Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[iam416]

There's one supermarket in Saskatoon and one dairy shelf that is mostly expired string cheese with a smattering of moose fat products. Again -- Canada is a fucking hellhole.

[iam416]

The tariff nonsense could pretty easily be DJT's undoing. What he's doing otherwise -- DOGE -- even Ukraine -- is probably 50% or better. Border and DEI -- through the roof. But, it's the economy stupid. And if you fuck around you will find out. I mean -- there are definite tariff-ripe targets -- Chinese steel, eg. But, there isn't much precision. Of course, it's going to crush Canada -- I mean, Canada is going to be in absolute pain. But, I'm not sure to what end. I can see the bigger picture for other stuff -- some times I have to squint -- but I can see it. This, I don't see the long play.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Targeting Canadian lumber and aluminum specifically is aggressively stupid. Especially when you campaigned on getting prices down practically overnight. We were all going to be shocked at how easy it is!

I know it sounds halfway nuts but I believe he is sincere in wanting to make some big territorial acquisition for his "legacy".

[iam416]

Yeah, I think it's all-the-way nuts. But, as a matter of politics, you can blame The Chairman and his nonsense until you take aggressive intervening acts that shift the responsibility to you. So, the tariffs are, IMO, twofold stupid -- (1) as a matter of economic policy, they're a tax and taxes are bad economic business; and (2) it claims ownership of economic conditions much sooner than needs to be done -- politically speaking.

[froot loops]

Trump has this weird infatuation with the Gilded Age, he believes tariffs are good. He also thinks William McKinley was a great president. There is no long play here.

I've never been to Saskatoon but BC is sweet. Vancouver is an awesome city

[klondike]

Yeah, I think it's all-the-way nuts. But, as a matter of politics, you can blame The Chairman and his nonsense until you take aggressive intervening acts that shift the responsibility to you. So, the tariffs are, IMO, twofold stupid -- (1) as a matter of economic policy, they're a tax and taxes are bad economic business; and (2) it claims ownership of economic conditions much sooner than needs to be done -- politically speaking.

It's good for the producer. Manufacturers love them as they make the economy stronger. Trump loves a strong economy. The problem is it affects the consumer negatively. Trump seems oblivious to this two fold system.

The one good thing about having lowly Canada as a token state is you can get rid of grandma easily for some little ailment as they have no-fault euthanasia. They in fact encourage patients entering hospitals to get kavorkianed

[Dr. Strangelove]

Yeah, I think it's all-the-way nuts. But, as a matter of politics, you can blame The Chairman and his nonsense until you take aggressive intervening acts that shift the responsibility to you. So, the tariffs are, IMO, twofold stupid -- (1) as a matter of economic policy, they're a tax and taxes are bad economic business; and (2) it claims ownership of economic conditions much sooner than needs to be done -- politically speaking.

Add to this that there's no consistent stated goal. It changes day to day. Trump's constantly moving the goalposts for what Canada needs to do to end this. To use a dated reference, it's Calvinball. There's also no reason to think that Trump won't just change his mind 1 year from now and demand everything be renegotiated again. His word is worthless. He just posted something complaining that we buy electricity from Canada in the first place and demands to know who allowed this and why. Everyone will be shocked to hear that the USMCA signed by Trump in 2019 directly allows it.

[Jeff Buchanan]

DJT is assaulting the economies of countries who import to the US, and in the process create trade imbalances that Trump argues hurts all sectors of the US economy. Trump wants to wipe those out and he thinks doing this will bring manufacturing back to the US and the "long-play" with that approach is a strong economic boom in the US (a return to the "Gilded Age."). I dunno .......

Analysts I'm reading aren't as upbeat as Trump and his advisors are about this approach. The US economy, according to the Feds most recent take on it is that "the US economy will decline in the 1st quarter of this year." By all measures, that's what's happening. The slide is likely to continue, it is said. Factors in play are the looming trade war which creates uncertainty and Trump's chaotic economic policy statements that add to it. Consumer sentiment is also taking a hit creating less drive for consumption - a big part of the US economy. Of course, Trump would like to "transition" the the health of the US economy to health estimates that rely more on manufacturing. To that end, Trump has defended his action by saying there will be short term pain but long term gain.

I believe that fundamentally, Trump's path forward is defensible. However, the actual long term outcome is, at this point, unknown. That's because a complicated interlocking web of global trade has emerged over the last 30 years. It would seem, the global economy involving major economic players on it's stage, has grown to the benefit of all due to a prevailing economic and political stability for at least the last 15-20 years. That is being upset, somewhat by the ME Israel v. Hamas, et. al. conflict, and the Ukraine v. Russia wars, but, in greater part, contributing to that upset is a new disruptive force in the form of the President of the US.

[crashcourse]

one of these days im going to enroll in a course to understand buchananspeak

In the meantime tommorrow morning is the perfect time to Buy Buy Buy--unfortumately i'm a day early--sold the bonds bought the s&P --wait it out until it gets back over 6100

[Da Geezer]

Again, why would Canada only be the 51st state? You just convert the provinces into states.

Because no one wants Quebec. Canada doesn't want Quebec.

[lineygoblue]

If you are of conservative beliefs, you don't really want Ontario either. Its the Canadian version of Oregon and Washington politically. No national candidate wins in Canada without the support of Ontario. That's why Trudeau survived so long.

[lineygoblue]

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[Dr. Strangelove]

That was a nice Tesla commercial Trump shot out in front of the White House yesterday. I hear they're offering 0% APR on new ones right now. When the stock dips 45% in 3 months you start getting desperate I guess.