Toni D

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Mark Warner, one of Canada’s best trade lawyers—and a friend—dismantles, one by one, every argument used to defend Canada’s current negotiating strategy with the United States.

A masterclass of an interview.

Watch the whole thing. Oh, and the midterms won’t make a difference...

[Paulo Spitzbarth 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱 @PauloSpitzbarth]

🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥

CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”

Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”

CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”

Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”

CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”

Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”

CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”

Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”

CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”

Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”

CNN: “Você está polarizando.”

Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

MUST WATCH! A father whose daughter was permanently disabled in a crash involving an illegal alien with a CDL completely destroys Democrats.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

For the first time, Canadians hear the US side of the collapsed trade talks

In a CBC interview with Rosemary Barton, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said America felt “very, very confident in the deal we had struck late Tuesday night.” They believed they had offered “the best deal available to any country on the planet with respect to Canada.”

Then Ottawa returned with more demands. “They had some additional requests… that were too much for the United States,” Greer said. “Giving them the best deal in the world would have been enough.”

He rejected claims of last-minute U.S. additions: the president’s comment was “off the cuff.” The core rates (autos toward 15%, steel and aluminum cuts) were agreed Tuesday and did not change

On the president’s comment that last-minute U.S. additions “sound like me,” Greer pushed back: the remarks were “off the cuff.” The last conversation between Trump and Prime Minister Carney was Tuesday night, with “some meeting of the minds” on specific rates and percentages. “Hard to change those things after a given time.”

On specific Canadian flashpoints:
* Medium- and heavy-duty trucks fell under a separate national-security measure, not the auto deal.
* “Fortress North America” coordination was about preventing Canada from becoming a backdoor for third-country steel and aluminum—not dictating Ottawa’s future deals.
* French-language discoverability was “the farthest thing from a red line”

Greer repeated that Canada has been the only country (besides a settled China dispute) to retaliate with bans and caps

Channels are currently closed. “We have a trade policy. It’s global in nature. We’re proceeding with it.”

That’s the American account of why the talks fell apart @jamiesongreer @RosieBarton

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Freeloader Nation: Why America Needs to Cut Off Canada’s Welfare Check for Good (THREAD 🧵)

(Thread highlights below)

The sheer entitlement radiating from Ottawa is nothing short of comedy, and it is time to dismantle the grand delusion that Canada exists as an equal partner to the United States.

Canada is an economic dependent surviving entirely on American generosity, geographic convenience, and endless patience. The Canadian economy is essentially a northern retail outlet clinging to the perimeter of a twenty-eight trillion dollar American powerhouse. Over seventy percent of all Canadian exports go directly into the United States, representing more than thirty percent of Canada's total gross domestic product. If the American border closed for thirty days, Canada would experience immediate financial cardiac arrest. When American trade negotiators adjust tariffs by a single percentage point, provincial premiers across Canada scramble into emergency sessions, the Toronto Stock Exchange convulses, and editorial boards publish panic-stricken essays about national survival. Meanwhile, Canadian imports represent barely one percent of total United States economic output. The entire country of Canada has an economy smaller than Texas, smaller than California, and rapidly getting eclipsed by Florida...

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

The Canada-U.S. trade collapse is starting to look less like a dispute over tariffs and more like a dispute over what Ottawa was willing to accept. 🇨🇦

According to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Washington’s offer could have cut:

• Auto tariffs to as low as 7%
• Softwood lumber tariffs by eliminating the 10% levy
• Tariffs on most Canadian steel to 25%
• The 50% tariff on Canadian dairy and wine could have been suspended

Greer is directly disputing Carney’s claim that the U.S. simply didn’t offer enough.

If those terms are accurate, the question is no longer whether the deal was perfect.

It’s whether walking away was economically better than accepting it.

Because trade negotiations aren’t graded against perfection.

They’re graded against the alternative.

And the alternative now looks like higher tariffs, weaker investment, layoffs and Canadians absorbing the downside.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

BREAKING: 15 Democratic Attorneys General are attempting to block Trump’s FERC energy reforms that would streamline infrastructure approvals and lower electricity costs, even as the states they represent have seen prices rise between 20% and 73% since 2020 due to left-wing green energy policies. https://t.co/1UfEgO8e4G

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

We need more women in positions of power

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

If Trump did not win in 2024, we would not recognize our country today. Just because of the border situation so I will say this again and again…. Republicans are not the answer to your problems, but Democrats are the source of every single one of them.

Vote accordingly in November.

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@AdjustedHockey Where can we find the list of the top 25 forwards

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@ClayTravis Every 12-16 years. Gotta rotate to europe and somewhere else

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@BarstoolChief Delay can’t be good. Probably a surgery they will announce after the fact

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@BarstoolChief They now have like 2 dmen signed…not sure this has any ramifications on their pick. Him and Chase Reid couldn’t be more different either

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@MikeKellyNHL Hanafin has been baaaaad this series

[Chief @BarstoolChief]

Does George McCaskey Really Want His Legacy To Be The Man Who Moved The Bears Out Of Illinois https://t.co/DdDH6bPqAa

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@Chicago_NFL Traffic and public transit is gonna be so fun getting to and from there

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@ChicagoBears lol dumb fucks

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@BarstoolChief Matthews ain’t going to Montreal. 97 might

[Toni D @PrinceGuid]

@coluccid2 Wichusin is great tho