Well that went well for Trump:

[applegrove]

Canada to join Mexico, Japan, South Korea and the EU in auto tariff talks

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-auto-tariffs-mexico-japan-south-korea-eu-1.4766361

Canadian Press

"SNIP.......

Canada will join Mexico and European and Asian auto-producing countries this week to plot strategy ahead of the potential imposition of tariffs on vehicles and auto parts exported to the United States.

Japan and the European Union organized the meeting for Tuesday in Geneva, where vice and deputy ministers from Canada, the EU, Japan and South Korea will gather to talk about the punishing levies threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump.

........

A Canadian government official told The Canadian Press on Sunday that deputy international trade minister Timothy Sargent would attend the meeting on Canada's behalf.

Trump has threatened to impose tariffs under Section 232 of the decades-old U.S. Trade Expansion Act. The legislation allows the president, under certain circumstances, to impose duties recommended by his commerce secretary under the notion that the goods being imported are a threat to national security.


.........SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. Trump has bullied small vendors his whole life. The rest of the world are not small

vendors when they (we) work together.

[yurbud]

14. well said

[applegrove]

16. I've seen it in action. Someone who grew up with my dad had two parties.

He hired a friend of my mom to cater. She worked at the tennis club, at a travel agency and catered, all part time, to make ends meet after her divorce. The man told her she would not be paid for anything but her costs and if she didn't like it she could sue him. My dad found out and paid her what she was owed, including profit, and my dad stopped being friends with the asshole. This was after the art of the deal had been published so the man may have been copying Trump. It was unheard of in my parent's tonier neck of the woods.

[yurbud]

19. I thought there was an unwritten rule among the rich not to screw your peers.

[yurbud]

20. Did Trump brag about stiffing people in THE ART OF THE DEAL?

[applegrove]

21. Don't know. It is certainly a habit of Trump.

[dhol82]

2. D'uh.

What did they expect would happen?

[Amaryllis]

3. THey don't expect. THat requires the ability to think through something to potential consequences.

[dhol82]

4. Sadly, true.

[PaulX2]

5. Swimmingly Well

Everyone loses.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Exactly. The "National Security" lie is especially bogus when applied to Canada. . . . nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Let's hope this is only bluster, but they seem to take it seriously.

It's quiet a stretch to call sales of autos from any of our allies a threat to security. However, just the threat has cost many people lots of money in asset depreciation.

It might be logical to drag his sorry ass to court over this. These, and a few thousand others seeking relief from this administration.

.............

[dchill]

7. Don't worry, Trump is both Ninja and Jedi - He has a plan....

No he isn't, and no he doesn't. He's just following orders.

[erronis]

10. Yeah - but that scares me. What is THEIR plan? Who are THEY?

It very obviously isn't the rank-an-file (mainly rank) repuglicons. It may not even be the US oligarchs. SPECTRE, anyone?

[Hekate]

15. Putin has a long-term goal of destabilizing all the Western democracies. I forget the name of his

...favorite geopolitical theorist, but the guy is a professor in Russia who writes big fat books that don't get translated into English very much, and are expensive when they do get translated (I looked him up on Amazon back when I first heard about him).

It's scary shit, like everything else about Vlad. It's not a "theory," it is an understood reality. We know now that Putin helped finance and promote Brexit -- and that begins to tear the EU alliance apart. People in the UK never expected it to actually pass -- sound familiar?

There's a wave of far-right anti-immigrant "populism" all around Europe -- Putin's fingerprints all over the place.

The frosting on the cake for me personally was learning that Calexit, the cockamamie idea that California should secede from the Union, was led by an American with an office in Siberia. I'm a Californian, by the way.

[roamer65]

17. If things get bad enough, secession may be the only viable option for CA.

And many other states as well, if the orange infestation is allowed to continue.

[Hekate]

18. Nope. Breaking up the USA is a Putin goal, just like the EU. We will battle this out ourselves...

...and to hell with that dapper little thug.

[knightmaar]

8. Like a little kid playing chess

He doesn't imagine that other people can make plans too.

[procon]

9. A trading coalition between the Mexico, Canada, the EU, Japan and South Korea will

kill the US economy. Look for another Recession, worse than the last, and we won't have anyone like Obama and his top team to save us. Traitor Trump is following Putin's orders to weaken the US to the point it is no longer a superpower.

[DallasNE]

12. Why No Court Challenge?

This won't end our trade deficit. Besides, if a trade deficit threatens our national security then this should have been done 60 years ago. I see no legal basis for this action.

[Hekate]

13. That idiot came into the WH and set about destroying our position as "the indispensible nation"...

Thanks to the Trojan Horse, the US really is no longer "first" in the world, especially in terms of respect. When he's gone, whoever we have in the WH pver several terms is going to be a long time trying to rebuild that respect.

MAGA my rosy Irish ass.