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Pluvious

(5,422 posts)
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 06:45 PM 14 hrs ago

Donnie Dumfuck's Historic Victory Over Canada

He sure show them despicable Canucks !!

What was meant to be a show of force has spiraled into a full-blown agricultural disaster. T.r.u.m.p’s latest potash tariffs were designed to pressure Canada, but instead they detonated inside America’s own farming heartland. In an emergency meeting at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump adviser reportedly admitted the unthinkable: the policy had backfired so badly that American farmers may not survive the growing season.

Canada wasted no time. As the world’s largest potash supplier, Ottawa redirected exports to Asia and Europe within days, locking in billion-dollar contracts and tightening its grip on the global fertilizer market. One Canadian official mocked the situation bluntly, saying that if the U.S. doesn’t want Canadian potash, the rest of the world gladly will.

On the ground in Iowa, the consequences turned personal. A U.S. farmer broke down during a live interview, explaining that without Canadian potash, crops simply cannot be grown at scale.

The result is stark: Canada posts record profits and cements its status as the undisputed “fertilizer king,” while the United States loses control of a critical supply chain at the worst possible moment of the planting season.

Analysts are already calling this the worst trade failure of Trump’s year — a pressure tactic that ended up crushing the very people it claimed to defend.




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Donnie Dumfuck's Historic Victory Over Canada (Original Post) Pluvious 14 hrs ago OP
Didn't think that one out either. underpants 14 hrs ago #1
Yes, thought requires a brain, lacking this one is ;) n/t Cheezoholic 12 hrs ago #7
Thank you, Yoda. ananda 11 hrs ago #14
Like Donny said about Iran, "They weren't supposed to do that." tanyev 14 hrs ago #2
When dementia meets reality. Maru Kitteh 13 hrs ago #6
Stupid is as stupid does Whyisthisstillclose 13 hrs ago #3
Who did a lot of farmers vote for again? MustLoveBeagles 13 hrs ago #4
If we go through your closet, BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #12
This just might hand Dems a senate seat in Iowa Fiendish Thingy 13 hrs ago #5
A Big Win For Canada! And, a Big loss Cha 12 hrs ago #8
It's trade aikido. Mblaze 12 hrs ago #9
Out with the experienced, in with the incompetent sycophants BeneteauBum 12 hrs ago #10
It's simple: MarcoZandrini 11 hrs ago #11
Hmmm I thought Trump was going to get his potash from Belarus now. Bev54 11 hrs ago #13
It's embarrassing. Trump is such a putz. Martin68 11 hrs ago #15
Donald is running the country like a "Trump business"--- Jack Valentino 11 hrs ago #16
I wonder how much he and his spawn.... COL Mustard 11 hrs ago #17
Everything that Trump touches dies. LudwigPastorius 9 hrs ago #18
The HUBRIS of an ignorant bully is a wrecking ball Martin Eden 51 min ago #19

tanyev

(49,382 posts)
2. Like Donny said about Iran, "They weren't supposed to do that."
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 06:57 PM
14 hrs ago

When delusion meets reality.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,411 posts)
5. This just might hand Dems a senate seat in Iowa
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 07:30 PM
13 hrs ago

I don’t even know who is running, but they would be fools not to capitalize on the suffering Trump has inflicted on Iowa farmers.

Cha

(319,443 posts)
8. A Big Win For Canada! And, a Big loss
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 08:52 PM
12 hrs ago

for American Farmers... which I take it are a lot of Traitors' voters.

PEDO's Revenge BACKFIRES AGAIN.

Mblaze

(1,080 posts)
9. It's trade aikido.
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 08:58 PM
12 hrs ago

Let the weight of your opponent's petulant tariffs work against him.

BeneteauBum

(580 posts)
10. Out with the experienced, in with the incompetent sycophants
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 09:02 PM
12 hrs ago

What could go wrong?

Peace ☮️

Jack Valentino

(5,122 posts)
16. Donald is running the country like a "Trump business"---
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 09:35 PM
11 hrs ago

how many times has he gone bankrupt now??

COL Mustard

(8,269 posts)
17. I wonder how much he and his spawn....
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 09:41 PM
11 hrs ago

Are making from this. Nothing happens accidentally in TrumpWorld.

Martin Eden

(15,690 posts)
19. The HUBRIS of an ignorant bully is a wrecking ball
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 08:17 AM
51 min ago

That, in 15 months, has wrecked the alliances and trade partnerships we've built over the last 80 years.

He has already wrecked our government institutions and federal agencies. Wreckage to the American economy is only just beginning.

Republicans in Congress own this. They fully supported this president when he usurped congressional powers on tariffs, war, and the power of the purse by impounding legislatively appropriated funds.

As for their voters, the FAFO factor has only just begun to kick in. It's one thing to pay more for gas. Wait until food shortages drive grocery prices through the roof.

His mantra during the 2024 election was to keep repeating the words tariffs and groceries, persuading voters on pocketbook issues.

Little did they know how those two things would bite them in the A$$.

Along with the rest of us.

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