What witchcraft is this?

This is how missinformation spreads though. If something lines up with your existing worldview then you just assume it’s true.

No source?

I thought MAGAts were all about ending the forever wars?

It’s the message it sends to the rest of the world. No longer are the democratic nations unified - instead others are trying to do what best for themselves in the short term to the detriment of all the others.

You need the capitalist system to divest from America and tariffs are the way. Then capitalism kicks in and finds either alternative sources, or creates new ones.

It’s like asking people to recycle more to help climate change.

A bully just punched you on the face. And all other kids are telling him to fuck off, but Australia would rather take the beating, not say anything and hope it doesn’t get any worse. And honestly - it’s pathetic. This isn’t the time for inaction.

Canada had the Conservatives with a 30 point lead before the Liberals implemented tariffs against the US and now the Liberals are leading. Canada’s Cons are also pretty cozy with the US and the leader is basically a Trump wannabe.

You can try to justify bending the knee to the US, but don’t tell me they aren’t, and stabbing their allies in the back in the process.

Appreciate the context though.

Fair enough, I goofed on the deficit front. Still stand by my parent point though.

EDIT: I Goofed

That’s ridiculous. Retaliating has done nothing but strengthen resolve and brought a new level of patriotism to all the countries that retaliated. They now have a shared common enemy. Not to mention the effects on the economy would largely be felt medium to longer term.

Then there’s the whole stabbing allies in the back too - that has a cost.

EDIT: Look at this polling data and try and tell me issuing retaliatory measures hurts the party that enacts them:

Sorry, you think the US putting tariffs on Australian products for instance, doesn’t hurt Australia? Huh? Of course they do. Now importers in the US will pay more for those Australian goods, and now there is incentive to look at alternatives. So Australia makes less sales of those products. The ENTIRE point of the tariffs on Canada is to economically strain them to force them to join the US.

Now would these tariffs also hurt the US? Yes, but not symmetrically. Hence all other countries issuing retaliatory tariffs.

Why do you think other countries are doing this?

My favourite part is how he made gains in (virtually?) all segments. It seems the economy was their number one concern too. Imagine thinking the current president was going to make the economy/their financial situation better…

Like at some point you just need to call out the stupid.

Why do you think all the other countries have retaliatory tariffs? It’s to hurt the US back. If their goods are now more expensive, then competing products are now cheaper in comparison and capitalism does it’s thing. This is basic, basic trade war stuff.

Edit: Ahh fuck, you’re just a troll. Anyone else reading this, just check their post history. Carry on.

They’re just stabbing the EU and Canada in the back. This is BASIC game theory. You need to retaliate otherwise the game is lost. But they would rather hitch their wagon to the new Nazi regime to help their economy? Disgusting.

Hope the king has a chat with these Common Wealth goofs. United we stand, divided we fall.

How about just he gets it? Hell he should get all the diseases. Think of how dead strong his immune system will be!

He’s now blaming Ukrainian IPs and will use this as pretext to shutoff Starlink.

I’m not even sure he does to be honest.

Must be nice not having a foreign invader taking your kids away from you huh?

Must be nice not having your kids separated from you and put into cages huh?

You don’t get to be a morally bankrupt Putin puppet and then appeal to actual morals.

Love to see it.