sloppychops

Boys' night out at the local strip club, he turns up at Ikea wondering where everyone is.

I see your point, but I feel like spreading the risk a little would've been the more secure trade policy. 70% reliance on one country seems borderline obscene. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 so there's not really any point in me complaining about what should have been. All we can do now is work to correct the mistake.

I swear to fuck i just read another article from 2 hours ago where that Hassent fellow was quoted as saying essentially the opposite of what is quoted here.

These people are a mess. Shrodinger's trade policy. The US economy, a bag of shit and a ketamine addled advisor are placed in a box...

"Only an idiot could have agreed to these trade deals!"

It's rare, but occasionally he'll truth shart.

Not to mention illegal firearms and migrants. I believe that in all cases, the contraflow is much worse.

I did read recently that the trade in illegal Canadian eggs being smuggled into the US is booming, however.

Nice. A clairvoyant on the internet. Very original.

Trump had made it very clear since before his inauguration that he would be targeting Mexico, Canada, and China in his crusade against fentanyl.

Coincidentally, those three nations are also the US' largest trading partners, where the only legal avenue for applying tarrifs within the framework of his own USMCA (the greatest trade deal, maybe ever!) is to declare a national emergency. 'Tarrif', after all, is his favourite word. Right after 'make', 'that' and 'large'. He's been obsessed with tarrifs since the 80s. Any excuse will do. And 'fentanyl from Canada' is the excuse that he burped up after a particularly greasy bucket of chicken.

This trade policy by royal decree has been enabled by a national and bipartisan apathy to the abuse of legal loopholes and a general contempt toward foundational principles like the separation of powers. It's all very obvious. We don't have to guess at trumps motives or strategy here. He has rambled about it incoherently for years at this point. Subtlety is not one of his strong points.

That's not to mention the influence of the First Lady, Lord Ketamine himself.

I hadn't even considered this. I think I have most of my ETFs with BMO (Canadian), but I might have some iShare's, too. Thanks for the reminder!

Soary :(

1. Impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
2. Increase ship building targets to compete with China.
3. ?????
4. Profit?

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Is it time for an expanded digital services tax? Why not tax foreign social media like we tax sugar, alcohol, nicotine, and fast food? The imposition of minimum pricing rules per account or per post would be a huge disincentive. Maybe regulate them like traditional media. Ban foreign ownership?

Edit: spelling

I've been playing on PS5 for around a week. Fantastic control scheme; super intuitive. Honestly, I think this might be the best of the two point games so far. It's very well done and a very original take on the format.

Kindling for November 5th.