I think there’s still a difference between state and corporate based propaganda

Only in who benefits.

The targets of that propaganda are still diminished, regardless of who is manipulating them.

There may be a method to the madness.

Or is may simply be madness.

I know where my bet goes.

Mark Carney is not the only one with that opinion.

Trump’s not saying he’s canceling them, he’s just pausing them. Why reward this bullshit baby behaviour?

Exactly. That’s why the current counter-tariffs stay, and only the scheduled phase 2 is on hold for now.

Pausing tariffs on some Canadian goods.

A pause isn’t good enough.

And doing it on an partial list is not good enough.

Yeah, but they’ve been claiming it was just a joke.

We know better, of course, but that was what they were pretending.

Don’t be manifesting that into existence.

So Cons get a free flight/hotel/food trip to Washington and don’t bother showing up to work?

They were too busy with “sensitive negotiations” at a strip bar downtown…

Bob Ezrin, for those who don’t what to click on a youtube link.

contingent of removal of all tariffs.

And keeping them off.

The chaotic on again/off again bullshit is even harder on the economy and business than the actual tariffs.

And cut out the 51st state bullshit.

As for the loser’s claims, American guns are a much bigger problem in Canada than Mexican cartels.

And most of the guns the Mexican cartels use in Mexico come from the US as well.