The health secretary has gutted core agencies that safeguard the US’s well-being. The fallout won’t stop at the border
Maybe CBSA can start demanding proof of vaccination at the border?
It’s kind of amazing that we don’t already.
Given that they are now a full blown nazi hellhole, the border is going to get closed at some point. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
So, when are we building the wall?
We’ll make murica pay for it too!
Didn’t South Park do an episode about this?
Been awhile since I saw that one but I do chuckle when I remember that bit, ‘whats back there?..don’t worry about it buddy’. Paraphrased cause it’s been so long.
I remember thinking about when South Park was as old as Simpsons was when they made the joke of Simpsons did it, now South Park has really done it all too.
They’re bringing measles, they’re bringing pox, and some I assume are vaccinated.
“Trump’s attacks on Canada are a wake-up call: we need to move quickly to rebuild our once-world-leading capacity to develop and produce drugs and enhance our economy’s ability to meet Canadians’ basic needs without dependence on erratic foreign authoritarians,” said Stanford.
Got into an argument with a few of my coworkers at stand-up when they said being a 51st state isn’t that bad and “why fight? we’re just going to lose”
I said, health care, environment, tax breaks, corruption. If you think it’s bad now, it’s going to be worse. They were like, “you spend 40% on taxes and you see none of it. You are not incentivised to work in this country.” I went into effective tax rate vs the tax rate at the bracket and we went back and forth for a while. It made me say, “why the F are you here? go emigrate to the states”
Seriously, every time I hear arguments similar to your coworkers, I say the same damn thing, “WTF are you doing here?”
I’ve also heard things like, “Canadians are just not competitive, too laid back, and/or lazy,” and it makes me roll my eyes, like they don’t understand the culture here and just think the US is more “healthily” competitive, people are somehow “more motivated” to work, etc.
“Like seriously, WTF are you still here?”
I grew up in another part of the world and I know what “not competitive” looks like; people literally do not want to care about competition, and their only response when actual competition comes around (inevitably when there’s a similar business in town) would be to lower prices and hammer them ads when a better player comes around. They’re so lazy that they would set up a business, treat their employees badly, have literally no proper vision and path for their business, and expect their business to auto-pilot to success, and for some, their businesses will somehow survive. Workers are also lazy; pushing responsibilities around is basically the national work culture, and those with any sense of responsibility ends up getting burdened by all the work people push around. You can certainly survive and actually thrive here if you know how to protect your time and energy, and continually skill-up (most people don’t do that), but work will feel like a slog a lot of the times just cause of all the above reasons.
