What are Progressive Canadians all about? Look no further then Canadan Cynic, a member of the Progressive Bloggers and a master of the art of typing with one hand while keeping the other hand in a bag of cheezies, and his views on Hurricane Katrina:
- New Orleans is sinking man and I don’t want to swim.
Apparently, God is really pissed with red states these days.- Is the Gulf Coast in for a pounding? By all accounts, you bet. But at least its citizens had the freedom to, way ahead of time, jump in their gaz-guzzling land yachts and head for higher/dryer ground, unlike the citizens of, say, Fallujah in Iraq
- So I’m just not wasting any more sympathy. If the Americans want help, let them pray for it.
- I’m assuming that all those soon-to-be homeless, impoverished, uninsured residents of the Gulf Coast can take solace in the fact that, no matter how bad off they are, gays still can’t get married.
- Sure, we’ll contribute $100 million to the effort. Now you owe us only $4.9 billion. Deal?
The response of the more respectable Progressive Bloggers? Outright support and a weak-kneed inability to deal with lunatics in their midst.
So, you know when some self-righteous Canadian nationalist begins his Michael Moore schtick and prefaces his maniacal critique of George Bush with, “Now, I have nothing against the American people…” Yeah, well that’s horseshit. Envy of the U.S. has become so extreme on the part of Canadian progressives that they now rejoice in the suffering of Americans at the hands of a natural disaster. Those who are too spineless to do so themselves encourage others to do so. If innocent American citizens and their families are killed, that’s retribution for American foreign policy which Progressive Canadians disagree with. If innocent Americans lose their houses and all their worldly possessions, that’s just retribution for the U.S. position in our disagreement on interpretations of NAFTA.
Canada is such an embarrassing country sometimes.
George Freeman wrote:
Well said. I am amused by how progressives just rattle off a list of grievances they automatically assume to be manifestly evil, never explaining why. They have yet to offer a substantive critique of what the Americans are trying to do in Iraq, beyond decrying no WMD or the interests of big oil. They cannot answer for themselves when it is pointed out that Hussein was very much an enemy of peace, and one of the major barriers to drawing the Middle East out of chaos. They have no sympathy for the strategic interests of the United States, Canadians being the primary beneficiaries, and never see fit to explain why the US government is the great Satan they say it is. Above all they never bother to explain what privileges their perspective, or moral authority, over all else. But really, why should we care that they rant and rave?
Progressives are miserable human beings, always missing what is good in life because they need the constant reassurance of a future where all will be known and controlled—nothing left to chance ever again. They truly are damned because they cannot live by faith, or faith in something greater than themselves and their own ideas.
Posted on 30-Aug-05 at 1:40 pm | Permalink
Peter Rempel wrote:
“But really, why should we care that they rant and rave?”
Because the federal cabinet is full of twits like this, albeit ones that are more subtle then Carolyn Parrish and these silly bloggers about their anti-American views.
Posted on 30-Aug-05 at 2:21 pm | Permalink
George Freeman wrote:
Well put, with more of an eye to the practical consequences.
Posted on 30-Aug-05 at 5:16 pm | Permalink
Mark [Section 15] wrote:
I enjoy satire, but you just can’t make shit like this up:
“Envy of the U.S. has become so extreme on the part of Canadian progressives that they now rejoice in the suffering of Americans at the hands of a natural disaster.”
I’d be offended, but you’re just a wingnut.
Shorter Canadian Cynic:
1. Pat Robertson is a wingnut
2. Why should be help the US re: Katrina? The American government keeps telling us that we aren’t needed in other affairs, and ignores our agreements with them.
Shorter Section 15:
1. Pat Robertson is a wingnut
2. Canadian Cynic is right to beef, but needs to apply some compassion
But, hey, Peter, you’ve never been one to worry about accuracy.
I liked Rempelia’s design better. I miss the Sauron’s eye graphic.
Posted on 31-Aug-05 at 9:07 pm | Permalink
Peter Rempel wrote:
Cut the shit, Mark. CC’s comments have hardly been restricted to the opinion that we should not “help the US”. There’s an element of glee in his writings that are almost mind-numbing, especially considering the death toll we are now hearing about.
“So I’m just not wasting any more sympathy. If the Americans want help, let them pray for it.”
This is what you’re sticking up for? I agree that he “needs to apply some compassion,” but wouldn’t say so because I don’t enjoy looking like a banal twit.
Posted on 01-Sep-05 at 1:04 am | Permalink
Canadian Cynic: 08/01/2005 - 09/01/2005 wrote:
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