The Trump administration plans to almost double duties on Canadian softwood lumber to 27%, with the possibility of additional levies pushing the rate to more than 50%. While Trump advocates for new tariffs partly to bolster U.S. manufacturing, they may also hit the availability of northern bleached softwood kraft pulp, or NBSK, a key component in making toilet paper and paper towels.

  • @[email protected]
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    173 months ago

    The tariffs will be lifted in no time.

    This is the man who for over a decade has climbed onto his soapbox and complained endlessly about how you have to flush modern toilets 10 times. This is the obese man who subsists off fast food. That man uses a lot of toilet paper.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    363 months ago

    I was getting “December 2019” vibes back in November, so I started stocking up on N95s and toilet paper. This isn’t exactly what I was preparing for, but I’m prepared nonetheless.

    • @[email protected]
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      263 months ago

      Protip: Invest in a cheap bidet attachment for your toilet. You’ll be cleaner, suffer less irritation to your sensitive regions, and use much less toilet paper.

      • Cruxifux
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        73 months ago

        Every time I hear about someone stock piling toilet paper I can’t help but think how brutally stupid that person must be. Get a fucking bidet. They’re cheap and easy to get and you aren’t blowing a bunch of money and storage space and looking like a jackass at the grocery store.

      • FiveMacs
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        133 months ago

        I do not get why this has not taken off… You save so much money not buying so much tp

        • Gordon Calhoun
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          163 months ago

          Pretty sure bidets are woke. Has something to do with the silent t and the fact it shares many letters with “biden”

          • @[email protected]
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            53 months ago

            That’s funny, but watch out - somewhere, some conservative is reading that and taking it to be exactly as you wrote it. Before long Republicans will be passing laws banning bidets and even forcing them to be ripped out of homes because of “bidet wokeness”.

            I would add a /s, but with the way America is crumbling ever-further into ridiculousness, satire is becoming real at ever-increasing rates. Even The Onion is constantly getting upstaged by reality these days.

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              33 months ago

              It’s ironic that we’ve been dealing with this shit for so long that that joke is actually old now.

  • @[email protected]
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    73 months ago

    Canada should absolutely restrain from putting 500% tariffs on toilet paper … that is, not until USA is really in deep shit 🤣

    • Gordon Calhoun
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      53 months ago

      Nah, pinch off the supply ASAP. Maybe it’ll make them finally colon their reps to return to a state of nearer sanity.

      We really are just living in some alien race’s reality television show, aren’t we?

  • @[email protected]
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    213 months ago

    last year of Trump’s previous term we got a toilet paper shortage, so for the sake of continuity…

  • Zier
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    Oh great, now I have to steal eggs and toilet paper??? Make america medieval again.

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    Well, Americans can always wipe their asses with newspapers like in the old days, and that’s pretty much the only thing their press is good for these days anyway.

  • Match!!
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    313 months ago

    once again the bidet users reign like clean hole kings