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[–] 43 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

A trade war with Canada has got to be one of the dumbest things anyone has ever done in this nation.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That's tiny-d donnie for ya: always aiming to get even dumber.

    How does he make this even dumber?

    While he's carrying out a trade war with Canada, he's bragging about that ridiculous ballroom, erecting an arch, gluing tacky gold shit to the White House walls, painting the reflecting pool blue, declaring victory in Iran even as oil is hitting $100 a barrel, having his personal lawyer as AG cover up for a pedophile ring, having his Justice Department investigate shit from 2016 that made him bigly mad because of his relationship to Russia, openly and brazenly enriching himself and his family, etc., etc.,

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Don’t forget falling in love with a clinically insane 35 year old fame seeker that made herself look like his daughter so he’d be attracted to her, who he recently gave 45k in gifts that we know of, because he’s a narcissist incestual dirty old pedo who isn’t capable of understanding real love or friendships, and is an easy mark for other grifters. That’s so embarrassing, especially for a president and world leader.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you had submitted that as a movie script a good decade ago, they'd laugh you out of the office, labelling the script the dumbest thing ever. Yet, here we are, and it gets submitted as a documentary

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

    Well, in the run-up to his first election a decade ago, you had a lot of the Tone Police and the Murc's Law Media gaslighting people and labeling anyone trying to warn America about donnie as "hysterical".

    Same set of idiots did more or less the same thing in the run-up to 2024, claiming that his first term "wasn't that bad", I guess because he was not literally Hitler.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Next up: Canadian bacon becomes American bacon!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    I understand many will find this a silly question but bear with me:

    Under what authority can Trump ban imports from Canada?

    I don't think he has any statutory ability to just ban shit from Canada. I'm sure this will go through the courts and eventually be ruled illegal, like the tariffs were. It's crazy that "President declares blatantly illegal thing but it's defacto legal for 90 days" has become the norm.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    “Okay fine we aren’t banning it but it’s being terrified at eleventy katllion percent.”

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Actually, that's even better. The original tariffs were done under a "national security" proviso. This would mean that Canadian beer is a threat to national security.

    You really couldn't ask for better marketing.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This orange turd should prove how powerful he is and ban Canadian potash, energy products, rare earth, aluminum, nickel, or wood.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    No tax on imported Canadian hair patches to adorn your hat though.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Three TACO Tuesdays between now and then

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    If someone had punched him in the mouth in 1970 we'd have never heard of this loser.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, what's the difference, we're all gonna be killed by robots in a few years

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    [–] 43 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Next up, Canada refuses to sell us anything used to make McD's hamburdurs and diet coke, Donnie's starves, and eventually the world recovers and goes back to sanity...

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Along with the import bans and new tariffs, the U.S. has also quietly dropped tariffs on some products they hit with levies just a few weeks ago, said William Pellerin, international trade partner with McMillian LLP.

    They include toilet paper, sugar, salt and cement, which is a big export for Canada, Pellerin said.

    The removals suggest the United States probably realized they didn't have enough supply of those products and couldn't keep up with demand, he said.

    "They quickly realized that they were probably shooting themselves in the foot."

    Lol.

    Source https://www.cbc.ca/news/livestory/canada-u-s-retaliatory-tariffs-dollar-for-dollar-9.7331632?id=9.7331632.15873

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What Canada needs to do is add export taxes for these items. Charge the buyers this extra tax. And do it on potash and oil too. Use the cash to help businesses weather the storm.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Straight up market manipulation for his billionaire friends.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    So cool that one guy can set so many rules for so many things, including how I vote in my state.

    The right: BUT MAH KAWNSTUHTOOHSHUN!!!!

    Turns out that most conservatives never gave a flying fuck about any of it. Except for having a fucking arsenal that they could wave around to threaten any minorities that annoy them.

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