Trudeau tells Trump: Tariff war will shut American factories

[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.

[sxan@midwest.social]

I mean the usual Republican cheating, which is using The Fucking Electoral College, leading to elections where they list the general vote but won the election.

Republicans may very well have subverted voting machines, but I haven't yet seen any evidence - only speculation.

[nollij@sopuli.xyz]

I was quite surprised to see coffee on the list. There's only 1 state far enough south to grow coffee (Hawaii).
That means they import the beans grown elsewhere for processing.

It turns out that Folgers does its roasting and packaging in New Orleans. It's unclear where the beans are from, but I'm sure it's "everywhere".

To my friends in Canada, take this opportunity to upgrade from Folgers.

[kryptoniancodemonkey@lemmy.world]

Our allies are sensible and question his stupidity. Our enemies are also sensible and so they applaud his stupidity, because they're our enemies.

[bakkoda@sh.itjust.works]

The state of most manufacturing facilities is already abysmal. They barely need any help going under.

[monstrosity@lemm.ee]

He was talking directly to the American People, as he mentioned right before this quote.

But it seems American media is invested in keeping the American people uninvested. Like this is between two leaders and we just get to watch.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Tariffs don't work that way, putting the tariff up was stupid and putting a reactionary tariff up would also be stupid.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

If they make this year as shit as possible and it evens out next year they can say they saved the failing economy.

[goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world]

Nah, he's just refusing to talk to him because his goal is to tank America and this is a step in it. Funnel all the money to himself and his friends, rape and pillage, and eliminate it as a superpower, threat, or world influence for daddy Putin.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Does he not know about the Mexico Tariffs? Is he planning to just become Mexican when the USA goes to shit?

[irateanteater@sh.itjust.works]

Maybe he's just mad that his wife and daughter never looked at him the way they looked at Trudeau.

[thunderwhiskers@lemmy.world]

I don't feel bad for the companies; I feel for the poor bastard that has to scrape it off.

[assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works]

Costco has a great Colombian whole bean that they sail from Colombia to Quebec where it's roasted and packaged. Cafe William's Sailboat coffee. We love it. We'll be buying it exclusively now!

[bytemeister@lemmy.world]

His voters like him because he is like them.

[kben@lemm.ee]

Did Donny dickbrain watch the southpark movie and think it was a documentry.

[wewbull@feddit.uk]

I'm waiting for him to announce "Operation Get-behind-the-darkies".

[sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz]

Yeah, I don't understand how people are confused about this. We KNOW from his last term that the Russians have kompromat on MANY Republicans, or just outright own them. Did everyone forget all the Republican senators flying to Russia together to meet with Putin?

If you view Trump and Co.'s actions from Putin's POV, it makes a lot of sense.

[jode@midwest.social]

I want to make ones that say "YOU did this" to maybe MAYBE give the trump dummies/non voters a moment of self reflection.

[wewbull@feddit.uk]

A telephone call requires him to respond without his team in the loop. He's not opening himself up to that.

Since taking office I'm getting more and more convinced that he's in two modes. Teleprompter mode, where his words have been agreed upon by his team, and twitter rant, where he's just spouting his own bile.

He never speaks candidly in person since winning the election. Even the press room statement after the air crash was a prepared piece with all the hate baked in. Sure he took some questions but they were predictable and mainly deflected.