Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.
As a Canadian I feel bad for this. A lot of Americans in these tourist towns love Canadians and didn’t even vote for Trump!
If you want to make an omelette, you might have to fuck a chicken.
Wait…
Allegedly.
Almost the entirety of the border (minus Detroit and Buffalo) is Trump country.
How much of that is tourist country?
We need the pain. Just like you needed the pain from Trump to oust your far right, We need everybody, even the people in the deep blue states to say absolutely not to the entire right agenda, or shit here is never going to get better
We didn’t oust our far right. They got more votes than they’ve had in decades. They just got them in the wrong places.
We also lost our left wing party whose votes got gobbled up by the centre-left Liberals.
As an American, I can hardly blame the Canadians. Who would want to cross the border when doing so might get you tossed into a dark hole in El Salvador for no reason whatsoever?
It absolutely does suck for the Americans who rely on those tourist dollars, though, as well as the Canadians who lose a destination they love. I really hope we can restore sanity sooner rather than later, but I fear it would take an act of God to do so.
Not really, just an act of humanity.
Same. I can absolutely understand their anger.
We have a psychopath openly expressing a willingness to take something by force. This is the definition of terrorism.
I do want to feel bad, especially when hearing Canadians say, “go back to the US” like in that article. Then I hear stories about my Canadian friends going to Arizona for business and people making jokes about being a 51st state to their faces and my compassion dips.
Don’t ever feel bad for giving exactly what is being asked for.
The shitty part is that the people suffering aren’t the people making decisions, but then that’s what needs to happen for voters to vote for someone else.
Hate is never needed
We don’t hate Americans, we just don’t think about them anymore, and actively try to avoid American made things.
As an American, please to allow for actions to continue to have consequences.
Our tourists won’t come back until we abolish ICE and stop detaining random people at our borders.
Canada isn’t going to be friends with the US again for at least an entire generation. I can get to mainland Europe from Vancouver for roughly the same price as a US vacation because your prices are completely fucked too. 18 usd for a burger? Lmao I’ll go to Prague and have a goulash and two beers for that
And the tariffs.
And threatening to annex us.
It’s not just ICE.
I don’t understand why so many Americans don’t get that. I hear, Canadians are upset at tariffs. I hear, Canadians are worried about border issues.
Both are true.
But that’s not why we’re enraged. It’s because an unhinged, racist, sexist, authoritarian, mentally challenged dictator has threatened to destroy our country and everyone there is doing fuck all about it.
everyone there is doing fuck all about it.
i think it’s important not to downplay the protests… people are organising the most political action that’s happened in most people’s lifetimes
but it’s by no means proportional to the situation
and perhaps more importantly: there are still a huge number of people that are drinking the koolaid
Honestly? It might be too late. Even if we did those things, no one is coming back for decades. We just proved it’s not safe.
It’s not even a boycott at this point, who in their right mind would cross the border and risk getting detained by an unshackled border control and ice.
Yup. Boycott is only part of it. The other part is that it’s not safe. ICE is out of control and has already sent Canadians to jail for zero reason.
I’m planning a 15 hr drive next month that I’d normally do thru the US as it shaves a few hours off. But not this time. You literally couldn’t pay me to cross that border - I can’t risk getting shipped off to some concentration camp in El Salvidore because ICE doesn’t like my hybrid car, or whatever.
Nobody in their right mind, but people who want to experience one of the best and one of the worst Rainforest Cafes in the same day.
I think many of us are shocked that the US has an army of ICE and CBP agents that were this ready to go full Gestapo. That suggests some alarming underlying issues.
The type of people that went into those agencies are uhh obsessed about those issues.
One can only wonder how many white nationalists gravitate towards those jobs, especially ICE agents.
many of us are shocked
Yet you have been regularly informed that “some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses” since 1992.
Don’t know if that’s widespread knowledge outside of the US but it would be interesting if that was widely known within the US.
Exactly, I wouldn’t visit America for the same reason I wouldn’t visit Afghanistan…it’s a dangerous country run by dangerous religious nut jobs.
And it’s about to get worse
I 110% expect Carney (Canadian PM) is getting the Zelenesky treatment tomorrow
He will be fine though and likely dominate, he will kiss his fists and say meet mr calm and collected and all will be well
Just commented in another post about Canadians stopped going to the USA. NY border towns like Plattsburgh, small one like Rouses Points, or even big one like Lake George are suffering big times because there is no more Canadians.
Two weeks ago, felt like going to Burlington for a quick weekend trip from Montreal. Went to Niagara falls instead. That a few hundreds Trump won’t enjoy. Clean your house USA.
Every time I take the tsawwassen ferry I look at point roberts and wonder what the fuck must be going on there.
I realize some of these are merely collateral damage.
Id rather it wasn’t necessary, but in the meantime, may it start hurting enough that y’all rise up to your bullshit king.Not yet. People are still in denial that their choice, or their choice to sit it out, us responsible for his installation.
It’s Bidens fault!
Keep it up. We need to feel the pain to fully awaken to the reality of Trumpism.
Economic hardship is about the only thing we all understand. It’s still important, I feel, to make it about the economy though. If Canada effectively sanctioned us because we banned abortions that would likely backfire.
Trumpism is the tip of the iceberg.
The know-nothings have been here all along.
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Ravage US, Canada. This isn’t sexual.
We’re currently being hit at the cervix by Alaska panhandle, can you ease off eh
Speak for yourself. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I don’t like it when they say sorey every time I scream. I’m American, I need it to hurt so I can feel.
hope florida is having the same thing.
ravaged by usa electing trump
Good. Stick it to us Canada.
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