kent_eh @ kent_eh @lemmy.ca

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Surely the irony won't be missed on the magats who voted him in.

Someone would have to explain the concept of irony to them first.

Because he's not actually thinking about any of this.

He's just putting voice to his intrusive thoughts, and doubling down on whatever gets him attention.

Now he's being told to "fuck off" on the floor of the EU parliament.

Citizens could have done something about it in November. And almost half of them chose to sit on their hands.

Of the ones who actually voted, half of those actively voted for this shitshow.

Sorry to the few who tried to stop it, but the idiots that surround you have brought this on you.

We will try to aim most of our retaliation at the Redhatter morons, but some of you will likely get caught in the crossfire.

Please do whatever you can to fix your country's shit, so we can get back to being friendly neighbours.

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Also, please try not to break any more of the firefighting equipment we loaned you (and sent even after agent orange started threatening us).

The TL;DR is that tariffs would violate the NAFTA / USMCA treat

The treaty that Trump himself negotiated and agreed to.

That's the treaty he is calling a "bad deal" and threatening to violate.

The Canadian prime Minister went and spoke directly to Trump.

And Trump laughed him off.

And how do you know the ambassador hasn't already had those meetings?

Canadian officials have been in communication with American governers, senators, congressmen and even mayors to discuss the situation and what sort of response they might expect.

A big part of the problem is that Trump doesn't listen to the advice of anyone once he gets some stupid idea stuck in his head.

Not sure how Manitoba would swing.

Given that our current government is NDP after a disastrous period of the previous conservative government, I would expect Manitoba would generally vote to the left of most states.

Your guess is incorrect. The Overton window in Canada is quite a bit to the left of where it is in the US.

Bernie would be considered a centrist in Canada.

"Go fuck yourself" says Canada.

Just like our Danish friends recently told Trump.

or workforce.

Not even.

They're constantly trying to find ways to reduce staff to the absolute minimum.

Can the president unilaterally change the names of anything he wants?

Maybe for things inside his own country. Though the affected local governments may object.

But for bodies of water that contain international waters, and that border other countries? Fuck no he doesn't.

There is no legal mechanism to compel private companies to use the new name.

There is also no legal mechanism to require any other country on the planet to pay attention to Trump's stupid and pointless attempt at renaming it.

Both Israelis and Palestinians claim to have a "God given right" to that very same piece of sand.

I suspect that's a large part of why this conflict has been ongoing for longer than most of the combatants have been alive.

Maybe we could get away with the app store

As a first step, we could strengthen any of our our data protection and consumer protection laws that are lower then the EU laws/regulations to bring them up to the higher standard.

Agreed.

Doctrow's suggestion is a good long term approach and definitely something we should have started when Trump first tried to attack our economy.

But in the short term we also need to react swiftly and in kind. And to focus that response disproportionately on the people and industries that most strongly enable Trump and his supporters.

 

Working against expanding our markets and suppliers is geography, though. It takes much longer and costs much more to move goods between Canada and Europe/Asia/South America than it does to the US.

Trump thinks that by making his citizen pay 25% more for aluminium, wood, etc,

Don't forget Smith's precious oil.

Problem is, bullshit like this also kills people outside the US borders - people who didn't get a vote in this but will be negatively impacted.

Thank you. This isn't a generation problem. There's plenty of young Republicans out there too.

if Donny's date with Putin doesn't result in Putin fucking off

Does anyone realistically think Trump being elected would do anything but further play into Putin's hands?

but we are all being boiled together.

Including those of us in other countries who didn't get a vote in your elections, but who are about to be absolutely fucked by the results.

Sorry to the people who voted against this, but the other 2/3 of your fellow citizens doomed you to the global distrust and anger that your country has earned.