Trudeau tells Trump: Tariff war will shut American factories

[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.

[ninemiletower@lemmy.world]

He thinks it will make manufacturers come to MI because they won't want to pay tariffs.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Minimum wage in MI is $10.25 USD, and the Mexico minimum wage is supposedly $248.93 PESO equal to about 12 USD and potentially rising, so your boss might have a point if the US workforce doesn't just leave the country themselves.

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

If you are a Canadian or Mexican please contact your representatives and have them do a more targeted tariff plan. Target American red states directly! Oil tariffs should be universal but anything made in red states and counties should have a 100% tariff. Force industry and goods to flow through blue areas and Trump's support will crumble.

[bassturd@lemmy.world]

If Canada just stopped selling aluminum and steel to the US, it would heavily affect aerospace and military manufacturing.

[fakir@lemm.ee]

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

[curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

They can just take their sweet, sweet time to take them off, time they get paid for. Probably more relaxing too.

I used to be a pump jockey, I personally wouldn't have minded. Thats just my take of course.

[whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world]

Ohh, that’s clever. It took me a moment.

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

Automotive too

[jlh@lemmy.jlh.name]

Even 38.3% of Californian voters voted for Trump. The Trump party only has a 9 set majority in the house, and California has 9 of them, all of which are up for reelection in 18 months. Targeting individual states probably isn't that helpful.

[piecat@lemmy.world]

Christ- mexico was becoming a good ally for manufacturing.

[twentyseven@lemmy.world]

I had to look that up, because it didn't sound right. Turns out it's 248.93 pesos per day, not per hour

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Ah shit you're right, mb. Yeah, Manufacturing is staying in Mexico.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I was wrong with my numbers earlier, made an edit.

[zelaya@lemmy.today]

México could send 25% of his citizens.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

When everything in the world is zero sum, there is no cooperation.

Such a sad way to view the world.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

They will just blame Democrats

[brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This assumes the people in the red States would see the chain of causation, which is unlikely.

It will create an enemy out of the taxing countries. I dont have a better idea but at this point his base will never turn from him.