OT: American Politics

[Cal Gal]

Lol. . .

Always about "I"

 

[Leafyblue]

My bullshit detector just exploded.

 

[hockeylover]

Trump again hyping up his announcement - says it's not necessarily about trade.

"We could sign 25 deals right now but we don't want to, they want to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market"

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lojc4gizkz2a

 

[Wayward DP]

View: https://x.com/cspan/status/1919787452861984786

ultimately it's prolly a good thing for us that he seems to actually like Carney.

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lojbxm2mqh2y

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://bsky.app/profile/klasfeldreports.com/post/3lojblsu2ug2d

 

[hockeylover]

"One day we'll come and give you 100 deals. And they don't even have to sign, they can just say they're sending their ships"

 

[MindzEye]

Trump eats up flattery. This is a brilliant strategy.

Yeah, I'm mostly good with this as an opening salvo. The goal here is to get a deal, or get Trump to honor USMCA. I'm okay with opening up with pleasantries (that can be interpreted a few different ways tbh...) and letting his reaction dictate where we go. He's going to keep shitting himself with this 51st state nonsense, but we're in a better position to make our diversification moves away from the US if we're not bleeding jobs and in a deep recession.

 

[hockeylover]

"Are you prepared to walk away from the USCMA?"
"No, no, it's a fine deal. A very good deal for everybody"

Now talking about how he hated Trudeau and Freeland.

 

[hockeylover]

I think Carney just got Trump to admit they're going to have to change the parts of the USCMA that he "took advantage of to put in tariffs..."

Trump just said "right" and nodded.

 

[hockeylover]

I think Carney can outmaneuver this guy with a smile, maybe.

 

[MindzEye]

I think Carney can outmaneuver this guy with a smile, maybe.

The core problem is that there's no consistency. I'm pleased that USMCA came up in this conversation because we don't need a new deal, we have a brand new fucking deal already. We just need our largest trading partner to fucking honour the deal he himself signed.

But that is going to be an ongoing issue with anything involving Trump.

 

[hockeylover]

Yeah, right now it seems like we're in a better spot because it might be as simple as "he'll honour it if he likes you".

But who knows how long that'd last.

 

[hockeylover]

Press: "Is there anything he could say to you today to get you to lift tariffs on Canada"
Trump: "No"

 

[hockeylover]

Carney: "Respectfully Canadians view of the 51st state is not going to change"

 

[hockeylover]

Trump saying he doesn't want cars or steels from Canada at all, talking about deficits and subsidizing Canada.

Talking about governor Trudeau again.

 

[thehabhater]

"Massive steel plants are being built as we speak"

Where exactly?

 

[MindzEye]

I'm not watching, but it sounds like this is mostly going to script. Surface level flattery, go fuck your 51st state, we're stronger together.

 

[hockeylover]

If you can get him to concede on anything, it ends fairly quickly.

For all the talk about Biden and dementia, if you wait 5 minutes, Trump starts talking like it's a new conversation and goes back to the beginning.