He slaps 25% tariffs on Canadian oil. Then wants pipeline from Canada to US built. Yeah makes sense.
The instructions from his handlers must have been unclear
Oil is only a 10% tarrif.
Though im onboard with adding a 15% export tarrif to bring it in line.
Make it 25% and use the money to subsidize exports to any other country and undercut their exports.
He’s also threatening TSMC with tariffs if they don’t build a factory in the states. But it’s like, without them you are fucked, so I’m not sure why he thinks he has any power in the situation. Well, aside from threatening to pull defense from Taiwan, at which point now the US is basically threatening war which is crazy, and they may just do it, but I mean holy shit.
If the US pulls defence from Taiwain and Taiwan falls to Chinese rule, the US still doesn't get TSMC. In fact, they would be handing an essential resource to an enemy nation.
The US has absolutely nothing to bargain with in that situation.
Handing Taiwan to China would be the stupidest geopolitical play in modern history. If the US did this the entire world would divest in America overnight.
And yet it’s still a possibility because that’s where the US is right now. Trump already proved this with his dogshit withdrawl from afghanistan(completed by Biden, but all the terrible setup was the GOP). A nice little test run and great for setting precedence.
But Trump said the USA didn’t need Canada for ANYTHING so why does he want this built??
Because he wants to tell gullible Americans he made Canada do it.
I'd rather build a wall on our southern border - and make Trump pay for it.
Trump restarted it last term too. They only managed to build 8 percent of it before Biden revoked the approval again. The company then abandoned the project officially. It's just a political football at this point. Why bother putting money into something that will stall again in 2-4 years. That's not even considering the 25% tariff on the oil it would carry, if it were ever finished.
Hey Trump: "No."
Ok, my vote goes to you for next Canadian PM.
Wait till you hear what I have planned.
no more lobbying - fucken jail.
no pay for politicians - you get a living allowance, a vehicle w/driver, and you live in "Government city" while you're in office. A nice life, but not so comfortable that you want to settle.
with all but a few exceptions, service terms are 4 years long.
after your service, you're accorded a rating, determined by the effectiveness of the changes you've made (or honestly tried to) , if you did good by the people, we rate you highly. A rating determines your pay scale in the private sector after you leave government. Did good? Live good. Determination of rating is part of the next-election-cycle vote, ie: decided by the people.
no one top officer. Ie no pm or president. At least, not bestowed to a single individual. Maybe 3…
There was more. I came up with this on a road trip between Calgary and Vancouver once but I had a lot more youthful idealism back then, couched in the idea that being a public servant might be an appealing role for more volunteer-centric people instead of ...craven... power-hungry jackals. Maybe we need benevolent superintelligence to take over and actually run things, then we can have something like my system and pretend we're actually running the show.
Rather like we do now....
Sounds great! Just one more thing... can I have a firepit in my backyard???
You can have THREE!!
Oh my gosh, I would LOVE three! They won't even let me have ONE!
Great plan, by the way! I knew you were the one for the job when you said NO to Trump! 'Bout time someone did!
But of course. Have we assigned anyone yet to give him milk & cookies at night and tuck him into bed.
All Canadian pipelines need to go east / west now and terminate at a Canadian coast.
He's greasy enough, he don't need anymore oil.
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