• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “I feel terrible for the American people because it’s not the American people, and it’s not even elected officials, it’s one person,”

    Like hell. Congress is the one thing with the power to end this madness. The Republicans in control of both houses are absolutely responsible as they are doing literally nothing to rein in Trump’s madness.

    • papertowels@mander.xyz
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      5 months ago

      Idk how much of a threat it actually is, but wasn’t musk threatening to primary anyone who went against him?

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    American here.

    Keep doing what you’re doing Canada. Don’t play this retard’s game. The ONLY thing conservatives understand is money. Hit them where it hurts. It’s the only thing that’ll make them sour on this traitor.

    • kava@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      American trade is nearly worth half of Canada’s total GDP. something like 75~80% of total Canadian exports go to the US. if they actually retaliate in force they could be dooming their country to an economic crisis if Trump is spiteful enough. so far the Canadian tariffs have only touched about $30B worth of goods, or 7% of the total trade.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Bottom line is Canada can’t rely on an unreliable country that literally threatens them.

        It’s time for the world to move away from working with the U.S. We’ve shown we aren’t trustworthy. Canada needs to increase trade to other countries to compensate.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Yeah we’re not playing this back and forth game, just hit the Americans with tariffs and make them stick. Tbh I’m liking this “buy Canadian” movement that Americans have finally awakened