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u/MCXXXVi Sep 17 '26
Join the eu and ill raise taxes on my own people? Thats a bold strategy cotton
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u/iwasborntodestroyu Sep 17 '26
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Fuck Canada when it doesnāt š2
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u/iwasborntodestroyu 29d ago
Wait why am I being downvoted?! Donāt people get its paraphrasing this scene from the movie š¤¦š¼āāļø
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u/RedKnightXIV Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26
What I am doing isn't working as I intended. I had better start doing it more.
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u/rpgguy_1o1 Sep 17 '26
It kind of seems like weakening the US is exactly what he's intendingĀ
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u/RedKnightXIV Sep 17 '26
Nothing so coherent, I fear. It's not that he wants to weaken the US. If we are to take him at his word, he seems willing oblivious to cause and effect.
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u/Catpixfever Sep 17 '26
Tariffs are taxes paid for by the purchaser. Trump loves tax hikes.
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u/Daydreaming_Machine Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26
So does the EU, have you seen the tariff they put on every Chinese imports?
3eu per diffƩrent item if they're less than 150eu (individually), then a 32% tax on anything more than 150eu; it's a catch-22
I understand every countries want manufacturing independence from China, but unless they invest heavily (subsidize) their home industries, all they're doing is pocketing cash from the people that needs it the most (why buy on Chinese websites when you could buy the same product at X10 the price?)
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u/isthisreallife080 Sep 17 '26
Most developed countries penalize China for what are considered anti-competitive business practices. China has its own tariffs on most imported goods, is often accused (probably legitimately) of dumping, ignores other countries IP, and is guilty of human rights violations.
Tariffing China is not the same as applying tariffs to a close ally.
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u/slowride761 Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26
Agreed. Trump is doing tariffs on a host of products but trying to expand manufacturing through the 1.5T defense budget.
We already put a ton of money into defense and aerospace manufacturing through CHIPS. Itās obvious good manufacturing to have, but it requires having wars or other conflicts to maintain. Trump is now expanding like itās the Cold War.
Disagree about the EU. Their tariffs on Chinese goods arenāt considerably lower overall.
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u/SpaceGirlJackie Sep 17 '26
So Trump's solution to Canada wanting to limit trade with the US is to... Limit trade with Canada?
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u/SirChasm Sep 17 '26
No, he already limited trade with Canada, now he wants to limit trade with EU as well.
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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains Sep 17 '26
It's so bizarre to watch a powerful country allow a clown to disassemble their entire country and just like, do nothing about it
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u/SirChasm Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26
They'll wait for the upcoming midterms, and then IF those go well, they'll wait for the Democrats to do nothing about it, then they'll wait two more years for the Democratic Party to spontaneously metamorphose into an actual leftist party, then the next election will come and they'll find out the Democrats quietly took another step to the right, then they'll wait for...
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u/Unkn0wn_666 Sep 17 '26
They literally kick all of their best friends and allies in the face, then collaborate with people actively violating human rights every step of the way, and a few years down the line the US will suddenly feel really sorry when their economy crashes even harder thanks to completely unnecessary and entirely avoidable reasons
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u/eXeXSchatten Sep 17 '26
Correct me, if I'm wrong. But he is trying to hold the people of his own country hostage. Like a three year old throwing a tantrum.
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u/HauntingGummyBear Sep 17 '26
Canāt wait to be able to afford less food. Iāll get that flat stomach yet.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 Sep 17 '26
Trump is all-caps texting his ex gf that she's not allowed at his place anymore while she's sleeping at her new bf's place.
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u/Livid_Importance_442 Sep 17 '26
Trump, being the idiot that he is, believes the world is still like it was in 1946 when he was born, back when the US was the only major economy not devastated by war. Threatening the the entire world with tariffs only hurts the US in the end as other countries find new sources of what they need and form new trading alliances without the US.
Then in 2024, too many American people were once again conned by a narcissistic con man who is too ignorant to understand that simple concept. In short, the US fucked around then, and we're finding out now what happens when you elect a stupid, vengeful, jackass of a con man to lead your country.
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u/mikeysz Sep 17 '26
Letās see how this goes down in the middterms
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u/NaBrO-Barium Sep 17 '26
Even if we course correct we have lost so much in the way of world power over the last 2 years. It will be hard for any country to take us seriously even if we do find a way to constrain the orange turd
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u/Tribe303 Sep 17 '26
We Canadians don't expect much to change even if the Democrats win both houses in the Midterms btw. Democrats are usually more isolationist than Republicans. Biden didn't remove many of the Trump tarrifs from his first term for example. Plus, your entire system is fucked up. We expect Trump 2.0 to appear in a few years, and he likely won't be as stupid as the current one.Ā
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u/scruffy69 Sep 17 '26
So I am pretty sure this all calculated by the GOP. If you look at how the Nazi's seized power in Germany, it was totally dependent on an unhappy population and an unpopular scapegoat. For Hitler, the scapegoat was Jews, immigrants, and the infirm. For Trump it is everything and everyone not "American", immigrants, illegals, Canadians, Europeans, although strangely...not Russians...
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u/Pr_fSm__th Sep 17 '26
Could you please drive down the $ course some more? I will travel to the US in 6 weeks and right now CHF is only 22% stronger. If you put your minds to it you can get it back up to 30% like in January, I believe in you!
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u/pumz1895 Sep 17 '26
If this happens, would that mean Canada would be part of the shengen? Because that would be awesome
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u/Cyn_Sweetwater 29d ago
It's getting to the point where the rest of the world can just work around Trump's America and trade with each other without us. Trump's plan to destroy the country is on track.
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u/Unkn0wn_666 Sep 17 '26
Trump: Imposes illegal tariffs on everything
Supreme Court: Revokes the tariffs, rules them as illegal and makes the US pay back billions of illegally collected taxes
Trump:
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u/hinterstoisser Sep 17 '26
Meanwhile Xi doesnāt even have to do anything drastic to create a rift between the US and its allies.
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u/Boring-Tomatillo-209 29d ago
Oh hahaha āserousā tariffs hahahaha, in two weeks they will be verry serious haha
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u/ResponsibilityOk1211 29d ago
Canda has never been worth the US time or money everything they provide we can do cheaper easier and better... Canada is a bunch of clowns and draft dodgers
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u/Effective-Log3583 26d ago
Like Trump? You know the guy who dodged the draft and acts like a clown.
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u/PepperNormal 29d ago
He still thinks Canada will pay the bill. He really believes other countries pay for the tariffs and that the USA are getting richer by collecting them.
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u/yomakest 28d ago
i remember people casually going across the border for groceries and gas waaayyy back in the day (lived in a border city ofc). nexus and all that.
completely stopped going there even for travel. seeing even white canadians and europeans being held by ice is absolutely insane. i have canadian/[eu country]/[asian country] passports, and none of those embassies will be able to help effectively. i'd literally be better off going to north korea with a chinese passport.
usa has officially joined my "no travel" list (for now) amongst north korea, areas of conflict in the middle east and africa. that leaves me with well over 100 countries to experience
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u/Justda Sep 17 '26
How's that attitude working out for Canada so far?
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u/Xenophobic-alien Sep 17 '26
As a Canadian who stood alongside my American brothers and sisters when America was attacked and sucker-punched, I find your statement deplorable. When you were down, you asked your allies for help, and Canada answered without hesitation. That is what allies do. We stood with you when it mattered most. You do not repay that loyalty by disrespecting the people who stood beside you in your darkest hour. That is not how you treat an ally, and it is certainly not how you treat a friend.
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u/AliExpress7 Sep 17 '26
Its kind of been good for us Canadians at this point. Its the same as understanding perhaps we`ve been a bit to dependent on our partner in this relationship and are permanently building more autonomy and self reliance. Even the best partners wont always be around so long term this is a good thing for us.
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u/Someasshole1326 Sep 17 '26
I don't give a fuck. The canadians can keep their fake bacon. It's not bacon it's ham.
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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 Sep 17 '26
Tell me youāve never had Canadian bacon without telling me youāve never had Canadian bacon.
Not to mention thereās different areas where you can get bacon off a pig. Like the back or rear. Silly comment but thanks for the chuckle.
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u/Someasshole1326 Sep 17 '26
Hey no problem. But seriously though I don't appreciate people who hand me ham and tell me it's bacon. It's the same kind of person that would hand me shit and tell me it's sherbert.
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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 Sep 17 '26
I mean I donāt know anyone that has handed me ham in Canada and said it was bacon. Back bacon can look like ham but itās not.
Sorry you had poor experience but Canada has really good bacon.
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u/Someasshole1326 Sep 17 '26
It goes back to when I was a kid. I was asked if I wanted canadian bacon on my pizza, I thought, hmm, I haven't tried that. Let's try that. Pizza shows up and there's ham all over it. I'm like, where's the big canadian bacon? Oh that is the canadian bacon? what you mean these slices of ham? Ever since then, I have a huge problem with Canadian bacon. And I blame the canadians for this. Btw, i love ham. Also, i've never been to canadia and have no plans on going, voluntary or otherwise.
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u/Ambitious_Address667 Sep 17 '26
This exchange has shown me why and how trump was elected your leader.Ā
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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 Sep 17 '26
Yea thatās your problem. Thats not Canadian bacon in the slightest. Lol dude some dumbass countrymen of yours lied about what was on the pizza. So again your problem isnāt Canadian bacon, itās based off a single incident when a person claimed ham was Canadian baconā¦and this wasnāt even in Canada, from Canada, or Canadian in anyway. Thats like saying āsome guy asked if I wanted a ford but gave me a Chevyā then blaming America for giving you the wrong truck when it was a single person.
Donāt go up to Canada, but I really think your judgement is massively skewed.
Also funny you blame Canadians for something they didnāt even do to your pizza.
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u/Commissar_Sae Sep 17 '26
Did you know its not called Canadian bacon in Canada? Its a name Americans came up with for back bacon and has nothing to do with Canada. You got lied to by an American who then blamed Canada.
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u/Dry_Ship7202 Sep 17 '26
What are we alienating Canada? CANADA, of all places.
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