Breitbart
Many of Canada’s tariffs are bizarrely targeted at imports that are virtually nonexistent, leading critics to suspect the list has been padded with nonsense to make the Canadian response look much tougher than it really is.
CTV on Sunday listed some of the “odd and obscure” imports targeted by Canada, including “flamethrowers, false beards, church bell cases, and live monkeys,” plus “manatee meat and passenger drones.” more
I’m all for reciprocal trade stuff. I’d be OK if the Canadians want to charge Americans a fine for beginning sentences with “So,…” if we could charge them for ending sentences with “, eh?”.
Trump’s moves on Canada and Greenland (and the Panama Canal) are entirely focused on China.
Red plaid lumberjack shirts… butch-dykes hit hardest.
“…false beards…”
does that include false eyebrows?
April Fools Day joke.
Uncle Al and saying zed for the letter z. In 1985 when we were visiting my wife’s sister In Calgary, Alberta where she was going to nursing school and marrying a Canadian, we went to the Calgary Zedoo. My sister-in-law later divorced her Canadian husband after having 3 kids with him because he was a womanizer (it was the closest that she ever got to swearing) and a scalawag according to my wife’s Norwegian 80 year + grandmother, she lived to be almost 94.
My wife’s Norwegian grandmother called him a scalawag or scallywag, he was a schmuck. She was very old school in what she called him, and it was a hoot.
@geoff — I can hear the cries of Reciprocity! Reciprocity! already along with demands to fine us for saying ZEE instead of ZED!
Brits say ZED, too.
These wacky Canucks aren’t going to put tariffs on items the actually need. And they need everything.
If you ever find yourself in an online battle with these morons, ask them if they’d be happy with reciprocal tariffs. They usually answer yes. After all, it’s only fair. Then point out to them any Canadian ag product, dairy or meat will now be subject to a 300% tariff. Now you are officially a facist Trump supporter.
Does “false-beards” include merkins??
Asking for a friend.
And shedule instead of schedule and aluminium instead of aluminum. American English is hard enough at times but the Canucks, the Brits, Scots, Irish, Aussies and Kiwi’s all speak an almost unrecognizable English language that’s hard to understand because of their accents. And don’t even get me started on Indians speaking pidgin English that is extremely hard to understand.
Ketchup and chicken flavor potato chips on the list? When Nalleys used to be located in Tacoma, before the shitbag politics around here ran them and Roman Meal, Kaiser Aluminum, Weyerhaeuser on down the line out, they sent the most bizarre flavors of chips to Canada by the box car and even entire train load.
JDHasty, and there also used to be Rainier beer brewed in Seattle it’s still available but not brewed here anymore. My nieces husband worked for Rainier brewery as a boiler maker for a while. Olympia beer and Lucky Lager are both gone, Nalley’s used to have the greatest assortment of snacks, I haven’t seen Nalley’s snacks in a long time and they make good chili which has become prohibitively expensive at most grocery stores around here. I had forgotten about Roman Meal bread which I don’t even know if they still make it. And of course, the greenies have REI which is still located in Seattle. Wash. state isn’t what it used to be even in Eastern Wash. which is a shame. Kaiser aluminum used to have a large aluminum producing foundry in the Mead area of N. Spokane which closed down about 20 years ago and an aluminum rolling mill out in the valley which has also shut down. And Wenatchee had an Alcoa aluminum mill which is also shut down. Cheap hydroelectric power from the Columbia River dams like Grand Coulee dam, Chief Joseph dam etc. providing all the electricity to run those mills. And the damn greenies keep threatening to remove the dams on the lower Snake River to save the salmon. It’s a damn good thing all those dams were built before the 1970’s otherwise with all the damn ecoweenie environmental regulations now they couldn’t be built and most of irrigated eastern and central Wash. state would be a desert. I am a native eastern Washingtonian but our govt. in Olympia and the Seattle area sucks.
Heidelberg and Luck were brewed in Tacoma. The sonsabitches have run every last employer that was paying living wages out of Tacoma.
Justin Castro left dishwasher safe buttplugs alone.
Pretty sure the story is legit. Here’s one from Canada from 5 days ago.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-mead-prune-wine-snuff-and-burial-shrouds-canadas-retaliatory-tariffs/