Omg I have never been more excited to introduce a room full of people to this very silly but enjoyable new Canadian tv show, which is one of the only reasons I found out this place exists. Super fun if you want to take a vacation from watching the decline and collapse live: https://youtu.be/_Xe-jBDATmM?si=s_NhQF76ZXJk8qNE
PS. It’s goofy AF but you’ll thank me when you’re enjoying a good heckle at something that doesn’t also make you sad. Also good for a fun old fashioned Wikipedia deep dive.
It’s funny that the main female character was on Death in Paradise where she played the straight French speaking detective to the goofy English detective on a small island that had a disproportionate number of creative murders.
Yes someone above said it’s free on CBC Gem! This one is so much fun because one second you’re rolling your eyes, then suddenly there’ll be a super astute or cutting moments like referencing construction company corruption in Montreal 😂
There's a reason that every single thing he touches fails. He funnles all the money to his off shore accounts and then declares bankruptcy. He keeps doing it. He should be in jail for fraud.
Why would the sick people in this government work so hard to make a serious proposal if the only thing that matters is making the orange guy's narcissistic ego feel important? Those mediocre people are happy with the crumbs he throws on the ground for them to pick up with their tongues.
He aims to make his living off grifting social media, that’s his whole thing, money is his main priority. I used bold letters because there’s already lots of comments.
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I wonder who the people are behind these tariffs? We know trump is too lazy to do any research. He just tells his lackeys to tax everybody and then signs the bottom line without knowing what he is signing. Apparently, the goal is get the world to hate the USA.
Idiocy. They also make a really strong spirit - like 90% proof or something crazy like that. Best to keep that stuff out of the 🇺🇸. They're already boozed up enough. So many brain cells already fried.
Yes. And I think it’s also much darker than that. This is about France and Canada. The new PM went to France first, after becoming PM, after 51st state statements from Trump. Not long after that a French nuclear sub stoped for Coffee in Halifax Nova Scotia. Trump is vindictive and spiteful.
Is this retaliation for that time during Prohibition when it was one of the main alcohol smuggling hub for the US ? I can't think of anything else. 🤷♂️
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St. Pierre and Miquelon isn’t even a country but a part of France. So it can evade the 99% tariff on its enormous economic production by shipping duty free to France and then using the 20% tariff rate on the EU.
This is what happens when you put bias in your AI programming. Combined with evil intentions it’s a recipe for huge failure and cruelty. Guess only billionaires can afford lobster dinners.
That pretty much sums it up. "So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane". Yeah, that pretty much says it all. They are using a metric that has never been used before, but they had to find something that Trump may have understood, and had the highest tariff figure associated with it. INSANE.
After the algorithm ran through the numbers, they raised the minimum to 10%, including on countries with $0 import/export and those with which America had a trade surplus. (Because it's a negative deficit value).
CORRECT!! We learned in High School economics class that Tariffs are something specific to a region, & a specialty of that region. Not a blanket of TAX UP THE ASS! It's INSANE how stupid & vile this mobster-in-chief is. He has made us enemies of the world. 🤦♀️. HOW DO WE GET RID OF THIS CANCER?
Trump was always a con artist with zero clue. Once he's wrecked everything and he understands NOBODY sees him as a "stable genius", he'll tell himself WE ALL DESERVED to be punished for not picking him in 2020, anyway. Nobody will have the courage to oust this reckless wingnut till it's too late.
Shockingly,Antarctic penguins retaliate against Trump’s tariffs by forming the Waddle Trade Alliance. Their demands? Free fish, no walls of ice, and a total ban on red ties. “We’re hitting back HARD,” said a spokesperson, before sliding away on his belly. Trump calls them "flightless freeloaders"!
We already saw how incredibly incompetent this administration is with the national security - Signalgate. But this kind of behavior is everywhere. But I agree with Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Tariffs are more than incompetence, it’s a political weapon!
The problem is that the island’s imports mostly show as being from Canada even if they’re not. It’s the same with Lesotho. Not showing any imports from the U.S. because there is in this case a customs union with South Africa and the goods are reported at that level.
You couldn’t make this shit up and have anyone believe it. (Anyone with more than one brain cell). America….. wtf? Asking for a world that shakes its head it absolute disbelief at the stupidity being shown by Trump and his gang of destroyers.
Territory that is a part of Canada- off the coast of Newfoundland. Folks in this region and in Newfoundland have struggled to keep this a thriving area for people to stay and visit and work. They want to keep their population. Now this…
There is a reason it's French, and Canada never tried anything. Nobody want the 1917 explosion in Halifax to be the second worse thing that happened there… Also, we inject millions in the regional economy.
Bye bye America! It was nice to have you on our side! Please don't ask us in autumn if we can help out with grain! You can take the rare earths from Ukraine, for excample.
Speaker Johnson-any chance you'll reconsider bringing that house bill to the floor to take back Congress' power from this nut-job before the American economy is gutted?
How did Team Trump get out of grade school let alone high school? The gang that can't shoot staring bull this is the gang that can't add, subtract, multiply or divide! How in the hell do they figure out which foot gets which shoe every morning?
Oh they actually think every country will be lining up at Mar-a-Lago begging to board their crazy train,
with a lunatic erratic and untethered to reality engineer at the throttle…
Incompetent and also malicious to the max. The math is totally wrong. For instance, it does not account for the US being a huge, if not the biggest provider of services worldwide. Just think of Amazon, clouds, software (Microsoft! Adobe! Apple! Zoom! Cisco...) They even pay little to no tax abroad!
Let’s face it, the word tool was invented to apply to the entire first felon administration. It’s like letting a bunch of fourth graders operate the rides at the amusement park.
With an anti-American trade deficit that high, expect Don Jr, Mike Waltz, some random reporter, and Tulsi to be on Signal soon discussing war plans to 'make them PAY 🇺🇸👊🔥🍆!!!!"
In it's response, the cat who is acting mayor of the main village, was quoted thus: 😼😾
Pas de problême, Avec le temps, vous oublirerreais (😾 grosse pattes) le goût de nos delicieux homards et puis les Asiatiques payent mieux et sont polis, pas comme moi.🍆
🙀 Islandz unite, Heard &McDo we hear you 🐧
If this is correct, (which is very likely) it will have a massive impact on their tiny economy.
Would it be so hard for another country to jump in and buy their produce?
They almost exclusively do business with their closest neighbor, Canada, and nothing with the US, so it should be easy for them to cut out the US completely.
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Dutch renowned economists were asked to explain what was wrong with the calculation of tariffs. They didn’t know where to begin to explain what was wrong. That’s how dumb and stupid it was. A three year old would have come up with a smarter plan.
But he doesn’t care, just as he never cared about those people he shafted with his graft and bankruptcies. The chaotic fallout is making a lot of money for a few people.
No, it’s up to the people to take action now, if they want to save their republic and their democracy. Army coups normally lead to military dictatorship.
That, or he's mad that the French had their nuclear submarine around their island there - but more so, at Halifax harbour supporting Canadians subtly. So as the island in between all of this, it gets hit x3?
The formula Trump used are now being deemed fake. Calculated to push his agenda (surprise surprise) and not the hard statistical facts of each countries reality.
And like much of the other stupid orders coming out of the White House since Jan 20th, nobody with a brain, or balls, bothered to check this idiotic list before it was published!
They imposed tariffs on an island of penguins 🐧. This may be worse than him believing Washington won the war of independence because he captured more landing strips
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(France belong to an economic entity, the UE)
They legally can’t do it.
So Americans will pay the tax while fewer exports will be happening.
It's all about the tariff coffers they can raid, not about trade
A 99 percent tariff on another small island...They export 3.5 million...
Less than ONE of the OrangeOaf's paid weekend golf vacations...
Why not again?
Go to visit!
Access to all French products without stupid US tariff!!!
Make Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon famous again 🍾
And they still have a guillotine 😏
He’s an Aussie and extremely problematic
He’s not.
He’s a pit of disinformation despite the times he’s right.
https://www.alternet.org/an-ever-stro...
The IQ must be in the low double figures, right?
I mean, they must still be capable of some thought.
There's no evidence to suggest he's anything but the most coddled moron.
Typical of autocratic.
Problem is that he takes US down with him.
I'm sure there are plenty of Canadians who will support a French/EU territory being screwed as much as them
YES I GET THAT CANADA HAS A THRIVING LOBSTER INDUSTRY - but yet logistics will still have them importing primarily from the US
From the Govt Agency: Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) - 2023 report
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/mpo-dfo/Fs1-89-2023-eng.pdf
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He’s a loser’s loser. He’s an idiot, surrounded by other idiots
Time for the GOP to grow a spine and change Trump’s diaper.
And the Ds? It’s fierce opposition. No quarter
We should be trying to move the economy towards more service jobs, which are higher paying, than more low wage manufacturing.
Intelligence level…
That is, if it actually produced anything
Who is "Donald Trump"?
The people who dreamed up these tariffs didn't know what they were doing.
They imposed tariffs on an island inhabited by penguins, islands that aren't countries, and uninhabited islands.
He wanted to make this list look as long as possible to look like he's a strong man 🤣
You have enemies in your White House.
Either they get eaten knowing they are really valuable or they get to live in freedom…
Tariffs are more than incompetence, it’s a political weapon!
Trump is trying to clean up the streets:
20 km to NFLD, Canada
1300 km to Boston
Does anyone in the Trump admin even know what "value for duty" is? The model makes absolutely no sense.
people are still giving those who produced the tariff rate list too much credit - it was a 5 minute AI job.
Magats own this shitshow. 🖕
Speaker Johnson-any chance you'll reconsider bringing that house bill to the floor to take back Congress' power from this nut-job before the American economy is gutted?
Hmmm??
with a lunatic erratic and untethered to reality engineer at the throttle…
Pas de problême, Avec le temps, vous oublirerreais (😾 grosse pattes) le goût de nos delicieux homards et puis les Asiatiques payent mieux et sont polis, pas comme moi.🍆
🙀 Islandz unite, Heard &McDo we hear you 🐧
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Would it be so hard for another country to jump in and buy their produce?
"We anticipate some growing pains as the system reaches full deployment."
They're not even average smart.
In fact, they're not smart at all.
They're stupid.
Math and Science to them are hard.
Everything stupid, incompetent and insane they now do is TOTALLY believable.
The Repugnacans created this situation and the DIMocrats let it happen.
Are the White guys in the fancy uniforms up to the challenge now?
How long before it is too late?
https://www.project2025.observer/
Apparently penguins don't buy American either.