Half halt
Updated 6:21 PM EST, Mon February 3, 2025
“Trump pauses Mexico and Canada tariffs while moving ahead with government changes.”
Updated 6:21 PM EST, Mon February 3, 2025
“Trump pauses Mexico and Canada tariffs while moving ahead with government changes.”
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Thank you.
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The strategic gaslighting is hilarious. Carry on. WLW 
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Why am I not surprised?
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Hey the tariff stuff is horse-related, in my case. Living off investments, the 20% stock market drop, if sustained or worse, could mean I have to put my horse down.
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Very good observation. The market plummeted today, then recovered when the tariffs were paused. Those of us horse owners who are retired and have 401ks or pensions are impacted by these shenanigans. Apparently Wall Street went ape on Trump this weekend about the economic impacts of the tariffs and that may have been one reason why he backed off.
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This is the delusional thinking that drives me batty. Just consider how long it takes to secure land and financing, get the permits, construct the building/arrange the logistics, and then hire and train a workforce to make American widgets.
To keep this horse related, I suppose this means we need to breed, raise and start more American-bred horses so people don’t need to import them. Gee, if we get going now that should only take… about four years.
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Caved? That’s one way of looking at it. Or, the retaliatory tariffs from Canada all of a sudden made the offer that Canada made weeks ago regarding border security look not so bad after all.
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Mmmmm stop talking facts. 🫠
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They did not cave.
Mexico “agreed” to stuff they were already doing as noted above.
Canada “agreed” to the border plan they announced back in December and were already implementing… and added a cookie of a fentanyl czar who will not have much to do.
I wish we could leave the moderating to the mods and not just toss flags around like bad NFL referees. I know, I know… crazy concept.
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So it seems that with the tariff plan on hold, you can import horses from Canada willy nilly. 
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We DID NOT CAVE!!! 
Get your facts straight instead of believing everything that *&% tells you
And we’ll never be the 51st state
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As Scribbler has pointed out, nothing that Trump has announced is new. Our news media has been reporting for weeks that this is what was being offered to Trump. Canadians were beginning to wonder exactly what did Trump wanted as he kept moving the goal posts and insulting us. Trump got nothing extra with his tariff threat except a lot of bad will in the future from Canadians. No doubt the CEO’s of the big American companies came to their senses and realized tariffs would hurt their bottom-lines and stock price. Stock market was defiantly not amused by Trump’s behavior. Even crypto reacted badly.
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Um, Canada did not cave.
We matched the tariffs and then several provincial premiers said they would pull the US liquor off the shelves.
Trump finally talked to Trudeau on the phone - something Trudeau has been seeking since the inauguration.
And then…they agreed to continue to do the things that were mostly on the books already.
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Doesn’t matter sadly. He will proclaim victory and his followers will lap it up. Who knows what would have actually happened in the horse market. It was always a smoke and mirrors.
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I’m pretty close, and I feel the same way.
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Great, because the price of produce was not already going to spike enough when there are no workers left to pick it.
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Well if crops can’t grow because there is not enough water for irrigation, workers won’t be needed to pick them so the deportations won’t be a problem. Genius!
(/s in case anyone can’t tell)
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There are about 35K farms in SQ county. It’s all agriculture, nearly $5 billion income annually. Oats and hay will be effected. It’s also a good ol boy county as well as an area where many of the farms are owned by corporations. I doubt they are happy about having their sowing delayed by at least a month.
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