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turbinetree

(26,419 posts)
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 06:58 PM Jul 11

WI & MN Republicans Send Letter Blaming Canada For Forest Fires

"We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer."

By Ed Scarce — July 11, 2025

This sounds like something out of The Onion, but Republican House representatives Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin and Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach, Pete Stauber and Tom Emmer of Minnesota all signed their names to it. "A handful of Republican dumbasses from the good old US of A are blaming Canada for wildfire smoke entering their country," begins the video above.

Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, according to a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's U.S. ambassador.

We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer, begins the letter, published Monday and addressed to Ambassador Kirsten Hillman.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/republicans-send-cease-desist-letter

For every maga POS that is all in this .................hold your breath...............your fucking idiots..............and just think they are taking your tax dollars that just enriched oil and coal companies to create more fucking smoke on this planet we live on..............we have no where else to go dumb shits...............and they send a fucking letter...............why don't you idiots all stand together go up there a place along the Boundary Water Canoe area where I grew up and use fans on the smoke to blow it back into Canada........stand there all summer and winter...........

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Raven123

(6,882 posts)
2. Maybe Canadian officials should reply with their own letter
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 07:05 PM
Jul 11

The United States needs to contain the stupidity that Canadians have to endure from the Trump administration

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,290 posts)
5. Canada had a huge problem with US supplied acid rain for many years but bilateral action stopped it (mostly)
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 07:16 PM
Jul 11

You may have been referring to this.

Srkdqltr

(8,702 posts)
4. I hope they thought that was funny because if they were serious......that's about the stupidest .....I have no words.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 07:13 PM
Jul 11
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