What you need to understand is that this drop in tourism is not only driven by a refusal to send money to a country that has shown utter contempt for us (and remember, any dollar spent anywhere in the US goes towards federal taxes), but also by genuine concerns over our safety. To go to Maine we still have to cross a border run by the feds, and risk harassment (or worse) by Trump's thugs. ICE are storming around the country rounding up whoever the fuck they like with no regard to any kind of legal process.

Why bother risking if? Why go to any part of that shithole? I might as well vacation in North Korea. No matter how deep blue the state, you're still going to find people there who voted for that psychopath, twice in many cases. I just can't think of a good reason to vacation there rather than go to a civilised country... Or just stay home. New Brunswick is fucking beautiful, plenty to do around here, and Nova Scotia or Quebec are just as far as Maine. Or we could hop on a plane and finally go see BC.

While yes New England is generally blue, we need to pressure New Hampsire (red) and Vermont (divided) to get rid of their republicans.

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Maybe New England should declare independence. That would solve the problem. Until then, federal agents are free to operate within their borders.

The Maine Governor can go tell Trunp to stop threatening our sovereignty. Canada’s not going back. Probably for generations.

See that’s the thing. If Trump leaves, someone who is not maga might take over for four to eight years but then another trump-like magat will get back in and pick up where he left off. That person will probably be younger and smarter, so able to do more damage and maybe try harder to annex Canada. It’s too risky. Canada and the US are broken up - for good.

Yeah especially for crap they might have on their phone 🙄🙄🙄

Yeah but more broadly the country elected a deranged incoherent fascistic narcissistic reality tv show host to their highest office - twice who has threatened to annex Canada and has tens of millions of sycophants. So, no one from there gets a pass really.

At this point, I'd consider going just to get away from everybody else.

Then, when the Canadians are in line at the border, just about to cross back into Canada, ICE beats, detains, and deports them to El Salvador!

It's not "don't tread on me" but "don't you dare walk in my general direction"

I was going to point out that Maine went to Kamala but the race was closer there than it should have been. Rural Maine I guess?