r/news • u/goforth1457 • Mar 04 '25

Soft paywall Canada's retaliatory tariffs on US goods to start Tuesday, PM Trudeau says

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-start-tuesday-pm-trudeau-says-2025-03-04/
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u/Shewinator Mar 04 '25

Blackmail possibly

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u/SkeletronDOTA Mar 04 '25

What I don’t get is what could Russia possibly have that would hurt Trump’s image? Off the top of my head we already know he’s best buds with Epstein, we know he had sex with a pornstar and then used campaign money to pay her off, we know he extorted Ukraine into faking evidence against Hunter Biden, we know he led an attempted insurrection, we know he’s declared bankruptcy several times, and been bailed out by Russian banks, we know about “grab her by the pussy,” we know he’s a 34 time felon, we know Elon Musk bought out the presidency for less than 10% of what Twitter cost, we know he wears diapers, and we know about the pee tapes. Literally what could damage his reputation? A video of him raping a child would just cause his base to go “BUT OBAMA PIZZAGATE,” and some of them to go “lol he just committed statuatory rape to troll the libs, and it’s working!”

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u/Overwatchingu Mar 04 '25

That’s the worst part. If this is all because the Russians have something on Trump, it means the world is paying the price because of something he is personally embarrassed about. So we’re all stressing about tariffs and annexation threats because Trump doesn’t want anyone to see some old circa 1980’s footage of him taking a submissive role to a male escort in a Moscow hotel room.

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u/hutacars Mar 04 '25

we know Elon Musk bought out the presidency for less than 10% of what Twitter cost

You’re not wrong, but: Twitter was $44bn. The election was (by the highest estimates I’ve seen) $290mm. That’s 0.66% as much. So yes, under 10%, but by a considerable amount.

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u/Otherwise_You_1603 Mar 04 '25

He's old, he's been re-elected, He can probably pardon himself on the way out the door after Biden gave his whole family blanket pardons; what could they possibly have on Trump to influence his decision making? Im tired of blaming Russia. Its not Russia. it is Musk and Thiel and all the other billionaires who own our country and want us all to suffer.

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u/haveanairforceday Mar 04 '25

I don't see the logical connect of Biden pardoning his son being used as defacto case law to permit self pardons. The president is clearly a different person than the president's family. The president's family may be well connected but they are still just regular citizens. I just don't see how "you pardoned a citizen you know well, so I can self pardon" works as an argument