American Politics 4.0 - Orangeyou Glad He’s Back?

[Luder]

35% Tariffs on Canada, still crying about fentanyl.
Another Taco Tuesday coming up? I guess the Epstein list isn’t going away on its own.

[direwolf]

Aren't the tariffs on Canada already at 35%? I honestly can't even keep up with this nonsense anymore.

I guess negotiations with the Canadian delegation aren't going well? So much for the so-called deal we were supposed to sign with them by the July 21st deadline. I say don't even bother retaliating anymore. At this point it's probably best to just ignore Trump's stupid bulls*** and keep working at strengthening ties and making new deals with other more reliable trading partners.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Aren't the tariffs on Canada already at 35%? I honestly can't even keep up with this nonsense anymore.

I guess negotiations with the Canadian delegation aren't going well? So much for the so-called deal we were supposed to sign with them by the July 21st deadline. I say don't even bother retaliating anymore. At this point it's probably best to just ignore Trump's stupid bulls*** and keep working at strengthening ties and making new deals with other more reliable trading partners.

They’re currently 25% on goods not covered by our free trade agreement. But more importantly, Canada had record trade with countries other than the USA in May. I think this is a good sign and obviously critical, because in case anyone thought that this threat was going away, it’s obviously not.

[direwolf]

He's also threatening that if Canada retaliates with counter tariffs, he'll take whatever number we raise ours by and he'll add that number on top of the 35%.

What an unhinged moron, lol. I'm guessing he'll likely chicken out again before his August 1st deadline, or after Carney calls him and talks him down again. This timeline is just so f'n stupid.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Aren't the tariffs on Canada already at 35%? I honestly can't even keep up with this nonsense anymore.

I guess negotiations with the Canadian delegation aren't going well? So much for the so-called deal we were supposed to sign with them by the July 21st deadline. I say don't even bother retaliating anymore. At this point it's probably best to just ignore Trump's stupid bulls*** and keep working at strengthening ties and making new deals with other more reliable trading partners.

What do the negotiations have to do with anything?

Trump does whatever diverts attention from him at the time.

Canada could be bending over backwards, giving him a. New supermodel to pleasure him daily as part of the agreement. A reporter asks about Epstien and the tarrifs are back on.

It's like negotiating with a Magic 8 Ball and expecting a positive response daily.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

I swear it's like every time he gets bored he passes the time by threatening Canada.

Usually not long after having a nice and civil/friendly discussion with the PM.

Weird, senile, bipolar wackadoodle.

[Fuzz]

Better than retaliation is to just not buy any American ####. That should be our ultimate goal. #### them.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

I swear it's like every time he gets bored he passes the time by threatening Canada.

Usually not long after having a nice and civil/friendly discussion with the PM.

Weird, senile, bipolar wackadoodle.

We need to spike his cheeseburgers with poutine gravy. Lets hurry this process up!

Wheres that guy who threw a show at George Dubya? Whats he up to these days?

[direwolf]

If you watch the Andrew Chang clip I posted in the tariff thread, this exact line from Trump's letter to Carney/Canada was also used in a similar letter he sent to Japan this week. I assume it's likely been copied and pasted to other countries' letters as well. What an absolute clown.

"These Tariffs may be modified, upward or downward, depending on our relationship with your Country,” Trump said in the letter.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/10/busin...a-tariff-trump

[puffnstuff]

White House account posted an image of trump as Superman

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/...ur-kryptonite/

I guess they have to use AI images of him as a hero because there are no real images of him that are remotely heroic looking, just orange, sloppy and weasel-haired

[Old Yeller]

The first reply on that Whitehouse tweet is great.

[Erick Estrada]

Like I keep saying this is going to make one hell of a movie one day. Future generations watching the film will have a hard time believing this timeline happened and look at it as more of a comedy than a historical drama.

[puffnstuff]

They already made the movie, 'Idiocracy'

[Drak]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Better than retaliation is to just not buy any American ####. That should be our ultimate goal. #### them.

It might hit a little harder if we boycotted their entertainment industry, too, but that’s hard to do. Canadians still go to the theatre and we still use their streaming services.

[OldDutch]

I just read CUSMA compliant goods are exempt. Which is significant. It shows Trump is pressuring to get Canada to commit to putting everything legit under CUSMA.

Why? The Chinese. Over the years they have used Mexico and Canada as a tax shelter for Tariffs. They would ship their parts over here, assemble them in a Chinese parent but Canadian owned factory, and skirt Tariffs. Same as Mexico.

This is all ham handed for sure, but I might see some logic here.

For me, Canada needs to work to negotiate to protect Canada and Canadians. Second to open door to the world after Trudeau Liberals shut it. Trump maybe a blessing in disguise for a country trending down the last decade.

[edslunch]

This is sickening

The river didn’t wait.
It didn’t care if you were Republican or Democrat, rich or poor. It didn’t check for permits or wait for signatures. It rose—fast, merciless, unrelenting. It tore through homes, swallowed playgrounds, ripped children from bunks at summer camp. At Camp Mystic, 27 campers and counselors—most of them little girls—died. Across Texas, 120 lives were lost. Over 160 more are missing. And every one of them mattered.
But when the flood came, help didn’t.
Not because FEMA wasn’t ready. They were.
Not because Texas didn’t ask. They did.
But because Kristi Noem—Donald Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Cruelty—refused to sign the goddamn paperwork.
That’s right. Under Trump’s new rules, FEMA now needs personal approval from Noem for any disaster expense over $100,000—chump change in an emergency. And while water swallowed entire towns and families clung to rooftops, ICE Barbie was too busy running a pick-me contest on Instagram, asking her followers which gratuitously Photoshopped oil painting of herself playing “Frontier Cosplay Barbie: Horse Fascist Edition” made her look more powerful.
That’s not satire. That actually happened.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofr...utm_medium=ios

[activeStick]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1943043154946457812

Um is this not blackmail? I mean, interfering with another sovereign country's government has been and is very on-brand for the US even though many forgive/ignore because the target country isn't "us" (read: a Caucasian country or if not, a vassal of the west), but threatening monetary charges that are tied partly to one of their former government officials should qualify as blackmail, no?

[WideReceiver]

Movie? I imagine psych students will study Trump and the MAGAts who fell for his lies and grifting.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by edslunch

This is sickening



https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofr...utm_medium=ios

This would be unthinkable even in most dictatorships.

It's truly incredible to think that there's a real good chance no one faces any repercussions from this.

Even during the last Trump administration, this would have been unthinkable. Now, it's barely a blip.

People of United States need to get serious about building guillotines.

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by edslunch

This is sickening



https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofr...utm_medium=ios

You get governed by who you voted for.

Governed good and hard.

Pain is the only message the MAGA will understand.