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Maybe they're factoring in all the job losses, if someone can't afford to buy food at all they won't be paying any tariffs.

Is there any other country that has isolated themselves from as many possible allies in recent history? North Korea is at the very least tolerated by China and Russia, who does the US still have positive relations with? Maybe Israel?

I was really hoping that was going to happen during the Superbowl. Maybe there are some other events we could mess with.

Wow, $2.01CAD/L that's actually slightly higher than our notoriously high BC prices. I was assuming it would be something like $1CAD/L which is a low price we'd dream of here.

As long as we jack up the tariffs on Chinese built Teslas. Otherwise that's exactly what Tesla's been asking for.

I'm curious, is there somewhere you can see votes broken down by county, or preferably more granular than that? I remember seeing an article a month ago about one of those small Alaskan panhandle towns that relies on its bigger BC neighbour town. They were begging the BC/Canadian government to take it easy on them because they didn't vote for this but the article immediately fact checked them with an Alaskan government stat showing that town in particular voted something like 80% for Trump. My point is, I've been hearing a lot from both Point Roberts and Port Angeles and I'm curious if they're full of shit or not.

I agree. I think we'd be better off supporting their new independent nation[-states?] than absorbing them. Too many systemic issues and too large of a population to change overnight, not to mention all the guns. Maybe we could accept Hawaii, I think they're far enough removed from the continental states.

Isn't Canada donating seized Russian assets to the Ukrainian war effort?

We'd always have been offended, just now we're more likely to be "immediate punch to the face" offended.

Not for long at this rate.

The only difference is we're putting tariffs on things that we can source elsewhere vs the blanket tariffs from the states. But I agree we should also do all the IP stuff you mentioned.

Citrus are actually viable in BC, it's just never been worth building greenhouses for them when we got good cheap fruits from the states.

We didn't want this either but the biggest difference here is we didn't get a choice.

Ok it's starting to feel like a game now. Can we cause American hyperinflation by a targeted tariff feedback loop?

I hadn't thought of it that way before but I think you nailed it. History won't care who you voted for.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the United States has been "a laughingstock for years and years"

As much as it's a national pastime to take shots at the good ol' Yanks, I don't think they've been a laughingstock. Unless he means years and years in a painfully literal sense and those years are specifically 2016-2020.

Oh, good idea. I'll pass it to my MLA.

Wonder if some hardliners from CIA or such will decide to sort out this threat to their power, or will they just accept going down.

They kind of have to do something, if they don't they'll probably end up being "doged" for lack of accomplishments.

I'll admit I don't know much about him, especially being effectively relegated to assistant-vice-president, but I feel like he'd be a bit more stable foreign policy wise. Not necessarily better, but as a Canadian I think I'd sleep better with him as president than what we've got now.

Let's revisit this in exactly 4 years. I don't think there's anything that could make that statement sound reasonable between now and then.