Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 34: Canada Fandom: Another Proud Canadian Video

[ride_4ever]

Today is the official Canadian Thanksgiving Day, but every day is a good day to be thankful for the existence of Canada!

Watch on YouTube

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[minoanmiss]

*cheers*

[ride_4ever]

\o/

[princessofgeeks]

Thank you Canada!

Never stop being Canada!

[ride_4ever]

\o/

[verushka70]

Wow! What a vid and song! I wish the USA could say/do the same, but it would be kind of a lie. Although I can't help wondering if our president's bullying and bluster (largely later backtracked like the idiot coward he is...) helped unite Canada... Because it wasn't that long ago they had their own Trump-believing truck convoy blockade.

But after Trump won here and started bullying basically all our former allies and trading partners, well: Canada banded together to screw the US back just as hard as it's trying to screw them. They're STILL not selling American alcohol in various provinces and exports of American spirits to Canada are still down 85%. And provinces have the autonomy to do what they want without Canadian federal government forcing them to stop. Yay, Canada!

[ride_4ever]

And Florida has taken a big hit from all those "Canadian snowbirds" who used to go to Florida for the winter months and really boost the Floridian economy.

(And I'm restraining myself from further Florida comments here.)

[verushka70]

Oh why restrain yourself?? Have at it! You know I'm sympathetic.

[ride_4ever]

Only restraining myself here because a blog is a forum for more widely shared comments and I don't want to set off a cascade of threaded comments on this topic. If you want some of the unrestrained comments, just mention Florida in an email to me.

[verushka70]

I don't necessarily want it, but, as your friend, I am completely willing to let you vent. (In email,  as you point out.) I've been to Florida a couple times. Other than the Keys, didn't really enjoy either the weather or the usual attractions, let alone the many different awful kinds of bugs & flying cockroaches.

(Yeah, yeah, palmetto bugs - which I say are flying cockroaches because THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE!)

Politically... Let's just say I'm glad I live here & not there. Or in any red state, really. But I know Florida politicians do a good job of keeping seniors happy, at least depending on the county, because that gets them voted in repeatedly (kind of like how Larry Dominick/the Town of Cicero have all kinds of senior services at no cost, & will also absolutely help seniors get to polling places on election days... gnome sane?).

[ride_4ever]

Aw, bb, TYK for saying you'd listen to me vent about Florida if I wanted to do so, but naw, I've been putting a lot of conscious effort into NOT ranking about my ex-from-long-ago who moved to Florida and turned into someone horribly unrecognizable politically.

[verushka70]

Yeah. Just saying... I can totally relate. My bff from high school, that I've been thru thick & thin with... went the same route, and I'll just never understand it.

[ride_4ever]

Yep, I know you "get it". (I actually wish it WERE "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"...at least that would be more understandable.)

[verushka70]

That is so true. At least if we knew they were pod people, taken over by some aliens, it would make some sense! Alas, they're not.

I read an article, where the hell was it, the other day, about the one main thing that liberals, independents, and Republicans who voted for Trump all had in common. (It wasn't a new article, iirc... but might have been an update of an older article? I'll try to find it.) But anyway, it wasn't an issue - it was a personal quality (I'd call it a bug, not a feature): authoritarian inclinations.

That does fit my friend M---. Definitely. Does that fit your friend, too?

[ride_4ever]

I really can't accurately answer your question about whether or not C------ has "authoritarian inclinations" since whoever she now seems to be isn't like who she was when we were together. The closest I can come to answering your question is to say "Nowadays C------ calls herself a 'MAGA Patriot' and I take that to be a pro-authoritarian statement".