Canada has a lot more leverage than eggs.

The US is much better prepped to withstand the storm but he’s not going to be able to exacerbate America’s cost of living crisis indefinitely and it isn’t just tariffs on Canada that will be driving that.

Vance is the most cringe here. I swear if old age gets to Trump in the next four years Vance will do more damage to the American reputation that can be salvageable in the next decade or more.

Definitely true. We had a German professor with an essentially incomprehensible accent teaching calculus at our college. Basically everyone had to learn it from the textbook.

Is there a guide you’d recommend following?

The father still lives in Russia though.

The reality is that it was a mistake to give boomers unfettered access to the internet. Just like we dont hand Ipads to 5 year olds and let them click anything on YouTube.

US is in a state of slow implosion. Rest of the world needs to look at collaborating while excluding the US.

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

I strongly encourage all nations to begin violating US intellectual property rights. Nations like India already do so with pharmaceuticals.

Eventually other nations will need to take on the mantle of tech and pharmaceutical research and development and we don’t want to live in a world where all this progress is lost.

Americans have chosen to nuke their own democracy and we need to minimize the damage done to the rest of the world as much as possible.

Turkey did this and the value of their currency halved in value per year for two consecutive years. Imagine if in 2 years a dollar became worth only 50 cents and then a quarter. Everything would cost four times more and, if wages didn’t keep up, there would be a revolution (or at least I’d hope so).

Eggs at $32/dozen. One can only dream.

You’re likely vastly overestimating their understanding of inflation. For many of them it came down to “China pays for it!” and they have no further knowledge or insight beyond that.

Yes, China pays for it, just like Mexico paid for the wall 🙄.

His rationale is to slowly bring that production back to the US. Can the US even make enough steel to meet its demand domestically?

The theory is that it’ll hurt for 5 to 10 years but be economically beneficial in the long run.

Skibidi represents every generation raised in the brain rot of the algorithm so Gen Z onwards.

One thing I despise about the US (gun violence and healthcare inequitability aside) is how it measures the value of everything in money.

It’s culture is a commodification machine. Nothing can just be beautiful for the sake of being beautiful, it has to be made into a side hustle somehow.

Most Americans are married to their jobs and have little work life balance relative to Canadians and Europeans.

There is a remarkable amount of mental gymnastics done by people trying to gaslight themselves into thinking this is what they want, even though most would be happier and healthier with more time off.

Theres a reason why he isn’t making the same threats against Mexico.

There’s a reason he wants to resettle Palestinians before redeveloping Gaza.

Interesting that the “quality” of the refugee suddenly doesn’t matter if they’re white.

Canadians and honestly most of the world hate American healthcare and gun laws.

Exactly, theres no way this triggers WW3 unless Canada starts working more closely with China immediately and even then it’s unlikely China goes to bat for Canada. Western countries have gotten way too comfortable with the US.

Netanyahu is Jewish Hitler.

I mean if you’re going to dog on minorities then you gotta dog on the white people he has majority support from.

Low labor costs and centralization but the how matters less than the if and when (will they supercede the US) in this scenario.

EVs in the next 10 years. They’ve made massive investments dating back over a decade while the US can be described as aimlessly meandering like a drunk on the side of a freeway at best.

He’s trying to incentivize domestic manufacturing by disincentivizing foreign imports.

The problem is he hasn’t promised any meaningful investment in domestic manufacturing except for a massive half a trillion dollar investment in AI.

For example, all shoes are made in foreign countries where labor costs are lower. The machinery to make shoes locally is scant if nonexistant. There were no investments made to offset this.

Nike and Adidas have said prices may go up by up to 100%. You have to inventivize these companies to make product locally otherwise they’re going to find the cheapest option which is either trafficking it through a non tariffed country or passing the cost on to the consumer. They have a duty to their shareholders (the great American ethos) after all.