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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Who’s going to print the Trump did this bowser stickers?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

If the orange idiot goes through with it I hope the Canadian Government rolls out the list of tarrifs they used last time targeting states that supported this.

I'd also love to see the following on the list of retaliation tactics

Time to invalidate any and all us owned drug patents in Canada, and encourage generic companies to go hog wild

While we are at it reduce maximum damages from IP infringement claims from media agencies to a nominal 20-100 $ fee or lower in response

Regulations on foreign house ownership would be a popular thing to play with just not sure how. But could be funny to see any trump owned or trump family adjacent properties taxed heavily and foreclosed/ eminent domained

The government should also put in place road blocks to refuse to tell the IRS any banking details of any Canadian accounts and tell them to pound sand or take years individually replying manually to any requests to see any US citizen accounts in Canada. Why bother helping them collect taxes.

Also would love to see trump refused entry at the border for the lulz

Anyway hopefully smarter people have appropriate counter measures for this. Tit for tat sucks but hopefully embarrassing/ appropriate retaliatory responses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Eh spare the IRS, its one of the most functional and least corrupt remaining bits of the US government and Trumps administration already tried to kill it last time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I like your anti-IP ideas. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The environmentalist in me is rather happy to hear this. Frankly, 25% is too low. Trump may be crazy, but if his trade war(s) mean higher prices on fuel for the biggest driver of climate change on the planet, I'll take it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

I think he’s just going to go to Russia for the fuel.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I can't wait for headlines to read: "Cost of living in the US goes up 200% under Trump... administration blames Obama." /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Only if corporate isn't making money from the new regime. Otherwise it'll be just vibes of cost of living 🔺200%.

[–] tracker 20 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I can hardly wait to see how Danielle Smith will blame the tariff on Trudeau…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You know, in this context it's a bit refreshing to see Doug Ford's reaction to this. Proactively whining at Trump instead of shitting on Trudeau. I'm a bit surprised by his take.

[–] xmunk 11 points 14 hours ago

Honestly, I take what brief moments of hope I can get these days... knowing that Danielle Smith will be crying herself to sleep tonight gives me the hope I need.

So if we seal off the BC transmountain pipeline and refuse oil trains service through Quebec could we kill our fucking fossil fuel industry and force green alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Trump has said Canada and Mexico need to stop drugs and illegal immigrants from crossing into the US to prevent the tariffs. Border security will be pretty easy for her to blame on Trudeau.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Alberta loves MAGA Trump. I don't think Trump loves them back.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago

“Alberta? Who is she? I bet she is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct." -Trump probably

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

On the bright side, 99% of Canadians will be immediately priced out of driving a ICE car, so at least we won't have to worry about that anymore

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Why is that? We would be able to import the US parts needed to build cars domestically as we do today. The tariffs would affect domestic production going back to the States. Even if Canadian autos go belly up because they can't export to the States, we'd still be able to import US-made vehicles. What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

No, that kinda fucks over most of us who are just getting by. If someone can't afford to buy gas how would they be able to afford an EV? We need the prices to drop to a level everyone wants to buy an EV, not make every option cripplingly expensive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

So Putin's plan is to wreck the Wests economy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

I’m probably wrong, but I’ve been speculating if the plan is:

  1. US imposes tariffs on its most valuable trading partners
  2. War in Ukraine “ends”; US stops sending weapons; Ukraine goes to Russia; US possibly threatens to pull out of NATO to accomplish this
  3. Tariffs stay in place for traditional US allies; US helps Russia rebuild economically by becoming its new best good trading buddy, tariff free of course.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Crab-bucket economics to go with crab-bucket foreign policy

Post-Soviet Russia is such a fuck-up of a nation-state that they only way they can look good is by dragging everyone else down to their level.