This Washingtonian is packed and ready to go north. We love our Canadian neighbors. California is the 5th largest economy in the world. This would be a boon to Canada.
As of 2021, over 95,000 Canadian-born people lived in Florida. In 2022, 21,935 Canadians moved to Florida, the largest number of any state. An estimated 3.3 million Canadians visited Florida last year, up from 3.23 million in 2023, but short of the 4.088 million in 2019.
From "the Canada Connection" according to Consul General of Canada in Miami, Sylvia Cesaratto. “We’re the biggest foreign investors when it comes to private real estate in Florida,” she adds, citing over $600 million in local property taxes that Canadians contribute annually.
Not all these new residents are retirees sipping margaritas on the beach. “You see interest from Canadian corporations and entrepreneurs [who want] to come down here,” says Louis Guay, a tax principal at Kaufman Rossin and Chairman of the Board for the Canada-Florida Chamber of Commerce (CFCC). According to a report by research firm Joorney, 2021 saw an influx of Canadians who moved to Florida to start a business with the E-2 visa, which is a non-immigrant visa given to individuals from treaty countries who have invested or are in the process of investing a substantial amount of capital in a U.S. business. Many Canadian entrepreneurs use this to start or expand their businesses in Miami. “There’s this connection between Canada and South Florida that’s been around for a very long time, starting with the Canadian snowbirds,” says Guay.
Indeed, Canada is one of Florida’s most important trade partners. Last year, Canada and Florida had a trading relationship of $8 billion, making it the No. 2 export destination and No. 3 import origin for Florida. Enterprise Florida’s Canada office director, Hesam Houryaband, jokes that “Canadians know Florida more than they know other provinces in Canada.” Citing their affinity for the climate, and the similarities in time zone and language, “it only makes sense for them to expand into Florida,” he says.
Moreover, Miami’s reputation as the Gateway for the Americas is important to Canadian companies. “One thing that stands out is South Florida’s regional location, not just for the Southeast U.S., but also the Caribbean and the Latin American markets,” Houryaband says. “When a Canadian company wants to expand to those territories and markets, the most natural place [to] do it from is Miami.” It’s also often cost-effective to have Canadian products depot at a free trade zone in South Florida before shipping them to Latin America or the Caribbean. “With the deep-water ports and international access routes, [Greater Miami] becomes a sort of launching pad for them.”
Along with the seaports, Miami International Airport (MIA) is another key for Canadian cargo operations. The airport is the United States’ primary cargo gateway to Latin America, which Canada’s largest airline, Air Canada, uses to full advantage. Besides flying with a combination passenger-and-freighter fleet, the airline intends to invest in more all-cargo aircraft in the future, including the first converted 767 cargo jets, which began operating on routes linking Miami to Toronto in October 2021. This made Miami the airline’s first scheduled freighter destination in the continental U.S.
“We are seeing a very strong demand complemented with cargo, [so] we are adding dedicated freighter aircraft into the fleet,” says Vincent Gauthier-Doré, senior director of sales at Air Canada. “Miami is a key hub for us to import and export goods between the two countries and further into Latin America.” In April of last year, the airline ordered two factory-built B767-300Fs that are expected to begin operating this year. This is in addition to the newly built B777Fs that are expected to begin service in 2024, expanding Air Canada’s cargo freighters from three to twelve between now and the end of 2024.
I'm feeling very, very vengeful. The time has come for our revenge against this paranoid freak and all the pathetic enablers who back him, as well as against Heritage, the billionaires, Johnson and the phony Christian Nationalists, racists and white supremacists, etc. When enough people get angry and rise up, these awful misfits and fascists will get their due. It has to happen. The house of cards is bound to crash and burn. Their incompetence and puffed-up hubris are their weaknesses which we must exploit and expose relentlessly.
Revenge is for suckers. Ask the Middle East...and at some point in history, ask every other human settlement in the world. "Revenge" is a feeling, not a strategy for "better".
That is not to say we do not work hard to return to a vibrant imperfect striving nation trying to do the right thing for all of the people most of time and never reaching "done".
William ....I can't quite tell who is answering whom for what in this thread...but I received this from you as an email. Were you addressing it to me? And...is it referencing my "revenge" comment...or? TY Sallie
I really like that clever way of looking at it. I do not disagree at all with the sentiment for us as individuals. My thought was to turn the tables and to send the message to Trump, et al, that revenge is a two-way street and that his malice and serious destructiveness is sure to provoke great hostility and a backlash. They are not alone in wishing for revenge. What we have been denied so far is justice, and justice does involve a measure of revenge. The bastards are intentionally inflicting great pain and injury, and the people generally will hopefully extract a degree of justice, aka revenge, in large enough numbers by fighting back and rejecting their abuses and corruption. If you are not fuming and enraged, you have your head in the sand.
But surely, by killing the Dept of Education, they will be killing public education, and that will solve the problem of children being brainwashed or miseducated won't it?
What can be wrong with he father being responsible for educating his sons, like they did in the good ole days?
Fathers are not the icons you might imagine...even if you can find them in the home with their children. Public education gives all kids a chance...and there are many (most) families who need the help and structure in this complicated world. There were no "good ole days" except in the exceptions. Think Dickens.
Of course I am being facetiious. I was talking to Robert. Robert has a brief against public education, he and I have argued very strongly. He has no remedy, just a bitch.
I am a genetic genealogist and told the story of my own family historyf, when up until the 19th Century, it was the responsibility of the father to tutor his children, boys mostly, girls they deemed didn't need education all they needed was to be taught how to have babies, take care of them, and take care of the house for the hubbie.
My 5th great grandfather died before he could tutor all but his eldest son, and thus his sons, including my 4th great granfather was illiterate, and because he couldn't read or write, he couldn't engage in commerce or contracts, He had to rely on the faith in others and signed everything with an X. His son was illiterate, his grandson, his great grandson, the first in my family to have education was my grandfather, but only to the 8th grade, my father graduated HS and had some college, I have a Masters degree, my son and his daughter are PhD's (she is a research scientist)
In those days, when the father died, the children were considered orphans, and there were orphans courts to deal with them. A mother had to prove that he had the ability to tutor her own children, if she was to keep custody of them, otherwise they were "rented" out to guardians, who used them as free labor.
Glad to know facetiousness was afoot....it is hard to suss out full sense of these posts....we don't know each other ...we only see the post in front of us standing naked and alone, free of its author's full context.
In all sincerity, what brainwashing are you talking about? Science, math, history, home economics, art, music, sports? You might as well call 'murkan society the brainwashing. And what wo uld you replace it with? Religious dogma? Just ignorance?
My dad was a conservative republican. He was poor, white, worked very hard and long, fought in WW2, had a high school education. He was president or secretary of the local school board for 20 years. He believed in education. He believed in the Constitution. He did not want to educate me about school, he led the school that did that, but did not dictate curriculum. My dad taught me many things, personal things, skilled things, logic, reason, critical thinking, so that I could excel in school and life. What you have just said is, IMO, ridiculous, anti-social, and fascistic.
FYI, My fathers family were poor white southerners, great great grandfather and his son were hog farmers. My mothers family poor white notherners who suffered the depression, and left the family traumatized.
I was raised a conservative and voted for Nixon in 1960, an Goldwater in 1968, but voted for Hillary and Biden.
A piece of advice don't take things personally, don't personalize the impersonal.
As regards brainwashing, that is how we are raised,family friends, authorities like teachers.
We are not born with out ideas and beliefs fully formed. We either acquire them by being told them by authority or we aquire them by fully thinking them through
My comment was meant for the guy who forgot to mention that his post was facetious. It sounded serious, so I called him on it. These threads kind of weave all over the place and it is hard to know where they end up sometimes.
Please include Connecticut. We are ready to leave the good old USA. Let's leave the red states to fend for themselves and see how that works out for them. I'm done.
This would be a dream come true! Can you do a piece on the reality of this....could it be done?How would that come about? How could we protect ourselves from the US? How long would it take? I'm thinking of moving to Portugal or Bali if the SAVE voting act passes. At what point do you leave?
Our family lives in Washington and we have fantasized about joining Canada or creating Cascadia eversince MAGA hit American political scene. I so wish the offer to join Canada was not so tongue in cheek.
Do you live in Western Washington or Eastern Washington. Western Washington is as red as Texas.I don't think that Canada wants the denizens of Ellensburg, Yakima, Grants Pass, Moses Lake, Euphrata.
You are correct, Brainfart. I live in Western Washington. And my county is blue
I was wearing a Kamala shirt and got smiles everywhere, not a dirty look.
During COVID some assholes tried to stir up shit about not wearing masks, they were 86 from the market and escorted out by the police, A handful tried to raise hell on a street corner, but were pelted with veggies.
They were made so unwelcome that they left the community
Spokane is the ruby red hub of Eastern WA. ,William. And it's Ephrata, and I think a biblical placename. And the chief indoctrinators of children are religious elementary schools. Ask any recovering catholic.
I thought Spokane would be more liberal considering that it is a big city. Guess not.
Thanks for the correction on the spelling of Ephrata, I should know better, been through it many times, Moses Lake especially, but that was over 50 years ago.
Spokane is a blue dot in a sea of red, along with Pullman and Walla Walla. Plus, I bet a lot of (rational) conservatives would be happy with a Canadian governance system.
Thanks for the input. Being trite, rational conservative sounds like an oxymoron
A conservative is by definition opposed to change, yet change is the way of nature it is inevitable, so standing in the way of change is as irrational as standing the way of a flash flood and trying to stop it by holding out your hand.
I think I've read that 13 counties want to join Idaho.
Except for the I-5 Corridor I assume Oregon is ruby red.
The less exposure a population has to minorities (and not just racial minorities but thought that is no conservative, racist, religious, the more extreme right wing they are.
It is clear from the information you provide that fraud and abuse are not the DOGE target. It is clearly retribution against enemies and dismantling oversight capability to make on-ramps for oligarch exploitations. Trump anticipates kickbacks from Elon on Federal contracts. I believe Musk has tainted every bid he is pursuing. That impacts every single Federal BID that Musk currently has in progress, and also every potential future bid. At issue is non-public insider information. You cannot bid if you hold insider information, or if the appearance is the same.
Every bidder competing against Musk has recourse outside of the bid-letting agency. Jeff Bezos is being handed this smoking gun. When a bidder suspects there will be an unfair bias in the agency, they can bypass GAO and file in federal court to disqualify Musk, a Musk company, or a Musk team (subcontract or joint venture).
Here is the kicker. Federal court judges will decide on the insider information issue, not the Executive Branch employees. Thus undue influence and strong arming from the Trump administration will be useless.
What I foresee is no more Federal contracts for Musk. He has screwed the pooch. I don’t even see how he can be awarded a sole source extension to an existing contract. I see $ for lawyers. Jeff Bezos has a strong protest play here.
Do you understand that the Federal courts have zero enforcement power? The coup is complete and we just don't want to admit that to ourselves. Once we accept reality we can then consider real and effective actions to take. For instance a mass canceling of Amazon Prime memberships or all of us taking on true compassion rather than just talking about it by going vegan.
Courts can order appearances. They can impose daily fines for non compliance. The adjunct to your path seems to be give up. There is no coup, only attempts to that end. The court have their authority and they are not yet being ignored. Some 80 lawsuits are filed.
Cancel your Prime account, Facebook, X, Tik Tok, all of it. It's only serving the powerful savages that have been in charge for years. Let's admit that now the true state of Democracy has come to light. Let's imagine a better World. Let's start living it, in spite of those James Bond villains in charge.
Cool your jets on the compassion thing. I have been basically vegan for 51 years. I did it for compassion reasons, not diet. The topic was the actions, by courts or competing private parties, to dis-empower Muck. The coup is ongoing. How would it ever be complete until all of us are under the siege of militias or posse comitatus. Many of us saw this comping years ago, so we are not in fantasyland. And if you cancel a Prime (I do not have an account) by the millions, then many thousands of workers will be laid off and certain important supplies might not arrive. I like the scenario of CEO psychopaths eating each other in court, in the market, on the razzle dazzle pages.
Does Bezos have the guts to go against Musk/Trump? I doubt it. He owns Washington Post and they weren't allowed to endorse Harris for POTUS. He's gutless.
I think it's time for that counter coup I was asking you about. Our military needs to take over the current administration and return everything back to where it was BEFORE the takeover. The military leader in charge can launch another presidential election that is held, free of the electoral college so that the popular vote is the determining factor. A drastic situation calls for a drastic solution.
From Meidas....… Republican Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker isn’t thrilled with Pete Hegseth’s job performance so far: “He wasn’t my choice for the job. He made a rookie mistake in Brussels and he’s walked back some of what he said but not that line. I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool."
… Wicker said he also disagreed with Trump’s comments that NATO provoked Russia to invade by considering Ukraine for NATO membership: ““There are good guys and bad guys in this war, and the Russians are the bad guys. They invaded, contrary to almost every international law, and they should be defeated. And Ukraine is entitled to the promises that the world made to it.”
… Trump was asked again today who he blamed for the war, Ukraine or Russia: “There are a lot of people to blame.”
… Trump was asked about Wicker’s comments about Hegseth: “I haven’t heard that. I mean, Roger is a very good friend of mine, and Pete is doing a great job. So, I’ll speak to Roger. I’ll speak to Pete. I’ll find out.”
So, if Hegseth wasn't Wicker's "choice for the job", why did he vote to confirm him?? Just another feckless Republican Senator, too spineless to do the right thing for the country!
There is no way these people are going to change their votes at this point in time; they are so far gone into the cult. My opinion is that we need a drastic show of force to take our country back from the abyss we are witnessing daily. I want our military to take over and conduct an election for President free of the electoral college so that we can finally have a President who represents the majority of America.
This Washingtonian would take that deal in a hot minute. It’s tax season (always happy to pay my fair share for public health, safe food, consumer protection, national parks, clean air…) and I’m sick to my stomach.
Countries are political entities of human invention.... and when their politics are sullied and polluted, when thugs and thieves take the helm, there is no disloyalty in wishing and wanting different and better.
I would be honored to be a Canadian as they now stand in the political world. If only!!
Warfare note: We'd need to bring our intact proportional piece of the military with us because the kakistocracy now installed in the USA will surely launch all hell to keep its sources of graft and confiscation intact....heck, they are even threatening to absorb/incorporate Canada! We'd be in for a nasty bloody Armageddon. The Canadians - and the Americans - surely don't want or deserve that. We and they are betrayed by this coup.... staged by the worst people for the worst reasons.
There are people in Maryland who vociferously talk about moving to low tax Florida or Delaware. It may not be so hard to offer them "buyouts" and incentives to move to where the hate can flourish.
Here in California, this is what we dream about all the time now.
I am in Vermont and I have been ready to become a Canadian for a long time!
Ditto in New Hampshire.
This Washingtonian is packed and ready to go north. We love our Canadian neighbors. California is the 5th largest economy in the world. This would be a boon to Canada.
Michigan too!! Already have bridges and the tunnel connecting us with Canada!
I've been wanting Canada to take over the West Coast, the New England states, and New York for many years. Sign me up!
Hey, Don't leave Marylanders and North Virginians behind! New Jersey and eastern PA too.
And Minnesota? Mother's family names: Jacques and Bellehumeur dating from 1600's.
As a 5th generation Californian I would like to tell Canada please take us! My beautiful state is waiting….
How about Baghdad By the Sea?
As of 2021, over 95,000 Canadian-born people lived in Florida. In 2022, 21,935 Canadians moved to Florida, the largest number of any state. An estimated 3.3 million Canadians visited Florida last year, up from 3.23 million in 2023, but short of the 4.088 million in 2019.
From "the Canada Connection" according to Consul General of Canada in Miami, Sylvia Cesaratto. “We’re the biggest foreign investors when it comes to private real estate in Florida,” she adds, citing over $600 million in local property taxes that Canadians contribute annually.
Not all these new residents are retirees sipping margaritas on the beach. “You see interest from Canadian corporations and entrepreneurs [who want] to come down here,” says Louis Guay, a tax principal at Kaufman Rossin and Chairman of the Board for the Canada-Florida Chamber of Commerce (CFCC). According to a report by research firm Joorney, 2021 saw an influx of Canadians who moved to Florida to start a business with the E-2 visa, which is a non-immigrant visa given to individuals from treaty countries who have invested or are in the process of investing a substantial amount of capital in a U.S. business. Many Canadian entrepreneurs use this to start or expand their businesses in Miami. “There’s this connection between Canada and South Florida that’s been around for a very long time, starting with the Canadian snowbirds,” says Guay.
Indeed, Canada is one of Florida’s most important trade partners. Last year, Canada and Florida had a trading relationship of $8 billion, making it the No. 2 export destination and No. 3 import origin for Florida. Enterprise Florida’s Canada office director, Hesam Houryaband, jokes that “Canadians know Florida more than they know other provinces in Canada.” Citing their affinity for the climate, and the similarities in time zone and language, “it only makes sense for them to expand into Florida,” he says.
Moreover, Miami’s reputation as the Gateway for the Americas is important to Canadian companies. “One thing that stands out is South Florida’s regional location, not just for the Southeast U.S., but also the Caribbean and the Latin American markets,” Houryaband says. “When a Canadian company wants to expand to those territories and markets, the most natural place [to] do it from is Miami.” It’s also often cost-effective to have Canadian products depot at a free trade zone in South Florida before shipping them to Latin America or the Caribbean. “With the deep-water ports and international access routes, [Greater Miami] becomes a sort of launching pad for them.”
Along with the seaports, Miami International Airport (MIA) is another key for Canadian cargo operations. The airport is the United States’ primary cargo gateway to Latin America, which Canada’s largest airline, Air Canada, uses to full advantage. Besides flying with a combination passenger-and-freighter fleet, the airline intends to invest in more all-cargo aircraft in the future, including the first converted 767 cargo jets, which began operating on routes linking Miami to Toronto in October 2021. This made Miami the airline’s first scheduled freighter destination in the continental U.S.
“We are seeing a very strong demand complemented with cargo, [so] we are adding dedicated freighter aircraft into the fleet,” says Vincent Gauthier-Doré, senior director of sales at Air Canada. “Miami is a key hub for us to import and export goods between the two countries and further into Latin America.” In April of last year, the airline ordered two factory-built B767-300Fs that are expected to begin operating this year. This is in addition to the newly built B777Fs that are expected to begin service in 2024, expanding Air Canada’s cargo freighters from three to twelve between now and the end of 2024.
I am sure that AZ would be happy to take up the slack from Florida. Not many beaches but nicer winters than parts of Canada.
AZ is not the defacto financial capitol of South America and the Carribbean.
Not yet. FL has, of course, been the center of money laundering for Latin America. That may not be a business that AZ or CA want to take over.
I'm feeling very, very vengeful. The time has come for our revenge against this paranoid freak and all the pathetic enablers who back him, as well as against Heritage, the billionaires, Johnson and the phony Christian Nationalists, racists and white supremacists, etc. When enough people get angry and rise up, these awful misfits and fascists will get their due. It has to happen. The house of cards is bound to crash and burn. Their incompetence and puffed-up hubris are their weaknesses which we must exploit and expose relentlessly.
No need to extract revenge. Would be great just to enjoy the lack of hate.
Revenge is for suckers. Ask the Middle East...and at some point in history, ask every other human settlement in the world. "Revenge" is a feeling, not a strategy for "better".
That is not to say we do not work hard to return to a vibrant imperfect striving nation trying to do the right thing for all of the people most of time and never reaching "done".
“Minds that seek revenge destroy States, while those that seek reconciliation build nations” - Nelson Mandela.
Yep, now get that message to Trump.
I agree so what compelled you to make your comment?
William ....I can't quite tell who is answering whom for what in this thread...but I received this from you as an email. Were you addressing it to me? And...is it referencing my "revenge" comment...or? TY Sallie
Revenge is the poison you drink hoping the other person will die. I don't remember where I first read that, I wish I did.
I really like that clever way of looking at it. I do not disagree at all with the sentiment for us as individuals. My thought was to turn the tables and to send the message to Trump, et al, that revenge is a two-way street and that his malice and serious destructiveness is sure to provoke great hostility and a backlash. They are not alone in wishing for revenge. What we have been denied so far is justice, and justice does involve a measure of revenge. The bastards are intentionally inflicting great pain and injury, and the people generally will hopefully extract a degree of justice, aka revenge, in large enough numbers by fighting back and rejecting their abuses and corruption. If you are not fuming and enraged, you have your head in the sand.
Agreed. Yes, justice in this case especially will require away
Silly thing just kept going away…Justice in this case will require a bit of revenge.
Why am I getting all of these responses mentioning revenge? Ya'll should send them to Trump.
The way it looks from here. Trump will have his revenge,and we have no choice, it seems, but sit here and wait for the hammer to fall.
And he is having a good run so far, civil servants are being fired and resigning in droves, and he is only in his 4th week.
He and Pam Bondi/Kash Patel haven't even started on his declared enemies.
But surely, by killing the Dept of Education, they will be killing public education, and that will solve the problem of children being brainwashed or miseducated won't it?
What can be wrong with he father being responsible for educating his sons, like they did in the good ole days?
Are you being facetious?
Fathers are not the icons you might imagine...even if you can find them in the home with their children. Public education gives all kids a chance...and there are many (most) families who need the help and structure in this complicated world. There were no "good ole days" except in the exceptions. Think Dickens.
Of course I am being facetiious. I was talking to Robert. Robert has a brief against public education, he and I have argued very strongly. He has no remedy, just a bitch.
I am a genetic genealogist and told the story of my own family historyf, when up until the 19th Century, it was the responsibility of the father to tutor his children, boys mostly, girls they deemed didn't need education all they needed was to be taught how to have babies, take care of them, and take care of the house for the hubbie.
My 5th great grandfather died before he could tutor all but his eldest son, and thus his sons, including my 4th great granfather was illiterate, and because he couldn't read or write, he couldn't engage in commerce or contracts, He had to rely on the faith in others and signed everything with an X. His son was illiterate, his grandson, his great grandson, the first in my family to have education was my grandfather, but only to the 8th grade, my father graduated HS and had some college, I have a Masters degree, my son and his daughter are PhD's (she is a research scientist)
In those days, when the father died, the children were considered orphans, and there were orphans courts to deal with them. A mother had to prove that he had the ability to tutor her own children, if she was to keep custody of them, otherwise they were "rented" out to guardians, who used them as free labor.
Here is an example: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/union/court/farrar-j.txt
Would have been better if you had let us know this at the beginning.
Glad to know facetiousness was afoot....it is hard to suss out full sense of these posts....we don't know each other ...we only see the post in front of us standing naked and alone, free of its author's full context.
Yeh I am a long time poster here, So if you had been reading my posts you would have known it was facestious.
In all sincerity, what brainwashing are you talking about? Science, math, history, home economics, art, music, sports? You might as well call 'murkan society the brainwashing. And what wo uld you replace it with? Religious dogma? Just ignorance?
My dad was a conservative republican. He was poor, white, worked very hard and long, fought in WW2, had a high school education. He was president or secretary of the local school board for 20 years. He believed in education. He believed in the Constitution. He did not want to educate me about school, he led the school that did that, but did not dictate curriculum. My dad taught me many things, personal things, skilled things, logic, reason, critical thinking, so that I could excel in school and life. What you have just said is, IMO, ridiculous, anti-social, and fascistic.
Mick I have no idea what you are talking about.
FYI, My fathers family were poor white southerners, great great grandfather and his son were hog farmers. My mothers family poor white notherners who suffered the depression, and left the family traumatized.
I was raised a conservative and voted for Nixon in 1960, an Goldwater in 1968, but voted for Hillary and Biden.
A piece of advice don't take things personally, don't personalize the impersonal.
As regards brainwashing, that is how we are raised,family friends, authorities like teachers.
We are not born with out ideas and beliefs fully formed. We either acquire them by being told them by authority or we aquire them by fully thinking them through
My comment was meant for the guy who forgot to mention that his post was facetious. It sounded serious, so I called him on it. These threads kind of weave all over the place and it is hard to know where they end up sometimes.
Please include Connecticut. We are ready to leave the good old USA. Let's leave the red states to fend for themselves and see how that works out for them. I'm done.
This would be a dream come true! Can you do a piece on the reality of this....could it be done?How would that come about? How could we protect ourselves from the US? How long would it take? I'm thinking of moving to Portugal or Bali if the SAVE voting act passes. At what point do you leave?
Our family lives in Washington and we have fantasized about joining Canada or creating Cascadia eversince MAGA hit American political scene. I so wish the offer to join Canada was not so tongue in cheek.
Do you live in Western Washington or Eastern Washington. Western Washington is as red as Texas.I don't think that Canada wants the denizens of Ellensburg, Yakima, Grants Pass, Moses Lake, Euphrata.
You are confused. Western WA is blue, Eastern WA is red. Grants Pass is in OR, not WA. Please try to get basic facts correct.
You are correct, Brainfart. I live in Western Washington. And my county is blue
I was wearing a Kamala shirt and got smiles everywhere, not a dirty look.
During COVID some assholes tried to stir up shit about not wearing masks, they were 86 from the market and escorted out by the police, A handful tried to raise hell on a street corner, but were pelted with veggies.
They were made so unwelcome that they left the community
Lighten up, dude.
That's fine. We can be selective. No reason in this modern and interconnected world that a country must be contiguous.
Spokane is the ruby red hub of Eastern WA. ,William. And it's Ephrata, and I think a biblical placename. And the chief indoctrinators of children are religious elementary schools. Ask any recovering catholic.
I thought Spokane would be more liberal considering that it is a big city. Guess not.
Thanks for the correction on the spelling of Ephrata, I should know better, been through it many times, Moses Lake especially, but that was over 50 years ago.
Spokane is a blue dot in a sea of red, along with Pullman and Walla Walla. Plus, I bet a lot of (rational) conservatives would be happy with a Canadian governance system.
Thanks for the input. Being trite, rational conservative sounds like an oxymoron
A conservative is by definition opposed to change, yet change is the way of nature it is inevitable, so standing in the way of change is as irrational as standing the way of a flash flood and trying to stop it by holding out your hand.
Oregon is kinds like that in many places.
I think I've read that 13 counties want to join Idaho.
Except for the I-5 Corridor I assume Oregon is ruby red.
The less exposure a population has to minorities (and not just racial minorities but thought that is no conservative, racist, religious, the more extreme right wing they are.
Oregon is 85.6% white
of the 15% non white only 2.4% are black
Idaho is more racist than whites in Alabama.
absolutely! I'm in Oregon and am ready to become Canadian.
Can Colorado join too?
Maybe Wisconsin and Illinois?
I live in Michigan. Can Michigan go, too? Where do I sign the referendum?
It is clear from the information you provide that fraud and abuse are not the DOGE target. It is clearly retribution against enemies and dismantling oversight capability to make on-ramps for oligarch exploitations. Trump anticipates kickbacks from Elon on Federal contracts. I believe Musk has tainted every bid he is pursuing. That impacts every single Federal BID that Musk currently has in progress, and also every potential future bid. At issue is non-public insider information. You cannot bid if you hold insider information, or if the appearance is the same.
Every bidder competing against Musk has recourse outside of the bid-letting agency. Jeff Bezos is being handed this smoking gun. When a bidder suspects there will be an unfair bias in the agency, they can bypass GAO and file in federal court to disqualify Musk, a Musk company, or a Musk team (subcontract or joint venture).
Here is the kicker. Federal court judges will decide on the insider information issue, not the Executive Branch employees. Thus undue influence and strong arming from the Trump administration will be useless.
What I foresee is no more Federal contracts for Musk. He has screwed the pooch. I don’t even see how he can be awarded a sole source extension to an existing contract. I see $ for lawyers. Jeff Bezos has a strong protest play here.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/musk-stains-future-federal-contract
Do you understand that the Federal courts have zero enforcement power? The coup is complete and we just don't want to admit that to ourselves. Once we accept reality we can then consider real and effective actions to take. For instance a mass canceling of Amazon Prime memberships or all of us taking on true compassion rather than just talking about it by going vegan.
Courts can order appearances. They can impose daily fines for non compliance. The adjunct to your path seems to be give up. There is no coup, only attempts to that end. The court have their authority and they are not yet being ignored. Some 80 lawsuits are filed.
Coercive contempt...double each fine for each subsequent violation... .
to infinity.
Cancel your Prime account, Facebook, X, Tik Tok, all of it. It's only serving the powerful savages that have been in charge for years. Let's admit that now the true state of Democracy has come to light. Let's imagine a better World. Let's start living it, in spite of those James Bond villains in charge.
Cool your jets on the compassion thing. I have been basically vegan for 51 years. I did it for compassion reasons, not diet. The topic was the actions, by courts or competing private parties, to dis-empower Muck. The coup is ongoing. How would it ever be complete until all of us are under the siege of militias or posse comitatus. Many of us saw this comping years ago, so we are not in fantasyland. And if you cancel a Prime (I do not have an account) by the millions, then many thousands of workers will be laid off and certain important supplies might not arrive. I like the scenario of CEO psychopaths eating each other in court, in the market, on the razzle dazzle pages.
Does Bezos have the guts to go against Musk/Trump? I doubt it. He owns Washington Post and they weren't allowed to endorse Harris for POTUS. He's gutless.
I think it's time for that counter coup I was asking you about. Our military needs to take over the current administration and return everything back to where it was BEFORE the takeover. The military leader in charge can launch another presidential election that is held, free of the electoral college so that the popular vote is the determining factor. A drastic situation calls for a drastic solution.
Its my fantasy too but it won't work. The military is infiltrated with hate as well.
Is it that bad? I was hoping that most take their sworn oath to the Constitution serously.
We need Republicans to object -- pressure the Senate Republicans who voted for the Ukraine package https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4464791-here-are-the-senate-republicans-who-voted-for-the-ukraine-package/
Here are all 22 Senate Republicans who voted in support of the spending bill:
Sen. John Boozman (Ark.)
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.)
Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.)
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Sen. John Cornyn (Texas)
Sen. Kevin Cramer (N.D.)
Sen. Mike Crapo (Idaho)
Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa)
Sen. John Hoeven (N.D.)
Sen. John Kennedy (La.)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
Sen. Jerry Moran (Kan.)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Sen. James Risch (Idaho)
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah)
Sen. Mike Rounds (S.D.)
Sen. Dan Sullivan (Alaska)
Sen. John Thune (S.D.)
Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.)
Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.)
Sen. Todd Young (Ind.)
From Meidas....… Republican Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker isn’t thrilled with Pete Hegseth’s job performance so far: “He wasn’t my choice for the job. He made a rookie mistake in Brussels and he’s walked back some of what he said but not that line. I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool."
… Wicker said he also disagreed with Trump’s comments that NATO provoked Russia to invade by considering Ukraine for NATO membership: ““There are good guys and bad guys in this war, and the Russians are the bad guys. They invaded, contrary to almost every international law, and they should be defeated. And Ukraine is entitled to the promises that the world made to it.”
… Trump was asked again today who he blamed for the war, Ukraine or Russia: “There are a lot of people to blame.”
… Trump was asked about Wicker’s comments about Hegseth: “I haven’t heard that. I mean, Roger is a very good friend of mine, and Pete is doing a great job. So, I’ll speak to Roger. I’ll speak to Pete. I’ll find out.”
So, if Hegseth wasn't Wicker's "choice for the job", why did he vote to confirm him?? Just another feckless Republican Senator, too spineless to do the right thing for the country!
There is no way these people are going to change their votes at this point in time; they are so far gone into the cult. My opinion is that we need a drastic show of force to take our country back from the abyss we are witnessing daily. I want our military to take over and conduct an election for President free of the electoral college so that we can finally have a President who represents the majority of America.
Never up, never in.....
I am a veteran... never will happen. We don't need a bloodbath. Do surgery with a scapel, not a sledgehammer.
This Washingtonian would take that deal in a hot minute. It’s tax season (always happy to pay my fair share for public health, safe food, consumer protection, national parks, clean air…) and I’m sick to my stomach.
Countries are political entities of human invention.... and when their politics are sullied and polluted, when thugs and thieves take the helm, there is no disloyalty in wishing and wanting different and better.
I would be honored to be a Canadian as they now stand in the political world. If only!!
Warfare note: We'd need to bring our intact proportional piece of the military with us because the kakistocracy now installed in the USA will surely launch all hell to keep its sources of graft and confiscation intact....heck, they are even threatening to absorb/incorporate Canada! We'd be in for a nasty bloody Armageddon. The Canadians - and the Americans - surely don't want or deserve that. We and they are betrayed by this coup.... staged by the worst people for the worst reasons.
I would be delighted to be a part of Canada
Will they consider taking PA, too? We’re not all idiots here. If not, it may be time for me to move.
Laura you are going to have to move. If Canada took Pa and NY it would be committing suicide.
Outside of the big apple, NY is Alabama
Pennyslvania is called Pennysltucky for a reason.
Between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia lies Kentucky.
There are people in Maryland who vociferously talk about moving to low tax Florida or Delaware. It may not be so hard to offer them "buyouts" and incentives to move to where the hate can flourish.