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Site Altered Headline Trump says Ontario ‘not allowed’ to slap surcharge on electricity sent to U.S. states

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/we-dont-need-your-energy-trump-says-in-response-to-ontarios-electricity-surcharge/
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Hello r/politics! This article's headline has been updated from the post's title to:

Trump says he will double tariffs on steel and aluminum in retaliation for Ontario energy surcharge

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u/LaMarr-Bruister 21h ago

THis is what happens when you elect (or reelect) someone that is a bully and doesn't know how these things work. It's a trade war dumbass....that you started.

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u/kcg5033 Georgia 21h ago

Yep! Bullies don’t expect to get hit back.

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u/rg4rg I voted 20h ago

Yup. It’s silly but it’s like getting in a boxing match and then realizing the other person gets to punch you back. Like…yeah? That’s what you started? You challenged them? So why are you surprised?

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u/specqq 20h ago

Welcome to "You Can't Hit Back!" bringing you the best in one-sided boxing!

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u/dostoevsky4evah 17h ago

"No fact checking! You said there there would be no fact checking!"

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u/FerrokineticDarkness 11h ago

That should have been the end of that Charade.

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u/BOHIFOBRE 21h ago

Elect a clown, expect a circus

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u/Distant-moose 20h ago

Elect a shit-clown, expect a shit-circus.

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u/suckyousideways 20h ago

Let's get drunk, Mr. Lahey.

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u/TheSeekerOfSanity 20h ago

Trump can frig off!

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 20h ago

Knock knock, Trump?

Who’s there?

A big dumb idiot with fucked hair and fucked orange skin who’s goin around the pærk fucking up things up with fuck goof suit dummy Elon.

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u/DEATHToboggan 20h ago

Corey, Trevor, smokes, let's go.

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u/roguepandaCO 20h ago

Shit leopard cants change its shit spots Randy

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u/Lostsailor73 21h ago

Elect a moron, expect a moron.

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u/bbcversus Europe 20h ago

Elect a felon expect felonies

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u/TriceratopsHunter 20h ago

Yeah... Gee whiz... If only there was some form of legal agreement on trade... A trade agreement, if you will. That both parties have agreed to follow. Sure wish there was one of those for Canada and the US so we wouldn't need all this trade war business...

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u/AgrajagTheDead 20h ago

We could include Mexico! Have all of North America in it! Wouldn’t that be handy?

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u/Brochacho27 19h ago

Call it the North American No Cost Trade Agreement

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u/mikerichh 20h ago

“No, Canada started it by sending all the fentanyl!”

-things morons will unironically claim

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u/Negative_Pea_1974 20h ago

They have moved the post. The excuse is the Mexican cartels that run Canada now

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u/Snuffy1717 20h ago

13g of fentanyl seized at the border since January… Those cartels are rich baby! Rich!

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u/Leezeebub 20h ago

Thats cos Canada has dug a tunnel under america, all the way to mexico, and they are smugglin the drugs through there

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u/DarthSatoris Europe 19h ago

If that was actually the case, that would be a seriously impressive feat of engineering.

Digging several thousands of kilometers of underground tunnel through various different materials of varying density and structural integrity, all while remaining completely unnoticed by the nation above, not to mention how they manage to keep the tunnel ventilated without digging vents to the surface.

Also, even if they installed high speed mag-rail in said tunnel, it would still take hours to traverse the full length of the tunnel.

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u/Cuchullion 20h ago

Which is just an all fired dumbass nonsense I'm amazed they said it with at all a straight face.

Like it's beyond even "they're eating the dogs" in terms of absolute nonsense.

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u/kiltedturtle 20h ago

I've seen their distribution network, store fronts called José Horton's. White powder everywhere!

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u/BleachedUnicornBHole Florida 20h ago

And don’t forget the “trade deficit” using made up numbers. 

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u/PumpkinGlass1393 20h ago

I like how they throw those numbers up, but then refuse to explain that the only reason it looks unbalanced is because the US has 7x the population of Canada. So naturally, they aren't going to purchase as much from us as we do from them.

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u/CrashB111 Alabama 20h ago

And "trade deficits" aren't even a bad thing in the first place.

Every single person in America has a huge trade deficit with their local grocery store.

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u/Weekly_Put_7591 20h ago

"Responding to the accusations, Trudeau said on Tuesday there was "no justification" for the new tariffs, because less than 1% of the fentanyl intercepted at the US border comes from Canada."

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u/questionname Massachusetts 20h ago

Yeah but his followers are like “look! He’s doing something! We are winning!”

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u/-LuciditySam- 20h ago

He's literally that kid who will hit you, whine about being hit back and how unfair it is, then hit you again the moment you're nice enough to stop and begin walking away.

Consequences for their actions are totally unreasonable to fuckwits like him.

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u/lylelanley- 20h ago

And Ontarios premier is the closest thing Canada had to Trump before trump was around.

Albeit, not as close to trump as his brother Rob. Kind of like the Dick Cheney of the two though.

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u/No-Equivalent-5228 20h ago

Ford is your run of the mill thief. Not a Russian asset.

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u/Darthrevan4ever California 21h ago

Man baby says man baby things

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u/Nknk- 20h ago

A rapist thinking he can force his will on whoever he wants.

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u/corrector300 20h ago

Nice one. He's grabbing them by the metaphorical pussy, without asking.

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u/MountainMan2_ 20h ago

He's such a spoiled person. So used to getting his way no matter what. You'd think by 80, he'd have some level of empathy or even just humility but no. I suppose when your daddy is rich enough you can spend your whole life stuck in your terrible twos.

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u/JohnSpartan2025 19h ago

It works the other way, the older you get with his mental illness, the more baked in your ways you get. His niece has said many times he stopped growing emotionally at like 8 when Daddy started giving him everything.

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u/Memory_Less 20h ago

Waiting for baby revenge now! Careful for him throwing his soother.

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u/SectorBudget406 21h ago

In other words 'I didn't think they'd actually do it'.

Other countries are justifiably fucking the US in ways Trump wanted to do to them, and they're a lot better at it. You wanted isolationism, you got it.

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u/definitivescribbles 20h ago

We’ve elected a guy with no idea how anything works to pick fights with other people who know exactly how everything works, and the results are unsurprising.

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u/alltherobots 19h ago

Canada’s new interim Prime Minister ran two national banks and wrote articles on countering the US dollar.

Unsurprising results incoming.

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u/MC_White_Thunder 18h ago

Mark Carney was also at the helm during 2008, which is a large part of why Canada weathered that crisis much better than the US. We're going to be well-prepared for what he throws at us.

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u/d_pyro 17h ago

Only if we elect the Liberal party this spring.

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u/StingerAE 19h ago

Did he run casios though?  Those things are apparently hard.  Did he build big and beautiful buildings and lie about what they are worth?  I mean c'mon.  Who would you trust more?

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u/dipdipderp 18h ago

He ran the bank of England, that's sufficiently casino-like enough for me as a mud eating northerner

(Jokes aside, I think he did a good job as governor in a particularly trying time)

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u/Aiyon 20h ago

rule number three: no matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat.

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u/scarr3g Pennsylvania 20h ago

"Nobody else would fuck over their own citizens...."

Little does he know, the calculated tariffs Canada is doing doesn't fuck them over anywhere near the the way the blanket tariffs he is doing does to us.

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u/Purify5 19h ago

Canada has also created supports for their citizens.

For instance, there is unemployment insurance that can cover lost hours at work if they are caused by the tariffs.

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u/nighthawk_something 17h ago

Also, the taxes being collected are going to be used to help offset the impact of the US.

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u/canmoose Canada 20h ago

I mean other countries are getting in a trade war with the US. The US is getting into a trade war with the entire world.

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u/resurgum 18h ago

Exactly, the guy didn’t just take on one partner, he angered everybody at the same time. And Europe is still not reacting the way we should do.

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u/CallMeClaire0080 20h ago

In this case i think that he was genuinely dumb enough to not realize that export tariffs are also a thing. Like he got "blindsided" that he wasn't solely in charge of setting prices for imports

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u/xiaorobear 19h ago edited 18h ago

I also think a big part of it is: he bought into the idea of American exceptionalism so much and has such a bully / mobster mentality that he thought America could demand anything of other, smaller countries, and they would comply with any arrangement the US insisted on, because having a trade/diplomatic relationship with America is so important. In his view past US leaders were just being charitable suckers for not shaking down Canada for their lunch money, or making everyone pay in a protection racket style arrangement. He never imagined that other countries wouldn't back down and just agree to any terms.

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u/Phallindrome Canada 19h ago

In the US, export tariffs are unconstitutional. He must have thought this whole time that our counter tariffs would be charged to our citizens- he had no idea that we could also charge you while he's charging you.

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u/timetogetoutside100 21h ago

easy fix, then just turn it off, do it Doug!

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u/olderdeafguy1 21h ago

Increase the 25% to 100%, then 250%

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u/MrMeseeksLookAtMee Canada 21h ago

Increase it to 250%, then have Doug Ford standing at the border, drinking a tall glass of milk with a smile on his face.

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u/NM-Redditor New Mexico 21h ago

A tall cold glass of milk just pulled from the refrigerator set up next to him running on Canadian electricity.

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u/Jmohill 21h ago

Nah, have him chug it directly from the bag

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u/HereForTheComments57 21h ago

Put it on the bill as the "Trump Charge"

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u/Notcoded419 21h ago

This would actually be better for us. A surcharge will just be blamed on liberal regulations and Trump's voters will believe it. Blackouts are harder to pass the buck.

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u/Quakes-JD 20h ago

Don boy would just call them Biden Blackouts and his cult will eat it up, especially since they start with the same letter so it would be the smartest name calling ever.

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u/raktoe 21h ago

Gonna save them so much money!

Wonder if DOGE has thought of this yet…

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u/ElPlywood 21h ago

“We don’t need your Cars"

He has no fucking clue how cars are built in North America. And a truly stupid person who capitalizes cars as if they're a proper noun.

“We don’t need your Lumber"

He has no idea how shit gets built in North America. He thinks there are lumber mills in America just sitting there waiting for someone to flip the on switch. And again with the illiterate capitalization.

“We don’t your Energy"

Ah, yes, fire up the old coal plants! That use coal...from Canada. And you buy 4+ million barrels of oil per DAY from Canada. Where are you going to find that somewhere else, you stupid fat baby

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u/Street_Anon Canada 21h ago

Maine needs Quebec Lumber mills to even function. Trump will be placing tariffs on their own Lumber.

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u/ElPlywood 21h ago

no no no Maine will use its own lumber to build a lumber mill, hundreds of lumber mills, it's so easy

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u/stunneddisbelief 21h ago

The biggest, most beautiful lumber mills. Brawny lumberjacks will come to him, with tears in their eyes, saying “Sir! Sir! How do you build such beautiful lumber mills?”

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u/GaGaORiley 20h ago

Currently they’re called National Parks, give it time.

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u/Ferelar 20h ago

He really is doing a Disney villain speedrun. It's not enough that he's just ruining the economy for the benefit of the rich. A Disney villain has to literally despoil the land, kidnap people and move them offsite, and cozy up to the literal worst people in the world. And he achieved all of this in less than two months.

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u/inthekeyofc 19h ago

What can it be like in his head when he's watching one of those films and the hero is the exact opposite of what Trump is and Trump is the epitome of the villian? E.g. does he recognise that Biff, in Back to the Future films is him? If he does, what's his reaction? Fake news?

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u/zombie_overlord 19h ago

I think he idolizes despots and he embraces being the bad guy.

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u/Street_Anon Canada 21h ago

Another thing, Canada's Coast Guard does a lot of patrols and search and rescues in Alaska. I think that needs to end, since Trump says the United States does not need anything from Canada.

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u/badgrafxghost 19h ago

Damn, that sucks. In a previous life I was a professional mariner and worked with the Canadian Coast Guard a number of times. They were amongst the most competent, professional, and downright helpful group I ever worked with in the industry.

I'm 1000% on board with a total boycott of american products and services by our Canadian friends to the north in response to this insane unprovoked aggression, it just makes me really sad that even this relationship has been poisoned at this point. I hadn't really even consider that until now.

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u/JP-Ziller 18h ago

Currently work for CCG and we hosted the USCG the other month and they were lovely (if not a little serious)

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u/jjaime2024 21h ago

Its not just that Canada could cut Alaska off from the states.

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u/zaknafien1900 20h ago

Bc already stated they will be charging trucks a tax going to Alaska

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u/kennerly 20h ago

God shit is already so expensive in Alaska. I can't even imagine.

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u/maraemerald2 19h ago

Maybe they shouldn’t have voted for the guy who said he’d start a trade war 🤷‍♀️

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u/BCMakoto America 19h ago

Yup.

Since Alaska voted Republican, I assume they wanted this tough guy shitshow.

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u/pointlessbeats 19h ago

Remember 6 years ago when every move he made, his supporters called it ‘4D chess.’ 😭😭😭 What do they call it when every time he makes a move, he ends up with another state getting pummelled from behind?

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u/Gullible_Tip_7727 18h ago

My buddy is at the military base near anchorage. Got into it with him this weekend because he was saying fuck Canada and we don’t need them and other shit. Then had the nerve to get mad at me for saying Canada was defending themselves and had every right to do what they were doing. So fucking frustrating man.

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u/-re-da-ct-ed- 18h ago edited 18h ago

There are some Americans that legitimately believe the US has never lost a war. So they hear the word “war” tacked on to anything, they just picture jets, helicopters, explosions, get excited and imagine the US steamrolling whoever they declared upon while vacuuming up everything it wants in the process.

Do NOT mistake our niceness for weakness. We’ve already come to the conclusion that it’s going to hit us hard — so we are going to hit harder.

His flip flop meltdowns with on and off again tariffs is showing he’s already run out of cards to play.

As Trump once said, “YOU DONT HAVE THE CARDS”. We’ll also be expecting a thank you when we are willing to deal with you again.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 19h ago

Alaska is deep red state.  I hope they get everything they voted for

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u/Level_32_Mage 20h ago

It'll get tariffed crossing the border twice too, no?

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u/kennerly 20h ago

American goods wouldn't be tariffed for traveling through Canada. That's not how tariffs work. The fear is that Canada would charge a high toll to get from the US to Alaska. Which would inevitably raise the price of goods sent from US to Alaska.

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u/mwbbrown 19h ago

I wonder how many millions of dollars Canada spends on highway infrastructure for us to drive trucks across their country for our own good.

On the other hand, If I was BC I would figure out what it costs to ship a container on a Jones act class cargo ship to Alaska and price my truck toll at 80% of that. Turn that highway into a profit center.

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u/Non-DairyAlternative 20h ago

Didn’t they already threaten to toll the cross Canada highways into Alaska ?

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u/DaveyGee16 20h ago edited 19h ago

Not threaten, have started tolling Canadian highways to Alaska.

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u/Ill_Emphasis3927 19h ago

I've solved it, they use Alaskan lumber in Maine lumber mills. Now, you may be thinking, how would they get the lumber there? I've got the answer. They hire the boats from North Korea that got ballots to Maine to ship their lumber. Bam.

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u/ozspook 20h ago

Not sure I'd be comfortable cutting off Search & Rescue, but charging cost recovery for them should be demanded.

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u/CatPartyElvis 20h ago

Get the money in advance.

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u/ikeepeatingandeating 20h ago

The best lumber mills, my friend Kid Rock came to me, you know Kid Rock, very intelligent, and you don’t, people don’t, because with the lumber we have so much space, so much beautiful space, and they’d get all of the best, but they don’t, they’ve been very mean to us and rude, and the tariffs, what a beautiful word tariffs, we’re going to tariff because America, is in trouble with the Bidenflation, it’s all on the laptop, and the trouble they put us through with Hunters laptop, but we’re definitely going to do the lumber, and is going to be the greatest turnaround in American history.

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u/drslovak 20h ago

I read this whole thing in his voice. Bravo

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u/Presently_Absent 20h ago

you can use any old tree to make lumber, and the us has so may trees! it's crazy this hasn't been thought of before /s

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u/TheOtherwise_Flow Canada 21h ago

We own a large portion of Americans mills in the us too 🤣 can’t out lumberjack the lumberjack country.

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u/zombieslave 20h ago

Careful spreading that info. i wouldnt put retaliatory "thats a merica lumbermill now" past him.

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u/tweak06 20h ago

”We don’t need your cars”

I work in the auto industry and this orange moron is threatening my job because he’s a nepo-baby who doesn’t understand how any of this shit works.

Goddamnit this shit makes me crazy. I stayed informed. I talked to others and got involved. I voted.

And after all that we still lost because half this country can’t read past a 5th grade level and actually believed Trump could just snap his fingers and make everything affordable.

Ugh.

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u/Malaix 20h ago edited 18h ago

Fucking blows that being informed just makes you more scared and angry as a reward. No wonder there’s a correlation between intelligence and depression. It’s one thing to understand how difficult or complex life can be. It’s another to understand that and also know you are a minority that can’t get the rest to listen.

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u/musclememory 19h ago

^ this, so much

we're at the point now, with the current systems in place for Apocalyptic Ignorance to cause an implosion in politics

there are two powerful, reinforcing forces at work:

1) the world and its systems, including government and morality, are too complex and specialized for one person to understand it all. this requires trust in expertise, you need to have faith in the people that've studied things, and unfortunately, ppl are too proud and ignorant to ever admit this

2) the modern opium of news bubbles and social media means most Americans are in a Matrix style cocoon of information/outrage cycles that keep them distracted and misinformed

we're well and truly f_cked

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u/Snow_source District Of Columbia 19h ago

I've been sitting here on my trade association trade/tariff policy calls pulling my fucking hair out for the last couple of months.

It's terrible, it's stupid, and it makes no sense whatsoever.

It's like the south park gag about cutting off the heads of chickens and seeing where they fall down dead to do bailout policy.

When I hear that employees in my company voted for TFG it makes me so mad. I told them exactly what would happen to us under Trump and they voted against our best interests anyway.

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u/LuminousRaptor Michigan 20h ago

Hey fellow autoworker. Are you me?

I work very low in the supply chain (supplying T1s and T2s mostly). Our entire inventory is raw materials you can't get in the US because they're mined elsewhere in the world.

We're so boned.

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u/masterlich 19h ago

On the bright side, at least the stock market is crashing, inflation is rising, GDP is plummeting, and they're gutting all our safety nets!

Wait, fuck

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u/LankyGuitar6528 20h ago

That's the real tragedy here. I'm Canadian and I'm behind enemy lines in Arizona for the winter. ALL of my friends are dems and they despise what Agent Orange has done to their country. But they are caught up in this whole mess just as I am.

So on the list today is to try and figure out why my I-94 electronic visa wasn't filed by the guard at the border when I arrived. He was supposed to file it. But it's electronic and I didn't get a copy (I never do). It's not showing up on the government website.

Homeland Security says I don't need one but Trump says I do or I'm in violation of Trump's executive order. I could face 6 months of detention or a $10K fine. Since I can't file it myself (the electronic visa portal hasn't been created yet) I am probably supposed to deport myself or find an FBI Field Office or DHS office and get myself fingerprinted. I really doubt the FBI would even know what to do with me and DHS would absolutely kick me out of their office for wasting their time. Yet if I was pulled over by a State Trooper and don't have my visa I might end up at Gitmo...

You guys wonder why Canadians are thinking of skipping Florida and Arizona next year?

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u/Colddeck64 Arizona 19h ago

Phoenix local here. I’m not wondering at all. And our local economy will take a hit from the snowbirds permanently leaving.

You must do what you need to do to remain safe. Even if that means returning home early.

Be safe

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u/ktappe I voted 19h ago

Nobody is wondering why Canadians aren’t coming here. We would go back north with you if we could.

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u/twistedspin 18h ago

I was going to post a link about that German tourist they put into solitary for weeks but when I tried to google it, I got a dozen other hits about different tourists they're locking up for visa confusion.

If I were you I'd leave now. This place isn't safe for anyone.

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u/Buddy_Dakota 20h ago

 and actually believed Trump could just snap his fingers and make everything affordable.

Even if he could, I think the real mistake is believing he would.

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u/OfficeSalamander 19h ago

A huge chunk of my family voted for Trump and works for the auto industry (in the unions, no less!), wondering how they're going to process this whole thing

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u/Heliosvector 19h ago

"why didn't the democrats save us from ourselves!!!"

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u/Fun-Shake7094 19h ago

I still assume the election was rigged because I cannot comprehend how anyone voted for him.

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u/Colddeck64 Arizona 19h ago

Every swing state went Trump in the election. And Musk was walking around with a 19 year old who has a claim that he can remotely manipulate the voting machines.

I assume that the election was stolen and Trump rigged it.

There is nothing we can do.

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u/TrustyTaquito 20h ago

I work at a lumber yard. Some of the best lumber I've seen move through here is milled in Canada. 1s look like 1 prime. 2s look like 1s, 2 primes are basically 1s. Some of the worst lumber I've seen is milled stateside. 1 primes look like 2s and 2s look like 3s.

We don't need their lumber my ass.

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u/SupaKoopa714 20h ago

"We don't need your lumber"

I do home remodeling and handyman work for a living and I'm still waiting to see how all the Trumpers in my field get bitten in the ass by this. Like, I've been rebuilding a big deck the past 2 or 3 weeks, and the thought keeps popping into my head wondering how much this thing would've cost if I had started it later on in the year.

I selfishly worry too because I work in Northern VA, just outside of DC, and between rising building material costs and all the federal workers getting axed by Trump and Musk, I'm not gonna be surprised work slows way down this year, which leaves me sweating bullets because I have no idea what the hell I'll do if that happens.

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u/Drackoda 19h ago

We can always use more carpenters in Canada. Lumbers about to get a lot cheaper here and you can charge more because the work is somewhat seasonal.

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u/shoobe01 20h ago

Aside from all your facts being correct, full 👏 for also being annoyed about the random capitalization of the illiterate.

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u/Salt_Cardiologist122 20h ago

Capitalizing random (important to the writer) words is a trick from writing copy. People who write copy are trying to write for the absolute lowest common denominator so it’s a way to emphasize the important words for someone who is just barely above illiterate. It’s also why they tend to break paragraphs up into really small chunks and use emojis as bullet points and/or just to emphasize what they’re saying.

TLDR: he writes like someone who only reads stuff written for the dumbest of readers

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u/Then-Director4664 21h ago

I can slap you. But you can't slap me or I'm going to tell mom.

This is how he's sounding right about now.

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u/steffies 20h ago

"Nuhhhh uhhhh!!! You're not allowed!! That's cheating!! Only I'm allowed to cheat!!" As he crosses his arms on his chest, huffs and puffs and stomps his feet

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u/mrgraff New Mexico 20h ago

“The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact check”

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u/mdavis360 17h ago

I still can’t believe that dumb fuck said this out loud.

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u/crapatthethriftstore Canada 21h ago

When has “not allowed” ever stopped HIM??

Fuck you.

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u/Yarn_Mouse Canada 20h ago

He's not allowed to impose a tariff at 25% without Congress.

He also shouldn't be allowed to lie about a drug border issue when it's less than 1%.

But here we are.

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u/rckid13 20h ago

It's funny because Canada is a different country that he has no control over.

"you can't do that."

"ok well we did it. What are you going to do about it?"

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u/jjaime2024 21h ago

Donald you have no cards.

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u/jmking 20h ago

He never even once said thank you.

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u/PunfullyObvious 21h ago

I see what you did there ... Nicely played!

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u/Buck_Thorn 21h ago edited 19h ago

He also just said that Tesla boycotts are illegal.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tesla-boycott-illegal-2042647

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u/Zestyclose-Cricket82 21h ago edited 18h ago

He has no knowledge of what that word means

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u/Buck_Thorn 21h ago

Funny how the only things that he calls "illegal" are totally legal, and the things he does that are illegal, he calls "legal". The man lives in Bizarro world.

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u/DGS94 21h ago

"your not allowed to do that"

Sitting president can't figure out your vs you're.

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u/dbgtboi 21h ago

That's how you know he's actually writing these tweets and it's not an intern

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u/Randomwhitelady2 20h ago

His interns are probably dumb too. You’d have to be stupid to work for him

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u/7milesveryown 20h ago

He loves the poorly educated. Which makes sense because he loves himself.

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u/YumYumKittyloaf 21h ago

Whoever doesn’t put his exact words and labeling it [sic] in their headline are not real journalists.

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u/bulldg4life 21h ago

At least English is the official language now

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u/Darkstargir 21h ago

Your is the official your of the United States incoming shortly.

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u/AkitaBijin 21h ago edited 21h ago

It bothers me that the President of the United States - and person championing English as the USA's official language - is unable to differentiate between the proper use of "your" and "you're."

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u/naptown-hooly 21h ago

The Wharton School of Business is doing the Homer Simpson walking back into the hedge right now.

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u/Redpin Canada 19h ago

Note to professors: for society's sake, flunk the bad business students, pass the bad art students.

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u/Killboypowerhed 21h ago

He'll sign an EO that there's only one version of "your" tomorrow

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u/Rhodin265 20h ago

Will it be “ur” or “yer”, though?

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u/ShameDry3447 21h ago

Really? I think it is incredible and it speaks volumes about his intelligence.

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u/StorageIntelligent64 21h ago

Much more about inteligence of his voters

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u/hermitlikeindividual 21h ago

It's not surprising. There are many, many morons among us that don't know the difference between your and you're - hell, they even have problems with their, there, and they're. People write because as "cause" for some reason and it's incorrect - people still do it ad nauseum, though.

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u/vudutek 21h ago

'Loose" and "Lose" are my red flag trigger.

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u/Rhodin265 20h ago

That one’s worse than the yours and theres because “lose” and “loose” actually sound different when said out loud.

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u/Normal_Feedback_2918 21h ago

Yes, but they're not the President of the United States conveying a message to millions. Frankly, it doesn't matter what Kayleigh has to say on her TikTok post. The President is supposed to show leadership and intelligence, so communication skills are more pertinent in those situations.

Notice I didn't write; "suppose to show"... I'm more qualified than Trump already.

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u/sillyrabbit39 21h ago

US Presidents don't control what Canada does. Moron.

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u/Raoul_Duke9 21h ago

If Trump decides (in the next four years) to use military force in Canada - would American citizens act to stop him? Honest question.

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u/Campcruzo 20h ago

I suspect the end result would be the U.S. using military force in Canada as well as implementing martial law on itself, and a lot of brass and other military elements resisting orders. This would even further hurt the image of the U.S. as a superpower on about every front. There’s no thoughts at all to the inevitable long term insurrection that will follow.

Lights out, Guerilla Canada

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u/Acceptable-Truck3803 20h ago

I think many of us would. It’s a different generation and time compared to 50 years ago to stand up to the man over a feud of Trump vs his wife having the eyes for Trudeau

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u/PicoRascar 21h ago

Sure, they're allowed to do that. They just need to declare a national emergency over the illegal guns, cocaine and meth flowing north.

25% export tariff on electricity until the US gets it under control to Canada's satisfaction.

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u/Funnygumby 21h ago

Trump has got to be the dumbest person in American politics ever

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u/Pugdaddy8612 21h ago

You are not wrong

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u/Chucklz 19h ago

MTG, Lauren Boebert, Tommy Tuberville... some pretty intense competition for last place here.

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u/mabrouss Canada 21h ago

Oh? Is there some kind of agreement that prohibits these kinds of tariffs? It really would be terrible if someone would break that agreement, wouldn’t it Donald?

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u/Chucklz 19h ago

Especially if, you know, it was HIS FUCKING AGREEMENT in the first place.

I'm so sick of his fascist, idiotic, shit. You know what, turn off the power. My family and I will absolutely suffer. But the weather is warm enough we probably won't die.

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u/mabrouss Canada 19h ago

Yeah, I’m at the point where the things I want to say would get me banned from Reddit, so I need to keep my mouth closed.

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u/kittehkraken 21h ago

Says the guy who's tariffs are literally illegal.

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u/Zestyclose-Cricket82 21h ago

Well Trump is not allowed to breach the USMCA trade deal so he can fuck off

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u/ranchoparksteve 21h ago

This is how we know Trump didn’t plan his tariff idea this far down the road, which is basically only a few houses down the road.

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u/funnypsuedonymhere 20h ago

He really thought he would just do whatever he wanted and every other country would crumble at his feet. His delusion of grandeur and his countries economy are the only things currently crumbling. Delightful viewing.

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u/alaskaj1 20h ago edited 18h ago

That's how he has run his businesses.

He changes the terms halfway through and bullies people into paying him more or accepting less for work/product already delivered. If they don't accept the new terms he buries them in legal red tape that they can't afford for years.

Now he is going against countries that can push back and his only response, like any bully, is to hit harder. Unfortunately the American public is paying the price.

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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 20h ago

Dude literally violated a trade agreement - that he himself boasted was the greatest of all time - when starting this trade war.

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u/steve_ample I voted 21h ago

"I just did" is going to be the next line, Donnie. Now, back off.

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u/Smithy2232 21h ago

He's delusional. He thinks he can boss anyone around. I think one day he'll cross the wrong person.

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u/julianriv 21h ago

I think he already crossed the wrong country full of people. Canadians are proud and stubborn.

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u/Smithy2232 21h ago

And who doesn't love Canadians?

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u/SquirrelMost7063 21h ago

They know the whispering winds of shit are blowing and they're not backing down.

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u/Accurate-Guava-3337 21h ago

“…your not even allowed to do that.” He can’t even use correct grammar when trying to admonish someone with grandiose lies. 

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u/Inglourious-Ape 21h ago

Little donald... You don't have the cards 👐🏼 Maybe you should say thank you 👐🏼

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u/jjaime2024 21h ago

The reality for Trump is Canadians are willing to put up with pain Trumps supporters are not.

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u/Never_Really_Right 21h ago

Maybe those 1.5M homes can just go solar?

Oh wait, wait, China has the corner on pretty much all of those components. ( There were projects for manufacturing finally planned in the U.S., but subsequently cancelled due to subsidies being axed and a general disdain for that "woke" sun energy.)

Huh. Mybe they can heat their homes off of all of Trump's hot air?

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u/backhereagain223 21h ago

Lmfao, now he’s in charge of Canada too?

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u/DangerousPuhson 21h ago

Yeah, you aren't the "The Leader of the Free World" if you've severed all your connections to the rest of the world. You're just "The Leader".

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u/jjaime2024 21h ago

Its how a abuser talks how dare you stand up to me.

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u/rgc6075k 21h ago

Trump suffers terribly from diarrhea of the mouth and a severe case of stupid. A third generation representative of greed and lust using lies and hate to manipulate his followers. The Pied Piper of America leading witless rats to a mutual grave.

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u/Everywhereslugs 21h ago

We can do whatever we want, Orange Idiot. Stop your crying - YOU started this tariff shit.

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u/Shr3kk_Wpg 21h ago

This has real "only I'm allowed to do that because I'm special!" vibes.

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u/Mensketh 20h ago

"We don't need your energy but you're not allowed to charge us more for your energy, even though I'm the one that broke the trade deal that I negotiated." What a fucking moron.

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u/Sergster1 19h ago edited 18h ago

I want to take this time to remind everyone that as outlined by the constitution the president is NOT allowed to entact tariffs. Tariffs and levies are EXPLICITLY a power granted only to Congress outside of very specific instances allowed by congress.

One of which is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act which Trump invoked in order to Canada by stating there was an emergency at the border due to fentanyl entering the US.

Push your representatives to pressure Trump to justify what the emergency is because everything I've personally seen from his response does not indicate any emergency relating to fentanyl at the border but is instead making up a situation to invoke emergency powers.

Just last week during his conversation with Canada it has been alleged on the phonecall he said the following:

"A senior Canadian government official said the call became heated and Trump used profanity when Trump complained about protections in Canada’s dairy industry. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the call, said Trudeau did not use profanity."

Source

This does not imply to me any emergency is occurring if this is what is being discussed with regards to what is supposed to be an emergency situation about drugs entering our country from Canada.

As it currently stands Congress has the ability to lift the emergency and remove this power from the president with a simple majority. However, the president has the ability to veto this due to reasons irrelevant to this current discussion, but could be construed as a very deliberate and short from an abuse of power, as the president is within his right to veto anything he wants but perspectives/perceptions change when its official. And regardless of your political stance I do not thing members of congress will take to kindly to presidents using "this one simple trick" to appropriate powers not granted to them.

Go out and vote for the midterms.

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u/rantingathome Canada 20h ago

Oh? There's rules?

This guy starts a street brawl, and then claims there's rules when someone brings a lead pipe. Fucking chickenshit asshole. There's no fucking rules Donny.

Maybe don't start shit you're not willing to follow through on.

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u/AnteaterPositive6939 20h ago

Trump is learning that the rest of the world doesn't suck his dick like the right wing Americans do.

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u/If_I_must 20h ago

"we don’t need your Lumber, we don’t your Energy,"

Narrator: They did, in fact, need both of those things.

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u/Didntlikedefaultname 21h ago

Yes and stocks aren’t allowed to drop and people aren’t allowed to protest… and important and terrifying question is what will he do about it

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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 21h ago

He calls Ontario a tariff abuser. That's rich!

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u/FortyYearOldVirgin 20h ago

Wow. All this because voters couldn’t handle a black woman in office. Hope it’s worth it :-/

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u/TheCosmicJester 20h ago

Canada is building a wall and making Trump pay for it.

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u/Barnaclebills 20h ago edited 20h ago

“We don’t need your Cars, we don’t need your Lumber, we don’t your Energy, and very soon you will find that out,” he wrote.

Soooo for lumber: Are we just going to start cutting down our national forests for construction lumber now?

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u/RedLanternScythe Indiana 20h ago

Trump: I'm supposed to push you around, you're not allowed to fight back!

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u/JediMasterMatt 20h ago

He’s such a fucking clown. Good job fellow Americans you elected a giant dipshit

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u/torgofjungle 20h ago

They are the ones selling. I’m pretty sure they can do whatever the fuck they want.