Like Drump ... this idiot is more bark than bite ...
'hey folks, I'm gonna kinda sorta maybe defend you ... and even if I don't, I'll tell you that I did a year from now'
Reminder also, that the electric grid is more complicated than this. We in America won't lose power if he flips a switch, instead our municipality will be forced to purchase power from other sources. You won't be inconvenienced, you will just have to pay more.
Save for maybe full-scale nuclear war, the end result of every possible action by this administration and the people responding to them will ALL have the effect of making each of us pay more. This is the plan, this is why they're doing it, they're trying to drain the wealth of the average American so we become like any other developing nation with a massive population living in shanties and a wealthy elite who control everything and have no limitations to what they can do, because all the governing systems and oversight has been stripped. This is the plan, it's not particularly clever, but it works fantastically well, just ask every other nation that's been toppled from within by obnoxious authoritarians. America is not immune.
Our only real hope here is that they move too fast and make people uncomfortable enough that people start rallying sooner than later. The ousting always comes, the worry is that it will be too late to save democracy and all the myriads of systems that have maintained a functional nation for a couple centuries.
Conservative 101
I've voted against Doug Ford 3 times now, but saying he's more bark than bite isn't really true. He's already directed the LCBO to pull American booze from shelves and cease new orders.
Did he ever rip up the Starlink contract?
EDIT: He did it!
He dropped it on the floor and bent over to pick it up and ripped open his pants instead
What’s a word that sounds like no, is spelled with the letters n and o and makes is defined in the dictionary as
“a way that shows a negative response”
So to answer your question, he did in fact not rip up that contract. Hopefully today he does rip it up.
Update: Ford has apparently ripped up the starlink contract with F'elon Musk ask his nazi party. Good!!
No need to turn it off for good, 5 minutes every hour or two would be a good reminder
I think pushing the button requires waaaaay more backbone that Druggie has. Just sayin'.
Not saying he shouldn’t do it, but the US would have the power back very quickly and Trump would spin it to his supporters as an act of aggression. I don’t think most of the people who temporarily get inconvenienced would see it as a wake up call. America is too far gone. I say that as an American from Michigan that lives in Canada.
As someone with limited knowledge of Canadian politics, who is Doug Ford? If he isn't the prime minister, how does he have significant power and influence to go against the US?
Also, if he is that powerful, he can teach us how to!
Doug Ford is the Premier (think Governor, sorta) of Ontario, our most populous province. The power company might be owned by the provincial government, too
This would mostly punish people who never wanted Trump in power. It's a purely spiteful move, which in all honesty wouldn't hurt Trump. The executive branch would just say not my problem.
What would you suggest we do instead?
I'm more than cool with everything else Canada is doing. It's just that electricity is a necessity while most everything else is a want. People generally don't focus on utilities when they think about economic health. Hit them where it hurts. Real estate, tesla, etc.
Possibly. Everyone is out for blood, which is a refreshing change from sticking our head in the sand like we have for so long, but being out for blood famously can also go too far.
The people actually in charge are taking a very balanced approach. For now, dollar-for-dollar tariffs are the only thing that's for sure. The long list of other ways to fuck with the US are being held in reserve for a bit later.
We didn't want this either but the biggest difference here is we didn't get a choice.
