The Trump Mail-In Voting Problem Should Terrify You BUT What Everyone is Getting Wrong About It
PDS Published 08/25/2026
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So the Supreme Court just gave Trump the green light to reshape Mail-In voting in his image.
But there's also more to the Jesse Waters and Abdullah Al Sadd devolved into it, shouting match on Fox News about. While there's also this Asan Piker controversy.
a real life Spider-Man, start beating up on far right provocateurs was just unmasked Target just got caught trying to sell a Jim Crow style kids costume.
And I can't wait to see a bunch of y'all in Boston and Philadelphia this Friday and we're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show.
You daily dive into the news, starting with if you just take a look at social media right now, you will see.
Literally dozens of Democratic governors and Congress members flip in their shit about the same calling it a legal, unconstitutional, undemocratic, an attempt to rig the election for Republicans.
because in a 6 to 3 decision along Partizan lines, the Supreme Court just gave Donald Trump the green light to clamp down on Mail-In voting, at least for and that's because the ruling that we just got is not the final word.
And we'll get into exactly why and who's fighting back.
But we've got to do a quick refresher on the executive order that created this entire because you had Trump signing it back in March. And it did three big first.
It told the Department of Homeland Security to start compiling lists of US citizens in each Second, it directed federal officials to send those lists to state officials, presumably so that they could purge their voter
and third, it the US Postal Service from delivering mail ballots from anyone not on those lists.
in terms so-called justification for all this is that he needs to stop Democrats from rigging elections with massive voter Mail-In voting means mail in cheating. I call it mail in cheating.
but key thing pretty much every credible, expert and reasonable person was like, yeah, that's definitely not a thing.
You are delusional and we're not going to let you get away with and so more than 20 Democratic state attorneys general sued to block the executive order.
And in late June, a federal judge granted their request, saying that the Postal Service does not have the authority to decide who votes and who does it. In fact, neither does the with a writing.
The Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections. And she even underlined the words does not just for extra emphasis. within an appeals court agreeing.
And at that point, Trump's team got and so seemingly they went to the Supreme Court.
They got on their knees with tears in their eyes, and they said, pretty please, will you give us an emergency and that's how we got to this latest decision.
It is also very, very important to clarify exactly what it does, because a lot of people do seem confused about the Supreme Court did not rule that Trump's executive order was right.
That question is going to have to be taken up later, probably pretty soon, since the midterms are right around the What the court actually said is that the lawsuit challenging
the order was invalid, so Trump could go ahead with enforcing then also here's where things get a little weird, because the same federal judge who originally blocked the order
didn't just block it once, she did it twice, right first in the case brought by the blue states that just got overturned, and a second time in a different case that the Supreme Court has not
so in fact, Trump is still blocked from doing what he wants, but not as much as he was before. Right. So now, well, his USPS cannot refuse to deliver ballots.
His DHS can start compiling those voter lists, and his DOJ can prosecute people who give ballots to anyone ineligible to which definitely does matter,
because you have critics arguing that when you put those two things it looks an awful lot like he's saying, hey, if you send ballots to anyone not on my list, I'll send the DOJ after But now you also have Trump wanting
to get rid of that last remaining block on his and you have his team threatening to take it to an appeals court if the judge doesn't want it back by 5:30 p.m.
eastern time though I'm also not sure how much of a difference that would actually make, given that a dozen red states have already appealed and so now with the Supreme Court's latest decision
loosening the cuffs on Trump, you have many Democratic states vowing to put up a fight in the and actually speaking to the court's three liberal justices, you have Ketanji Brown
Jackson warning that the ruling needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections. and adding.
It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating. For certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election related challenges.
but the conservative majority was like look the plaintiffs just brought this lawsuit too arguing the harms that they're suing over. They just haven't happened saying they're conjectural or hypothetical.
to which you then have critics saying, okay, two first of all, of course the harms haven't happened yet. We are suing to prevent that.
But also some of them have started to become Are you with the federal judge pointing out that Connecticut had already begun shifting election workers away from other duties to prepare for the order
to go into effect in several more, states had already purchased ballot envelopes that wouldn't be in compliance with the but then also, well, the court's majority didn't believe the states had suffered real harm.
It did agree that the Trump administration was, quote, likely to suffer irreparable to which critics were like, yeah, we know what harm that is, Trump himself told It'll guarantee the midterms.
It will guarantee the midterms if you don't get it. Big trouble.
in the meantime, as its waiting for a final decision from the Supreme Court, Trump's Postal Service just released its final draft of the new rules that it would enforce to comply with his executive and so.
First off, it would refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't share voter data with the federal Second.
It would refuse to deliver ballots from people not on its approved and finally, it would require states to put unique, trackable barcodes on every ballot envelope so that it could verify that it's
while with this, they argue that there's already a precedent for the USPS putting barcodes on certain types of mail, such as fake bombs and cremated remains.
you had the Democratic election lawyer, Mark Elias, just mocking the hell out of that say, quote, although ballot mail does not present
precisely the same operational issues as cremated remains or replica explosives, it is unquestionably sensitive mail that raises unique operational considerations.
to say that pieces of paper in an envelope do not present precisely the same operation issues as cremated remains or fake explosives
seems to be a bit of an It doesn't present anything that's similar Have these people lost their minds, and so yeah, we're gonna have to see if any of this fully comes to fruition.
But understand the clock is Election day is just or is still a couple months away, depending on how your viewing time.
But some states they're about to start sending out mail ballots as early as next and then actually as we have our eyes on that and we wait to see how that plays out, we should also talk about how in another sitcom
moment from real political news, we've got to talk about Abdul El-Sayed and Jesse Waters yelling about dangling on prime time TV.
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because you're the Michigan Senate candidate doing an interview with Fox, his resident smart ass. And they initially agreed to have a wholesome conversation about real issues. Of course, this is Fox News.
And so the interview just devolved into complete chaos because that's more water style.
while you had them clashing on issues like immigration, the Iran war and taxing the rich, by far the most buzzworthy moment was when they got on the topic of gender affirming surgery for minors.
So you're a doctor. Electively. I am so you think it's okay for a parent to university?
You think that's okay? I mean, the so do you really want to have a conversation? Are you circumcised? Yeah. Yeah.
But I mean, that's a question. Okay, doctor, you probably should want to move on. You probably should want to move on. A circumcision is different than castration.
I think it's a problem.
It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient.
And I'm just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's dangling. So if you really want to bring that, okay, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about about these things.
Abdul. Michigan's not going for that. That is sick stuff.
Jesse, you have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan. You don't want to talk about gas prices, you don't want to buy groceries.
You don't want to talk about health care. You don't want to talk about the stupid trade war.
That's about the this we spent the whole interview talking about the stuff that's destroying that, that is destroying our own military. You don't seem to want to talk about any of those things.
You want to bring up all this culture war that you know. I'm not here. We talked about the war. We talk about gas Right. And all of that. It's kind of like what we've talked about before.
got a lot of these right wing politicians and right wing pundits like waters loving to fixate on this particular culture war issue. Right. Something that either is not happening or is very rarely happening.
All instead of talking about the more boring, everyday issues that affect everyone.
so with saying, yeah, you see that he's not advocating for gender affirming care for minors, he's just arguing that it is a personal issue for families and their medical providers to figure out.
and you've got him pointing out that waters is using that topic to avoid talking about a variety of very pressing issues.
waters and looking uncomfortable, scrambling, raising his voice and resorting to his favorite adjectives, wacky and sick.
that is also not to say that stoking the cultural war fires is not effective on especially right wingers, but also independents. and while LCA.
Yes. Was able to be Haley Stevens in the primary even though he she was outspending him like crazy.
you now have outside campaigning for the general election, which is going to be a very real test. Right.
And this is Michigan, which not only is a swing state, but one of the most important swing states. it's a state that Trump won in 2016, lost in 2020, but then won again in 2024.
you've got out. So yeah. Have to figure out how to earn the votes of the whole Democratic base. They're not just the progressive wing.
so with that, you're seeing him adjusting his campaign strategy to hopefully make that happen with him sharing his message on unfriendly platforms like Fox so we can reach swing voters.
and also very recently, you saw him distancing himself from some of the most famous progressives in the party.
for example, in a new CNN segment, Dana Bash showed how else they had recently edited his ads to exclude Bernie Sanders. We noticed something really telling about Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.
New ads. He's recycling some from the Democratic primary, but with a really big change. Check this one out.
This is featuring his grandparents from the Democratic primary. He knows what things cost. Now he's running around with Bernie Sanders, trying to change party.
We love him. And so will you.
Now, of course, he's running in the general election against Republican Mike Rogers. The same ad was released. No mention of Bernie Sanders.
He knows what things cost. He learned his Michigan values. And our small town. Take it from us. We love him. And so will you.
he's also been distancing himself from Hassan Piker. Right. Who in addition to being one of Fox News's favorite boogeyman. has also been in the center of a lot of debates regarding the Democratic Party. what else?
I had specifically, you saw him distancing himself after piker said that American Jewish support for Israel could lead someone to take action against Jews in the U.S..
writing, for a little context there, piker was talking about Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss refusing to back outside, and he was actually expressing concern about rising anti-Semitism.
right in the full clip, he was emphasizing the danger of tying all American Jewish people to Israel right now.
and so you've also seen him now defending himself against people he says are trying to twist his words.
so you had also you had saying my commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters, saying antisemitism is a scourge and we need to address it in all its forms.
And I stand against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk. but adding, I want to be crystal clear. Nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.
and while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we're going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools and health care.
it's again trying to steer the focus away from divisive drama and towards fundamental issues that affect everyone.
and generally his whole strategy looks something like saying yes to tough interviews.
Always bring the conversation back to issues of affordability and health care, denouncing anti-Semitism without compromising his own views or criticisms of the Israeli government, and having a viral social media moment here and there.
but he's essentially taking a page or two out of the Zoran Mamdani playbook.
in fact, scourge, that is the same word that Mamdani is repeatedly used to describe anti-Semitism.
the comparisons also don't end there, because while piker supported Mamdani campaign, Mamdani also had to distance himself from the streamer, calling his past remarks about nine over 11 objectionable and reprehensible.
and so one of the questions in the being is Abdullah Siad.
Is he like Mamdani in that he'll be very skilled at always bringing the focus of the conversation back to affordability? Right.
Is messaging about freezing the rent, offering fast and free busses, providing accessible childcare.
It's resonated with a lot of voters in New York City, and it's easy to remember, and I'll say ads on similar campaign slogan is getting money out of politics, putting money in your pocket and passing Medicare for all.
But of course, Michigan has a very different electorate than New York City, so we're gonna have to wait to see, you know, does he caught the Dems? Does he get the swing voters?
Can he beat Mike Rogers in November? it's incredibly important.
If he does not win that seat, it's going to be so much harder for the Dems to take control of the Senate. and then we've got some huge news we've got to dive into.
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We got to talk about how the NFL just received incredibly troubling and worrying information about the prevalence of CTE, right.
Because you now have a new study estimating that at least 1 in 4 NFL players will end up with the disease.
or with the New York Times saying this represents an occupational safety hazard with little comparison in the American workplace.
as far as the specifics of this study, it was just published today in the medical journal BMJ, and it started by looking at over 1700 former NFL players who died between 2008 and because CTE
can only be diagnosed by analyzing the brain after death, that meant that researchers depend on donated brains to study the disease.
so they specifically narrowed in on the deaths between 2016 and 2021, which had the highest rates of brain donors, 235 out of 878.
and so then among all deaths in those five years, 215 had confirmed cases of CTE, which is 24.5%, but again, 643 brains were not examined.
And some of those may have had CTE which is then?
Why the study's lead author saying that 25% is on the low the maximum possible prevalence was at 97%.
But the author says that the true rate is somewhere in the Which at the very least sounds right, because CTE is a former brain damage caused by repeated head injuries, even injuries that may not have been severe enough to initially cause concussions.
the symptoms include memory loss, problems with concentration, mood disturbances like aggression and depression, suicidal thoughts and while it often impacts any athletes you play any sport with tackling and head
trauma as well as combat vets, it's really become synonymous with football it's one of the reasons this is such a major study is that because in most cases of CTE, they're not publicly disclosed.
most NFL players, they don't end up getting their brains so we actually know very little about how many cases there truly are within the it's really eye opening when you talk to the actual
Are you at the times, for example, speaking to former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Randy Grimes, who played with several athletes who were later diagnosed with CTE, and he currently runs a nonprofit counseling retired
and regarding this study, he said, I bet the real number is a lot but even knowing this, he said, the idea of CTE kind of remains an unspoken horror among football players, right?
They don't really discuss saying it's not something it's brought up.
It's not something that players want to talk And saying we could probably move forward faster in our research if we did talk more about players don't want to do it. They don't want to think they have it.
They don't want to think they're seeing adding deep down, we all know that probably the majority of us are going to have some form of CTE.
a sobering and as upsetting as that is, it's also not that surprising considering the NFL has repeatedly been accused of ignoring and downplaying the risk of CTE.
actually, for their part, they responded to this study by saying the NFL continuously strives to make the game of football safer, including by implementing strategies to reduce concussions
and head impacts, saying the NFL remains committed to ensuring that the NFL community has access to a robust and expanding set of resources to enhance their physical and mental
and so actually with that, there's been a debate on whether or not today's study actually reflects today's NFL.
Because if this focused on players who died between 2016 and means their careers likely took place in the decades prior, with many likely playing before 2005, when the first case of CTE
was diagnosed in an NFL player and prompted initial but you have others in the field saying, hey, whatever the NFL has done, we have no proof that rates of CTE are actually right.
Just last month, for example, we learned that former Cowboys player Marshawn Nealon, who died at just 24 from suicide, had CTE. in a release of his diagnosis, the CEO of the concussion and CTE Foundation, Mr.
Nealon played in the modern era of concussion protocols and better helmets, and yet he still developed CTE, saying we have no reason to believe the current generation is at a lower
risk of CTE than previous Concussion protocols do not prevent CTE because CTE is caused by repeated head impacts, not just concussions.
and regarding this study, he also I'm sure there are going to be people who believe that this is a historical study of how we used to play. But here's my thoughts on that.
There are some rule changes to prevent intentional head to head hits, and helmets might be a little bit better, but offsetting that, players are bigger, stronger, and faster than they've ever been before.
They're starting younger than they did 50 years ago and seasons are longer, so we don't know how to extrapolate this study of that population to the modern game.
But future studies will explore one thing that researchers do seem to agree on is that CTE is preventable, right?
With the study's lead author explaining to the we know what's causing It's a neurodegenerative disease where we know and have complete control over the
and because the biggest predictor of CTE is the cumulative force of hits over whole lifetime, including ones that happen before a player ever makes it to the NFL, he says.
We can change that cumulative force without changing the game of right, saying that you can reduce risk by having children, refraining from playing tackle
football, or having all teams at all levels eliminate hits during practices the thinking, being that removing any instances where someone might take a hit, it can lower
then you're also seeing that there are efforts to try to diagnose all this among living you've got some former NFL players participating in studies that could bring answers on that also, one of the things there is
those answers are not going to come what we're going to have to wait to see what happens from there.
Another place where we saw essentially a massive change and scandal and outrage stemming from something that happened overnight is with Stars and Right. Because Stars and Stripes.
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It's a military newspaper that's largely funded by the Department of Defense, but it's always enjoyed editorial independence. Until now.
Because you just saw three major figures within the Stars and Stripes staff getting the ax after daring to suggest that the Trump DoD could possibly be overreaching into their publication.
hitting on what a big deal this is. Like we have to go back a little. Right. If you don't know.
Stars and Stripes was first published back in the Civil War, and it was revived during World War one.
it's a newspaper specifically for American military service members and their families, with articles about new tactics involving drone service members and families facing food insecurity
and even recent coverage about the apparent suicide attempts from those aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
reportedly averages over a million viewers per day, even releasing print editions overseas or service members in more remote locations like I told you to this point, it it enjoyed walking that tightrope of having both governmental funding and editorial independence.
in recent months, you've had that balance being put to the test, back in January, with chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell saying that Stars and Stripes needs, to quote, refocus its content away from woke distractions.
which ended up kind of just being the beginning of a line of collapsing dominoes.
and in March, you had a memo coming down from the DoD called Modernization of Stars and Stripes operations.
which did appear to reaffirm the paper's independence, but followed it up with a mandate that all content be consistent with good order and discipline, which is a very vague phrase typically used in military justice.
then you have the papers Ombudsman Jacqueline Smith getting fired. And it was her job to safeguard the paper's editorial independence.
And upon learning about the total prohibition on anything from the AP appearing in their paper, she wrote a column that opened with Pete Hegseth doesn't want you to see cartoons in this newspaper anymore.
and two weeks after that, she was out of a job saying she knew that she was poking the bear, but she didn't expect that kind of retaliation. And then she added, bye. Having a government agency say, you cannot print this.
It's the beginning of saying more. You cannot print that or you must print this. It's editorial control.
and actually one of the biggest outlets to bring attention to all these issues with CBS Sunday Morning.
they interviewed some of the paper's leadership last month, including the editor in chief, Eric Slavin, who was asked where the line was between his loyalty to the paper and his loyalty to the Pentagon.
Do you have red lines in your mind? Yes I do. Give me a red line.
Well, don't run a perfectly accurate story. Run this instead. Here it is. Written by the Pentagon.
That would be a red We need to be able to provide independent news to service members.
If we can't do that, if we were turned into something other than that, if we were public relations. That's. That's the foxhole.
and that was also echoed by Laura Corti, a middle East correspondent based in Germany.
I'm working for Stars and Stripes, not for the Pentagon, not for any administration, not for any policymaker.
I'm here to cover the military community But apparently those comments were too much with both Corti and Slav and getting termination notices last week, anyway, the official reason reportedly being insubordination connected to the CBS Sunday News appearance.
And it wasn't even just them.
There's also Max Lederer junior, the longtime publisher who announced his retirement just days before all this happened.
you had him citing conflict with the top brass and saying it has, quote, become clear that my philosophy of leadership and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization.
with these three firings or effective firings, you saw them making headlines, especially as they started talking about it with different outlets. are you at?
Slavin going on BBC to outline just how muddled things are gone between the military and Stars and Stripes, and just the military communication with the public in general. they say they are transparent.
But at the same time, from what I've seen of many people in public affairs, essentially the military's public relations arm here is that they're less and less inclined to speak on the record.
And so that lack of information, particularly at such a critical time, where you see combat in Iran, where their attentions
in the Asia Pacific, where the Ukraine war continues, this is a time where we really need to hear what's happening.
And if journalists aren't able to have conversations with the Pentagon, that I don't think that's a great sign.
also mentioned Stars and Stripes violating their own rules and bringing on an active duty Navy captain named William Urban as a deputy publisher without consulting anyone, saying for years
that paper has been disconnected from the military chain of command, and he's not sure what the future looks like from there.
And then adding, certainly hope Stars and Stripes can remain independent in some way. adding I haven't given up on that, but time will tell. And I think there needs to be a reckoning.
you then also had Courtney speaking with CNN about how her own pink slip caught her completely off guard. as you said, I feel like my comments were exactly in line with historic precedent.
And also the Pentagon's own recent statement reaffirming our editorial independence.
And so, to me, that was simply stating a matter of fact in a matter of common knowledge.
they're also going on Twitter to say that her termination and the reason they gave is, quote, shame for the institution and service members who swore to defend the Constitution and deserve the right to a free and independent press.
then as far as the paper's response to all of this, you had the chair of the Stars and Stripes publisher's advisory board saying that they are, quote, deeply concerned that these actions
further threatened to interrupt the editorial independence that is essential to stars and Stripes credibility and its ability to serve the military community with trusted, independent journalism.
the with all this you then have William urban that Navy captain that the Pentagon placed as a deputy publisher telling a very different story.
are you with him saying at the top brass, including Defense Secretary Pete Headset's office, are, quote, committed to the editorial independence of stripes and adding is time to take them at their word and get on with the business of reporting.
but as far as what that reporting is going to look like, right?
Whether it goes full DoD propaganda or does maintain independence completely or some independence, that remains to be seen.
But personally I would add, given what we've seen from this administration, but also specifically from Pete Hegseth, I'm not confident. it be Hegseth, Trump.
A number of these top officials who have been planted in there, they seem to not like any voices that are not repeating what they are saying.
and they've used every lever to bury anyone that is not seen as a complete ally. and then actually from that, I'm going to cram in some more news you need to know. But first, a quick word from our sponsor.
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You need to know quickly.
starting with the fact that your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, he didn't keep it so friendly. When Jake Lang showed up in Minneapolis last Saturday.
because that is when Lang who's a J6 or was set to lead a rally outside of their city hall, and he came, as he normally does, with outrageously racist protest signs pissing off the crowd of counter-protesters as much as he could.
while the crowd wasn't allowed to have their cars on the street where it was all happening, when Lang came, his group drove him not just on the street, but on the sidewalk in front of City Hall, with MPD surrounding them.
with police officials saying that was only because everything happened so fast. They didn't have time to redirect them. but whatever the case, in that moment, all of it made for a recipe for disaster.
you would counterprotesters throwing all kinds of stuff at Lang and his crew. Water balloons, glitter, even spraying what looks like silly string at one point.
it wasn't long after things heated up that you saw someone dressed as Spider-Man hop it on Lang's trunk and immediately going to work, throw him, blow after blow. with someone, then bringing out the pepper spray to break it up.
And from there, after giving police a slip a few times, the guy was eventually in cuffs. right.
And since then, those videos have gone viral with people naming the whole thing Spider-Man a brand new fade. the man behind the mask has also become the internet's favorite masked vigilante. that we now know exactly who he is.
William. Nicholas love.
this because he was one of the 11 people arrested in the chaos of it all, and he's facing assault charges.
that's also is lying himself got locked up with officials accusing him of starting a riot, though now officials are saying that charge didn't stick. the as far as love he's out and there is some GoFundMe set up to support him.
I also want to know that for a number of people, this was bigger than, you know, just Jake Lang.
you some people claiming Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and the police department defended white supremacy that day? and adding. It's not just standing up against Jake Lang. We're standing up against him.
Mayor Frey and the Minneapolis Police Department.
then also in the news, you just had target pull a costume that it was selling on its website.
And I promise there is no world where you are prepared for what you are about to you've got this kid's glows under blacklight circus clown Halloween costume or if you have eyes, it is a literal black face inspired Halloween costume.
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It's complete with a kid in the picture, a pose like a Jim Crow painting. And target didn't even try to save face here.
As soon as this listing went viral, they took it down and issued an apology, saying, as a company, we know we got this wrong and we are deeply sorry. the costume is offensive and should never have been a part of our assortment.
saying we know this is especially hurtful for our black guests, team members and partners. and adding.
Removing the costume is an important first step, and the company is looking closely at how this happened and what needs to change to ensure this won't happen again. but in no way did that take the heat off of them.
because one. People asking, how the hell did this costume even get approved on the site?
especially because the line this was seemingly sold under hide and seek is reportedly a target owned line. It's not some third party seller.
until target's already on the outs with a lot of its old base for rolling back its die initiatives last year, with many still boycotting. And I doubt this convinces them to go back.
some even saying that those Dei initiatives might have actually helped them here. you also have the news and we should talk about the latest in the U.S. trade war with Canada. right.
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Because last weekend, Trump dropped 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods. with that, Canadian officials have already cranked up tariffs on some products.
now they're really fighting fire with fire, because they just announced that they're going to match his tariffs dollar for dollar. And it all starts on September 8th. so similar to Trump's tariffs.
This will hit around $20 billion worth of American imports, around 700 different products.
and they'll be collecting the tariffs on a sliding scale of 50, 25 and 15%, depending on the product.
American steel, aluminum, furniture, clothes, those are going to be in the 50% bracket.
all while opinion polls show that most Canadians are in support of this type of response, the while also say you have economists warning that there is a chance that they may not work out as expected, some saying that Canada's economy is about 1/12 the size of the U.S.
economy. So it's retaliatory tariffs will have the effect of a peashooter and a gun battle.
you've got some experts worried that this move may actually hurt Canadian businesses in the long run.
there you have Canadian officials also announcing a $7.5 billion relief package to help businesses affected by all this, that includes an additional $1.5 billion available through the regional Tariff Response initiative.
there, helping businesses manage liquidity pressures and get more access to financing, among other things.
and so it seems like they're trying to keep Canadian companies in mind while also understanding, even if they are 1/12 the size of America, you have to fight back.
what we're gonna have to wait to see how this plays out, this does represent a new low for U.S. trade relations with Canada. now one of the main questions is if they'll keep going tit for tat.
I mean, for example, Canada's automobile industry, it's already been hanging in the balance here.
just yesterday Trump threatened to double his tariffs there to 50% which would be detrimental to their car plants.
and he's now apparently considering renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, which Ontario Premier Doug Ford is. That could bring more retaliatory measures.
But for now, we'll wait to see how things play out, whether it be the sliding scale of pissing off our partners, and also what it does to our economies. that my friend.
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