Red Mosquito

Good news:

Trump tells Elon to calm the fuck down and stop firing people so quickly
Trump exempts large numbers of Mexican products from tariffs

Bad News:

Trump intends to wind down Department of Education

Exempting products from tariffs isn't good. That's one of the biggest problems with tariffs: rewards political rent-seeking, gives the government more ability to choose politically favored winners and losers. Companies that can flatter (or worse) Trump the most will get to wield the tariff power to bludgeon their competitors and consumers.

To be clear: I'm against tariffs. Full stop. But if you're going to have tariffs it's better that they be fully equal across the board without any exemptions or loopholes.

i am pretty sure that 4/5 is the most level headed poster in N&D

Trudeau reportedly in a heated profanity laden phone call with Trump and told Trump to go fuck himself and his tarriffs.

And it seems Donald is climbing down on a lot of them.

dimejinky99 wrote:Trudeau reportedly in a heated profanity laden phone call with Trump and told Trump to go fuck himself and his tarriffs.

And it seems Donald is climbing down on a lot of them.

dimejinky99 wrote:Trudeau reportedly in a heated profanity laden phone call with Trump and told Trump to go fuck himself and his tarriffs.

Close enough

Not the word on the wires.

I hope he did tell him to go fuck himself. Trump is now having a meltdown to camera saying they’ll just cut down US forests for lumber. They don’t need Canada.

Ah when the threats and tariffs blow up in your own face. Love that for him.

Ontario slapping 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity Monday, Ford says

Province provides electricity to New York, Michigan and Minnesota

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ ... -1.7476515

dimejinky99 wrote:I hope he did tell him to go fuck himself.

I think the reality of the situation is doing an effective enough job communicating that sentiment that Trudeau would have to say it.

Not that he ever would. That would be a very dumb thing to do. Explaining things to him like he's a child is good enough.

McParadigm wrote:Multiple firms, including Comerica Bank, Evercore ISI and Barclays, say there could be up to half a million job losses by the end of the year

Lot of that happened in Canada too. Companies are preemptively laying people off ahead of Trump pulling any shit. Canadians are fuckin furious with him.

Whatever he’s been taking has kicked in

That is Trump at his most likable

Oh dear God. He’s gonna hit us so hard when our PM goes to the White House next week for paddy’s day. Ireland has a €50 billion trade surplus with the US and Rubbio was in the phone to our minister of foreign affairs about it the other day. And he wasn’t happy. Our Taoiseach getting slapped around the oval is going to make the Zelenskyy incident look like a love in.
Watch for it.

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