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Canadians were mega pissed at americans back in March. I'm not sure how much lower we can sink in their estimation. 0% favorability is coming up quick.
https://angusreid.org/trump-tariffs-canada-retaliation-usa/
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/1263527125/its-been-a-minute-canada-us-relationship-politics
Trump did an absolute number to Pierre. I'm hoping he targets Ford or Smith next.
Have been since march*
Being livid has not changed.
I don’t understand how so many countries just take this shit. Does the US economy have that strong a hold on your country that you are scared to stand up for your people? How shitty of a leader do you have to be to not have a contingency in place for something like this?
Well, Canada's only meaningful land border and a vast amount of transportation infrastructure is to the US, so any reasonable leader would probably try to maximize trade with that neighbour as long as they are an ally. Carney has definitely focused on more European trade, but yes, perhaps there should have been more diversification even before Donny.
The is reasonable but very short sighted. You don’t put your eggs in 1 basket as the saying goes.
While this is obviously true now, in hindsight, it’s certainly not fair. The entire western world put all of their eggs in the USA basket… why? Because after WWII there was a real sense that the USA was trustable. That they would work toward freedom, democracy, and (importantly) expanding markets in the world. The USA made the basket and the rest of the world piled in their eggs. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary (Panama, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc all), the world continued to believe the lie that America was happy promulgating. Nobody reasonable believed America would take a hard right turn to fascism and voluntarily elect a leader that would throw the basket — the basket they made to always favour America — in the trash. But here we are. Yes, the world never should have agreed to America putting itself at the top of the pile. But we did and now the world is busy re-orienting without America. I think that’s for the better, but then again I’m not American. I think Americans are in for a rude awakening when the Trump policies actually come home to roost… of course he’ll be gone by then and they’ll just blame whatever democrat inherits the burning hulk of America that he leaves behind.
In violation of the trade agreement HE negotiated just a couple years ago.
Boy: Do not try and bend the Trump. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no Trump.
Neo: There is no Trump?
Boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the Trump that bends, it is only yourself.
haha, this, but trump himself bends a lot too, multiple times a day. He's like dough.
i.e. his rich buddies called him up and said "we need/want more money, go manipulate the market again" to which Trump said "sure i'll fuck with Canada some more"
that's all this is. Carney needs to stop playing nice and start up the digital service tax again.
Don’t worry - TACO 🌮
I'd have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say "nope...we're ignoring it. Everyone knows it's a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he'll be removing them."
Everyone KNOWS he's a fucking grifter, but politicians don't want to say it out loud.
If they call him on his bullshit his fefes might get hurt and he might actually keep them on to be spiteful.
Better to just smile and nod at his senile ass and continue to make contingency plans.
Good thing they dropped the digital service tax for US companies...
They can bring it back just as easily
... and the gain from dropping it was????
Some people just like to get fucked
And not in the fun way!
But they already lost the advantage they had. The point of the retaliatory tariffs are not to make money, but to send a message.
They've already sent a message that they can tolerate Trump's bullshit as long as it doesn't hurt them too much when they backed down on the digital service tax.
Bringing it back now is a lot less effective than implementing it the first time around while still hurting Canadians the same amount.
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Why not now? Why wait till Aug 1? Just make it so.
You know why? He's fishing for more concessions.
Canada should just say fuck it and raise the digital sale tax and then fling fentanyl across the border with trebuchets.
Stock. Market. Manipulation.
They'll be gone by next week.
T.A.C.O.
A guy walks over to his friend's friend's house and tells him to pay up or else. The reasonable response would be to spit in his face and tell him to get bent.
Trump's policy decisions killed those people in Texas & Epstein helped him and other sick rich monsters rape kids
Trump is named in the Epstein files.
Trump cut NOAA and FEMA funding before flash flooding killed over 200 people in Texas including two dozen Christian girls.
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Look Mark, can I call you Mark? I've got a mangled tiny penis, and I compensate for it in many different and weird ways. Sometimes it's raping woman or girls. Other times, it is saying and doing awful racist things. Sometimes it is just doing nonsensical things. Mark, the girls in the pee pee tape laughed at it. Anyways, that's why Canada has to pay 35% tariffs.
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Enacting tariffs against our trading partners, and excellent neighbors, as well as allies, is an act of war. It puts America in 'national security' peril. We are not being attacked by Canada or Mexico. It's putin's Russia you need to be concerned about, you orange cancer.
In Trumps addled mind, Canada not buying US milk is a national security threat.
That's giving him way too much credit; he clearly doesn't care about national security.
lets reinstate that digital sales tax and triple it, fuck em.
Yes, nobody should do any accommodation to trump. You only loose. He will demand more and make the same threats again, typical bully.
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Honestly, is there anything stopping a country from just "mirroring" US tariffs? US gives them X% tariffs, they give the US X% tariffs back. Is this feasible? Or is it a crappy idea?
I think this is what Europe has done in the past, however you want to target products that don't damage your own economy by making them more expensive. That seems harder to do.
Er, “instead of caving to our unreasonable demands, they’ve responded in kind.”
It’s like Russia and Ukraine. Trump, if you want to work with Canada, just remove the trade barriers.
It really is that stupid.
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I just want my country to treat our citizens and allies right. Canada did nothing against us. Sure they did get us hooked on a few of their musicians and introduced pizza with pineapple, but that's friend dick moves not enemy dick moves.
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