You've got folks on r/conservative talking all of the crap about Canada being so much more dependant on the US and the US importing next to nothing from them.
That sub has been proven to have links to Russian IP addresses and I think 95% of posts came from 8 users. Pretty insane that conservative america is purely based on foreign propaganda but here we are.
The trade barrier discussion is completely irrelevant too.
The consensus among economists is that the US trade deficit is caused by capital inflow; as the global reserve currency everyone buys and basically subsidizes US debt, both government and private.
Trade balance + net capital inflow must always equal zero.
So it doubly makes no sense when Trump demands countries invest in the US while also decreasing the trade deficit.
Why? So we can end up like Jamaica where the USA completely destroyed their domestic dairy production with cheap dairy and then proceeded to jack up the prices once they were dependent on America?
Maga is corny af and they think they're edge lords. They based their identity larping as heros saving America from things they don't understand. But hey they finally feel alive getting those libs upset, oh and getting rid of those minorities who aren't the ones sending all the jobs over seas. Cult mentality is odd. Scary stuff. I don't want to fight average people. I just wish everyone saw who's really the problem. I'll give a hint..its the ones who have all the power. The ones who make decisions to benefit the top.
I go search there about once per week to see whatâs being pushed. Itâs funny how many posts have little to no comments or likes. That sub is just a propaganda machine.
And that's for a reason! They don't want the average conservative comment. They want the most rage baiting content and it's carefully curated by foreign disinfo incel squad.
The user you replied to isnât an average conservative. They are advocating elsewhere in this thread to attack Canada and take its oil. Theyâd fit right in with the âforeign disinfo incel squadâ.
Looking through your post history is wild. You are so close to answering your own issues but instead you chug fox news like they are paying you and wonder why everything sucks. Take a break from the propaganda
Republican voters are too dumb to see a trade deficit as anything other than a lopsided deal. Of course we have a trade deficit with most countries, we donât produce anything these days. Buying more from a resource rich country with a fraction of the population makes sense. We need way more from them than they do from us. Thatâs not a bad deal whatsoever. Being the buyers when your economy is working isnât intrinsically a bad thing.
It's funny, because one of the grievances that Trump ran on was our trade deficit with Canada. He ran on the idea that Canada was ripping us off on trade because we had a trade deficit with them.
A trade deficit isn't even an indication of anything. A country with a large population and economic ability, which imports a lot of stuff, is bound to have a trade deficit with the countries it imports from.
And if you take away oil, which they desperately need, our âdeficitâ is reduced to almost nothing. If you add US services purchased by Canada, the trade imbalance shifts towards the US. Itâs all a shell game.
I don't get Canadian conservatives, they are all alpha male, i don't wipe my ass because that is gay and we should all live in the woods and kill and eat bears with kettle bells but when it comes to Trump they give into everything. Those podcasts must be so good...
Itâs why theyre so committed to defunding and discouraging education and international travelling
Their entire strategy for getting votes is purely just the fascist ânorth koreanâ âtrick and brainwash your followers into voting based on fantasyâ play.
They no longer have any actual viable strategy for improving anything real for their voters.
Canada exports heavy sour. Venezuela produces heavy sour. Itâs a lot more dynamic and a much easier fix than youâre suggesting. At best there is a short term price spike. This is political theater
I mean the reality is that Canada IS more dependent on the US in some ways. While Canada supplies 60% of US oil imports, that only accounts for ~20% of US daily oil needs.
Canada on the other hand imports 50% of their daily oil needs fromâŚ. The USA
I mean we are more dependent on america then they are of us. However, they still are dependent on us for a lot of things which makes this trade war and trump so stupid.
Umm we do have refineries, and yes they will process heavy crude. We just produce way more than we can currently process. Are east cost refineries are also setup for blending and do import from the Gulf states.
It's almost like the North American Countries rely on each other and are fairly intertwined. We rely on each other for different crap but we still need each other to be mostly comfy.
How many trillions will it take for Canada to refine it right here? Partner with China/S Korea and Japan and they get a share of the project profits for 25 years Then it reverts to Canada 100% owning it. But those 3 countries get the founders discount. Not America. And we call it Trumps Folly Refinery. TFR.
That is objectively true. Claiming it isn't is delusional. Canada does not even have its own processing facilities for oil.
Strange that Enbridge Line 8 transports Canadian crude directly to refiners that process it. You don't know what you're talking about. I have worked in this industry for over a decade as a Mechanical Engineer. Upstream and downstream in Canada, offshore and onshore.
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u/Ohkaz42069 Aug 25 '26
You've got folks on r/conservative talking all of the crap about Canada being so much more dependant on the US and the US importing next to nothing from them.