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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, starting Aug. 1, citing that Ottawa had retaliated with tariffs against Washington.
“Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs,” Trump said in his letter to Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, posted on Truth Social.
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Wait, I was just now wondering about the Epstein files but… now that this important proclamation has been yeeted out… I’ve forgotten about that. Odd
TACO
Yawn…
Boy: Do not try and bend the Trump. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no Trump.
Neo: There is no Trump?
Boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the Trump that bends, it is only yourself.Canadians were mega pissed at americans back in March. I’m not sure how much lower we can sink in their estimation. 0% favorability is coming up quick.
https://angusreid.org/trump-tariffs-canada-retaliation-usa/
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/1263527125/its-been-a-minute-canada-us-relationship-politics
Trump did an absolute number to Pierre. I’m hoping he targets Ford or Smith next.
Have been since march*
Being livid has not changed.
Honestly, is there anything stopping a country from just “mirroring” US tariffs? US gives them X% tariffs, they give the US X% tariffs back. Is this feasible? Or is it a crappy idea?
I think this is what Europe has done in the past, however you want to target products that don’t damage your own economy by making them more expensive. That seems harder to do.
I don’t understand how so many countries just take this shit. Does the US economy have that strong a hold on your country that you are scared to stand up for your people? How shitty of a leader do you have to be to not have a contingency in place for something like this?
Well, Canada’s only meaningful land border and a vast amount of transportation infrastructure is to the US, so any reasonable leader would probably try to maximize trade with that neighbour as long as they are an ally. Carney has definitely focused on more European trade, but yes, perhaps there should have been more diversification even before Donny.
The is reasonable but very short sighted. You don’t put your eggs in 1 basket as the saying goes.
While this is obviously true now, in hindsight, it’s certainly not fair. The entire western world put all of their eggs in the USA basket… why? Because after WWII there was a real sense that the USA was trustable. That they would work toward freedom, democracy, and (importantly) expanding markets in the world. The USA made the basket and the rest of the world piled in their eggs. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary (Panama, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc all), the world continued to believe the lie that America was happy promulgating. Nobody reasonable believed America would take a hard right turn to fascism and voluntarily elect a leader that would throw the basket — the basket they made to always favour America — in the trash. But here we are. Yes, the world never should have agreed to America putting itself at the top of the pile. But we did and now the world is busy re-orienting without America. I think that’s for the better, but then again I’m not American. I think Americans are in for a rude awakening when the Trump policies actually come home to roost… of course he’ll be gone by then and they’ll just blame whatever democrat inherits the burning hulk of America that he leaves behind.
I’d have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say “nope…we’re ignoring it. Everyone knows it’s a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he’ll be removing them.”
Everyone KNOWS he’s a fucking grifter, but politicians don’t want to say it out loud.
That would be an incredibly stupid diplomatic strategy. So be happy that your politicians are smarter than that.
If they call him on his bullshit his fefes might get hurt and he might actually keep them on to be spiteful.
Better to just smile and nod at his senile ass and continue to make contingency plans.
In violation of the trade agreement HE negotiated just a couple years ago.
A guy walks over to his friend’s friend’s house and tells him to pay up or else. The reasonable response would be to spit in his face and tell him to get bent.
Trump’s policy decisions killed those people in Texas & Epstein helped him and other sick rich monsters rape kids
Don’t worry - TACO 🌮
i.e. his rich buddies called him up and said “we need/want more money, go manipulate the market again” to which Trump said “sure i’ll fuck with Canada some more”
that’s all this is. Carney needs to stop playing nice and start up the digital service tax again.
They’ll be gone by next week.
T.A.C.O.
Good thing they dropped the digital service tax for US companies…
That was daft.
Feckless and weak.
They can bring it back just as easily
But they already lost the advantage they had. The point of the retaliatory tariffs are not to make money, but to send a message.
They’ve already sent a message that they can tolerate Trump’s bullshit as long as it doesn’t hurt them too much when they backed down on the digital service tax.
Bringing it back now is a lot less effective than implementing it the first time around while still hurting Canadians the same amount.
… and the gain from dropping it was???
Some people just like to get fucked
And not in the fun way!
Yeah right, what a bullshit theater…
