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Canada to cut off electricity to US states: "Need to feel the pain"
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As an American, I agree 100%. Canada needs to kick our ass. We deserve it.
I agree with the sentiment but those states are all pretty blue. Trump might just let it happen to widen the divide and somehow claim that it's punishment for not bending the knee.
There are no blue states. It's red country and blue cities.
Given that Canadians don't typically vote in American elections, I don't see how that has anything to do with us or should affect our decision making.
The USA is tariffing us, not just the red states.
Yeah, the us is bad at thinking everyone is inside their crazy system. It does not matter to us if you state "don't blame me I voted for Kodos", at the end of the day you are all citizens of a belligerent nation. Your government is representing you all on the world stage, if you don't like it do something about it.
Minnesota is. Michigan tends to be (especially now that our districts are drawn independently), but we voted for Trump as a state. And New York is mostly red except for NYC.
I almost want to see our power bills skyrocket in Michigan. But at the same time I know full well the dipshits who voted red (including my own family) will blame everyone else before they blame the people who might end abortion. So it won’t matter. They won’t learn. Instead we’ll all suffer because of their idiocy and they’ll continue to think that we’re winning.
(In fact they’ll be thrilled because it will mean increased oil and natural gas production to close the gap in demand.)
That's some weird logic. Trump enacts tariffs on Canada,who retaliates in kind, so you're worried about blue votes. Trump may claim that after the fact, but he's definitely not playing chess that many moves ahead.
The dude can barely plan a double jump with hopscotch, much less checkers.
That Ozempic chewing orange twat has never physically jumped in his life, let's be honest.
Exactly. Trump. Not the states that voted against him. If you want to retaliate, retaliate against Trump. Make him, and the people that voted for him feel the pain.
Look at the things he's doing domestically. There's nothing he and his MAGA dipshits love more than sticking it to the blue states. So, Canada doing something that predominantly hurts blue states isn't going to hurt Trump at all. Quite the contrary, it's going to give him huge hard-on.
So, if your goal is to help Trump, well then carry on.
Like it or not, Trump’s actions are America’s actions now and we’ll fight back in any way we can.
Also Canadians are pretty pissed at Americans in general right now
What is it you actually think I intended? Are your glasses foggy?
Vermont in particular is heavily dependent on imported energy.
Maybe you guys should just kick out the traitors that very obviously work for a foreign government.