Summary
President Joe Biden criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico as “counterproductive,” warning it could harm relationships with key trade partners.
Trump announced the tariffs would remain until illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking are stopped, drawing criticism from economists who argue the costs would fall on consumers.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum disputed Trump’s claim that she agreed to “close borders.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed the importance of maintaining strong U.S.-Canada trade ties in response to the proposal.
Fuck you, Joe and your peaceful transfer to fascism. This is your moment to be remembered for history and its not looking good for you or any of us.
Understandable, but don’t you think that’s exactly how people thought when Trump was transitioning to Biden? What do you propose that would be different from that, other than being on the other side?
Not like I’m happy that Trump is gonna be in office but the people get what they vote for. It’s problematic when that doesn’t become the case. Well, might still be before then but it’s hard to protect people from themselves.
America elected this fuck - I’d rather not allow our executives to make judgment calls on whether to hand over the reigns.
The American people made this choice - much to Biden’s dismay.
If we want to fight fentanyl, much more effective would be to impose sanctions on Chinese pharmaceutical companies that produce it (they actually produce legitimate drugs too).
The tariffs idea on Mexico and Canada I bet comes from Elonia who wants to kill competitors to Tesla, who recently (especially this year) started eating into their market share and most have factories in Mexico.
That finger sure is wagging.
“This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” Trump said in the post.
Considering Reagan had the CIA running coke and teaching how to make crack…
I really wouldn’t be surprised if Trump is trying to cut out the cartels and import straight into America.
We could see a full blown narco war with all the downsides while supply to US remains uneffected and the people making it happens make billions that’s already in untraceable (and untaxable) accounts or just straight pallets of cash/gold.
Use the government to stop competition and your own operation fills the void. It’s what Rudy did with the Russian mob back in the day too.
And if that’s the plan, supply never goes down and you get a forever war to keep the party in power. Because voters will believe it’s still coming from there.
Shit, the only reason it won’t go down like that is the people trump listens to aren’t smart enough to realize
Even if Trump’s plan for tariffs made sense, the infrastructure isn’t there to produce these things and some things can’t be grown in the US due to climate. Joe’s weak ass tone too lol. He was always the wrong person for this moment.
I think Bidens criminalizing NGOs who say anything bad about Israel is counterproductive. Also, I think he has screwed us all and should shut his whore mouth.
very forceful very legal very cool.
You still here old man? If so, fuck you for helping ease us into our new fascist reality.
