I’m supposed to perform the obligatory little ritual now and pretend both versions of this trade debacle deserve equal credibility.
I don’t... I believe the Americans.
Not because they’re American. Not because politicians suddenly became trustworthy. And certainly not because Donald Trump has been canonized.
I believe them because the American account increasingly makes more sense.
Greer, Lutnick and Bessent have spoken openly and specifically about what happened. Their accounts have been remarkably consistent. They can discuss the negotiations like people who were actually involved in them, without appearing terrified that an unsupervised adjective might escape and without a teleprompter.
Meanwhile, what do Canadians get from our own government?
Carefully sterilized language. Vague explanations. Missing specifics. Scripted talking points. Every sentence apparently passed through enough communications people and lawyers to remove any detectable trace of information.
We’re being kept in the dark like bloody mushrooms while learning more about Canada’s own trade negotiations from American officials and American media than from the Canadian government supposedly representing us.
And somehow we’re not supposed to notice how politically convenient the Canadian version is.
We got:
👉🏻 Trump was unreasonable.
👉🏻 Trump changed the deal.
👉🏻 Trump threatened our sovereignty.
👉🏻 Trump forced Canada to walk away.
Trump. Trump. Trump.
Just keep Canadians sufficiently pissed off at Donald Trump and perhaps nobody asks the considerably more inconvenient question:
❓️ What exactly did Mark Carney walk away from, and why?
Because after the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco, I’m fresh out of complimentary benefit of the doubt.
And here’s the part that absolutely reeks, discrediting any appearance of truth told by the liar in chief #MarkCarney...
If Carney possesses documentary evidence proving Trump suddenly dumped outrageous, unacceptable demands onto Canada at the eleventh hour, where the hell is it?
Seriously.
Think about what that evidence would be worth politically.
IF Carney had a piece of paper proving Donald Trump screwed Canada, blindsided our negotiators and forced our heroic prime minister to stand up, pound the table and walk away, the Liberal machine wouldn’t quietly tuck that document into a filing cabinet.
Are you kidding me?
▪︎ They’d wallpaper Ottawa with the damn thing.
▪︎ They’d hold press conferences about it.
▪︎ They’d wave it around in Parliament.
▪︎ They’d quote it in fundraising emails.
▪︎ They’d buy ads with it.
Every friendly pundit in the country would have a laminated copy by breakfast. CBC would probably commission a twelve-part documentary and an interpretive dance.
It would be political rocket fuel.
Carney could point directly at the evidence and say, See? I stood up to Trump.
And considering how desperately this government wants Canadians angry at Trump, they would squeeze every last political drop out of it.
Instead, we get:
- Words.
- Trust us.
- Trump did it.
- Don't worry about the details.
- Just keep your elbows up and direct your anger toward the orange man south of the border.
How extraordinarily convenient.
And while Canada spends years shrieking about foreign interference, demanding security clearances for opposition leaders and warning us about other countries trying to influence Canadian politics, Canadian politicians seem remarkably comfortable inserting themselves into American partisan politics.
Apparently foreign political influence is a mortal threat to democracy when it crosses the border heading north.
Heading south?
Nothing to see here, carry on.
So enough of the carefully packaged Liberal bullshit.
Release the negotiating documents.
• Show Canadians the American demands.
• Show us Canada's demands.
• Show us what changed.
• Show us when it changed.
• Show us exactly what was sitting on that table when Canada walked away.
Because if those documents prove Carney's story, his government has every political incentive imaginable to release them, and its quite odd that they haven't.
Their continued absence doesn't prove he's lying, but it sure does suggest it!
And considering the Americans are providing details while our own government feeds us verbal oatmeal, it sure as hell gives Canadians a reason to stop swallowing everything we're spoon-fed.
Mark Carney isn't an oracle. He isn't our father. And Canadians aren't intellectually deficient children who need the PMO to decide which facts we're mature enough to see.
Stop telling us whom to hate.
Show us what happened.
Then we'll decide for ourselves who is full of shit.
#cdnpoli
Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.
At age 17, she was rejected from college.
At age 25, her mother died from the disease.
At age 26, she moved to Portugal to teach English.
At age 27, she got married.
Her husband abused her. Her daughter was born.
At age 28, she got divorced and was diagnosed with severe depression.
At age 29, she was a single mother living on welfare.
At age 30, she didn't want to be on this earth.
But, she directed all her passion into doing the one thing she could do better than anyone else.
And that was writing.
At age 31, she finally published her first book.
At age 35, she released 4 books and was named Author of the Year.
At age 42, she sold 11 million copies of her new book, on the first day of release.
This woman is J.K. Rowling. Remember how she considered suicide at age 30?
Today, Harry Potter is a global brand worth more than 15 billion dollars.
Never give up. Believe in yourself. Be passionate. Work hard. It’s never too late.
She is J.K. Rowling
I came across this on a different platform and thought it was worth sharing because it’s HILARIOUS!🤣😂
Jeff Foxworthy and Muslims
Jeff Foxworthy writes.......
Have you ever wondered why it's OK to make jokes about Catholics, Jews, Christians, the Pope, the Irish, the Italians, the Polish, the Hungarians, the Chinese, the French (including French Canadians), the elderly, bad golfers, men/women, blacks/whites, red necks, etc., but it's insensitive to make jokes about the Muslims?
Well, it's time to level the playing field and be politically incorrect, by including our friends, the Muslims, on this grandiose list. So Jeff Foxworthy did his part to include the Muslims on his list ...
1. If you grow and refine heroin for a living, but morally object to the use of liquor, you may be a Muslim.
2. If you own a $3,000 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but can't afford shoes, you may be a Muslim.
3. If you have more wives than teeth, you may be a Muslim.
5. If you think vests come in two styles, bullet-proof and suicide, you may be a Muslim.
6. If you can't think of anyone that you haven't declared jihad against, you may be a Muslim.
7. If you consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing, you may be a Muslim.
8. If you were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses, other than setting off roadside bombs, you may be a Muslim.
9. If you have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four, then you, too, may be a Muslim.
10. If you find this offensive and do not forward it, you are part of the problem here in America … and you are most likely a Muslim.
INSANE: WNBA Superstar Sophie Cunningham Gets SMACKED in the Head by DiJonai Carrington.
Carrington was EJECTED from the game then ran to Threads and posted "WHITE PRIVILEGE"
Apparently it's "White Privilege" if you get ejected for assaulting another player.
So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from an Italian winning an election?
Let me tell you.
An Italian has a national identity, Italian, that is tied to a defined territory: the borders of Italy.
He may celebrate Italian holidays, follow Italian politics, send money home, or even dream of returning one day. None of this is inherently antithetical to the American nation-state.
The Italian American immigrant does not believe Ohio is part of Italy. His attachment is territorial. It is confined to a nation whose boundaries are recognized by everyone, including himself.
Islam presents something fundamentally different.
Islam is not merely a religion practiced by people from many nations. Muslims belong to a single civilization that transcends every nation.
A Muslim may be Egyptian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Bosnian, or Indonesian, but he belongs to something larger than the nation-state: the ummah.
The ummah is not a country with fixed borders. Its political horizon encompasses the entire world.
That is why Muslims repeatedly say that Islam will enter every home.
The ummah is not Italy. It has no border because it is the entire world.
This transnational identity is fundamentally antithetical to the American national sovereignty.
An Italian American may work to advance Italian causes, but those causes remain bounded by Italy.
A Jewish American may work to advance Israel’s interests, but those interests remain tied to a particular state with defined borders.
No Italian wants Italy to govern America. No Jew wants Israel to govern America. Muslims want Islam to rule America.
Islam is a state being presented to Americans as a religion, and Americans are electing Islamic politicians to rule them without realizing that they are electing citizens of another country whose priorities will never be American.
@ValerieAnne1970 He wasn't "wrong" about any of it...or at least not most of it. He LIED about it, he Misled, he deceived and he belongs in jail. To say he wrong excuses him of being a MONSTER, and finished it to him being just incapable, or inadequate or incompetent.
“Made by NAMAYA” company registered its domain in Canada while pretending to be a small, family-owned business based in Florida.
They aggressively market their products as “handcrafted” using AI-generated characters and emotionally manipulative stories about struggling veterans, all to prey on American patriotism and sell mass-produced, non-handmade goods.
It is genuinely one of the most cynical and disgusting marketing tactics I’ve ever seen.
I tried ignoring them for months, but their ads keep flooding my TikTok feed. What finally pushed me over the edge was seeing how many people are actually falling for this scam and buying their products thinking they’re supporting veterans.
Foreign companies that falsely advertise their products should lose the right to sell in the U.S.
DRIVE-BY MEDIA: Most Americans believe that black women are primarily murdered by racist white men. It turns out that 99% are committed by blacks. 91% are committed by black men and 8% are committed by black women. It turns out that 0% are committed by white supremacists. Why does the media want us to think white men are the problem?
h/t @EndWokeness