• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    37 hours ago

    That’s because he doesn’t understand how economies work. This is the guy that bankrupted a casino.

  • @[email protected]
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    If the orange idiot goes through with it I hope the Canadian Government rolls out the list of tarrifs they used last time targeting states that supported this.

    I’d also love to see the following on the list of retaliation tactics

    Time to invalidate any and all us owned drug patents in Canada, and encourage generic companies to go hog wild

    While we are at it reduce maximum damages from IP infringement claims from media agencies to a nominal 20-100 $ fee or lower in response

    Regulations on foreign house ownership would be a popular thing to play with just not sure how. But could be funny to see any trump owned or trump family adjacent properties taxed heavily and foreclosed/ eminent domained

    The government should also put in place road blocks to refuse to tell the IRS any banking details of any Canadian accounts and tell them to pound sand or take years individually replying manually to any requests to see any US citizen accounts in Canada. Why bother helping them collect taxes.

    Also would love to see trump refused entry at the border for the lulz

    Anyway hopefully smarter people have appropriate counter measures for this. Tit for tat sucks but hopefully embarrassing/ appropriate retaliatory responses.

    • @CheeseNoodle
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      Eh spare the IRS, its one of the most functional and least corrupt remaining bits of the US government and Trumps administration already tried to kill it last time.

  • @[email protected]
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    I can’t wait for headlines to read: “Cost of living in the US goes up 200% under Trump… administration blames Obama.” /s

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      Except they’ll just completely leave the “under trump” part out and directly blame Biden.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      Only if corporate isn’t making money from the new regime. Otherwise it’ll be just vibes of cost of living 🔺200%.

  • Daniel Quinn
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    131 day ago

    The environmentalist in me is rather happy to hear this. Frankly, 25% is too low. Trump may be crazy, but if his trade war(s) mean higher prices on fuel for the biggest driver of climate change on the planet, I’ll take it

    • @[email protected]
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      38 hours ago

      This will make oil in the USA even more expensive, making alternate yet energy more attractive, and hopefully push us over peak oil. Assuming the USA has a domestic wind/solar industry…

    • @Thrillhouse
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      I think he’s just going to go to Russia for the fuel.

    • nocturne
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      “Alberta? Who is she? I bet she is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct." -Trump probably

    • Avid Amoeba
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      You know, in this context it’s a bit refreshing to see Doug Ford’s reaction to this. Proactively whining at Trump instead of shitting on Trudeau. I’m a bit surprised by his take.

    • @[email protected]
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      Honestly, I take what brief moments of hope I can get these days… knowing that Danielle Smith will be crying herself to sleep tonight gives me the hope I need.

      So if we seal off the BC transmountain pipeline and refuse oil trains service through Quebec could we kill our fucking fossil fuel industry and force green alternatives?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 day ago

      Trump has said Canada and Mexico need to stop drugs and illegal immigrants from crossing into the US to prevent the tariffs. Border security will be pretty easy for her to blame on Trudeau.

    • @Thrillhouse
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      I’m probably wrong, but I’ve been speculating if the plan is:

      1. US imposes tariffs on its most valuable trading partners
      2. War in Ukraine “ends”; US stops sending weapons; Ukraine goes to Russia; US possibly threatens to pull out of NATO to accomplish this
      3. Tariffs stay in place for traditional US allies; US helps Russia rebuild economically by becoming its new best good trading buddy, tariff free of course.
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      Crab-bucket economics to go with crab-bucket foreign policy

      Post-Soviet Russia is such a fuck-up of a nation-state that they only way they can look good is by dragging everyone else down to their level.

  • Yardy Sardley
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    On the bright side, 99% of Canadians will be immediately priced out of driving a ICE car, so at least we won’t have to worry about that anymore

    • @[email protected]
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      No, that kinda fucks over most of us who are just getting by. If someone can’t afford to buy gas how would they be able to afford an EV? We need the prices to drop to a level everyone wants to buy an EV, not make every option cripplingly expensive.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        It also sucks for people who don’t want to buy a rolling surveillance machine.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      Why is that? We would be able to import the US parts needed to build cars domestically as we do today. The tariffs would affect domestic production going back to the States. Even if Canadian autos go belly up because they can’t export to the States, we’d still be able to import US-made vehicles. What am I missing?

      • @[email protected]
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        Pretty much every car built anywhere in North America has parts from at least 2 of the 3 countries, not to mention China. Sometimes parts end up going across the border multiple times before they end up as a fully assembled car.