Trudeau tells Trump: Tariff war will shut American factories

[sxan@midwest.social]

We were all going to suffer, but the only hope we have of avoiding slipping into a dictatorship is if there dumb fucks who "say this one or because both parties are the same" and the true undecideds who don't pay attention suffer enough to side with the movement to preserve democracy. His base will never change their minds.

He's raping civil liberties, minorities, women's rights, worker's rights, free press; I think it's selfish to vocally complain about the one thing that affects you just because you're not a teacher, or an immigrant, or gay.

This is something the while country will feel, and I hope the idiots who aren't in his cult yet still voted for him will pay more attention as a result.

[recursing@lemmings.world]

Who says he didn't cheat? He said he was going to cheat, he tried to cheat last time, he even thanked Musk for "help with voting machines" IIRC. The fucker cheated and y'all just accepted it

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

remind you of any sickly potato shaped dickheads in moscow who sit atop thrones of skulls you know?

[hubi@feddit.org]

He's acting like his allies are enemies and not countries you want to cooperate with for the common good.

[inputzero@lemmy.world]

Trump is the only person smart enough to play a game of 5D-chess this well.

/S

[cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Orange

Mangoes 🥭🥭🥭

Bananas

[thunderwhiskers@lemmy.world]

I've considered making some for exactly this purpose. This biggest hurdle is I would feel bad vandalizing the pumps and forcing someone else to clean up after me.

[hydrashok@sh.itjust.works]

First you have to have an understanding of “the common good”, which I’m quite certain he is lacking. There is only “the good for me”.

[random_character_a@lemmy.world]

Some of those relations have taken decades to refine. Now little Donny is playing with a hammer and turning it all to shit within weeks.

[skulblaka@sh.itjust.works]

Cooperation is pussy liberal shit, a real American dies alone

[bitchkat@lemmy.world]

Don't feel bad for the gas companies. Also he put an exception on "energy".

[then_three_more@lemmy.world]

Make them magnets

[bitchkat@lemmy.world]

This is designed so billionaires can snap up assets in the cheap when the economy craters. They can hold their positions in what they currently have.

[troyunrau@lemmy.ca]

He doesn't want to hurt Alberta -- they're his future fifth column

[ysjet@lemmy.world]

The US's allies ARE his enemies, because his allies are our enemies.

[boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org]

He also refused to answer calls from Von der Leyen.

Maybe he doesn't know how phones work.

I do remember him talking about writing letters to Kim Jong Un after all.

[medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world]

Coupled with the weather Florida has been having, "oranges from the United States" will probably no longer be a thing. They waited until Anita Bryant died. Coincidence? I think not. /s

[mihies@programming.dev]

Though Trump will most likely absurdly blame Biden & democrats somehow and MAGAs will dumbly eat it all.

[sxan@midwest.social]

This sounds plausible. Billionaires can ride out a slump pretty easily, even if it lasts a decade, confident that they can buy low and sell when Democrats restore the economy[1].

I think the problem is that, this time, there may not be a rebound. Opportunists believe we can intelligence our way out of the extinction event we've created, and maybe we could have. I see no indication that we'll collectively recognize and respond until it's far too late. Global warming is already affecting economies, and by the time we recover from the economic devastation of Trump's presidency, global warming may be the defining economic force.

[1] I am in no way a cheerleader for the modern (post 2k) Democratic party, but it doesn't take much searching to find graphs that chart Republican/Democrat control against economic trends of the time. In the past 30 years or so, there's been a strong correlation between Democratic leadership and strong economies and reduced national debt.

[toomanypancakes@lemmy.world]

It won't stand a chance of waking anyone up unless we rub it in their stupid selfish faces at every opportunity and they can't get a reprieve from learning about how stupid their fucking choices are. Make sure to tell the trumpists laid off "Your president!" on the way out.