One thing that concerns me is that when the dust settles, the US actually gets a better position in trade deals, at the cost of being despised by just about everyone, with the result that lots of people can say the administration "won." And so there's a short-term benefit for long-term damage.
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Even the most right wing Trump adjacent people up here are saying that.
Anyway, I would like to stop living through history, plz.
Customers avoided the store for days after.
“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
I think a lot of democracy is just window dressing to that truth.
America lasting this long without going nuts is a feat.
Like, America did a half dozen coups to prop up a banana company in South America, people try really, really hard, to not think about stuff in the name of international relations and trade.
Because it might be getting missed in news coverage in the US, I really want to emphasize how incredibly furious everyone in Canada is about this. There’s a real sense of betrayal from our closest ally.
And this is all before the layoffs and recession starts.
Canada and the US will be poorer for it. And we won’t forget who caused it.
Like the change started in the early 2000s?
Any new trade agreement will be sullied by the idea that the USA likely doesn't intend to honour it(esp. with trump around).
Rebuild their manufacturing?