The Trump Tariffs thread

[sandorski]

Party like it’s 1930!

Trump has no awareness of anything that has happened in the world since 1980. His proposals address a world that doesn’t exist using policies with proven track records of utter failure.

Trying to restore the Guilded Age.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Trying to restore the Guilded Age.

And instead restoring and speedrunning the Antebellum period.

 

[K1052]

Been reading quite a bit about Canadians canceling trips to the US because they are so pissed off. US travel associations say it is real and they expect billions in lost business. Just in case anybody thinks that Trump's tariff shenanigans don't actually cost anything.

Apparently they are all booking trips to Mexico instead. This isn't a huge surprise to me since every time I go to Puerto Vallarta there are tons of Canadians there....who I actually prefer to be surrounded by than other American tourists.

 

[UNCjigga]

Been reading quite a bit about Canadians canceling trips to the US because they are so pissed off. US travel associations say it is real and they expect billions in lost business. Just in case anybody thinks that Trump's tariff shenanigans don't actually cost anything.

Apparently they are all booking trips to Mexico instead. This isn't a huge surprise to me since every time I go to Puerto Vallarta there are tons of Canadians there....who I actually prefer to be surrounded by than other American tourists.

But didn’t you know? Higher costs and lower demand is exactly the recipe to business success that Floridians voted for!

 

[K1052]

But didn’t you know? Higher costs and lower demand is exactly the recipe to business success that Floridians voted for!

That state has started to hemorrhage people under 30 because it's too expensive now and the jobs suck. Even the retiring boomers are starting to look elsewhere.

 

[outriding]

Party like it’s 1930!

Trump has no awareness of anything that has happened in the world since 1980. His proposals address a world that doesn’t exist using policies with proven track records of utter failure.

I would expand that to people who ever voted for him

Anyone with an ounce of functioning brain power would have known this and not voted for him

 

[cytg111]

Suck it, we will get our gas from Canada then.

 

[Iron Woode]

Trump has decided that bandying about an obscure 1908 treaty is going to help in his quest to annex Canada.

the treaty in question:

Treaty Between the United States of America and the United Kingdom Concerning the Boundary Between the United States and the Dominion of Canada From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

The treaty deals largely with marking rivers and lakes. Article I of the treaty, for instance, is to survey the precise border through the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, between New Brunswick and Maine.

 

[sandorski]

We need nukes.

 

[K1052]

We need nukes.

Conveniently you have a lot of heavy water reactors with online refueling which are ideal for Pu production.

 

[K1052]

Trade wars are fun and easy to win. The Chinese have been signaling that export controls on key components for various US industries are going to increasingly be how they retaliate against broad US tariffs.

 

[outriding]

Trump has decided that bandying about an obscure 1908 treaty is going to help in his quest to annex Canada.

the treaty in question:

Treaty Between the United States of America and the United Kingdom Concerning the Boundary Between the United States and the Dominion of Canada From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

There is no fucking way trump knew about that treaty

Some dipshit is feeding him this info

I could go on a rant about trump is just a puppet and etc. but don’t have the mental energy for it

 

[Fenixgoon]

There is no fucking way trump knew about that treaty

Some dipshit is feeding him this info

I could go on a rant about trump is just a puppet and etc. but don’t have the mental energy for it

100%

 

[amenx]

Didnt go through whole thread, so probably mentioned. The US needs China imports more than the other way around. China produces tungsten and other metals that are vital for the US defense industry. China and NK produce 90% of worlds tungsten. The US produces none. The US in the end may be licking their wounds in a tariffs fight.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-expands-critical-mineral-export-controls-after-us-imposes-tariffs-2025-02-04/

 

[borosp1]

There is no fucking way trump knew about that treaty

Some dipshit is feeding him this info

I could go on a rant about trump is just a puppet and etc. but don’t have the mental energy for it

You think Trump knows much about any issue? He just parrots whatever the last person in the room tells him and than takes credit for it like its his idea!

 

[nakedfrog]

I would expand that to people who ever voted for him

Anyone with an ounce of functioning brain power would have known this and not voted for him

"But mah open borders and billions of immigrants flooding in eating cats and dogs, and trans people! EGG PRICES! EEEEEGGGS!"

 

[cytg111]

There is no fucking way trump knew about that treaty

Some dipshit is feeding him this info

I could go on a rant about trump is just a puppet and etc. but don’t have the mental energy for it

Of course not, but for an AI this would be trivial conjure up.

 

[MrSquished]

Let me tell you, the r/BuyCanadian subreddit is a hoot. Those Canadians are rightfully pissed off and I gotta say I respect their enthusiastic response.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comments/1isry2w/grocery_store_produce_shelves_empty_except_ones

 

[K1052]

Trump demanded that Canadians fix the trade deficit and they are....just not in the direction he wanted.

 

[Indus]

They need to make an update of this commercial from the 90's..

 

[MrSquished]

Much love and respect to our Canadian brothers and sisters.

 

[sdifox]

Trump demanded that Canadians fix the trade deficit and they are....just not in the direction he wanted.

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Canadians have long memories when it comes to this type of things.

In 2010 Hudson's Bay Company decided to use a pattern similar to Cowichan knitting pattern on their Olympic merchandise without licensing. That was cultural appropriation write large.

I haven't shopped in The Bay since then, and don't plan to ever again.

 

[iRONic]

Trump even posted Thursday morning: "BALANCE BUDGET NOW??? LETS GIVE IT A SHOT. LOTS OF MONEY COMING IN FROM TARIFFS."

Trump has only actually implemented one of his tariff promises far — 10% duties on China — and tariffs make up less than 2% of federal revenues.

Donald Trump toys with 'DOGE dividend' as Elon Musk's cost-cutting project continues to add new goals

Triple down on the grift… Love our neighbors to the north with their middle fingers in the air at us!!!

 

[Jaskalas]

Wonder why he isn't demanding that Mexico becomes the 52nd state. Oh...right. Brown people.

Oh you misunderstand. We will get there. Think Gaza.
Trump's racism and hatred will spark violence and a war with Mexico.
Then he'll want to "rebuild it" after ethnic cleansing.

 

[hal2kilo]

Trump even posted Thursday morning: "BALANCE BUDGET NOW??? LETS GIVE IT A SHOT. LOTS OF MONEY COMING IN FROM TARIFFS."

Trump has only actually implemented one of his tariff promises far — 10% duties on China — and tariffs make up less than 2% of federal revenues.

Donald Trump toys with 'DOGE dividend' as Elon Musk's cost-cutting project continues to add new goals

Triple down on the grift… Love our neighbors to the north with their middle fingers in the air at us!!!

It's amazing the fantasy land this "business man" lives in.