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So you're moving to Canada if Obama gets reelected? (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2012 OP
I have heard no conservative threaten to move to Canada bluestateguy Jun 2012 #1
Exactly... WCGreen Jun 2012 #2
Or Saudi Arabia... YellowRubberDuckie Jun 2012 #3
My tea party/birther brother has threatened to move to Canada abelenkpe Jun 2012 #6
Puerto Rico: Progess Island USA pstokely Jun 2012 #50
Somalia- It's the libertarian paradise they all crave Capn Sunshine Jun 2012 #10
I think Uganda would be more up their alley. Initech Jun 2012 #24
Yeah, but... well... Scootaloo Jun 2012 #35
+1,000,000!!!!!! nt gateley Jun 2012 #44
If I could afford it standingtall Jun 2012 #49
Oh, If Obama gets reelected, I am making outgoing flights from Reagan Nat'l as my FB status nt LaydeeBug Jun 2012 #4
PLEASE! It's WASHINGTON National Airport! Always was, always will be. (At least ... 11 Bravo Jun 2012 #42
It was already named after a perfectly good President Patiod Jun 2012 #45
That's too funny Sekhmets Daughter Jun 2012 #5
Welcome to DU madokie Jun 2012 #18
What I have to say to "conservatives" threatening to move to Canada if Obama gets elected is existentialist Jun 2012 #7
Canada has hate speech laws that would cold turkey their FOX feed. The Wielding Truth Jun 2012 #12
Oh, I would love to have that as a bumper sticker! blue neen Jun 2012 #8
You forgot to mention the fact that pot is pretty much legal. n/t A Simple Game Jun 2012 #9
I'm moving to Canada or Europe if Mitt Robme gets elected. Jamaal510 Jun 2012 #11
Me too. I would like to relocate to Great Britain, RebelOne Jun 2012 #25
Me too. fruitsmoothie45 Jun 2012 #33
Now this is one of the best reasons to vote for Obama. Thinkingabout Jun 2012 #13
Canada has strict immigration laws, I believe. Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #14
Guess I'll have to stay here. Auntie Bush Jun 2012 #16
Unless you know some Canadian guy who'll take you in. You can live there, Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #19
Married!? Not the least bit interested! I'll just stay here and keep my guns loaded. Auntie Bush Jun 2012 #23
Correct. They won't take cancer survivors, either. Jim Lane Jun 2012 #29
Hilarious! Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author ManyShadesOf Jun 2012 #17
This is great, eh? Brigid Jun 2012 #20
That Would Be Dumb erpowers Jun 2012 #21
Once again, before it is too late! ThoughtCriminal Jun 2012 #22
Once I was a vocal advocate of plan "B Ark" but I have reconsidered. TheKentuckian Jun 2012 #26
Justified concern, but... ThoughtCriminal Jun 2012 #27
I see now, I wasn't going to send the phone sanitizers (or anyone else), never know when a TheKentuckian Jun 2012 #46
No, they're moving to AynRandistan Martin Eden Jun 2012 #28
+1 n/t fruitsmoothie45 Jun 2012 #34
Is that the new name of "Whitetrashistan"? BlueDemKev Jun 2012 #38
The Whitetrashistanians carry water for the AynRandians ... Martin Eden Jun 2012 #47
Posted this a while back, glad you made a thread of it!!! freshwest Jun 2012 #30
My household really needs health care. truedelphi Jun 2012 #31
Saving this - no doubt it will come in handy in November! jillan Jun 2012 #32
Same here. n/t cynatnite Jun 2012 #36
You forgot GUN CONTROL BlueDemKev Jun 2012 #37
??? 1000 Words Jun 2012 #39
I have one bumper sticker on my car ... bayareaboy Jun 2012 #40
Put that way, Canada sounds pretty good regardless of who gets elected! (nt) thesquanderer Jun 2012 #41
I doubt Canada would want a bunch of knuckle dragging morons TNLib Jun 2012 #43
I considered it in 04. JNelson6563 Jun 2012 #48

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
6. My tea party/birther brother has threatened to move to Canada
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:29 PM
Jun 2012

or, get this.....Puerto Rico. (Not really an escape, huh?) He has been threatening to immigrate since our president was sworn in. Which is ironic given his predilection for griping about immigrants.

Yes, he's a FOX fed fool.

Capn Sunshine

(14,378 posts)
10. Somalia- It's the libertarian paradise they all crave
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:47 PM
Jun 2012

No pesky government to tell them they can't pollute their private property! No Regulations against assault weapons! No pesky infrastructure to bleed tax dollars from them.

Ron Paul would fit right in

Initech

(100,090 posts)
24. I think Uganda would be more up their alley.
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 10:23 PM
Jun 2012

Hardcore religiously insane - check
Gun nuts - check
No central government - check
Open hatred for GLBT people - check
Christian fundamentalists brainwash the masses - checkity check check!!!

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
35. Yeah, but... well...
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 03:28 PM
Jun 2012

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Just strikes me that there might be something your average Republican... avoids in uganda...

standingtall

(2,786 posts)
49. If I could afford it
Wed Jun 6, 2012, 09:00 AM
Jun 2012


Seeing where this country is headed Id be on my way to Switzerland in a heartbeat.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
42. PLEASE! It's WASHINGTON National Airport! Always was, always will be. (At least ...
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 04:45 PM
Jun 2012

for this DC metro area resident.)

Patiod

(11,816 posts)
45. It was already named after a perfectly good President
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 06:41 PM
Jun 2012

why would they name it after the person who started our downward slide?

existentialist

(2,190 posts)
7. What I have to say to "conservatives" threatening to move to Canada if Obama gets elected is
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:38 PM
Jun 2012

"don't let the door hit you on the way out."

ON second thought why don't you just go ahead and leave now--yesterday!

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
12. Canada has hate speech laws that would cold turkey their FOX feed.
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 09:13 PM
Jun 2012

I doubt if Canada would take them, anyway.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
25. Me too. I would like to relocate to Great Britain,
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 10:52 PM
Jun 2012

if Romney is elected, but I doubt I could afford to go. I have visited the British Isles twice and the cost of living is much higher than the U.S.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
13. Now this is one of the best reasons to vote for Obama.
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 09:28 PM
Jun 2012

And when you leave take the likes of Rush with you. We can just let Nugent die. We could have a wonderful country to live in. BYE BYE

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
14. Canada has strict immigration laws, I believe.
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 09:37 PM
Jun 2012

To make sure peopole don't move there to suck on the national healthcare and not contribute to the tax system. You have to have a certain amt of money, have a vocation/profession, not be of retirement age, etc.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
19. Unless you know some Canadian guy who'll take you in. You can live there,
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 09:45 PM
Jun 2012

if you marry a Canadian. It won't make YOU a Canadian, but they'll let you stay. I don't think you can participate fully in everything, though.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
29. Correct. They won't take cancer survivors, either.
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 11:51 AM
Jun 2012

I looked into it after the 2004 election. I don't think I really would have gone but, even if the inquiry was just acting out, it made me feel better.

My health history disqualifies me. No one in Canada is lifting any lamps beside any golden doors for wretched refuse like me.

Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
20. This is great, eh?
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 09:58 PM
Jun 2012

I'm practicing in case Ronmey wins and I have to apply for emigration to Canada. Do they have electronic medical records specialists or paralegals there?

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
22. Once again, before it is too late!
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 10:12 PM
Jun 2012

All GOP voters are urged to board the "B Ark" and get out BEFORE the election.

Or go form a free-market cargo cult on a remote island. You can even call it Galtland. Make sure that you don't have any kind of government regulations - like silly prohibitions on cannibalism.

TheKentuckian

(25,029 posts)
26. Once I was a vocal advocate of plan "B Ark" but I have reconsidered.
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 11:09 PM
Jun 2012

It introduces the possibility of the lot's descendent's set free upon on an unwitting galaxy.

Perhaps a modified plan that launches them into the sun or burns them up in the atmosphere would work.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
27. Justified concern, but...
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 11:20 PM
Jun 2012

Slinging poo at each other is hardly a basis for an interstellar civilization. And the telephone sanitizers would surely eat the freepers first.

TheKentuckian

(25,029 posts)
46. I see now, I wasn't going to send the phone sanitizers (or anyone else), never know when a
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:30 PM
Jun 2012

particularly nasty bug will go around spread by dirty phones.

Martin Eden

(12,873 posts)
28. No, they're moving to AynRandistan
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 11:29 AM
Jun 2012

It's an archipelago where every man (and woman) is an island.

It's a deeply religious country where everyone worships themselves.

Martin Eden

(12,873 posts)
47. The Whitetrashistanians carry water for the AynRandians ...
Wed Jun 6, 2012, 06:57 AM
Jun 2012

... because they believe they too will one day own their own island (and because the AynRandians, to tell the truth, can't function without a lot of help from the little people they despise)

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
31. My household really needs health care.
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 02:59 PM
Jun 2012

It will have nothing to do with Obama (well, except for the part where he sold us older folks down the river, in terms of health care.)

Lived there summer of 1972, really loved it. Often wished I had not moved back.

Canada has a real economy - ours is now based on bailing out bankers and perpetual war, war, war.



bayareaboy

(793 posts)
40. I have one bumper sticker on my car ...
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 04:36 PM
Jun 2012

It says "George Bush"
The best reason
for Canadian Citizenship

To me it has gotten much worse, especially this year.

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
48. I considered it in 04.
Wed Jun 6, 2012, 07:10 AM
Jun 2012

Have family in Canada. I was amused to see so often a selling point for many homes (I was looking at real estate) was "Close to ice rink!"

It would be hilarious if wingers threatened to go there.

Julie

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