Lmfao this is gonna be a time.
Hold on to your butts, fellow meatbags.
If you would have told me even 6 months ago that we would be in a trade war with Canada, our literal closest ally…I would have totally fucking believed you. Not even a question. How people can be shocked by this is beyond my understanding.
What, you thought that a faux tough guy was going to be good for our national image and international policy?
I how hope countries rally and help out Canada and Mexico. We are allies not just because of America.
Art of the Deal
It’s funny; Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are designed to redirect Canadians to equivalent Canadian products that will now be more affordable, and so more desirable for Canadians to purchase. Trump’s response is… make those products less affordable in the US.
End result? Canada less reliant on US products, and US selling less product.
I’m not sure what Trump expected from a 1:1 response? When the markets aren’t equal, a 1:1 response makes absolutely no sense.
The Canadian products will be more expensive too. If the tariffs increase demand for Canadian products, and the price of American products is higher, it will drive the price of the Canadian products up. Ideally not by much, but they will go up.
However, I will happily suffer through price increases if it means my country is standing up to this shithead.
Akin to Putin invading Ukraine, the tariffs aren’t a trade war, they’re a Stupid Economic Operation.
Bring the pain.
The harder the better. Trump won’t stop on his own. The people will need to get pissed and demand change.
Bring the pain.
Target exports from red states. Squeeze those Trump voting mother fuckers until reality slaps them in the face and they squeal like the little facist pricks they are.
Bring the pain.
The thing is that when the Americans struggle their government will have nothing for them. But Canada’s government has already given its people motivation and assurances that they wi all feed, reeducate, retool and do whatever they can to help.
Yup. It’s shitty that Americans don’t get help and the government is actively making it worse. Unfortunately it’s the reality. So unless it hurts, people are not going to change or scream loud enough at their inbred redneck senator to change it.
This is not a fucking Parker Brothers board game. Trump is an incredible moron.
2:55 p.m. EST: Relationship with ally has changed: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers CEO
The president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says Canada’s relationship with a longtime ally and trading partner has fundamentally changed.
Lisa Baiton says without greater global reach for oil and gas exports, Canada has little trade leverage with the United States.
She says Canada urgently needs a policy overhaul that would allow infrastructure projects held back by environmental opposition to move ahead.
Hey Alberta, get fucked. We’ve all been telling you to diversify your economy for years. We still don’t want your fucking pipeline.
Dirty olisands crap is not economically viable to ship across the world. They just want their golden parachute bailout. Fuck them and their bad investment.
It’s not like it’s impossible - Norway did it.
Can someone more knowledgeable about politics than me please tell me how 1 person can just slap on tarifs willy-nilly?
Shouldn’t things like this have to go through some sort of vote in congress?
Could the US president just call up all CEOs that use steel and be like: “gonna need some donations or I’ll put some tarifs on any imported steel”?
Without presuming your level of knowledge about world history, I’ll say that Trump used Fentanyl the same way that Hitler used the Reichstag fire, as an excuse to give him the emergency power to do such things unilaterally.
Because when you’re a dictator they let you do it.
Seriously, that’s literally the reason: because between SCOTUS abdicating its power in Trump v. United States and Congress abdicating its power by the Republican majority refusing to impeach, Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants, no matter how illegal, and there’s nobody willing and able to stop him.
Yep, this is it. One person can do to because they’ve allowed him to do it. It’s that simple.
Because congress lets him with the IEEPA and the Tarrif Act.
Yes, he could. It would definitely violate a bunch of laws leading to impeachment by Congress (in theory).
https://natlawreview.com/article/can-president-impose-tariffs-without-congressional-approval
Trade war with our allies! So much freedom and cost savings.
What are friends for if you can’t tax them into enemies??
We tariff you infinity plus one.
But did you triple stamp it?
Oh fuck we forgot to triple stamp it
Don’t worry; Trump will stamp as often as you want.
Next, cancel visa free travel to Canada. Build more trade deals with China and ASEAN.
You’re not retaliating, I’m retaliating!
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Btw this is to make Russia our new and exclusive trading partner
Russia doesn’t really produce anything except things U.S. companies export or can easily source elsewhere. And like half of their next generation emigrated or died trying to take 20 more meters of Eastern Ukrainian villages. I don’t expect any great scientific advancements coming anytime soon.
I’m not sure how that trade relationship would even work. Trade deals only work if the private sector is involved and the U.S. private sector doesn’t want Russian products or to investment in a place where there’s no rule of law.
or to investment in a place where there’s no rule of law.
Like USA?
Delaware and the Cayman Islands have sort of morphed over time from tax havens to places that have professional, efficient, and fair courts for corporation v corporation situations.
Not saying that’s good. I think it’s trash, actually. But there’s now legitimate reasons two equal corporations doing something without any tax implications whatsoever write contracts with each other agreeing the contracts will fall under one of those two jurisdictions. Every corporate lawyer can probably back me up. They went from shameful tax havens to just efficient places with expertise.
