wanted.

And the stock tips they needed.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Honestly, if Trump had said he was going to make Quebec the 51st state, instead of Canada as a whole, most of Canada would have probably said "you know what, sure!  Have fun with that.

My favorite Quebec anecdote is from my wife's best friend.  Total Francophile, took French classes at an immersion school (in addition to her normal public school) since her early teens, studied abroad in Lyon for a year in college, and then while working for L'Oreal, lived in Paris for almost 5 years.  So she not only spoke French to navigate daily life, she spoke it professionally.  She had the fluency of a native speaker by that point.  A year or two after moving back to NYC, she and her now husband took a trip to Quebec City.  Obviously French and Quebecois French differ a bit, but she still assumed it would be some sort of comfort navigating it.  NON NON NON!

She said 2 different shopkeepers got annoyed with her accent and "prononce mal" to the point of being frustrated and rude and the concierge at the hotel at one point said "ma'am it may be better if we just spoke English, no?"  She was so taken aback yet her husband found it hilarious given how Parisians react to anyone speaking French with a foreign accent.

I'm treated like royalty in Quebec and even my French is appreciated because of my last name.  My family ancestors saved the Quebec colony in 1634 with The Percheron Immigration at the behest of Champlain himself.  (I'm not making this up.)  I traced my ancestors to mid-1400's France.  My grandfather and extended family immigrated to the USA in the 1930's after the family's trading post burnt down in Quebec near the border.  There was no home insurance back then.  The first words I usually hear when crossing into Quebec at the border or in the hotel are "Bienvenue chez vous, Monsieur...."

[Billy Hoyle]

Honestly, if Trump had said he was going to make Quebec the 51st state, instead of Canada as a whole, most of Canada would have probably said "you know what, sure!  Have fun with that.

My favorite Quebec anecdote is from my wife's best friend.  Total Francophile, took French classes at an immersion school (in addition to her normal public school) since her early teens, studied abroad in Lyon for a year in college, and then while working for L'Oreal, lived in Paris for almost 5 years.  So she not only spoke French to navigate daily life, she spoke it professionally.  She had the fluency of a native speaker by that point.  A year or two after moving back to NYC, she and her now husband took a trip to Quebec City.  Obviously French and Quebecois French differ a bit, but she still assumed it would be some sort of comfort navigating it.  NON NON NON!

She said 2 different shopkeepers got annoyed with her accent and "prononce mal" to the point of being frustrated and rude and the concierge at the hotel at one point said "ma'am it may be better if we just spoke English, no?"  She was so taken aback yet her husband found it hilarious given how Parisians react to anyone speaking French with a foreign accent.

Three good friends from MU were visiting students from U of Laval in Quebec. My closest friend, who I have visited in Quebec multiple times since our days in Mashuda, supports Quebec independence (but realizes it will never happen). For his bachelor party in Quebec City, his buddies made him wear a Team Canada jersey and hand out Canadian flags to people and say he supported a united Canada forever before they'd buy him drinks. It was amusing to say the least!

QC is very different from Montreal when it comes to how non-French speakers are treated. In Montreal I could go into a shop or bar and if I used French to ask if they spoke English there was no problem. In QC, forget it, without my friends with me, I was screwed (though things have changed up there since my first visit, but it's still tough if one does not speak any French).