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Trump Press Sec Accidentally Blurts Out Real Goal of His Tariff Scam
(newrepublic.com)
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I thought it was common knowledge already by that point. He wants Canada's resources and strategically advantageous geographical location.
The US government is broke. The spending and debt are out of control and their political system has become too dysfunctional to fix it intelligently. He hopes that annexing Canada and exploiting its resources unhindered by regulation will magically solve the problem.
Canadians, do not fall for it. Trump wants you to work in his mines.
A LOT to unpack here:
A. The U.S. government is broke!? That is one of the dumbest takes I've seen in a while. Makes it difficult to take any other part of your post seriously.
Currently run by fascist morons that my fellow fascist citizens elected, yes. Broke, not fucking remotely true.
B. No one takes it seriously that he is going to somehow magically take over Canada. He says that shit because he is either so stupid, he actually believes he can, or is just saying it to get under Canadian's skin. (Probably both).
C. "Canada's strategically advantageous geographical location.". What strategic importance does Canada's location have? We already have Alaska. Is there some secret shipping lanes, or laser polar bears we don't know about?
Resources? Your shale sands oil sucks and has to be piped to the US anyway, to be processed.
You have a lot of wood I guess? We have a TON of resources here, it's just been cheaper to mine elsewhere because environmental law, makes it pretty expensive to exploit. He's in the process of gutting those.
Canada just needs to keep doing what it is doing and tell us to fuck off. (Kind of like what we both do to our indigenous populations.)
He'll eventually drive our economy into the dirt, and fuck over the dumbass blue color voters (that he supposedly champions), and maybe, just maybe, the Democrats will get behind a true progressive instead of a Susan Collins, Hillary Clinton type cunt.
Well I would argue that looking at the USA’s Debt to Liquidity ratio you can see we are definitely in the red.
And guess who owns most of that debt and who keeps buying more?
One of the many countries he's antagonizing and slapping tariffs on. Why would they keep supporting him by buying more debt? And why wouldn't they start demanding some of it back. When the US defaults on a payment then all hell breaks loose in the US economy.
Actually the US owns most of the debt. That's part time of the reason it's not seen as risky as theyre effectively and iou to themselves.
https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-own-the-most-us-debt/