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Mexico is going to be feeling the heat worse than Canada IMO. They have had huge success from their maquiladoras and lack this new found Patriotism and Pride that Canada now has (Where was this when Jeets were flooding the country? We may never know). I think Canada might actually have the ability to weather the storm more than the U.S. since they seem to be working together as a nation (Post nation state anyone?) where as Americans are going to be pissed from the price increase, but I think Mexico is going to capitulate fast.
Canada is FAR from unified on this. Ontario and BC, both full of moron liberals, want to fight the tariffs, while the prairie provinces are more conservative and want the same things the US is demanding and would defect and join the US if it all came down to that.
 
It's so funny watching boomers completely sperg out going "it's the end of the world my stonk portfolio is only worth 2.8 million instead of three million! Aren't you youngsters outraged? Don't you want to go to war with the fed on our behalf?"

Uh no? Don't call it a grave ect ect.
I want to see if President Trump is successful removing income tax since some boomers I know say that's a terrible idea and things will cost even more.
 
Last thing I bought with justifiable value with Made in America was a cooler. Maybe some Christmas popcorn tins, but the price of those has doubled. Can't name anything else though. American goods aren't competitive and probably won't be for some time.
The coolest things I've purchased that was "Made in America" in recent years were some of my toddler's toys. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that Little Tikes is a "Made in the USA" brand.

But still ... It's sad when you can count the competitive American-made goods with one hand ...
 
And if they're hiring, and people want work, they'll move. The real issue is ensuring you'll have a market when your product hits.
Probably the biggest problem with restoring manufacturing in the US is that us factory workers have been socially demoted.

People talk about what we do like we’re fucking retarded janitors

@StarkRavingMad Melissa and Doug, hell yeah

I’d rather get my kids a few nice things that were designed by people who care about their own kids than some Chinese death chemical trash
 
How long do these jobs take to show up?

The jews have been promising jobs coming back to America for decades.
Alright retard, what do you think happens when a country has tariffs put on it that go higher and higher? Do you think any world leader, even the most idiotic ones, won’t eventually fold? A country like Canada for example needs us, we don’t need them. We are so fucking plentiful in a variety of domestic resources that they will fold.
Where do you think the importer gets the money to pay the tax? Do you think that when business taxes of one kind or another go up, businesses go to their Money Mines and order their Cash Dwarves to mine for money even harder?
Alright, who foots the bill when other countries put tariffs on us?
 
You know it will be nice to see the law being enforced for once. I do think most of these “elite” universities are beyond repair though. Much better off starting new ones, just like we have in the past.
It will never happen. The young ones will always hate the Jews. Look what happens on the Farms any time Trump does something with Israel. They all freak the fuck out and call anyone who supports it a zionist. After decades of this and "Jews controlling the world", it's no wonder so many of these college kids flocked to support Hamas and Palestine. It doesn't matter that the Muslims are peak fuckwads, it's been ingrained in youth now to hate Jews and Israel. It's so bad that I'm about to add an obligatory disclaimer.


Disclaimer: No, I know Jews control the world and are fuckwads. I'm not defending them. I'm just saying this narrative has broken mainstream.
 
Last thing I bought with justifiable value with Made in America was a cooler. Maybe some Christmas popcorn tins, but the price of those has doubled. Can't name anything else though. American goods aren't competitive and probably won't be for some time.
Seriously unless you're buying industrial equipment (and even then internally it's just shit CCP parts not even Taiwanese) good luck. off the top of my head the USA made stuff I regularly use are (not counting food items or shit like tires or how my car is technically made in Texas but owned by a multinational corp): my lodge cast iron (they're the only foundry left in the usa), a pair of usa made new balance, a hat from a small company, my wrangler jeans, my suits and a comb. Everything else is made in China, India, Mexico, Vietnam, Malaysia, Egypt, Japan, Korea or Bangladesh. And of quality Japan, Korea and some Mexican goods are worth buying.
 
Really depends on the type of manufacturing and what you're building, around places I know they can go from empty field to working factory in less than a year.

And if they're hiring, and people want work, they'll move. The real issue is ensuring you'll have a market when your product hits.
The empty lot to factory is planned in advance. They already have a location chosen, have conducted town hall meetings to get public support, gotten all the permits, gone to the planning commission, have plans for water and power to be hooked up, secured regional construction firms, and have the logistics in place for all the machinery they need (manufacturing machinery takes time to engineer and needs to be shipped over either by ship or by semi, but that's even more planning).
 
How does tariff nuking with our neighbors exactly benefit Americans? and, you know, not make everything expensive?

Did they even think this through? maybe, just maybe, waging economic wars with emotions is a retarded idea.
It is a return to the sort of protectionist "island politics" that made us a great and self-sufficient power in the first place. Read American history.
 
With all the coping and sneeding from Trudeau, why didn't he just negotiate?
Trump is a deals guy. Offer him something.
"Trump I understand wanting Tariffs but maybe we can negotiate some existing deals in return for lower tariffs so your infrastructure has time to catch up..."
Something. Anything.
He didn't even try? As far as I can tell he made no counter offer. Even when given an olive branch he did fuck all for the pause period.
Why doesn't Trudeau try to negotiate? At all? It's fucking frustrating to see because I don't like Canadians but it benefits us to have strong, competent neighbors and they're just acting like braindead retards instead of NEGOTIATING.
 
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