Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, starting Aug. 1, citing that Ottawa had retaliated with tariffs against Washington.

“Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs,” Trump said in his letter to Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, posted on Truth Social.

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    I don’t understand how so many countries just take this shit. Does the US economy have that strong a hold on your country that you are scared to stand up for your people? How shitty of a leader do you have to be to not have a contingency in place for something like this?

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    Honestly, is there anything stopping a country from just “mirroring” US tariffs? US gives them X% tariffs, they give the US X% tariffs back. Is this feasible? Or is it a crappy idea?

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      I think this is what Europe has done in the past, however you want to target products that don’t damage your own economy by making them more expensive. That seems harder to do.

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    A guy walks over to his friend’s friend’s house and tells him to pay up or else. The reasonable response would be to spit in his face and tell him to get bent.

    Trump’s policy decisions killed those people in Texas & Epstein helped him and other sick rich monsters rape kids

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    I’d have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say “nope…we’re ignoring it. Everyone knows it’s a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he’ll be removing them.”

    Everyone KNOWS he’s a fucking grifter, but politicians don’t want to say it out loud.

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      That would be an incredibly stupid diplomatic strategy. So be happy that your politicians are smarter than that.

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      If they call him on his bullshit his fefes might get hurt and he might actually keep them on to be spiteful.

      Better to just smile and nod at his senile ass and continue to make contingency plans.

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    i.e. his rich buddies called him up and said “we need/want more money, go manipulate the market again” to which Trump said “sure i’ll fuck with Canada some more”

    that’s all this is. Carney needs to stop playing nice and start up the digital service tax again.

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        But they already lost the advantage they had. The point of the retaliatory tariffs are not to make money, but to send a message.

        They’ve already sent a message that they can tolerate Trump’s bullshit as long as it doesn’t hurt them too much when they backed down on the digital service tax.

        Bringing it back now is a lot less effective than implementing it the first time around while still hurting Canadians the same amount.

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    Why not now? Why wait till Aug 1? Just make it so.

    You know why? He’s fishing for more concessions.

    Canada should just say fuck it and raise the digital sale tax and then fling fentanyl across the border with trebuchets.

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    Trump is named in the Epstein files.

    Trump cut NOAA and FEMA funding before flash flooding killed over 200 people in Texas including two dozen Christian girls.

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      And why does the fact that the two dozen girls were in a sect matter?

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        It all about the optics. You say 200 people died people won’t care as much, you say 200 girls died and and THEY WERE GOOD CHRISTIANS, you appeal to a lot of Americans.

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        To me, I think it’s worth pointing out the hypocrisy of the “the gays caused hurricane Sandy/Katrina/etc” people.

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        God has no tolerance for traitors. You see, God discovered that they supported the Devil in secret, so he sent a flood to kill them. It’s a message to help the surviving Texans remember their true allegiance.

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    Look Mark, can I call you Mark? I’ve got a mangled tiny penis, and I compensate for it in many different and weird ways. Sometimes it’s raping woman or girls. Other times, it is saying and doing awful racist things. Sometimes it is just doing nonsensical things. Mark, the girls in the pee pee tape laughed at it. Anyways, that’s why Canada has to pay 35% tariffs.

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    Enacting tariffs against our trading partners, and excellent neighbors, as well as allies, is an act of war. It puts America in ‘national security’ peril. We are not being attacked by Canada or Mexico. It’s putin’s Russia you need to be concerned about, you orange cancer.