With Friends Like This.....

canuck_pa

Admired Member
Joined
Jan 28, 2007
Posts
2,459
Media
0
Likes
794
Points
333
Location
Beautiful Vancouver Canada
Sexuality
100% Gay, 0% Straight
Gender
Male
Canada and the United States share the longest unprotected border in the world. We have a free trade agreement. Trade is about $2Billion a day. Canada buys more from the US than the US buys from Canada. We are allies during war. The Defence Early Warning System (DEW Line) is in northern Canada. Eastern Canada supplies the electricity to much of the American east coast. When the border is open, hundreds of thousands of people cross every day. Many Canadians and Americans have family in the other country. We are the biggest tourist group to each other's country. Many American companies have offices in Canada and visa versa. Many people cross the border for work everyday. Our first responders helped fight the fires in California and the hurricane in New Orleans. More than 200 health care workers live in Windsor, Ontario and work at hospitals in Detroit.

Along comes Covid19 and President Trump tells 3M to stop shipping the most effective masks to Canada as well as every other country. Because Trump and his pals ignored the inevitable and didn't, Canadians will suffer. Because of Trump arrogance and stupidity, Canadians could die.

Thank you President Trump for being such a good and loyal friend.
 
Joined
Apr 16, 2006
Posts
23,294
Media
0
Likes
11,402
Points
358
Canada and the United States share the longest unprotected border in the world. We have a free trade agreement. Trade is about $2Billion a day. Canada buys more from the US than the US buys from Canada. We are allies during war. The Defence Early Warning System (DEW Line) is in northern Canada. Eastern Canada supplies the electricity to much of the American east coast. When the border is open, hundreds of thousands of people cross every day. Many Canadians and Americans have family in the other country. We are the biggest tourist group to each other's country. Many American companies have offices in Canada and visa versa. Many people cross the border for work everyday. Our first responders helped fight the fires in California and the hurricane in New Orleans. More than 200 health care workers live in Windsor, Ontario and work at hospitals in Detroit.

Along comes Covid19 and President Trump tells 3M to stop shipping the most effective masks to Canada as well as every other country. Because Trump and his pals ignored the inevitable and didn't, Canadians will suffer. Because of Trump arrogance and stupidity, Canadians could die.

Thank you President Trump for being such a good and loyal friend.
Please accept the apologies of our nation for the assholery of our largest asshole. May the karma he deserves be returned tenfold. My hope is that this gets reversed for our Canadian friends.

TrumpZone-e1524512699188.jpg
 

b.c.

Worshipped Member
Verified
Gold
Joined
Nov 7, 2005
Posts
20,540
Media
0
Likes
21,779
Points
468
Location
at home
Verification
View
Gender
Male
Canada and the United States share the longest unprotected border in the world. We have a free trade agreement. Trade is about $2Billion a day. Canada buys more from the US than the US buys from Canada. We are allies during war. The Defence Early Warning System (DEW Line) is in northern Canada. Eastern Canada supplies the electricity to much of the American east coast. When the border is open, hundreds of thousands of people cross every day. Many Canadians and Americans have family in the other country. We are the biggest tourist group to each other's country. Many American companies have offices in Canada and visa versa. Many people cross the border for work everyday. Our first responders helped fight the fires in California and the hurricane in New Orleans. More than 200 health care workers live in Windsor, Ontario and work at hospitals in Detroit.

Along comes Covid19 and President Trump tells 3M to stop shipping the most effective masks to Canada as well as every other country. Because Trump and his pals ignored the inevitable and didn't, Canadians will suffer. Because of Trump arrogance and stupidity, Canadians could die.

Thank you President Trump for being such a good and loyal friend.

I like your post Canuck.

Yes, a team of Canadians with Catholic Charities cleared out and gutted a family property here in N.O after Katrina, and I'll never forget their efforts and kindness. My own was cleared and gutted by Mexican immigrants. Mexican immigrants also did our roof, hung and painted our drywall, and yes, we had local contractors as well, whoever one could find. Because sometimes it TAKES A VILLAGE.

 

canuck_pa

Admired Member
Joined
Jan 28, 2007
Posts
2,459
Media
0
Likes
794
Points
333
Location
Beautiful Vancouver Canada
Sexuality
100% Gay, 0% Straight
Gender
Male
A plane with 5 passengers on board -- Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, the Pope and a 10-year-old schoolgirl -- is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes. Trump says "I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and I'm needed to solve the pandemic!" He takes one parachute and jumps. Johnson says ‘I’m needed to sort out the COVID-19 mess in Britain’. He takes one and jumps. The Pope says, "The world's Catholics depend on me for comfort in a time of fear." He takes one and jumps. "You can have the last parachute," Merkel says to the 10-year-old. "I've lived my life. Yours is only just starting." The little girl replies: "Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA just took my school bag."
 

Perados

Superior Member
Joined
Dec 7, 2007
Posts
11,002
Media
9
Likes
2,505
Points
333
Location
Germany
Sexuality
100% Gay, 0% Straight
Gender
Male
Canada and the United States share the longest unprotected border in the world. We have a free trade agreement. Trade is about $2Billion a day. Canada buys more from the US than the US buys from Canada. We are allies during war. The Defence Early Warning System (DEW Line) is in northern Canada. Eastern Canada supplies the electricity to much of the American east coast. When the border is open, hundreds of thousands of people cross every day. Many Canadians and Americans have family in the other country. We are the biggest tourist group to each other's country. Many American companies have offices in Canada and visa versa. Many people cross the border for work everyday. Our first responders helped fight the fires in California and the hurricane in New Orleans. More than 200 health care workers live in Windsor, Ontario and work at hospitals in Detroit.

Along comes Covid19 and President Trump tells 3M to stop shipping the most effective masks to Canada as well as every other country. Because Trump and his pals ignored the inevitable and didn't, Canadians will suffer. Because of Trump arrogance and stupidity, Canadians could die.

Thank you President Trump for being such a good and loyal friend.
That's "America first"

On Thursday 3 french regions reported, that the USA redirected ships with masks. These regions bought masks in China and as soon as they left the port, the USA thought it would be a good idea if these masks never reach France.

On Friday the country of Berlin reported the same...

Let's celebrate the transatlantic friendship!


------


But I have to ad, that Germany nearly made a similar bad move. As we noticed that we will run out of masks our government decided to stop every export of masks - not thinking about the situation of our neighbours. But they were very fast in telling us our mistake and we changed it back.

Now we just have to learn to work together in a crisis and stop caring about us alone.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Squirrel1
Joined
Apr 16, 2006
Posts
23,294
Media
0
Likes
11,402
Points
358

dreamer20

Worshipped Member
Gold
Platinum Gold
Joined
Apr 14, 2006
Posts
7,963
Media
3
Likes
19,622
Points
643
Gender
Male
Along comes Covid19 and President Trump tells 3M to stop shipping the most effective masks to Canada as well as every other country. Because Trump and his pals ignored the inevitable and didn't, Canadians will suffer. Because of Trump arrogance and stupidity, Canadians could die.
Thank you President Trump for being such a good and loyal friend.

Yes canuck_pa. The Bahamas imports more than 3 billion dollars worth of US exports per annum and its denizens love going abroad to the USA for shopping sprees. Yet that scoundrel Trump has been blocking our medical supply shipments that have to pass through the USA and shipments that were ordered from US vendors:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article241922071.html

Article Excerpt:
In the past week, three Caribbean nations —the Bahamas, Cayman Islands and Barbados —have all had container loads of personal protective equipment purchased from U.S. vendors blocked from entering their territories by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“We are talking about personal protective equipment; we’re talking about durable medical devices and gloves, gowns, ventilators as well,” Bahamas Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands told the Miami Herald.
On April 7, 2020 U.S. Customs and Border Protection informed a shipping company that its Nassau-bound shipment of medical supplies could not be offloaded in the Bahamas and the containers had to be returned to Miami “for inspection.” But even before that, Sands said the Bahamian government had already been fielding multiple “complaints from freight forwarders and shipping companies that they were having challenges clearing certain items.”

The blockade experienced by Caribbean nations followed President Donald Trump’s April 3 signing of the little-known Defense Production Act. While the order gave the federal government more control over the procurement of coronavirus-related supplies, it also allowed the administration to ban certain exports. Trump invoked the act following a Twitter attack against U.S. manufacturer 3M over the export of its highly sought N95 respiratory face masks.

In a release, the Minnesota-based company said the Trump administration wanted it to cease exports of the masks to Latin America and Caribbean nations. Pushing back on the request, 3M said such a move carried “humanitarian consequences.”...