Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.
Hey 'murican here, the other day I punched my friend in the face and started bragging about maybe taking their home from them with violent force and now they are ravaging our friendship by refusing to hang out with me.
What can I do? Threaten my friend with more violence and intolerance?
Thnx ahead of time for any advice.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
I mean, I and others friends have made jokes about the 51st state thing with a Canadian friend in our group. But everyone in that group knows how fucking absurd the idea is, and everyone in the group knows that no one in the group is in favor of it. Sort of gallows humor.
I have to hope that’s what those others were trying with their jokes, trying to relieve tension by mocking the absurdity. But obviously if that backfires, it’s certainly not the fault of the receiver of the joke. Intention matters but it isn’t everything.
Yeah, my friends and I have made jokes that could be construed as the worse things you’ve ever heard unless you understood that that’s the point. Out of context they’d be terrible, so I know what you mean.
The way my friend described it was quite unpleasant. They could have been joking with him but I think a few of us are more on edge about this so that can be in play. I’ve also seen news reports about Canadian’s in Florida and Floridians joking about taking over Canada and Canadians being quite upset about it too.
I would hope that the Americans were not being intentionally provocative and that it’s us Canadians that are not getting their jokes. However, I think most of us just don’t take Trump’s threats lightly. He’s caused so much damage and he’s only getting started.
Our tourists won’t come back until we abolish ICE and stop detaining random people at our borders.
And the tariffs.
And threatening to annex us.
It’s not just ICE.
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.
Only significant pain will transform the US unfortunately. And it’ll either be economic or combative. Most MAGA voters are gone, but the “nothing will change” non-voters can be woken up from the delusion that nothing matters and helped to recognize that voting at its most basic is harm reduction.
As a border state that sees a bunch of Canadian tourists and shoppers it’ll suck, but the only way out is through.
Ravage US, Canada. This isn’t sexual.
Keep it up. We need to feel the pain to fully awaken to the reality of Trumpism.
Other countries need to hammer republican states with tariffs and boycotts. Since they control the government, it’s the only way they will relent on economic sanctions and ICE nonsense.
Or…
The West Coast needs to form its own trading bloc and reform ICE, as the former rules don’t seem to apply to anything anymore. We’ll continue to uphold traditional American values from 1776-2015, values held before all of this New Right horseshit.
I can confirm Points Roberts is really losing out from this trade war. It’s a little tiny piece of the USA easy to get to from Vancouver but hard from mainland USA since you either have to take a boat or go through 2 international border controls.
Point Roberts gets the water electricity and telephone from our lines, throws their trash in our landfills, gets most of their business from Canada, and have a bunch of shipping/forwarding services because the rates are often cheaper to a US address.
Many Americans are great and I like them, but we’re boycotting because starting from the Republican regime and its supporters, a lot of people there have gotten too casual about how much they think they don’t need us so we’re reminding them at large of our value.
I’m glad this Bloomberg article finally lists the many reasons that factor into this because for a few months the only reasons given were the tariffs and bad exchange rate. On its own, those haven’t stopped Canadians crossing to the US to this level in the past.
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.
Do not come to this shit hole country.
Dear news orgs: you have reached your 2025 quoto for the following words: “ravaged,” “blasted,” “slammed”
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!
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
Thats… not what the dems are doing. At all.
No. Because the antediluvians running the party don’t understand why they keep losing. Maybe they should try a tactic other than "Stop, or I’ll say stop again.
