Just proving Carney’s point.

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    Carney changed the world with his speech in Davos, the EU canceled the their lopsided trade deal with the US. Trump Taco’d out of attacking Greenland and/or Iceland claiming he got concepts of a plan or whatever in respects to Greenland. These tariffs will last at most 11 months but hopefully only a few more weeks, the Supreme Court down there is either going to tell him his tariffs are illegal or he gets impeached.

    I hope Carney does not chicken out.

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      He didn’t. Everyone else is praising the speech but it had too many big words for him to understand. That’s why he’s so mad at Carney again.

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    America is a union composed of 350 million losers led by a snuff film raping pedophile.

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    The only interaction I now have with the usa is that I am boycotting them. This will be for the rest of my life. I do not want to interact with anyone who ever voted for trump and since I am old…

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      American here. Please do. The lead-addled mouthbreathers that allowed this mess to happen will need to die off sufficiently before we can return to sanity.

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      Lucky bastard. 😄 I hope health treats you well for the remainder of your boycott!

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    Carney;s 'New World Order" clarified,

    At the turn of this century, most statistical pie charts regarding nations were pretty much America 80%/RestOfWorld 20%, GDP, industrial production, wealth, control of resources, automobile production, PhD grads, best Universities, energy, military; etc, etc, etc.

    Today, the pie charts are reversed. America 20%/RestOfWorld 80%.

    In three decades, America went from more relevant than all other countries combined to struggling to be just the top country.

    In other words, America is no longer as relevant as it was, and indeed there are lots of other countries that are just as relevant if not more so. Americans still have not got the memo, and Trump is simply trying to maintain the illusion. Americans just haven’t gotten it through their heads that they are no longer top dog, and it happened in just over two decades. Americans were blindsided by the rest of the world.

    Carney’s message to Trump was to-the-point - America, you are a has-been country, and we Canadians intend to look to the future, and turn our attention to the countries that now matter. that will be relevant five, ten years from now.

    Trump, of course, just can not swallow this pill. It is too bitter, So he is in la-la land,

    The Americans will have enough trouble keeping their own country together, and the more Trump blathers, the quicker that States like California (somewhere around fifth largest country by GDP, higher than France) are better off on their own, then under an authoritarian dictator that wants to spend their wealth on buying Greenland - a place that has zero benefit to California - who is just dragging the Californian economy into the ground. Texas and New York are in the same position. When it finally hits them that they are far better off on their own than under the whims of an irrelevant Federal governance that has lost its way in the world, it will be the end of the Republic of the United (autonomous) States of America.

    I fully expect that very soon, California will start signing their own trade deals and setting their own tariffs with the rest of the world. I am pretty certain that Californians know full well where their future lies. Then, Canada will be negotiating separate trade deals with individual States. It will be sudden, just like the dissolution of the USSR that dissolved essentially overnight.

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    Struggling to understand the logic here.

    Me: “Hey, Amazon, I’m going to buy something from Target”

    Amazon: “That’s it! From now on everything costs twice as much for you!”

    Me: “Target also has other things I need, so…”

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      You’re making the same mistake as Trump. Tariffs aren’t paid by Canadians.

      It’s more, “Hey Amazon, I’ve got all this stuff I want to sell and you’ve said you don’t need it, and you’ve been altering our agreement a ton lately, unilaterally and arbitrarily, making it hard to maintain a business relationship with you. So I’m going to sell it to Target too”. And then Amazon saying “That’s it!! We’re gonna double the price for our customers on any good you sell to us, so our customers’ll probably buy less of it!!!”

      So… you sell more to Target and other vendors. Cause Amazon’s actions are reducing your market viability in their selling space even further. And their idiotic random arbitrary actions, basically just re-emphasize the point you were making. Sorta like how Carney made a Davos speech about great powers bullying smaller countries, and Trump’s response – that many Americans thought was ‘great!’, was “Canada doesn’t live without the US” – so more bullying. Canada exports a silly amount of raw materials, which can be sold in quite a few places other than the US if the US ain’t buying. Canada’s spent a big chunk of 2025 building those additional trade relationships to buffer against this sort of strange behaviour from the states.

      The US Administration makes very little sense these days.

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      They’re swinging at Canadian employers and workers. It’s unclear if this will include items covered by CUSMA - if it does, Southern Ontario is fuuuuuuucked.

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    No, don’t trade with our number one trading partner.

    Three fascist nations sitting in tree…

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      Does that include electricity?

      And potash?

      And crude oil?

      And lumber?

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        Once again they’ll carve out exemptions for the stuff they can’t get anywhere else. And for those things, we need to slap on an export tax.

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      How about we line up at the border, eat a bunch of poutine, pull down our pants, face north, bend over, FIRE!