Comments on: The French are coming! The French are coming!

By: gnaddrig

gnaddrig — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:31:44 +0000

After 30 years or so, would we welcome the French invasion? Maybe. Probably in the Midwest and South. And we’d probably have an insurgency in the Northeast where the ruling Tribe just got ousted.

I don’t think that in this scenario many Americans would welcome the French invasion, even leaving aside marc’s point. Most people would be at least vaguely aware of the atrocities perpetrated by American soldiers in Canada and Mexico. (Yes, only by those mad ‘Hillarists’, not by clueless, suppressed, ordinary Americans. But which Mexican who’d lost his family in some massacre or other would they trust to make this distinction?) They’d be afraid that they’d get back what Americans did in Canada and Mexico, and with interest.

By: Antigone

Antigone — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:57:46 +0000

Come on marc, you’ve seen kevin comment here before. There’s no question why he chose Clinton, and chose to call her “Hillary”.

By: MikeEss

MikeEss — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:51:32 +0000

“If the French brought Époisses, I would personally go to NORAD, shut down the WOPR, and do whatever else it took to hasten their arrival.”

Wasn’t it Benjamin Franklin who said: “He who would give up some of his freedom for some pungent French cheese deserves neither freedom nor pungent French cheese…”

By: punkass marc

punkass marc — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:34:27 +0000

If the French were the ones providing the power and arms behind Hillary’s throne, are you SURE we would welcome them, kevin? Also, curious why you chose Hillary there…

By: inkybrain

inkybrain — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:01:15 +0000

If the French brought Époisses, I would personally go to NORAD, shut down the WOPR, and do whatever else it took to hasten their arrival.

By: MikeEss

MikeEss — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:13:17 +0000

“Chelsea Clinton is officially named dictator in waiting, and it turns out the Chelsea is even more sadistic than her mother, personally torturing athletes, for example, who lose games.”

I knew it! I never trusted Chelsea…

“After 30 years or so, would we welcome the French invasion? Maybe. Probably in the Midwest and South. And we’d probably have an insurgency in the Northeast where the ruling Tribe just got ousted.”

To make your scenario a little more parallel with Iraq, we’d probably be happy if somebody took out Maximum Leader Hillary. But after that was done, we’d want our cheese-eating overlords to GTFO and leave us alone. Then we’d be able to start in on the civil war we wanted for decades.

Iraq will go through a civil war. Whether Americans are there or not.

Which is where Cheney/Bush blew it, because the rule is whoever touches it last is responsible…

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:01:11 +0000

Suppose [THEORETICALLY] that Hillary decides to become the next military dictator of the United States. She starts a long, WWI-style war with Canada where about a million American soldiers die. It’s a complete stalemate. Then, a few years later, she starts a war with Mexico over Baja California and invades. The world rises up and repels us from Baja California and slapa sanctions on us where most children have a hard time getting the food or medicine they need.

In the meantime, and just for fun, she brutally represses the Southeast and Midwest sections of the country, because the are red states and not part of her Tribe. She even gases a few cities just to make a point not to mess with Hill.

Chelsea Clinton is officially named dictator in waiting, and it turns out the Chelsea is even more sadistic than her mother, personally torturing athletes, for example, who lose games.

After 30 years or so, would we welcome the French invasion? Maybe. Probably in the Midwest and South. And we’d probably have an insurgency in the Northeast where the ruling Tribe just got ousted.

In any case, your hypothetical needs a little context to have much meaning.

By: punkass marc

punkass marc — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:43:12 +0000

I, for one, welcome our alien overlords. What sort of intergalactic governmental model do you think we’d be forced to follow? I favor the Ffurflglax system in which middle children have all the power.

By: Antigone

Antigone — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:44:22 +0000

Yeah, I’ve had this conversation, but I tend to like to use “aliens”. But, they didn’t recognize that in Britian, and they still don’t recognize it in the United States.