Flame Canada.
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler evoked the “South Park” film’s anti-Canuck anthem Friday to blast state Sen. Liz Krueger’s proposal for New York to affix Canada in mild of Donald Trump returning to the White Home.
The Hudson Valley congressman posted a cheeky tweet in response to the Manhattan Democrat’s latest public musings about New York and different progressive states seceding from the US within the aftermath of Trump’s election.
“Apparently @LizKrueger has by no means watched South Park…,” he wrote, together with a GIF from the 1999 movie’s “Blame Canada” track.
“No Liz, we’re not all progressive and we don’t wish to grow to be a part of Canada. Be at liberty to maneuver to Saskatchewan. Within the meantime, repair New York’s disastrous funds… $61b enhance in state spending during the last 4 years…”
Final week, Krueger painted an apocalyptic imaginative and prescient of the US underneath Trump to a cadre of reporters in Albany.
She instructed them she desires New York and different northeast states, together with California and a few Pacific Northwest states, to affix Canada in an effort to outnumber and overtake the far north.
“My backup plans aren’t so authorized, however appear increasingly more cheap,” she mentioned.
“In the event you add up the individuals, then we are able to take over Canada, as a result of then I feel we’d have extra inhabitants than Canada, which I haven’t identified to the Canadian ambassador but, only for the report. Shhh, hold it quiet till we get there after which we are able to simply take over. It is going to be excellent,” she mentioned to chuckles from reporters.
Krueger acknowledged forward of the election that she was in contact along with her Canadian counterparts about secession within the occasion Trump received workplace.
The plot of “South Park: Larger, Longer & Uncut” hinges on joyless, politically appropriate dad and mom getting outraged over a fart-filled Canadian tv present corrupting their kids.
Their fury results in the showstopper “Blame Canada,” by which they lyrically — and misguidedly — scapegoat the US’s northern neighbor for turning their children into foul mouths.
The South Park tv present has additionally laid satirical sights on The Nice White North, notably throughout a 2015 episode by which a personality proposes to construct a wall on the US-Canada border to cease unlawful immigration, very like Trump wished for Mexico.
When requested by The Submit what South Park plot he was referencing, Lawler instructed The Submit: “Blame Canada.”
“It’s meant to talk to the absurdity of her feedback,” he mentioned. “And to say, Individuals don’t wish to be Canadians.”
Supply hyperlink
