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The offical Trump Tariff thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Feb 1, 2025.

  1. Nook

    Nook Member

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    Shut up.

    It will be fine.

    Trump is eliminating the IRS and income taxes!

    We don’t need Canada or China because we have Russia and Belarus.

    I don’t care that eggs were $8.50 a dozen yesterday.
     
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  2. Tomstro

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    They are all saying the same exact thing lol
     
  3. Nook

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    What are they doing? Making the ultra rich a lot of money!
     
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  4. meh

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    I want to say yes but I'm not sure. For instance post-covid everything at the supermarket is now hugely marked up compared to before. Yet whenever I shop I still see people mostly buying the overpriced pre-packaged stuff. Chips, muffins, prepared meals, etc. Even though these days they're often cost twice what they used to be. Meanwhile I'm buying raw meat and veggies that cost 1/3 of what they have and taste better and healthier. I mean yes you do have to know how to cook, but these days with youtube you can learn how to cook almost any dish around the world in 10 minutes. Honestly it does baffle me the lack of cooking ability for so many Americans, despite it being the most obvious money-saver available to people and has the added benefit of being good for your health.
     
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  6. Nook

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    It doesn’t surprise me. American “money problems” are different than anywhere in the world. When it comes to money, Americans complain more than anyone but their actual financial issues are less than anywhere else I have lived or visited.
     
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  7. deb4rockets

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    Trump's power quest to destroy the economy of our Canadian ally to make them a state, simply to have their oil and resources is something that dictators like Putin would do. It's disgusting. He can say it's about fentanyl, but that's a load of pure BS.

    Trump is a liar, and he is stirring up so much chaos and initiating so many crazy executive orders that it's far worse than I ever imagined possible in his first month as President. He's out of control, and his psycho mindset of policies has just begun. We will all pay the price for his madness.



    “Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada,” he said. “At the same time, they’re talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin — a lying, murderous dictator. Make that make sense.”


    Justin Trudeau has claimed the aim of a “dumb” trade war launched by Donald Trump is to usher in the “complete collapse” of the Canadian economy and make it easier for the United States to annex Canada.

    Trump has claimed that the tariffs were a response to Canada’s failure to stop fentanyl smuggling into the US, an argument Trudeau called “completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false”. Although some drugs do cross the border, in both directions, so little fentanyl enters the US from Canada that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) does not even mention the country in a report from 2020.

    Ontario’s premier, Doug Ford, the leader of Canada’s most economically powerful province, said his government would “make sure Americans feel pain”.

    “The stock market will go downhill faster than the American bobsled team,” he said. “When the market drops, that’s the people speaking. Isn’t this a shame.

    “Every country is very, very aware that if the American government is willing to do this to their own closest neighbour, ally and friend, everyone is vulnerable to a trade war.”

    Tim Houston, the Nova Scotia premier, called Trump a “shortsighted man” who “wields his power just for the sake of it”.

    In a statement soon after the tariffs went into effect, Houston said it was “impossible to properly describe the uncertainty and chaos” that the trade war was causing for Canadians.

    Alberta’s rightwing populist premier, Danielle Smith, who has previously resisted calls to cut oil exports to the US, called Trump’s action “an unjustifiable economic attack on Canadians and Albertans” and said the move was “both foolish and a failure in every regard”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/trudeau-trump-tariffs-dumb
     
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    @Nook Canadians telling Trump to **** off is hilarious
     
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    what a FUGGIN JOKE

    if it is, i ain't laughing.
     
  11. AleksandarN

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    I wonder how much money did Trump and his allies made during that two dip in the stock market knowing full well Trump will be reversing the tariffs. What a joke indeed
     
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  12. Reeko

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    yeah, atp, Trump is deliberately doing this to manipulate the stock market and make a small amount of people a large amount of money

    he’s playing with people’s livelihoods to make profit
     
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    64% of MAGAts approve of how Trump is handling cost of living…u couldn’t make this sh*t up if u tried

    this is what happens when your mom didn’t put down the meth and Hennessy during pregnancy
     
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  14. JHarden713

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    Trump is just messing with 'em
     
  15. JHarden713

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    Bro its been a month. The only thing you got on him is the foreign policy so far
     
  16. HP3

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    No the economy is bad too. People like you will lick his ass no matter what though.
     
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  17. JHarden713

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    You expect it to change within a month? Sure
     
  18. astros123

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    How the hell is the country going to improve when hes putting crazy tariffs on consumers at a time people are squeezed? Instead of focusing on the economy hes too busy buying **** coins like Ripple with no use.

    His government is legalizing fraud. Consumers will get pinched
     
  19. HP3

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    He made it worse in a month. Do you see whats been happening to the market? Like I said you will lick his ass no matter what. You dont believe evidence, you live in your own world.
     
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  20. JHarden713

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    It's disingenuous to make that assessment after a month. When Obama took office after Bush did you say "it takes time or its the same sh.it" after the first month?
     

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