adma
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Given the drastic way they're going about things, who knows if they're going to hit a gas line and accidentally blow the rest of the WH up.
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Richard White
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aww.. wouldn't that be a shame.
UtakataNoAnnex
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The ballroom is serious business though...
bsky.app
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
bsky.app
So glad he has his priorities straight
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
The government is closed. People will not eat with no SNAP benefits, no Medicare, no Medicaid... people not on benefits struggling to afford food. But he only cares about himself and his friends as always...The ballroom is serious business though...
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
EBT
Active Member
Trump has suspended trade talks over Ontario ads
This is probably a good thing. The Americans were just stringing Canada along all this time. To use a phrase that Trump uses, they were "tapping us along".
Carney needs to drop the pretense that any deal is possible with Trump without inflicting MAJOR pain on Americans. If I were advising Carney, I would advise him to make a live address to the Americans sometime after lunch but before the stock market closes (in English only!). In the speech, he should announce the following:
This is probably a good thing. The Americans were just stringing Canada along all this time. To use a phrase that Trump uses, they were "tapping us along".
Carney needs to drop the pretense that any deal is possible with Trump without inflicting MAJOR pain on Americans. If I were advising Carney, I would advise him to make a live address to the Americans sometime after lunch but before the stock market closes (in English only!). In the speech, he should announce the following:
- 50% tariffs on American-made cars to be removed when Trump removes ALL tariffs on Canada
- 100% EXPORT tariffs on potash to start - to be removed when Trump removes ALL tariffs on Canada
- A hold on ALL contracts for US military equipment, e.g., F-35 and Boeing P-8, with a threat of cancellation if Trump does not remove ALL tariffs on Canada
- 50% tariffs on US steel and aluminum to be removed when Trump removes ALL tariffs on Canada
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adma
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From what I'm reading, there's already concerns about lack of asbestos abatement or other "ordinary" safety procedures.
As I've suggested before, these are the equivalent of incompetent engineers who'd design a bridge to catastrophically fail and then "pass the blame".
Admiral Beez
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Florida beef doesn’t come from the US?
Carney had already said a deal wouldn’t be happening, so this is how Trump makes it about himself, as if he is the one making the decisions. https://www.thestar.com/politics/fe...cle_fa2b624d-e81a-466d-a2ff-5a1d6f4f41ca.html
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I call
on this. Before the month is out Trump will be declaring that Canada has expressed regret (lies) and that he's graciously restarting trade talks.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Carney said this relating to autos only. The consensus was that we were very, very close to a deal on steel and aluminimum.
goreckm
Active Member
Any "deals" with Trump are not worth the paper they're written on anyways.
Do you think Trump sees any level of nuance or detail? He gets told things and he reacts. He throws temper, tantrums and rage posts.
innsertnamehere
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I agree with both of these.
I don't think this is as wild and reactive as you think though. I DO think Trump saw the ad on Monday and got pissed, spending the last few days setting up a "reaction". He got his "Reagan Foundation" buddies to send a statement to react against and then sent out his tweet when they were ready.
I also fully expect Trump is doing this as some sort of deranged negotiating strategy.
It's all part of the "deal" to him - They were getting close with Canada and he's trying to see if he can squeeze more blood from the stone. If it wasn't the ad it would have been something else.
Trump is an idiot and completely full of himself - but this is a "strategy" to him, not just some wild rambling. It's a terrible strategy. But it's more pre-meditated than it initially appears too.
It's a terrible strategy in reality as latching onto this ad, which would have otherwise been quickly forgotten, will plaster it all over US airwaves today and cause many many more americans to watch it and it legitmitely hurts Trump - plus the erratic behaviour, even semi-premeditated, make him extremely difficult to deal with. It's the same story he was known for in his business dealings, trying to punish his business partners in every scenario to "win" more money in some sort of tit-for-tat kind of way which did nothing but burn bridges over decades and cause him to be an outcast of the NY business community and have an increasingly small number of increasingly desperate people willing to deal with him. Just this time it's international relationships and he's burning them faster than anyone could possibly imagine.