The Maple Leaf Lounge

[Owain Taggart]

If he does, he'll be pulled back to Washington and replaced with someone else who will stay on ideological target.

The irony behind that is that unless they start to understand us, they'll never learn why we get upset and why we've pushed back so much. I would think part of an Ambassador's job would be to learn from a culture to best represent issues and concerns back home. Being condescending towards a country that you're posted in certainly isn't the best way to endear themselves.

The best way towards repairing the damage is to recognize the wrongdoing, then keep an open mind and don't immediately offer up excuses.

 

[Avro Arrow]

The irony behind that is that unless they start to understand us, they'll never learn why we get upset and why we've pushed back so much.

I think it’s a mistake to even think they care about that.

The best way towards repairing the damage is to recognize the wrongdoing, then keep an open mind and don't immediately offer up excuses.

There is no evidence the current US administration is interested in any way in “repairing the damage”. We have to stop thinking in terms of a normal US government.

 

[Timewalker]

Someone on FB mentioned this morning about flying flags upside-down as a way of communicating distress, protest, etc.

Some people in Alberta are planning "No Queens" protests - because of how Danielle Smith is setting herself up as some kind of future ruler of Alberta, either as an independent country or as governor of Alberta as the 51st state.

Neither is workable given the constitutional hassle, but you can't tell her cult anything. They believe what they believe and take it as a law of the universe.

Next time I run across one of those protest posts, I'm going to suggest flying the Alberta flag upside down. Given the hell that sociopathic woman and her thugs are putting us through, it's legit.

I wish Carney would STFU about Canada being "united." As long as the Traitor of Alberta and her lapdog, the premier of Saskatchewan, are pushing this separatist agenda, this country is not united.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I think it’s a mistake to even think they care about that.



There is no evidence the current US administration is interested in any way in “repairing the damage”. We have to stop thinking in terms of a normal US government.

Right, I know. I'm just expressing disappointment that they keep digging their own hole.