Keeping a straight face has been perhaps the greatest achievement of Mark Carney’s brief tenure as the prime minister of Canada. For months, Donald Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America’s ungrateful northern neighbor into the 51st state, come what may, an achievement worthy of his visage gracing Mount Rushmore — in the same way Trump will annex Greenland, reclaim the Panama Canal, free Brazil’s corrupt former President Jair Bolsonaro, repeal the laws of climate change and gravity, and then impose tariffs on all of America’s nefarious trading partners, like the evil-doer Canada.
The only hitch, as the canny Carney has known all along: America has a thing called a “treaty” with Canada. Not one of Trump’s “deals,” the chaotic, almost certainly worthless and delusional transactions that involve the president imagining himself astride the world, TV remote in hand, a colossus of reactionary stupidity and cruelty finally delivering his promised revenge.
The hockey metaphor actually works to describe the Canadian populations response as a whole.
If the opposing team does something scummy, and the refs don’t respond, we will fist-fight you about it.
Canadians have always been polite, but there’s never been the tendency to be pushovers. People like Trump always get that confused.
why do lib magazines write about nation-states and regimes as though they are MCU characters who quip at each other
it kind of reminds me of the way american pastors will talk about their weird god like he’s a Black Adam starring The Rock, blasting through their enemies in their fantasy sermons
Also, TACO 🌮
Why do people keep saying that out loud? It feels like all it’s doing is egging him on and challenging him to not chicken out. We WANT him to chicken out.
Why do people keep saying that out loud?
Because ridiculing fascists is fun.
Is there any reporting on the actual tariffs being collected? Preferably with a detailed breakdown of countries, materials and exceptions.
I know Rolling Stone has been killing it lately, but had no idea they had a damn crime reporter on deck. “Nicky Guido”, also, smh.
That said, if only 5% can be tariffed, then are the truck guys just damned unlucky that the aluminum is getting the tax? Or am I missing something?
TACO Chomo
Canada and China, the USA’s two largest trading partners both retaliated against the tariffs. The reason for this is because we actually have the leverage because we’re so big.
That and because most countries have citizens smart enough to understand that a tariff is a tax and they don’t like their taxes being raised.
Does it involve tacos?
