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.

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    I love how they didn’t even exempt heating oil for the northern states. They acknowledged that tariffing it was fucked up by only doing a 10 percent tariff on it but it didn’t cross their minds to just exempt it. A ten percent price increase on heating is going to literally kill people.

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      Dude let covid burn through New York City because it’s like 80% Democrats, letting people freeze is par for the course.

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        I hate that you’re right. In my poli sci classes they taught that every political decision has winners and and losers but I never thought we’d see a president killing Americans on purpose.