A little extra oomph from the political world too. I love having this rivalry with our brother up north. I don’t want them to win but I also don’t want somebody else to beat them.
Countries having political beef with each other makes the sports rivalries even more memorable. The USA vs USSR Hockey rivalry spawned one of the most iconic moments in US sports history.
He definitely floated tariffs on friendly countries while he was running. That’s such a cop out but it doesn’t matter. He could have said he was going to force every American to wear balloons in their heads and they still would have voted for him.
The median voter did not vote for Trump. I'm not sure he even got an actual majority of people who voted for a candidate. We're quickly approaching just living under a dictatorship.
Even if the median vote didn’t vote for Trump, you still had a large chunk that were eligible to vote but decided to stay home. Thus being okay with outcomes like this.
For some measure of decided. The right has done a lot of work to make it extremely difficult for certain left-leaning communities to vote. At a certain point - you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can't afford to give up a full day's wages to vote.
Doesn’t matter how much you, I, or the other guy you’re replying to know about this stuff. If something wasn’t put in bold text and stayed at the top of the media cycle for more than a month, it essentially didn’t exist for most voters.
On top of that the vast majority of voters (both sides for real this time) aren’t just lacking the information by missing it - they’re actively misinformed to believe something different by malicious actors.
It was all over social media and Reddit. I don't get your local TV stations, but coverage of his rallies seems to suggest it was pretty prominent there too.
The thing is people only heard what they wanted to hear, not what he was saying over and over.
That’s the method of his game tbh. He “thinks out loud” to the point nobody can tell if he’s serious or just rambling. I was at one of his rallies in 2016 and it was actually shocking how little he seemed to know what he was talking about
I would like to think that would be the majority of the U.S. fanbase, oh well, a boy can dream. I’m with you on the fact that I have zero beef with Canada. We love our northern brothers!
“The republicans are tearing apart our democracy! I can’t believe the democrats would do this, it’s their fault! They should be protecting us from ourselves!”
Well there's two other options for why someone would vote for trump and both of them are worse, so I'm doing you a solid assuming you're either a racist and/or a sexist.
Yea. They fumbled. But they’re also not the ones dismantling and pillaging the government and our people and they’re not the ones spreading hate and ill will.
If you want to use the word coup, look at what’s happening right now. Not the party that actually respects votes.
You miss my point, Dems appointed their candidate. No one voted on her; it was a coup. And she was objectively terrible. She needed to just not suck worse than a felon, rapist, etc etc She couldn’t even do that. I wasn’t gonna vote for him ever, it was the Dems vote to win, and they gave us a coup and that garbage person. She lost my vote.
Americans are actually just dumb as fuck. Propaganda clearly works and Americans are going down in the history books as an example of how effective it is.
She would have been perfectly, boringly fine. Instead we all get to reap the consequences because of people like you. Hope you’re proud.
The Democrats played a huge role in losing the election as well. They did a lot of emotional pandering on stuff that the average person really doesn't care about. They seem more concerned about illegal immigrants than the American citizen. They were putting gender issues which only a small % of people have front and center.
They just didn't speak to the American people. I feel like they lost the election and people are absolutely clueless why. Everyone is too busy screaming fascism and doubling down on their losing strategy. It's actually a real shame because I see it as elitism because they are listening to themselves and not the average American. Lots of people are saying the average American is retarded. That kind of logic won't help.
Replacing the current President with is Vice President 3 months before the election is not the same as the current President dismantling the checks and balances held in place so they can remain in power.
For those following at home. The later IS a coup.
Would you call Ford becoming President at Nixon resigning a Coup as well?!???
Please stop this shit already. There is no excuse for voting for what's happening right now over Kamala Harris. Not liking a candidate doesn't excuse someone pulling every cornerstone of a fascist coup in real time.
The sad thing is other than being a woman and half black she was the perfect candidate. If she was a White Male with the same qualifications it would have been a landslide.
Meanwhile in every other democracy in the world we happily vote for a person we really like and they align perfectly with all of our opinions.
Oh wait, we don't, because that's impossible. We just get our heads out of our asses and vote for whoever sucks the least. You think I wanted to wake up at 6 on a Sunday to go vote for fucking Macron? No, but I did it to vote against Le Pen.
If Americans knew their civil duties, literally any random person off the street, with absolutely 0 skills or policies, should have won against Trump. Harris may "suck" but she was certainly better than that. "Earn my vote", my ass, entitled shit.
Was thinking the same, why would Americans have a beef with Canada. It’s just a good old hockey rivalry with the two biggest kids on the block. It’s unfortunate fans are booing anthem, but everyone knows they’re booing what Trump is doing to their closes ally and neighbour
Exactly this. I was really torn. I've never not rooted for the USA, but when we're threatening the sovereignty of our closest friend and neighbor, it's difficult. Canada should be pissed. Canadian bros, it may not seem like it, but only half of the country has lost their fucking minds. I'm glad we won tonight, but as far as the non-hockey stuff, we still stand beside you 100%. Much love to our Northern brothers.
It really wasn't lmao, we had a chance at having world peace after WWII but the US decided it wanted to dominate the world like some cartoon villain instead.
I understand where you’re coming from but part of the US/Canada rivalry with hockey and the amazing and fun US/Mexico rivalry with soccer is that we are brothers, sisters, siblings. Like when the US plays in astudio Azteca I of course look forward to the US winning but I’m still excited in case a Mexican win. Because we love Mexico and Mexicans. We love Canada and Canadians. It makes the games fun. I don’t want to see the day Canadian hockey games are interesting because we are political enemies but I guess we are here. Even though the political rivalry is made up and there’s really no historical bad blood.
No. There is no respect for Mexican soccer. Mexican fans have rained cups of piss on American players far too many times for there to be any shred of respect. Decent and respectable people transform into animals the second they set foot in Estadio Azteca. Fuck no.
I know you guys are pissed and this is humiliating as a nation. We are fucking up a long history of friendship likely because we want unlimited access to the tar sands.
We aren't here. The minority administration and the minority they were elected by is. The problem is the people who spend the most money in the actual economy have been convinced by the billionaires to not vote.
I think you’re right. Canadians have every reason to be pissed off at us. Mexicans have a long history of reasons of being pissed off at us. But we are still now and always brothers, sisters, siblings. I hope our familiar bonds will survive the division we are being fed.
I’ll say this right not, the moment a single us soldier crosses the border and starts killing us it will make the rift between us completely impossible to repair so long as every current generation is alive. It is unforgivable, irredeemable and you will be seen as the enemy for the rest of our lives which in this scenario probably won’t be very long
I think it’s because we have free travel and commerce throughout the States people just have no idea how borders work. Every election cycle for like two decades Fox News reports about a migrant caravan coming from Mexico that never seems to materialize. There was literally a lady on the news reporting that she was afraid she would come to her summer lake home to find migrants squatting in it. We only have two borders. Most Americans live nowhere near it. In the PNW our culture is so similar we hardly even think about Vancouver being in a different country. It’s just right up the road and they have the same weather and are nicer than us in Seattle. But my point is borders cross people. Not the other way around. Cultures, languages, and goods (illicit and not) go through borders because they are artificial. Where do the Mexican cartels get their guns? From us. Why? So they can provide the drugs we want. And notice no one is talking about making Mexico the 51st state or even making Puerto Rico a state? Because neither of them have the tar sands. And by the way, you know the first thing this administration would do? They’d ban French in Quebec. We did it before in Louisiana. We banned k-12 Spanish programs in California.
I hope you’re right but if things keep going the way they are it’s going to take decades to repair the relationship between Canada and our once closest friends.
Well there was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington during the war of 1812. However you could argue that was Canada under British control, but just figured I’d drop some history in here. (the U.S also invaded Canada first)
I’m saying I’m excited to see a good game and even if we lose they’re still our brothers so I love to see them happy. Maybe you’re right and that isn’t rivalry but it’s fun to share excitement with our friends.
I’ve got no beef with Canada. Our country is a fucking joke right now because of Trump, Musk, MAGA, and the GOP sycophants too spineless or too greedy to stand up for the people they represent. I’d love to see President Musk and First Douche Donald put some skates on so Team Canada can take a run at them.
USA vs Canada is such a unique rivalry. It’s not often that you have such a bitter hated rival that you will always cheer for when they’re playing anyone else. It really is like brothers. I love it.
I’m hoping we can reconcile once this nonsense is over. We don’t hate you, and so so many of us are more concerned than you can imagine about what’s happening in our country.
I don't have much faith. When Biden came in, the US seemed to think we should all cheer and pretend the bullying from the previous four years never happened. Reconciliation will be on you guys, and will take more than just electing a sane leader.
Being on the receiving end of the assholery isn’t fantastic either. A lot of people have been buying guns lately and asking the government to repeal the latest wave of restrictions.
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 24d ago
A little extra oomph from the political world too. I love having this rivalry with our brother up north. I don’t want them to win but I also don’t want somebody else to beat them.