Today, February 1, Canada is effectively ruined. If Trump persists, and he said Friday it will get worse, not better, we will enter a depression that will match 1929. And we deserve it.
25% tariffs will ruin us. The tariffs mean one million small businesses – all which sell to the U.S. – will contract and many will close their doors. And then Trump, as he promised the unions, will pull “our” auto industry. Then we’re done.
Who is to blame for this?
The following is going to be crude because Canada is so boring (that’s deliberate) that no one cares. There are a thousand ultra-complex rationales on why Canada is failing and all they do is obfuscate. I’m not pulling punches, softening rhetoric – it is bad. It is urgent. This is the death of something that 75 years ago was shining, sunlit, exciting. That country? That country was killed by the Laurentian elite, weak, cosplaying Marxism to stay in power, themselves outwitted by investment bankers who plan to steal everything not nailed down. In so doing new elements were forcibly injected into the population: envy, resentment of the successful, sloth, the refusal to grow up, be strong and independent. We effectively sit on top of the U.S., seething with envy, in wet diapers. more here
GMTA! Good one, @MJA!
“25% tariffs will ruin us. The tariffs mean one million small businesses – all which sell to the U.S. – will contract and many will close their doors. And then Trump, as he promised the unions, will pull “our” auto industry. Then we’re done”
It’s country Welfare. It always has been. Same with Mexico. Same with China. And I’m reasonably sure our state department arranged most of it.
@ Bad_Brad:
I enthusiastically agree. Add into that mix as medium or minor players: Dept. of Tranportation, Small Business Admin, EPA, OSHA, UAW, and globalists on the auto manufacturers boards.
Al
Ever stop to think what a power house economy we’d have if the government would stop helping us out?
You should see how much defense work is lost to foreign shit hole, by guys like me, because they charge pennies on the dollars and are subsidized by our government.
The tariffs are just to shake them to the core.
Will be over in a sec.
Trumps playing chicken.
” Its for real time”
I don’t think so. I think he wants to make Motor City great again.
Canada has about the same population as California.and half the GDP.
Not only will it be over in a sec, but West coast commies should take note.
Resistance is futile.
MAGA will happen.
Get that moron trudeau out and watch the magic happen.
@Bad_Brad:
You’re teasing me, right? That’s fine. 😂 You’re talking to a long-time paleo-libertarian born-again anarchocapitalist (with conservative underpinnings).
Very sad, but true. The way it is now, I have no feelings for Canada, though I was born there. It tries hard, and succeeds, at being more socialist and atheist than the US and the UK.
It used to be fairly conservative. All the kids I knew went to Church and Sunday School and spent 8 hours a day at school. Teachers were tough and you dared not step out of line.
If Canada completely falls apart and the US picks up the pieces, it wouldn’t be a 51st state. There are 9 provinces, excluding Quebec, plus 3 territories. The US should not take in Quebec under any circumstances. The US would get 9 new states, plus territories. If we get Greenland too, that’s a hell of a lot of extra territory to protect. We’re gonna need a bigger (non-DEI) armed force.
Weird that both Germany and France are interested in protecting Greenland from a US Territorial takeover. What’s in it for them?