Poor one out for all the people who voted for cheaper groceries.

Between tariffs squeezing our industry and weakening the dollar, and our inevitable counter tariffs raising prices, I don't see this doing the inflation crisis any favours.

Not sure that'll be enough to save the Ontario Auto Industry.

My great uncle spent a decade flying chartered jets around the Middle East after the second world war.

He always said that Beirut was the most beautiful city he ever lived in, and that Lebanon was the most beautiful country he ever flew over.

Realistically, Canada is going to be increasing trade with China and the EU for stuff like LNG and petroleum, and our manufacturing sector is going to go belly up (or at least downsize dramatically).

Not that we won't try.

I'd be willing to bet CANZUK and CETA get a bit more attention in the public discourse. CETA isn't a panacea though, and the entire conception of CANZUK can be summed up as a bunch of monarchists desperately wanking themselves off.

I have no doubt Americans are going to be feeling the bite from this too, but Canada does not have a particularly diverse export economy. Almost 75% of our trade is with the US; pretending that we can somehow rejigger our trade relations to make up the balance here feels like copium.

Awfully quiet at the moment. Waiting for NatPost to pass down the talking points I assume.

Tariffs are going to fuck over Canadian manufacturing, while retaliatory tariffs are going to bump up Canadian price tags.

Stagflation, here we come!

What can he do? Trump ran on an openly illiberal, authoritarian platform and won the electoral college and, probably, a plurality of the vote. What, in all seriousness, is left to be done?

Was it a "vibe shift", or was it just backlash against the incumbent administration, much as we've seen against the governments in other countries the world around?

We're living in a populist, anti-establishment moment, and unfortunately Trump was the torchbearer for that movement in America.

Fair haha. I was very much into Sci-Fi as a teenager, and Musk appealed to my inner fanboy.

In retrospect, thinking that a billionaire was going to somehow kickstart a eco-social colonization project ala KSR's Red Mars was pretty dumb.

Full disclosure: in 2012 I thought it was kind of cool that a billionaire wanted to launch rockets into space.

Then he called that British diver a pedo, and it's been downhill ever since.