Last month, Donald Trump’s administration assured the US Supreme Court that the president’s massive tariffs were intended to address an “unusual and extraordinary threat” and were “essential to the country’s future.” This weekend, Trump announced that he was jacking up tariffs on Canadian goods by another 10 percent—because he was angry about a television ad that ran during the World Series.
Ten days ago, Ontario—Canada’s most populous province—released a TV spot featuring former President Ronald Reagan explaining at length why tariffs are generally bad. The ad edits the Gipper’s speech and omits a bit of nuance about his support for a narrower set of temporary tariffs imposed in 1987 on Japanese electronics. But overall, it provides a pretty accurate picture of the GOP icon’s free-market economic views.
More proof that he belongs in a nursing home and not in the now Soiled House.
Canadian government needs to buck up and reinstate the Digital Services Tax, which they scrapped to curry favor with trump in hopes of getting him to lower tariffs. By now they should have learned–capitulating to the bully doesn’t work. You have to punch right back and harder.
Stop enforcing DMCA and DRM protections and create an industry around circumventing US companies digital markets
I have an aunt who was under the impression that Trump was found innocent of his crimes. I explained to her that he was convicted on 34 counts and only stayed out of prison because he was elected. She refuses to believe it.
And there were multiple other trials pending that were only abandoned because he was elected.
Custard has a thicker skin than Trump.
Too bad that thin skin doesn’t make him bleed out
Haha never thought of that!
If this man can’t get democrats to realize the stakes and unite and apathetic voters to realize their error and become active, well, I don’t know how to finish that sentence because I have 0 faith either will happen.
I’m just angry that my Country hasn’t gotten strategic deterrents to our neighbors who refuse to take their lithium, because this is clearly not going to stay within their borders.
I’m so infuriated by the people who even now still play the “both sides” games because they’re the people who are truly in the “center” of American politics, cashing the cheques that marginalized people are now paying being actively discriminated against and being disappeared off the streets.
Their fucking idealism led them to market for the fascists.
As for the fascists, they’re a lost cause which is why I didn’t even bother addressing them. Time spent addressing them is time spent not reaching out to the reachable.
We’re just going to keep seeing crazy headlines as America spirals and at some point the American media might stop posting the crazy headlines, at which point we’ll know the right wing billionaires will have won.
Dont worry though, somewhere, somehow, a pretend leftist will be grinning like “see, if you just did exactly what I wanted…” as any last semblance of freedom leaves the USA for decades if not centuries to come.
We are so far gone people aren’t even remembering that a president is not supposed to be able to arbitrarily set tarrifs.
They’re supposed to be slow to enact for a reason. They’re not effective used for petty revenge or rather are foot guns that shoot all of our feet when used this way.
I’m just so God damn angry at so many people who should have known better, and so anxious as I watch this massive train derailing that will eventually hit my house on the side of the rail tracks.
TVocracy.
