Donald Trump Accuses Canada of 'Cheating' Amid Tariff War

- Not what he's talking about. He's still lying and whining, but not saying what you (or the headline) imply he's saying.
  He's saying that the pre-existing tariffs on out of quota dairy products are "cheating US farmers". Which is not true. The body of the article explains this correctly and in good detail, but the headline sucks and nobody ever reads past the headline because we all have brain rot as a species.
  I wonder if a good Fedi alternative to Reddit would do something like force the link to be previewed in full or opened before getting to respond to the aggregation. Or maybe all social media was a mistake and none of it should exist, I don't know.
  And let me be clear, I'm not attacking you here, this is a sytemic issue. Every human is subject to these patterns. Blame our collective wetware.
  
  Social media definitely was a mistake, but at least on the fediverse it's our mistake!
  
  I would get behind "click through before vote"
  Seems like it has potential for abuse, though, aka forcibly driving traffic. It can be defeat-able though, it’s just meant to deter lazy human impulses.
  
  Some apps have previews of the article when you open the comments, which might encourage people to read a bit more of the source content
  
  The even shorter version:
  Canada is following the trade deal that Trump signed into law in 2018, as it pertains to what Trump is confusedly crying about.
  Part of that deal is that if the US exports too much dairy products to Canada, beyond an agreed upon volume, a higher tariff rate kicks in for that excess.
  This isn't even happening, because the US has not exceeded that export limit.
  ...
  So... if by 'cheating', Trump means that the deal is being broken... no, it isn't.
  If by 'cheating', Trump means that the terms of the deal are fundamentally unfair ... it was Trump's fucking deal after he blew up NAFTA! ... so Trump is then saying his own trade deal is fundamentally unfair to America, despite massively hyping it up as awesome during his first term.
  
  I know we all hate AI here... But getting an AI to rewrite headlines to de-sensationalize them sounds like a fantastic feature for a Lemmy client to implement. Just need mods to allow it
  
  if you're into RSS feeds, i've found one for iOS called feeeed that will let you subscribe to subreddits (or lemmy communities, apologies i'm new here) and when you click on them it starts with the article and you have to tab over to the comments. it's been nice.
  
  If the headline is a piece of shit, I'm not reading the damned article.
  Fuck capitalism for ruining everything, and I'm not supporting any journals that clickbait. Most of it is not worth it, and the few that do are not offsetting the risk.
  
  I don’t read past headlines because news websites are cluttered with ads and mandatory requests of my data and are basically unreadable most of the times.

These sky high Tariffs are part of Canada's unfair, long-standing policy to shield domestic producers from foreign competition
"And only I'm allowed to do that", he continued.
It's always projection with this imbecile. At least we always know what he's up to, because he blatantly accuses other people of whatever he's thinking.

"These sky high Tariffs are part of Canada's unfair, long-standing policy to shield domestic producers from foreign competition, especially in Agriculture," he continued. "Our Great U.S. Dairy Farmers deserve fair treatment from Canada. Enjoy it while you can!"
The bastard cries about “unfair policies” that use tariffs to protect a country’s industry and yet in his own Steel and Aluminum tariffs declaration he stated:
“To allow U.S. aluminum producers to restart production and to incentivize new capacity, additional adjustments to section 232 tariffs on aluminum need to be made, including limiting exemptions and increasing the tariff rate.”
Literal toddler tantrums.
- This is Trump trying to tell his MAGA moron farmers that he's fighting for them when he's actually fucked them with these tariffs. US is THE largest agriculture exporters in the world. When the retaliatory tariffs come, his base is going to hurt because of him, they know it, he knows it, so he's trying to change the narrative.
  
  Those farmers are already hurting from when elon killed USAID and suddenly it wasn't buying US farm produce to send overseas

All is fair in love and war. If you did not want to fight as though it were a war, then it would have been better not to send over a declaration of war.
- Came here to say that lol

Classic loser response: "you're cheating"
- They should rage quit as well
  
  "mommy, they're mean to me!!!"
  I remember Trump rage quitting a NATO summit when Merkel, Trudeau, Macron, Johnson and Rutte were making fun of him during his first term. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/04/trump-describes-trudeau-as-two-faced-over-nato-hot-mic-video

Not only is he a shitwit, a fuckwad, and a Nazi, but he's also a fucking pussy.
- How dare you insult and defile the pussy with that hideous human turd! He's probably well over 100 courics!

"These sky high Tariffs are part of Canada's unfair, long-standing policy to shield domestic producers from foreign competition, especially in Agriculture,"
That's exactly what tariffs are for, yes. What did you think they were for?

Trump: "I challenge you to a fist fight!"
[gets punched]
Trump: "No fair! You cheated!"
- Trump is basically Cartman from South Park.

Trump basically tried to play Rochambeau, said "I go first", kicked himself in the balls, then had Canada and Mexico take their turn, and it's now whining like a little bitch that his tiny balls hurt and saying it's not fair.
- Trump is so stupid. He has to be nothing but a distraction for a background political mastermind. How could someone this idiotic have won an election?
  
  Election fraud.
  
  Years of carefully curated anti-intellectualism in every bit of media they consume, because facts didn't suit the wealthy (smoking is bad for you, fossil fuels are destroying the planet, private prisons drive more recidivism are facts that get in the way of someone making lots of money). Those fighting facts that aren't on their side have embraced a number of other groups with anti-intellectual elements (white supremecists / neo-nazis / anti-woke, religious, anti-vaxxers, natural health advocates) to create alliances of anti-intellectual thought.
  This has driven increasing polarisation in the US; 49% of republicans approved of JFK as president, and 49% of democrats approved of Eisenhower. It went down over time - other party approval was 30% of Carter, 31% of Reagan. There was a break in the pattern (44% for Bush Senior), but back on track to 27% for Clinton, 23% for Bush, 13% for Obama, 7% for Trump (first round), and 6% for Biden. So in other words, Americans are so polarised that they'll vote for whoever their side puts up, and for one side, being anti-intellectual is actually seen as a strength.
  I think many of the people who started the anti-intellectualism ball rolling on purpose are wealthy neoliberals who believe in laissez-faire free trade as a fundamental value, and so there is a certain aspect of 'leopards ate my face' to this leading to the anti-intellectualism extending back to rejection of mainstream economics (even though the neoliberals' preferred theory is notoriously flawed, Trump's approach to pulling economic levers is wholesale rejection of all theory rather than replacing it with something less flawed).
  
  The American electorate is mind-blowingly stupid.

Tantrum
- Beautiful
- The absolute despair

the cryest of crybullies

"Not fair! I called tariffs no backsies!"

Yeah... we're definitely cool with becoming dependent on the US for our food supply.

Donald Trump does not lose trade wars. He wins them, or he quits because the other side is cheating.
- I feel that it's his general philosophy

Wow. If he loses even more connection to reality, he'll start getting transparent and floating away.

What a petulant fucking child.

Dude used the word war in a sentence with Canada. And now he's surprised at the result?
- I'm a little surprised they've been so fair actually
  
  They removed all the California Wine from the shelves. They're already getting creative.

The article is "Trump truthed" rage bait.
The "cheating" is on the original USMCA where Canada has imposed steep tariffs on dairy products over a certain quota.

That's been the right wing talking point for a while now. It's the only thing they could come up with, because even to them the Fentanil explanation was to thin. Of course they completely ommit or ignore the quota part.

"Only I'm allowed to do shit" complains world's most pampered grandpa

Like, ignoring a trade deal we created? Oh no, that was him. Donnie, if you're going to attack people, you can't get upset when they defend themselves. Maybe you should just take your ball and go home?
- Ignoring a deal he signed!
- I thought he's a master deal maker?

Idiot fucks around, finds out. More at 11

Canada: "I'll fuckin do it again"

Canadian quotas? Classic Trump move—complain loudly, ignore the facts.
🐱🐱
- I think he's referring to the production management program we have here in Canada where farms apply for production units (against a quota). Still, he doesn't realize that it has helped at least agriculture products here in Canada remain relatively price stable as compared to other products.

What a fucking baby. You reap what you fucking sow. I'm glad Treadau didn't buy into the games of 'TARRIFF!!!...haha just kidding...TARIFFS AGAIN!!! Nope just kidding again'. It was obviously some stupid tactic to act like he was in control of the situation. Glad they're standing up to him.