Nonsense
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Well, until you actually separate from the USA, your President is your problem. Lock, stock, and barrel. All the "We didn't vote for him around these parts" won't get you a piece of bubblegum around here - I can't sell goods to you without tarriffs, after all is said and done, just because you didn't vote for him.
You're either a resident of the USA, or you're not; you may or may not agree with your government's actions, understood, but you are judged by their effects on others. How could it be otherwise? Please explain.
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USA entered WWI on Apr 6th, 1917. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th 1941, only 24 years and 8 months later...
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This silly digression could be put to rest if @sonofcy would correct his typo in post#148. He knows it was WWII, at least he does if he was educated in Canada or Britain.
@camsysca What typo? WWI began on July 28, 1914. The USA entered WWI on April 6, 1917.
The discussion was of the late 1930s, when the USA saved us from Nazism(to paraphrase the misstatement of someone else). Fast forward a couple of years, to when the USA was dragged into WWII by Japan to fight Nazism.
So digressing to 191x and WWI seemed a bit...unusual. But, if topic wander was your intent, no problem.
It was intentional as response to post #146
Ahh, so drivel to counter drivel. Sorry, missed the subtitles. Carry on!
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I often asked that question about Hitler. Now I know. We are witnessing history repeating itself.
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Interesting observation, but is it the same? 1930s Germany had no TV, no internet, so information travelled very slowly. I don't know if they were more or less racist than today.
Today in the USA, anyone can find the truth if they choose to; many do not. As a Canadian watching the drama unfold (including our home-grown, almost exclusively rural conservatives), it is occasionally intellectually interesting but too often scary.
If you are not African or North American Indian, where did your forefathers come from, and what were they called? CLUE from some other country, and they were immigrants.
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I think that the confusion came from my mistake as I introduced Pearl Harbour because I missed WWI.
Sorry everybody.
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Well speaking from the point of a UK citizen, they are a right old mix. Mainly Angles, Saxons(the French), Celts, with a good sprinkling of Viking, Roman, Goths and Visigoths.
And then we sent a lot of this mixture to the U.S.A.
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They had radio. They had telegraph. News flowed faster than sound before 1940. After widespread electrification, radios-per-population increased greatly. Radio was big.
But the average American didn't find out about the attack on Pearl Harbor until Dec 9th, some even many days later.
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And there were the movies / cinema which provides news.
Finally people talked to each other
(I have heard that that could be more efficient as the social media today 
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Few of the Americans here will have heard how Canada is reacting to the 51st state nonsense. Last night we elected our new government and now we will begin the process of moving our trade to other countries. We have never been more united and Canada 2.0 is beginning. We know there will be some pain, but becoming American is pretty much the worst insult you can throw at us. If you need an explanation of that I will be happy to provide it but it is in the public domain.
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Lots of news about the "Trump effect" at the top of my news feed. Americans that want to stay informed won't have trouble doing so.
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I don't read any trump generated news it has a tendency to distort the facts.
Rather amazing that he can piss so many countries and people off.
It is gonna take a long time to fix America after he destroys it.
He stopped a few wind based projects on LI loss of jobs and turmoil, the work was stopped with no legal reason. They are trying to stop Congestion Pricing in NYC but they released papers saying they had no legal reason.
It is an out of control clown car.
It will probably get a LOT worse before he is gone, and if you don;t elect Democrat Pres, House, Senate for at least 16 years it will never get fixed.
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I thought it was significant that not only did the Conservatives do poorly but Poilievre lost his seat as well.
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