Summary
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced retaliatory tariffs after Donald Trump confirmed 25% tariffs on Canadian goods and 10% on energy, set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
Trump justified the move by linking it to fentanyl smuggling concerns.
Trudeau called the tariffs “unjustified” and imposed 25% tariffs on $155 billion in U.S. goods, with $30 billion effective immediately and the rest in 21 days.
He warned of price hikes and job losses in the U.S., arguing the move violates Trump’s own trade agreement from his last term.
unfortunately, America has created a system where we can’t really do anything about the president at this point I am really wondering how long will the global world order allow Donald Trump to continue to screw things up for everybody else? Not just talking about economics with Mexico, Canada and China. But also the military situation in Ukraine, which directly impacts the European Union as well as NATO 
The problem is that the global order is collapsing. That’s what makes this possible for Trump and his companions. It’s been going to shit for a while. We’re entering a world where international law will be less important. Sadly.
International law was already completely irrelevant when it came to the developed world imposing its will on the entire developing world, or anyone classified as an “enemy”. There are hundreds of violations across the years that were never enforced, from America carpet bombing south east asia and installing puppet regimes around the world, to Russias use of phosphorous warheads and chemical weapons in Syria, to Israel (and allies) genocide in Palestine.
International laws have only ever been, at best, gentleman’s agreements among the developed world’s oligarchs and political classes.
What’s happening now is the US political class and oligarchy are shifting allegiance to fascist authoritarianism and imperialism, because both are populated with mentally ill narcissists and psychopaths of insatiable greed and megalomania, completely detached from reality; no different to the feudalist monarchs, emperors and pharaohs of old.
I also don’t believe this is an America problem, as much as it is a capitalism problem. Americas oligarchy are no different to Russias oligarchy, who are no different to Chinas oligarchy, who are no different to every oligarchy. They are borderless, stateless, only worship wealth and power, and are a reflection of the psychology created by unchecked wealth and power; these people view themselves as the rightful rulers of humanity, by virtue of their wealth and power, and views concepts like democracy a direct threat to their existence.
Fucking phenomenal run for American upper-middle classers & up for daysssss (decades)
Staycations on every screen, DoorDash, weekends at national parks, summers full of music festivals, no air raid sirens or drafts
Little blips of economic busts and terrorism, but overall stable with a solid stock market. The climate taking its beating without much protest. The developing world manufacturing much of our own world for pennies on the dollar, their conditions out of sight and out of mind. Stagnant minimum wage, the prison industrial complex, the crimes of the healthcare industry - captivating John Oliver segments, yes, but not pressing personal problems.
waow that was a lotta work over the years from a lotta good people to get the US here, and now…
(job hunt question)
Any recommendations for organizations that might be hiring right now and looking for people who want to fix this?
I didn’t want Trump to become president for many reasons, one of the main ones being I didn’t want him to pull USA out of NATO, because it strengthens our shared enemies.
Things are actually going worse than I expected, which is really impressive.
I know people are probably sick of hearing this, but I kind of figured this would be the worst possible case imaginable because the same thing happened to Hitler. They threw his ass in jail and then after a couple of months they let him walk and then when he regained power, he knew that he could never lose power again, and if he did, he’d never be able to accomplish his personal objectives. 
There’s something about history that we can learn from here. I don’t know why Trump was even allowed to run, but yeah, here we are. 
He was allowed to run because McConnell stonewalled Obama and let Trump select a bunch of Supreme Court appointees, which then decided that trump can’t be held accountable for anything.
Then everyone decided the rule of law was important, except trump, which means he’s steamrolling every safeguard we had.
Plus McConnell as leader could have gotten R’s to convict, at least in the second impeachment after Jan 6th, which was a short window when they would probably have gone along with him. It would have made trump ineligible to run again. So I place a large part of the blame on McConnell.
The SCOTUS ruling is just icing on the cake for trump, because once he got into power again, SCOTUS isn’t going to be much of a problem for him no matter how much they might rule against him. He’ll just ignore it and no one will do anything about it because the entire repub party supports him–they are the ones who would have had to check his power but they’re completely on board with him and they have the trifecta, total control.
That’s why I’m worried about the midterms–they aren’t going to give up that power willingly which means they’re more than prepared to do whatever it takes to stop a free and fair election in 2026.
McConnell basically stated that Trump deserved conviction, but didn’t want congress to be the ones to do it. He wagered that it’s a problem that would take care of itself without having to be the ones to piss off the MAGA people he hoped to keep energized and aligned to the GOP even as Trump went away.
Then the SC basically said it’s the job of congress, and not the courts (although they reserved the power to specifically declare something as not a duty of the president, so the courts could proceed if and only if the supreme court signs off on it).
To the extent that it could have maybe had the SC ultimately rule that January 6th was not an official duty, DOJ slow walked the process so that it was way too late before the SC would have even had the chance.
Merrick Garland was Biden’s biggest mistake. By far. But it’s still ultimately McConnell and the other repub senators’ fault. They had the power and more importantly the constitutional responsibility to stop him. They violated their oaths and failed in their duty. It was their cowardice and corruption that allowed this.
Lee Harvey Oswald found a way to do something about the presidency. Just saying…
Lee Harvey, ONI and Guy Bannister
I believe you mean Bernard Montgomery Sanders who we all know was the second shooter.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-year-ever-49377032/episode/the-assassination-of-john-f-kennedy-96472158/
I guess this is a joke, but it’s dangerous because any conspiracy theory can find many people who take it seriously these days.
It is Robert Evans of Behind The Bastards has been making this joke for 6-7 years now
The US is one of the only, if not the only country in the world where what can be done is enshrined in the constitution.
Surely the US isn’t the only country that has foreign leaders assassinated?..