I Want to Talk About Wildfire Smoke
Do you think we're doing it on purpose, you assholes?
It’s 2026, and Republicans still haven’t figured out how the weather works.
Last year during the worst of Canada’s fire season, when we were living in terror of shifting winds during a nightmarish drought that left us extremely vulnerable, the right-wing lawmakers in the U.S. were already whining.
“This smoke is ruining my vacation!”
“I can’t walk my dog without coughing!”
“Canada keeps lighting fires, they’re so mean to us!”
And this year, they’re back at it again.
They’re threatening to tariff us again. They’re complaining about their vacations being ruined. They’re sneering at us for being bad at ‘forest management’ and threatening to ‘take over’ our fire efforts.
As in, threatening to take over our country as if they’d be able to do any better.
They don’t even know how the wind works, how are they going to fight fires?
Meanwhile, Canadians are fighting for our lives. Building fire breaks around residential areas, beating back racing wildfires started by lightning in dry brush. Flying water bombers over distant forests to wet them down and try to control the spread.
And while we’re at it, helping Americans with their own fire problems. We just lost a firefighter pilot in the U.S. last week; he died helping over the border. We always show up to help you guys when needed. Always.
But your Republicans? Bitching and moaning and whining like babies, accusing us of arson and being irresponsible.
Fuck. You.
You know what? I hope they choke on that smoke. I hope it lingers. I wish it would leave ordinary citizens alone, of course, but those asshole Republicans deserve every cough that comes out of their lungs.
People are dying. People are losing everything. Parents are fleeing their homes as they’re consumed in flame, cradling their screaming children and pets and trying not to think of all the keepsakes and important items they’ve just lost.
Memories, documents, an entire life gone up in smoke.
Towns and reservations wiped off the fucking map, leaving refugees scrambling every which way.
That’s what life is like for us. You think we aren’t choking on the smoke? It’s literally changing the expected weather patterns across the country, fucking with our weather forecasts and filling the air with haze.
We’re constantly checking fire maps, praying that we don’t see anything near our homes, thinking about having to go to work at a time like this and hoping against hope that our houses will still be standing when we come back.
Fuck your vacation. I’m busy trying to keep my life.
Solidarity wins.
Words completely fail me Sam. You would think it should hurt to be that stupid.