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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • It’s not just about what’s easy / simple, it’s also about our politicians understanding that having tariffs is actually less damaging than what Trump is doing.

    More than anything, business hates uncertainty. You can invest in an uncertain future. Businesses actively prefer bad to uncertain. A world with tariffs is one where they make less money, sure, but they can factor that in. Raise their prices. Let the inflation happen. They’ll be alright in the end. But a world with the possibility of tariffs, that’s so much worse, because now they can’t respond. Either way they bet, they could lose.

    That’s why Trudeau is taking this “Shit or get off the pot” stance. The most important thing is not just to remove the tariffs, but to get a guarantee that they stay gone, otherwise there will be continual economic damage, to both countries, for as long as this bullshit continues.

    Of course any guarantee from Trump is nearly worthless, so the reality is that as long as America lets that idiotic narcissist remain in power, there will continue to be damage to both our economies just from the uncertainty his presence creates.

    But thats not a problem we can solve.




  • Trump said Monday that “vast amounts of fentanyl got poured into our country” largely through Mexico and from China, and he encouraged car manufacturers to build plants in the U.S. to avoid the upcoming tariffs.

    If the media actually did their jobs, they would add the context that the US seized all of 20kg of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year. This claim is, according to the US government’s own numbers, absolute bullshit.

    They would also note that in order to enact these tariffs without involving Congress he has to invoke a “national emergency”, which is the only reason why he’s suddenly all about stopping fentanyl.