Usha Vance was reportedly scheduled to attend a dogsled race in the foreign country, sharing in a video statement on Instagram that she was “reading all about it with my children” and was looking “forward to meeting” the island’s residents.

“I’m also coming to celebrate the long history of mutual respect and cooperation between our nations and to express hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years,” the second lady said. “See you soon!”

Has she not noticed that her husband and his boss keep promising to invade these people’s country? Has she not realized that people don’t like being threatened daily with invasion? Does she not know that “hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years” is completely incompatible with threatening every day to destroy the people you’re talking to?

Is this about Americans not realizing that other countries are real places that real people care about, and not just quaint scenery for the taking?

You guys are wearing trousers? I find it slows down the whole process of throwing feces at my enemies.

Once they’ve found they can ignore the courts to just kidnap and disappear anyone they don’t like from immigrant populations, what’s to stop them moving on to US citizens? Fascists aren’t known for their restraint.

Wow. Rising sea levels will improve that place.

They’re unfortunately not nearly elusive enough.

Well that should be possible, especially if your fiancée is Canadian, and even more so when you are married.

There are also all those, in both humanities and sciences, whose projects or departments are denied funding for ideological reasons.

They’ve been going after academics and students first. Standard fascist dictatorship stuff.

When I immigrated to Canada the process was rather arduous, and the categories under which you could immigrate were quite restricted. It depends on your skills, your age, your finances, your family (if any) in Canada, which employment categories Canada is prioritizing, and so on. There’s information here for anyone considering it:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada.html

And a questionnaire to find out whether you’re eligible to apply to immigrate to Canada:

https://onlineservices-servicesenligne.cic.gc.ca/c2c/

Yes, Canada and other countries need to be anticipating large numbers of refugees from the USA. And it’s just one more reason why Canada really needs to sort out its housing situation.

Who would?

I don’t think you can hold it against a prominent academic and critic of fascism that he doesn’t want to stick around and see what the fascists do to the universities, the philosophy departments, professors like him, and their families. And, believe it or not, here in Canada we have good universities that aren’t under threat, and probably just as much access to US news as you do.

Do these people really think that the fascists will, out of gratitude for their support, spare them while persecuting the rest of their community? Or do they think they can change the fascists’ minds? Have they ever checked how that has gone, historically?

Many cloud providers are using Amazon or Google under the hood. They’re effectively resellers. But yes, I need to do more searching for those that have their own infrastructure.

Strategic control of the melting Arctic, half of which is bordered by Russia and the other half by Greenland and Canada, both of which Trump wants to invade. Also a foothold in Greenland would be useful in an assault on Canada, whose resources both Putin and Trump want. Canada would be fully surrounded by the USA and Russia.

What better way to destroy NATO for the Russians?

By a tyrannical government, they meant a government that doesn’t sufficiently abuse everyone but straight white men.

For peaceful protests to succeed they must attract more people to the cause and gather momentum. Protests now would be useful for bringing people together and emboldening people to resist what’s going on. They are a step in building a movement. To say “protests alone don’t change things” misses this point.

She also had her visa revoked so can no longer legally stay in the USA to complete her studies, or enter again. This was because she wrote an op-ed disapproving of Israel’s genocide.

I know. There’s no perfect answer, especially under FPTP. But holding your nose and voting strategically isn’t the worst thing to do just to buy time, prevent the utter destruction of the public institutions, preserve free expression, and slow the rise of the far right. The USA shows us that in hindsight a strategic vote can look more clearly like the thing to do than it did at the time, even when it’s a vote for wishy-washy liberalism. I consider myself further to the left than any mainstream party in Canada, yet I look at the USA and think they would have done a lot better to re-elect the (genocide-supporting) Democrats. It would have been more neoliberal imperialism, but it would have bought time for the people to organize against fascism, and perhaps for the fascists to make mistakes and lose support, that the USA now doesn’t have.

I don’t like to be saying this, but a strategic vote may be more necessary than ever this time. I don’t want my friends and family persecuted and disappeared off the streets, academics censored, science defunded and suppressed, and public institutions systematically dismantled, as is happening in the USA, and Poilievre intends to lead us in that direction.