There hasn't actually been a serious border security problem between Canada and the US. Wanna know a good way to create one? Create incentives in the tens of billions of dollars for successful smuggling operations. - ThreadSky

jacobtlevy.bsky.social • 20 days ago

There hasn't actually been a serious border security problem between Canada and the US.

Wanna know a good way to create one? Create incentives in the tens of billions of dollars for successful smuggling operations.

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evepick.bsky.social•20 days ago

Not since the Purple Gang stopped running booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition

dlavin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well, on the bright side, we'll get a new generation of righteous outlaw smuggler songs about Maple syrup...

feralhusband.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hear me out, homing chickens that live there but lay here.

diathomaseous.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why does Trump want to sow division with US Allies?

mwdooley.bsky.social•20 days ago

Al Capone to the white courtesy phone. Mr. Al Capone to the white courtesy phone please.

compasshead1.bsky.social•20 days ago

This will sure as hell make mifepristone readily available everywhere

spudmonkey.bsky.social•20 days ago

Not since prohibition.

Golly, I wonder what will happen this time?

bobblakley.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just ask RFK Jr.'s great granddad

flatirons.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ha, good point

alanji.bsky.social•20 days ago

As during US prohibition.
Sales of Scotch whisky in Canada rocketed.
Irish Whiskey lacked contracts in Canada;
many distilleries went bankrupt.

edolis.bsky.social•20 days ago

remember the reportage about refugees moving to Canada. Get a taxi, move to end of Roxham Road, cross a ditch, be rescued by Canadian police. That's the status of the border
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/roxham-road-explainer-1.6756753

chrisvdkieboom.bsky.social•20 days ago

Canada has shut down a ton of smaller crossings while also treating illegally crossing the U.S. border as a crime (which the U.S. doesn’t) https://youtu.be/mXdu8gkNLTk?si=bDBatNioTX2OLnFR

camps123.bsky.social•20 days ago

😥

chad-frederick.bsky.social•20 days ago

im4theusa.bsky.social•20 days ago

Are you sure that Russia is not involved in any of this?

chad-frederick.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maybe, but as a geographer, I see them as two different countries.

im4theusa.bsky.social•20 days ago

As someone who is 73 years old - I do not see a real difference other then geography.

chad-frederick.bsky.social•20 days ago

The Soviet Union was defeated and they lost all their satellite states and alliances. Russia currently has a GDP of 1.5 trillion. Ours is 22 trillion.

im4theusa.bsky.social•20 days ago

That has nothing to do with the fact that they see themselves in charge of everything and everyone? They are actually going down but I would wish it was faster.

dpcarey123.bsky.social•20 days ago

As Chinese - Russian operations against the West go, well, this one has been quite the success, eh?

usuallyannoyed.bsky.social•20 days ago

Couldn’t have done it better if they’d elected Putin himself

dpcarey123.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is much better. And their rich oligarch brethren get richer, too.

d3s4.bsky.social•20 days ago

He is an asset

Legitimate Ukraine colonization by claiming Canada & Groenland and destroy Nato is the aim.

Leningrad 1987...

aeirould.bsky.social•20 days ago

This? This is that damage. Khrushchev promised exactly this.

chad-frederick.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yep... And they couldn't do it.

But Trump did.

aeirould.bsky.social•20 days ago

Putin’s disinformation campaign comes directly from Nikita’s playbook and lineage. The deliberate destabilization of the electorate was a long game they began decades ago.

chad-frederick.bsky.social•20 days ago

And Trump finished it.

imtootiredforthiss.bsky.social•20 days ago

They don’t care

impliedoralconsent.com•20 days ago

I operate under the assumption that every blue check is a bot.

marktspence.bsky.social•20 days ago

Every era gets the rum runners it deserves, it appears...

dobbsemigree.bsky.social•20 days ago

Could help diversify the current Maritime smuggling economy which is almost entirely reliant on cocaine

policyg.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is the one of the best arguments about raising sales taxes above a certain threshold. 25% is probably that threshold.

neil-lewis.bsky.social•20 days ago

Boston tea party 2025 style?

rebeccabluestone.bsky.social•20 days ago

sounds like I need to go into the bootlegging industry. It is tradition afterall here in the appalachians.

thekert.bsky.social•20 days ago

There probably will be now that Trump has pulled much of the federal support for drug enforcement to have them focus on illegal immigrants. He doesn't actually care about fentanyl, it's just his excuse to use because he can't say he's just lashing out due to spite.

midwesternmama.bsky.social•20 days ago

🧠🎯🔥

noah4321.bsky.social•20 days ago

The most serious border and security problem has been the influx of illegal guns from the United States into Canada.

USA gun-makers --and lawmakers-- are exporting violence.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8845131/ontario-crime-guns-new-data-top-us-source-states/

alexanotherone.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh great, this will probably empower the NYC mob

borealisphoenix.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hate to break it to you, but the mob in Montreal and Guelph may have something to say about that, depending on their existing alliances.

It’s not as though organized crime has not long been aware of how to work internationally, and not just within one continent.

alexanotherone.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why do you assume they aren't already talking to each other?

borealisphoenix.bsky.social•20 days ago

That would be why I included the point about the existing alliances.

I would, in fact, absolutely assume that they are either already talking to each other, and have various agreements, alliances, and or trade squabble of their own.

digitmusic.bsky.social•20 days ago

…and then we can invade…YAY 😵‍💫

tekrantz.bsky.social•20 days ago

MAGA delenda est #magadelendaest

miketolhurst.bsky.social•20 days ago

How does one become a Capo in a Quebec maple syrup syndicate?

tft.io•20 days ago

Call up Rock-Machine, I guess

lilyisacat5.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just smuggle me and mine into 🇨🇦, please, and thank you.

janet.bsky.social•20 days ago

Kraft Dinner incoming.

flomarida.bsky.social•20 days ago

Tell that to anyone living in a border town. A border patrol agent was murdered at the US/Canada border just last month.

irmwrites.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maybe this was the plan all along? As a favor to Don’s mafia buddies? He certainly thinks he’s Al Capone.

blamemacbif.bsky.social•20 days ago

All this over 50lbs of fentanyl...

djbp.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also I wonder which direction it was going in on the northern border

blamemacbif.bsky.social•19 days ago

Well, I don't know about fentanyl, but the US has been blowing a LOT of snow up North... https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/stories/largest-cocaine-seizure-in-tps-history/

outofnames.bsky.social•20 days ago

ecowen.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hey, didn't the Kennedy's make their fortune running booze? Fortunes back then were made the old fashioned way. Now it's all digital larceny & where's the romance in that?

nekron999.bsky.social•20 days ago

pamnapo.bsky.social•20 days ago

Trump probably has one set up already so he can grift off of this. He’s a criminal and idiots voted for him knowing that he was a criminal.

littleredhemi.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's exactly what he's created. The bootleggers will be all the J621 pardoned traitors. You've got to know he's doing this on purpose because no one will hire those fools.

pcrritesgood.bsky.social•20 days ago

Black market maple syrup is going to pour into the united states.... nice and slowly.

sheeri.org•20 days ago

You think that’s funny but I live in boston where people have died in a molasses flood.

melbaggers.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maple syrup and insulin vials, quite the combination

navyjim.bsky.social•20 days ago

There was prohibition

staplefunk.bsky.social•20 days ago

Smuggling windshield wipers for my Toyota.

molsenbs.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ugh

robhc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Prohibition 2.0?

mykahllc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Lake St. Clair is gonna be wild...a rerun of Prohibition

rpirlog.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is transformative. Canada and Canadians lost trust in their neighbours and friends. As Canadians we will also look back in anger and doubt.

rpirlog.bsky.social•20 days ago

Unconvinced if Canada understands that this economic earthquake uncovers opportunities that only come once in a century. CERB-like programs should be replaced with New Deal-type of programs. Canada’s strategic infrastructure has been neglected. Instead of cash-for-consumption, finance infrastructure

feelslike98.bsky.social•20 days ago

And Canada can steal a tremendous number of disenfranchised Americans with brilliance and innovation.

Housing costs are an issue, so solving that will be key, but you can shift your economic profile and steal American excellence.

anvilwalrusden.bsky.social•20 days ago

Housing issue is one that could be solved with the very same infrastructure efforts. The big question is whether we are willing to destroy the finances of over-leveraged homeowners to do it. (I fall into that category. I’m prepared to support it, but I have no dependents.)

rpirlog.bsky.social•20 days ago

Old school here. As opposed to “housing”, invest in projects that would never be supported by private financiers. Bridges, dams, flood ways, pipelines, airports, harbours, high voltage lines, nuclear, helium, broadband, satellites. Salaries paid will take care of the rest.

anvilwalrusden.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeah, could work too. But the best analogy for the current housing market is approximately 1947, and the end of the market that needs most attention is the bottom (where, I argue, private builders just won’t go). Historically, that was built dependent on government support.

numchucks.bsky.social•20 days ago

This^^^

travisfaction.bsky.social•20 days ago

#AlphaFlight?

scottmcara.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yukon Gold potato smuggling is gonna be rampant.

politicalamericans.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://politicalamericans.com/5-year-old-tammy-kemp-pens-manifesto-about-trumps-fascist-fucking-bullshit/

dwebster.bsky.social•20 days ago

The Jay treaty, and previous treaties, allow Mohawks free movement of goods across the border, so there is a significant First Nations component to this too.

kathistetser.bsky.social•20 days ago

Are they subject to any of these tariffs?

surrealjones.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's going to be fascinating seeing what happens at Akwesasne.

technicalsquirrel.bsky.social•20 days ago

The crisis fabrication is the point.

jrkinsella.bsky.social•20 days ago

Cartels don’t start because groups like drugs and violence. They start because things needed smuggling.

eldjee.bsky.social•20 days ago

doesn't even need to be in the billions. look at the cross-border tobacco smuggling that already goes on.

celiab.bsky.social•20 days ago

People draped in crown royal purple capes creeping across the border at night

zoesamuel.bsky.social•20 days ago

Undies full of... maple syrup

celiab.bsky.social•20 days ago

Or smuggling Canadian bacon in their shorts - which, if you are in Canada, is just called bacon.

celiab.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is the end of brunch! No more eggs benedict!!

andyhre.bsky.social•20 days ago

You call shorts bacon?

stillwellgray.ca•20 days ago

The ol' "Nova Scotia Root Canal"

madnuhrah.bsky.social•20 days ago

dzaia40.bsky.social•20 days ago

Radio Flyer wagons of eggs

imaginaryerika.bsky.social•20 days ago

A trojan horse full of lumber.

phanart.bsky.social•20 days ago

American maple syrup is superior though

zoesamuel.bsky.social•20 days ago

Can't comment on this, far too British

scottrhatigan.bsky.social•20 days ago

And once smuggling begins at the borders, Drumpf will intercept some operations and say "See? I told you they were up to no good!" and steal more power, to combat yet another emergency they are creating and continuing.

Drumpf needs emergencies, everywhere, always, to be the martial-law emperor.

sekkuto.bsky.social•20 days ago

We’re gonna see the syrup heist on a grand scale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist

marcellograz.bsky.social•20 days ago

Trump Capone.

ninjamonkky.bsky.social•20 days ago

The upside is an uptick in sweet, tricked out, runabouts operating on the Great Lakes. Prohibition is back!

tgilliam00.bsky.social•20 days ago

kitncaboodle.bsky.social•20 days ago

Longest undefended border in the world because the conman thinks he can do a real estate deal.

broth11.bsky.social•20 days ago

Over 9 kg of fentanyl.

davidmichaelpick.net•20 days ago

What about 1812?

ethanjacobs.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ethanjacobs.bsky.social/post/3lh6d2srekk22

borealisphoenix.bsky.social•20 days ago

Left way harder at this then maybe I should have, but thank you. I needed to laugh. Admittedly, my dogs are now startled.

Hang on a second…

They said, as huskies, they recommend that you consider a sled team for your new endeavors. Don’t forget your jaunty plaid chapeau w/ fur ear flaps!

borealisphoenix.bsky.social•20 days ago

Laughed, not left 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

If AutoCorrect isn’t one of the best examples of language model learning consistently getting stupider as it goes along, I don’t know what it is.

squizzradical.bsky.social•20 days ago

This has just happened. :/. A really upset Canadian.

eiderway.bsky.social•20 days ago

Family legend says that two of my great, great uncles used to own farms on either side of the Mantioba/North Dakota border. Someone used to regularly drive from one farm to the other, dropping off a bottle of whiskey to both uncles as payment. I wonder of those farms are still in the family?

eiderway.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm taking my boat to BC this summer. It's registered name, that we inherited when we bought it, is something akin to "Bootlegger". Which I thought was a funny. But now I think it might be asking for trouble...

aelkus.bsky.social•20 days ago

1920s: smuggling drinks across the Canadian border to America

2020s: smuggling drinks (and other stuff) across the Canadian border to America

parkerkosticak.bsky.social•20 days ago

smuggling ozempic* across the border

lady-annabelle.bsky.social•20 days ago

We're about a half-decade early on the economy imploding. This was supposed to be the Roaring 20s, not the Whimpering 20s.

aelkus.bsky.social•20 days ago

truly nothing new under the sun

petermjuul.bsky.social•20 days ago

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•20 days ago

Smuggling auto parts, toilet paper and eggs.

rollforphobia.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why it’s almost as if the cryptocurrency klavern steering him like a puppet see it as a chance to create a use case for their snake oil

creakybones.bsky.social•20 days ago

Perhaps the fentanyl producers will take note, and move their production to the US?

greggadren.bsky.social•20 days ago

My in laws on the St. Clair River just saw their house price double, eh? 😂

kareneubanks.bsky.social•20 days ago

We know what happens when the USA’s control freaks start pushing unpopular & oppressive policies:

BOOTLEGGING!

If Trump & fElon won’t pay their taxes, why would anyone else?

whatisabeau.bsky.social•20 days ago

America’s remake of “Boardwalk Empire”✊🇨🇦✌️

philadelphian.bsky.social•19 days ago

Quite so. Wasn't it smuggling along that multi-thousand mile border that put the kybosh on the prohibition? Dear Donald doesn't have a long memory.

wake-chaos-sleep.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sweet! Once the infrastructure funding dries up completely & maintaining bridges, roads, dams, water, etc. becomes “woke” I’ll need a new career

Might just watch all 43 fast & furious movies so I’m ready to evade the authorities in my ‘Merican muscle car

To be clear I’m only smuggling to Canadians

rcorrie.bsky.social•20 days ago

Invite the Chinese or Iran the set up troops on the border.
Seems universal, to monitor the border.

bklynmichael42.bsky.social•20 days ago

That would require thinking one step ahead. Or maybe even just thinking about your first step.

katydidit.bsky.social•20 days ago

🎯

merri24.bsky.social•20 days ago

Exactly. But if you look at meta’s social media, they are perpetuating the lie.

rsthomas42.bsky.social•20 days ago

I need a dealer for my maple syrup.

thomas-craig.bsky.social•20 days ago

For anyone who thinks is silly, I present a reminder of the Niagara cheese smuggling ring!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/charges-coming-as-niagara-cops-add-cheese-to-smuggling-probe-1.1159809

borealisphoenix.bsky.social•20 days ago

Cheese has apparently been seeing quite the year for crime. There was a huge cheese heist in England.

With the wine and beer tariffs, are we heading the way of the charcuterie mob?

krenster.bsky.social•20 days ago

Black market, ho!

ctphil.bsky.social•20 days ago

Did you ever hear of prohibition? Another self inflicted wound.

nonrenormalizable.bsky.social•20 days ago

David Lynch tried to warn us:

karenblair.bsky.social•20 days ago

On it. Great smuggling traditions in Nova Scotia! 💵💵

jeremyrathbun.bsky.social•20 days ago

Made Joe Kennedy Rich.

astrocurator.bsky.social•20 days ago

Came here to say this!

dadwrites.bsky.social•20 days ago

Worked for Joe Kennedy. Maybe there is some other sharp biz guy who can take advantage today.

kwilsonhfx.bsky.social•20 days ago

*somone actually starts smuggling drugs across the border*

Canada: I actually don't care about this, tbh.

dzaia40.bsky.social•20 days ago

MapleSyrupCoin™️

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

lazeeye.bsky.social•20 days ago

T___p is probably ground-floor invested in one ore more smuggling operations.

bryan00064.bsky.social•20 days ago

The last time there was a border problem with Canada was Prohibition. So, yeah.

drrxufa.bsky.social•19 days ago

🎯

juniorminz.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ross Ulbricht wants to get his old job back ?

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•20 days ago

Auto part smuggling rings.

brianhill53703.bsky.social•20 days ago

Windsor is going to be hopping

marietoto.bsky.social•20 days ago

That’s another way the fuehrer can get a cut

stuartdonaldson22.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ya mean like trying to avoid harmful and stupid tariffs?

jacobtlevy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yes, that’s the point.

clpmo.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well, back in the Grant administration there were some disagreements. Since then smooth sailing.

lurkher.bsky.social•20 days ago

Looking forward to the return of the rum runners

icedbrew2.bsky.social•20 days ago

bonafidemugsie.bsky.social•20 days ago

Preach, Sir. They are fucking MORONS. Or should I say “morans”?

chrononaut.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/chrononaut.bsky.social/post/3lgofq34rec2q

boulderguy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well, there are border security problems about drugs coming into Canada.

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2025/officers-seize-eight-kilograms-potentially-millions-doses-fentanyl-traffic-stop

bc30000.bsky.social•20 days ago

The black market is drooling right now.

jpj.bsky.social•20 days ago

A bit of local history for us here in Michigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum-running_in_Windsor%2C_Ontario

promich.bsky.social•20 days ago

US gun related crime in Canada isn’t a serious border security problem in your mind? Wow. There are some grieving families you should learn about.

iggiemom.bsky.social•20 days ago

And not all the incentives are economic.

gizmotronic.bsky.social•20 days ago

My Chicago based family lived through some fat times in the 20s. All the nice family “heirlooms” are from that period. He got popped crossing the border several times.

bchanson.bsky.social•20 days ago

Like the good ole days. My husband’s grandfather went to jail for smuggling alcohol from Canada.

melbaggers.bsky.social•20 days ago

Is that what Trump pardoned all his J6ers to do?

ym69.bsky.social•20 days ago

That only the GOP and Trump can fix. Marauding caravans, cats and dogs being eaten, water being held back in California. All made up bullshit that his base believes. Weaponized ignorance.

yeahbutnahbut.bsky.social•20 days ago

last time it gave you the Kennedys and just look at how that turned out!

dr-block.bsky.social•20 days ago

Excellent point.

neotiamat99.bsky.social•20 days ago

Mmmmm. Illegal maple syrup.

gbaji.bsky.social•20 days ago

Smugglers trafficking in tariffed Danish imports are called Bootlegos.

maxtropolitan.bsky.social•20 days ago

What is the best Canadian product to smuggle?

Highest value per unit of volume?

Asking for a friend…

martinpagh.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wasn't there one during the prohibition? Which was also stupid policy ...

barrybarnes.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm betting more drugs and guns (and felons on the run) come into Canada ..than the other way around.

drbibliomane.bsky.social•20 days ago

I grew up hearing stories, which at 1st seemed glamorous, about how in the 1920s my Saskatchewan grandfather had been a smuggler.
I got older & I learned that he had been smuggling wool, then heavily tariffed. Rather humdrum, however.
Just to say, yes, my family history supports this assertion!

aeirould.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well, since 1814