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It's kinda #sad when a #Canadian who's just a moderately-informed layman interested in world affairs and #geopolitics has a better grasp of what the USA starting a #war with #Iran would entail in terms of consequences than the "president" who ordered it or the Secretary of Defence that is carrying it out.

#USPol #SecDef #Trump #Hegseth #Kegbreath #MangoMussolini #idiot #consequences #FAFO #USA #USAnian

I paid a lot more to fill up my car a few days ago than I had for months beforehand. But it has just kept going up since then.

The discount gas at CostCo is listed as being the cheapest in my city right now, at $1.599 / litre. Just over a month ago - I only fill up about once a month - I was paying $1.099.

45% jump because Pedophile of the United States (#POTUS) bombed #Iran to start operation Epstein Fury. I don't doubt it's going to go up a hell of a lot more, and stay high for the forseeable future.

I think Canada should shut down all #petroleum exports to the USA. Keep the oil here and refine it, increase domestic supply to at least #temper the #price increases. USAnians can pay more for scarcer gas - it might finally get the #MAGAts to start complaining to their #Congresscritters and #Senators to get a leash on their dog.

#gasoline #gas #GasPrices #Canada #USA #USAnian #EpicFury #EpsteinFury #OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Trump #pedophile #inflation #trade #distraction #WagTheDog #CanPol #USPol

So I hear tomorrow is open-mike night at the old folks' assisted-living facility?

That merits live media coverage somehow?

#USPol #USAnian #Trump #dementia #rant #speech #ramble

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".

More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.

#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump

Well, this is a real scheduling fustercluck. Who thought having the Superbowl and the winter Olympics on at the same time was a good idea?

Now I have to try to figure how I'm supposed to ignore both of them simultaneously.

#sports #SportsBall #SuperbOwl #Olympics #yawn #NoFunLeague #NFL #USAnian

RE: https://mastodon.fyksen.me/@fredrik/116005566048627976

If the security model for your public product depends on #USAnian corporations, your security model is broken.

[The single widely used Norwegian mobile payment app requires Google Play to work]

#infosec #brokenByDesign #foss

So the #USAnians sent a "special envoy" to Greenland.

This is a #diplomatic faux pas to start with - #Greenland is an autonomous division of the #Danish kingdom, and so all diplomatic actions should (at least to start) be done by approaching Denmark, through the USA ambassador to Denmark. Bypassing that is Not Done. Extremely rude. Like, "drop your trousers and shit on the floor in front of the queen" #rude.

So that's bad enough.

But the *reason* for the envoy is to try to convince Greenland to #separate from #Denmark, and join the #USA. i.e. it's just another extension of the "We'll take Greenland" #bullshit the #insane #orange mental-defect-in-diapers was pushing a while back. This is, from a diplomatic standpoint, unspeakably rude. Unimaginably so. Simply unfathomable, except for the fact that the USA *elected* that #fascist #asshole to behave this way.

So the normal diplomatic response would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA #ambassador, and ask him for an explanation, and the ambassador would be expected to provide an #apology to some degree.

But given Trump's penchant for appointing his kind of c*cksuckers as ambassadors, and zero respect for any kind of #behavioural standards, the appropriate response here would be for the Danish PM to summon the USA ambassador, and then #stab him in the #face.

#USPol #diplomacy #TuckFrump #FauxPas #FoxPaws #diplomat #Trump #MangoMussolini #king #SmallHands #SDE #demented #dementia #USAnian

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, accompanied by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., today held a press conference at which they announced a new federal regulation that purports to pre-empt all federal and state law that make use of seatbelts mandatory on trains, planes, buses, and private vehicles, on the grounds of YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM! Spokespersons for the two agencies hid under their desks while yelling "No obbla inglays!".

#USPol #USA #USAnian #freedumb #idiot #BobbyBrainworm #JFK #SeanDuffy #Trump #moron #regulation #law #YoureNotMyRealMom

@offby1

... and it doesn't even include #USAnian, which is the one I see (and use) most often!

So, about https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk8.a2x1.YtgE-iuJUdk5 ...

The USAnian government (read: White House) has ordered the CIA to conduct clandestine operations in Venezuela. There's only one possible object: "regime change", which used to be known as toppling a foreign government, or fomenting a coup. The CIA has a long history of these attempts, though they aren't actually very good at it. They tend to either fail, or produce huge unexpected negative consequences [1].

Of course this is illegal under international law. That generally has no effect on USAnian actions.

But when any other country is found to have even the slightest influence operation going on in the USA [2], the chickenhawks in Congress start baying for blood [3]. Hypocrisy much?

[1] Unexpected to the CIA and the government. Actual experts on the countries in question (or even interested laypeople) universally predict these consequences accurately, in advance.

[2] Or at least, this used to be the case. Russian foreign influence operations paying large sums of money to MAGA-type "influencers" have gotten a rather positive welcome of late.

[3] I'm aware that chickens don't actually bay.

#USPol #RegimeChange #Venezuela #coup #topple #government #law #illegal #InternationalLaw #USAnian #CIA #incompetence

If you are a #weirdo like me, and enjoy reading #legal documents, particularly when written by judges or lawyers who have a real flair for writing, and if you are #weirder and like following the legal and #constitutional aspects of the USA's descent into #fascism even though you are not #USAnian and do not live in the USA, then the ruling written by Justice William G. Young in the case about the administration violating the free speech rights of noncitizens legally in the #USA is an absolute corker.

The entire thing is good, but at 161 pages, it's a bit of a slog, particularly because it has to document the entire timeline of the case.

Instead, start reading at page 149.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

Why? The last dozen pages are explicitly laying out the legal and constitutional problems with Donald #Trump himself. This text is something that should have been published months ago in the New York Times or The Atlantic or some other serious #journalism outlet. That it takes a judge to write it is the ultimate indictment of the USA's mainstream #media.

Elsewhere, he also calls out Congress and the fourth estate for their failures to rein in the aspiring dictator, though he has to tread carefully while doing it.

#USPol #NYT #NewYorkTimes #Atlantic #TheAtlantic #MainstreamMedia #news #ruling #invective #FourthEstate #journalist #fail

So the #USAnian company that owns almost all the daily #newspapers in #Canada is now branching out into ... parcel delivery?

https://postmediaparcelservices.com

So someone thought "We know something about going to peoples' houses, we should be good at logistics"?

Weird. I only found out about this because I got an email from them about a delivery. I guess they got a contract with Amazon, because that's the only one I'm expecting?

Weird.

#PostMedia #courier #delivery #parcel #Amazon

@ginaintheburg

I don't think Canada can be any clearer to Americans who think we'd be happy to join the USA. Our collective response, barring a few weird MAGA-like oddballs (less than 5%), is:

"GO FUCK YOURSELVES"

Canada is a sovereign nation, and will remain that way. Woe to the power that tries to change that.

#Canada #sovereignty #USAnian

Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...

His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:

> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.

The Panama canal, maybe.

The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.

The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.

So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.

[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.

#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian

Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...

His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:

> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.

The Panama canal, maybe.

The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.

The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.

So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.

[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.

#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian

Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...

His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:

> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.

The Panama canal, maybe.

The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.

The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.

So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.

[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.

#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian

Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...

His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:

> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.

The Panama canal, maybe.

The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.

The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.

So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.

[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.

#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian

Just when you thought he couldn't get stupider or more historically ignorant...

His Orangeness Mango Mussolini, the Melon Felon, has a bee in his bonnet [1] about canals, but it's not just about #Panama now. On his social network - a fork of Mastodon, of course - he wrote:

> American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel,
> free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would
> not exist without the United States of America.

The Panama canal, maybe.

The Suez canal, however, was proposed by a #Frenchman, financed primarily by #Europeans, built by forced and voluntary labour sourced from countries in the region under the management of the French, and then operated by a French company with a contract for 99 years.

The USA had absolutely #zilch to do with the Suez canal. Which is probably for the best, because the USA was kind busy fighting its own civil war and then the #reconstruction that followed it - the canal was built from 1859 to 1869.

So, Mr. Trump: pull your head out of your ass, admit your ignorance, apologize to Egypt, France, and the rest, and slink off to your history-free corner of D.C. with your tail between your legs.

[1] Maybe it's good he has a bee in there. There isn't much else rattling around in that particular bone soap dish.

#MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #Trump #ignorant #ignorance #stupid #stupidity #canal #PanamaCanal #SuezCanal #Suez #history #ahistorical #USPol #USA #USAnian

I'm going to try reeeal hard to stop using the expression "#American" for people from the United States of America, since it seems like an insult to other nations in the Americas. What then? #USAnian perhaps.

#USPol

Questions and an idea for my #USAnian friends...

Your ~~feral~~ federal government is currently being commandeered by an executive that believes that it can rewrite the U.S. constitution via executive orders. One of the primary techniques they are using is usurping the congress's "power of the purse", by either refusing to spend congressionally-allocated funds, or by spending those funds on things other than congress allocated them for.

If the executive branch thinks it's fine to ignore your constitution and screw taxpayers with tax dollars, then...

1) Most of the feds' tax income comes from income tax and various #employment taxes.

2) Employers collect these taxes and remit them to the government.

3) Q: exactly *who* do they remit them to? Based on history, I would think this would be a state agency, who would keep the state/municipal portion and remit the rest to the federal government. Is this correct?

4) "Blue" states are, in general, net payers of tax dollars vs. federal services received.

5) "Red" states are, in general, the opposite - they receive more in federal services / support than they remit in taxes.

So, depending on the answer to (3), my #idea is: why don't blue states stop remitting funds to the federal #government? Don't steal it, just hold it in trust until the feds can be made to follow the law correctly.

I would think this would hurt the feds, a *lot*.

#American #taxes #remissions #remit #income #spending #RedState #BlueState #trust

I recently learned the word “Usanian” (referring to our erstwhile friends south of the border), and I have to say, one of the things that makes it so appealing to me is that it sounds vaguely vulgar.

#USA
#Usanian
#American
#Canada

This time, I agree with Justin Trudeau on something. Uninviting - banning - the president of the USA from attending the G7 summit in Kananaskis in June.

He's the elected head of the government of a member state of the G7; he clearly must be allowed to attend.

But they should *totally* make him sit at the kids' table.

#USPol #G7 #Canada #Canadian #USAnian #trump #child #Kananaskis #Trudeau #JustinTrudeau

@bradfeicht

The thing that is the problem here isn't actually patriotism, though it masks itself as such.

It's the "my country, right or wrong" jingoism that calls itself patriotism, but which actually substitutes for rational thought. It serves as a litmus test to "other" anyone who doesn't believe in the innate and permanent superiority of a country and its people over everyone else.

It's what's responsible for a lot of what's going on in the developing hell to our south.

Real patriotism is concerned with how we treat everyone - our less fortunate citizens and the other peoples of the world. It is concerned with our values, our morals, our ethics. It is about being proud of our good deeds, without shying away from turning a critical eye to the ones where we did not meet our own high standards.

I worry about this sudden outbreak of jingoism in Canada as well. We're not "better than everyone else WOO" like USAnians, but this is not a good portent.

#jingoism #patriotism #pride #proud #Canada #Canadian #USAnian #USA

@bruces

@jwz refers to the fediverse scolding brigade as the "Mastodon HOA", and if you're familiar with that peculiarly USAnian institution, full of wannabe-dictators and fun police, it's quite apt.

I alt-text my images. But not because randos show up in the replies demanding it -- despite them.

#HOA #MastodonHOA #USAnian #scold #FediScold

BTW, to our #USAnian friends...

It's "hockey". Not "ice hockey".

You're welcome.

#hockey #IceHockey #Canada

#Mexico and #Canada, and every nation in the #EU, should now insist on proof of vaccination against all generally preventable diseases from Americans prior to entry into their country.

If you want Bobby Brainworm in charge of your public health, it's your funeral, but you don't get to spread those germs in our countries to those of our citizens that are too vulnerable to be immunized.

#RFKjr #BobbyBrainworm #vaccine #vaccination #proof #USAnian #USPol

@CitizenWald

Nice to hear from you, and thanks for your kind words. We know not all USAnians fit the stereotype, but it's still pleasant to run into the counter-examples.

Regarding "real country up there" -- I have to admit, some of us have been looking southwards lately and wondering if the USA is really just three banana republics in a trench coat ...

#USA #USAnian #BananaRepublic #TrenchCoat

Re: tariffs, trade wars, and insane rapist degenerates who think they're kings...

The rest of the world probably knows this, but for our #USAnian friends, the single most offensive thing about President Felon's actions in violating our trade agreements with the USA -- trade agreements which *he* signed -- is this little addition:

> An official told the newspaper that these tariffs contained a retaliation
> clause that would ratchet up American tariffs if Mexico, Canada or China
> tried to place their own tariffs on US goods in response.

"We're going to violate our signed trade agreement, which has the force of law in both our countries, and you're just going to sit there and take it. You can't retaliate in kind or we'll get mad."

*That* is the American "exceptionalism" that the rest of the world hates. The sheer hubris that leads anyone to expect that edict to just be obeyed because We're American is the reason for the world's contempt.

Individual Americans can be, and frequently are, lovely people. But something happens in the aggregate that makes you absolutely insufferable at times. This is one of those times.

#Canada #trade #hubris #exceptionalism #American #Canadian #tariff #TradeWar #MangoMussolini #insufferable

Re: tariffs, trade wars, and insane rapist degenerates who think they're kings...

The rest of the world probably knows this, but for our #USAnian friends, the single most offensive thing about President Felon's actions in violating our trade agreements with the USA -- trade agreements which *he* signed -- is this little addition:

> An official told the newspaper that these tariffs contained a retaliation
> clause that would ratchet up American tariffs if Mexico, Canada or China
> tried to place their own tariffs on US goods in response.

"We're going to violate our signed trade agreement, which has the force of law in both our countries, and you're just going to sit there and take it. You can't retaliate in kind or we'll get mad."

*That* is the American "exceptionalism" that the rest of the world hates. The sheer hubris that leads anyone to expect that edict to just be obeyed because We're American is the reason for the world's contempt.

Individual Americans can be, and frequently are, lovely people. But something happens in the aggregate that makes you absolutely insufferable at times. This is one of those times.

#Canada #trade #hubris #exceptionalism #American #Canadian #tariff #TradeWar #MangoMussolini #insufferable

Re: tariffs, trade wars, and insane rapist degenerates who think they're kings...

The rest of the world probably knows this, but for our #USAnian friends, the single most offensive thing about President Felon's actions in violating our trade agreements with the USA -- trade agreements which *he* signed -- is this little addition:

> An official told the newspaper that these tariffs contained a retaliation
> clause that would ratchet up American tariffs if Mexico, Canada or China
> tried to place their own tariffs on US goods in response.

"We're going to violate our signed trade agreement, which has the force of law in both our countries, and you're just going to sit there and take it. You can't retaliate in kind or we'll get mad."

*That* is the American "exceptionalism" that the rest of the world hates. The sheer hubris that leads anyone to expect that edict to just be obeyed because We're American is the reason for the world's contempt.

Individual Americans can be, and frequently are, lovely people. But something happens in the aggregate that makes you absolutely insufferable at times. This is one of those times.

#Canada #trade #hubris #exceptionalism #American #Canadian #tariff #TradeWar #MangoMussolini #insufferable

Re: tariffs, trade wars, and insane rapist degenerates who think they're kings...

The rest of the world probably knows this, but for our #USAnian friends, the single most offensive thing about President Felon's actions in violating our trade agreements with the USA -- trade agreements which *he* signed -- is this little addition:

> An official told the newspaper that these tariffs contained a retaliation
> clause that would ratchet up American tariffs if Mexico, Canada or China
> tried to place their own tariffs on US goods in response.

"We're going to violate our signed trade agreement, which has the force of law in both our countries, and you're just going to sit there and take it. You can't retaliate in kind or we'll get mad."

*That* is the American "exceptionalism" that the rest of the world hates. The sheer hubris that leads anyone to expect that edict to just be obeyed because We're American is the reason for the world's contempt.

Individual Americans can be, and frequently are, lovely people. But something happens in the aggregate that makes you absolutely insufferable at times. This is one of those times.

#Canada #trade #hubris #exceptionalism #American #Canadian #tariff #TradeWar #MangoMussolini #insufferable

@lauren

You did, and full credit to you.

It's kinda weird. For 40% of the US population, that is as obvious as the sun rising, but for another 40%, they don't see it even if it's happening, to them, right now.

Denial, river in Egypt, etc, etc.

I really hope, for the sake of all my #USAnian friends, that the veil is lifted from many eyes in time for the mid-term elections in 2 years, and you can get a functioning, reality-based congress of adults to at least put the brakes on the stupid a little.

#USPol #politics #chaos #moron

Mr. #Trump is greatly misinformed about #Canadians wanting Canada to be the #USA's 51st state. Well, he's greatly misinformed about most things, but this is recent.

Mr. Trump, please find a good book on each of the following points, and get one of your #toadies to read it to you:

1) None of Canada's 10 #provinces and 3 #territories is named The #Sudetenland.

2) The last time a #US #president decided he'd like to take over #Canada, we marched to #Washington and burned it to the ground. You might have heard a song we wrote about it.

3) We're the reason the White House is white. It didn't start out that way.

Jingoism, bluster, lies, delusions, and dementia isn't a great combination of characteristics for a U.S. president. Why'd you Americans decide to add "convicted felon" and "sex abuser" to that list?

#CanPol #USPol #illiterate #DJT #rape #rapist #SexAbuse #felon #ConvictedFelon #MangoMussolini #WhiteHouse #WarOf1812 #USAnian #American #history #fascism

With the orange one's blathering about slapping #tariffs on #imports from #Canada, #Mexico, and #China, lots of people are pointing out (correctly!) that it's #USAnian #consumers that will pay the (literal) price of the tariffs. Manufacturers and importers pass their #costs along to the final buyer; there's no other way it can work.

The claimed "cost of living" MAGA voters are going to get a really nasty shock as these price increases work through the system, particularly the China one. Dear Leader has said he wants an eventual 60%, or even 100% tariff on everything from China.

To a first approximation, *everything* in Walmart except food is made in China. And much of the food comes from Canada and Mexico. Ditto for virtually every other low-price retailer.

How is that cost-of-living voter going to feel when the price of everything at Walmart goes up by 40, 50, 60% or more?

Either Cheeto Mussolini is going to get a very swift #economics lesson, or his billionaire backers are going to get him to back down on tariffs.

#consequences #UnintendedConsequences #EconomicsInOneLesson #HenryHazlitt #CheetoMussolini #OrangeOne #MadeInChina #USPol

@czarbucks

Yup, you can't just "come to visit" and forget to leave. If you arrive as a visitor (no visa needed atm for USAnians), there is a maximum time you can stay, and you can't work. Violators will get deported, and likely banned from ever re-entering Canada.

If you want to move here, you would need to apply (while still in the USA) for the appropriate immigrant permit/status.

#Canada #USA #USAnian #migrate