Well, that's that.
And Canada says "fuck you very much" to Trump:
As usual, The Beaverton gets it:
"Nice little country you've got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it"This is Canadian diplomatic speak for "Trump can go puck himself"
— White Rose Resistance (@whiteroseresistance.org) July 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Thank you Peter Donolo for perfectly articulating how I feel about this. #CanadaSky #Canada #cdnpoli #FDJT @mark-carney.bsky.social youtu.be/Ivv69iNuUYo?...
— 🇨🇦Cre8ivCanuck📎 (@cre8ivcanuck.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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As usual, The Beaverton gets it:
Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway
— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) July 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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In exchange for less than nothing, Canada has to date: -spent $1.3 billion to address a non-existent fentanyl border issue; -introduced Trump-friendly border legislation; -sacrificed the Digital Services Tax, at a cost of $1.4 billion/year. It's almost as if the lesson is: appeasement doesn't work.
— Blayne Haggart (@bhaggart.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Here's a useful summary, from Atlantic staff writer David A. Graham in the Atlantic Daily Newsletter:View on Threads
The Warped Idealism of Trump’s Trade PolicyI wonder when Americans will wake up to the reality that Trump's "trade deals" are nothing but a pack of cards:
The president once promised he’d prioritize Americans’ bottom line above all else. He’s abandoned that pledge.
Tomorrow [August 1] is Donald Trump’s deadline to agree to trade deals before he imposes tariffs, and he means it this time. Why are you laughing? (In fact, since saying that yesterday, he’s already chickened out with Mexico, putting the “taco” in, well, TACO.)
But the president has already written off hopes of reaching agreements with some allies. Yesterday, Trump announced that he was raising tariffs on many Brazilian goods to 50 percent across the board, as retribution for Brazil’s prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally. This morning, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state “will make it very hard” to strike a deal with Canada.
...Setting aside the legal problems, Trump’s statements about Brazil and Canada represent an abandonment of the realpolitik approach he once promised. Even if Carney were to back down on Palestinian statehood, or Brazil to call off Bolsonaro’s prosecution, the United States wouldn’t see any economic gain. Trump is purely using American economic might to achieve noneconomic goals.
....The U.S. government has also long used its power to bully other countries into taking its side in international disputes, but the swipe at Canada is perplexing. The Trump administration remains the most stalwart ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (notwithstanding some recent tensions), and the U.S. government has long withheld recognition of any Palestinian state as leverage in negotiations. Even so, slapping tariffs on Canada for a symbolic decision such as this seems unlikely to dissuade Carney or do anything beyond further stoking nascent Canadian nationalism.
This is not the only way in which Trump’s blunt wielding of tariffs is likely to backfire on the United States. Consumers in the U.S. will pay higher prices, and overseas, Jerusalem Demsas warned in April, “the credibility of the nation’s promises, its treaties, its agreements, and even its basic rationality has evaporated in just weeks.” But it’s not just trust with foreign countries that the president has betrayed. It’s the pact he made with voters. Trump promised voters an “America First” approach. Instead, they’re getting a “Bolsonaro and Netanyahu First” government.
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Sure, Donald, Whatever You SayCanada is moving on:
I assume all the people engaging in "trade deals" with Trump know it's all bullshit he can change tomorrow, so they can just agree to nonsense.The agreement calls for EU imports of U.S. energy, which currently are mainly crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG), of $250 billion a year for three years"The EU" can neither make these purchases nor force countries/firms within the EU to do so...
This is a delusional level of imports that the EU has virtually no chance of meeting, and one that U.S. producers would also struggle to supply.
Even if the EU did manage somehow to boost its energy imports from the United States to the $250 billion a year mark, it would also prove massively disruptive for energy flows around the rest of the world.
Elbows up… 🦫
— Pets Against Trump… (@petsunited.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Skip the tariffs and just have companies raise u.s. prices w/o government intervention... and blame it on drumps tariffs and the mean and nasty Canadian people.
Carney could claim revolt.
Way too much to ask of soft Canadians.
Plus the Orange sh*tgibbon would probably invade. To save us , his cherished land.
"We covet what we see, Clarice"
Man, even when Americans get it, they don't get it. This Graham guy talks about Trump "stoking nascent Canadian nationalism". Nascent? As in, Canada was never really a country with nationalism before? Fuck you, Graham. Canadians have always had plenty of nationalism. We just didn't feel like we had to yell about it all the time like Americans do.
Yes, I thought that nascent line was odd too. They have always believed Canadians yearn to be American
And l loved Anons "Silence of the Yam:' reference!
That Beaverton headline is supposed to be satire. It's anything but.
mr perfect
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