If America & Europe Lived in the Same Town

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I’ve been carefully watching a lot of British & European reaction to what happened at Davos this past week. The arrogance of most of it is very instructional.

If Europe and America were neighbors in the same town, here’s a good metaphor:

The Americans would be the average blue collar townsfolk, toiling away at their jobs, paying their taxes, and not expecting a whole lot in return from their government, other than to be left alone to live their lives.

The Europeans would be an old aristocratic family living in a posh, but not well kept up mansion on the edge of town. Over the years, these folks had stopped paying their fair share of taxes, stopped volunteering, stopped helping in any meaningful way, yet fully expecting their “lesser” neighbors to do everything for them.

When the American neighbors finally said enough is enough, the Europeans would be outraged, cry victim, and do everything they could to coerce the Americans to return back to paying for their lifestyle.

P.S. I’m not sure how Canada fits into this metaphor, but am open to suggestions.

45 Replies to “If America & Europe Lived in the Same Town”

  1. Canada is the dependent thirty year old liberal daughter with Daddy issues who after having her allowance cut off goes looking for love with the nearest bad boy, in this case the Chinese Communist Party.
    It ends with her knocked up, drug addicted, and with a scorching STD.

  2. If the power went out in the town, the Americans would start up their generators, bring an extra load of firewood in and find out how they could help their neighbors.
    The Eurotrashians would sit around with their thumbs in each other’s bums, waiting for the Government to Do Something, shivering in the dark, waiting like stupid pets.

    1. and the Canadians would be unsure what to do … cut some wood or stick their finger up their bum?

  3. Trump demands Greenland, which he has repeatedly been told is not for sale, and Europeans are the arrogant ones?

    Must be opposite day today.

    2. Told by who? Greenland is autonomous and there is nothing from Greenland other than the talk of self protecting politicians. Haven’t heard directly from the people yet. And yes, Europeans ARE arrogant…..grifters too.

        1. well hey, in his successful dealings, have others said no until the right offer comes along? have any others of the millions of business deals dsaid no . . . . . until a better offer comes along?
          trump is primarily a BUSINESSMAN (explains the bluntness) and a far distant second a politician.
          have at it Dondald, maybe youre onto something maybe in your mind it could be true. you alone know what extent and what timeline satisfies you.
          in business no sometimes means up the ante.

        2. KM, that’s a politician talking and he doesn’t own Greenland and neither does his administration or Denmark.

          A country or a territory belongs to its citizens and in this case that mean all bona fide Greenlanders. That’s who we haven’t heard from.

          1. What a tremendous idea. Why don’t you tell Trump that, because so far, he hasn’t even mentioned the idea of referendums and the idea that Greenlanders should have a say in their own destiny.

            Trump seems to think that if the US needs Greenland, they should have Greenland.

          2. I would if I were a Trump advisor.

            I was only making a point about about the widely mistaken view that too many people have that governments own a country or territory. For good or bad, they are administrators of said land.

    3. “Must be opposite day today.”

      If it was, you would have joined this thread to discuss the topic at hand (the metaphor about America and Europe living in the same small town), instead of bringing up Greenland in yet another pathetic, transparent attempt to hijack
      the current discussion and turn in into another TDS-Fest.

      If you crave attention that much, go to X. Or better still, go hang out with your own kind on Bluesky.

    4. What is the basis for Denmark’s claim to Greenland? Is it because some viking ships landed there in the year 983 AD?

      1. Yes, that’s the one they seem to like to run with. However, it was established in the Treaty of Kiel, 1813 or 14??? and was contested by Norway in the 30s (Norway backed down).
        Because Vikings weren’t part of any of the modern Scandinavian states we now know — but hey, optics.

        Same as the Greenlanders: yes, the Vikings were there before the Inuit who now call themselves the natives of Greenland. There were likely proto-Amerindian tribes that did set up shop before the Vikings, but they were gone by the 900s when the Vikings arrived — but hey, optics.

        My President has a minor in anthropology; interesting, huh? (fyi: I highly recommend a good anthropology and world history survey for the undergraduate needing to get those prereqs — far more informative and just more fun than some crusty sociology class, but that’s just me).

  4. How does Canada fit in?
    Actually that metaphor fits quite well into Canada.
    Sub in the western provinces for the American role and upper and lower Canada in the role of the Europeans and it aptly describes confederation

  5. Greenland is that unsightly field that has been allowed to fester with uncontrolled vegetation by its neglectful EU owner, and in it’s current state holds a very real potential for an infestation of rats. The Americans are merely going to take a mower and a chainsaw to the mess and make it presentable/functional and much safer for the neighborhood.

  6. Canada is like some neighbors of mine up and down my street. Superficially, they’re nice and polite and say nice things about my home and family. But when speaking with TRUE friends of mine on the street, I learn that these people run me down behind my back. Their superficial niceties turn nasty behind my back. I learn they mock and deride me to other neighbors … trying to RECRUIT them to join in their hate of my family.

    As a result, I keep my distance from those neighbors … and don’t give them the time of day.

    1. Why do you suppose those neighbours talk trash about you?

      Because you support President Trump and want an America Made Great Again in his image, and not in the image of your insane ex-girlfriend Linda and her late, unlamented pedophile brother?

      Or is it something even pettier yet?

      1. My neighbors know nothing of that past. Even though we lived in an apartment in this very town … she wasn’t from here … and I’ve never spoken to anyone about that entire sordid situation. As I said … I shook the dust off my feet from that entire family. I was done. Forever.

        However … I managed and coached my daughter’s competitive soccer team … and I actually had two of the girls Linda’s creepy brother had molestered on my team. The girls didn’t speak of those unspeakable events, but their parents did. And wanted to let me know what the girls had lived through as preteens. I never let them know of my connection … it was all just too creepy … and it would have served no purpose to reveal my unhappy connection.

        No, the neighbors who harbor ill will toward me are simply jealous. Their homes aren’t as nice. Their kids not as successful (except for my one child who was mentally ill). I don’t advertise my conservatism … but I suspect they know. Yeah … they know. And they despise me for it. As is my attitude toward all people I cannot change or control … Meh.

    2. You forgot “and go through my trash when they think I’m not looking, to find some juicy gossip”.
      Yes, I had one of those neighbors — I used weaponized ‘niceness’ and a strict adherence to the town rules and statutes to drive them insane (such upright people tend to be the worst rule breakers; we must follow the codes! have a great day!)

  7. Once the Europeans can no longer induce Americans to do everything for them—any Americans who have a choice eventually moving away—the Europeans encourage any among the Wretched Of the Kakistocracy of Earth (WOKE) willing to do the work the Euros are too proud or lazy to do for what any self-respecting American would consider an insult to take over the Americans’ former homes.

    If you’re a pampered European AWFUL who adores exotic food and can’t be bothered to learn to cook something that doesn’t come in a tin, it’s great for a while.

    Pretty soon, though, all the things that need to work for an advanced society to function gradually cease to function. Before the AWFULs know it, the roads have fallen apart, the water becomes undrinkable, not even the city council speak adequate English to do their jobs, and the “pizza” delivery boy will show up with an order of street drugs much faster than an ambulance will when the AWFUL realizes that her WOKE bull is starting to OD on whatever he took to get ready to give her a good seeing-to.

    It’s only a matter of time before even the Europeans swallow their pride and sell the family home for conversion into tenements in hope of joining the Americans in the “White flight” suburbs where things still work and the dull, dreary and unglamorous but necessary work needed to keep civilization ticking over still gets done, because the people who do it are considered worthy of their hire.

    Except by this point the Americans are not sure they want to live next door to the European AWFULs again—much less next door to the WOKE.

  8. Comedian Daniel Tosh has a pretty good take:
    Canada has the greatest fence in the world…America
    It’s foolproof if you can afford it
    Really easy to be the cool open minded hippie country when there’s a kevlar Snuggie draped around your fat frozen asses daring the world to talk shit.

    Or Ari Matti…my personal favourite: Canadians like to think they and Americans are quite similar but I look at it this way – Americans and Canadians are two children involved in a custody dispute with their divorced parents. Americans went to live with dad…Canadians went to live with mommy.

  9. I think the European down the street would be a poor working Limey sod crushed under a tax burden in a rented house from an absentee landlord. The landlord lives in the gated community in the rich part of town. He owns the mayor too.

  10. Canada is the arrogant self-centered 2nd cousin who came to stay sometime after WW2 but ended up sleeping on Americas couch and drink America’s beer for the next 75 years. Canada then got kicked out and was told to get a job. The good news was that Canada was offered a plum high paying position at Daddy Trumps company, which it promptly turned down. Canada then moved to Minneapolis and got a part time job as a paid protester working for a Chinese George Soros.

    1. I should live in fear of Trump, but I can’t but (*SNICKER*) laugh every time he bloviates. I apologize to Americans for this, and will (*SNORT*) try to be duly intimidated hereonin.

      Again, please accept my apologies.

      1. Your apologies and your opinion are of no importance. Will be interesting to hear you in a few months when the U.S. GDP is over 5% growth and Canada enters a recession.

        2. The US has a federal deficit of 6.1% of GDP and a debt of 120%. They’re sitting on a ticking bomb. Should the international community stop buying US government bonds, the screws will tighten right up.

          But the US is behaving like it’s flush with cash, invulnerable to all external forces. They can do what they want, when they want.

          Well, good luck with that.

      3. Aw, don’t worry. I actually enjoy seeing you laugh — humor is the best medicine and I wish you well.

  12. How does Canada fit in?

    Canada has allowed her military to dwindle so badly. I have heard it said that the Michigan National Guard could defeat Canada’s entire military.

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