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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

Strongest Vanguard of the Revolution

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 21 points 2 hours ago

Critical support for comrade Trump in his war on American Empire.

I suddenly realized I need to order a lot of stuff from Aliexpress.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 11 points 2 hours ago
[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 3 hours ago
[–] miz@hexbear.net 31 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

fuck-around this will absolutely wreck the US economy, which is why I don't think they'll let him do it

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 3 hours ago

John Roberts gonna dome him at the inauguration level blunder.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 21 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders.

For me the scariest thing is that if he did that or even half of that - it would damage the economy but - of course - he will escape blame by the republicans. And many independents too? He'll spew hateful/toxic lies and create scapegoats (for example - "globalists") and a large percentage of Americans will believe him or sort of believe him or pretend to believe him.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 28 points 4 hours ago

I'm not sure about that. There are loyalists on each side who are ride or die no matter what, but whoever is in office tends to take the blame for a bad economy regardless of whether or not it's their fault.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 16 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Although this would fuck everyone over, it could also put us into a revolutionary situation. A far-right government is doing it, so the left has every opportunity to seize the moment. This is still very scary, but all is not lost

[–] Yukiko@hexbear.net 18 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Canada?! Why the hell would he do that to Canada of all places? None of this makes any sense whatsoever. The US doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to do anything for itself. It's just going to make consumer goods ungodly expensive.

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Canada spent the last 80 years basing policy and trade directly in support of American interests. At the expense of building trade agreements with China and even europe. Canada is fucked with tariffs. It's going to throw us into a recession as all prices will be going up. We get most of our stuff from the USA.

[–] JayTreeman@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago

Canada is already in a recession, if you take housing out of the calculation. Because of our housing situation, it'll probably do some absolutely bonkers depression type thing.

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 10 points 3 hours ago

Shit, the US put tariffs on softwood lumber and that increased our lumber prices like 500% a couple of years ago.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Both Canada and Mexico doesn’t make sense. NAFTA has made it that supply chains in those countries are heavily reliant on crossing the border. Like I think cars manufactured on the continent have parts that cross the border multiple times. It’s gonna be like a fucking compounding tax on cars lmao.

A pickup is gonna cost like as much as a house.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 8 points 2 hours ago

Critical support for getting those monstrosities off the road.

Canada is actually a major source of US fent

[–] Elle_Emperor@hexbear.net 13 points 4 hours ago

It does seem quite strange, but reactionaries, especially US republicans, are not known for being sane.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 10 points 4 hours ago

Trump's a big fan of the NHL and hates how many Canadians the American teams import