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Too bad. Keep it coming Canada. And other countries need to follow their lead.
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“We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”
Are you a business owner who does international commerce? Guess what, shit-for-brains: you better get interested in politics really fast. Your fucking president is violating treaties, threatening allies, breaking international law, and arming and publicly supporting a genocide.
For Christ’s sake, your country is actively threatening your customers. Why the ever-loving fuck would your customers sit still for that? Not everyone is American-stupid.
You use the word stupid which is fair but more specifically there is a profound level of ignorance and disconnection from reality. So many live as if their heads are perpetually in the sand, making it hard to decipher how much of it is intentional because they don't want to answer for their government vs how much is being spanked so hard by capitalism-daddy that they don't have time to look up and see whats happening.
I think stupid is fitting here. Stupid is willful ignorance.
Americans are willfully ignorant of what they voted for with Trump.
I agree with you. I shouldn't resort to name calling but this kind of tone-deaf article gets to me. A lot of the 'stupidity' i am referring to is behavioural - like you say, it is actually a mixture of ignorance and apathy. The wealthy want people to be so poor that they can't pay attention to anything other than their next paycheque or so busy that they don't have time to be well-informed. In case that isn't enough, they throw literal disinformation at people through corporate mass-media.
"Innocent bystanders" aren't a thing in this sort of case. Punishing the public so that they apply pressure to the government to get the pain to stop is the entire fucking point!
It's the same reason why effective protests are disruptive on purpose.
There’s a strong argument to be made FOR being political. He was like, ‘we stay out of politics’. Maybe that was your mistake, dude.
We stay out of politics! That way we enjoy all the benefits of our governments imperialism without having to answer for any of its transgressions.
A majority of white people have not voted for a democratic candidate since the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964. This is the largest racial demographic in the country.
Within this group, the majority of college educated do vote Democrat however most white people in the country are not college educated.
It was 1964 when the Democrats finally flipped on Civil Rights (previously both parties were both pro segregation). Subsequently, republican leaders—most famously Richard Nixon and his campaign advisers—adopted a deliberate “Southern Strategy”: appeal to white Southern resentment over civil‑rights gains amongst other concerns. This demographic (largely not college educated) has not swayed in their support for Republicans since then.
Remember that the southern confederacy fought on the philosophy that their property rights were being infringed during the American civil war. That property being human lives.
Interestingly, communism played an important role in the progress of civil rights in America.
Soviet propagandists seized on America’s segregation, lynching history, and denial of voting rights to portray the United States as hypocritical, arguing that a nation preaching liberty while oppressing minorities could not truly embody democracy. They broadcast films, pamphlets, and radio messages that highlighted police brutality, the Jim Crow South, and the disenfranchisement of Black voters, hoping to sway independent nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America toward communism. American officials recognized that domestic racial injustice threatened their credibility abroad; if allies saw inequality, they might reject U.S. aid or align with Moscow. Consequently, U.S. presidents from Truman to Johnson felt pressure to pass civil‑rights legislation, both to fulfill moral imperatives and to deny the Soviet Union a strategic propaganda weapon.
I bring up college educated simply to point out there is diversity within the group and it is not a monolith (as no group is).
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Nelson County VA Presidential election voting:
2016: +5.6% Trump
2020: +5.2% Trump
2024: +7.5% Trump
Have the day you voted for, you idiots.
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It's not even worth sourcing a stock photo. "Not political" maybe you should've paid attention, fuckwad.
Who's "legally allowed" in nazi USA is entirely a gamble with how big a nazi the border agent you're dealing with that day is.
Read the article. They do not once blame Trump or the Republicans, they're just crying victim. Now look to the journalists who didn't ask any hard hitting questions, hell, not even easy questions. "Do you blame President Trump?"
Well theyr all employed b they robber barons so, no surprise there
Just want to chime in and say that my mom and her friends were just in Canada and they said the people there totally understand that half of America is against Trump and everything he stands for and don’t blame all Americans at all, but they feel they have to punish the country for electing him nonetheless.
Totally reasonable IMO.
I moved from NY to Canada and have only felt welcomed by everyone. I absolutely love it here and have no desire to return.
The desire to reduce reliance on the US is very real. There's a strong movement to shop local, which I do love. Canada has better food anyways.
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Trump hurt these companies, not Canadians who refuse to pay for Trump's tariffs and instead support their own domestic producers.
Have they tried saying "thank you" even once?
I'm surprised it's only a 30% drop in visitors.
America could literally start a shooting war and if we fought back they would complain we're killing their innocent soldiers.
The boycott will continue and we really dont care if you did or did not vote for Trump. This is about your country actively trying to hurt ours. We arent just gonna sit here and take it to spare your feelings.
In summary, get fucked bud.
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If your business can't lose at most 10% of its clientele and survive, the its not those 10% at fault.
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If border Nazis are stopping Canucks - they're stopping kiwis, so, probably - then Canucks don't need to come visit. This is not the fault of the visitor.
Conservative media outlet spins for Trump. I'm absolutely shocked and amazed. 😒
Seriously, why the hell did I have to open this godawful site to read this when OP said he was going to post the text in comments?
I guess it is just too hard to blame this administration for royally fucking up by threatening our closest ally (both literally and figuratively) and then imposing a bunch of tariffs in direct violation to the constitution and existing trade agreements.
It must be the consumers fault!?
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Goes like this? “Duh, I voted for the felon child rapist. Not my fault I am just an innocent bystander.”
Not to me your not, your complicit and I will never buy anything or have anything to do with the us as long as I live.
Fuck off.
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"innocent" people that allowed a fascist to inhabit the Whitehouse.
Whether you voted for him, or you didn't vote, you allowed it to happen.
Those that voted against, you're cool, come up for a beer sometime eh?
I’m one of those that voted against. And not too far away here in the PNW. Got Guinness?
You know we do. I'll keep one on I've for you bud.
They are not innocent.
Won't anyone think of the innocent shareholders! /s
CNN's willful ignorance of the Trump Regime's malice is hurting innocent people.
That is why I will not click on the link. It's right wing garbage.
Sounds like CNN is completely deep throating the boot.
If there’s ever a CNN article you want to read, just click incognito mode. Works for the premium paid articles too.
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100% played for and got.
plus you can get bougie wine from EU, too why buy cheap made american alcohol.
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