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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, here in Mexico, we'll fight the fuck back. Our president is backed by almost 80% of us, if she says anything, we'll follow. I don't think Trump can say that, not even from his own voters. He thinks he's making America great again, but his adversaries are having a ball: America is not looking strong, America is looking dumb, treasonous, fascist and alone as fuck. At the very same time, people should be aware that BRICS is now the BRICSEEEIIBBCKMNTTUUV. This guy is beating the shit out of his own creation, the USMC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Trump created the marines?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

Pass the word!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is there another place to see this? I deleted my Facebook last week to avoid all the Nazi propaganda :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

The hashtag is #50501 apparently.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Should be 10 days if possible

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

If this increasing shortsightedness means what i think it means, i doubt he will be capable of office for all 4 years of his term.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

he will live to be 107 and will easily finish his term unscathed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

It doesn't. Project 2025 is what is happening. This shit was literally all written down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He's a puppet at this point. President Leon is pretty visibly in charge, and I shudder to think about the smart puppeteers who are staying in the shadows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

President Eon isn't exactly working in the shadows lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

He's definitely not a smart one 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Exactly, he's too dumb and egotistical. That's why I worry about the puppeteers who are intelligent enough to stay out of the spotlight.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

And who will remove him from office if deemed incapable? Would he be replaced by his vice president JD Vance who supports his policies?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

That's another question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

and that the US had a deeper “piggy bank” than its trading partners regarding a potential trade war.

I thought the US has almost 20 trilions in debts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Who bought this debt (US treasury bonds)? Mostly China, Japan, North Americans and Europeans … So they depend on the system, the circle closes. The US is the biggest importer in the world, and the years since 1945 where used for exporter nations to optimize and streamline for the American costumer. Breaking away from that system would be painful.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

What I still can’t comprehend as a non American: It’s not Canada that’s going to pay the tariffs. It’s mostly US companies and at the end the US consumers will pay for it. That’s literally grabbing money from the pockets of US citizens. In what way does this sound like a good idea to a Trump voter? What happens if the affected countries start trading with each other and ignore the US? Trade wars have the the potential to develop into a full scale war if one of the participants is starved of the precious oil…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

In what way does grabbing money from other people's pockets sound great to trump ?

Have you not seen trump ? Thats exactly what he's done his entire life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's wild that his supporters are so brainwashed that they think it's a good thing. The anti tax, anti big government people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Say you are a oil producer, and frack gas and oil in Texas, an industry that supported trump. Now imagine what tariffs on oil-imports from Canada means for your business: rising prices, since gas from Canada would be less competitive. Same with logging and wood products.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trump has mentioned that tariffs will help him pay for his planned tax cuts. Tariffs are like a flat-tax, which disproportionately help the rich while taking more from the poor.

I also think there may be some other angles they're working; but I'm not completely sure on. Trump often threatens people to solicit favors; so this may also be a way for him and his cronies collect bribes and favorably business deals from politicians and the wealthy from around the world. He may also have deals with Putin, because he's acting exactly how you'd expect a person to act who was trying to destroy the Western hegemony.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Well this is one of the big answers. Tariffs are a hidden or indirect tax. Stupid democrats didn't understand jack shit so didn't use it as a campaign issue. He's raising tax on everybody to pay for his tax cuts. He's said before he likes the revenue from tariffs in the old days. When you take this approach in conjunction with his thinking on the immigration issue - that by reducing pool of cheap labor, American businesses will pay more and increase wages for low level jobs, you can see where he's going with this. Prices certainly will be higher. I don't know about the wages.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Most voters don't know how tariffs work and assume the country who's goods are being targeted are the ones who will pay. A lot of people are in for a rude awakening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Trudeaux announced retaliatory tarifs, which is an appropriate response however shitty it is. Everyone but the 1% lose

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago

This is starting because Trump himself also don't know how tariffs works

Also see the damn water reservoir thing because he doesn't even understand how water works

And see the Colombia thing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Those folks firmly believed the trickle-down myth as well

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Dumbest executive in history, no surprise at all

[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Makes no sense" is the perfect tagline for the entirety of a second Trump term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

"It's nonce-sense"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If you are a non-Trump voter in a red state, especially if you work for the flagship company or industry in that state, I would like to apologize on behalf of all Canadians for what our government is about to do. We don't want to do it but it is the only way to deal with a bully.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Absolutely an anti-Trump voter in a red state who works in the healthcare industry where most of my repairs come from Canadian parts.

I know it's against the Canadian way but do not apologize. We voted this way, time to learn.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago

Apologizing while doing terrible things to teach a lesson is the Canadian way. Just look at how they treat native Americans.

I'll be here all week folks!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

Does nobody understand the term "cash grab"? He'd play hell raising taxes on us to get what the tarrifs will get him

[–] [email protected] 39 points 18 hours ago

People, please don't forget that they (the trump admin) redid the trade agreement with Mexico and Canada in their previous term. We are in this shit because they couldn't even make a deal previously and still think they are masters of deals.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

I think it's a great opportunity for Canada to develop more partnership with Europe, Mexico and the rest of the world. USA is an ennemi now, a dangerous one, it's time to bring this under-educated country to his knees. They need to pay for all the suffering they brought to the world. Sorry USA, we cant not friend anymore, you made your choices.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago

Sucks to be linked in when I didn't choose any of this. But I get it. You gotta at this point. Fuck us.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

This as an Australia, I'd be happy to see Australia aak fir EU entry.

Or we could start a Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ zone akin to the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I wouldn't mind a new Commonwealth forming. Reformed based on looking towards the future of the greatest global community instead of the colonial past

We all decide to give our Commonwealth members populations a universal credit/basic income/whatever and enhance the ability to choose what to live. Become global Commonwealth citizens backed by the country we call home. Let us move freely. A supported migrant population taking advantage of seasonal differences in hemispheres

And if this goes down in flames... It will still be 1000x better than the current shitshow

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Or we could start a Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ zone

This would be good in case Kaiju attack too.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 21 hours ago

Well it is from the dumbest president in history (for the 2nd time).

[–] [email protected] 70 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Less than two weeks in and a Republican President has editorials from the normally-Republican-friendly Wall Street Journal taking a whack at them.

goes over to see what Cato is up to

Looks like the top three stories are all also attacking Trump.

  • Trump’s Deportations Will Hit American Workers, Too

  • Trump Administration Purge of FBI Managers Underway

  • Here Comes the Legal Campaign Against “Woke” Employers

For a guy aiming to make a big deal out of firing lots of government employees, he sure isn't getting much love from the small-government crowd.

EDIT: Just to add to that, Reason's top stories are also taking a whack at Trump:

  • Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China Could Start This Weekend: Trump's second trade war has apparently arrived. There remains much uncertainty, but expect it to be costly.

  • Trump's Pro-Growth, Anti-Trade Positions Are on a Collision Course

  • Trump's Role Model McKinley Tariffed His Way to Imperialism

  • Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Sets Up Another GOP Budget Showdown: Almost exactly one year after Congress swore off self-inflicted fiscal crises, we're back to the same tired theatrics.

  • Why Is Paramount So Keen To Settle Trump's Laughable Lawsuit Against CBS?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I saw a Bloomberg headline this week that said the price of eggs will probably never come back down. If they had published that three months ago, maybe people wouldn't have based their vote around that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Hah! Now the leopard is eating their dick.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago

Trump would make a bad king, too unpredictable. Conservative shit spouters like Jones are pivoting to papa Elon. Its gross

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