In a Fox News interview posted to his personal X account on Wednesday, O’Leary appeared to vouch for Canadians, suggesting that citizens are interested in joining forces with its southern neighbours.
“I like this idea and at least half of Canadians are interested,” O’Leary said.
“The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal.”
God, that’s still over one in ten. I feel like before Trump roughly zero Canadians would like to become Americans. This brain rot is spreading and I don’t know how to stop it and I hate it.
That number is appallingly high.
I’m willing to consider that the number has grown recently, but it definitely wasn’t anywhere near zero before. There are a lot of areas, often very conservative, that idolize the States.
For example, in the Bible Belt of Manitoba, I wouldn’t be surprised if close to, if not a majority of residents would support this. There’s a independent streak bordering on libertarian, and many are VERY socially conservative. I didn’t spend all that much time there, but I heard multiple people say how they wish they didn’t have to pay for other people’s healthcare. They’re so close to North Dakota, even doing cross boarder trade and many see the higher mean income (sum of all income divided by number of residents) in the US and ignore the lower median income (50th percentile of income).
Oh this train wreck will accelerate with P.P. in charge. Carbon tax bad is all that matters according to my dad.
It’s really funny talking to my conservative friends who like to say that anyone to the left of them doesn’t understand economics and then they proceed to talk about things like carbon tax in a way that shows they don’t understand economics.
My other favourite hits from those guys:
“They don’t actually have a billion dollars, a lot of it is tied up in assets!” (And now I have to explain why wealth and liquid assets are not relevant to the context of the conversation we are having, and that literally everybody understands this, and why having wealth as assets is usually for tax evasion reasons in the guise of fuelling industry, yada yada)
“You know free healthcare isn’t free! That money has to come from somewhere!” Literally everyone understands how taxes work you brain dead fucking moron. This one actually makes me angry when people say it to me in person. The whole idea is that single payer is actually cheaper because you are cutting out a useless middleman and removing the profit incentive for letting people just fucking die. Nobody thinks that it’s literally magically free.
With these types try “Basically Free at Time of Access” and “Won’t bankrupt you”
The problem is that there is nowhere to go. far right goverments are popping up everywhere.
Our right and Americans are not the same.
At least one in ten people will pick the dumbest answer on any survey just because they think it’s funny.
And there is the other way of people chose the least controversial answer when doing a poll.