The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.
both. this wasn’t a surprise. he said he’s gonna do it and 160 million people said “go ahead”.
“the people” does not mean everyone. in a democracy the will of the people is determined by the majority. it feels like the 97th time I’m saying this but here you go maybe it goes through this time. must be interference.
yes it’s exactly how democracy works. whoever gets the most votes gets to represent the people’s will. if he had lied about it during the campaign like he lies about pretty much everything I would’ve said yeah this isn’t what the people wanted, he did a bait and switch. but he didn’t. he said he’s gonna do tariffs and be a dictator on day 1, and 160 million people said ok be our lord king please.
not all, again literally no one said that, but certainly not “some”. 160 million of the eligible voters. that’s 68%. it’s a landslide.
I see where the confusion is. It’s 2 things:
Tariffs were originally sold as being for China and any company that threatened to take production outside our borders in order to stimulate the US economy while not harming the average American…wild applause. But also lies. He is now adding tariffs to anyone(countries) that annoys him. He altered the deal, let us pray he doesn’t alter it further. Spoiler, he will. Nobody wanted this. Canada tariffs aren’t a thing before last week, AFTER he was elected. Didn’t really uphold the campaign promise if he never made it. At least we agree that he isn’t the type of person to keep a promise anyway. That’s why there is an article on the community for THEONION…
The only reason I jumped in this thread was because you “attacked” someone for saying that the American citizens didn’t want or vote for any of this, or is that my fever dream again. So by your logic EVERYONE has to agree with Trumps decision because YOU don’t allow for anyone to disagree with Trump and calling that democracy. Why, because he won the popular vote? Again, you “attack” those that disagree with your POV. You are right, you didn’t say everyone voted for Trump but you also don’t think it matters that people have disagreements with his actions/policies/rhetoric/ramblings(because at this point they are the same thing) because like you said “you can’t get out of it this time” as if we, the people that DIDN’T vote for him, are responsible.
A big factor that lead to Trump winning was because of all of the minority support, not just the protest non-votes. Don’t forget the voter suppression, or my personal favorite election fraud. Minorities, specifically Latinos, are already the first to protest on any significant scale, not that it matters. LGBTQ is probably next in size. As more time passes and he continues to fuck over the American people, and ultimately the world, I see that popularity starting to wane. Especially after he starts firing more people and runs out of people to blame for everything hitting the fan. Buyers remorse is real. Not that it matters with all of the talk about having voting fixed so good for the next election. We couldn’t stop him as an ordinary citizen, what the fuck makes you think we can stop him as “lord king” even with your precious popular vote.