You have probably heard about the “trade war” going on between the government of the United States and the government of Canada. This is important. It is not a war between the American and Canadian people – but it is the American and Canadian people who will pay for the war.
Just as Americans and Canadians are paying for that other war.
Trump – currently in control of the American government in the same way that an idiot child given a loaded gun is in charge of who gets shot – has fired back at the government of Canada, which fired off a 50 percent retaliatory tariff (that is to say, imposed a tax) on American-made large displacement motorcycles, which effectively means Harleys and Indians.
Trump, retaliating in kind, outright banned Can Am Spyders, which are three-wheelers made in Valcourt, Canada.
What does it mean for Americans – and Canadians?
Well, it obviously means no Canadian-made Can Am Spyders for Americans, for as long as the ban remains in force. It also means Americans will be paying more for the Can Am Spyders that are already in America, at American dealerships – because prices will go up to reflect the artificially created reduction in supply. If Americans who want Can Am Spyders decide they can’t afford to pay more for the remaining inventory that dealers are likely going to try to charge more for, then it will be the dealers who pay – in the form of no sales. Either way, it is Americans who pay (as well as Canadians who work making the Can Am Spyder). It will not be Trump or his Canadian counterpart.
This is important.
Trump imposes tariffs – taxes – on imported stuff, from Canada (and elsewhere) and we pay the extra. Not “Canada.” Just as Canadians who want to by Harleys and Indians made in America that are tariff-taxed by Trump’s Canadian analog pay the extra.
How much extra? Well, a Harley or Indian bike with a “customs value” of $30,000 Canadian dollars that’s subject to a 50 percent tariff tax could become a $45,000 bike ($15,000 in tariff-taxes) plus another $750 Canadian in value added (GST) taxes, which the Canadian government imposes (and extracts). Interestingly, electric “motorcycles” – such as the Harley LiveWire – are exempt from these punitive taxes. The air fingers quote marks are added to mock the idea of an electric motorcycle, which is something like an artificial woman. It may look real, but it ain’t the same. The more relevant point as it pertain to this discussion is that Canada’s government is hurting Canadians – excepting, for the moment, Canadians who are in congruence with the political orthodoxies set forth by the Canadian government. They are rewarded for their congruence, at the expense of those who are not.
Forbes spells it out: “Canadian industry minister Mélanie Joly has said Ottawa deliberately selected products tied to particular U.S. states as it seeks leverage ahead of the November midterm elections.”
Forbes adds that “Canadian Harley sales have already softened: The company reported 3,735 retail sales there during the first half of 2026, down from 3,912 a year earlier.” This will hurt Americans – including Americans who own stock in Harley-Davidson (and Indian) as well as – potentially – Americans who may lose their jobs manufacturing and selling Harley and Indian motorcycles. 
Everything gets more expensive – for us.
These expenses are abstractions for Trump and his Canadian counterpart because they are rich and thus can afford to be callous and they are rich because they control the apparatus of the state, which they can (and do) leverage to enrich themselves at our expense.
They are not “capitalists.” They are state capitalists, though it can be argued the term is self-contradictory. Capitalism is supposed to be another way of saying free market (or free enterprise) and there can be no such thing when the government is preventing (or punishing) the free exchange of goods and services, which is exactly what Trump and his Canadian counterpart are doing. Neither are doing what capitalism demands – which is to laissez faire – or leave us alone. Let Can Am make three wheelers and sell them to anyone who wants to buy them. Let Harley and Indian do the same. Neither are harming anyone by making and selling their bikes so leave them alone. 
As far as the fatuity used by Trump to justify his tariff-taxes – that they are an “incentive” to manufacture things in America rather than make them somewhere else – the better incentive is to make it more attractive to manufacture things here by leaving manufacturers alone. When they are not – when they are hasslled and mulcted at every turn – there is less incentive to even bother trying.
The argument that it is necessary “regulate” (that is, to impose compliance costs) is also fatuous. If harms are caused, there are courts for that. The problem – from the point-of-view of the regulatory apparat – is that in a court it is necessary to establish that actual harm has been caused. It least, it was once necessary – before it became an “offense” to affront the authority of the state.
Why won’t Trump propose such reforms? Because they’d require him to leave us alone. That is like asking a mosquito to do the same and good luck with that.
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https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/saudi-output-drops-to-zero/
Once you get the idea, the whole world dances to the tune of jew $, Everything makes sense. Fake wars, cold or hot. Fake leaders who decide nothing and do what they’re told. Fake pandemics followed by real injections to cull useless eaters. It’s 1 system of deception and death, a global Hollywood, where everyone is engrossed in fictitious tales as they’re led into the pen of the abbatoir. the jeworldorder. DIgital $, total surveillance, complete submission.
Trump is using Smoot Hawley to impose these 50% tariffs.
(AI): Different Authority: To target Canada, the administration shifted tactics and invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, a rarely used, nearly 90-year-old Depression-era statute.
The Justification: Section 338 allows the president to place up to 50% duties or import restrictions on countries that economically discriminate against U.S. commerce or levy retaliatory tariffs.
The Accusations: The White House claims Canada discriminates against U.S. goods via provincial alcohol bans, vehicle tariffs, and dairy market protections, using these points to justify maxing out duties under this specific section.
(More Money for the Lawyers) Legal Status and Challenges
Untested Ground: Section 338 has essentially never been deployed in this manner before, creating a fresh legal grey area.
Future Battles: While the administration claims statutory authority under the 1930 Act, legal scholars and trade experts expect these new actions to face separate challenges in the federal court system
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How Smoot Hawley made the 1930s Depression “Great”
AI: “Higher Prices: The law raised taxes on more than 20,000 imported goods to protect American farms and factories.
Foreign Retaliation: Other countries got angry and raised their own taxes on American products.
Trade Collapse: International trade dropped sharply, which hurt businesses and banks around the world
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On a lighter note:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/09/no-commentaries.html
Disgusting that Smoot-Hawley is still on the books despite the grief it caused back in the 30’s. Every single law, regulation, etc. should be required to have a 10 year expiration date, make Clowngress justify its rationale.
Isn’t democrazy grand.
I have a wildlife trail cam project and I buy many of these 32 gb sd cards. I only use the large ones, because they are easy to drop, and I have been down on my hands and knees sifting throught ferns trying to find the damn thing. To could get these cards for around 5 bucks each, but know they are doubled. The cause was Trump’s tarrif fiasco.
Orange Caligula has disrupted world trade while increasing the budget deficit, while his policies are unhinging the bond market, causing nation states to dump Treasures forcing interest rates up.
I predict Trump’s economic strategies are going to end in a complete disaster, like the rest of his policies. I see no reason if Trump is a complete loon doubling down on his failed Iran war that his economic policies will also be failures – same braggadoicio personality, same Chabadist supremacist brain, same raging arrogance, same lack of knowledge (Trump never read one book), same snake venom personality.
If Trump failed on the Iran war why would I think this loser trade policies are any better? Like Iran, they can retaliate. Trump thinks he knows everything yet when you hear him talk he sounds like a grade school punk.
If I met Trump on a used car parking lot, I would quietly exit and not deal with him. I would immediately detect some crazy lying asshole who can not be trusted. I am sure world leaders are on the phone talking between themselves about this nasty bastard Trump and how they are going to handle him. If I was a world leader I would contact some assassins and get rid of him. You just can not have a functioning world economy and Trump.
It is very easy to get rid of problem, put a price on his head, and keep increasing it until it gets so high hundreds of trained assassins are vying for an opportunity to make themselves rich with just one kill. If you put a 100 million bounty on Trump’s head, Trump will be dead, and the Trump problem solved. Considering the hundreds of billions in trade, a 100 million price tag is not much for prime ministers and Arab oil shieks.
Look at their losses, Iran is bombing the shit out of their oil infrastructure, Iran took out Saudi’s east west pipeline this week. MBS is kissing Trump’s ass when he ought to ally with Iran and off the orange bastard.
The United States has a weekly kill list. Each Tuesday they would meet at the white house and decide on the top ten people they wanted killed that week. Then they would do it and next week same thing. Watch the testimony:
John Brennan’s Tuesday Morning Kill List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRq8Ap55608
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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has recently described a system in which, during the post-9/11 counterterrorism campaign, senior U.S. officials would meet at the White House—he has specifically described Tuesday (morning) meetings—to decide which individuals were to be targeted for killing. A short version circulating online says that a weekly list of people to be killed was prepared and then passed to CIA personnel for action.
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I have a very low opinion of Putin and the opposition to the Zionistas. Why haven’t they killed Netanyahu, Zelensky, and Trump? Make no sense to me. You have to understand when you have the power of the modern state, assholes can be killed by trained assassin teams very easily. Every modern military state has teams of assassins, all kinds of covert kill systems, etc.
Why is Trump allowed to live, I do not know.
You don’t think the blob won’t just roll out another Trump? The blob has plenty of vacuous scumbags lined up to take his place when he’s either finished, become a liability, or out lived his usefulness. Just like they did with Biden.
That is a common argument that I strongly disagree with. Trump is one in 8 billion. Kill him no one even comes close.
One thing Canada has been doing is obtaining cheap industrial products from China *unmarked* stamping “Made in Canada” on them and selling them for a nice profit in the USA. Tariff running. Or another way to cheat i.e. is buying engines from China with the valve covers left off, assembling the valve covers on the engine and stamping it “Made in Canada”. Canada has been laundering and running China parts and equipment for their communist friends for a nice mark-up for doing nothing. Not exactly a neighborly thing to do to the USA.
Throw is it the woods.
Apparently 39 other countries are doing it too (according to the White House)!
(AI): “The White House has accused Canada of serving as a transshipment hub—or a “backdoor”—that allows Chinese goods to enter North America and avoid higher U.S. tariffs.
The Transshipment Accusation. The White House Report: A U.S. administration report titled “The Great Transshipment Scam” alleges that Canada is one of roughly 40 countries acting as a shadow network for Chinese exports.
“U.S. Position: American officials argue this practice undercuts U.S. trade policies and costs billions in lost tax revenue by disguising the true country of origin of imported goods.”
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It’s good for American consumers. We pay less for the Chinese goods. These greedy sodomites and pedophiles are running the US into the ground. It’s just like they think they can sanction everyone: Iran has learned how to get around the sanctions–same with Russia–but OUR dollar is tanking, our interest rates are rising, our government debt is out of control–but Trump is spending more than ever as well shooting off all our munitions and depleting our oil reserves. Here’s a clip of Putin looking more sober than I’ve ever seen him saying oil Europe complained about getting for 150 Euros now costs 1000 and since they have to now refill their reserves (they want to go to 70%) it’s going to drive the price to 1500.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/09/they-never-studied.html
Trump is just screwing us. He got this tariff idea from the JEW Claremont Institute. Russel Vought, the shadow president and OMB director, has defended President Trump’s sweeping tariffs as a foundational pillar of the administration’s fiscal strategy to reduce the national deficit (on the backs of the American people, while doing nothing for industry). Also you should know, they are all insider trading and carrying out vendettas (not to mention shakedowns into their own pockets most like) on these tariffs because they know which companies they are hurting.
The Supreme Court outlawed Trump’s previous rationale for imposing tariffs so now he’s using Smoot Hawley which made the 1930 depression “Great.” Trump says he doesn’t want to be Hoover, so why is he following the same script?
Why don’t Trump reduce spending??? End the war in Ukraine. End the aid to Israel’s genocide. They are now expanding the navy because we don’t have enough crew or boats to blockade the Straits of Hormuz and carry out our existing commitments. The Jerusalem Post was saying the Americans could use credit card debt forgiveness to get people to join the military. I wonder if both UK and US are fight Russian and Iran due to the bankers.
Being the bully he is Treasonous Trump thinks he can toss sanctions and tariffs against anyone who upsets his fragile ego, with no consequences. I applaud Canada for giving it back tit fir tat, even though it is the average person on both sides of the border who will pay the price. I enjoy watching Donnie Demented bluster in rage, hoping it will bring on a heart attack.
Houthis Fight, ‘We’ Lose
Reportedly the Saudi head choppers, who are in dire straits, will join the UAE clowngov in negotiating with Iran next week. The Houthis rope-a-doped the Saudi camel jockeys so bad, they don’t know which way is up.
Our so-called ‘allies’ see the writing on the wall: America is cowardly, out of ammo, and worthless as a security guarantor after Iran destroyed its bases. Now the process of booting yankee occupiers out of the middle east, the same way they fled Kabul five years ago, is firing on all eight cylinders. 🙂
The Americlown crusaders’ last redoubt is the ghastly little apartheid colony of Shitrahell, which is too small to be defensible. SAD!
Yankee go home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWko5bkG5Uk
Ol’ Mojtaba Khamenei is recording a new parody video, quoting Hank Williams:
The news is out, all over town
That Trump’s been seen, a-runnin’ ’round
We know that he should leave but then
He just can’t go, we win again
From the “all men are pigs” part of my brain: Mélanie Joly is hot.
Hi MH,
Well, she’s easier on the eyes than Trump!
Get used to the idea, governments hate people. We screw up their “perfect” world.
One problem with tariffs is with so much of what we buy being made in China or other parts of Asia is how little tariffs effect people. If the price of an item made in a country with a high tariff goes up most people will just buy the item made from a country with lower tariffs.
Furthermore with taxes and cost of living getting higher how many people were putting off buying a Harley, Indian or Can Am already?
More effective might be if those leaders surreptitiously investigated and leaked compromat on their opponents but they won’t because they are just as dirty.
Owing to the historical happenstance that Detroit became Motor City over a century ago, manufacturing of autos and auto parts naturally spread across the river into Ontario. As NPR recalls,
‘The U.S. and Canada started weaving their auto supply chains together in 1965, when they signed a pact with a goal of consolidating their auto industries and expanding their combined market. The pact removed duties on auto products or equipment crossing the border when they are made of at least 50% of U.S. or Canadian content.’
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5961530/canada-trade-war-auto-parts-supply-chain
Since it benefits auto makers and both countries, US and Canadian governments encouraged cross-border auto manufacturing and wrote it into NAFTA, now known as USMCA, which president Donnie Milfhouse Fruitcake often mistakes for the Village People song YMCA. But this binational, well-integrated industry could splinter this year: Donnie Fruitcake has threatened 50% tariffs on Canadian vehicles, auto parts and steel starting on Jan. 1.
A product of the very local, very corrupt, and very unsophisticated real estate development industry, Donnie understands nothing about trade and industry. He thinks he learned at the Wharton School (if he was even there) that tariffs are a universal tonic, much as George Washington’s doctors regarded bloodletting as salutary for health.
The fool in the White House is a spiteful mutant, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. But the other shoe has yet to drop: as interest rates escalate ominously, the likelihood of a humdinger recession — not seen since 2007-2009 — becomes a near certainty.
That last financial crisis/goat rodeo crashed housing prices by 50 percent in many cities. If the American middle class gets whacked that hard again, they will be baying for blood. And I will gleefully egg them on, intentionally misquoting Shakespeare: ‘First, let’s
killcastrate all the Republicans.’ 🙂