One of the great things about being cool is that you are just you and that’s good enough, people love it and want to be around you in good times and bad. No doubt, when in doubt, remain cool, it is the necessary character trait, your cornerstone. Of course, being cool means being there for friends in good times and bad, be dependable, be strong,spiritual, deep, loving – be the guy everyone wants to talk to, good looking – the one everyone needs, you’re that good. And for three to four generations now, the United States of America set the gold standard when it comes to “cool” global dominance. We were the “it” country. And that’s great. But whether one is a writer or a country, everyone has their thing and it is not cool to beg, ever – for someone else’s friendship, allegiance, love, car, etc. When you are cool, they come to you or they don’t. You’ll be fine, either way.
Fox News’s Jesse Watters definitely believes that the U.S. remains cooler than ever. Okay. But there are limits and Watters is putting all that goodwill and friendship earned over centuries at risk by thinking they are cooler than they might really be (A huge mistake on the cool factor). He cannot believe that Canadians would resist Americans wanting to “gobble Canada up” – so much so that Watters is now offended, as he told Ontario Premiere Doug Ford last night. (Video Below):
“I used to love the idea of gobbling up Canada. Vast energy reserves, doubling our geography, we’d never lose another Winter Olympics. But do we really want to add that many liberals to our population?
“I’d still like to add stars to our flag and Canada does seem ripe for the picking. Maybe we just take Saskatchewan and Alberta, because the fact that they don’t want to become part of America makes me want to make them.
If that last line sounds a little rapey to you, you are right on with the “feel” of his move here. “I didn’t want you but now that you’ve said ‘no’ – you’ve got a problem.” It is obviously arrogant, but also desperate – perhaps the quickest way to disintegrate the last vestiges of “cool”. It is like someone realizing he may not be quite as cool as he thinks he is, a realization that often leads a desperate person to lash out – and so Watters did.
“You say that Americans don’t have a problem with Canadians, and we don’t, but it seems like you have a problem with us, because if I were a citizen of another country and I was a neighbor of the United States, I would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the United States of America.
“You should want to sleep with me. What’s wrong with you!” “Come on, man. Do you know how lucky you are that I’m even talking to you?” – We are well beyond cool, extending down to near dangerous. One has to wonder why the Trump supporters are now being openly hostile and antagonistic to a country that had been plenty cool with us, content to sit aside on this continent and abide, each doing their own thing until needing to invade Normandy together. That was cool – but that was also then.
“That’s what everybody else in the world wants, American citizenship. For some reason, that’s repellent to you Canadians, and I find that personally offensive.” – Jesse Watters, speaking last night to Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
The rejection hurts Watters’s feelings and thus he finds it offensive – this is your problem, not his. That is a dangerous attitude whether in friendships or in global relations.
Why are Trump supporters so obsessed with Canada and Greenland all of a sudden? One rather innocent explanation is that it is a very easy way to get our focus shifted away from approving Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, and Kennedy as HHS director, to suddenly trying to prevent open hostilities with our Canadian friends. On the other hand it actually could be because the incoming Trump administration and its supporters do, very suddenly, have aspirations of “gobbling” things up, from Greenland, to Canada, to Panama.
As for Watters individually, it is simply not cool to presume that everyone wants you and then pout and get aggressive when one’s first advances are rebuffed. Indeed, it’s downright creepy, even on a global scale. We don’t really know what’s really going on with all this talk, we only know that it’s past it’s due date, no longer fresh, starting to smell. Not cool.
It needs to stop. Americans have had the blessing of having a trusted neighbor along the world’s longest international boundary – imagine having to pay to actually guard it. No need, good friends – cool. Except maybe not if this continues and that’s starting to feel more than a bit worrisome. Needy – very much the polar opposite of cool.
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Ooh, I want more territory and more stars on the US flag! Why wouldn’t people want representation in the great United States? OK, Jesse Watters, let’s start with full citizen representation and flag stars for Washington, DC and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and Guam! That sure would be a great way to treat lands that are already acquired, doncha think?!
If Jesse Watters were alive in the 1930’s, I’m sure he’d be offended that the Polish, Czech, and French people were not eager to “join” the Third Reich under its cool Dear Leader.
Hey Canada…when the war starts…let me join your military…there’s a number of nazis running loose in my home country that need the kind of ‘correction’ Mr. Grady gave his family in The Shining. I wonder if Beeker from Sesame street would talk so phucking tough with a weapon trained on his privileged ass…or would he piss his expensive pants? I think we know the answer. Oh…and the good news is I come from a large family of combat soliders who fought in WW2, KOREA, AND VIETNAM, and I’m a vet…so handling a weapon…no problem. Just let me know where to report to duty.
I guess some like the idea of our resident nazi marching into poland…er…I mean Canada.
Jesse is a jackass, this is all nonsense. Trump will not get much done other than enrich himself.
Trump supporters are obsessed because Trump is. Trump is because Canada has arctic oil reserves that putin wants, Greenland has a nato air base to defend against Russian aggression and Panama has sanctions affecting Russian ship’s use of the canal. plus Trump is a moron. and crazy. as for Mexico, I think he just doesn’t like Mexico or Mexicans.