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Stephen ONeill's avatar

You can't fix stupid. The level of stupidity exhibited by Trump supporters...at whatever level...boggles the mind.

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Annie's avatar

What a fiasco- the ignorance of this regime on every level.

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Victoria Hanks's avatar

It's a new contest in government - who can write the most idiotic letter. And anyway, Americans barbecue all summer so how can you tell what's on fire? Your burger or Canada? I'm American, unfortunately and I'm sorry. My taxes are paying for all this crap.

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Maria Devereux's avatar

It's nice to read some humour from an American- you'd fit right in in Canada Victoria. We are sorry for your dark predicament too. Elbows up and start fighting back! ( If you need a few pointers, tune in to an average hockey game.)

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Victoria Hanks's avatar

Thank you, Maria - you made my day! Love your hockey comment LOL.

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kdsherpa's avatar

I never had time (or desire) to watch daytime TV back in the day when Oprah had her show. But a couple of times when I got off call a littler earlier than usual (i.e., only a 30 hour shift, not 36 hours; and that was every other day during my Internship year), I tuned in. As soon as I saw philmcgraw, my skin crawled. I'm a psychiatrist, so was curious what a psychologist would have to say, and I assumed that, given my respect for Oprah, he'd probably be decent. Instead, as I said, he gave me the creeps. Something about him felt dark and judgmental. Turns out, I was right. He is very, very dark.

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elliott oberman's avatar

Have you decency! TomTiffancy! Trump is not having the victory lap week he thought he was going to have. The mounting death toll in Texas is a searing reminder of the harms his “more for me, less for all of you” agenda has brought to the country. The ongoing Epstein fiasco has been ugly for him in many, many ways. He’s flailing and all over the place on Russia and Ukraine. The 2026 Fiscal Year budget, the one that codifies the big ugly and his extremist agenda, is struggling on the Hill. His bestie Elon has started a new political party. And today, the deadline for his 90 deals in 90 days, he comes to the country with no deals and all sorts of new batshit crazy attacks on our allies; and new promises to keep raising prices on all of us, again betraying the central promise he made to the American people during the 2024 campaign that he would lower their prices and make the economy work better for working people.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Apparently Hegseth cancelled the weapons for Ukraine on his own initiative. Trump rescinded that the next day.

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Mary Barnes's avatar

Those 2 idiot ass-kissers have got to be kidding!!!! We had a little bit of smoke for a few days in Chicago when the fire was burning up north, it was no big deal. The Big Deal is trump and his cronies sending us back to the early 1900's by getting rid of vital departments and department heads (thank you, DOGE) and letting fossil fuel companies, air and water polluters to just do what they want. I can deal with a forest fire or two, but chemicals in my water, fumes and methane from refineries and large corporations getting access to our National Parks for mining?????? God help us.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Trump is killing the solar and wind tax advantages from Biden and pushing fossil fuels.

Because climate change is a scam!

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Linda's avatar

I should like to respond to this letter. Only yesterday, while looking out over the lake, I commented to my husband that there appeared to be smoke in the air. Went outside on the patio and my nose confirmed it. The local FB community pages lit up. Where was the fire? Turns out, it's south of the border, northwest of Spokane, with the slightly incongruous name "Hope." Who should I write to complain about this?

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

Dear America,

Please send rakes.

And turn down the AC.

Sincerely,

Canada

P.S. We trust that your coal & fossil fuel pollution isn’t going to drift north.

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Sherry Gerbi's avatar

🤗 Love it!

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Stephen Sovie's avatar

I’m so embarrassed to be an American! This orange turd is destroying our country and reputation.

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Sherry Gerbi's avatar

We don’t need to be embarrassed; the rest of the world understands the idiocy belongs to the orange buffoon, his regime & all MAGA voters (and maybe those who didn’t bother to vote as well)

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Catherine's Nook's avatar

So proud and thankful to you for having set the record straight. These two characters may, just may, have 1/2 brain between them - no guarantees of that though.

Aside from the facts you so kindly dumbed down to level that these mindless nimrods can hopefully understand, I guess they must think that the smoke from the fires only ruins Americans' summers and that we're impervious to the effects.

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Rebecca M. Senese's avatar

I think half a brain between them is extremely generous!

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Catherine's Nook's avatar

Thank you. Every once in a while, I try, obviously not very hard, to show a bit of restraint in my ridicule and disgust of unserious people.

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Rebecca M. Senese's avatar

Your restraint is admirable. They do not deserve it. They deserve all the ridicule and disgust.

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Sherry Gerbi's avatar

Agreed!

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Nancy Ellen Maitri Peden, D.D.'s avatar

You amaze me l, Dean. Thanks for the alert. I hope it is used as evidence somehow soon. Rep Jamie Raskin and my Rep. Melanie Stansbury should be interested.

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Tami2cents's avatar

Thank God for Dean giving us straight up news. This disgusting fiasco is right out of a dismantled nightmare - an ill

mindset of display difficult to watch and comprehend in modern day America.

As for creepy “Dr. Phil”, what’s his gruesome story here - desperation for spotlight again? America is now a montage of so called “reality shows” never reality at all. A true demise of societal breakdown getting worse by the day.

And what an embarrassing letter to Canada, and pathetic state of affairs for the majority of us Americans. Wildfires are more common everywhere, including WA State where I live. This shameful letter screams hideous lack of critical thought, and yet another incomprehensibility to choke on. Where the hell do these people come from?

Tomorrow will impose another level of insanity upon us. I’d rather be a few miles up in Canada where common sense still exists. 🇨🇦

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Sherry Gerbi's avatar

Wish I was there also. Elbows Up Canada!

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RandomHuman's avatar

They should send ice, duh. Get it? hahahahaha. Maybe a buncha dudes on horseback in haloween costumes can go piss on it. #maganagement

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Hollyanna's avatar

Once again, I feel the urge to apologize for the incredible arrogance and ignorance of our current regime. These congressional clowns are a disgrace to sane Americans everywhere. Sorry, Canada!

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Wendy Shelley's avatar

I hope Ambassador Hillman puts this in the ‘round file’ before it gets any traction from FF47! 🤣

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Jo1867's avatar

Dean there’s a page 2 with 4 more names & signatures. Grotham Emmer Stauber & Fischbach

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