Mr. Takei, you are missing the part about handing his rich cronies a sure-thing stock market short and then letting them know to sell before announcing it was all just play play.
thinking this may have been at least partially to divide attention from the Musk coup, AND so there is virtually no noise about the additional 10% on Chinese goods.
Plus, of course, a chance for 47 to posture & eat up all the attention.
I think that this crazy tariff episode is a dead cat. This is to distract the populace and what’s left of the mainstream media from the coup presently underway. Engineered by his henchmen Muskovitch.
Any country in the world, especially small countries are going to see the U.S. as. Unreliable and useless and will cost up to China and Russia. Trump the Bully act won’t work as countries say 🖕
But look at what we’ve lost: the trust of our continental neighbors. And it’ll take a generation or more to get it back. We’ve become the international bully. Our reputation shot.
Big tech ENABLES Trump. Those still on X/Twitter and Threads/Facebook, your voice is no longer being heard. Both platforms have bent the knee to Trump; close those accounts now. And for a real impact we MUST also BOYCOTT Amazon, Apple and Google because big tech is officially a global threat.
We Canadians are NOT convinced. As the US becomes more autocratic, we see this as the GQP backing off to take a better running start against our sovereignty in the near future.
I like how he apparently is unable to connect by phone with China. They're playing hardball and hit them with their own tariffs. Of course, they can do that, since they don't have free elections and don't care about protecting their people.
You got more than you gave
And I wanted what I got
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game
But you don't get a win unless you play in the game
I hope that the Canadian Liquor control people did NOT delay the removal of the USA made alcohol from their shelves and order lists! That removal would/will keep the pressure on trump from his followers because they will see how terrible it is to lose an international trading partner!
Canada and Mexico can increase their trade bypassing the USA on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and thereby soften the loss that they could expect from losing the USA trade!
We in the USA, will just have to do without the imports that we have enjoyed over the centuries from these trade partners!
1. I make a stupid decision = Tariff allies
2. Something really bad happens = Market crashes
3. I convince my supporters the problem has been magically resolved = I lie saying that I got 🇨🇦 + 🇲🇽 to do XYZ
4. I reverse my stupid decision = Hold tariffs
Perhaps market manipulation is the point in all of these tariff threats. Identify companies that will be impacted the most, sell stock, wait for tariff to be announced, watch market tank, buy stock at the bottom, and repeat.
I don't think they beat him, because all the major news in the US is reporting on it like he won concessions. It doesn't matter if it's true or not if enough people think he won.
Well, for 30 days, yes. Trump motivated by “I’m moving to Canada” comments and fact that Canada challenges US claim to “greatest nation on earth” is buoyed by a popular American myth: that world wishes they could be American. We don’t. Less guns and free healthcare are enough to feed resistance
If you think the U.S. system is better, move there. The only reason Murka is not rock-bottom among advanced nations in quality of life is their top 1% in wealth who skew the stats. Surely the goal of every society is to eliminate poverty and hunger, not to create a world of masters and serfs?
surprised I thought Canada only had long wait times because we pay through taxes and not go in debt with healthcare we can't afford paying straight up. Good to know at least one other country has wait times.
The US is the laughingstock of the world.Other countries think the people have given leadership to the crazys&let the ROT (corruption due the billionaires) take over.US is smelling from the odor! They must ask themselves: Is their flag still waving for the land of the FREE & the home of the brave?
Conservatives and conservative-owned media screwed Canada over so badly, we may never recover. We have the country’s best prime minister in a generation and #poilievre, musk, modi and Putin fukked us over.
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Plus, of course, a chance for 47 to posture & eat up all the attention.
https://youtu.be/CUEPttW-Jc0
And I wanted what I got
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game
But you don't get a win unless you play in the game
Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Go Mexico!
Go Canada!
We in the USA, will just have to do without the imports that we have enjoyed over the centuries from these trade partners!
But I'm reading reports from Businesses in Canada and people who live in canada.
US products being removed from shelves will no longer be sold in many stores.
Some companies no longer shipping to US
Trump loses. and the US with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk09lU
68% American, 32% Brazilian
https://bsky.app/profile/sundaedivine.bsky.social/post/3lh75urmag22n
2. Something really bad happens = Market crashes
3. I convince my supporters the problem has been magically resolved = I lie saying that I got 🇨🇦 + 🇲🇽 to do XYZ
4. I reverse my stupid decision = Hold tariffs
Trump is still at ~50% job approval.
Had to wait 3 months to see a dermatologist to get a cyst removed.
Had to wait 4 months for an allergist to find out what caused a sudden massive reaction that almost put me in the hospital.