It was a weekend of shame for our maple syrup swilling neighbors up north.
Globalist Prime Minister Mark Carney blinked in a showdown with President Trump, calling off the digital services tax set to begin being collected Monday, retroactive to 2022. Talk about taxation without representation, Canada planned a 3 percent grift of American tech giants such as Apple, Google and Meta.
Trump, in his Trumpian style, said no soup for you, as in no trade talks, and get ready to pay some HUUUUGE tariffs.
Carney did his tent-folding-in-a-high wind impression, and said just kidding. Carney and Iran’s Ayatollah must have the same advisers.
Why globalist types keep pushing Trump and then give up when he fires back amazes me. Do they really expect him to blink first?
Not likely,
To all the people pushing the TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) narrative, you might want to buy a vowel and make it TOACO (Trump Opponents Always Chicken Out).
While Carney was waving the white flag in economics, the Canada men’s national soccer team was puking away a game vs. heavy underdog Guatemala in the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament.
That it occurred in Minneapolis/St. Paul, home of bizarre politicians and burgeoning immigrant populations, was somehow fitting.
Leftists have caused me to view all things through a racial lens, so I noted that at one point in the second half, at least 7 of the 10 players on the field for Canada appeared to be something other than Caucasian (there were only 10 players because Canada was forced to play a man short after one of their group kept playing out of control and was shown the door).
I checked some census data and found about 4 percent of Canada’s residents are black and three percent or so are Hispanic. Yet 70 percent of this on-field group seemed to be non-white.
A story a few years old, about Canada’s World Cup team in 2022, proudly proclaimed the presence on the national roster of players born in other countries, including one defender “born in England, with Nigerian lineage.”
Despite all the current imports, Canada blew a 1-0 lead Sunday and lost on penalty kicks, failing to advance to the semfinals when many had pegged this international assemblage as a favorite in the Gold Cup.
The choke was made all that much sweeter because earlier this year the Canada coach Jesse Marsch (an American, not a Canadian) made a public spectacle of himself pandering to his employer nation by proclaiming his shame at President Trump speaking of Canada as our 51st state.
Yo, Jesse, Trump mostly is kidding, but to make a legitimate point – Canada needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs Canada.
If you doubt that, see the quick cave by Carney when push came to shove on the digital tax.
And, to the people talking about Canada’s military might, the country has a reported 79 fighter jets. We have about that many fighters on a single aircraft carrier. I’m pretty sure Canada has no B2 bombers, either.
Whiny Marsch justified the embarrasing loss to Guatemala by noting many Canada players (mostly with non-Canadian sounding names) were missing due to injury and the like.
Well, the U.S. team, traditionally an underperforming bunch, has somehow managed to advance to the semifinals of this competition despite missing probably its top five players, guys who opted out because they were too tired from their club seasons and needed a break. Poor babies.
The Costa Rica team that succumbed to the U.S. in penalty kicks during the Sunday match, was missing four or five of its top players due to injuries and suspensions.
Marsch and Carney have a lot of spare time now, so they can meet up in Ottawa for a whine and cheese party later this week, during which they can decry what a mean guy Trump is, and how Canada can’t seem to win big at soccer, even with a roster heavy on imported talent.
Canada just might be better off as a 51st state.
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