I thought TrumpCoin was the sovereign’s wealth fund.

I’m sure they’d be fine with a few old windmills.

Solar farms don’t stop you using the land for farming completely. Panels don’t have to stop all light, and elevated panels can still have some type of plants grow under them. Grazing animals along side solar farms is apparently quite successful. They serve as shelter from strong sun and rain, and the grasses are fine.

“Monstrous Pylons” standing next to a model of a 1950s design.

This is what they look like now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60754357

Thank you, that was exactly my intension.

However, I think that comment is already dead.

So a trade deficit equals a subsidy in trump’s brain.

The US has a trade deficit with most of the world. If he goes 0% -> 25% on all imports it’ll be about $1T in funds moved from private hands into government coffers. (Of course, not all countries have 0% import tariffs today).

Would this be the biggest tax raise in American history?

Living through Brexit, I get all this.

It all only holds if there are alternative suppliers that are cheaper than the new escalated price for the goods you placed tariffs on. Canada and the US have the (mis)fortune to have extremely easy transportation of goods between them, but expensive transportation of good to/from anywhere else. That’s the geography and there’s no getting away from it, just like the UK can’t float away from Europe. America isn’t going to stop importing (to imagine a bullshit example) lumber from Canada because shipping it from anywhere else is impractical and domestic supply won’t be able to deal with the shortfall. Similar for Canada.

Both sides are engaging in massive acts of self harm, and Canada trying to go punch for punch isn’t a winning strategy. Canada has to respond in a smarter way than a reflexive mirroring move.

A telephone call requires him to respond without his team in the loop. He’s not opening himself up to that.

Since taking office I’m getting more and more convinced that he’s in two modes. Teleprompter mode, where his words have been agreed upon by his team, and twitter rant, where he’s just spouting his own bile.

He never speaks candidly in person since winning the election. Even the press room statement after the air crash was a prepared piece with all the hate baked in. Sure he took some questions but they were predictable and mainly deflected.

I’m waiting for him to announce “Operation Get-behind-the-darkies”.

No. We’ve had 20 years of them I think, and none have done more than spur a conversation between a handful of people.

I’d like to see the system abolished and force people to get up and do something to get their voice “heard” because then it actually might be.

I preheat the air fryer to soften the fat and oils. Drain whatever I can into a container, and use a silicone spatula to get anything that is still adhered.

It then goes in the dish washer on a hot wash. Come out like new.

Bend over and take what? Trumps declarations have no effect on Canada.

Canadians pay Canadian tariffs on US imports. Trump is fucking America already with his tariffs. Canada mirroring them gives Trump what he wants.

How wide spread are the other coalition members? Does it span the spectrum or is it mostly right?

There’s already CANZUK

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“It’s nonce-sense”

Some others have ideas.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/16434852

Self harm isn’t an effective strategy. Do something that actually hurts the US.

So, is Canada going to import what it gets from the US (it’s only geographic neighbour) from elsewhere?

If the answer is “no, not without at least a 26% jump in cost” then the tariff is a bad response.

Damn it Canada! Tit for tat tariffs are not the answer.

Respond for sure, but now you’re taking money out of your own citizens pockets to spite him. That idiotic.