Silly Canada. You’re not suppose to say that you put up the billboard. You’re suppose to run it through a various political organizations like “Americans For a Better Future” or American Families for Prosperity“.
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I get what they're saying but I think the "Paid for by the government of canada" might be misinterpreted...
Yeah, I'm all for proper attribution, but I think making it just a little smaller, or two lines so it doesn't line up with the main message, could have made it more clear that it wasn't part of the message.
I think it is part of the message, Canada was pushing back against the tariffs USA was imposing.
I know it took me half a second. Adding "poster" in front, or something would make in unambiguous.
"the only thing the government of Canada is paying for is this ad"
These Tariffs are not approved by Congress, so they are taxation without representation.
That’s not quite what that phrase means, but I like the spirits
It's approaching that point.
If the executive ignores the law and the other branches of government, we effectively no longer have a representative government.
Yes. This is pretty much the spirt of it.
The founding fathers probably could not have predicted some idiot MFer ping-ponging tariffs on and off so him and his buddies could do some insider trading and destroy the economy.
Are these billboards in the USA or Canada?
They're at least in one US state because I've seen it while driving down the road.
they're deployed specifically to republican-majority states:
Apparently these are real, but many have rotated out.
I saw one.
The Republican when they see this: "yeah but JJOOOEEEEE BIIIDEN!"
"Joe Biden immediately tanked the economy to enrich himself and his cronies!"
"The 'elites' are driving stock prices down to make Trump look bad. He's being blamed for Democrat fraud" or something along those lines.
The response I have seen now is “but national debt”
…Has anyone looked at the budget?
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