If he does Canada no longer will discount the crude the US require for military! Or for daily use of its population. Maga not gonna take it well,if gas peices go up along with food. When the fool ran on reducing costs. Like he said once prices go up they don'tcome back down.
So 25% on Canada, and 10% on China? US might want to consider that nearly every drop of water in your Columbia River basin that powers your NW and all those Google, MS and Facebook datacenters flows from Canada. Should we slap a water tariff on you? Or should we both act like allies?
Trump is trying to punish democratic nations and give favor to autocratic ones. He doesn't hate China... Actions speak louder than words. He loves dictators and is trying to be one. And to that, we shall say HELL NO! 🇺🇸
If they slapped a 25% tariff on Chinese imports the Chinese would dump their T Bills on the market and the prime rate would rise to 40% in a matter of minutes.
Oh, why any of this is happening? Insanity.
After all the posturing about being tough on China with astronomical tariffs, it’s less than our close allies and a measly 10%. Has he become afraid of China? Is Elon’s China business too much at risk? Who’s reporting this part of the story?
BINGO, Elon's CHINA Testla manufacturing. Hopefully China will respond by simply ordering manufacturing to stop, which would help their own booming EV industry. Trump just canceled US tax credits for $7500 per car and stopped investing in charging stations, so...China big winner.
It's because China already has a 25% tariff, so he's just adding another 10% (so it will be 35%), where Canada and Mexico are just getting slapped with 25% right out of the gate
I feel like this is obvious and you typing it out is weird.
if i had a wood stove that could heat my whole house, i wouldn't be concerned. I definitely don't have one. and I definitely cannot go buy one to be installed today.
I sort of meant the general you and I wasn’t suggesting you run out and buy one. It was kind of a joke. It’s all you can do but joke about this horrendous chaos.
He's actively trying to destroy it so that ppl are overwhelmed, fearful, fatigued, and the economy will be so bad ppl will accept any low-paying job w/out benefits or protections. It's an oligarch strategy.
🇨🇦 Canada is the biggest supplier of softwood to the United States 🇺🇸 After tomorrow the only softwood that will be available in the US will be in the master bedroom of the White House and that will be Melania’s problem and possibly Lindsey Grahams and Elon Musk’s
#trump #tarrifs #lindseygraham
Please correct me and shed some light on this. I was under the impression that Congress controls the purse strings for the federal government. Isn't a tariff a tax on the American people? How can an executive order be used to tax us?
I seem to remember from an economics class I took that in days of yore, when it came to trade deals the Congress could never come to a consensus so they handed it over to the President. Unexpected consequences.
Because it forces the poor and middle class to pay the taxes so the rich can avoid them. That has always been the Republican Party's ultimate wet dream.
Distributors and retailers mark up all of their costs. So you won't be paying just 25% more for Canadian and Mexican products, That 25 percent will be likely marked up to 40 or 50 percent.
Just think too, when he inevitably backs off and drops these tariffs, are those distributors and retailers likely to also reduce that mark up? Not likely.
Now nobody is going to buy a Tesla outside of the US. Not only counter tariffs on US goods but a car that hit every branch falling out of the ugly tree.
Canadian here. We’ll fight, but it would also be nice to see Americans fighting back as well. And not just on social media, but through protest and direct action. He is YOUR President.
In fairness, as a therapist here I’m so under water trying to help people stay alive just in his first ten days, I don’t have time to protest not because I don’t want to
Another Canadian chiming in here - folks like you are worth your weight in gold. You’re doing plenty. Your work is helping other people fill their cup so they can help others. Protect your energy ❤️
Look at what they’re doing and compare it to history. They’re taking pages straight from the Nazi playbook. Look at the Reichstag fire. Trump was chomping at the bit to declare martial law during the BLM protests. And now with so many Trump bootlickers in office, they can’t, and won’t, stop him.
Peaceful protests and crotchet pink hats will not be enough. We cannot be like the fearful, misinformed, powerless citizens of Russia, we’re going to have to go through some historical things and it’s going to get ugly but if we ALL band together then republicans can’t stop us.
I protested on Monday at our statehouse and use social media to inform many of bills to oppose/support and how to do so online. One thing you have there are leaders who will lead. We the ppl here are mostly on our own.
Ronald Reagan: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.
We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”
Billionaires like Elon Musk 'love' us? Please. They don't see us as people, just pawns for their profits. Elon's generosity is a joke – handing millions to friends while exploiting cheap visa workers instead of hiring Americans. His idea of making the world better' only benefits his wealthy circle.
This is such an idiotic move. I can’t believe that the business leaders around him quickly schooling Chump on how stupid it is before it takes effect. Doesn’t this also affect Elon?
Can this be stopped? By an injunction issued by a judge? Does Congress have the means to stop him (assuming there are at least a few Republicans who understand the far-reaching ramifications of assessing such tariffs?
MAGA is so dumb! They voted for a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They are getting ready to enter the “FO” phase again of FAFO. Maybe they can pray prices down 🤣
Translation: "Tomorrow the incompetent, unqualified, unhinged old man in the Oval Office will tank the economy, the stock market and make inflation skyrocket"
Probably a good day tomorrow to have my last hurrah buying fast food and getting high for awhile since I'll need all the money I can save to try and survive the economic damage this nazi fuck is going to do to this country.
I hope it buries the economy. Sorry (not at all sorry, actually). Here you go, dipshits. This is what you wanted. If you thought being poor was fun before…
Don’t complain, call your reps! I reached out to all three of them. Some mailboxes were full so I went to their web contact form. One office confirmed they are getting constituent complaints about the tariffs. Change may happen if enough of us make noise. Doing nothing changes nothing.
Is that how this putz plans to lower prices??? Let’s see what MAGA world says about this great plan when they’re paying more and more for everything! With their ignorance, they’ll figure out a way to blame the Democrats!
I hope thise who voted for Donnie Darko like crow because that’s all they’ll be able to eat as Trump starts this Made in America recession. No farm workers because of Ice? No problem, more tariffs on Mexican produce. Cost of gas going up, blame the tariffs on Canada. You wanted inflation you got it.
No worries this problem is temporary until Felon34 solves all
Our problems, including these nasty countries that don’t bow to our king!!! *snark* intended.
Oh good, we’re entering the find out stage. Shout out to those you fucked around for the rest of us and stayed home or worse voted for trump to “fix the economy” 🫠
And even if a whole car was made in the US, they can now sell that car for way more because all the competitors will be charging way more for their cars - so domestic and foreign goods will cost way more.
Is there any meaning to this happening on… Saturday? Like, generate a lot of headlines over the weekend and then return on Monday (the start of the business week) and Trump saves the day by brokering a “deal”?
Mexico and China are our CLOSEST trading partners and our neighbors. We vacation there and Ted Cruz flees to Mexico when the going gets tough. China sells us electronics and cars. So What the actual fuck, Trump?
I guess this is what Trump supporters, the people who voted for Trump, and the people who sat at home and didn't vote wanted. After Trump said he would do this before he got elected. Am I right?
25% for our neighbors and 10% for one of our enemies...I know they don't understand tariffs but 10% is counterintuitive to the whole "Biden was weak on China" thing.
As a Canadian, there is a growing sentiment among citizens here to reevaluate our purchasing habits and consider reducing or boycotting American products altogether. We will not be intimidated or coerced by the current US administration.
As someone that has been dating a Canadian and now have basically in laws as family in Canada, please do it. We need that pressure here in the U.S. I’m so sorry we have an orange toddler in office..
Conversely I will be buying Canadian when the opportunity appears in support of the country that welcomed my Grandparents as landed immigrants in 1969 until their deaths in the 1990s.
Do it. It will hurt us more than Trump but his maga friends need to be sent a message. And it should severely hurt their bank accounts when they get it.
I don’t blame you one bit !!! I’ve seen hardship many times in my life I will get thru it, but maga hasn’t apparently suffered enough yet … I’m here for their lesson 😬
Fine. In fact, please. I desperately want to see our economy hurt by this. And understand this — if you truly had courage or wanted to have the people hear this who need to hear this, you’d go on Facebook and X to say this. Say it on X. You’re preaching to the choir here. Anyone can do that.
Oh we are on FB - there are many Made in Canada Buy Canadian groups where we share Canadian made/ grown products to purchase rather than made in the USA …people are sharing photos of their grocery orders with Canadian products and produce from places like Mexico, Chile etc
I am truly sorry that a bunch of lunatics are leading your country. No one will come out as the winner and many people will be hurt financially. I won't support fascism.
I am on Facebook and support all the posts about boycotting USA products. I am no longer on Twitter.
We are determined to stop the traitor "PP", and with Mark Carney at the helm of the Liberals, I'm optimistic about our chances of keeping him out of office. Since Carney has entered the leadership race, the polling for the Conservatives is tanking. Looks very promising!
That is excellent. I’m glad Canada isn’t giving in to the Orange man. Here in the US it feels like a daily betrayal. We have democratic leaders crying about rule of law while they vote for all of his picks.
I follow closely what is happening in the USA and I don't understand why the Dems are not putting up more of a fight. They should file lawsuits on every single illegal Executive Order being signed.And I hope the Federal workers do not fall for his lies and resign-they will never get their severance
At this point I’m guessing the centrist democrats are complicit. What they say to us & what they do behind the scenes are different. The previous administration had 4 years to prevent this. Every investigation into 🍊 was slow walked. Unbelievable that the Democrats didn’t have a contingency plan.
Trump has an agenda. He needs to justify to pay for the big tax cuts promised to his rich friends. Just as warned before the election of Felon47, American consumers, not anyone else, will be paying for those tariff taxes too.
Well, them cowpokes best get to pickin' our fruits 'n veggies here for $7/hour, eh? They oughta be thankful for those jobs no longer bein' stolen from them.
Let's see what the stock market will do with this news. A tanking stock market always gets Trump's attention. He wants to do evil things but sometimes his vanity gets in the way. His character flaws are obvious and predictable.
They hate us and immediately began punishment tour of government and USA citizens out of the gate. Now jacking prices for no reason. At least he could blame covid first term now just wrecking it on purpose.👹👹👹
And after the felon gets through stomping his tariff foot and they are lifted - guess what? I’m willing to bet the groceries will keep the tariff price and the profit - why would they bring them back to pre tariff price - they kept their inflated price gauging covid prices sky high after covid.
Atleast he warned Americans of the price rise. (Although how many actually realise remains to be seen)
Gonna be awful lot of leopards eating people’s faces.
It will depend on the exemptions he is likely to spell out tomorrow, and how Canada and Mexico respond. Oil probably gets an exemption, because gasoline prices will quickly spike, and Canada could also threaten to cut off electricity they supply to some New England states.
And the Democrats who didn't vote this time, and others who didn't vote at all (thus, implicitly voting to end democracy and have someone dictate how they live). The rest of us suffer.
The eligible voters who didn’t vote simply are not as bad as those who voters specifically FOR trump. They didn’t like either candidate as opposed to those who heard what the little orange man was saying and decided “yeah, that sounds good.”
It’s all gonna be suffering. But some of us knew it was coming and some thought they’d suddenly be rewarded with eleventy billion in lardcoin and a new trailer near the truck stop. Lots of people in for a shock. Brings me joy.
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This is his latest grift.
Oh, why any of this is happening? Insanity.
He bragged about it 137 times on social media.
His supporters are so damn stupid.
if i had a wood stove that could heat my whole house, i wouldn't be concerned. I definitely don't have one. and I definitely cannot go buy one to be installed today.
but thanks. super helpful.
#trump #tarrifs #lindseygraham
Grab the magas in your life by the collar and just scream YOU PAY THE TARRIFFS in their stupid faces until it sinks in.
We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”
MAGA gonna find out just what they really voted for 😡😡😡
NYU and Mt. Sinai are complying in advance with the Regime's order to stop gender affirming care for the most vulnerable kids.
Trump put a bullseye on the backs of children and NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT.
felon
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'on the job training' FAILS
He only looks at the difference in trade, disregarding population size.
US ~348M people
Canada ~40M
hmmmm wonder if considered this. 🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣🤣😆🤣
Canadian lumber, Mexican corn,
Tariffs put in place with scorn.
Trump thinks they pay the fee.
Checkout line says, “Nope, that’s me.”
Over time it reduces trade from Mex and Canada but most acute impact is on us.
American companies that supply similar goods then jack up their prices to match
Not only tariffed items being more expensive, but US companies can now charge more, since imported items cost more.
Evil by design.
Our problems, including these nasty countries that don’t bow to our king!!! *snark* intended.
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Also Trump: You thought eggs were expensive under Biden. Hold my beer!
The price of cars is going to skyrocket with these tariffs
Thank a trump voter for that.
I am very sorry we have become such a shitty neighbor.
Just watch.
Full benefits and pensions.
Canada always has my heart!
I am on Facebook and support all the posts about boycotting USA products. I am no longer on Twitter.
Give it to us!
Vote with your Canadian dollars, I say.
And I'm sorry to both Canadians and Mexicans that your countries have to deal with the nonsense we have become in America.
His tariffs won't stop me from buying from what for decades has been our great neighbor.
Selective actions are better, like deleting X.
Focus on stopping Pepe Le Pew.
I feel sad about the many of us who did not vote for this, but the only hope we have is decreasing the myth of trump’s power.
He will 100% have to roll them back.
So much losing.
Désolé, Canada
Gonna be awful lot of leopards eating people’s faces.
Red states, on the other hand....