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

[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.

[jimmycakes@lemmy.world]

That's exactly what they want and what all this is about. America has access to all the oil it needs but there are too many pesky laws and environmental exclusion zones. This will create a "shortage" so they will need to start up new drilling operations in the gulf, in Alaska, fracking, national parks, any other shit they got cooked up.

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world]

I mean we've known his goal when he outwardly asked the oil executives to buy him

[fiivemacs@lemmy.ca]

Honestly...if you can manage to pin him down don't even talk to him. Anything he spews isn't worth hearing, just [redacted] him to [redacted]

[fiivemacs@lemmy.ca]

They think they will continue to earn sales when things go up. I've already stopped buying anything but food, so honestly...I don't care. Everything can skyrocket 300% and I wouldn't give a flying fuck

In my mind, it's time to teach ALL companies a lesson and stop consuming. I mean full stop, but literally nothing. Kill them financially. I know this won't happen because the majority of smooth brained idiots who can't help but buy dumb shit over and over

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world]

Being that we cut regulations over and over the number of refineries to oil in the U.S. decreased drastically over the years. It is why we had shortages while having loads of crude oil laying around. A quick search shows that building a refinery takes 3-5 years. So unless we can use the refineries we have to produce the fuel we need, we may hit years of higher prices

[stoptouchingyourphone@lemmy.world]

O weird... Across every platform, I kept reading this would never happen and was JUST A DISTRACTION from some other terrible thing - or if it did happen it'd be our fault for paying attention in the first place (and Daddy drinks because you cry) - and here we are AGAIN. Murka doing exactly what they threatened to do.

Looking forward to Trudeau's response at 6. And the fuck Trudeau brigade can get bent.