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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
As long as it doesn't get repealed in 15 minutes, that is.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
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Certainly.
They're going to try at least
Democrats reportedly opposed repealing the bill and cheered the accidental vote to approve a 5 percent raise.
Ever notice how so much of thed Rhetoric around teachers resembles the myths about welfare? Or how they are supposedly evil government agents? "I don't want muh tax dollars going to no overpaid teacher who is gonna teach about the gayz!!1!" What would it take to show people saying that the truth?
edited 4th Mar '18 2:53:44 PM by Wildcard
Is it me or does it seem like trump is going through a narcissistic collapse now? He’s going full batshit already.
Part me hopes he keeps going just to see how much further it can go.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
Oh, bother.
People like Trump can always get worse.
Disgusted, but not surprised
TBH, this tariff nonsense is something I expected him to do a year ago. I'm not sure why he's only instigating a trade war now.
He's getting unhinged?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
That and he needs a distraction. He always goes off on some tangent when the news around him gets bad.
This, he didn't feel the need to do it previously because he was (relatively) stable. Now everything is beginning to fray at the seams and because of that so is he.
edited 4th Mar '18 3:25:45 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
And he's unraveling because so many of the people that kept him stable are either bailing or fallen from grace.
x15 The US trying to invade Canada would be a North American Stalingrad. There's plenty of frozen countryside to hide in, and the US (Except Alaskans) aren't use to that kind of freezing environment, having mostly fought in the arid Middle East.
edited 4th Mar '18 4:03:00 PM by Wariolander
Disasturbator
And Canada's link to the United Kingdom through the Queen means the UK would most certainly aid them
And that would mean deploying the Red Coats,our elite special unit
New theme music also a box
Screaming Into The Void
You say that like most Canadians don't live right near the southern border and complain incessantly whenever the temperature gets below 0 Celsius.
edited 4th Mar '18 4:17:18 PM by Pseudopartition
Do they still have "Burn the White House" as their special attack? Honestly, given who's currently in it, I kind of hope they do.
These people have been trained to see ignorance as a virtue, because if their kids get a proper education they'll realize what their parents are telling them is horseshit. I'm not sure there's much you can do because that very same belief means these people don't want to learn.
In a crazy hypothetical American invasion of Canada, taking Canada wouldn't be a problem. However, due to several factors (Canada definitely seeing it coming, a population that could easily become a insurgency that looks and acts strikingly like the American population with easy access to the US proper, massive unrest and dissent at home, and near universal opposition overseas), holding it would be brutal in the long term. Plus it would more or less crash the American economy overnight.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Screaming Into The Void
I can't imagine a lot of the rest of the world taking it well, either. People love us.
Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
Out of the nuclear powers, *two* of them aren’t really big fans of Canada. (Russia and North Korea). The others get along pretty well with us. Getting *everyone* on the planet ticked off against you is a really bad idea when you’re busy trying to shore up your control of a gigantic area of land that any enemies could set up shop *anywhere* in.
Not Three Laws compliant.
Obviously an invasion of Canada wouldn't be viable, anyway a world in which the United States invading Canada would be plausible is a world that would be so different than our own that theorizing about it would be extremely pointless.
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
Basically, it would be 'Nam on steroids.
Though it does make great fodder for AU stories.
As I said it could only happen in a world completely different than our own, so what it would or wouldn't be like is both unprovable and irrelevant.
It most certainly does 
edited 4th Mar '18 4:56:09 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
Ha, that's hilarious. Teachers are extremely important and I'm happy to see that they're getting a larger raise (even if it was accidental).
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn