Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro slammed the barrage of “disrespectful” comments he said U.S. President Donald Trump has lobbed at Canada as he met with Ontario Premier Doug Ford Wednesday and signed a partnership agreement on trade.
“I know that many Canadians, to many of them the United States does not feel very welcoming right now. I get that, given the reckless and disrespectful rhetoric coming from our president,” Shapiro said, standing alongside Ford at a press conference.
“Hear me on this: I respect Canadian sovereignty. On top of the reckless rhetoric, the tariffs that the Trump administration has put in place are a real threat to both of our economies.”
He said trade between Ontario and Pennsylvania has declined by around $500 million since Trump launched his trade war and started threatening to make Canada the 51st state, a comment he has lately taken to repeating.
“That means fewer goods available for Pennsylvanians to buy, and fewer markets for Pennsylvania businesses to sell to. All that chaos at the federal level in the United States is making us all worse off,” Shapiro said.
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Also, before you get excited about Shapiro, keep in mind he covered up the Ellen Greenberg case and is a naked genocidal Zionist. Dude is about as close as you can get to a MAGA shitstain without changing parties.
Sounds about right.
Ford himself is a bloated, oaty turd steeped in corruption and classic conservative idiocy. These two chodes pretending to get along isn’t surprising.
Let’s not gloss over Dougie also being a corrupt giant piece of shit, so it’s trash people on every side on this one!
Doug Ford would sell us all out in an instant for a pittance.
And so begins (or continues, as the case may be) the slow disintegration of the UNITED States of America, as the individual States seek their autonomy in negotiating trade with other countries. Next step - for the States that can land imported goods directly (all of the border states and those on the Ocean) negotiate their own tariff structure, by-passing the federal trade framework. Yes,it is against the Constitution, but considering what Trump is ignoring under the Constitution, it is now a remotely credible although currently improbable ‘next step’. However, as Trump continues to ignore the Constitution and the economies of individual States plummet, it becomes more and more probable. Doing so would not just force a constitutional crisis, it would completely target the powers of the Federal government and trigger a return to individual State autonomy. This, in fact, actually fits within the Republican policy framework - the slow erosion of Federal powers. It seems the Republican strategy is to get the Democrats on board through the back door.
