CAN-USA Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

[McG]

US conservative think tank suggests presidential tariff powers should be stripped.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2089722961653866884

Article here:

Trump’s affordability plan faces conservative pushback as pocketbook issues loom over midterms

Advancing American Freedom says government zoning rules and energy regulations are why Americans can't afford homes, and offers 10 policy fixes.

www.foxnews.com

 

[brihard]

Little of what he says piques my curiosity anymore because so little of it means anything, but the fact that he focuses on Keystone XL is curious. Canada started giving thumbs up on our part (South Bow), and it’s been awaiting American approval for their end of it for a while. I’m wondering if if a move-forward on Keystone has been floated as something the U.S. gets to claim as a win out of this to let other things move forward? It just seems out of place that that’s what he emphasizes.

I have no real hope for anything meaningful come Friday save the usual market manipulation, but I do wonder how the game’s being played from our side.

 

[dapaterson]

Letting Trump declare victory by doing something we want him to do and have been waiting for him to do is 2D checkers not 4D chess, but I'll take it.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Letting Trump declare victory by doing something we want him to do and have been waiting for him to do is 2D checkers not 4D chess, but I'll take it.

The fact that before all this crap began that the only reason that we had a 50+/- billion trade surplus with the US was because of the 4million bpd of oil they imported from us and now their Genius President is crowing about wanting to expand their oil imports from us by another 20% is just the icing on the cake.