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The listed indices dropped an amount within the standard range that they regularly fluctuate. The dow is still up from where it was on january 1st. The same can be said for nasdaq and the s&p. Stocks are continuing to trend upward unabated, but they do wiggle as they do so.

Don't ever trust the news when they say the market "plummets." They use that term incredibly misleadingly. The lines on the charts wiggle constantly. When something bad happens some hack news sites will find a minor downward wiggle near the same time and they'll claim causation and pretend that something significant happened to the markets, to drive clicks to their website.

The fact that most of the comments are taking the headline at face value is not a good sign.

Here are some numbers to consider.

The US sold $441 billion worth of goods and services to Canada in 2024.

Canada sold $482 billion worth of goods and services to the US in 2024.

The US has a populating of 334.9 million people.

Canada has a population of 40.1 million people.

Per capita, every American man, woman, and child spent $1,316.81 on Canadian goods and services.

Candians spent $12,019. 95 on American good and services.

Who isn't pulling their weight in this trading relationship?

This isn't about illegal immigration and it isn't about the 20 lbs of fentanyl that tried to cross the border from Canada.

This is about the billionaire class raising taxes on the poor and raising prices for Americans.

Could this finally be the term that Trump speedruns the economy crash so the Republicans can be properly blamed for it happening due to their policies and leadership, rather than the Dems always inheriting a timebomb and wasting a whole ass term fixing it?

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

Donald Trump is such a fucking loser. An absolute grifter and would be better in the ground than breathing.

Fuck Donald Trump and his band of loser magas.

If you are a non-Trump voter in a red state, especially if you work for the flagship company or industry in that state, I would like to apologize on behalf of all Canadians for what our government is about to do. We don't want to do it but it is the only way to deal with a bully.

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Critics argue the tariffs will harm consumers and businesses, creating global trade uncertainty and risking prolonged economic challenges in the United States.

God damn it media, can't we just call a fucking spade a spade. Anyone with a fucking functional brain knows these tariffs will harm consumers and businesses. "Critics," my ass. Informed people, more like.

It's this kind of shit that allowed us to get here to begin with, an unwillingness to just say the painful, obvious truth and speak it to power.

We need to seriously start planning states breaking up from the federal government.

Tariffs are the opposite of a "free market" measure and absolutely choke an interconnected economy. Look at the damage done to Cuba or North Korea by sanctions, it's the same principle. Getting to the real meat of why this is happening is like a forensic case study. Doesn't even benefit Trump unless he basically immediately reverses it and gives the old "see they capitulated to my demands" based on whatever random thing he dredges up.

And yet he is left alone to do it all. The world has truly given up on itself when such obvious shit is allowed to run unchecked.

I'm looking at both the dow and the nasdaq, and they look fine. Where is this "plummet" the article is referring to? Not that I think the tariffs are good, but let's be truthful.

It didn't "plummet" lol its less than a 1% change

Are egg prices plummeting?

One of the funniest things I read was a WSJ article on tariffs, in the comment section. Along with a lot of copium about how they, personally, don't buy such items, some dumbass bitching that WSJ - that's right, the Wall Street Journal - is showing their bias against donvict.

https://archive.is/wbet5

The ONLY gloom and doom articles I saw in WSJ during Biden's high inflation term were in the opinion section. Your bias is clearly showing ...

Apparently, reporting on items likely to be affected by the donvict taxes on goods is "bias". That WSJ, always known for their extremist progressive WOKE agenda and their "TDS". LOL

Yea! That's the way Republicans and Trump support the economy!

I wonder if we outsiders have to rebuild the American economy with foreign aid and a new Marshall plan in 2029...

MAGA must be beside themselves with all this…. winning.