Trudeau tells Trump: Tariff war will shut American factories

[intensely_human@lemm.ee]

It’s a simple question. Are you gonna answer it or not?

[greyeyedghost@lemmy.ca]

I'm not sure how you're going to talk politics without personality, and this is both indicative and typical of his personality.

[t00l_shed@lemmy.world]

I have been. You should try it sometime.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

T came out of the gate, clearly rewarding loyalty and smashing dissent. No red state is going to budge. It's like T watched a CPG Grey on Monarchy.

And even if they did and tried, he's not listening to anyone but his handlers.

[shawn1122@lemm.ee]

Source? Does this include energy / oil or only consumer goods?

[mapleengineer@lemmy.world]

Google is your friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada–United_States_trade_relations

[shawn1122@lemm.ee]

Oh so this is just layperson's math on the back of a napkin. Thanks for clarifying.

[phil_in_here@lemmy.ca]

The answer is implied. No, I don't believe the same thing, because they are explicitly different situations.

Refusing to communicate with someone is valid when you have valid reasons.

Refusing to take a phone call from a guy actively engaging in a violent robbery is valid for a number of reasons.

Flinging bags of shit into your neighbour's yard, then refusing to talk to your neighbour's when they say "this isn't helping either of us live well; I don't want to throw this shit back at you, but I will until you stop" is not valid, it is the inaction of a petty imbecile that can't justify their actions.

Does that answer your question?

[mapleengineer@lemmy.world]

Oh so this is just layperson’s math on the back of a napkin. Thanks for clarifying.

Yes, I dumbed it down for the MAGA crowd and pedants on Lemmy.

[skozzii@lemmy.ca]

Crank up the prices of 25-50% Potash too, its too short supply to get a different supplier and if they don't use it the crops will fail. The US has worked our relationship carefully for decades to get some huge trade advantages from Canada, and Trump just blew it all up.

USA has already lost more than they can ever gain.

[intensely_human@lemm.ee]

So you think it was not childish at all to refuse to communicate with Russia? That blows my mind.

[bestbouclettes@jlai.lu]

Not any other nations, some of your closest allies and trade partners. It's fucking bonkers...

[phil_in_here@lemmy.ca]

What? No. I literally just explained that. No, it's not childish to refuse to take a bad faith call from a dictator to either legitimize their rule or engage in a conflict that would drag the world into a 3rd world war.

Whether you agree or disagree with whether that is the correct political move is certainly up for debate. But to claim it is childish is itself naive.

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

Mexican tariffs have already been delayed and or cancelled.

[jyek@sh.itjust.works]

I feel like a good countermeasure to tariffs would be to implement export tariffs. I'm not an economist but if you tax your own businesses exporting to the US and there are import fees on the other end as well, the importer gets absolutely screwed and will have to pass that along to the customer as well. Meaning a 25% tariff in the US could effectively be whatever price Canada wants it to be for the end consumer. Effectively turn the carrot into a stick.

[intensely_human@lemm.ee]

You made an analogy with talking to a robber

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

Because of the electoral college...

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

Exactly. So target then directly. Targeting blue voters will just push them right.

[notsteve_@lemmy.ca]

Canada could start ignoring American intellectual property rights, or shutting off power exports to places like NY.