Stop buying American goods after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico

What action can we take against Trump ?

He's cut the foreign aid budget.
Is "reforming" the civil service through cuts.
Now is about to go after people on benefits.

Unfortunately a falling stock market impacts everyone worldwide with investments and pension funds.

TopPocketFind

According to Axios, he lost more than $16 billion yesterday.

Oh good. Hopefully his orange friend holds shares and lost too.

Lets hope it keeps falling.

According to Axios, he lost more than $16 billion yesterday.

Probably pocket money to him but still..

There’s always a silver lining!

TopPocketFind · Today 08:47
Everyone should buy a Tesla, president's orders!

Delighted to see that the share price fell by 15% yesterday.

I did have a bit of a smirk when i saw 'swasticars' trending on X yesterday.

Everyone should buy a Tesla, president's orders!

Not being particularly up with US politics I am not sure. But Trump's campaign interpreted the phrase as referring to gender ideology pronouns. And it's a bit odd to refer to those you mean to help - and whom you hope will vote for you - as 'they', it's a little othering. Besides which the Democrats had had 4 years to help those people and build a constituency for themselves.
Also, Trump won a large % of black and Hispanic votes to his cause - they didn't feel included by Ms Harris, obviously, and esp Hispanics likely believe in traditional values, as do many blue-collar white voters. How come the Democrats did not get their inclusive message across to such people? Perhaps because they - as have many European politicians - have embraced globalization and a climate change agenda that is impoverishing poor Americans? Jobs ordinary people did have been outsourced where labour is cheaper, too, a feature of neo-liberal capitalism.

I've always thought Kamala's 'they/them' meant other people in general (i.e. not Americans, not Trump supporters, not right-wing Christians etc ) He was emphasising that the Democrats believed in helping society as a whole (which, horror of horrors, includes poor people, foreign people, unemployed people, Communists...) whereas Trump put 'America' (mainly white and working) first.

Certainly, I agree with you on the other reasons for the Trump vote, but his campaign was built around 'Kamala Harris is for they/them, Trump is for you', which is indicative of what his campaign thought was a pertinent issue - and also showed Harris up as cloth-eared and out of tune with many women. Also indicative is that one of his firts EOs was to outlaw TiMs in women's sport - so he thought the issue important. We cannot tell how accurate the polls are, btw, unless we know the questions.

Fwiw, globalised free trade has not been the panacea we were sold.

Difficult for me to understand people voting for Trump, especially on single issues, when they were aware of how dangerous he is.

I agree with @CovenOfCheeses - you’ve got what you wanted, (tho some still waiting for egg prices to fall) and let the world burn and everyone else go to hell.

It’s interesting how the Dems are are to blame for the blind stupidity.

@Grammarnut "We have got Trump because the Democrats prefer to pretend that men can be women and that some women can have a penis"

This is a myth. The polling does not suggest this was a common or important reason people voted for Trump. It was about immigration and the economy. The American public is highly economically ignorant and actually believed his claims the tariffs will help America. The ones who have any sense at all will be regretting it now.
They also believed he would deport 15- 20 million undocumented migrants. He can't deliver on that either. At the rate he's going, he won't even get to a million in the entire four years. It's nothing but the biggest, most successful con job in the history of the world.

Do you think that Amazon's fulfillment centre workers and drivers see much of the money you spend? If you spent it somewhere else the workers would probably be getting a bigger cut.

Yes. Made in Vermont.

I shan’t be boycotting Amazon. It employs thousands of people in the UK. Why should they pay for the American voters’ mistake?

I see, they're still headquartered in Burlington though. Luckily a town near to me has an ice cream parlour (a proper, Italian-run one) that sells 2.5 litre tubs so I'll keep supporting them anyway.

They used to be, but it was sold to Unilever, which is UK based.

To be honest it threw me as well as I expected B&J to be American and Haagen Daas to be European.

We have much bigger issues than whether someone knows what a woman is.

Isn’t Ben & Jerry's an American brand?

'Let the world burn because we side with the rapist and misogynist who grabs women by the pussy because he hates trans people. Lovely.'
@CovenOfCheeses at least Trump knows what a woman is and also is aware the majority of the US agrees with him and has thus protected women from having to share intimate space with men - because political expediency makes this an obvious target. We have got Trump because the Democrats prefer to pretend that men can be women and that some women can have a penis, and - this being so - men who say they are women can take part in all the things that are womens: their private spaces, refuges, sports, prizes, scholarships - and totally disregard the safeguarding of women and children. I am pretty sure I can see who is playing the Devil's tunes here - oddly, it's not the misogynist. Bad people can espouse good causes and good people espouse bad ones.

Let the world burn because we side with the rapist and misogynist who grabs women by the pussy because he hates trans people. Lovely.

Handy sheet for anyone who's boycotting.

Mexico perhaps… though impoverishing the country through tariffs is hardly likely make it better able to stop fentanyl.

As for Canada, hardly any fentanyl comes across the border, and there’s more illegal migration from the USA than vice-versa!

Floppyzebra · 02/02/2025 09:55

He has to have a hard line to stop illegal immigration so I'm fine with it.

Most illegal immigration, by a huge margin, is from the USA to Canada. He should sanction America, if he's serious.