Trump's Tariffs and Trade War

[Womaniser]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/trump-rules-out-exempting-australia-steel-aluminium-tariffs-2025-03-11/

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g-s1-53270/australia-us-tariffs-steel-and-aluminum

Anthony Albanese the PM of Australia has got it right, probably the only country that is doing what is best for the working class. They decided to NOT apply reciprocal tariffs even though the US will be applying tariffs on all aluminum and steel.

PM Anthony Albanese said "But he said imposing reciprocal tariffs on the U.S. would only push up prices for Australian consumers and spur inflation".

"Tariffs and escalating trade tensions are a form of economic self-harm and a recipe for slower growth and higher inflation. They are paid by the consumers. This is why Australia will not be imposing reciprocal tariffs on the United States," Albanese added.

He is right. All these tariffs that Canada is applying is counterproductive and they cannot win. In this the working class is the causality while government cashes in.

It's right but Trump doesn't mind his citizens to pay for the tariiffs he impose on others !
What is the difference ?

 

[Fradi]

Your words about Biden that can't find his way off a stage and in France has been proven lectured videos by cheating Republicans. According to Republicans, Biden was not running the contry but Obama was. If true you should aknoledge that it was much better than Trump first presidency.
Biden inherited the disastrous Covid 19 management by Republican Governors who denied the seriousness of it.
Remember also that there was proportionnaly more deaths in the Republican population. Why ? Disbelieve in vaccin (lower vaccinnation % in Republican population).
So go back to 2021 to 2024 and explain what was so bad.
Yes inflation was high not only in USA but across the planet. Was it Biden's fault ?
I know you're to intelligent to think that !
At least I hope so !

Oh please stop trying to spin the lying scumbag Dems and their senile President.
Time for you to face reality and realize most Politicians are lying scumbags and care little for the people who vote for them.
They are only interested in power, fame and money.
It doesn’t matter whether they are Dems or Republicans Biden, Obama or Trump. or our very own Trudeau.
I despise all of them.

 

[CLOUD 500]

It's right but Trump doesn't mind his citizens to pay for the tariiffs he impose on others !
What is the difference ?

Trump is a madman. But we cannot control Trump? Two wrongs do not make a right. Politicians should do what is best for the working class. Imposing reciprocal tariffs will only put the costs on the consumer, the working class is collateral damage. Best option is to diversify to other markets. Let this be a lesson for all governments not to rely too much on one country for trade. And also for the Canadian government to be pragmatic and not ideological like the Trudeau government has been. Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world. Time to build the east pipeline and export oil east and to Europe. That is a win win for Canada.

 

[Smokemeal2]

Are you kidding.
Having a President who can’t find his way off a stage and has to be hand led is not dangerous. Someone who babbles incomprehensibly through a whole debate.
Having a party lie to the American public for years about an incompetent dementia ridden President is not dangerous.
What world do you live in. The Dems were a bunch of lying scumbags all through the Biden Presidency and deserved to get their ass kicked the way they did.
Unfortunately Trump is proving to be dangerous as well but not for the same reasons.
Mince my words about that cackling word salad DEI loser, nah she proved it by losing everything that was possible to lose in the last election.
The worst candidate the Dems could possibly ever have. Spent almost 2 billion to get the Dems wiped out and she is your hero lol.

Biden never babbled about his great friend Hannibal Lecter.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Don't look now, but the Democrats are about to have another organizational leadership disaster, maybe their biggest since the Biden to Harris presidential candidate transition:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/senate-democrats-budget-shutdown-dilemma/index.html

Listening to the interviews with Democrat voters talking about their leaders reminds me of fans of the 2 NY football teams, the hapless Giants and Jets, talking about the leadership within their organizations. When you see the kind of stuff we saw with the election last year you know something is very wrong. The people know it. The American Democratic voters know it. It is just the Canadian nonvoting observers inthis thread who are not getting the message.

 

[Fradi]

Biden never babbled about his great friend Hannibal Lecter.

This is your comeback lol.
Then again not much you can come up with considering how the Dems lost everything in the last election.
Doesn’t say much when a crooked egotistical raving lunatic can win so bigly over them.

 

[Smokemeal2]

This is your comeback lol.
Then again not much you can come up with considering how the Dems lost everything in the last election.
Doesn’t say much when a crooked egotistical raving lunatic can win so bigly over them.

I wrote why Trump won at post #148

 

[Fradi]

I wrote why Trump won at post #148

Nope Trump won for many reasons.
1. The economy and high inflation
2. The complete shit show and influx of millions of illegal alliens at the border.
3. The whole never ending woke bs about gender and pronouns, men in women’s sports etc…
4. The smug elitist attitude of Dems forever calling anybody not agreeing with them as being low iQ and uneducated morons.
5. The crime rate going up in all cities with Dems wanting to defund police departments.
6. 4 years of lying to the public about the obvious mental decline of Biden.
7. The whole DEI system put in place where people were given jobs and promoted based on colour, gender or ethnicity not on their capabilities.
8. The nomination of a DEI cackling word salad idiot to run against Trump for President.

I could name many more but all this allowed a crooked egotistical lunatic to completely destroy the Dems in the election and now the whole world has to live with his lunacy and suffer the consequences.

Well done Dems you should be so proud.

 

[Smokemeal2]

Nope Trump won for many reasons.
1. The economy and high inflation
2. The complete shit show and influx of millions of illegal alliens at the border.
3. The whole never ending woke bs about gender and pronouns, men in women’s sports etc…
4. The smug elitist attitude of Dems forever calling anybody not agreeing with them as being low iQ and uneducated morons.
5. The crime rate going up in all cities with Dems wanting to defund police departments.
6. 4 years of lying to the public about the obvious mental decline of Biden.
7. The whole DEI system put in place where people were given jobs and promoted based on colour, gender or ethnicity not on their capabilities.
8. The nomination of a DEI cackling word salad idiot to run against Trump for President.

I could name many more but all this allowed a crooked egotistical lunatic to completely destroy the Dems in the election and now the whole world has to live with his lunacy and suffer the consequences.

Well done Dems you should be so proud.

I will stop you at point 1. The US had the best economy of the planet post covid. Best indice and all.

Inflation was all over the planet.

It's idiot Trump who made maga believe the economy was horrible. Because Trump is horrible and MAGA's have no decent brain to think by themselves. This is the reason why they embrace Trump's racism and misogyny.

 

[Womaniser]

I will stop you at point 1. The US had the best economy of the planet post covid. Best indice and all.

Inflation was all over the planet.

It's idiot Trump who made maga believe the economy was horrible. Because Trump is horrible and MAGA's have no decent brain to think by themselves. This is the reason why they embrace Trump's racism and misogyny.

"MAGA's having no decent brain" is what I have been writing for years !
Not all Republicans but all real MAGAS that applauded him at his rallies and were once abandonned in a desert with no way to be brought back to their cars last summer !