Trump launches trade war against Canada with a 25% tariff on most goods

[sanctus@lemmy.world]

Someone pin him down and ask him how the fuck this is supposed to help

[misterneon@lemmy.world]

As an American, fuck this guy.

[owenfromcanada@lemmy.world]

As a dual citizen, fuck this guy.

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

As a human, fuck this guy.

[reallyactuallyfrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com]

His logic is actually flawless. Let me explain with a metaphor:

Trump has an imagined pain in his foot, so to cure it, he's going to kick his car as hard as he can. So you see, this will break his other foot and severely damage his car.

Hopefully that helps.

[someone@lemmy.ca]

We need at least a 25% export tax on all energy exports. Clearly they need it or it wouldn't have set a lower rate.

[spacehooks@reddthat.com]

As a corporeal being, fuck this guy.

[dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world]

As a penguin, fuck this guy.

[tal@lemmy.today]

I don't know if it'll do much from a policy standpoint -- I doubt that Canada is simply not pulling easy-to-pull levers related to fentanyl. Also, he didn't aim to negotiate, but just said that he'd impose tariffs, and didn't announce concrete goals. But it might benefit him politically.

I imagine that a lot of his domestic agenda is not going to be all that popular with a lot of people who voted for him. If people are talking about him taking extreme actions aimed at dealing with fentanyl -- an issue of widespread political concern, that's probably preferable.

[riskable@programming.dev]

Canada will probably just cut off the pipelines into the US and partner with Europe to get all that oil shipped there.

[nougat@fedia.io]

As a confection, fuck this guy.

[facedeer@fedia.io]

As some kind of mystic deer-creature, fuck this guy.

[savaran@lemmy.world]

What makes you think it’s supposed to help anyone? This is them speed running tearing the US down to the nails and selling it off for pennies to themselves.

[misterneon@lemmy.world]

I think your name Nahuatl is Mazaxayacatl. Mazatl (deer) + Xayacatl (face/mask) = Mazaxayacatl.

Use that information as you see fit.

[vastard@lemmynsfw.com]

He’s hoping he’ll hurt us (Canada) enough that suddenly his offer to “save” us by becoming a US territory is appealing. Any sort of fentanyl or national security reasoning is just an excuse.

[ininewcrow@lemmy.ca]

Can we leave him with his broken foot in the engine and under hood while I start the car?

[ininewcrow@lemmy.ca]

As a Indigenous Canadian, fuck this guy

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Implementing a tariff without giving businesses an alternative is a self-inflicted wound in a trade war.

[nougat@fedia.io]

Before Trump imposed his tariffs, the Canadian government said U.S. gas prices could jump some 75 cents US a gallon overnight if he went ahead with tariffs.

Higher fuel prices are going to make the consumer cost of everything go up.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

As a squid, fuck all of you who live above the ocean. Won't even let me fly out of the water in peace without one of you mammaling all over the place or whatever.

But also, fuck this guy.