EnglishEdward
Deity
Shinzō Abe "visiting Senior Living Centre, nod and smile,. do not excite the inmates"
Caption This! G7 Summit Edition
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EnglishEdward
Deity
The Japanese are not bothered by the tariffs on steel
http://www.seaisi.org/News/7389/Japan+plays+it+cool+on+response+to+US+steel+tariffs
and are being wise enough not to say anything that will cause an escalation.
http://www.seaisi.org/News/7389/Japan+plays+it+cool+on+response+to+US+steel+tariffs
and are being wise enough not to say anything that will cause an escalation.
This is a picture I found on twitter from the G7 Summit. I thought it would be fun to caption. Post your best caption!
"No Angela, it's no... you can say what you want.... it's no..... you will find out when I am left.... and who I am gonna blame.... perhaps I pick on Trudeau this time ?
This is BTW another picture of that setting. If I see it correctly taken just before the OP picture.
That photo does look a bit more relaxed, but I still don't understand why everyone else is standing up and looking down on Trump like he's a naughty boy. How did something like that even happen in the first place?
At least this photo seems to have distracted the people here who would otherwise be talking about Trudeau's socks (yes, that is seriously one of the things that comes up regularly in Canadian politics; the Reformacons are obsessed with them).
Picture below shows that this was in the breakfast room where they discussed the public communique and most are having a paper in their hands: perhaps the draft communique.
Indicating that it was not about lecturing Trump, but more some last ditch negotiating/clarification/meaning of.
And then the setting could very well be "just as it happened".
Trump enjoying the comfort of being seated, and the other players trying to get as close as possible, in order not to miss anything, crowding around him.
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Perhaps you can even say from this picture that Trudeau is not that engaging anymore because he got a communique from all 7 members: he rolled the paper up, holding it in both hands... job done.
And you see Macron and Merkel still going into details based on written words, as if they still count.
Which is BTW also the stance Merkel took after Trump blew it all up again. The formal German government ignored the conclusion of the Trump tweet and responded with: "we stay with the communique as agreed by all, when we were together"
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FriendlyFire
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FFS US Agricultre recieves $50 Bil per year in subsidies and creates massive glut because it encourages over production. If you believe that the US will end Argicultural subsidies in exchange for Canada removing its tariffs. I have a bridge to sell to you.
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Canada has inappropriate protections on its dairy industry, like all protections, it mostly just hurts everyone to benefit a few. Nearly every country protects its farming sector, partially out of patriotism and partially a mechanism of maintaining sovereignty.
Creating a trade war (ratcheted on the premise that we're a security threat) is the wrong tack, since now Canadians have to decide if we're going to 'buckle' on our self-inflected wound.
I'll point out, the war powers that Trump is using to attack all of his allies are those given to him by Congress, who are currently complicit in allowing him to retain those powers. Where's Paul Nation?
Creating a trade war (ratcheted on the premise that we're a security threat) is the wrong tack, since now Canadians have to decide if we're going to 'buckle' on our self-inflected wound.
I'll point out, the war powers that Trump is using to attack all of his allies are those given to him by Congress, who are currently complicit in allowing him to retain those powers. Where's Paul Nation?
That's all fine and well, but, much much much more importantly:
Spoiler :
For the love of NYC, three hundred years of history of the English language, and all that is good and holy, can somebody explain to Trump that it's "the jig is up"?
Please?!
(Yes, i know: We're both not captioning. Sorry. But i'm affraid really has - in post #29 - successfully and amusingly concluded the original purpose of the thread, however tangentially. So i hope we can have some license.)
FriendlyFire
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It just blows my mind that the US is producing so much milk its dumping hundreds of Millions of liters of Milk
Why just WHY ?
Huh?
What is there to not understand? It seems like you understand perfectly.
The picture speaks for itself.
EnglishEdward
Deity
Citizens need to eat. Having home grown food available is a duty.
Granted most free trade politicians are too stupid to understand that.
But maybe they don't want to be hung from lap posts by a starving mob.
shadowplay
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Well, my eyeballs got a good amount of exercise, as I watched the video.
Apparently Trump's advisors don't watch Canadian news. Trudeau didn't say anything he hasn't said before. TRUMP started this by imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying that Canada was a "national security threat" to the U.S. Can anything be more insulting than that? Trudeau was 100% correct to say that it's insulting, and he said it long before the press conference that Trump and this Kudlow character are whining and pitching childish tantrums over. The only time in recent history when Canada did not jump in to help the Americans was when Bush decided to invade Iraq. Our Prime Minister said no, because it wasn't sanctioned internationally. And as it turned out the whole thing about weapons was a lie anyway.
It's interesting that Kudlow thinks they were meeting with PIERRE Trudeau, and the interviewer didn't correct him. Are these people for real? Pierre Trudeau has been dead for close to 18 years. If you're going to rant and scream and bang the table about a foreign leader, at least know who you're ranting and screaming and throwing a tantrum about.
Is cheese expensive? Yes. Do I want American cheese to crowd out Canadian cheese? No. Do I want Canadian farmers to lose their livelihoods? No. Trudeau is correct to stand up for the Canadian dairy industry. It's not our fault the U.S. has a hard time understanding that if they produce much more of something than they can sell, they need to fix their own situation, rather than bullying others.
Because it makes more sense to them to bully other countries to sell U.S. milk there, rather than make adjustments in their own country. Yes, milk is more expensive, and I buy cheese very seldom because it's expensive. But at least I know where it comes from and because of health regulations I feel safe consuming it.
Dumping milk when there are parts of the world that could really use it is just so immoral, I don't have the words.
And add my ocean-front property outside my front window to your bridge (I live two days from the nearest ocean).
What an incredibly ignorant rant this idiot went on. Both of them, really.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
If that's what they rename it, they should hold it in Pontiac, Michigan.
