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Keeping a straight face has been perhaps the greatest achievement of Mark Carney’s brief tenure as the prime minister of Canada. For months, Donald Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America’s ungrateful northern neighbor into the 51st state, come what may, an achievement worthy of his visage gracing Mount Rushmore — in the same way Trump will annex Greenland, reclaim the Panama Canal, free Brazil’s corrupt former President Jair Bolsonaro, repeal the laws of climate change and gravity, and then impose tariffs on all of America’s nefarious trading partners, like the evil-doer Canada.

The only hitch, as the canny Carney has known all along: America has a thing called a “treaty” with Canada. Not one of Trump’s “deals,” the chaotic, almost certainly worthless and delusional transactions that involve the president imagining himself astride the world, TV remote in hand, a colossus of reactionary stupidity and cruelty finally delivering his promised revenge.

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[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago

The hockey metaphor actually works to describe the Canadian populations response as a whole.

If the opposing team does something scummy, and the refs don't respond, we will fist-fight you about it.

Canadians have always been polite, but there's never been the tendency to be pushovers. People like Trump always get that confused.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why do people keep saying that out loud? It feels like all it's doing is egging him on and challenging him to not chicken out. We WANT him to chicken out.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 5 points 8 months ago

Why do people keep saying that out loud?

Because ridiculing fascists is fun.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago
[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

Is there any reporting on the actual tariffs being collected? Preferably with a detailed breakdown of countries, materials and exceptions.

[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

why do lib magazines write about nation-states and regimes as though they are MCU characters who quip at each other

it kind of reminds me of the way american pastors will talk about their weird god like he's a Black Adam starring The Rock, blasting through their enemies in their fantasy sermons

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago
[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Canada and China, the USA's two largest trading partners both retaliated against the tariffs. The reason for this is because we actually have the leverage because we're so big.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That and because most countries have citizens smart enough to understand that a tariff is a tax and they don't like their taxes being raised.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Does it involve tacos?