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

On 8/20/2026 7:30 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> 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.
>
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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.
 >

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>> "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.