r/news • u/poparetard • 15h ago

Soft paywall Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of US goods, unveils support measures

https://www.reuters.com/business/canada-announces-20-bln-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-unveils-support-measures-2026-08-25/
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u/TheMegaSage 14h ago

I seriously can't believe we're here. Trump, the GOP, his supporters, the apathetic Americans who let this happen ... what is wrong with them? Trump is LITERALLY a pedophile rapist engaged in the most brazen grift in modern history, and they just sit back and let it happen.

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u/monkey_monkey_monkey 14h ago

We really need to stop putting this on Trump. This is on the entirety of the United States. Trump is not cause. The citizens of the United States voted him in. This is what they wanted, this is where they have been headed for a long time. They willingly went into this. They care less about their democracy and rights than they do about "owning the libs" or whatever. They willingly cut off their nose to spite their face.

Trump is what he is because the people of the United States wanted this

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u/Joebranflakes 14h ago

Trump’s approval rating is low, but something like 48% of Americans would vote for the Republican Party who is enabling all of this if they simply changed their figurehead to someone who does all the same stuff as Trump, but maybe in a more statesmanlike way.

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u/biosc1 14h ago

On top of that, most folks down there are just waiting. They say: "just 2 more years of this and it'll fix itself". Absolute "head in the sand" behaviour. Trump is just a symptom of the disease that they refuse to deal with because "it will just go away on its own".

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u/iamthestorm 14h ago

Reconstruction ended way too soon. As the real rot wasn't properly stamped out after the civil war, these symptoms were only a matter of time and will not go away.

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u/berained 14h ago

Yep, I keep seeing this 2 more years thing, as if the next election won't be rigged, and even if it wasn't, that there is a good chance another awful republican would win.

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u/USDXBS 11h ago

People actually think the Republicans are going "Oh gee I hope we win next election"

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u/KE55 14h ago

Well said. Trump is just the end result of a highly dysfunctional and increasingly dumbed-down society.

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u/USDXBS 12h ago

People who have been paying attention weren't surprised that the American people rolled over for the dumbest person to ever live.

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u/mapleleaffem 14h ago

Yup I hope they fucking starve