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So from the conservative viewpoint, what is the rationale for the tariffs? Are people really supposed to believe it has something to do with fentanyl? Like do conservatives actually believe that or is there some other narrative besides Donald Trump is looking to flex his power?
For the most part it's not getting the kind of attention you might expect, they are seeing this as all "part of the plan" and celebrating their great trade-warrior leader punishing the "bad guys" and the white house has deliberately withheld a LOT of the information about what's going on. Most of the breaking stories we've gotten have been from foreign press. We didn't even hear the tariff schedule until fucking France media issued stories.
There is not going to be the satisfaction we all hope for, not until there's literally a new dust-bowl as we get ravaged by a new great depression, which as bad as it could be, might be our only hope for a more balanced political system going forward. I hate that these clowns have made me into an accelerationist but here are.
If this escalates, wait until Canada decides to stop buying US made weapon systems. It will be expensive and time consuming to retrain, but the US is not a reliable defense partner under the neo-Nazi GOP. The US MIC must see the writing on the wall.
Does this break/invalidate the existing free trade agreements between the countries? Does this mean that NAFTA and TRUMPFTA are now void?
Someone explain why he is going after Canada? The US has benefitted from having the safest borders in the world and this dolt wants to jeopardize that.
honestly countries affected should just go the nuclear route and embargo the US. in retaliation. Canada especially.
Yes it will fuck both sides, but it'll get the point across these tariffs are stupid
The very best thing that can happen for our future is for these tariffs to have disastrous consequences. It will suck for all of us and people will suffer needlessly, but we're here because people have lost all sense of consequence and think this is all semi-fake WWE roleplay and that their "side" is somehow destined to win some great ideological battle.
If we crash and burn as a nation and hit a new great depression, I like to think that people may generally put more thought into who they elect to represent their needs.
Either way we're cooked, so I would like to see some good come from this.
Stockpile about a month's worth of food and fresh water and get a gun.
Wouldn’t a subsidy or tax incentive for things produced domestically be a more beneficial way to combat tariffs?
How so? These would increase demand for things produced in Canada, not really harm America. These are retaliatory tariffs, so the latter is the point here.
Grow a spine and make it 100 percent. The quicker trumps masters learn it wont work the better.
Tat, meet Tit.
I order a decent amount of coffee from Canada and am pretty miffed about this on a personal level not to mention a philosophical one.
It's like "ok fine, we won't buy shit off eachother"
Last I checked US has a bunch of stuff they try to sell.
Personnaly I would put a mirror tarrif. Tax the stuff going out to USA. Canadian economy will slow down, don't make life more expensive for Canadians. And that way Americans might notice it faster if they pay 50 percent more.