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    Charge us whatever you want, nothing will change that I do not want to become the 51st state.

    We’ll make new friends who went to kindergarten and have learned how to make friends and share. You’re quickly becoming background noise already.

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      The EU should sign a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico and we should strengthen our economic and military cooperation. Screw the orange boys.

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      And the US by extension is becoming noise too, there seems to be universal domestic capitulation. Not much land of the free and the brave happening.

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        I claimed that if liberty and justice for all is no longer guaranteed, that ‘one nation indivisible’ is also on the bubble. Break free, West Coast!

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    I believe he has just realized that tariffs can, in fact, be higher than 100%.

    Expect higher numbers in the future.

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    Totally ineffective measure by Trump on Canada. Canada’s supply management system is already intended to stop Canadian dairy farmers from overproducing, focused solely to meet our own needs. So farmers and processors are already limited on the US export front. 250%, a bajillion %, is not going to make much difference for this specifically. It just means we close our small export market to them.

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    Uhhhh, Canada restricts American dairy in a variety of ways.

    BECAUSE OUR STANDARDS ARE STRICTER.

    Live up to them, or fuck off, America.

    If you can’t live up to the rules, you can’t play the game.

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      It’s not just the standards. It’s also that we use central planning for these sectors which allows for small farms distributer around the country to survive along with the communities around them. If we let the free market deal with it, it’ll all get reformed into large factory farms with the surplus value extracted away from the local communities and into large capital owners. Then our rural farming communities get plunged into poverty.

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        As far as I understand it, that system is also why our eggs still cost normal amounts. (If a farm has to cull their birds because of avian flu, it’s not millions of chickens.)

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        Why’s that not a concern for literally anything else?

        Why is IKEA allowed to operate, why can I buy shoes at Walmart when Canadian cobblers exist?

        We either benefit from globalization or we don’t, isn’t that much at least true?

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          Well, it’s untrue that globalization is a binary true or false benefit, though on the surface it’s a logical question.

          Until you consider sovereignty. Particularly food sovereignty. It’s more than strategic, it’s the foundation of a stable, rule-of-law society. So it’s more than economics, it’s a governmental social responsibility, and self-preservation.

          Supply management is a success in Canada, despite some problems, because it stabilizes society, as more small farms is more desirable in many ways than big centralized ag.

          And you are right, there are a number of economic sectors we could look more closely at with a mind towards sovereignty, maybe including footwear and furniture, though food and medicines come first.

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      Export tax on eggs to the US please! Let them figure out why there aren’t any eggs in the store instead of making prices rise in Canada/Mexico & Europe

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      It’s got to be one of:

      • He’s just stupid. Maybe his ego requires him to stay in the spotlight, and with Elon getting a lot of media attention, he feels he has to do absurd shit just to get attention. Like a toddler throwing a fit when their parents are talking to other adults.
      • He’s actively trying to sabotage the country, probably as part of a quid pro quo with Putin for helping him win the election.
      • It’s cognitive decline. He has no idea what’s going on anymore. Maybe he even thinks he’s doing something that benefits someone here. Who fucking knows

      Whatever the situation, it’s increasingly dangerous to have him as president, and the damage he’s dealing is going to outlast his presidency.

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      Plenty of STDs that add to such decline as well. I love that the christian right’s ideal president is also the most likely to be harboring the largest collection of sexually transmitted diseases of any former president (where he had competition, his competitors were likely much smarter in choice of partners, protection, and obviously discretion).

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      How can you tell if it’s age related neuronal decline or just him being the dumbest goddam student his professor at Wharton ever had?

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      I’m guessing substance abuse and very little sleep has rotted his brain. Same goes to Musk.

      Both have the same type of behavioral traits as long time stimulant abusers.

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      I think it is a mix of narcissism and related impulsivity, grifters in his circle influencing him so they and he himself can speculate on a recession and market manipulation from his policies, ideologically indoctrinated people that drank their own cool-aid about libertarianism and finally, indeed, him also declining after he was never all that bright to begin with.

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    Trump is doing this to acquire more property for his own business.

    • Trump said he wants invade and annex Canada and make it cease as a sovereign nation
    • Trump said he wants to invade and annex Greenland, stealing it away from Denmark
    • Trump said he wants to invade and annex Gaza

    All this tarriff horseshit is to create uncertainty and weaken these territories he want to take over for his own businesses. He does not give a fuck about America, only himself.

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    Is Trump really looking to start a war with the MILK MAFIA? Check yourself before you wreck yourself 🐮

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      You poor Americans.

      US milk isnt wanted up here because yours allows stuff in it that ours does not.

      • Canada doesnt allow a synthetic hormone that increases milk production. Its not tied to human effects, but is documented as affecting the health of the cows.

      • Canada enforces a lower cell count than US milk, which again, reflects a healthier cow

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    “The market is having trouble digesting the multidimensional chess that Trump and his team are playing,” said Michael Block, market strategist at Third Seven Capital. “This multidimensional chess game is not going well for the grand master.

    LOL, you aren’t playing 3D chess when you flip a chessboard.

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    As an American, I hope that Canada continues to tell our government to fuck off and then also makes a trade agreement with the EU.

    You don’t want our dairy anyway, that’s for sure.