• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    My favorite is that part where he asked the Mexican president how long she wanted to pause the tariffs for, and she said, “Umm, forever?”

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      So what happened:

      1. Mexico got a 30 day reprieve by promising 10k Mexican national guard on the border. Trick is that they apparently already have between 10-15k there, so it is already met. The US claims they’ll limit gun smuggling, but with Muskler firing everyone, doubt.

      2. Canada got a 30 day reprieve by promising a 1.3 billion dollar border package, and some kind of nebulous Fentanyl Czar. Trick is that the border package was announced six weeks ago and is already partially implemented, irrespective of the tarrifs. Fentanyl czar is needed for internal issues and is more about removing an attack point for Poilievre and the CPC.

      Basically, Trump caused Wall St to lose 600 billion dollars in one day and permanently damaged the US economy(Canadian and Mexican resources are now being workshopped on being permanently routed to other countries) for literally nothing

  • Moose@moose.best
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    Close, but there’s one distinct thing that I’m certain Trump asked Canada for that we gave in on, and that’s appointing a ‘fentanyl czar’. I know Trump asked for this because who else would give it that name? Sounds like a cartel boss title.

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      Pretty sure they’re just going to slap that title onto whichever federal minister is already in charge of that portfolio.

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    And here I saw this as Trump wanting to prove to the country and rest of the world, he’s loco in the cabeza, and that he wanted to make Canada dance by punching them squarely in the nose publicly, while his true target was China (trade) and Mexico (drugs and immigration), so he threw Canada in, to see what he could shake out of their pockets with zero effort. I get wanting to spin this as mockery of the bad man, and Trump is indeed a very terrible human being, but this isn’t a win for anyone, with a 30 day timer counting down, to placate a man who hurts entire countries just because he can.