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  • RenaudaR Offline
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    Renauda
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    @jon-nyc

    I have said in past here, that Trump does not understand international trade. I still maintain that and his actions only confirm that assessment. Trump seems to think US protectionism during the late 19th early 20th centurues was what made great and it can be replicated now in the 21st. He is deluded, the world has moved on from the age of steam. Yes he believes his own shit just as Putin believes his own shit. Both are demagogue street thugs cut from the same whole cloth.

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    • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

      I think it’s pretty obvious. Canada is by freaking far the #1 exporter of oil to the US. Trump wants energy independence… in a 5D chess world, inflating Canada’s energy costs to the US consumer gives him more cover for drill baby, drill.

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      @LuFins-Dad said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

      in a 5D chess world

      So is Trump this guy

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      or this guy?

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      I was only joking

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      • RenaudaR Renauda

        It really shouldn't be up to Canada to repair this clusterfuck.

        We have already given Trump all the appeasement he has asked for and demanded. And then some.

        Trump is off his fucking cracker.

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        @Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

        It really shouldn't be up to Canada to repair this clusterfuck.

        We have already given Trump all the appeasement he has asked for and demanded. And then some.

        Only non-witches get due process.

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        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

          @Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

          It really shouldn't be up to Canada to repair this clusterfuck.

          We have already given Trump all the appeasement he has asked for and demanded. And then some.

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          @jon-nyc said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

          @Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

          It really shouldn't be up to Canada to repair this clusterfuck.

          We have already given Trump all the appeasement he has asked for and demanded. And then some.

          ff88e0b2-0c22-47f9-b6b8-d7505909e228-image.png

          I was only joking

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            #20

            Leader of the Conservative Party, running for PM

            Only non-witches get due process.

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            • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

              @jon-nyc said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

              @Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

              It really shouldn't be up to Canada to repair this clusterfuck.

              We have already given Trump all the appeasement he has asked for and demanded. And then some.

              ff88e0b2-0c22-47f9-b6b8-d7505909e228-image.png

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              @Doctor-Phibes said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

              @jon-nyc said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

              @Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

              It really shouldn't be up to Canada to repair this clusterfuck.

              We have already given Trump all the appeasement he has asked for and demanded. And then some.

              ff88e0b2-0c22-47f9-b6b8-d7505909e228-image.png

              Lol

              Only non-witches get due process.

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              • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                Is there any evidence that a significant amount of Fentanyl enters the US via Canada?

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                @LuFins-Dad said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                Is there any evidence that a significant amount of Fentanyl enters the US via Canada?

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                  Leader of the Conservative Party, running for PM

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                  @jon-nyc said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                  Leader of the Conservative Party, running for PM

                  At last Monsieur PeePee took a stand and articulated a coherent policy stance on this and a few other outstanding domestic irritants.

                  PeePee, it seems after all, is no friend of the Trump’s hegemonic agenda of lies.

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                    Lumber.

                    Canadian lumber just killed one of the largest sawmills in Northern Florida.

                    Autos.

                    How many vehicles do we still import from Canada? I don't know.

                    I agree that oil makes up most if the deficit, but the deficit is higher than it's been in awhile. I suspect this latest tariff is just the opening shot in further trade negotiations.

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • JollyJ Jolly

                      Lumber.

                      Canadian lumber just killed one of the largest sawmills in Northern Florida.

                      Autos.

                      How many vehicles do we still import from Canada? I don't know.

                      I agree that oil makes up most if the deficit, but the deficit is higher than it's been in awhile. I suspect this latest tariff is just the opening shot in further trade negotiations.

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                      @Jolly said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                      Lumber.

                      Canadian lumber just killed one of the largest sawmills in Northern Florida.

                      Bullshit.

                      Autos.

                      How many vehicles do we still import from Canada? I don't know.

                      Do some fucking research, Beauregard.

                      Here’s a start for you.

                      The auto industry in North America is an integrated and complex supply chain arrangement that the industry itself has developed and refined over fifty years or more. It’s not a matter of which vehicle is built in Detroit or Oshawa.

                      You’re welcome.

                      I agree that oil makes up most if the deficit, but the deficit is higher than it's been in awhile. I suspect this latest tariff is just the opening shot in further trade

                      Because American demand for heavy oil has increased and continues to increase. Many of your under capacity refineries run on heavy oil, always have. They cannot run medium or light. US used to import it from Venezuela or bunker sea from the open markets- usually Iran. Those sources are now closed to the US market.

                      Also your MAGAt Moses Duce is not interested in negotiation or bilateral cooperation. Never has been interested. He wants total control and overlordship. It is entirely his choice to down this road and tear up the legacy of Ronald Reagan and a trade treaty what he himself called in 2018, the free trade agreement of the century.

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                        Actually Trump’s envoy just made some deal with Venezuela. We got some hostages back and they’re going to take their immigrants back. It’s unclear what they got in return but their government hailed the opportunity for ‘a new relationship’ with the US. Speculation is there’s oil involved.

                        See my post above about picking fights with friendly democracies and signaling weakness to our enemies.

                        Only non-witches get due process.

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                          @jon-nyc

                          I hadn’t heard about signs of possible rapprochment with Venezuela. Would not surprise me though. Trump is attracted to thugs of all sorts. I will look into it. Thanks.

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                          • JollyJ Jolly

                            Lumber.

                            Canadian lumber just killed one of the largest sawmills in Northern Florida.

                            Autos.

                            How many vehicles do we still import from Canada? I don't know.

                            I agree that oil makes up most if the deficit, but the deficit is higher than it's been in awhile. I suspect this latest tariff is just the opening shot in further trade negotiations.

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                            @Jolly said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                            Lumber.

                            Canadian lumber just killed one of the largest sawmills in Northern Florida.

                            Autos.

                            How many vehicles do we still import from Canada? I don't know.

                            I agree that oil makes up most if the deficit, but the deficit is higher than it's been in awhile. I suspect this latest tariff is just the opening shot in further trade negotiations.

                            This sounds like an arguement for no trade.

                            Canadians are generally pretty pissed about this. Conservatives in Canada have been saying for a long time that they should be refining their own energy and selling it to a more diverse base of countries. US has been getting a pretty sweet deal on that. And until yesterday the name of the game was energy independence wrt to the ME.

                            If you think the trade between Canadian and the US is unfair, I don’t think any sort of trade would be to your liking.

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                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                @jon-nyc

                                Probably the best speech or national address Trudeau has made in his political career.

                                Quite a feat, the country is rallying around the Trudeau government on this.

                                To paraphrase Forrest Gump; And just like that, Canadians came to despise Donald Trump even more than Justin Trudeau.

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                                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                                      @jon-nyc

                                      Probably the best speech or national address Trudeau has made in his political career.

                                      Quite a feat, the country is rallying around the Trudeau government on this.

                                      To paraphrase Forrest Gump; And just like that, Canadians came to despise Donald Trump even more than Justin Trudeau.

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                                      @Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                      @jon-nyc

                                      Probably the best speech or national address Trudeau has made in his political career.

                                      Quite a feat, the country is rallying around the Trudeau government on this.

                                      To paraphrase Forrest Gump; And just like that, Canadians came to despise Donald Trump even more than Justin Trudeau.

                                      @Renauda I agree. He did his job today. It was good. I’m waiting for what step #2 could be, like export taxes, perhaps ?potash ?uranium, ?aluminum. I’m also wondering, waiting what Mexico will do specifically.
                                      Personally, living in the land of WCS, AECO, blends, glycol, I’m worrying of people’s jobs. These hit fast and hard. People are already suffering.

                                      It’s all so stupid, your American president. We’re a continent of trade partners, not enemies. As a POTUS, why piss off your neighbours when you’re really pissed of China, or frustrated of your own country’s failings, like with fentanyl, or decades of Mexico border crossings?

                                      @Horace said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                      Looks like Canada can do something performative, give Trump a PR win, and the tariffs will be revoked. I hope that is the outcome of this.

                                      You’ve hit something here. Someone here said to me “Oh, he admires Putin.. that’s what he’s doing .. he wants to be a Putin”. That made me think. But yes, to the world, I do think he wants to be seen as a Leader Supreme. It’s his personal goal, perhaps something he’s wanted prior to running for POTUS the first time? With a North American PR win, he gets an ego stroke. By bullying his country’s trade partners and winning somewhat, he feels good. I hope he’s willing to listen to his own economists, trade experts, and back tracks his idea, his tariffs. What he’s doing, even short term, will impact the U.S. too.

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                                        @Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                        @jon-nyc

                                        Probably the best speech or national address Trudeau has made in his political career.

                                        Quite a feat, the country is rallying around the Trudeau government on this.

                                        To paraphrase Forrest Gump; And just like that, Canadians came to despise Donald Trump even more than Justin Trudeau.

                                        @Renauda I agree. He did his job today. It was good. I’m waiting for what step #2 could be, like export taxes, perhaps ?potash ?uranium, ?aluminum. I’m also wondering, waiting what Mexico will do specifically.
                                        Personally, living in the land of WCS, AECO, blends, glycol, I’m worrying of people’s jobs. These hit fast and hard. People are already suffering.

                                        It’s all so stupid, your American president. We’re a continent of trade partners, not enemies. As a POTUS, why piss off your neighbours when you’re really pissed of China, or frustrated of your own country’s failings, like with fentanyl, or decades of Mexico border crossings?

                                        @Horace said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                        Looks like Canada can do something performative, give Trump a PR win, and the tariffs will be revoked. I hope that is the outcome of this.

                                        You’ve hit something here. Someone here said to me “Oh, he admires Putin.. that’s what he’s doing .. he wants to be a Putin”. That made me think. But yes, to the world, I do think he wants to be seen as a Leader Supreme. It’s his personal goal, perhaps something he’s wanted prior to running for POTUS the first time? With a North American PR win, he gets an ego stroke. By bullying his country’s trade partners and winning somewhat, he feels good. I hope he’s willing to listen to his own economists, trade experts, and back tracks his idea, his tariffs. What he’s doing, even short term, will impact the U.S. too.

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                                        @blondie said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                        It’s all so stupid, your American president. We’re a continent of trade partners, not enemies.

                                        WSJ Editorial Board agrees.

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                                        Only non-witches get due process.

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                                        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                          @blondie said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                          It’s all so stupid, your American president. We’re a continent of trade partners, not enemies.

                                          WSJ Editorial Board agrees.

                                          IMG_2684.jpeg

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                                          @jon-nyc said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                          @blondie said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                          It’s all so stupid, your American president. We’re a continent of trade partners, not enemies.

                                          WSJ Editorial Board agrees.

                                          IMG_2684.jpeg

                                          The article:

                                          President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They’ll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%. This reminds us of the old Bernard Lewis joke that it’s risky to be America’s enemy but it can be fatal to be its friend.

                                          Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says they’ve “enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.” But drugs have flowed into the U.S. for decades, and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can stop it.

                                          Drugs may be an excuse since Mr. Trump has made clear he likes tariffs for their own sake. “We don’t need the products that they have,” Mr. Trump said on Thursday. “We have all the oil you need. We have all the trees you need, meaning the lumber.”

                                          Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the U.S. shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home. This is called autarky, and it isn’t the world we live in, or one that we should want to live in, as Mr. Trump may soon find out.


                                          Take the U.S. auto industry, which is really a North American industry because supply chains in the three countries are highly integrated. In 2024 Canada supplied almost 13% of U.S. imports of auto parts and Mexico nearly 42%. Industry experts say a vehicle made on the continent goes back and forth across borders a half dozen times or more, as companies source components and add value in the most cost-effective ways.

                                          And everyone benefits. The office of the U.S. Trade Representative says that in 2023 the industry added more than $809 billion to the U.S. economy, or about 11.2% of total U.S. manufacturing output, supporting “9.7 million direct and indirect U.S. jobs.” In 2022 the U.S. exported $75.4 billion in vehicles and parts to Canada and Mexico. That number jumped 14% in 2023 to $86.2 billion, according to the American Automotive Policy Council.

                                          American car makers would be much less competitive without this trade. Regional integration is now an industry-wide manufacturing strategy—also employed in Japan, Korea and Europe—aimed at using a variety of high-skilled and low-cost labor markets to source components, software and assembly.

                                          The result has been that U.S. industrial capacity in autos has grown alongside an increase in imported motor vehicles, engines and parts. From 1995-2019, imports of autos, engines and parts rose 169% while U.S. industrial capacity in autos, engines and parts rose 71%.

                                          As the Cato Institute’s Scott Lincicome puts it, the data show that “as imports go up, U.S. production goes up.” Thousands of good-paying auto jobs in Texas, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan owe their competitiveness to this ecosystem, relying heavily on suppliers in Mexico and Canada.

                                          Tariffs will also cause mayhem in the cross-border trade in farm goods. In fiscal 2024, Mexican food exports made up about 23% of total U.S. agricultural imports while Canada supplied some 20%. Many top U.S. growers have moved to Mexico because limits on legal immigration have made it hard to find workers in the U.S. Mexico now supplies 90% of avocados sold in the U.S. Is Mr. Trump now an avocado nationalist?

                                          Then there’s the prospect of retaliation, which Canada and Mexico have shown they know how to do for maximum political impact. In 2009 the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats ended a pilot program that allowed Mexican long-haul truckers into the U.S. as stipulated in Nafta. Mexico responded with targeted retaliation on 90 U.S. goods to pressure industries in key Congressional districts.

                                          These included California grapes and wine, Oregon Christmas trees and cherries, jams and jellies from Ohio and North Dakota soy. When Mr. Trump imposed steel and aluminum tariffs in 2018, Mexico got results using the same tactic, putting tariffs on steel, pork products, fresh cheese and bourbon.

                                          Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to respond to U.S. tariffs on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Canada could suffer a larger GDP hit since its economy is so much smaller, but American consumers will feel the bite of higher costs for some goods.


                                          None of this is supposed to happen under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that Mr. Trump negotiated and signed in his first term. The U.S. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with friends, won’t make other countries eager to do deals. Maybe Mr. Trump will claim victory and pull back if he wins some token concessions. But if a North American trade war persists, it will qualify as one of the dumbest in history.

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