As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers turning away their products
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I hope to read more about American companies crying capitalistic tears
I'm hoping with enough pain, there will be meaningful change.
Americans are stupid and proudly ignorant. I say this as an American who wishes it would change.
More bigger tariffs! That will solve the problem
One BILLION percent!
Dr Evil laugh
Keep up the good work. Every dollar sent here is a dollar that will work against you.
and hopefully florida will stop recieving canadian tourists too.
Buy Canadian is best, but anything will do if it isn't American.
My order of operations is Canadian -> European -> Anywhere else on the planet -> Decide if I actually need the thing or not -> Chinese -> American.
I fucking love fries and Idaho potatoes are everywhere. Send help
Please try to have just a little bit of compassion for us. We're not all like this
No, but our government and its corporate handlers are, and money is all they understand. They need to be hurt and we are unavoidable collateral damage.
Fair enough. I'll strap in.
What a great movie. I will see it again soon.....but not yet
Irony is oldschool MAGA, like the kind bred from 4chan, is accelerationist too, but it doesn’t seem as prominent anymore.
Accelerationism is bad.
Not even a voting majority. Look up drop off votes. They stole the election. If your country uses electronic voting machines stop by any means necessary.
In other news: Boo Hoo.
Fuck America under the current government. It’ll take decades to repair the damage the autistic Nazi and his cuck orange granddaddy have done not only to Canada but the world.
It'll take far longer to repair the damage they're doing to America. I'm not even sure most of it can be repaired.
Honestly, boycott us. Our capitalist classes need to be taken down a peg.
Yeah, I never thought I'd say it, but I hope the entire world shuns America and fucks us over.
I doubt even that will fix us, though. We are past some kind of disinformation event horizon, where most of us will never see much reality outside their local life, including leaders who are drinking the kool-aid. Even Idiocracy is kinda idyllic because at least Kamancho was relatively open minded.
If you'd told me 6 months ago that I'd rather buy Chinese products than American, I would've put all my money on Trump. Or just not believed you, because it sounds insane.
Well, here we are...
You don't need to politicise disabilities.
Wonderful news. Keep it up even when tariffs are removed. We MUST grow Canadian made for Canadians to purchase.
See, that’s the thing that gets me. Our countries have had a great trade relationship for a long while now and some giant Cheeto needs to go and piss on everyone’s shoes.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, produce Canadian items so the American market suffers. Make the people who voted for this situation realize what they’ve done to themselves.
Uh yeah. That's the whole point!
Maybe think before you vote next time or actually vote!
Elbows up Canada! 🦫
Meanwhile: Canadian manufactutors pulling their hair out while reviewing their books "what are we going to do with all these profits?"
Same thing happening with local soda and fast food joints in Denmark. Love to see it!
Everybody here in the US keeps telling me that I'm wrong when I say this stuff will destroy our economy.
I sincerely hope the rest of the world proves them wrong.
I mean look at the stock market, customer sentiment, etc. Everything is pointing down and we haven't started to see the unemployment that's going to be brought on from all the government layoffs and attempts to rescind grants/contracts.
I think the next jobs report is going to be painful and we won't see anything positive economically for a while after that.
I expect the Trump government will prioritize cuts that make it difficult to get accurate data about the effects of the cuts.
This is the entire point of the deferred resignation program being offered to Federal workers. It keeps people from being able to claim unemployment and pushes the true jobless numbers out into the next fiscal year (October) at the earliest. Now, why do you think they don't want the real pain point for the American people to be until after they've raised the debt ceiling and cut taxes on billionaires?
You'd think, but they're literally cutting like mad men. And it looks like people are already noticing, Wisconsin just went blue for the judge and Florida got surprisingly close to flipping (if you look at the numbers it seems that Republicans were turning out in numbers to vote blue).
The thing about seeing things coming and having that insight be rejected by people is that they will really get angry if you say I told you so. In fact they will try to make you not convincing them being the real problem.
Edit: Whoops fixed it.
I toad a so
It's not rocket appliances
Worst case Ontario.
That's a cute fucking kitty
Bleed them dry
Bleed us dry. I approve. The ones who choose not to vote need the fell the pain before there is any hope of change.
As an American: good. No one here wanted this nonsense. Not even magas.
You know something is stupid when even magats know it's stupid.
Starve the greedy parasites, all of them.
"Due to large drops in revenue we're forced to layoff workers." Laid off MAGA voters, "But that wasn't what was supposed to happen!"
"Why would Joe Biden do this?"
Nah, they are saying short term pain for long term gain. What exactly they are going to gain? Who the hell knows
It’s a brilliant piece of stupid propaganda. If the next democratic president tries to bring the country out of depression by undoing these dumb policies, the MAGA folks will claim that they nearly had solved the problem but that the awful democrats stopped it at the last minute before the prosperity would kick in.
"short term" = term in office
Long term = next dem president inherits a recession and gets blamed for it
If there IS a next dem president.
Typical cycle. Republican cuts taxes, economy stagnates, gov goes to hell. Democrat has to get more revenue, may need to raise taxes to fix damage, economy picks up. Republicans point at Dem and say he raised taxes and voters get upset. Repeat.
As an American, I hope the pain that these companies experience translates to strong and direct pressure on our politicians to grow a fucking spine against the dictator.
The response, so far, seems to be licking boots, unfortunately.
Wait until their quarterly earnings come in
Pfft, just watch, it will be an excuse to fire people in droves/cut wages while executives either get raises for "bold" responses or golden parachutes. Day traders will adore the volatility at the expense of retirement funds. Under duress, companies will merge like crazy since the only barrier now seems to be complying with government ethos. Reduced capital gains will juice the market. The masses will shoulder tariffs.
Saw it in my company yesterday. Outsource an entire department that seemed like the last place you would outsource.
Yup, been avoiding american products as much as I can at the grocery store. Fruits and veggies that can't be grown in Canada I will get from Mexico or anywhere else in the world except the US.
And not just about the attacks and threats. With the current US administration gutting regulations, there will be more risks of getting sick from eating contaminated food products.
I don't live too far from the Canadian border. I'm sensing an opportunity to make bank on black market tools and office supplies.
I smuggled 4 import vehicles in my butt when I crossed the Mexican border yesterday. They’ll never take me alive.
Great for trump. He can just declare whatever crisis to do even more stupid things and grab more absolute power.
Next they should take back the Nordiques
Good, hope more countries do the same.