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If you want to retaliate against this US administration avoid buying stuff exported by red states. The rest of us can't wait for this admin to be over.

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Why do you think blue states deserve a pass? All of you are Americans, all of you have a part in what’s happened. Is this not what democracy means?

We don’t but the blue states are at least putting up a fight to the best of our ability (short of full scale civil war which nobody wants).

What fight? Don’t delude yourselves. Trump is doing whatever he wants and Democrats are just letting it happen. Don’t hold it against the rest of the world for noting this.

That’s not true. My senator for example is constantly fighting and filing challenges. There are countless lawsuits. We are unfortunately outnumbered in the gov but hopefully the midterm will change that. I do agree though that on the whole we are losing / they are getting a bunch of BS through.

Like summer heat records, the past 3 protests have been the largest by percentage and by sheer population in US history.

GQP controls both the House and Senate, plus SCOTUS. And Republicans have been a monolithic bloc since Gingrich instituted a no-compromise policy. Even if Jeffries wasn't a waste of oxygen, there's not much more that could be done.

How are the Democrats 'just letting it happen' in your opinion? Are the DSA 'just letting it happen' too?

No, democracy doesn't mean everyone supports this administration. And in fact, this administration has declared that the blue states are the "enemy from within." If anything you should be sending us survival gear when Trump eventually launches war on us.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5557232/hegseth-general...

I don't think we can be that reductive. Plenty of the US technology industry is concentrated in blue states like California, Washington, and New York. Likewise, I don't think all blue states can be considered equally resistant to the excesses of the federal government. I'm not going to go so far as to say "never buy American," but I am going to say that as with any boycott it takes research and diligence to decide who does and doesn't align with your values.

Gavin Newsom might be president in 3 years and is on record saying he wouldn't remove some of the tariffs.

Retaliatory tariffs need to apply to blue states too.

Canada also has leverage over toilet paper. 29% of USA crude comes from Canada with the Midwest and Rocky Mountains especially dependent.

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