President Donald Trump was once again fact-checked following an embarrassing tantrum over a Canadian advertisement.

The ad quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs -- a policy tool Trump frequently employs. The commercial includes audio clips from an April 25, 1987 radio address where Reagan stated: "Over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.''

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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Days without Trump doing something that will take decades to fix: 0

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Days that the majority of America did anything meaningful to deal with Trump: 0

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Canada has a pretty far right bend right now, we'd love advice on how to fix it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think we should stop voting in ratchet liberals. And we need NDP to run on a platform of election reform.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Huh, sounds easy. How does one person do that?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'd argue there are too many structural issues, all too established to ever fix. Trump is just abusing these with abandon instead of papering over them like often happened in the past.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The only hope at this point is that it's so broken by the end that no amount of "tweaking" the current plan/formula is worth doing. Would at least be nice if the light at the end of the tunnel is that a whole new modern way of life will be possible to rebuild from the ashes. Even without trump breaking it further, the current plan wasn't going well, long term. It's going worse now, but in an unsustainable way. The old plan would have taken much longer to get this much worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    will be possible to rebuild from the ashes

    The problem is that the billionaires are thinking the same thing and their ideas for a "new modern way of life* are a bit different from the rest of the population.

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