Canada

Long before you get to 100%, everybody stops buying it. Zero times anything is zero.

Ya honestly Trump is so fucking stupid that it's starting to feel like he's doing a bit. Like is he mocking his own supporters at this point? I think the world needs to respond to trump with something exactly like this. Infinite tariff loop is actually a policy I would support unironically.

He's basically saying it now. He is calling his current tariff "reciprocal".

Six months? At this pace I'm expecting tomorrow.

I've already seen (USian) conservatives claiming that

No, because Canada's economy will collapse long before the US economy if each side just keeps increasing tariffs. What Canada needs to do is make things cheaper for Canadians, not more expensive.

Take any law related to US intellectual property and decriminalize that.

Violating the copyright on Hollywood movies? Go for it. No charge.

Something you want to do is covered by a patent held by an American? Do it, you won't be prosecuted.

Want to bypass DRM on a tractor, a printer, an iPhone, sell or give away tools to allow anybody else to do it? Feel free.

The biggest advantage of this approach is that if the US did the same thing with respect to Canadian IP, they'd have so much less to work with. The US has geared its economy towards producing IP, and then used trade deals to demand that other countries respect that IP or the US will put tariffs on their stuff. Well, clearly the US isn't holding up its end of that bargain, so fuck 'em.

Canada should add a 100% tariff on USA crude oil that we import (Canada import 0 I guess) and with trump reciprocal thinggy, automatically crude oil from Canada to USA would have a 100% tariff on it lol

He also wants his face on currency

You have to be dead before that happens.

I'm sure someone would be willing to help

He might either be dumb or play dumb. How else did he come to power?

In all fairness, a fringe economist told him that. Navarro still hasn't been able to successfully explain to anyone why tariffs won't raise prices. He gets as far as "they can't raise tariffs on the largest market in the world" as if there weren't high tariffs on the us before.

Yeah, I remember watching speeches by Hitler back when I was in school. I didn't understand German so I didn't know what he was saying, but I could at least appreciate that the Nazis knew how to project power and competence.

I always understood the fascist aesthetic to be something very macho, very serious-seeming, etc. I always thought the idea was that you had an incredibly charismatic strong-man leader who had all the answers. And, given that, I could understand how people could be taken in.

But, the MAGA aesthetic is so ugly. Their rhetoric is so unserious. Their leader is so old, fat and caked in orange makeup, and he sounds like an absolute moron. The people attending the rallies do comical things like wearing diapers. And yet, half the US looks at that and thinks: yeah, I'll vote for them.

And then there's Elon Musk. Every time he opens his mouth it's less and less believable that anything he ever did was the result of skill or competence. Any time he talks about programming or system administration it's clear he has no fucking clue what he's talking about. When he talks about gaming he claims he's one of the top players in the world, and yet it's obvious he's barely played the games involved. But, apparently Americans are so brainwashed that being rich means you're "a genius".

I hated George W. Bush, but at least I could understand how some people found his schtick endearing. I could understand how he harnessed people's fear and hate and turned it into support for his "war on terrah". But, with Trump my opinion of Americans has gone down to the lowest level ever. This is what works for you? Really??

The fact that they're not even good at being evil somehow pisses me off even more at the whole situation

Not to mention the “Governor Trudeau” extra-dumb.

Trudeau is probably above that, but it would be mildly amusing if he started calling Trump "comrade Trump" or maybe "vice-president Trump"

I think this is Truth Social with is worse than Twitter somehow.