...We all got up to danceOh, but we never got the chance'Cause the players tried to take the fieldThe marching band refused to yieldDo you recall what was revealedThe day the music died?*
Lesson for this Trump tariff shakedown bullshit is that you can call him up and say "well okay, we'll do [list of things we're already doing], that's a really good idea" and he will take that as a win. It's like putting a blanket over a budgie's cage
— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) February 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Questions for the Canadians out there. There seemed to be a pro Trump conservative movement that dragged down Trudeau. Is that movement getting stronger or weaker ?
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think the pro-Trump Conservative movement took a huge hit with Trump’s tariffs & rants that π¨π¦ become the 51st state. (Just typing that makes me feel sick).Pierre PoiLIEvre campaigned constantly on AntiTrudeau propaganda but now that Trudeau has stepped down, PP has nothing & is actually vilified
— SE_Sasaki (@sharonsasaki.bsky.social) February 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The people. https://t.co/ETkPBzQLxE
— Dean Blundellπ¨π¦ (@ItsDeanBlundell) February 3, 2025
Paul KrugmanDamaging US Relationships for NothingWhat is the best way to say the opposite of “A Mouse that Roared”. Is it “An Elephant that Burped”, “A Lion that Swooned”, or even “A Dinosaur that Gently Lamented”?. Because that’ is what we have really seen over the last few days from the USA. If anything, it was even worse....
Dean Obeidallah / The Dean's ReportTrump Is Doing Exactly What He Said He Would. Who Could Have Predicted That?Maybe the oligarchs deserve what’s coming. But the rest of us don’t....Donald Trump’s decision to launch an all-out trade war, not with China, but with our neighbors and allies — who are gearing up for large-scale retaliation — probably isn’t the most important thing happening right now. I’ll talk in a minute about what is. But it has certainly come as a wake-up call for business.It would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Actually it is funny if you’re into gallows humor. Trump spent the entire campaign proclaiming that he was a Tariff Man, promising high tariffs and asserting that we were somehow subsidizing Canada and Mexico. Yet businesses and bank analysts blithely assumed that he didn’t really mean it. ......As I get ready to hit the publish button, stock futures are down — but not nearly as much as the situation seems to warrant. Investors still seem to believe that there’s a good chance that Trump will use some minor concessions (about what?) to declare victory and dial the tariffs back. As I wrote about the same time Goldman and Dimon were telling us to chill out, this market complacency is a self-defeating prophecy: muted market reaction makes it likely that Trump will continue and expand his trade war.And even if some of the tariffs prove temporary, the Rubicon has been crossed. We now know that when the United States signs an agreement, on trade or anything else, the president will treat that agreement as a mere suggestion to be ignored whenever he feels like it. That revelation in itself will do huge long-term damage.All of this was entirely predictable. But there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Trump’s tariffs and Musk’s cuts are about tax cuts to benefit the GOP’s wealthy oligarchsThe new Gilded Age is here...Donald Trump wants you to believe that his 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico—and 10% on goods from China-- are somehow connected to stopping “illegal immigration” and fentanyl from coming into the country or creating more U.S. jobs. None of that is true--as even the Wall Street Journal detailed in their editorial Sunday titled, “The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins.”Same goes for Elon Musk’s vow to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget because he is all about “efficiency.” That, too, is a lie.The reality is Trump’s tariffs and Musk’s cuts are about one thing: The rest of us paying for Trump’s promised tax cut to the wealthy oligarchs who bankrolled his 2024 campaign. Period.... the people who will bear the brunt of Trump’s tariffs and Musk’s cuts are you and I. Trump even admitted this Sunday declaring smugly, "We may have short term, some, a little pain. And people understand that." But we all know the pain won’t be felt by the wealthy oligarchs who funded Trump like Musk, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, Miriam Adelson, Timothy Mellon and others....An all tariff funded federal government as Trump now seeks harkens back to before the federal income tax was established in 1913, when tariffs accounted for at times 90% of federal revenue. But this isn’t the 1890’s U.S. economy and last year tariffs only provided us $80 billion in revenue.The only way to fund our massive military budget alone--that will exceed $850 billion in 2025--would require massive tariffs and massive budget cuts. Don’t be surprised when Musk calls for slashing government programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more. Ending these programs has been a long-held dream of the GOP—just like overturning Roe v. Wade.To Trump defenders who claim that the tariffs will somehow spark job creation in America, the facts destroy that lie....
I honestly think Canada should consider this
— Bruce Arthur (@brucearthur.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Canada and Denmark share a 1.2 km long land border on Hans Island since we ended the Whisky War in 2022.
— Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx (@CraigBaird) February 2, 2025
So technically we could join the European Union. pic.twitter.com/IpIMJOLUPt
Next Canadian move: Call Denmark. Agree to set up joint naval base in Greenland. Call it Fort Fukyu.
— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) February 2, 2025
We in Europe remember that Canadians died to liberate our continent.
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) February 3, 2025
In the face of Trump's madness, EU stands with Canada now!
There is no reason why EU membership should be off the table. πͺπΊπ¨π¦ pic.twitter.com/aLDD8ISO7T
*By the way, my title tonight is from Don McLean's American Pie:According to my accountant; starting tomorrow I’m going to have to start charging a tariff for my posts since I’m a product of Canada…π #tariffTuesday pic.twitter.com/Lr8P4wmzjD
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) February 3, 2025
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I actually was delivering papers The Packet and Times (Thompson) door to door when this happened. Small article, front page below the fold. J. W.
Wow, JW, what a memory for you to have, and it actually was the anniversary just yesterday, I think: "bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step, I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride. but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died."
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