Re: Canada vs Trump. - And the Deal goes on...

On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:10:15 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 8/19/2026 9:40 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:52:00 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8/19/2026 6:35 AM, Tara wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This isn’t over.
>>>>
>>>> U.S. President Donald Trump likes to win. He also often likes to play
>>>> make-believe. He has a habit of declaring victory on social media based on few
>>>> discernible facts, or none at all.
>>>>
>>>> When he has something to market, he markets it. When he doesn’t, he’s liable
>>>> to fake it until voters believe that he’s made it.
>>>>
>>>> How many times has he announced that Iran is finished? That a peace deal is
>>>> imminent? That the Strait of Hormuz is open, oil has never stopped flowing and
>>>> Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia?
>>>>
>>>> I can’t count that high without an abacus.
>>>>
>>>> The former reality TV star also loves to engineer a cliffhanger. Hence his
>>>> decision to build a tariff time bomb – a 50-per-cent levy on $28-billion a
>>>> year of Canadian exports – and set it to go off at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 19.
>>>>
>>>> And then, just in the nick of time, he announced that all was saved, and he
>>>> had defused the device.
>>>>
>>>> Less than two hours before midnight, he wrote on Truth Social that the
>>>> threatened tariffs were paused because, “Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the
>>>> finalization of documents, have a DEAL!”
>>>>
>>>> Prime Minister Mark Carney’s presentation of the situation, published an hour
>>>> later, was rather more circumspect.
>>>>
>>>> “Substantial progress has been made,” the PM wrote, “although there is
>>>> important work still to be done.” He added that the U.S. had agreed to pause
>>>> the tariffs because “this work is ongoing.”
>>>>
>>>> Recent days of intensive talks between Canada and the U.S., like the months of
>>>> not-much-talks that preceded them, have been marked by an extreme level of
>>>> opacity. Neither Ottawa nor Washington has itemized in public what demands the
>>>> U.S. has made of Canada, what Canada has asked of the U.S., what has been put
>>>> on the table by both sides and what horse-trading has taken place.
>>>>
>>>> And yet there are many things we know.
>>>>
>>>> We know that Mr. Trump wants most imports, including from his partners in the
>>>> United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, to be subject to U.S. tariffs. He’s
>>>> made exceptions for products such as oil and potash – he doesn’t want to
>>>> visibly raise the prices Americans pay for gasoline or food – but he appears
>>>> set on subjecting manufactured imports to tariffs.
>>>>
>>>> That is a rather large problem for the integrated North American auto
>>>> industry, and many other Canadian industries.
>>>>
>>>> He also wants the rest of the world to meekly accept his tariffs and not hit
>>>> back. Mr. Trump hasn’t appreciated that Canada, unlike almost every other
>>>> country, put up its dukes and retaliated.
>>>>
>>>> But retaliation has given us negotiating leverage.
>>>>
>>>> In the face of Mr. Trump’s demands for tariff acquiescence, Canada’s trade
>>>> negotiators appear to have spent months ragging the puck. They had reason to.
>>>>
>>>> The USMCA is a binding legal agreement, signed by Mr. Trump and ratified by
>>>> the U.S. Congress. Standing on it makes sense. The President appears to want
>>>> Canada to accept treaty-violating tariffs, and for Canada to agree to a
>>>> rewrite of the USMCA that would render Mr. Trump’s treaty violations
>>>> treaty-compliant.
>>>>
>>>> That said, Mr. Trump could also do with a political win. Or at least something
>>>> he can market as a win.
>>>>
>>>> Right now, American voters have 99 problems with his administration, and a
>>>> trade war with Canada ain’t one. If he can turn a trade war most Americans
>>>> have never heard of into a claim of trade victory, it might subtract from the
>>>> list of reasons to vote against his party in November.
>>>>
>>>> The only specific detail Mr. Trump mentioned in his social media post
>>>> celebrating a trade deal was the alleged possible revival of “the great
>>>> Keystone XL Pipeline.”
>>>>
>>>> It’s a long-time Trump obsession. It’s also a project that Canada badly
>>>> wanted, but that two Democratic presidents blocked. If Mr. Trump thinks of
>>>> restarting Keystone XL as a win for him? Hallelujah.
>>>>
>>>> But there’s something else we know.
>>>>
>>>> Trump trade policy – like Trump foreign policy – has become a dysfunctional
>>>> version of Deal or No Deal. It’s Deal and No Deal.
>>>>
>>>> No price is final, even after final sale.
>>>>
>>>> Adversaries and partners have learned that Mr. Trump is not bound by law,
>>>> treaty or friendship, and has no compunction about breaking written
>>>> commitments he eagerly signed not five minutes ago.
>>>>
>>>> If an interim deal between Washington and Ottawa really is inches from the
>>>> goal line, that still leaves a whole trade relationship in the balance –
>>>> because this president’s term in office still has 29 months left on the clock.
>>>>
>>>> It remains unclear how this week’s talks connect with broader negotiations
>>>> over the future of the USMCA.
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Trump wants to turn what was the world’s most important free-trade deal
>>>> into a creature with aspects of one-way free trade. He wants us to agree to
>>>> give him the freedom to build tariffs walls against us, while demanding that
>>>> we recommit to low or no tariffs against the U.S.
>>>>
>>>> That’s why this isn’t over. It won’t be so long as that man is in the White
>>>> House.
>>>>
>>>> Tony Keller
>>>> G&M
>>>>
>>> It should go without saying that even if Trump brought world peace and
>>> universal prosperity for everyone on the the planet, some people would
>>> still hate him. Just saying.
>> 
>> Grab a pussy and be happy.
>
>If women often let you grab their pussy and they come back for more, it 
>probably will warp your perspective a bit.
>
>Why some women will allow high status guys to do that is a different but 
>interesting discussion.

A guess himbo would know.

>"But a man with integrity would never!"
>
>Says a man who's never met a woman who let him grab her pussy and then 
>come back for more.
>
>Please note that this does not address the long term effects of doing 
>that sort of thing. You can only continue to live that way for so long 
>before you learn that it manifests a cycle that is not conducive to long 
>term happiness and balance.
>
>Like most things that are harmful but don't kill you, I'd say that 
>living through that experience (on either side) has the possible effect 
>of making one a stronger more aware human being.
>
>Also see: karma.
-- 
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or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
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