Americans trying to follow a Canadian election for the first time since ever

Posted by Odbody_AS2

31 comments
  1. Hey, if it means the MAGA morons root for the liberals, I’ll take it.

  2. Just wait till they learn of places where the Liberal Party is actually a conservative party.

    I know cause I live in one of those places.

  3. Actually the Americans have it backward. Internationally blue has always been the colour of establishment/conservative and red has been the colour of revolution/liberal.

  4. IIRC the red and blue colors didn’t become standard until the 2000 Bush vs. Gore election. Before that, they would switch between the two, neither one was directly associate with either party.

  5. The colors of Red and Blue only became “set” in the 2000 election during the recounts. In 1980 when counting Reagan wins the color was blue.

    “Conservatives” likely think it was always this way, just like their ignorance about “in God we trust” being always a part of the US motto.

  6. Any chance America invades after the Canadian election concludes?

  7. Wait til they try to follow an Australian election. The Liberal party are the conservatives and the Labor Party are the liberals.

  8. Australia is even worse. “Liberals” are right wing, and “Labor” is Left wing

  9. The beauty of using this meme is that the cat is from Ottawa.

  10. Japan politics would confuse the hell out of them because The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan is a major Conservative and nationalist party

  11. The US is backwards. Red has generally meant liberal but our current liberal party (Democrats) used to be the conservatives and so they weren’t red. Vice versa for Republicans for the most part (Lincoln was a Republican etc.)

  12. lol try telling the socialists that red isn’t their color…

  13. Yes, in Australia, our conservative party is called the Liberal party because they follow John Lockes liberal business policy. Americans cannot cope with that.

  14. I knew Polievere was bad last year when he was endorsed by Alex Jones and Steve Bannon. Puke.

  15. Imagine how confused they get when told that the Liberal Party in Australia, are the conservatives.

  16. Haha
    Wait until they hear about Australia.

    Labor is red. They are on the liberal end of the political spectrum

    Liberals, who are conservative, are blue.

  17. $5 bucks says Trump watched Fox & Friends tonight and tomorrow he will congratulate “the Big Beautiful Red Coalition on a MASSIVE election WIN in the 51st State!”

  18. Replace the maple leaf with the symbol for “the entire rest of the world outside the US” 😉

  19. US: “Wait, Liberals aren’t on the left in Europe?”

    Europe: “Correct.”

    US: “So what would you call the Democrats?”

    Europe: “Liberals.”

  20. How long till trump claims he won bc the “red color won”

  21. Has anyone actually seen someone complain about this?

  22. The whole blue = Democrats and red = Republicans thing only goes back to 2000, when – just by shear fucking coincidence- all three major networks used the same colors for their election maps. And, then, of course, we all ended up seeing those same maps for weeks afterwards as the election dispute dragged on. Before that, it was pretty much random which party would be represented by which color on the map.

  23. It’s the same here in Australia – our conservative party is called the Liberal National Party and are blue. Our liberal party is called Labour and they’re red.

  24. Red is left, Blue is right and Americans fucked it up again. What else is new?

  25. Wait until they get a load of Australia where the liberals are blue, but also, that’s just their name, and they’re the right wing/conservative party.

    And the centre left party wears red.

  26. The networks used to alternate which party was red and which was blue in the USA. IIRC Gore vs Bush was the first time it repeated, and has stayed thus, ever since.

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