Trump says he will hit Canada with 25% tariff next week after month-long pause
Fuck you Trump. Just fucking do it. Stop playing stupid games and get to the goddamn point.
No, no. Let him pace this out. The more it's drip fed, the worse PP's chances are.
And the more time Canadian consumers and industries have to find new (or rediscover) alternatives. If he hit us with this like he said we would right of the bat, it would've hurt way more. Every day he threatens Canada with this, the weaker the threat becomes.
That's where I'm kinda at at the moment too. Just fucking do it or don't already. If you don't want to buy our shit just don't and we will find new markets to sell to. There is an endless queue of people in line to buy Canadian goods, raw resource or manufactured. It's just that the US always made the most geographic and geopolitical sense.
If this is actually an attempt to bring manufacturing jobs back to America (a fruitless and losing battle for most industries but still), then all they had to do was give Canadian industries a heads up "hey, we are gonna slowly wean off of you guys, nothing personal. Hope you find new markets." Simple as. They are not obligated to buy our shit and we aren't obligated to sell it to them either. They're the assholes who pressured us into these free trade agreements and now they're upset that the "invisible hand" of capitalism isn't giving them a handy or has a inherent pro-American bias.
Just a bunch of children that are upset that the rest of the world has finally caught up and/or recovered from the destruction of WW2 and can genuinely compete with the US in just about every regard, especially education and industry. American exceptionalism is only real in the sense that America was the exception to the mass destruction and loss of life in both world wars by being fucking pussies that joined both world wars late and after the enemy was already thoroughly exhausted and bled dry by the Allies. There is nothing particularly remarkable about America in the modern world excluding its vast natural resources and severely over-funded military. They love capitalism but not competition.
The US is also suffering from brain drain because no one with two brain cells wants to stay so not only is the US losing one of its best allies, it's doing so while sending over its best talent
He's also fucking over Tiny PP's party, so really it's a threefold win
Hi! I'm the brain drain!
I am a dual citizen with a MA in History (I know, real high value degree lol). I'm fucking leaving. The best shot to get a stable job with my degree in the US was with the federal gov. Overnight that has been shown to be a myth with all the illegal firings of federal workers, including the state museums. Those that are staying are forced to perverse and erase history. I refuse to rewrite or omit history.
I'm leaving once my lease is up in America. I wanted to move back home to my native Canada anyways, but this admin has convinced me it is not only the best move for me, but also morally.
If this is actually an attempt to bring manufacturing jobs back to America
If it is, then he needs to go after wall street.
The only reason those manufacturing jobs left the US is because the business owners (and their investors) demanded that labour costs be cut far below what American workers could live on.
But we all know that he won't go after his fellow millionaires. Nor the billionaires he pretends to be.
That's certainly an interpretation of WW2, and since it directly contradicts the opinions of Field Marshal Zhukov, into the trash it goes.
Didn't realize that a Field Marshal of the Soviet Union is the be all end all of opinions about WW2 and the participation of the US in it. Next you'll be asking me to follow Douglas MacArthur's opinions on the Korean War!
Get real. The US showed up in WW1 in 1917, long after the Central powers were exhausted. In WW2, the US showed up in 1941. On the pacific front, the Japanese had been fighting China since 1933. In Europe, the Germans had been fighting since 1939. In both wars, the homefront was entirely untouched unlike the rest of the world, setting up the US with a massive head economic head start in the post-war period.
But hey, go on, lecture to the person with two history degrees from a US university on why your dead Soviet Field Marshal's opinion is more correct about the US's participation in the war than me.
Short term pain for long term gain, I hope. The more he makes life miserable and expensive for highly skilled workers the more likely we’ll achieve a reverse brain drain.
They’re going after women’s autonomy and trying to roll back gay marriage. Imagine if even 5% of those doctors moved to our side of the border.
Yea, you can win a tariff war if you declare tariffs on one country.
You lose if you declare tariffs against every other country.
A brain gain, perhaps?
Whether he does it or doesn't do it almost doesn't matter at this point. The US federal government is now an ally of no Western democracy. The tarrifs are a below-the-fold detail, the whole West needs to be dealing with the big picture. And I think we are doing that.
I mean, keep mentioning it without doing it gets it into people’s heads and decisions when they see made in Canada signs.
He can only make a big deal out of something, sometimes that makes people more aware.
Good. We need to motivation.
We need to completely divest ourselves of the US. The more pressure he applies, the faster it will happen.
I concur... I'm getting sick & tired of waiting for the other shoe to drop, just drop it already and let's get on with it.
Stop playing stupid games and get to the goddamn point.
Stupid is what Trump does best...
He's like a parent trying to discipline his children.
"I'm going to count to three. One, two, three... Okay you still aren't listening... Four... Five..."
Do it you fucking pussies