Trump’s threats should not be dismissed, at this point, as crude bargaining tactics or buffoonish theatrics. We’ve been here before ... In the spring of 1941, as Hitler’s armies swept across Europe.
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He’s not Hitler and we’re not Weimar. But he is a fan of what Orban did in Hungary and Melei is trying to do in Argentina- establish a right wing corporatist plutocracy while masquerading as a populist.
I think there's a danger of taking Trump's random wants & comments, often gleaned from what others have said to him, & overlaying on top of them some pattern or plan - there basically is none, it's sycophantic chaos all the way
When Trump began hitting Canada hard with tariffs he was trying to help the Maga Maple Conservative Party. They had a 25 point lead in Dec over Trudeau. Musk and Trump both said they wanted Trudeau out. In Jan he said he was stepping down when the new leader was chosen. A serious miscalculation.
When Trump called Canada nasty and kept talking about Canada the 51st state the nation woke up. Canadians heard elbows up and began a Boycott America campaign. Musicians posted songs of unity, pride and strength.
He thinks he runs the world and the media goes along always looking in. While US markets were crashing world markets were down but not close to the US crash. They don't report on how much of the last corporate tax cut went to multinational companies. They didn't invest it in America.
Trump doesn't know how to run anything. He knows how to destroy. He describes winning as having more than everyone who went down with his business. Unpaid contractors, employees left with nothing. The annex Canada idea came from Alberta Separatists what hang around Mar a Lago.
Which is why the background boycotts have to continue and be expanded. It's like a poison being released into the US economy's bloodstream. It can't be stopped, it can't be defined, it can't be controlled.
The US has to be simply locked out at every stage in every vertical and Canada has to start to strategically damage the US economy by stopping shipments of key materials like nickel, potash and softwoods.
The US economy cannot survive without Canada's resources and materials and only a fool would think otherwise. Cripple enough of it whether it be auto manufacturing (aluminum, steel and nickel), farming (potash) tourism (cross border shopping, vacations, business trips)
or even consumer comfort (electricity, natural gas), maybe oil, which would drive up the price of gas and throw thousands out of work. When at economic war, there are no innocents, and nothing should be sacred.
This idiocy will end only when Americans decide enough and act.
Dem to do: 1)Bill with Trump's popular tax cuts. 2)Fund infrastructure, education, science, environment 3)Minimum 5% tax on income over $1M 4)Tax all income with FICA regardless of source or amount 5)Tax wealth over $100M at 1%, over $1B at 2%, $10B at 3%, $100B at 4%, $1T at 5%...
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This idiocy will end only when Americans decide enough and act.
Trump must die.
It's the only way to stop the inevitable Armageddon.