The Great Lakes are gonna be full of freighters, and there will be more accidents because of it. They're already running agound more than any other time in my life. The weather allows the shipping season to be longer, and in traditional capitalist fashion, the firms will overload ships to squeeze a couple more runs in before the ice closes the shipping channels and locks.
I also have my suspicions that the ports and rivers aren't being properly dredged because of cutbacks, and rollbacks of safety regulations, but that's all just vibes on my part.
funnily enough, when I showed this to my left-leaning boomer parents, one of them was basically like "ya the same people/corps are telling both of them what to do"
I was actually thinking of updating it with [ CANDIDATE ] and [ PRESIDENT ] stamps respectively, showing how different the rhetoric is when in power versus when seeking it.