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There is no appeasing Donald Trump, or deterring him (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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It isn’t just that he has no understanding of policy, nor any knowledge of history to guide him; or that he conforms to none of the norms of custom, morality or law. It is that, even understood as a wholly self-involved, self-serving bundle of id, one whose only motive is self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment, Mr. Trump is incomprehensible. His actions make no sense even in terms of rational self-interest. It’s all just random impulses, fleeting grudges, synaptic burps, based on who spoke to him last, what he saw on TV or what he had for breakfast, for all I know.

But there’s an upside to all this. If there’s nothing we can do – if we lose no matter what – then we might as well do what we want. When nothing you can do will improve your fortunes, when the outcome is the same regardless of which option you choose, the stakes converge on zero.

The President will do what he will do. Nothing we can do will change that. So we might as well not try. There’s liberation in that

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[-] Foxer@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately doing what we want is not really an option. It's not a question of whether or not we're going to lose it becomes a question of whether or not we're going to lose or we're going to lose horribly and with disastrous consequences.

Trump is unlikely ever put the 50% tariff on us certainly not for anything time but he might very well put tariffs on us that are lower. And we simply couldn't survive that. We might be able to diversify our economy in the next 20 years or so but not any time in the immediate future,

Future so at the end of the day we're going to have to give him what he wants and get what we can get which is going to be terrible.

Carney played a strategy of string trump out to the midterms and hope that he loses badly at the midterms and in the meantime give him whatever he wants to drag things out. So we came down every thing from the bridge to the DST etc

But now trump thinks that carney will came on anything and he's not going to wait till the midterms.

So now we're in a tough position. We can't walk away cuz if trump actually does put those tariffs on we're dead. I mean really dead, like declare bankruptcy and live like Mexico dead