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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rand-paul-trump-tariff-deficits-b2729891.html

This is what he did with Canada and Mexico on a larger scale. Threaten tariffs and within a day pause them. He can rinse and repeat this act over and over again. Hopefully the world realizes dealing with Trump is like dealing with a toddler trying to get candy and looks for alternatives to their market.

Or did he do it so his billionaires can buy up stocks and then do it again in 90 days?

OMG! The Europeans aren't buying F350 4x4s because of tariffs! I always thought it was because they had trains and trams, public transit, the roads were too small, and the price of gas was much, much more. Drop the tariffs and they rush to buy cars that cost 50 euros to go 100 km....

No, it's an invitation to discuss the topic. And you attacked it because you know that if you had stepped to the mic the whole internet would have seen what a fool you are. Why didn't you denounce the attack? Your post seems to excuse it. Are you for violence over debate?

One example of misleading news is the headline which stated Mark Carney was being "targeted" by a Chinese website. The correct word should have been "aided". We see a lot of this from the MSM.

In Vaughn, ON - Carney struts out to meet auto parts workers to the tune of Thunderstruck by AC/DC, which he said was his warm-up song when he played minor hockey. Thunderstruck was released in 1990, when Carney was 25 years old. Why do journalists NEVER fact-check this liar?

Trump announces 90-day pause on tariffs for non-retaliating countries Sure looks like his people got to him and said this is going to be a disaster and he realized he'd have to back off. The problem is by keeping the tariffs in a paused state instead of saying we're going to stop the talk of tariffs until negotiations are complete he doesn't resolve the fears of the marketplace who will continue to keep their money on the sideline till they see what he does. And of course he's still got the ongoing war with china

They had every interest in negotiation. Some of them even had scheduled negotiations. Canada in the US were supposed to enter negotiations about free trade agreement along with Mexico in a handful of months. There's not a country on that list that wouldn't have happily sat down and negotiated with the united states. Sorry. That might be the response republicans are trying to give in order to explain the sudden turnaround or make it look like a victory but the reality is he got nothing he wouldn't have had already Seriously, which of those nations did he reach out to and they said 'we won't negotiate'? None.

Is that: the guy who lied about moving Brookfield to the US the same guy who did a quarter of a billion dollar deal with the Communist Bank of China? the same guy who refused to fire his MP, after he talked about turning a conservative candidate over to the Chinese gov't, to collect on a bounty on him? the same guy who lived abroad for the past ten years, has 2 foreign passports, and made all his money by helping large companies avoid paying taxes here in Canada? the same guy who lied about his role in protecting the Canadian economy in 2008? the guy who's got the Chinese gov't running propaganda for him? the guy who also lied about being an advisor to the federal gov't in the 1990's? the guy who pretends to be brimming with common-sense conservative policies, but was advising Trudeau and pushing DEI drivel while he ran Canada into the ground? Yeah, I think it's pretty fair to say that his resume doesn't have "saviour of Canada" written all over it... If you look up quisling in the dictionary, you'll see Carney's picture beside it.

why does the extreme socialist left that we see in America today Find their actions aligning with the extremely socialist china? Hmmm, let me think And completely unnecessarily. We were scheduled to renegotiate that anyway, Canada would have been happy to step up those negotiations early and come to a negotiated settlement. Instead we've got this mess. I still like a lot of trump's thoughts, he's definitely still better than Kamala would be as you would never have known who the real power behind the throne was and they would never have been accountable, but his trade war nonsense is just absolutely the last thing that America needs right now

Precisely. the manufacturing base going elsewhere is due to labor costs. Not only wages but benefits, pensions, and regulations. American workers demand higher wages, paid time off, health insurance, and so on. Also, there are other costs to employing someone here; unemployment insurance, workers compensation, FICA, federal income tax, state income tax, and a few others. Someone in Vietnam does not have those costs associated with their employment. Also, a worker in Vietnam has few if any other options and so is going to be very dependable (always show up).

Say's the guy who wants bodycams on the grifters.

Bull. Actual cases show the depravity and blindness in not seeing the evil nature of this Liberal government and those who blindly support it.

Actually...I know you loath to admit it but, @WestCanMan argument is quite rational. Yours...apparently a joke.

I'm starting to think it's solely to raise revenue. Shift the tax base away from income tax to tariffs. It's a regressive tax only poors have to pay anyway. Don't like it? buy USA!! Simple narrative. Fixing trade deficits can't be the ultimate goal. How do you fix a trade deficit with an third-world country that sells you clothing and electronics? The US only really has agriculture to offer. Agriculture built on potash imports from Canada BTW. That's probably why he's not pushing the Canada thing so much lately.

That is a really fascinating victimhood spin on economic colonialism.

When it comes to domestic travel, all countries have cabotage laws that prohibit foreign carriers, including the US. The EU is the only exception. If American carriers are allowed into the US, Canadian carriers would have to be given the same rights in the US. That won't happen. Also, US carriers would cherry pick our most lucrative routes and ignore the rest of the country. Air travel is a necessity in a country as large as Canada. Our population is too spread out and isn't large enough or distances short enough to have the same kind of rail service as Europe or Asia. Giving up the ability to feed ourselves to another country's subsidized agriculture would be a national security threat of the first order. I'm undecided on telecoms but there might be some of the same issues that apply to transportation.

The system as it is made the USA the wealthiest nation. Unemployment is low. What is the purpose of this in light of these facts?

I didn't say he wanted zero and he doesn't want a trade balance. He wants a fair system. Before Trump, all the tariffs went against the USA and we allowed everyone else to invade our markets and steal jobs from us.

Globalism is a cancer on nations which built prosperity. It siphons wealth from such nations, only to give it to failed nations.

Conservatives fought tooth and nail to the bitter end against ending: Segregated housing Segregated schools Segregated public facilities Jim Crow Laws Redlining Racial Purity Laws (Anti-Miscegenation Laws) Women's Suffrage Gender-Based Employment Discrimination Criminalization of Homosexuality Discrimination in Marriage (Same-Sex Marriage Ban) LGBTQ+ Employment Discrimination: Transgender Rights Decades later you dumb-fark conservatives are pretending that, "Liberals are the ones trying to divide people, hyuk." News flash, it's just you and your brethren who feel "divided." Whenever some marginalized out group who has been exclude from the power structure makes an inch of progress you feel the erosion of your unearned privilege. You feel that it's you versus them. That feeling of division is yours alone. Everyone else just wants a level playing field.

I dunno. Nobody likes competition 😔

I disagree strongly with your premise. The Left is the left - Democrats, democrats, whatever. I recently flew in a Boeing 737 Max to Cuba. I traded with Cubans. Decades ago, in Soviet times, I traded with Russians. What's the difference? ==== Cuba nowadays is not a threat to the world. The Soviet Union was.

WTF? I never saw anything remotely like this on Star Trek when I was growing up.

You're not on anyone's side but your own echo chamber's. And if you actually cared about shutting down the syphoning of money and offshore accounts you would have been doing everything you could to get justin out of power ages ago. You're just a shallow puddle morally speaking.

Rather: Carney and his wife, and a voice over of who she is. Where she was born. Compare her to Poilievre's wife. And finish with Sophie.

How do many women choose? They once chose Trudeau Jnr. He was cute.

Poilievre huge Canadian flag, alone, then the wife joining him on stage: Modern Canada. Federal Liberals: no wife.

Codswallop.

When you made it clear you weren't voting for PP...ergo. Partisan zero-sum you're either with us or against us thinking is getting so typical it's ridiculous. 🥱 What's worse and troubling though is that it's signalling a Canadian shift towards a two-party system where the thought of a minority government is practically verboten.

It's not the government's job to look after your teeth. LOL You took medical advice from someone who needed a presidential pardon for giving it!! 🤣

You shouldn't. Watch this whistleblower expose Carney and the whole ESG, DEI, climate scam - Desiree Fixler. They have taken the entire world on a wild ride and they're laughing about it behind closed doors, while the machines count their money. I used to think Carney was just another climate hysteria ding-dong, but no.....he's the architect of it all and he is pure evil. I am a bit worried if he gets in.

What "racist victories" are you talking about? Affirmative action? DEI? Welfare? SNAP? ACA? All designed to normalize equal opportunity. Duh.

isolationist policies do not work anymore. They worked pre-WWII because of low demand for certain goods made elsewhere. That being said.. wanting the US to make the goods instead of importing them is sensible in most cases. Some goods simply can't be produced without undue effort.

Why are we even talking about that? You're the problem, loosen up. It doesn't really matter right, we shouldn't look at the man behind the curain after all - Michael Hardner.

Because there were 3 months of riots, plus several murders, and an innocent verdict would have caused even more violence and chaos. Bear in mind that the day the footage of Floyd's whole arrest was LEAKED, the riots ended. Keith Ellison, Minn's Demi AG, could have released those videos 3 months earlier, but he kept them locked away while a completely false narrative was being pushed by CNN and the Dems.

If you are looking for an example of a country that tried to isolate its economy from the rest of the world, you need to look no farther than the Soviet Union.

Btw............... There's something they're not telling us about his departure from UK. A marked man: Carney’s BoE departure Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, has found himself in a world where his values are increasingly under fire. The Canadian banker is now set to depart his role in 2019 Mark Carney’s departure from the Bank of England looks to be a much less celebratory affair than his initial appointment to the role. When it was announced he would take over the position in 2012, he was lauded as “the outstanding central banker of his generation” by then-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Since then, many have come to view him much less favourably. Carney’s fall from grace appears to be yet another consequence of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. While the timeline for the withdrawal process remains elusive – if even guaranteed – the vote in June last year has already claimed its fair share of political causalities. Former Prime Minister David Cameron resigned immediately after the vote, while key figures of his cabinet were soon culled from office by his replacement, Theresa May. Many celebrated his appointment at the time – yet, after Carney dared to wade into the divisive politics of 2016, his popularity soon waned. Over the space of a year, he went from someone generally viewed inoffensively, to the subject of mounting political attack. Leaving the EU, he claimed, would result in the UK seeing two consecutive quarters of negative growth. According to James Bartholomew, writing in The Spectator: “He appeared to be going beyond any formal Bank of England forecast. Effectively he was supporting the Remain campaign by backing ‘project fear’. He gave up the political neutrality expected of governors.” The future for Carney While Theresa May’s jibe over international citizenship was not explicitly directed at Carney, the Canadian governor must have felt its impact – and adding insult to injury was the fact his very policy was also attacked in the same speech. In what must have felt like a general loss of confidence in his ability to function in a post-Brexit world, it was rumoured Carney had seriously toyed with the decision to step down. Indeed, many media outlets urged him to do just that. https://www.worldfinance.com/profile/a-marked-man-carney-set-for-boe-departure

Same old Liberals - a nest of racists. Some have come out of the closet! Stirring hate towards specific groups of people living IN CANADA: Chinese and Russians. Looks like LoBot's got a follower. This is the response I got for my post on status update: I bet, if Singh could do it all over again........he would be bring down Trudeau while Justin is still in office. Imagine that. NDP could've had a good chance at being the official Opposition. But now, according to Power Play.....Singh might even lose his seat. https://repolitics.com/forums/profile/1432-betsy/?status=19480&type=status At a time like this when Canadians should be united......of course, there are those who'd try to divide Canada. The real threat to Canada is not Trump.

Bigotry? I have great difficulty understanding how that word applies here. I have no hostility to Trump based on his wealth, nationality, race or religion or membership of any other group but merely to his actions over a lifetime and particularly as a feckless head of government clearly hostile to our country. My anger is perfectly reasonable under the circumstances.

Maybe they are afraid they will find out he was playing minor hockey when he was 25 years old.