A Sucker Punch From Your Neighbour/Friend? (US/Canada Trade War)
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Here's the best idea I've heard since the Mango Mussolini became president.... And we were due for another rant... 
We’ve all been sitting around the dinner table tolerating news about the face down turd in the mashed potatoes, pants around his ankles, screaming about how he’s the leader of the free world, and thinking there's not much we can do except complain.
How about world leaders put out a call to every nation, every trading bloc, every consumer with a functioning brain stem and a shred of moral fiber, to begin imposing serious, coordinated, ball-tightening economic sanctions on the United States of America.
Not symbolic ones. Not a sternly worded letter from the UN that gets filed somewhere between “thoughts and prayers” and the cafeteria menu. I’m talking about the real stuff. The stuff America dishes out to every other country on earth when they step out of line.
Turn the playbook around. Use it on them.
Yup but you know what else hurts? Being complicit to the point that jobs are being lost, countries are falling deeper and deeper into a debt that most will never recover from, businesses and industry closing the doors and most of the population can't afford to buy groceries, gas, rent, or pretty much anything else anymore (other than Corvettes
)...
Sometimes doing the right thing is expensive. Ask anyone who’s ever divorced from a toxic relationship. The first 6 months are s**t. You’re sleeping on a buddy’s couch eating cereal for dinner. But then one morning you wake up and realize you’re not living with a lunatic anymore and the cereal actually tastes pretty good.
That’s what this is. Short term pain for long term “holy s**t, we actually stood up to the bully.”
WON'T AMERICA RETALIATE?
With what? Tariffs? They’ve already tariffed everyone. They tariffed us. They tariffed Europe. They tariffed Australia and just about every other country that the average American couldn't pronounce or find on a map even if you drew a big red circle around it and wrote “HERE, DICKHEAD” in block letters. There’s nobody left to tariff.
What are they going to do, invade us? They can’t even run the war they’ve already got. The Gerald Ford is basically a floating outhouse. The troops are being sent to a desert with the same planning energy as a March Break school trip to Cancun.
My guess is that finally the light bulb in American heads would come on and Trump would be dragged out to the cow pasture where he has belonged since he was old enough to stop shitting his diapers....although he's likely doing that again now anyway.
I know, I know. That all sounds good and will never happen but one can dream.... lol....
We’ve all been sitting around the dinner table tolerating news about the face down turd in the mashed potatoes, pants around his ankles, screaming about how he’s the leader of the free world, and thinking there's not much we can do except complain.
How about world leaders put out a call to every nation, every trading bloc, every consumer with a functioning brain stem and a shred of moral fiber, to begin imposing serious, coordinated, ball-tightening economic sanctions on the United States of America.
Not symbolic ones. Not a sternly worded letter from the UN that gets filed somewhere between “thoughts and prayers” and the cafeteria menu. I’m talking about the real stuff. The stuff America dishes out to every other country on earth when they step out of line.
Turn the playbook around. Use it on them.
- Immediate trade restrictions on non-essential American exports. You don’t need American bourbon. You’ll survive without another Marvel movie. I promise you, your life will go on without a 47th streaming service.
- Withdrawal from US dollar reserves where feasible. Start diversifying. The dollar isn’t backed by gold anymore. It’s backed by vibes and aircraft carriers, and one of those is currently stuck in a conflict zone leaking sewage.
- Critical supply leverage. Fertilizer, Milk, Lumber, Electricity, Oil, Rare earth minerals. Lithium. Cobalt. Nickel. All the shiny little rocks that make America’s tech economy run. Start attaching conditions.
- Consumer boycotts. Every single person reading this has more power than they think. Stop buying American. Not forever. Just until the grown ups show up and get rid of the maggot. Cancel the streaming. Skip the franchise coffee. Put down the iPhone for 5 minutes and pick up literally anything else.
- Diplomatic downgrade. Pull ambassadors. Cancel state visits. Stop pretending this administration deserves a seat at the adult table when they can’t even sit through a briefing without live tweeting it.
Yup but you know what else hurts? Being complicit to the point that jobs are being lost, countries are falling deeper and deeper into a debt that most will never recover from, businesses and industry closing the doors and most of the population can't afford to buy groceries, gas, rent, or pretty much anything else anymore (other than Corvettes
)...Sometimes doing the right thing is expensive. Ask anyone who’s ever divorced from a toxic relationship. The first 6 months are s**t. You’re sleeping on a buddy’s couch eating cereal for dinner. But then one morning you wake up and realize you’re not living with a lunatic anymore and the cereal actually tastes pretty good.
That’s what this is. Short term pain for long term “holy s**t, we actually stood up to the bully.”
WON'T AMERICA RETALIATE?
With what? Tariffs? They’ve already tariffed everyone. They tariffed us. They tariffed Europe. They tariffed Australia and just about every other country that the average American couldn't pronounce or find on a map even if you drew a big red circle around it and wrote “HERE, DICKHEAD” in block letters. There’s nobody left to tariff.
What are they going to do, invade us? They can’t even run the war they’ve already got. The Gerald Ford is basically a floating outhouse. The troops are being sent to a desert with the same planning energy as a March Break school trip to Cancun.
My guess is that finally the light bulb in American heads would come on and Trump would be dragged out to the cow pasture where he has belonged since he was old enough to stop shitting his diapers....although he's likely doing that again now anyway.
I know, I know. That all sounds good and will never happen but one can dream.... lol....
"A" for effort! Is your hand cramped yet? lolHere's the best idea I've heard since the Mango Mussolini became president.... And we were due for another rant...
I know, I know. That all sounds good and will never happen but one can dream.... lol....
A guitar player doesn't get cramped hands....
Unlike most of our aged Vette owners, arthritis hasn't found me yet....
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