Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn’t gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

He has a concept of a strategy.

US companies would pay a total rate of 104% on Chinese imports.

The more money people lose, the more desperate they become. This is going to get interesting. Who goes after Trump first? The ultra rich or the average working class?

I don’t know anyone in Canada still planning trips to the USA. My cousin spends 2-3 months out of the year in California. She’s been doing it for 10 years now. She had cancelled all those plans going forward.

There is even more of a risk for Canadians to go to the US. It’s always been dangerous in the US with the insane amount of guns in the average idiots hands, but now we’ve got Ice Bros itching to hurt people as well. Fuck that noise.

The US really doesn’t offer us anything we can’t get from another safer country.

The girlfriend and I (both Canadian in Canada) were just planning a summer trip to Niagara Falls like 30 minutes ago. Neither of us have been. We were looking at flights and didn’t realize we were looking at flights to Niagara Falls airport in the US. We were both like “Whoa. Nope!”

If this had been last year, we would have flown into either airport and visited both sides of the border. But there is not a chance in hell I’m crossing to the US side during this trip. I’m absolutely not taking a chance of wrecking my vacation, or weeks of my life, getting nabbed by some Nazi Ice Bro and shipped to a detention camp in Arizona.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-white-house-asked-us-military-develop-options-panama-canal-offic-rcna195994

https://newrepublic.com/post/192718/trump-orders-u.s.-military-panama-canal

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-asks-military-for-plans-to-take-panama-canal-by-force/

https://www.msnbc.com/jose-diaz-balart/watch/trump-administration-directs-military-to-develop-options-for-panama-canal-234321477771

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/pentagon-panama-canal-options/index.html

There already is a travel advisory in Canada. It’s more personal though.

If I tell my friend I’m going to the states they’ll stage an intervention.

“You’re desire to travel to the US hurts me in the following ways…”

Next, Trump signs an executive decree that says they can now make champagne in the US because the US had been treated very unfairly by France by not allowing champagne to be made elsewhere and now that the USA can do it, everyone is going to become very rich.

…or something.

I own a business in Canada which gets a ton of tourists. I’m fine with everyone coming in.

That said, if they’re wearing a MAGA red hat or a Trump shirt, I’m not quite sure what I’d do. I’d probably tell them they can’t come in wearing that. I think it would be hilarious to make these scrubs leave their hats in the car.

Is that a finger in the butt?

There is a silly movement in Canada like this now. They want to call the Americano the Canadiano. I think it’s silly.

My company is about to start serving espresso. I’m going to call it a North Americano on the menu just to be snarky.

I wonder what’s going to happen with NORAD?

I don’t know how that information is shared, but I would think the US would be more in danger without our RADAR and systems to the north.

This is good news. France is really stepping up lately.

Expect Freedom Fries back on the menu in the US soon.

Because Trump is going to buckle on the tariffs. He will come up with some reason they aren’t needed, or they’re severely reduced, and he pretends he’s the hero in the story.

The MAGA will lick his anus and everyone else will be like “Dafuq old man?”

I think it will. China has announced sanctions on particular US companies. I’d like to see more of that on Trump-positive businesses.

In reaction to tariffs on China, Beijing announced additional tariffs of up to 15% on imports of key U.S. farm products, including chicken, pork, soy and beef, and expanded controls on doing business with key U.S. companies.

China’s new tariffs will take effect starting March 10. They follow U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to raise tariffs on imports of Chinese products to 20% across the board. Those took effect on Tuesday, along with 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.

I’m in Canada and Facebook is huge for my business. We get more bang out of a free social media post than paying for advertisements anywhere.

I fricking HATE IT.

On a personal level, I almost never use facebook. I refuse to put it on my phone and really only use it not to post stuff for the business - which I do through a 3rd party social media app.

https://www.buy-european-made.eu/

https://european-alternatives.eu/

And for us Canadian, there is always https://madeincanadadirectory.ca/