Summary

The White House claims Canada has “misunderstood” Trump’s new 25% tariffs as a trade war, while Mexico is cooperating.

Trump justified the tariffs by citing trade imbalances, illegal immigration, and fentanyl trafficking.

Canadian officials view the move as an economic attack, while Trump insists it is a negotiation tactic.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    To be HONEST, in this unlimitedly-dishonest-“world”,

    the whole reason that Trump’s trying to break Canada’s life, is to gain personal/national possession of the entire continent,

    with all Canadians becoming illegals, & ALL the resource/wealth resolving to him.

    It isn’t a trade-war, it’s economic, rather-than conventional/infantry, warfare, intended to BREAK Canada’s existence.

    IF Canada’s so-called “leaders” …

    ( sorry for the bitterness, but that bitterness is earned, at all levels of government, just as it also is earned against the so-called “charities” of our world whose primary mission is converting donated-funds to wallowing-wealth for the executives, or the business-people who simultaneously “can’t afford” to have their employees have enough to live, yet somehow “need” to have obscene wallowing-wealth for themselves… There isn’t much integrity on this entire-world, is there?? )

    … have ANY brains in them, they’ll immediately INVEST in as massive, & permanent, a trade-reconfiguration as possible,

    to break dependency on the narcissist-machiavellian-sociopathy now ruling the world’s agenda.


    This was visible years-ago, btw…

    Well-established hopium may well cost us our country, too, just as the Democrat-party’s hopium cost them the US of A, entirely

    ( there isn’t going to be any 2028-election: Civil War Part2 rather than tolerating to be extracted-from-dictatorship is now the US’s fate.

    All the Democrats who’re pretending that they’re going to win in 2028 are holding their heads “in the sand” as hard as they can.

    Welcome to what the Abrahamic-religions call “the End Times”. )

    • sigh *

    All this was preventable, had people’s priorities been upright, instead of spineless/corrupt/indulging-oriented, as “profit” programmed our species into being-loyal-to…

    _ /\ _

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    1 day ago

    We didn’t misunderstand. The convicted felon, serial sexual abuser, adjudicated rapist, serial business failure, pathological liar, lifelong con man isn’t king of Canada. He can roll his executive order into a tight little roll and solve it way up his saggy orange ass. Fuck Trump and fuck everyone who was dumb enough, racist enough, or hateful enough to vote for him against their own self interest and the future interests of their children.

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    2 days ago

    Negotiation tactic for what? Mfer didn’t state any reason for them from what I’ve read. There doesn’t seem to be anything to negotiate except for a problem he knowingly created.

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      That’s been the conservative MO for decades: create a huge, super fucked up problem that would never exist if they didn’t force it into being, and then sell you the solution to it.

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    3 days ago

    Sure,

    That’s why Trump won’t even take Trudeaus calls. He just wants to negotiate.

    Fuck America, enact a full trade embargo. Nothing in, nothing out; including oil and electricity.

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      3 days ago

      Let’s see how the red state targeted tariffs go first. I live in an area that would be badly affected by a total embargo, but we also voted against him.

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    2 days ago

    Lmao.

    Trump - We fired a shot at them.

    World - over their bow you mean? A warning shot?

    Trump - no, directly into them

    World - do you understand how this works?

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    3 days ago

    If it’s a negotiation, not a trade war, then how is this not just them giving a counter-offer?

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    He’s scared because stocks were down a bit this morning, he’s been fielding calls from panicked CEOs all weekend, and someone actually stood up to him. Good on you, Canada!

    Edit: FTA:

    we’ve noticed is that Mexicans are very, very serious about doing what President Trump said

    Ugh, sorry, Mexico!

    this is going to be one of the biggest supply-side positive shocks that we’ve ever seen

    I don’t think that word [positive] means what you think it does.

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      He’s scared because stocks were down a bit this morning

      Never mind that the police roaming the streets will have orders of magnitude larger impact on it than the tariffs.

      Ugh, sorry, Mexico!

      Nah, don’t be. Trump is lying about it.

      I don’t think that word [positive] means…

      The entire phrase is meaningless. He just wants to sound smart.

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      He’s scared because stocks were down a bit this morning, he’s been fielding calls from panicked CEOs all weekend

      The cynic in me says this is all by design. His rich buddies are buying stock on sale this week before the market corrects again.

      CEOs might be temporarily unhappy, but the true wealthy are making moves.

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        The market corrected within hours of opening. The arbitrage opportunity is already over and was so small that only people operating with large scale portfolios made any real money off of it.

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    3 days ago

    “No, see, the rule of the game is that I get to hit you with a big stick, it’s not fair if you get your own stick and start hitting me with it.”