[QuickTidal]

Cause, on 04 February 2025 - 01:00 AM, said:

What a shit show.

Craziest thing is I can already see how this will go.

Trump, his voters, fox, republicans will say that he won important concessions by threatening tarrifs. They will celebrate it as a win.

Everyone else: he threatened a nuclear option, panicked stocks, panicked Americans and saw how unpopular they were. Found a fig leaf to hide behind and paused the Tarifs.

I’ll wait for reports that every concession he won was already in the works

Amusingly all the news that is not Fox in the states are reporting on the fact that both Mexico and Canada were already doing these two supposed "concessions" before Trump was in office...so at the very least that narrative it only flying with the Fox/Newsmax set.

[worry]

The only new thing appears to be Canada's "fentanyl czar". Which, all things considered, sounds like a pretty easy gig.

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 04 February 2025 - 01:04 PM, said:

The only new thing appears to be Canada's "fentanyl czar". Which, all things considered, sounds like a pretty easy gig.

It's going to be one of our current Border/customs ect. people, whose job that is ANYWAY. LOL Trump just wanted a fancy name for them.

[Abyss]

I kind of wish - and i ack i'm in a silent minority on this - that Canada and Mexico had just said 'ok asshat, bring it' and gone full trade war. Yes, it would have sucked, but he would have had nowhere to credibly avoid the FAFO. 'Mexico and Canada make concessions' is a win for him, however false. 'Mexico and Canada tell trump where to stick his fentanyl, raise own sanctions, cut off avocados and energy' would have been lovely.

QuickTidal, on 04 February 2025 - 01:13 PM, said:

worry, on 04 February 2025 - 01:04 PM, said:

The only new thing appears to be Canada's "fentanyl czar". Which, all things considered, sounds like a pretty easy gig.

It's going to be one of our current Border/customs ect. people, whose job that is ANYWAY. LOL Trump just wanted a fancy name for them.

where do i apply?

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Abyss, on 04 February 2025 - 02:46 PM, said:

I kind of wish - and i ack i'm in a silent minority on this - that Canada and Mexico had just said 'ok asshat, bring it' and gone full trade war. Yes, it would have sucked, but he would have had nowhere to credibly avoid the FAFO. 'Mexico and Canada make concessions' is a win for him, however false. 'Mexico and Canada tell trump where to stick his fentanyl, raise own sanctions, cut off avocados and energy' would have been lovely.

QuickTidal, on 04 February 2025 - 01:13 PM, said:

worry, on 04 February 2025 - 01:04 PM, said:

The only new thing appears to be Canada's "fentanyl czar". Which, all things considered, sounds like a pretty easy gig.

It's going to be one of our current Border/customs ect. people, whose job that is ANYWAY. LOL Trump just wanted a fancy name for them.

where do i apply?

I fear you would break bad being the Fentanyl Czar though...Say my name!