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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Canada makes some of the best planes in the world, especially for private jets. This is a tax on strictly the ultra wealthy Americans, so I don't think he will follow through.

Who wants a TACO?

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 day ago

Not just on the ultra rich, it could affect some airlines in the USA. The Airbus A220 is built in Québec, but they also build them in Alabama.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is a thin skinned loser who rapes children and on top of that, he’s a 1 trick pony.

Tariffs.

The rest of the world is moving on without America. Good riddance.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Nah. He has other tricks. Sending in armed goons and cheating at golf are a couple of them.

I suppose you could go to the root of all these for the real lone trick: being a self-serving piece of [redacted]

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Is this the country trying sell Canada a bunch of aircraft?

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anything with the word tariff in it should be automatically filed under Stupid News.

Why do humans keep appointing the dumbest evil people as their leaders?

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Because half of adults read at a 6th grade reading level (at best), so recognizing bias and context is just beyond them. And rich people have spent decades building a media ecosystem that takes advantage of this

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Because most of the people who make those appointments are dumbest (with 30% evilness) people.

[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy fuck Donny, tells your desperately out of negotiating ideas without telling us. Lol what a fuckin loser

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago
[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Are these tarrifs actually effective? Seems like it's kinda flavor of the week kind of threat. Like we could cut exports or do sanctions

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure he can't do that.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's like this man only knows one note and constantly wails on it.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He's a mafia guy and it has worked a shit ton in his past to threaten and then do stupid things that hurts everyone. I understand why he used it at first, a lot of countries bent the knee, but why he keeps using it is the stupid part. The stupid people even now know that it only hurts American consumers and fucks up the economy.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s like that one douchbag that always brings his guitar camping and only knows one chord.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump: "so anyway here's wonderwall"

[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why not 5000% at this point? We all know you're not gonna stick to your word and change your mind tomorrow morning to whatever crazy idea sparks in your senile brain. So why stop at 50%? Get mad! Sky's the limit when you don't give a shit!

[–] Mist101@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, we're gonna make us pay... us... even mOAR for your planes!...?

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They've given up trying to tell him. He'll die not knowing what a tariff really is

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

The sooner the better.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Still around, this guy.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, why aren’t the Gulfstream jets certified?

[–] Marktic@piefed.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is a good question. I wonder what the issue is. Likely something completely reasonable

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago

I looked it up and apparently Gulfstream simply haven’t bothered even trying because the market’s so small it isn’t worth the expense to them.