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Trump administration 2024-2028

IKnowNothing said:
You advised against boycotting on account of the the US responding to said boycott by doing the thing that they've already done.. that provoked the boycott in the first place.

And no, shattering the world trade order in pursuit of implementing a wholesale change agenda that flies in the face of most modern economic theory is not "an inevitable trade dispute"
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I get the weird sense that @QV isn't debating in good faith here.

For example, he says a bunch of stuff that Canada shouldn't do, boycotts, but doesn't say what Canada should do. It's almost like he wants Canada to do....nothing. I wonder who in this cross border relationship this helps?
 
Czech_pivo said:
Why is that surprising? It shouldn't be, 100% believe that they were working hand and glove together on this.

What is surprising is the fact that the ads started on 16 Oct, Trump saw them and commented on this the next day and said that he'd run the ads as well if he was on the other side of the fence but then he sat on his hands for 1 week before having a hissy fit.
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Could be there’s been a response from elected officials who’ve been answering a tonne of questions in the time between the first airing and the meltdown. If true, the ads have worked.
 
QV said:
I'd expect that. Just as sure as I'd expect Canada taking some measure if the US paid for Ads in Canada contradicting our government.

Doug Ford was unwise in that ad effort given the circumstances, and now BC's Eby suggests he is going to toss some gasoline on that bonfire. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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No one is contradicting the US government, just Trump personally, who is single handedly driving the US Gov policy by strong arming things, with Congress and the Senate being too neutered to do anything.

He's an authoritarian child, and is ignoring US laws and international agreements (approved by US Congress and Senate) to a level that is pretty much untenable.

You can plan around someone being an asshole, and you can plan around someone maximizing their benefit at your expense. What you can't plan around is an unpredicatable asshole who ignores all agreements and norms and changes opinions like an ADHD methhead changes focus.

The US went from being a stable ally to an absolute liability economically, so great that we are diversifying now, although it will really suck.
 
Czech_pivo said:
Why is that surprising? It shouldn't be, 100% believe that they were working hand and glove together on this.

What is surprising is the fact that the ads started on 16 Oct, Trump saw them and commented on this the next day and said that he'd run the ads as well if he was on the other side of the fence but then he sat on his hands for 1 week before having a hissy fit.
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THIS!!!
 
Jarnhamar said:
It's wishful thinking believing congress or the Supreme Court is going to reign Trump in. He's just doing what he wants leaving is detractors to look at each other and yell that's not allowed.
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Trump produces bewildering policies on a daily basis. Congress can't match the WH decision cycle even with one party holding both chambers and a Senate supermajority. Instead of just wish-casting, does anyone have even a short list of 3 things Congress ought to be doing - preferably 3 things that could be negotiated with Congress as it is currently constituted, that wouldn't be DOA because of poison pill legislative provisions that both parties customarily try to sneak into every bill?

USSC can only deal with cases brought before it, aren't going to take up cases brought by people without standing, and are going to stick pretty much to the constitution as written, not as imagined. That means the executive has quite a bit of leeway. So, again, what is it that ought to be reigned in that would be relevant and likely to succeed if brought before the USSC?

The fact the current budgeting stand-off ("shutdown") isn't dominating news should be a clue that the WH is maintaining a tempo that is going to require opponents to pick only a very few really well-chosen battles. The Democratic/NeverTrumpNeoCon strategy of picking every possible fight isn't working well. But for some groups other than those two, what would be a couple of useful ones?

[Add: to be remotely practical, CoAs should probably not be at odds with latitude taken by or granted to previous administrations.]
 
Jarnhamar said:
I'll believe the US will do something about Trump when they stop withholding the Epstein files.
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Oh my, how I hope those are released. As I've explained a couple of times, if there was anything in there that could really burn Trump, it would already have made it to open air. So that just leaves other people being protected, and obviously a lot of people need to learn the lesson I just mentioned. Quiet common sense ain't doing it; massive damage to a few unfortunates always seems to be the only path.
 
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