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I get it now, 10000 Mexican troops on the US border with Mexico, 1000 times more fentanyl seized along the Southern border, so that means ten Canadians deployed along the Northern border. Easy!
Once again… Trump bent the knee.
Trump is on both knees taking it up the ass, while sucking the cocks of billionaires as they rob us blind of our government information and money.
Sorry for that ugly visual.
Sorry for that ugly visual.
You are not forgiven. You’re not wrong. But you’re also not forgiven.
Keep boycotting US goods, people. Even if no tariff comes to pass, we need to swing away from our dependence on US trade.
I hope the various provinces continue to not shelve US alcohol. Trump said he was pausing the tariffs. When he says he’s canceling them, then ease off.
Hell, I want to boycott US goods and I’m an American living in America!
SMAE!
Buy Canadian. Our beer and whisky is better anyway.
Literally do that if you can buy Canadian instead.
I’ve been trying to de-billionaire my life lately. The strategy at the moment for spending money is:
Buy nothing, if possible. Then buy used, if I have to spend money. If I can’t buy used, then buy local. If I can’t buy local, then buy Canadian or Mexican.
More like a moron in living in America
What exactly is the point of this? By buying foreign products, you pay the US government in whatever import tariff as part of the cost. I’d rather support domestic American businesses over the US government.
What’s the point of… what? Boycotting American products? I didn’t say I was starting an immediate total cut-off of all of them. Our current stupid government just inspires the desire to do this or something meaningful…
Dont let your dreams be dreams.
I wanted a hamburger. Instead I ordered chicken Tikka Masala. I think that’s about all that’s in my power to do at this point…
I had Schnitzel instead of chicken-fried steak.
Buying Canadian just got 25% easier!
Moving all my data and hosting shit to euro-socialist countries. Tired of this doge and orange pony show.
I managed to do a pretty good grocery shop today and I managed to only buy 1 American onion. There was a local option but I couldn’t justify buying (or carrying) 25lbs without a plan. It’s a local grocery store though, and I’m confident they’re working on making buying Canadian/boycotting American products much easier very soon.
Actually… As an American, I can also prioritize Canadian goods, I’m guessing. Maybe we can do both, from both sides of things?
This said, if the ploy here is to milk those goods for money via terrifs and then point to them as a huge success, it may only harm the situation…
And… Trump blinked.
Sort of, I’d say he winced. He still got a stronger boarder which was something he was wanting (cause Canada is the problem /s) but obviously the trade deficit didn’t change.
We’ll truly know if he is blinking if he follows through on the tariffs in a month. I just hope Canada (and others) wake up and realise they can’t depend on the US anymore. They should diversify themselves as much as possible as quickly as possible
The increase in border security spending was announced back in December. The only real change announced today is that Canada will now stick the bogus title of Fentanyl Czar on someone. Oh, and the fact that Canadians now will actively avoid any American products. Great job mango Mussolini.
I think prince andrew has free time on his hands.
Oh interesting, didn’t know about that. So Trump can pretend he made a deal that was already done just by getting Canada to throw in ‘Fentanyl Czar’. What a deal maker /s
Hope Canada continues to avoid American products and diversifies who they supply their exports to
Yup, my understanding is that Mexico’s “deal” was the same. They’d already made those commitments very early on in the “negotiations”.
This whole ease off of tarrifs has just been Trump backing down and announcing the things he already had. You can never lose when every loss is a win.
Myself and a lot of other Canadians have already started avoiding American goods, even before these tarrifs were set to go into place
Good on ya and keep it up!
Border.
And he didn’t get a “stronger border”, he got Canada to pretend to take a non-problem seriously.
That’s fair, for him it’s a win but in reality it doesn’t actually fix a problem since there wasn’t one to begin with
For the record, a trade deficit is not a bad thing, Trump is just obsessed with it because he’s an idiot.
Very true, it’s a symbiotic relationship (or was anyway, the bigger party has changed it’s mind)
I can’t wait until Trudeau makes an innocent joke and Trump bans him from his communities.
Gonna be agonizing to live through 4+ years of this bullshit. We need to run them scared out of here.
hopefully this tariff trouble will end pretty soon, and with that, things will get cheaper for both canada and mexico
The thing is, it’s almost certain that the orange idiot will do this again next month, next quarter, next year, ad infinitum. He’s also shown that it’s mostly bluster, Canada called his bluff and he blinked. So now it’s noise, risk, and unnecessary cost.
There’s also no confidence that this nonsense will stop in four years, no confidence that another Trump won’t be elected next time.
America’s burned the last shred of respect it had left, and it’s gone, for decades if not forever.
Every other country is going to do its best to divest itself of every dependency on the USA it can; find other buyers and find other sellers.
So that would give Canada and Mexico to diversify and find alternative markets after Trump capitulated.
That would also give Trump time to find alternative markets to prepare to reimpose the tariffs
He pissed off the two biggest trade partners, already fucked over farmers with China with the last round of tariffs that never recovered, and most of the EU. Him and his idiot brain trust isn’t exactly swimming in markets.
Also he doesn’t want to source anything from anywhere, he’s stuck in some dementia addled past that never existed where America produced everything and thinks he can do this overnight.
Nicely done, Canada.
Not sure this was a Canadian win? We had to commit a billion to border security and USA had to commit to status quo for 30 days.
I’m pretty sure it is.
Trump only really manages good things by accident, but in my view, it’s objectively a good thing seeing Non-US countries committing more to their own security. Also, at least here in the US, tens of millions can’t afford an unexpected $400 expense without going further into debt, so finding $100-$200 in their budget to deal with tariffs is also going to be unmanageable, and I’m glad that’s been avoided. (for now)
i think trump was bluffing
Yeah I’m still never knowingly buying another US product ever again. Fuck them.
This is a key point. A lot of Canadians are going to avoid buying American, at which point it doesn’t matter if they’re product is on the shelves or if the price didn’t go up, so there will still be some economic impact even if our leaders kiss and make up.
Trump didn’t piss off one person, he pissed off millions, then gave them a target. And this isn’t a unique event. Similar responses are happening in the EU and elsewhere.
Im skeptical that anything positive will come of this for either of our countries anyway. Things will just continue to get progressively worse for the working class.
Tariffs can have certain benefits if wielded with finesse in the right circumstances. Trump uses anything he has like a blunt object. The goal of the retaliatory tariffs was to cause key parts of America pain, rather than mostly Canada feeling the pain of these tariffs.
As for helping the working class. No tariffs are better than tariffs for that working class, but that group has been neglected or targeted for a long time.
Trump and friends are just pumping and dumping the stock markets.
They let you do it if you’re a billionaire.
That’s just the fringe benefit. The real aim was to distract from the plane crashes he caused with his mismanagement of the FAA, and the half dozen agencies that have been hijacked by people without security clearance
C’mon, Trump was talking tariffs for months ahead of all that.
Yeah, he keeps bringing them up any time he needs to distract from any negative coverage of him or his own failings. They’re now on pause after they succeeded in their goal of distraction.
Don’t get me wrong, they’ll come up again. And again. And again. It’s one of the easiest levers he can pull or buttons he can press to get massive attention with very little impact to himself.
All that noise lol.
First tariffs on “day 1” , then Feb 1, then Feb 4, now Mar 1. I wonder how much more credibility he even has left on this.
He… Never had any credibility? Everybody knows Trump doesn’t understand anything, and all his decisions are fed to him by handlers/oligarchs/lobbyists.
China next?
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies…
So what happens after the 15th time Trump does this?
