Summary
Canada launched an ad campaign in the U.S. denouncing Trump’s tariffs as a “tax on hardworking Americans.”
Billboards in 12 states, including key Republican areas, urge Americans to oppose the tariffs, which could cost households over $1,200 annually.
Polls show most Americans fear economic harm from the tariffs, despite Trump’s claim they are a “tax cut.”
Canada is also preparing retaliatory tariffs while rejecting Trump’s repeated calls to annex Canada as the 51st U.S. state. Officials labeled the annexation rhetoric “absurd.”
If we could read we’d be very upset.
Almost spit out my coffee laughing… 😆
Good for Canada.
It really is telling that Canada seems to care more about the U.S. people than our own government.
It stagnated for too long and now dumb goons are in charge. Go figure. People like Boobert get into politics when they should have gone on reality tv. Never taking the job seriously.
I really wish the signs didn’t say “paid for by Canada” on them, or at least not so prominently. Because I just know some people are going to read it as “tariffs are a tax on Americans paid for by Canada”.
I also wish it didn’t say that, but for entirely different reasons.
It’s an ad. Paid for by a foreign government. MAGA morons aren’t going to do much other than interpret it as Canada being scared and spreading lies, which obviously means it’s working and Trump is doing a tremendous bigly job making Canada “pay” the tariffs.
It might get some Republican Trump voters to actually attempt to understand the consequences of tariffs, but it’s going to empower the vocal cultists that live in disinformation la-la land.
The sad thing is this is only further driving inequality. Not only will private businesses struggle and get purchased by private equity, once prices go up, they won’t come back down. When the tariff tantrums eventually end, corporations will have a newly increased margin. We already witnessed that after recovering from covid supply chain constraints.
More-specifically, a regressive tax, one which hits the poor harder.
Yup. I can’t remember if it was Aston-Martin, Rolls-Royce or Ferrari, but they raised their prices by a lot on a whim at some point, and sales actually increased because the price tag was part of the brag.
I think it’s Jaguar. They’re doing a bonkers rebranding right now where you can’t tell what the ads are trying to sell.
The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
All is going according to plan.
It doesnt work like that. Most billionaires dont have billions of dollars in the bank. Their wealth usually consists of stocks, which would lose their value.
Even as a conspiracy theory, it doesnt make sense what theyre doing.
Send me to Canada.
Service guarantees citizenship :)
^^(I hope this is the route we go if the US gets even more serious about invading)
Canada doing more than the dems
