It isn’t just that he has no understanding of policy, nor any knowledge of history to guide him; or that he conforms to none of the norms of custom, morality or law. It is that, even understood as a wholly self-involved, self-serving bundle of id, one whose only motive is self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment, Mr. Trump is incomprehensible. His actions make no sense even in terms of rational self-interest. It’s all just random impulses, fleeting grudges, synaptic burps, based on who spoke to him last, what he saw on TV or what he had for breakfast, for all I know.

But there’s an upside to all this. If there’s nothing we can do – if we lose no matter what – then we might as well do what we want. When nothing you can do will improve your fortunes, when the outcome is the same regardless of which option you choose, the stakes converge on zero.

The President will do what he will do. Nothing we can do will change that. So we might as well not try. There’s liberation in that

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Nothing we can do will change that

I'm pretty sure a bullet would do it.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If all agreements are optional then fuck those F-35s we agreed to. And bring back the digital service tax in response.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Carney can say "The Digital Service Tax will come back, on the day after your 50% tariffs show up 😉", and watch the Silicon Valley bros come running to DC to tug on Trump's suit. Then we can be fully ready for TACO time.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago

Honestly it should be a longer, scarier list of threats than that. 50% is pretty nuclear.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Thought this was obvious. Make a deal with him, he changes his mind five minutes later. Enrage him, he gets distracted by something else. The only constants are the Project 2025 policies pushed by his handlers and grifts for the Trump family.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

This is what happens when there are no more "time outs" for a disruptive toddler.

[–] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

Buckle up buckeroos and stop bitching about the price of this that or the next thing.

The only solution is to allow our relationship with this unreliable partner to die which means your livelihood and standard of living need to go to shit in the short term for us to move on in the long term. There’s no path forward where we make a comfortable amicable exit.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

I have been saying that for more than ten years now. Trump only cares about Trump and no one and nothing else.

[–] Dzheyk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

Insert "Then there is no pleasing you." gif from Austin Powers Goldmember

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Funny, didn't they say the same thing about a man in Europe

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Negotiations with the baby going as planned.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

Who's ready for another COVID-style economic shutdown? If we literally can't do business with the US - which is what this would imply - then that's what we're in for.

Hopefully they're wrong and there's still some amount of deterrence available. Our big exports to the US were conspicuously absent from his tariffs, and we could mess with those if we wanted.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

the only few people that can control trump is benjamin, putin, some of the billionaires, and if ghislaine turns against him.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

Nonono, give a bully what they want and they’ll leave you alone forever after.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The only thing that lets him keep doing what he’s doing are the yes-men around him that make it happen.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

We know, why does every news article seem to think this is fresh news every time.

[–] Foxer@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately doing what we want is not really an option. It's not a question of whether or not we're going to lose it becomes a question of whether or not we're going to lose or we're going to lose horribly and with disastrous consequences.

Trump is unlikely ever put the 50% tariff on us certainly not for anything time but he might very well put tariffs on us that are lower. And we simply couldn't survive that. We might be able to diversify our economy in the next 20 years or so but not any time in the immediate future,

Future so at the end of the day we're going to have to give him what he wants and get what we can get which is going to be terrible.

Carney played a strategy of string trump out to the midterms and hope that he loses badly at the midterms and in the meantime give him whatever he wants to drag things out. So we came down every thing from the bridge to the DST etc

But now trump thinks that carney will came on anything and he's not going to wait till the midterms.

So now we're in a tough position. We can't walk away cuz if trump actually does put those tariffs on we're dead. I mean really dead, like declare bankruptcy and live like Mexico dead

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 days ago

historically, you deter fascism with communism. just saying.