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interesting article by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president "The problem with Trump is that he sees only distributive bargaining in an international world that requires integrative bargaining. He can raise tariffs, but so can other countries. He can’t demand they not respond. There is no defined end to the negotiation and there is no simple winner and loser. " "Trump is utterly convinced that his experience in a closely held real estate company has prepared him to run a nation, and therefore he rejects the advice of people who spent entire careers studying the nuances of international negotiations and diplomacy. But the leaders on the other side of the table have not eschewed expertise, they have embraced it. And that means they look at Trump and, given his very limited tool chest and his blindly distributive understanding of negotiation, they know exactly what he is going to do and exactly how to respond to it. " "For people who study negotiations, this is incredibly basic stuff, negotiations 101" "From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn't even bringing checkers to a chess match. "

Let’s recap the FACTS before the MAGA cultists can get their gaslighting revisionism together 1) Dictator On Day One (DODO)threatened tariffs under false pretences, repeatedly trolled Canada about becoming the 51st state and using “economic force” to annex Canada 2) The drugs and illegal immigrants from Canada are a statistical zero, contrary to FODOs lies 3) DODO’s claim that Canada refused requests to help crackdown on the (nom-existent) fentanyl and human smuggling are a lie He also cited a number of other various lies about Canada as justification most of which HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TRADE so can’t be solved with Tariffs 4)Canada introduced a $1.3 Billion increase to border security anyway just to appease DODO 5) DODO said there’s nothing Canada can do to avoid tariffs and could never clearly state what exactly he wanted Canada to do or when he would be satisfied 6) Despite refusing to take JTs phone calls or have any communication woth Canadian officials, as soon as we announce countermeasures he call JT twice in one day, described the call as “pretty good” and stopped the trolling and annexation talk. DODO “postponing” his tariffs for “30 days” is just his path of retreat so he can change the subject and move on to something else. He lost. He is not going to revisit this in 30 days. All Canada had to do was offer a few symbolic toke gestures…even though Trump had just said there was nothing Canada could do to avoid his tariffs. The bully tried to take our lunch money, we popped in the nose and now he’s fading away.

RFK’s hearings remove all doubt: He’s not fit to lead a key federal health agency "Look, it’s never wrong to ask questions, even about “settled” science. But Kennedy has spent a near-lifetime promoting a dangerous, outright lie about vaccines, even in the face of hard proof that they work. That might’ve dissuaded many people from getting them and then later contracting illnesses they could’ve prevented. Oh, and by coincidence, his anti-Big Pharma claims just so happen to supply ammunition for fellow lawyers suing those companies. Kennedy’s bizarre beliefs go even further: He’s bought into conspiracy theories that the generally acknowledged story of 9/11 isn’t to be believed. He’s stood by claims that “electromagnetic radiation” from Wi-Fi “changes DNA” and is linked to cancer. Most of all, Kennedy lacks basic skills to run a large federal agency, particularly one where “following the science” is actually vital. True, he does support some worthwhile lifestyle changes that can make folks healthier — like better diets and exercise. But there’s too much wackiness in his background to trust America’s health to such a figure. Senators need to block RFK Jr.’s nomination — and keep America healthy again."

Trump got gains from this trade game. What did Canada get? Also, a significant reason why Trump took a stick to Canada is the ridiculous woke-green mess that Trudeau has championed in the West, a mess that has shamed Canada and cost Canadians countless billions. Trudeau must go. The wake up call from this is that we must never make ourselves so vulnerable again, neither in trade nor militarily, unless we want to become de facto Puerto Rico, which Canada is now. At least Puerto Rico uses the U.S. dollar. Our currency is weak and we earn significantly less than Americans now. We were in better economic shape than Americans a decade ago. I wonder what changed?

I just went to the grocery store tonight. The Canadian stickers were handy and supports your local farmer or BC produce. Most Canadians see this as an attack on their neighbor, not on Trudeau which is why it triggered an American boycott.

LMAO the fake reality you live in! This is a victory for Canada. Trudeau just re-announced his December border plan with a couple of small tweaks. To stop the imaginary fentanyl that doesn’t exist. Trump retreated from his illegal cash grab and this is his way out. Trump lost bigly

lol so the plan we'd already announced? Holy shit Trump is the easiest mark, no wonder Elon was able to take over the presidency.

Scott Moe had an interesting idea. He asked Trudeau to put CBSA under military command. That way the $2.6 billion ottawa spends on CBSA could then be reclassified as 'military spending'.

Trump's purge is targeting career prosecutors, not political appointees, so I don't know how he can get away with it. It's not safe to do your job anymore in the US.

He says the same thing about all his attributes. I'd put more stock in what Stormy Daniels thinks. He will, don't worry

Boy you just throw all kinds of shit at the wall and hope something sticks huh? Honesty there's just so much dumb garbage here it's impossible to know where to even start.

I would not say that Canada won.. they acquiesced to Trump. It was a rational choice. Just hope that this does not affect my trip to Toronto in September.

They won't. The Emperor has spoken, and the Emperor gets what he wants. The least qualified and most unsuitable people are being appointed to cabinet - rewarded for loyalty and demagoguery rather than competence or know-how. It's almost like a comedy spoof...except it's real.

Unless PP turns out to be a dictator, who takes away our rights and freedoms, and rules with an iron fist, I am sure he will run a foul of Trump. Trump only respects fellow "strongmen" like Orban, Putin, Kim Jung Un, etc. His brain cannot comprehend why people would do anything to help people, or want to make the World a better place.

Give it up betsy LOL Trudeau and his liberals have nothing to fight with. Trumps says jump and Justin says how high LOL

And Ford, who is going to Washington. And Moe who is going to Washington. And Legault who said he will not hold electricity to the US. And New Brunswicks Holt that also said it will still sell electricity to the US and Saskatchewan will still sell potash to the US. chrissy....we do not have a united Canada...we have a bunch of independent provincial czars LOL Unfortunately for you, Trudeau is hated by the whole world, especially Trump and most Canadians. He has turned off everyone in the world. He was as much a bully to Canadians as trump is now LOL The liberals have run their course and will all but disappear form our federal political playground...just like they did in the provincial Ontario playground LOL

I don't think we would have a chance going toe to toe. Trudeau and Ford provoking Trump is the wrong answer. Trump is a narcissist, he will sink his whole country before admitting defeat. This should be a good lesson for Canada. We have to many eggs in the U.S. basket. The problem is it would take decades to change that. I think we still need to put up a strong front, but there are a lot of middle and lower class Americans who will be fighting back against these tariffs. Threats will only provoke Trump but if he hits us with tariffs, I think the only thing we can do is impose tariffs in return.

Seapower is strategic power, the ultimate arm of decision also a great jobs program, something Canada can build in Canada never mind the costs, a tariff war would cost hundreds of billions meanwhile Chantier-Davie is just sitting there on the St. Lawrence waiting for the GoC to order some ships build two LHD / Drone Carriers LHD-100 HMCS Juno LHD-101 HMCS Vimy if the Aussies can do it, why not Canada ?

if only we could leverage all this patriotic fervour for the RCN "okay, Trump, we'll join your war against China, but we want into AUKUS" "never mind 12 SSK's, those are useless in the Arctic, we want SSN's, we'll buy four of them right now" SSN-880 HMCS Resolute SSN-881 HMCS Repulse SSN-882 HMCS Rideau SSN-883 HMCS Rimouski

exactly the opposite Trudeau said that the GoC would not do anything without consulting the Premiers Canada is not going to get out ahead of the Provinces there will be no export tariffs on Canadian energy that was all for Alberta

Exactly. They are a lying fake new propaganda outlet, but they are predictable in that their lies always slant in favour of the Dems. If even CNN can't try to make the case that these firings are related to Trump's own persecution then it's obviously true.

There you go again with your galactic wide brush. In the mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum mechanics, the state of a quantum mechanical system is a vector � belonging to a (separable) complex Hilbert space �. This vector is postulated to be normalized under the Hilbert space inner product, that is, it obeys 〈�,�〉=1, and it is well-defined up to a complex number of modulus 1 (the global phase), that is, � and ���� represent the same physical system. In other words, the possible states are points in the projective space of a Hilbert space, usually called the complex projective space. The exact nature of this Hilbert space is dependent on the system – for example, for describing position and momentum the Hilbert space is the space of complex square-integrable functions �2(�), while the Hilbert space for the spin of a single proton is simply the space of two-dimensional complex vectors �2 with the usual inner product. I just repeated quantum science rhetoric and it didn't make me a quantum physicist. Therefore you must be Maga.

Your other post being so far from any truth gave me a chuckle, This post just deserves a.....

You don't appear to have much idea of what it is all about. " The Trans Mountain Expansion Project was controversial due to its potential environmental impact. It faced legal challenges, as well as challenges from environmentalists and First Nations groups on the grounds of inadequate consultation of the pipeline route passing through unceded indigenous land. A Supreme Court decision on July 2, 2020, that rejected the appeals made by First Nations and environmental groups, "[brought] an end to the years-long legal challenge".[8] On August 31, 2018, the Government of Canada purchased the pipeline for $4.7 billion[9] from Kinder Morgan through the creation of the Trans Mountain Corporation (TMC), in order to "keep the project alive".[10] TMC is a Crown corporation, a subsidiary of the Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDEV).[11] Until the purchase by CDEV, the Trans Mountain Pipeline was owned by the Houston–based pipeline operator's Canadian division." Trans Mountain pipeline - Wikipedia The original TMC pipeline went into operation in 1953. TMC was trying to increase it's capacity but was faced with many environmental and aboriginal groups opposing it as well as court challenges. Since it was the only pipeline from the oil producing province of Alberta, it had to be built. It was essential to protect the economy and jobs of Alberta. With all the opposition to building it, the federal government had no choice but to step in and get it completed. This had nothing to do with Harper. Harper left office in 2015 and the expansion was being held up by all the opposition including opposition by the anti-pipeline BC NDP government and municipalities of Burnaby and Vancouver. It was politics holding it up. It is very hard to get any pipelines built in Canada because of the countless opposition groups. But the TMC pipeline was essential to the economy of Alberta and Canada. So the federal government had to take over. The liberals killed the Northern Gateway pipeline shortly after they were elected in 2015 and also killed the Energy East pipeline. The did little or nothing to deal with all the opposition from FNs and environmentalists and anti-pipeline politicians in Canada.

Walmart is successful because it has cheap stuff. It has cheap stuff because of cheap Chinese manufacturing and the economy of scale of Walmart being the biggest retail department store. Amazon is successful for similar reasons. Sadly the ma and pa stores suffered and the population doesn’t care. Also, their national loyalty in a trade war likely won’t stop them from buying cheap stuff at Walmart, partly because we’ve let the cost of living in Canada climb too high through regulation and taxation. We let ourselves become unproductive and indebted, which lowers wages and currency value, making us poorer. Money talks, bullshit walks. This is why Canadians should consider 51st state. We need to be a lot more careful on debt, taxes, and regulations, because it weakens our bargaining position and economy overall.

godzilla is a proud woketard.

Whoa there....it seems to me that Trump got exactly what he asked for....more security at the southern and northern borders paid for by Canada and Mexico. Sounds like a win for Trump to me LOL. A simple threat of tariff and Canada and Mexico gave in (or got a one month reprieve). What will the next threat be?

Indeed. The Dictator On Day One’s Stalin-like purge of the civil service is definitely a consequence. He’s following the script authoritarian dictator Orban whom Trump and republicans admire and praise so much.

They're fired.

Aww de big meanies picked on a private company! No we'll punch Trump's bum buddies in the face too. Ford never should've agreed to the deal in the first place, but being a f*cking conservative at heart all he could see was 'cheaper, cheaper'. Had to be backed into a corner to think of Canada's interests in telecommunications first.

The whole right wing brand has taken a big hit. Trump is like a big fat Randy White except he's...Orange.

I predict a long series of very short posts from you over the next few weeks till they realize you've got them pegged

She claims diplomacy won the day, but it was the the rest of the country not backing down.

this is so worth cross posting... how is Trumps deal with Mexico different from Bidens deal? Biden administration agrees to tightening security at border "Mexico made the decision to maintain 10,000 troops at its southern border resulting in twice as many daily migrant interdictions"

No he did not. If anything, he united Canadians, and underestimated our response. The only thing this will accomplish, is for Canada to become more militant in negotiations, the next time around. We don't take threats too lightly, and it seems neither does Mexico, Colombia or the EU.

Justin pi$$ed off Trump during his first presidency and, like and elephant, Trump never forgets and will keep on slamming Canada to get back at Justin. Had Justin just stepped down and called an election, this would all b gone but hey...Justin is still pi$$ing off Trump and we will pay.

i wouldn't be surprised if he did... but not in those words. i mean, at this point, when Trump wants to "talk" then you know he is looking for an exit. the DJI took a dump and JT knows that Trump is not going to proceed with what he's threatened.

They are a preditor, that have killed off alot of small stores. Move to the edge of a small town and kill offs it businesses. And most of that money goes straight to Arkansas, to feed one family.

I'll give you a little device to help you remember. "Looser" is how your butthole feels after the gigolo in the Trump mask leaves. "Loser" is what he calls you while you sub.

He's tied for my favorite Herbie. Tied with that Volkswagen number 53.

Biden is f!ckin Einstein in comparison! a wet napkin is relatively smart next to Trump. Biden was behind one of the biggest infrastructure programs in the last century. renewable energy is now the second largest provider of electricity in the US and growing. the economy recovered faster than any other country from COVID inflation and is now on steroids. 10M jobs were created. salaries have outpaced inflation. millions more have health care coverage. family net worth spiked. he wasn't perfect. the southern border was a mess. more importantly the president does f)ck all anyways. its his team that does the work and comes up with the plans and often the very ideas. Biden was surrounded by a team of smart cookies. Trump fired all of his team many times his first term and now its just TV prompt readers.

Let’s see how the US does with its side of the bargain, stemming the flow of illegal weapons, including rocket launchers, to Mexico. Don’t hold your breath, folks.

I don't like a few things. 1. I don't like service industry people who can't speak English 2. I don't like service industry people who can't get an order right 3. I don't like the open gate policies that make it easy for some people to migrate here, while making it about impossible for others to migrate here. 4. I don't like all these "refugees" and "students" taking jobs from Canadians.

This is a really weird look for you betsy. Trudeau is a clown and he's already resigning, but you seem to be reveling in the Orange Baboon's useless grandstanding. Trump doesn't even know what he wants to achieve with these Canada tariffs. He just walked into the room and took a shit in on the table in front of everyone, just to show everyone he could.

yep! you got shit for brains president now. he's clearly dumb as a post! hahahaa! i definitely was concerned over this tarriff stuff. that he was truly INSANE. i take that back. he's a baby. he's desperate for ideas and understands none of the complexities of how his government works, how the economy works, geo politics... all of it!

There are a lot of clever people here, there and everywhere trying to make sense out of a senile sociopath’s ramblings.

There's no winning for either side. If Trump was actually interested in policy objectives, he'd make clear demands and negotiate them rather than conjure up fantasies about the Canada-US cross-border fentanyl trade. What he's doing here, instead, is to walk into the room and take a big shit on the table...for reasons.

Lmao...yeah...you take a left wing hate group and use them to classify anyone you hate as a hate group. The Southern Poverty Law Center has lost all credibility The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Bias Exposed Southern Poverty Law Center: Biased, Opportunistic, and Illegitimate SPLC denounced as ‘thoroughly disgraced’ after labeling pro-life, family organizations as ‘hate groups’ An independent review conducted by an AllSides team member found that the SPLC deserves a Left rating. The review found that SPLC focuses almost exclusively on issues associated with the political left, and will sometimes publish stories supporting Democratic Party policies or agenda items. SPLC rarely, if ever, does this for Republican causes. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered

They are abandoned already. When a people elect a man without principles--and everyone knows it--we can see that the people have no principles.