• fourish@lemmy.world
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    Time to cancel the Netflix and Disney streaming services too. Stick with Canadian services or go grab some DVDs from you local library.

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    It’s a stirring speech. Things are about to get very expensive for both Canadians and Americans. I have already scratched out future plans for visiting the US for the rest of the year, but I am also considering cancelling ones I pre-booked months ago, even at a 50% loss. Haven’t decided firmly yet.

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      American here. I would encourage you to do so. I would not encourage anyone to visit the US for the next four years. Tourism is big for the United States. The only way we fix this downhill slide trump is taking is for it to blow up catastrophically in Americans faces. It’ll suck for us (and everyone of our allies he is targeting) but it is the only way we vote these morons on the right out and start a long road to try to fix the damage caused by the orange, wannabe godking. The senate race in two years is primarily right wingers (22 red vs 13 blue) who are up for reelection. I’m cautiously optimistic that the recession that trump causes will create a blue wave. That should lame-duck his last two years in office.

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        No need to advise us outlanders not to visit the US. We have eyes and working brains.

        It’s a fun horror franchise to watch, tho. Great script - a tad unrealistic.

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        I mostly have the same thoughts on this, but I also worry that we sink so deep into the abyss that it will take a long time, if ever at all, to recuperate.

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      I’m going to the US next week because my mom is turning 80… I don’t expect to visit again unless someone dies for the next four years.

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    Absolutely loving the fire from you guys in the comments in the various threads. 🇮🇪❤️🇨🇦

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    Summary article from the cbc, if anyone doesn’t want to watch the whole thing: Trudeau hits back at the U.S. with big tariffs after Trump launches a trade war

    And NatPo are absolute trolls, looking to cause more division on exactly the day we don’t need it. They knew there was no answer for their questions, which could obviously wait til another day - they just wanted him/Canada to look weak or divided.

    Crap… We’re about to hear a whole lot of noise online about how divided we all are on this, aren’t we?

    Don’t believe the hype. The Murdoch media machine, the Brietbart, Rebel, Manning Centre, Twitter, Facebook, and bot army machine are all going to turn this into a story about internal division. Whatever story or Debate they push into your FEED, remember that you were 100% onside with your neighbours today.

    Just as well. We need to develop climate solutions fast and work on food security; healing our battered healthcare system… and that should be a lot easier without that troglodyte government dragging us backward with Christian Science and buying up our diabetes meds supply for cosmetic weightloss. Gonna be a rough go for awhile though.

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    Which means Canadians will lose their jobs, they will be out of work, and some companies in Canada will not hire because there’s not enough sales to hire anybody new.

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      we didnt choose this commercial war but boy we will defend ourselves. You can thank that cartoon that americans chose to represent them.

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      Consider the cost of inaction. A decade of lost economic growth, fewer jobs, and diminished competitiveness – all because we lacked the leverage to counter these blatantly unfair tariffs. Can we afford that?

      Either those tariffs come down quick because we fight back, we massively expand our trading relationships with countries we don’t get along with (China, Russia, India) Erdogan-style, or we experience what could amount to a Great Depression once Trump escalates further again knowing we’re an easy target.