President Donald Trump said he would follow through on his threat to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1, citing the flow of fentanyl and large trade deficits as among the reasons for his decision.

This dummy doesn’t even have demands. Hopefully the rest of the continent holds out and demonstrates to the US its dependency on its neighbors.

  • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    3 天前

    maple syrup is already expensive enough man come on 😞😞

    whats his reason for canada? i get he hates mexicans but didn’t tredau or however it’s spelled step down and now they have a jd vance type dude up there?

    • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      3 天前

      The “reason” is Trump is using tariffs as a negotiating tactic. The US has a lot of leverage on the rest of the world; it’s just never used because destroying your soft power is a bad long term strategy. Trump thinks either Canada will accept tariffs and thus get a bunch of free money from Canada, or that the tariffs will cause Canada to give up “something” in renegotiating trade terms.

      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        17·
        2 天前

        or that the tariffs will cause Canada to give up “something” in renegotiating trade terms.

        The American dairy industry has been salivating at having access to Canada for decades. They’ve been successfully kept out so far because domestic farmers want to maintain higher prices and because everyone else wants some basic quality control in dairy products.

      • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        2 天前

        or that the tariffs will cause Canada to give up “something”

        We’re all kind of nervously laughing up here when the Burger Reichers keep saying “51st state”

        You’re joking, right? It’s a joke? anakin-padme-2

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      36·
      3 天前

      Trudeau stepped down, but because they have a parliamentary system there are no elections yet, it’s just an internal election in the Liberal party. Chrystia Freeland, everybody’s favorite nazi supporter, is one of the frontrunners.

      The “reasoning” is that people illegally immigrate here from Canada, which may have come to Trump in a dream.

      • Xavienth@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        16·
        3 天前

        Freeland’s polling is in the shitter with the prospect of a Mark Carney leadership. He’s some charismatic economist ghoul. Also the federal election campaign will almost certainly begin as soon as Parliament is back in session in about a month or so.

      • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        17·
        3 天前

        that’s hilarious. i bet if any “illegal immigrants” are here from canada 100% of them live in NYC or LA and they’re just trying to be influencers.

        i can’t think of any other reason someone might illegally come here from canada. we have all the same problems but worse and then no healthcare

    • prole [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      3 天前

      He hasn’t actually left office yet and they’ll be picking a new person from the same party so probably not much different. I think it’s happening in March?

      • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        3 天前

        what was his reason for stepping down? is he really that horrible and unpopular? i dont know too much about his policies but i just see him as a typical fake woke neoliberal type of dude based on what little i’ve heard about him. all i really ever hear is stories about how boomers are pissed off at him for saying there are genders or something

        • Xavienth@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          14·
          3 天前

          There’s two reasons, the first is that i think Canadians are a lot more sensitive to the cost of living increases due to generally lower wages and higher rents. He basically has done fuck all to hold grocery stores accountable for greedy price increases or to alleviate their impacts because why the fuck would he? He also has basically twiddled his thumbs to solve the housing crisis. To be fair, the provinces have a lot more ability to solve this. The second reason is he’s been PM for over 9 years now. Any politician accumulates baggage in public perception. Basically, people are just tired of him.