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Caryn 💙🌻🖖 🐶🐱Feb 23

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

This is for Americans who don’t agree with how Trump is threatening Canada.

Thank you.

Any ire that you see me (or, I believe, any Canadian) post here is not directed at you. I know there are millions of you. I know you are trying. I know some of you feel hopeless and maybe even despondent, but know this.

Canada loves YOU. We always will.

Yes we are very angry at your leader and the people around him, and even at your country, because the President, is the Country, in a sense, but we know there are good Americans who never wanted any of this.

We know you will stand up for us. And if you need us, we will stand with you too. Because that’s what friends do.

❤️ 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❤️

Coach Pāṇini ®Feb 23

@chris
This is how it feels, fwiw

Marguerite Efdé Feb 23

@chris a truly nice approach of the situation. I agree. I am very angry about Trumps' actions but yes, there must be many Americans who do not support his crazy actions. Those are the people that will have to stand up. Not only for their friends and neighbours but for the world.

Together we are stronger than Trump and his club of morons.

Best regards from The Netherlands

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@Marguerite thank you Marguerite.

Marguerite Efdé Feb 23

@chris Thank you for reminding me who can make the difference.

Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!Feb 23

@chris
Thank you. It's on us to clean up this mess. I'm going to another protest today. Our resistance is badly undercovered in the pro-fascism corporate press, but it is building. I take no offense at your anger- I 100% share it- and your solidarity is helping those of us who are fighting.

The worst thing any other country could do is try to play nice with this regime. That would be devastating for us and the world.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@MaryAustinBooks thank you Mary! Please tell your friends at the protest how much Canadians like me wish you success in your resistance!! ❤️

Jean-Francois Mezei Feb 23

@MaryAustinBooks @chris Since 2016, the USA has shown it doesn't know how to counter the Charlattan. The guy sent millions to their death because he refsed to acknowledge COVID was serious, mounted insurection.

Protests won't do anything, Appearing on MSNBC wont do anything. The only way to oust him is for real people to appear on Fox News to give the truth, or even better for someone to buy Fox News from Murdoch and turn into a bona fide news agency that tells the truth.

JeffreySmith 🌻🍉🇨🇦Feb 23

It feels strange as an American to be rooting for the Canadian hockey team when they play against the American hockey team with the MAGA contingent. 🇨🇦

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@JeffreySmith it feels strange as a Canadian hearing about an American rooting for the Canadian hockey team when they play against the American hockey team! 😝

Auntie Mame Feb 23

@chris @JeffreySmith I stood and applauded Team 🇨🇦 the other night. ~An American

Auntie Mame Feb 23

@chris @JeffreySmith The political BS from 47 has also reinvigorated my love of hockey. 🇨🇦

@chris What you say here is very good, but 47 is in no way, shape, or form our "leader." 47 is a plundering thief and nothing else. He has ruined everything he ever touched and is staying true to form now.

Tom DB 🦣Feb 23

@flyhigh @chris And congress is letting him get away with it. Very dissapointing.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@flyhigh understood!

Jean-Francois Mezei Feb 23

@flyhigh @chris Sorry. But the Charlattan has been duly elected leader of the United States and from the point of view of the rest of the world, he legally represents the will of the American people. When he pulls out of UN bodies or Paris accord, it represents an action of the whole country. He controls US participation in NATO. When he takes humans and sends indefinitely then to a concentration camp at Gantanamo without due process, he does that on behalf of all Americans.

Jean-Francois Mezei Feb 23

@flyhigh @chris Democracy requires educated voters. MAGA cult were braninwashed to remove the "educated" portion of their brain and they beleive all of the Charlattan's lies and promises. Countries were formed and codified in their constitution with the assumption that the people would vote intelligently and not tolerate such a charlattan ever running. And the Charlattan skilfully got control of the Supreme Court, and House and Senate and so many judges inside the USA becoming dictator.

@chris Most of us (here) are at least as angry at them as you are

altruios phasma Feb 23

@chris fuck Nazis! Fuck imperialism! Fuck capitalism! And fuck the heritage foundation!

waysideollie Feb 23

@chris thank you. Could you adopt #Connecticut and our northern neighbors?

@chris Thank you for standing by us. We are fighting Trump et al as much as we can. I don't mind what any Canadian says about the US, as long as it pisses off Trump!

@chris Appreciate this. Blanket hate serves no purpose. We’re all on this rock together.

@chris It's just horrid. I never vote for Republicans. Canadians are some of the nicest people in the world. I appreciate this message. 🩷🩷
My government is totally insane because too many Americans are stupid, apathetic and illiterate.
What a mess.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@arbres ❤️

Shane Celis Feb 23

@chris We support you not being cowed by the bully in office. Glad to see you fight back.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@shanecelis 👊

@chris This American has been to Canada several times and knows how wonderful Canadians and Canada are! I'm ashamed of Trump, Musk, their goons, and everything they have done to Canada. There are many here that share my opinion. 🍁

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@tzudad ❤️

@chris Seattle and Vancouver are more connected than Seattle and DC in most ways. This madness is terrible

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

Nochem ben Shlomo Feb 23

@cykonot @chris

But we do not have extensive organizational ties to support each other in crises. For instance, if we in the US need immediate international support for a particular attack on us, we would essentially be starting from scratch. There are a few unions that have cross -border ties, but otherwise there is a lack of direct organizational connections across the border.

Nochem ben Shlomo Feb 23

@cykonot @chris

In nearly 40 years, I can recall one joint political event at the Peace Arch, a 2001 or 2002 concert to memorialize Paul Robeson's concert there in the 50s when he was denied a passport. We need more joint actions at the border

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@Nochem @cykonot I think that the labour movement will be a key point of cooperation.

David 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️NB they/them Feb 23

@chris Don’t worry, for us Americans who are on the right side of this issue we know where you’re ire is directed and we’re pissed too.

blue_thistle37 Feb 23

@chris there are so many of us who are watching what is happening and can't get over the sheer amount of deliberate cruelty, bullying, bridge burning and abhorrent behavior. Those of us who did not vote for him are terrified by all that is happening. WE love Canada !

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@Blue_thistle37 ❤️

enoch_exe_inc Feb 23

@chris This Canadian, on the other hand, does not believe that individual Americans standing up for us will deter their military from invading us.

Common Sparrow Feb 23

@chris I'm a New Yorker who has lovely ties to Canada. Childhood memories there. A sister who lived there as an adult. Love and respect for so much of what is Canadian. What this regime of facists has done to Canada hurts my heart. I feel like I just watched a despicable family member stab a dearly loved friend and neighbor in the back, and the shame falls on my whole family. I can't fault Canadians for wanting noting to do with any of us. Having some Canadians, like you, understand that you have some friends yet here in this awful place brings me to tears at your kindness after being treated so badly. Thank you. Please go on defying Trump. Every setback you inflict on him helps us in our own resistance.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 23

@CommonSparrow ❤️ I just can’t understand what is happening. It’s so crazy. And sad.

Auntie Mame Feb 23

@chris Hands Across American-Canadian Border! 👐🏻👯‍♀️👯👯‍♂️

Steve Lindsay Feb 23

@chris Well said, and thanks for thinking of doing that and then following through.

Branwen OShea (she/her)Feb 23

@chris We understand, we’re just as angry. It sucks to watch our country dismantled more every day. And thanks.

There are so many things that break my heart about modern US politics, but the insults to Canada rank right up there. Keep boycotting us - economic disruption is our best hope. We are boycotting businesses owned by oligarchs ourselves.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 24

@greenorchids 💪

Karen D 🇨🇦Feb 24

@chris
Hear! Hear! seconded 😁

Kat O’Brien Feb 24

@chris thank you for standing up for what is right. We all need to do so!

Rosemary McNaughton Feb 24

@chris thank you! 🥰 as an American who spent 6 years of grad school in Toronto, I love Canada 🇨🇦 deeply and know you will always be friends to the American people but 100% would never entertain thoughts of being annexed by the US. A big part of Canadian identity is necessarily “we’re not the US” and while it hurt sometimes as an American to get the brunt of that in personal situations, I recognize the importance of a strong counter to my behemoth country.

TheJen will not comply Feb 24

@chris Me and my family are moving as close to y'all as possible. We are too old to immigrate there and can't get in, but we plan to do most of our larger ticket shopping in Canada and support your economy while working to help our new community. We are from the southwestern US, but this place is circling the drain fast. Thank you for saying this.

@chris No need to explain Chris. We get it and we're on the same side. Go hard. Don't think twice about hurting our feelings because it doesn't help us down here for Canadians to sound less than fully committed.

You want to say to the worst of us that there will be consequences. We are probably even more exasperated that there are so many of us who don't listen when the exact same message comes from within. A lot of us are applauding and want to say: Don't let up.

There'll be time enough for nuance later and the more effective the response is, the sooner that time will come. Chronic simmering conflicts create more pain and misery than brutally intense ones.

@chris BTW, Canadians, recommend Canadian products or products that disproportionately go to support Canada to us in the US. Even with tariffs, the exchange rate makes a lot of goods not drastically more expensive to us.

Back when we all bought our music on physical media, I would mail order my Tragically Hip and Cowboy Junkies CDs direct from Canadian distributors because it was cheaper that way... so much so that that the first time I did that, I feared that I was going to receive poorly made bootlegs.

@sysop408 @chris Its different this time round. When he was first elected, I assumed they just goofed. I regarded individual Americans on contact as good people unless they turned out to be trumpers. This time the country knew exactly what they were getting and made a clear choice. He is their president. Trump is America. Americans who say they don't support him no longer get a free pass. Those who voted for him or didn't vote, even if they now regret it, and their country, are the enemy.

Greengordon Feb 24

We’re pretty angry at all MAGAs, too. They are ‘ordinary Americans’ who happen to be immoral scum.

"Canada loves YOU. We always will.

"Yes we are very angry at your leader and the people around him, and even at your country, because the President, is the Country, in a sense, but we know there are good Americans who never wanted any of this."

We the People...Mar 9

@chris I'm so sorry we suck so bad. Every day, I wake up hoping this was a nightmare of life in Bizarro World. Or that the orange maggot dropped dead.
#Canada

Bill Sharpe Gadfly Mar 10

@chris Chris, we're those dang ants carrying a load to an ant hill & doing so without clear leadership. All small loads somehow are helping...
Bill

bookworks Harris Walz💙Mar 10

@chris Thank you for saying this. It makes me feel a little better. We expect to travel out of the country twice this year and I’m trying to think of an accessory or something to wear/bring/carry that will proclaim our total dismay at the state of affairs here. And our utter disdain for the idiot and his cabinet and lackeys. Ideas welcome. 😉🙏🏻 #WeHateHimToo

Scrambles Mar 10

@chris ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Bishop Properties LLC.Mar 27

@chris I don't know the new PM seems pretty hell bent on telling the US to get F**ked at this point. Which is fine as far as I am concerned, because we should just keep giving handouts. And sadly now that's what numerous countries think we should be doing even with our massive amount of debt, yet you as an individual wouldn't do that so why should the US?