Canada to cut off electricity to US states: "Need to feel the pain"
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Trump's tariffs don't just apply to business hours. Americans need to feel the pain that Canadians will.
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"We can't merge states with Canada because what if we tried with <third largest state with largest city in either country>?"
Your logic here is flawless.
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Does he have anything in plan to protect Canadians rather than just revenge on the US? Like in BC they're pushing the buy local, cutting down American liquor sales, and realloting some money to prep for what's expected to be all the upcoming layoffs.
All I've seen from Ontario is Ford saying he'll kick America's ass metaphorically but is there anything in place to protect the local jobs that'd be lost if they were to cut off all that electricity?
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Sure, if you want to have fair tariffs.
If you want to have effective tariffs that reverse trumps policy, then you need to be more selective.
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Sorry. 24/7, just like the tariffs.
It will hurt. That's the point. Maybe it'll hurt enough that y'all DO something about the absolute fuckery happening down there. Canada didn't ask for this shit.
I hate that this is where things are but pretty soon folks will need to get to the FO part of FAFO.
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Sadly, fox, oan and the usual right wing echo chambers aren't gonna feed Trudeau's message to their idiot masses. The people he reached are people that probably have at least half a clue what's happening and who is responsible.
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There is a simple solution:
Form a North American union
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I disagree. If people are comfortable, they won't want to change the status quo.
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You can't bomb people into loving you. A lesson hard learned in the Middle East.
Sure, you can run those tariffs 24/7, and it would be totally in your sovereign right to do so. However, that's not going to change anything. Trump may be a blithering idiot, but the Peter Thiels and Stephen Millers feeding him all those "bright ideas" certainly knew that equal tariffs from Canada would be the response. The line here will be "Canada is attacking you, and shutting off your power", and the trump supporters will gag themselves chocking down that line of rhetoric as hard and as fast as possible. Thats not going to solve the tariffs problem for Canada though, it will only make it worse.
If you want revenge, equal tariffs. If you wanna actually stick it to the people that stuck you and force them to backtrack, go after the businesses bottom line.
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Don't put the squeeze on the voters. They either didn't vote for trump, or they were so dumb that they did vote for trump won't understand why their electric bill went through the roof.
The whole point of democracy is the voters have an impact. If nothing changes for the voters don't be surprised when they vote for the same party next time.
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This all just seems incredibly sad to me. As a nation, it sounds like the fight has been completely beaten out of you all, so much so that you're afraid of even a little pain, vote based on empty promises and sound bites, and blame each other instead of yourselves.
You all traded your freedom for convenience. You're like flowers, opened wide, waiting for rain rather than vines that seek.
Best of luck to you all. We have to prepare ourselves, as members of the global economy, for this economic fallout. I'm prepared to fight and suffer, if I have to protect my own way of life.
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You can't bomb people into loving you
That's what Canada needs to teach Trump. It's needs to be 24/7 or else he thinks he got away with it.
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Whole world needs to put 300 percent tarrifs on the US until they realise they are t percent of the world and aren't in a position to bully others.
China's going to eat their lunch if they keep things as they are.
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Damn… your comment being at zero upvotes is making me realize just how much everyone hates us. I know zero isn’t really anything on the surface. But I would’ve thought your comment would resonate a little.
But naw, everyone is, rightfully, just fearing for their countries right now and wants to, understandably, punish.
I fucking hate my country rn, I protested today even. But I know we’re in a bad spot and I kinda looked to countries like Canada as our last hope in defeating the pieces of shit running our country.
Guess I was delusional that they would still prioritize us “good” ones and keep us safe. But like… why? Why would they?
Oh well, no one who’s lived in a collapsing empire throughout history wanted to. And a lot of people died, and they probably didn’t want to lol.
I hope I don’t die, but I hope for good to prevail more. And if I die in the process of the defeat of this fucked country, and the world order that follows is something better. So be it… shits rough.
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Trump won’t care. Mostly hits blue states. He will probably cackle
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Those bribe cheques certainly helped
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Pain is fine. Pain is deserved. Pain needs to either be felt as a whole or target the most deserving.
But shutting off electricity mainly affects people without any power (
) and that had the awareness to vote against this horror. Trump and co will just laugh “see the poor snowflake liberals what happens when they import clean electricity instead of good old American coal”.I can’t argue that we don’t deserve it but I can hope for something more likely to help make a difference
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Do it, but sadly it will affect the Blue States.
