A sitting U.S. congressman is threatening Canada over a weather event north of the border. As Dean Blundell writes in his Substack, “In any other timeline this would be satire. In this one, it’s a gubernatorial campaign strategy.”
Republicans are completely without shame.
Source: Dean Blundell/Substack
Which brings us, regrettably, to Congressman John James of Michigan — Trump’s endorsed pick for Governor — who marked the fourth summer of continental smoke by tweeting a “FINAL WARNING TO CANADA,” complete with a campaign graphic reading “CANADA: NO EXCUSES. STOP THE SMOKE,” featuring — and I promise this is real — an Apache attack helicopter on his logo. He and Reps. Bergman, McClain, and Moolenaar fired off a letter to Prime Minister Carney declaring that their patience has run out, that American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction, and that if Canada won’t manage its forests, the United States will “act on our own” — with American agencies pursuing “direct involvement” in cross-border operations. Sovereignty, they intone, comes with responsibility.
A sitting Congressman is threatening a neighbouring democracy over weather while wrapped in the visual language of a military invasion. In any other timeline this would be satire. In this one it’s a gubernatorial campaign strategy.
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