Trump is named in the Epstein files.
Trump cut NOAA and FEMA funding before flash flooding killed over 200 people in Texas including two dozen Christian girls.
And why does the fact that the two dozen girls were in a cult matter?
Matters to his voters.
It all about the optics. You say 200 people died people won't care as much, you say 200 girls died and and THEY WERE GOOD CHRISTIANS, you appeal to a lot of Americans.
To me, I think it's worth pointing out the hypocrisy of the "the gays caused hurricane Sandy/Katrina/etc" people.
God has no tolerance for traitors. You see, God discovered that they supported the Devil in secret, so he sent a flood to kill them. It's a message to help the surviving Texans remember their true allegiance.
It matters to the cult that they were in.
Enacting tariffs against our trading partners, and excellent neighbors, as well as allies, is an act of war. It puts America in 'national security' peril. We are not being attacked by Canada or Mexico. It's putin's Russia you need to be concerned about, you orange cancer.
In Trumps addled mind, Canada not buying US milk is a national security threat.
That's giving him way too much credit; he clearly doesn't care about national security.
Look Mark, can I call you Mark? I've got a mangled tiny penis, and I compensate for it in many different and weird ways. Sometimes it's raping woman or girls. Other times, it is saying and doing awful racist things. Sometimes it is just doing nonsensical things. Mark, the girls in the pee pee tape laughed at it. Anyways, that's why Canada has to pay 35% tariffs.
Jeebus, I died. Lol
Yard sign material
Dee's a bird and Trump's a turd
Taco Always Craps Out
Why not now? Why wait till Aug 1? Just make it so.
You know why? He's fishing for more concessions.
Canada should just say fuck it and raise the digital sale tax and then fling fentanyl across the border with trebuchets.
Stock. Market. Manipulation.
lets reinstate that digital sales tax and triple it, fuck em.
Yes, nobody should do any accommodation to trump. You only loose. He will demand more and make the same threats again, typical bully.
Good thing they dropped the digital service tax for US companies...
They can bring it back just as easily
But they already lost the advantage they had. The point of the retaliatory tariffs are not to make money, but to send a message.
They've already sent a message that they can tolerate Trump's bullshit as long as it doesn't hurt them too much when they backed down on the digital service tax.
Bringing it back now is a lot less effective than implementing it the first time around while still hurting Canadians the same amount.
Er, “instead of caving to our unreasonable demands, they’ve responded in kind.”
It’s like Russia and Ukraine. Trump, if you want to work with Canada, just remove the trade barriers.
i.e. his rich buddies called him up and said "we need/want more money, go manipulate the market again" to which Trump said "sure i'll fuck with Canada some more"
that's all this is. Carney needs to stop playing nice and start up the digital service tax again.
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Is that the art of the deal or petulant flailing?
Or? Didn't you mean "is".
I just want my country to treat our citizens and allies right. Canada did nothing against us. Sure they did get us hooked on a few of their musicians and introduced pizza with pineapple, but that's friend dick moves not enemy dick moves.
Canadians were mega pissed at americans back in March. I'm not sure how much lower we can sink in their estimation. 0% favorability is coming up quick.
https://angusreid.org/trump-tariffs-canada-retaliation-usa/
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/1263527125/its-been-a-minute-canada-us-relationship-politics
I thought he already put tariffs on us? And then again?
Pissing into the wind.
Let’s go Taco!
Don’t worry - TACO 🌮
I would rather see a barely intelligible first-grader level drawing of a taco than AI slop. Stop it.
If a crown emoji on a taco emoji overwhelms you, you may be too sensitive to be online.
Carney: looks like it's time to start dumping US bonds again.
I'd have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say "nope...we're ignoring it. Everyone knows it's a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he'll be removing them."
Everyone KNOWS he's a fucking grifter, but politicians don't want to say it out loud.
That would be an incredibly stupid diplomatic strategy. So be happy that your politicians are smarter than that.
If they call him on his bullshit his fefes might get hurt and he might actually keep them on to be spiteful.
Better to just smile and nod at his senile ass and continue to make contingency plans.
TACO
Carney needs to call them out and publicly state that the taxes are never going to end because Trump is using them as a fundraising scheme.
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