One of my girls is 5, and literally just did this.

I keep a close eye on their media cesspool for one simple reason, you have to know your fucking enemy. It’s sickening to watch, but you need to know what lies the bastards are telling themselves.

That’s why I refuse to give them an inch of wiggle room.

The whole "it’s just the weak Canadian dollar" narrative is pure, cowardly cope. It’s an easy out for corporate bootlickers like Derek Stevens and every other MAGA-cheering sycophant who wants to suck off Trump with "USA USA" chants, threaten Canada's sovereignty like we’re a target for annexation, and then act completely mystified when we stop handing them our cash.

They want to pretend it’s about simple math because admitting reality means facing the fact that their vile, unhinged fascist circus made them a fucking pariah. Throwing out "CAD at par" coupons won't wash the stench off. They chose to vote for a braindead, corrupt bully, they cheered on the hostility against us, and now they want to cry about currency rates when the consequences kick in?

Fuck that. They made their bed, and they can choke on their empty hotel rooms and hemorrhaging tourism numbers until the point finally punches through their thick skulls.

I agree with you on the uncharitable read and the purity checks.

I don't agree about the exchange rate being a throwaway though. The reason is the number of idiot talking heads going on US news and telling Americans that the reason we are not visiting is the exchange rate. So many of them are desperately clinging to it as the reason, because it absolves them of the responsibility for voting for a pudding brained numptyfuck. It's why you see offers of discounts or Canadian money at par in a desperate attempt to draw Canadians.

They need to understand the consequences of their actions. I'll give you a specific example. Derek Stevens, CEO of several Las Vegas casinos was crowing about how he knows the exchange rate is why Canadians are not going there, so he offered CAD at par with USD. You don't have to look hard to find videos of Derek Stevens saying how great Trump is and chanting with Trump in one of his casinos, "USA USA". We can't let him let himself off the hook for his support of an imbecile with the economic understanding of a turnip.

That would be true if it stopped Canadians from traveling. It has not.

Canadians are traveling less to the US.

It's gaudy, fake, ugly, unsustainable and stupid.

And those are it's best features...

Also CAD is 66 cents currently.

This is irrelevant. Historically, Canadians would go to the US even with this exchange rate. This is not a major driving issue. Yes, there would be lower cross border traffic because of exchange rate, but not like this.

To call attention to the exchange rate as an issue, gives them coverage that the problem is the exchange rate, not their extremely fucking awful attitudes/policies/abuses and evils.

Those people are already lost. There are a lot who just don't see what their country really is. If you don't force them to see it, they never will admit to it. American civilians need to see the atrocities, so maybe they will actually do something instead of just throwing their hands up and saying, "Well I didn't vote for him"

Every American needs to watch to drive home the horror about what their country has become. Every one of them should be forced to watch. Because turning away from the spectacle is turning away from the horror. No American should be allowed to bury their fucking head in the sand and pretend like it's not as bad as it is.

NO.

Every single Trump supporter needs to watch this. Every fucking fence-sitter needs to watch this. Every apologist needs to watch this. Every person who thinks Trump is the only problem and things will go back to normal after he's gone needs to watch this. Everyone who still denies the US is an authoritarian empire needs to watch this.

They need to watch it to drive home that the imaginary version of America in their heads DOES NOT FUCKING EXIST. The US is an authoritarian corporatocracy where the dollar is god and the rich take pleasure in the misery and pain of everyone else. Every single fucking American needs to know they are part of the evil empire. Every single American needs to know that the rest of the world sees them as the bad guys, and this is why they need to watch it.

Edit: The downvoters really just don't get it. Americans like to pretend that they are the greatest country in the world. They tell themselves that lie constantly. I worked there for years and I had to leave to escape the toxicity. If no one holds a mirror up to their evil depravity, they will never see themselves for what they are. A bloated, evil corrupt empire. There is a reson the people who lived near Auschwitz (and other towns) were forced marched through the camps after the war ended, so they could see the sheer evils they pretended like they didn't know about.

Fuck that. Make the Americans see the evil perpetuated in their names.

Mine has zero information. I am not unhappy about this.

Nobody in this thread brought up "Adolf" except you, one comment ago.

Imagine trying to smugly lecture someone on history only to get completely clowned by your own post history two inches above your reply.

Arguing with your own hallucinations must be exhausting.

That is just not true... 😆

It's 6,7 and 8

And a teeny bit 4 and 10