Sentimental tripe & jingoism masquerading as journalism:
“This wasn’t a win for themselves, this was a win for 40-plus-million people.”
"It’s something to bring us all together in celebration, even if only for a few hours on a cold winter’s night."
“It is still our game, a fact written across the faces of McDavid and Marner....who helped turn a mid-season all-star showcase into a rallying cry for the rest of us.”
"But the politics of the day created a crucible. The Canadians won the day."
@Soretski In the big scheme of things, it means very little. But this is the kind of stuff that unserious & shallow people eat up.
@elston_ today Americans celebrate miracle on ice when they won a championship 30 years ago. So yes, sports are lame but we damn better win the one thing we're supposed to be good at
If Canada had not won, this might have happened.
@truthbait @elston_ we'll give you $1 for your shithole country but you're all gonna have to go back to Mexico Africa and the rest of your shithole countries
@truthbait @elston_ obviously I see it differently. I see America as a nazi kleptocricy that's barely waking from its self imposed nightmare. Canada is a classic deep state run boringly well by bureaucrats until first harper on the right then castro on the left broke our system. We're not interested in your ridiculous manic sprees, we want reasonable governance. We have zero interest in your clown show. America can flirt with canada having other security alliances, but they wouldn't like it
@truthbait @Soretski Our advantage used to be smaller population....and high degree of homogeneity. But they threw it all away with mass immigration from the 3rd world.
Hard to imagine in 2007 the federal debt was only about 450B and we had seen years and years of not just balanced budgets but budget surpluses.
One piece of context a lot of people don't have for why Trudeau was able to get in the first time is that the liberals in the early 2000s we're just fine, they were the ones who balanced the budget (grounded with the base of cuts and tax increases under Mulroney) and people generally didn't have a huge problem. Even the thing that finally brought down that government was relatively quaint, unreasonable spending during the referendum to keep Quebec in canada. So with that piece of context, I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that they would be going back to the fairly boring mostly center sort of administration they saw back then. I have never voted for trudeau, but back in 2015 I would have for that exact reason. It never occurred to most people that the liberal party might be something completely different than it was just the next government over.
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