So that's the EU, Mexico, and Canada all tariffed by the US, and all retaliating in turn.
Thanks Trump!
Enjoy spending 30% more for your cars america!
Remember, you voted him in!
Trump is a very smart guy. Waiting for a dem to be passed all this horseshit and dumbfucks will blame them for the reason its all going to shit.
https://twitter.com/mcwellons/status/1002251447130521600
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1002252698345930752
The official Canadian government release is here: https://www.fin.gc.ca/activty/consult/cacsap-cmpcaa-eng.asp
And holy shit this list. 25% tariffs on basically everything made of steel and aluminium, 10% on anything else made of steel or aluminium that wasn't on the 25% list along with a whole bunch of products, many of them identifiably coming primarily from red states.
Notably, my local grocery stores won't be going short on off-season California-grown produce during the winter, but cans of soda might be more expensive.
Hey, don't blame me. I went blue all the way down the ballot.
https://twitter.com/ZevShalev/status/1002245052066918400
So that's interesting.
Ah ok, so he’s sanctioning 3 factions, EU, Mexico and Canada. Now all three are countering with their own, justified sanctions each, so America gets triple teamed.
Fucking brilliant deal making.
While going out of his way to relieve Russia of sanctions.
Awwww but they’ve gotten sanctioned enough, don’t you think /s
Trump is the most infuriating person on earth
the BEST DEALS
For everyone else.
*for his friends
This also fucks with the electrical industry due to service lines being made from aluminum. Good job trump, have fun building all that infrastructure with all your power lines costing 25% more.
The White House quietly admitted there's no 2018 infrastructure plan on the table. The same way Congress has no major legislative accomplishments planned before the midterms.
I'd like to paint you folks a picture - a fantasy, if you will. Imagine if the Union split, with all the massively red states leaving to form their own union, and all the blue and swing ones remaining. The parts of America that actually resemble a first-world Western country would no longer have to share a federal government with representatives from Dumbfuckistan, and people from the Southern states would be able to finally have the borderline fascist oligarchy they long for. Anyone who wished to migrate back to what remained of the States would be allowed to. There'd be much less standing in the way of single-payer healthcare. And whatever new country the Bible Belt states formed would be a fantastic source of cheap labour, right on your doorstep (Since we know the first thing they'd do away with would be labour laws and unions).
If only.
You've just described the recipe for creating a Gilead, and The Handmaid's Tale is not something any part of the USA should be practically replicating.
no one saw this coming
oh wait
I don't believe such a thing is really possible anymore. Fascism always devours itself in the end. We've seen it time and again throughout both ancient and modern history.
The one thing fascist ideology, such as that espoused by today's GOP, needs to survive above all else is a public enemy. If not a war against another country, it's Muslims. Or gays. Or trans people. Or socialists. Or Jews. Or anyone who isn't Aryan. You could come up with a virtually limitless list. Should what I described actually come to pass, the union of the southern states would collapse into civil war within decades, then pretty much cease to exist.
Gilead collapsed in the story, anyway; the epilogue on the story details how the story is reconstructed around a century after the beginning of the story, from the protagonist's notes. It's a feminist book, after all, not an ode to authoritarianism.
Gilead took all non-Christians and either executed them or sent them to their early deaths in work camps in the colonies, cleaning radioactive waste. The exception were the Jews, who were allowed to leave on boats for Israel. Most drowned at sea after being thrown overboard by for-profit shipping companies who intentionally took on more passengers than they had room or food for.
My point is that it's not really practical or humane to suggest that all the right-wing crazies go south and secede and become Jesusland without restrictions from that darn Constitution, because even if the end result is rapid collapse, a whole lot of human rights violations and outright murder can happen against people whose only reason for being victimized was they couldn't afford to leave when the land around then was designated ground zero for Ayn Rand's Living Nightmare.
All the craft breweries are going to be hit because they all use US 16oz cans due to cost. So expect some expensive beer in the near future.
he's also left china the supposed reason for all of this, out of the sanctions because of a purely hypothetical trade deal that looks quite a lot like quid pro quo
AND he's doing nice things for ZTE despite them being sanctioned for explicitly being a national security threat.
Tropico 6 better be set in the USA.
Ya except El Presidente won't come and save us from our terrible president.
http://www.tampabay.com/trudeau-declines-to-meet-trump-because-of-us-precondition-ap_world75093ce4b0544576ad7fd9a7e9d76392
"National security" is a bullshit excuse, this is clearly the adminstration trying to strongarm Canada into either renegotiating NAFTA or pulling out entirely.
Let's repeat that for emphasis: Trudeau was due to go to Washington this week to help wrap up NAFTA renegotiations, but Pence issued an ultimatum that no NAFTA deal would happen unless the deal automatically expired and required renegotiation in five years. Every five years, in the White House's ideal world.
Five years is the maximum length the Canadian federal government is allowed to go between elections, so this would pretty much guarantee that NAFTA gets renegotiated once every presidential and Prime Ministerial term. It would also throw all of the certainty businesses rely on out the window, because the business conditions could change entirely every five years.
The only reason I'd accept a provision to renegotiate NAFTA in five years is that by then Trump might be out of the White House and America might have a sane and functioning administration conducting the world's largest diplomatic bridge-rebuilding operation ever seen.
Our government is attempting to bully our friendly neighbor - both metaphorically and physically - into renegotiating a crummy trade deal.
Sick.
I'm glad Trudeau isn't caving and I'm glad that we're putting up a fight
Fuck your President
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