GOP Rep. Mike Lawler evokes ‘South Park’ to diss pol’s proposal for NY to secede and join Canada
Flame Canada.
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler evoked the “South Park” movie’s anti-Canuck anthem Friday to blast state Sen. Liz Krueger’s proposal for New York to join Canada in light of Donald Trump returning to the White House.
The Hudson Valley congressman posted a cheeky tweet in response to the Manhattan Democrat’s recent public musings about New York and other progressive states seceding from the US in the aftermath of Trump’s election.
“Apparently @LizKrueger has never watched South Park…,” he wrote, along with a GIF from the 1999 film’s “Blame Canada” song.
“No Liz, we’re not all progressive and we don’t want to become part of Canada. Feel free to move to Saskatchewan. In the meantime, fix New York’s disastrous budget… $61b increase in state spending over the last 4 years…”
Last week, Krueger painted an apocalyptic vision of the US under Trump to a cadre of reporters in Albany.
She told them she wants New York and other northeast states, along with California and some Pacific Northwest states, to join Canada in an effort to outnumber and overtake the far north.
“My backup plans aren’t so legal, but seem more and more reasonable,” she said.
“If you add up the people, then we can take over Canada, because then I think we would have more population than Canada, which I haven’t pointed out to the Canadian ambassador yet, just for the record. Shhh, keep it quiet until we get there and then we can just take over. It will be perfect,” she said to chuckles from reporters.
Krueger acknowledged ahead of the election that she was in touch with her Canadian counterparts about secession in the event Trump won office.
The plot of “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” hinges on joyless, politically correct parents getting outraged over a fart-filled Canadian television show corrupting their children.
Their fury leads to the showstopper “Blame Canada,” in which they lyrically — and misguidedly — scapegoat the US’s northern neighbor for turning their kids into foul mouths.
The South Park television show has also laid satirical sights on The Great White North, notably during a 2015 episode in which a character proposes to build a wall on the US-Canada border to stop illegal immigration, much like Trump wanted for Mexico.
When asked by The Post what South Park plot he was referencing, Lawler told The Post: “Blame Canada.”
“It’s meant to speak to the absurdity of her comments,” he said. “And to say, Americans don’t want to be Canadians.”
