r/WallStreetbetsELITE • u/str8shillinit • 18d ago

MEME Doug Ford says U.S. plans to introduce ‘global tariff’ on April 2

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/doug-ford-says-us-plans-to-introduce-global-tariff-on-april-2/

Be prepared, this hasn't hit CNBC yet today....

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u/needaspguy 18d ago

Trump assumes that a global tariff will allow him to play every country against every other country so he can pick and chose by industry the best deal (or who pissed him off the least). He hasn't put the work in though to understand the repercussions to the US economy. Nor has he considered the impact on US exports which will exasperate the world wide frustration.

He is going to make this a very painful exercise in economics 101. Despite that pain, I will really enjoy watching this blow up in his face. American arrogance, and ignorance will at least be knocked down a few pegs to something close to tolerable!

Now is not the time to be negotiating for a better tier of trade with the US. We need to be colluding with other countries to price fix the US into "max pain"

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u/Comprehensive-Let150 18d ago

You assume that the mental midgets wearing red hats have the capacity to learn from their mistakes. I can assure you that they can’t. They will blame it all on Biden, even after it blows up in their face.

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u/ScotchandRants 18d ago

Trump is already on record saying he inherited a terrible economy and the red hat Tards are already parroting that this crash is a Biden thing not a Trump thing... They have 0 critical thinking skills....

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u/OppositeArt8562 18d ago

The majority of the country thinks Republicans are better on the economy. We live in an insane country.

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u/chase02 18d ago

Yep or cutting govt department budgets while buying 400 million in “armoured” (proven not) teslas. The clowns are running the circus. Tried to blame that on Biden too, also proven false.

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u/Revenant_40 18d ago

There is an excellent political cartoon I saw the other day. Cletus and his MAGA hat are lying on his back on the ground, while Trump is kneeling with all his weight on his chest, pummelling him with his fists. Cletus is looking away and shouting "This is all Joe Biden's fault!"

Sums it up perfectly.

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u/pcoutcast 17d ago

Maybe the collapse of the US economy will give the non-MAGAs the time off from work they need to properly demonstrate. Yes, yes, we've all seen the tiny protests in the news. No, I'm talking a march of tens of millions on capital hill to remove the malignant plague with guns in hand as your founding fathers instructed.

At this point it looks like you guys are going to have to do Nuremberg Trials 2.0 to rout out all the rot in your government and send a message to their supporters to join the rest of the country and the world in the 21st century.

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u/skoltroll 15d ago

Some are STARTING to figure it out and yell at their GOP reps. We'll see if they're willing to do the work of tossing them out in 2026.

And the ones yelling are veterans and national-park-adjacent types who are currently out of money. Still need Medicaid/Medicare collapsing to REALLY wake up MAGA.

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u/3pinripper 18d ago

This will not knock down American arrogance or ignorance unfortunately.

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u/UntdHealthExecRedux 18d ago

The best deal=who stayed the most nights at his lice infested properties and bought the most shitcoins from him.

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u/Flashy-Sense9878 18d ago

And his followers won’t bat an eye. They buy 100% that Elon and Trump are finding billions in waste despite literally zero evidence of that being true. 

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u/Han-solos-left-foot 18d ago

He wants the world to faun over him, he’s straight up trying to turn global trade into the apprentice

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u/Ashamed-of-my-shelf 17d ago

Dude, both Trump and Elon said in front of a camera, before the election, that there’s going to be economic hardship. If that wasn’t the understatement of the century, I don’t know what is.

They know what the fuck they are doing. They’re boiling the water, and they don’t care if you’re inside the pot.

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u/Complex-Package1796 18d ago

Hate on America all you want. Your max pain plan is a fantasy. The US is the largest economy in the world. And most countries are dependent on trade with the US. And for Europe to “collude” against the US would do much more harm than good in the long run . Underestimate us at your peril.

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u/needaspguy 18d ago

Lol, case in point! Arrogance at its finest! In case you can't see past your own borders, the entire world is already colluding to protect themselves against the US. However, your precious economic status isn't much more than a house of cards!