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re: All we did was reciprocate tariffs and Canada ackin’ like a lil’ beech.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 3:36 am to BuckyCheese
Posted on 3/28/25 at 3:36 am to BuckyCheese
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BuckyCheese
Canada has been living off the largesse of it's much bigger neighbor for decades, so it isn't too surprising they are acting like a child that got his Playstation taken away
When you've received preferential treatment for years and you are treated the same it feels like your being slighted.
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Posted on 3/28/25 at 4:00 am to RogerTheShrubber
The tour bus driver calls everyone bitches. He’s made a sound argument. Case closed folks
Posted on 3/28/25 at 4:11 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Your orange bitch is lying to you
You have really lost it haven’t you.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 5:23 am to FLTech
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I just find it funny that Trump slapped Tariffs on everybody and nobody is bitching about it except for Canada and Europe (cough, cough, cough) - the countries that USAID made woke by forcing woke down their throats in order for them to keep receiving money
If it were a tactic, well played.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 8:32 am to OceanMan
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You have really lost it haven’t you
I'm one of the few who isn't a naive simpleton.
I'm good.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 8:38 am to thejudge
right. Its not much different than the entitlement phenomenon with the American welfare class. they've been on the take for so long, they feel its their right. which is why liberals seem to be so confused about what "rights" are.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 8:48 am to dstone12
If your friend acts like this because you take care of yourself, then you were never friends at all.
I’m sure there’s a few emo songs about this phenomenon.
I’m sure there’s a few emo songs about this phenomenon.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 8:48 am to monsterballads
Something we essentially had before all this stupidity.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 9:00 am to OceanMan
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You have really lost it haven’t you.
He really has. It's sad to see his negative emotional response to DJT escalate as the thread goes on.
And as some other posters have stated on here, and I'm not using this as a pejorative, Roger draws some form of government assistance...and he's 180 degrees opposed to the economic plan of a man worth $7B (according to Forbes) in 2025. Sort of an odd dichotomy, yes?
Posted on 3/28/25 at 9:01 am to TD422
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Roger draws some form of government assistanc
The lies you little working class simps tell yourself
Posted on 3/28/25 at 9:12 am to RogerTheShrubber
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The lies you little working class simps tell yourself
So you don't draw government assistance? Point taken.
On to the next point, give us a rough estimation of your economic worth. In the ballpark of DJT's?
No?
Would you even give him credit to say he probably has some knowledge in this arena, or are you one of those that claim his father left him all of his worth?
Posted on 3/28/25 at 9:28 am to SOSFAN
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So why is it OK for Canada to protect their interests and it's not OK for America?
If you're really interested in an answer about why these countries are reacting like they are I have one.
The economies of countries like Canada and the UK are very different than the economy of the United States. They are much smaller—Canada has roughly the population of California. Their average citizens have less wealth (by around 30%). Manufacturing as a percentage of the economy is about the same in Canada, but it's roughly twice the percentage of GDP in the UK. They spend more on social programs as a percentage of GDP than the US, especially in the UK. Their commitment to free trade and personal responsibility has never been as strong as the US and their commitment to liberal social welfare has always been stronger (which is exactly why their citizens have 30% less wealth than ours).
They frankly have more reason to enact protectionist measures for their producers than we do. Our domestic producers have a potential market of 340 million people right here in the US...theirs have a market of 40 million. Our producers have a chance to grow much bigger and have a much bigger international market share without ever leaving the country.
Therefore, IMO we should be prioritizing protecting American consumers, not producers, which tariffs do the opposite of, and which we've been doing for most of modern history with a few exceptions. The demographics, population distribution, and history of emphasis on the balance of personal responsibility vs collectivist action dictates this.
Because of all of that, I think trading partners like the EU and Canada feel like we are taking advantage of them and oppressing them by opposing their efforts to protect their producers.
Think of it like this. Let's say this is about competitive golf instead of trade. Let's say that we are in a position of having 9 x more resources—more golfers to field a team from, more courses, vastly better technology, 9 x more money for training, etc. So many years ago Canada said, "Look, let's at least try to make this more fair. Let us play from the red tees and you guys play from the white."
And we said, "Sure, play from those bitch tees...we'll still kick your arse."
And that's what's been happening for a long time, and we have been kicking their asses for all of that time.
Now we're telling them, "frick you, if we're going to play from the white tees, you're going to play from the blue. Either that, or we can all play from the red."
They're looking at us having kicked their asses from the white tees forever and thinking, "What else do those assholes want? They already have everything and they win all the time anyway. They have every natural advantage they could possibly have. Now they want to take away the one slight advantage that we agreed to for us for all of this time just to make it slightly more fair?"
The populists around here always talk about the "Global Elites," oblivious to the fact that for almost all of the rest of the world, the Unites States is seen as being the most elite, privileged, arrogant, selfish, self-centered and oppressive country on Earth, and it's not close. We consume far more resources per capita than anyone else, we are wealthier per capita than almost anyone else, and we are the 800 lb gorilla who sits wherever we want and everyone else has to capitulate.
Now, from my perspective that's a great thing. I thank God for having won the lottery by being born an American, which is one of the problems I have with populism, and probably the main reason that no matter how widespread it becomes I will never be a populist, a philosophy which depends on an unreasonable degree of mostly manufactured discontent. We live in the greatest country that has ever existed on this planet with the highest standard of living that has ever existed on this planet, something that populists refuse to remember. Hell, our poor people have more living space than non-poor people in Europe. There is literally no better place to live, not just in 2025, but in all of history.
But because of those things, the rest of the world is jealous of us and they resent us and they think we owe them competition with one arm tied behind our backs.
I'm not agreeing with them. My message to them is, "If you want to be the best, then you need to beat us at our own game. Lean into free trade, lean into personal responsibility, lean into conservatism and stop with the collectivism. And if you're not willing to do that, then STFU."
But if you really want to know how they can possibly react to these tariff escalations the way they are, I think that's the reason why.
One other aspect of it is that I also am of the opinion that Trump might have avoided a lot of this by having private discussions with the leaders of these trading partners instead of creating a public spectacle of it. If he had treated his negotiations with Canada and the EU like he does Vladimir Putin when he wants to negotiate something with him, the tone of the whole thing might have been different.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 9:30 am to TD422
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So you don't draw government assistance? Point taken.
Zero you gossiping liar.
Why do you working class simps constantly lie?
Posted on 3/28/25 at 9:59 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Why do you working class simps constantly lie?
When you lower yourself to just calling people names you're telling everyone that you don't actually have any substance to back your opinion.
Have a great day sky screaming about Trump.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:01 am to SOSFAN
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When you lower yourself to just calling people names
Y'alls economics deserve ridicule.
Or your lack of knowledge of economics.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:03 am to RogerTheShrubber
You have embarrassed yourself more than anyone on here about economics
You are the old man yelling at the clouds meme
You are the old man yelling at the clouds meme
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:17 am to RogerTheShrubber
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As of March 27, 2025, the U.S. economy is generally considered to be strong, with robust consumer spending and GDP growth
Unemployment is low. Other countries are making billion dollars of investments in America daily. Facts show what Trump is doing is working and a win for America.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:20 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I'm one of the few who isn't a naive simpleton.
I'm good.
and the guy shouting on the corner with the posterboard is the only one who knows Jesus
Loons are always lonely and misunderstood.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:53 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Zero you gossiping liar.
Why do you working class simps constantly lie?
FIRST OF ALL, I did not claim it to be proven, I said "as others have posted". And I did say I wasn't using it as a pejorative. You countered my statement, and I accepted it as fact. But yet your bleeding vagina forced you to call me a gossiping liar. Eat shite, pal.
And until my previous statement, I did not choose to engage in school girl type name calling. You did, so eat a bag of dicks, fig. I hope your TDS eats your arse up for the next four years.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:01 am to dstone12
quote:As I understand it, the only area in which Canada had reasonably-high tariffs pre-2025 was dairy and related products, and those tariffs were negotiated with the first Trump Administration as part of revising NAFTA into USMCA.
All we did was reciprocate tariffs and Canada ackin’ like a lil’ beech.
Makes you wonder f they knew they were getting away with economic murder for years.
Had Canada imposed burdensome tariffs in violation of the USMCA?
Would the US be justified in imposing "reciprocal tariffs" to counter dairy tariffs which were negotiated five years ago and to which the first Trump administration agreed?
This post was edited on 3/28/25 at 11:03 am
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