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It’s funny; Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are designed to redirect Canadians to equivalent Canadian products that will now be more affordable, and so more desirable for Canadians to purchase. Trump’s response is… make those products less affordable in the US.

End result? Canada less reliant on US products, and US selling less product.

I’m not sure what Trump expected from a 1:1 response? When the markets aren’t equal, a 1:1 response makes absolutely no sense.

Don’t worry; Trump will stamp as often as you want.

2026 says “hold my eggs 2023….”

No… like with Trump, his statements are for an internal audience.

So please do something about your executive. Because we have to respond to the actions they’re taking in your name. Don’t like it? Restrain them. There’s millions more of you than there are of them.

Negotiate peace with who? Russia who invaded them for no reason other than a land grab? Or the US, who artificially created a conflict to gain more leverage over Ukraine to steal their minerals?

Time for the entire world to ignore US copyright, patents and trade marks.

I thought the point of all this was to ratchet up tensions so Trump could declare martial law and suspend democracy indefinitely.

“We have always been at war with everyone but Russia and China….”

“Vast amounts of fentanyl enter the US through Mexico from China. This is why we must slap a 25% tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel.”

The deal was designed to break down. It was all planned. Why else would Vance behave that way to a foreign dignitary?

Trump made a rash promise and this is how he saved face.

I trust the sofa; it looks reliable.

Unfortunate; it’s not identifying US-made goods, it’s identifying European-made goods.

I was hoping that the EU and commonwealth nations would band together on this.

Is that on top of PEI?

Meanwhile, I know a number of people who were practicing Wiccans in the 1990s, but I don’t think they’ve ever been accused of witchcraft.

Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.

This article seems to be implying that all is normal in the world with a few minor changes in policy observed lately.

It’s not Washington’s departure from a years long policy of isolation; it’s the US government’s leadership’s departure from policy, period.

I expect plenty more visits to strong man states in the near future.

And this is the secondary consequence to the US political implosion — a lot of countries have done the right thing by humanity because it was good soft politics — but that’s no longer necessarily the case.

Just wait until Trump finds out about trans fats in his hamberders….

That’s part of the plan. Their allies must suffer in order to keep the suffering-derived hate pointed at the right victims.

DeepSeek’s “big change” isn’t the performance of its model though; it’s that it is fully open and operates on a fraction of the resources.

Is alibaba’s model also open weights, open reasoning, free for anyone to run, and runnable (and trainable) on consumer hardware?