34 Replies to “Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter”

  1. So I guess Trump will be dropping the tariffs on Canadian aluminium and steel from 50% to 10%. Hopefully that will put a bunch of people back to work on both sides of the border.

      1. Still bitter Carney cut off your safe drug supply?

        These are people who want to work. Why do you resent that?

        1. Well, let’s dissect that, shall we?

          First off, I don’t do any drugs, legal or not, so your limp wristed insult falls somewhat flat.

          Second, my issue is the pricks down east are the ones who have voted us into the situation this shithole of a country is currently in, election after election after election.

          Third, I believe it’s called karma and I’m savouring the [spit] Prog tears. It’s common knowledge that in order to make a sea change in one’s life, one must hit rock bottom. Let’s see if this changes any attitudes towards the left.

    2. He’s doing the 10% across the board because the Supreme Court ruled back in the 70’s that it was constitutional when Nixon did it under emergency powers. Those would only be authorized for 150 days.

      They ruled today he cannot tariff individual countries but he could completely ban trade with individual countries.

      Canada should probably can it with the elbows up stuff, because you know Trump is itching to use the full ban on someone as an example that the Supreme Court should have let the tariffs stand.

  3. like the estute uniquely SUCCESSFUL businessman he is, *always have a backup plan*.
    bravo president Lowest-Murder_rate-In-125-Years bravo to you sire make godam sure the one who follows is on the same page.

    1. Trump should get a statue for that. But he won’t because some bitter people would rather see blood in the streets than see Trump get credit for anything good.

  4. Miller just said what I was thinking, embargo, and these asshole will learn what fair trade is. And to 316, people need to learn to understand a conversation before opening yap, and get informed before voting.

    1. I’m game. Westerners have been calling for Ontario and Quebec Liberals to starve and freeze to death in the dark for decades. President Trump might be the US president willing to finally listen.

      1. hey, lm game. pffft. having been born and lived in an unisulated wood frame hoiuse with NO FURNACE only the kitchen stove for heat which pa would stoke, then ma make him b’fast and sibling off to school, little 0-5 yrs age kritter bundled in the crib his metabolism hard wired to burn off all the calories in body heat.
        the beauty of it all, 7 decades later, high tolerance for cold, and to this day l can pig out and not put on weight. so bring it on. lower lower lower them thermostats. just the other day was at my fav burger shop, theirs was set to 57F. l did NOT begrudge it at all, in fact l concluded in time it will be THE TREND for small businesses.
        we had a cold snap SW Ont and elsewhere. some shops closed for the day.

        its coming. (p.s. gonna STAY that way in the absence of ‘the pipeline’,
        way to go ‘elbows up’ gang!!!)

  5. We’ve never left the schoolyard.
    Vonnegut said….imagine that your high school union is now running things.
    I paraphrase.

  6. Note to the Trump Admin.: DO NOT even ENTERTAIN the idea of “paying back” the “illegal” tariffs. Why? because those tariffs were TAXES on the American people. None other than Jerry Powell … the Chief of The Federal Reserve … declared that Trump’s tariffs were TAXES on the American people which would inevitably lead to higher and sustained inflation. He has kept interest rates HIGH for that very reason.

    And because Trump’s tariffs were passed on to consumers as “taxes” … not a single company, country or individual has any damages whatsoever. They were all made whole by the “taxes” Trump forced consumers to pay.

    You can’t have it both ways, Trump tariff detractors. YOU certified that Trump’s tariffs were being PAID by the American consumer … so only the American people can claim damages from Trump’s (now) illegal tariffs.

    No wonder the SCOTUS said NOTHING about repayment of tariffs. They’re not stupid … just cowards.

    1. I’m looking forward to my $BIG$ tariff refund check! And may I suggest cutting those checks sometime in late October 2026.

    1. And what “sketchiness” would that be exactly? The nonsense being spoon fed to you by the lunatic media?

      Because it was Trump who was one of the first people who called the Palm Beach police when it was revealed that Epstein was under investigation in the 2000s. Trump told the chief, Michael Reiter, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” according to a document recounting their conversation that is part of the tranche of Epstein files released by the Justice Department.

  8. “The Supreme Court also affirmed that under IEEPA, the president has authority to restrict, impede, deny, license, or even fully embargo any foreign trade.”

    Good. So all Trump has to do now is declare a 100 percent embargo on trade with Chinada Province and see how eager the know-it-alls are to starve and freeze to death in the dark.

    The Cubans are lucky. It doesn’t snow much in Cuba.

    1. lm confooosed. is there still an embargo of ships around Coooba blocking entry of,
      oh, say, Rooshin ships delivering nukes? just *how* is the USA preventing economic
      and commercial activity in Fideland?

      1. Did you know that F. Scott FitzGerald had two cousins who organized boycotts? M. Bargo FitzGerald and S. Chew FitzGerald.

    2. So, if the President has the authority to “license” foreign trade, could a “license” that tacks a (say) 25% licensing fee on incoming trade transactions with a certain country be effectively the same as a 25% tariff on goods from that country?

  9. 150 days of tariffs. Terrifying. No company is going to change its investment strategy in response to a 5-month tariff.

    And it might well be overturned by the courts before then. The president is only supposed to invoke section 122 tariffs in response to a balance-of-payments crisis, which does not currently exist.

    This was a golden opportunity for Trump to give up on his tariffs. He could blame the courts for the failure. Prices would have fallen and markets would have risen. Maybe the Republicans wouldn’t get wiped out next November. But no, Trump had to double down. Once the smoke clears and the opportunity lends itself, I can see congress restricting the president’s ability to impose tariffs overtop of whatever the courts do.

    1. KM, your great failing is predicting the future in the US when some branch of government does something.

      It always goes something like this: with this decision it’s over for Trump and his plans, or the US economy will suffer and consumers will be hard hit, the Republicans are going to lose the House, Congress will do blah blah blah……

        1. “First, when I make predictions, I often use terms like “might” and “likely” and “I can see”.”

          Because they are not actually ‘predictions’ at all, just thinly-veiled excuses to take yet another cheap shot at President Donald Trump. You fool no one.

          (well, no one except for your butt-buddy Dennis…but that’s hardly something to brag about…)

          1. Naw, they’re just opinions you don’t want to hear. I’m sorry if they hurt your feelings by attacking your orange idol. Cults of personality are terrible things.

    2. The other problem with the 10% tariff for Trump is that it applies to all trading partners equally. He can no longer set different tariff rates for individual countries. This is why the ruling was a humiliating blow to what is the centerpiece of his economic policy. If invoking this legislation was such a brilliant move, why didn’t he do it the moment he assumed office?

      1. Another issue with the 10% tariffs is that they are only supposed to be evoked if the United States has a balance of payments problem, which the US does not have. This is why Trump’s tweet added the caveat “effective almost immediately”.

      2. Agreed. Section 122 is a blunt instrumnent. His ability to lash out at any national leader who pisses him off has been curtailed. That’s why the SCOTUS ruling is important to Canada, even though it doesn’t affect much of our trade. Trump can’t threaten all Canadian goods with a 100% tariff, as he did recently.

  10. Orange Man Bad.
    This time we got him for sure!
    Media and Demon Rats have no other playbook.

    yes I repeat myself.
    Just like CBC is a tax payer funded organ of The Liberal Party of Canada.
    Has Rosy the seacow managed to explain”It is all made up” or does the glorious incuriousity of our state funded media continue?

    TDS is quite the disorder.
    What part of, President of The United States of America, escapes the attention of those bemoaning the fact that President Trump acts in what he sees as the interests of The USA?

    Rightly ,this president sees the US nation debt and government insolvency as direct threats to national security.
    A bankrupt nation defends nothing.
    As Can Ahh Duh is about to learn.

    1. Trump is doing bugger all about “US nation debt”. His tariffs were never going to bring in the amount of revenue he predicted, and much of that is now going to be returned. His One Big Beautiful Bill decreased revenue and increased spending. And his Golden Dome project should be seen as unaffordable.

      1. Aside from the rollbacks of some of the worst aspects of environmental policy, Trump is a big government liberal who likes spending and borrowing as much as the next leftist. Stephen Miller’s attempt to portray this ruling as some sort of victory tortures basic logic. If “…it also means that President Trump has even more tools when it comes to dealing with foreign countries that undermine our security” then why weren’t these tools employed right from the get go? Furthermore, the ruling doesn’t add any more “tools” than those that already existed. Miller’s an embarrassment.

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