Dougie93

I think you might be in a bit of a self reinforcing information bubble like I was at Walmart & Costco today, there ain't no boycott going on, bro both were packed

bro, Canadian bureaucrats & politicians think their job is to punish businesses for making profits it's exactly the opposite in America

they can get away with punching Canada & Mexico in the face China, not so much, but that is why the tariff is only 10% on China

I doubt that the businesses that are going to move are businesses which export to America these are industrial manufacturing businesses making parts and components mostly it's not the sort of thing which is subject to boycotts

if you are coming with business, the Americans welcome you with open arms unlike Canada, where the government is hostile to business the Americans fall over themselves to facilitate you respond how ? the vast majority of his customers were in America he was shipping from here to a distribution site in Missouri now he's just moving the entire shop to the building next door in Missouri

well it's not just tariffs the bigger shock for Canada is to come because the second half of the plan is massive tax cuts and deregulation to free up businesses like when Canada is tariffed, and vastly overtaxed, and vastly overregulated the pull to move from Canada to the USA is going to be off the charts meanwhile Canada has absolutely no plans to cut taxes & regulations Canada's entire plan is retaliate, and then, what ? Somehow Trump is going somewhere soon ? Canada thinks the Democrats are going to save Canada ?

businessmen don't care they will go where they have to go the richest guy I know, employs about 200 locals at his shop he's picking up, lock stock and barrel, moving it to Missouri as we speak, he's moving fast, he's not willing to take the hit for Canada he's outta here , and he ain't coming back Trudeau already had him making plans, he was on a hair trigger to go he just says "this is the last straw, I'm out"

once they have moved to America, they don't need a trade agreement to sell in America there are no internal trade barriers in America only fake country Canada has internal tariffs

who is "we" ? you are talking like the government can somehow dictate where business goes like if tariffs become structural and enduring then Canadian companies will move across the border to the USA they might keep their head offices here, but they would move their factories to America some of them are already doing that, it's already happening, just on the threat of tariffs business is business, it's not patriotic

what does goodwill & trust from Canada do for America, in a practical sense ? who would factor Canada into their security considerations, other than as Canada being a burden therein ?

it's pretty clear that these tariffs are not really about that the problem for Trump is the courts the courts can overturn the tariffs as being unlawful ; violating the signed trade agreements except for one situation ; National Security if it's emergency tariffs under the rubric of National Security, that makes it Article II War Powers so that gets around the courts, the courts have no jurisdiction over National Security, that is all under the authority of the CinC Trump is trying to force manufacturing to flee Canada for safety from the tariffs in the USA he just needs a National Security excuse to do it, to prevent that from being stopped by a judge

alls I'm saying is that Trump & Co may be willing to take much more backlash than Canadian politicians surmise Trump is selling this in America as a National Emergency ; all hands on deck and while trade war is not popular, that is being offset by the mass deportations being very popular indeed and getting rid of Woke DEI and Gender Ideology, that is also very popular in terms of allies, MAGA Republicans don't give a f*ck about allies they see allies as a burden not a boon and they do not like Canada, all they know about Canada is ; Justin Trudeau's Wokest country on earth in terms of swing voters ; Trump doesn't need them anymore Trump is not even playing this for the midterms the Administration is planning to get everything done by then, the assumption being that they only have 18 months on the clock to ram everything through and congress is not even the problem, since everything is being done under Article II War Powers it's only the courts which can stop these Executive Actions and for that Trump is relying on the SOCTUS to back him up maybe everything wont get through, but hence why Trump & Co are flooding the zone

well I'm not going overboard with a boycott I'm still going to shop at Costco & Walmart the people who work there are local, why would I try to get them laid off ? but I can live without Bourbon & California wine I don't drink orange juice, it's actually really bad for you ; pure sugar I've never bought American cars, I don't trust union made cars, I only buy cars made in Japan I'm trying to think what I buy that is even made in America like most of the American branded products I buy, are actually made in Mexico or China

the national security rubric is simply to allow Trump to get around the courts everything Trump is doing is under the auspices of National Security State of Emergency this allows him to operate under the President's Article II War Powers but the Trump plan to use tariffs to overthrow Neoliberal Globalism Trump didn't just pull all of this out of his ass the Trump plan has actually been written by economist Stephen Miran "Currently a senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital Management LP and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York City, Miran holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and his dissertation advisor was Martin Feldstein, an eminent American economist who chaired the CEA during the Reagan administration." https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump-economic-advisory-team point being, while Canadians are thinking that Trump is just crazy and has no plan here Trump actually has a very well developed plan, and it's the main event of his 2nd term so thinking that Trump is going to cave the moment Americans start complaining about it that's not a given, Trump is aware that this plan is going to be very disruptive that's the whole point, this is an attempt to reorder things at the global level so this war could go on much longer than Canadians are expecting right now Trump's intention is to make all of this structural, enduring, permanent that's why he invoked Canada as the 51st State he means that if Canada can't handle this plan being imposed forever then becoming the 51st State will be Canada's only option

well my favourite whisky is Lagavulin 16, but it's $175 a bottle Northern Harvest Rye is not like any other Crown Royal tho it's the only Canadian whisky to ever win World Whisky of the Year https://www.whiskybible.com/whiskybibleawards2016/ and it's only $37 a bottle ; value pick

it's too f*cking cold for beer in this weather, it was -16ºC yesterday I smoke & drink outside, on my patio, so in winter, I stick to whisky I do loves me some Bourbon but there is a Canadian alternative Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye, distilled in Gimli, Manitoba, bottled in Amherstburg, Ontario even tho it's a Rye, it's got a bite like Bourbon, the closest thing there is to Canadian Bourbon World Whisky of the Year 2016 ;

I am not partisan ; politically agnostic servant of the British Crown in North America, mercenary for the Sovereign I can't deny that I have been yearning for this war all along my nation is the House of Windsor ; what is best for HM The King ? i don't deny that I am far right but the right is towards the monarch, as Gods representative on Earth Loyalist & Royalist throw Trudeau under the bus; Carney is already purging Trudeau's people from his team now Mark Carney need only go to Buckingham Palace to get my vote Mark Carney has the juice to recruit Charles Windsor I don't really care about carbon taxes and all that noise, I know I will be paying high taxes in Canada no matter what I don't care which party does it first, Conservatives or Liberals whoever goes Churchillian, I will follow them if we're going to war, we need the Commander-in-Chief at the head of his troops Donald Trump is a Head of State, the Prime Minister is not Americans are not impressed by Canadian politicians in the least but make no mistake, Americans are extremely impressed by the Royal Family when Donald Trump went to Paris; the only person he was sucking up to, was HRH The Prince of Wales

Molson is owned by Coors, it's MolsonCoors now Kokanee is owned by Anheuser-Busch, Kokanee is Bud Labatt is also owned by Anheuser-Busch, Labatt is also Bud

as you know, I have been predicting this outcome for years now Canada was going to gets it comeuppance the Postwar Liberal Order was breaking down America was going to "freeze Canada out" it's not Trump's idea, he is simply doing what Fly Over Country is demanding the Democrats are not Canada's allies, the Democrats ideology has brought Canada to its knees I never endorsed Trump, and I didn't vote for him, but I was rooting for him to win knowing full well what he was going to do, this is not a surprise, this is what Trump said he would do when Canada crushed the Freedom Convoy, I knew it was going to take something on a vastly larger scale to snap Canada out of its stupor with crisis comes opportunity ; chaos is a ladder souls are forged by crucible Canada really did need the MAGA Republicans to try to invade Canada, that is what it was going to take

the roots are not in the United Kingdom the roots are in the Netherlands William Prince of Orange, founder of Westminster Parliamentary Supremacy, was the Dutch Regent the founding of the modern British liberal state in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 originated in the Dutch Republic, before the United Kingdom even existed we Loyalist Orangemen of Upper Canada are not Englishmen we are Ulster Scots HM Queen Victoria, Mother Canada, was not English, she was German Canada is a Scots German Empire seeking a Northwest Passage this empire dwarfs what is left of England's empire, by many orders of magnitude Canadians simply do not understand that British does not mean English British is not a race, British is not a place the seat of His Majesty's power, is in British North America warm it all up, everything you got, right here, right now troops in contact, stand to, stand to

no point in resisting the war fever, Canadians are enraged, this is like Canadian 9-11 if Trump doesn't back down, we are going to the trenches mind you, your man Mark Carney was surprisingly excellent in this BBC interview from a warfighting point of view at least

Section 50 of the Constitution overrides the 2007 four year term law so Mark Carney could be Prime Minister until October of 2026 before holding an election Jagmeet only promised to bring Trudeau down in the face of Trudeau's unpopularity he never said what he would do if the Liberals got rid of Trudeau

indeed, he's Bill Davis 2.0 you can't be a Prairie Populist Firebrand in Ontario you have to be a Guardian of Confederation

exactly in the face of the Stars & Stripes, you need symbols of power to rally around and that is not going to be the Canada Act 1982 the Canada Act 1982 is the Liberal Party of Canada's poison pill wherein the Liberal Party of Canada replaced Canada with their own dogma Post National State Multiculturalism I'll tell you right now, nobody in HM Royal Canadian Infantry Corps ever killed & died for that for the Royal Canadian Regiment, it's Victoria Regina Imperatrix "Victoria Queen & Empress, Mother Canada" for Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, it's Victoria Patricia "Princess Patricia of Connaught, Lady Mountbatten, Grandaughter of Victoria Hanover" for the Royal 22nd Regiment, it's Je me souviens "We do not forget, and will never forget, our ancient lineage, traditions and memories of all the past" do you think the troops show up at Battleschool with this in their hearts ? of course not, we indoctrinate them, we lead them from the front once they learn their history, the story of their people only then are they prepared to go over the top when the whistle blows to suffer hardship gladly, for the brothers to the left & right of them like their grandfathers & great grandfathers before them from Queenston Heights to Juno Beach from Kapyong to Kandahar Regiment, Colours, Commander-in-Chief

well Doug Ford has blown right by Poillievre federal governance is in complete disarray Doug Ford is running as the Prime Minister of Ontario like Alberta, Ontario is acting as an independent Dominion at the moment but Doug Ford is a Loyalist of Upper Canada, to the bone I should call his office and let them know this is not about economics, this is war wrap yourself in the Red Ensign rally round the Colours go to the monument upon Queenston Heights the Fenians are once again at the gates invoke the monarchy, as the sword & the shield The Maple Leaf Forever