WASHINGTON, D.C. - With US President Donald Trump declaring 25% tariffs on most Canadian goods, American citizens have officially chosen the most circuitous and economically painful method possible to investigate what everyday goods originate from Canada.

The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    no one said all, or everyone. some people claim the American people didn’t want this. in a democracy the will of the people is determined by the majority of the voting-eligible population. around 160 million people wanted this. that’s a very solid representative bunch.

    even if they did election fraud, which is completely speculative copium with no evidence whatsoever, but even if he did, he sure as fuck couldn’t fake 80-90 million votes. you want to prevent someone winning by fudging a couple thousand votes here and there, you show up.

    the fact remains: 70+ million people voted for him, and 80+ million more were fine with him. that’s a huge majority that can’t be explained away with fraud.

    • Deello@lemm.eeEnglish
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      37 minutes ago

      no one said all, or everyone.

      You did.

      That was the whole point of your first reply in this thread. Top comment is literally a comment saying this is the will of the president and not the people. You responded with “that’s wrong, they’re the same thing” like they are magically the same just because he won. Basically saying that regardless of who they voted for, this is what they voted for. Because that’s how democracy works right. You are the one saying that our votes/voices don’t matter just because Trump won. Rebuplicans famously disagree with any democratic president and their policies so I don’t understand why I have to agree with a republican one. Someone else then came in and started spitting out numbers like that was the conversation. It wasn’t.

      Trump and his cronies lost everytime they ran on a Project 2025 platform, so much so that Trump even distanced himself. When that didn’t work he went to the classics, his greatest hits. And now that he’s in the White House we have slowly watched him back track on some of his promises. Angering/disappointing some of his base in the process.

      But getting back on track,
      lol tariffs aren’t gonna hurt Americans…