Yep, all the pain and no gain. Already cancelled my Walmart Delivery Pass and swapped to PC Express. Now I’m locked in for a year. That’s a year of groceries Walmart lost over this.

Personally I’ll be operating like this until the threats are gone, not just delayed, and even years into the future I’ll be much more cognizant of where my goods are coming from.

Bought a bunch of BBC Planet Earth 4K BluRays direct from them because the only other reasonably priced option was Amazon and I’m avoiding them if possible.

BluRays using technology from Japan, pressed in China, containing a documentary series from the UK, purchased in Canada in CAD direct from the UK distributor.

Should be fine, right? Shipped from the US. Such nonsense.

I think we are

Speaking to reporters at a news conference earlier Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will hold firm and push ahead with retaliatory tariffs and other measures until Trump backs off entirely.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-trade-war-deal-1.7476311

And it allows him to manipulate the stock market where all the so called money is.

Guy's a Guinness Book ASll-Time Record Jerk.

absolutely. he's a chaos machine. and if the pushback/ resistance is not painful enough for america, he will continue doing it.

part of me thinks this is being done to normalize the economic shock - he's already doing it socially. pull this crap often enough and the markets stop reacting violently.

he also gets to claim that the victims are the aggressors, ukraine style.

He doesn't care, as long as the money keeps flowing into his pockets.