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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    jon-nyc
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    #462

    A bill to end the national emergency which is the pretense for trumps Canadian tariffs.

    So far a handful of Dems and Rand Paul have signed on.

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    Only non-witches get due process.

    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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    • RenaudaR Offline
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      Renauda
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      #463

      Not surprised that Rand Paul put his name to it. I hope others will step up and show similar moral fibre.

      Elbows up!

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        • jon-nycJ Offline
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          Advance summer flight bookings from Canada are down 70%.

          https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/canada-us-travel

          Matt Yglesias jokes: For us to all have glorious futures doing labor-intensive manufacturing work once the sock factories are repatriated from Cambodia, people are first going to need to lose service sector jobs in hotels and such so the reduced tourism is good.

          Only non-witches get due process.

          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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          • CopperC Offline
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            Copper
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            #466

            nice

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            • CopperC Copper

              nice

              RenaudaR Offline
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              Renauda
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              #467

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

              nice

              Hey Copperhead, you 5 cent piece of passive aggressive troll excrement, I get the impression you actually like taking elbows to the head.

              Elbows up!

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              • jon-nycJ Offline
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                jon-nyc
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                #468

                Imagine thinking fentanyl smugglers pay tariffs.

                IMG_3891.jpeg

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                • Doctor PhibesD Online
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                  Doctor Phibes
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                  He's a chronic narcissist, cut him some slack.

                  I was only joking

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                  • RenaudaR Offline
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                    Renauda
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                    Chronic? More like pathological.

                    Elbows up!

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                    • RenaudaR Renauda

                      Chronic? More like pathological.

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

                      Chronic? More like pathological.

                      Either way, he's neurologically divergent and allowances should be made in the name of diversity and equity.

                      I was only joking

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                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

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

                        Chronic? More like pathological.

                        Either way, he's neurologically divergent and allowances should be made in the name of diversity and equity.

                        RenaudaR Offline
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                        Renauda
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                        @Doctor-Phibes

                        So we’re being led to believe.

                        Elbows up!

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                        • RenaudaR Offline
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                          Renauda
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                          Fact checking Trump’s allegations from yesterday:

                          "We subsidize a lot of countries and keep them going and keep them in business," Trump said. "In the case of Mexico, it's $300 billion. In the case of Canada, it's close to $200 billion a year."

                          According to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, The U.S. goods trade deficit with Canada was $63.3 billion in 2024, down from $64 billion in 2023. That's far less than Trump claimed on Wednesday.

                          https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fact-checking-donald-trump-s-claims-about-canada-in-his-global-tariff-speech-1.7500989

                          Elbows up!

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                          • AxtremusA Away
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                            https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-vote-protesting-trumps-tariff-moves-draws-some-republican-support-2025-04-02/

                            US Senate passes bill aimed at stopping Trump tariffs on Canada

                            Doesn't mean the House will take it up, of course.

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                            • RenaudaR Offline
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                              Renauda
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                              No one here is pinning any hope on it.

                              We do however appreciate the symbolic gesture and will make note of which Republicans in particular supported it.

                              Elbows up!

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                                #476

                                Trump is at it again, campaigning for the Carney Liberals:

                                "I'm really not trolling. Canada is an interesting case.…  I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state."

                                https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-time-interview-analysis-1.7519086

                                And just like that, Donald Trump single handedly defeated the Conservative Party of Canada causing it, for the fourth time in nine years, to implode on itself and eat yet another, of its leaders.

                                Six months ago it was the Trudeau Liberal Party irretrievably heading into the rubbish bin and political wilderness. Donald Trump changed that with his uncontrollable flapping Yankee (in Canadian dialect that means -fucking Yank) populist tongue; his very nemesis of the North, the Liberal Party of Canada are about to hold parliament and form a majority government.

                                Elbows up!

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                                  @blondie @Renauda @xenon What is the mood/thoughts on the election today?

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                                  • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                    This thread is as good a place as any to post this

                                    Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday asked President Trump for an exemption for farmers on the sweeping tariffs he imposed over the weekend.

                                    Why it matters: Republican lawmakers from agricultural states may find themselves in a tough spot as they try to avoid going against their party leader, while still protecting their constituents.

                                    American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall said in a statement over the weekend that "farmers and rural communities will bear the brunt of retaliation" from the tariffs.

                                    https://www.axios.com/2025/02/03/grassley-trump-tariffs-congress-farm-states

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

                                    This thread is as good a place as any to post this

                                    Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday asked President Trump for an exemption for farmers on the sweeping tariffs he imposed over the weekend.

                                    Why it matters: Republican lawmakers from agricultural states may find themselves in a tough spot as they try to avoid going against their party leader, while still protecting their constituents.

                                    American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall said in a statement over the weekend that "farmers and rural communities will bear the brunt of retaliation" from the tariffs.

                                    https://www.axios.com/2025/02/03/grassley-trump-tariffs-congress-farm-states

                                    Follow up to the above from a couple of months ago:

                                    President Trump is prepared to bail out American farmers if the trade war continues squeezing commodity exports, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Sunday.

                                    Why it matters: Exports of key commodities are plunging, particularly soybean and pork sales to China, threatening tens of billions of dollars in farm income.
                                    What they're saying: "First of all, the prayer is that that doesn't need to happen — but secondly, if it does, for the short term, just as in Trump 1, we are preparing for that," Rollins told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.

                                    Catch up quick: In Trump's first term, amid a smaller trade war with China, the government rolled out tens of billions of dollars in farm subsidies.

                                    Those bailouts, collectively, ended up being so large that they almost equaled the tariff revenue generated.

                                    The intrigue: Agriculture consultants and economists tell Axios that farmers don't necessarily want bailouts — they want trade certainty so they can harvest and sell their crops.

                                    "Trade aid isn't going to be farmers' first choice for a solution of all this, farmers prefer to earn their money from the markets," American Soybean Association economist Jacquie Holland said this week.

                                    The bottom line: Rollins said it would probably be a few months before any need for aid was evident.

                                    "I don't think we're going to need it, but if we do, it will be there," she said.

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                                    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                      @blondie @Renauda @xenon What is the mood/thoughts on the election today?

                                      RenaudaR Offline
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                                      Renauda
                                      wrote on last edited by
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                                      @taiwan_girl said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:

                                      @blondie @Renauda @xenon What is the mood/thoughts on the election today?

                                      No different from yesterday. Liberal majority. Poilievre is toast as Conservative leader and the party will split yet again. NDP will also be decimated.

                                      Elbows up!

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                                      • RenaudaR Offline
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                                        Seriously, Trump should just stop:

                                        https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donald-trump-election-canada-truth-social-1.7520212

                                        Trump grows evermore loathsome as each day passes.

                                        Elbows up!

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                                        • MikM Offline
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                                          Yes, he should.

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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