Canada Turns the Screws on Trump

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2:01Ben Meiselas:Queen Carvania stood haloed by the morning sun. An army hung on her every word. My champions, I have sold my chariot on Carvana. It was a lovely SUV, an inexplicably queenly offer. They're even coming to the castle to collect it. Tonight, we feast. An offer you can feast on. Sell your car today on Carvana. Pick up these mail fly. Canada did it big. Prime Minister Carney going in for the kill shot yet again at the Liberal Party caucus meeting in advance of some of the ambitious parliamentary goals that Prime Minister Carney has. He gave an incredible press conference where he was mocking Donald Trump.

2:51Ben Meiselas:He was doing the accordion hands. He was calling out Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill, and Prime Minister Carney said, we didn't need a big, beautiful bill. We needed actually plans that work here in Canada. I want to show you what went down. I'll show you what Prime Minister Carney did. And then I want to give you the split screen, because while Prime Minister Carney was delivering this speech, You had Donald Trump in the Oval Office behaving like a lunatic, banning members of the press from covering him anymore in the White House. You had Donald Trump bragging about how repressive the United States is.

3:29Ben Meiselas:So let me just show you what went down here. You have Prime Minister Carney doing the accordion hands and mocking Trump. Watch for yourself. Let's play it. It's the functional equivalent of 18 Hoover dams. 18 Hoover Dams. Enough.

3:53Enough to light, heat and cool.

3:58Ben Meiselas:Light, heat, cool every home in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver combined. Prime Minister Carney then said that Canada made the right decision a month ago by suspending our negotiations with the United States. No deal is better than a bad deal. Here play this clip. Last month, we made the right decision to suspend our negotiations with the United States. Thank you.

4:34Ben Meiselas:And I want to thank all of you, all your constituents. and Canadians across the country. Because we knew, as we were in those negotiations, what the priorities of Canadians were. We knew what the values of Canadians are. It wasn't tough to draw the red lines. So they offered too little. We couldn't accept it. They asked too much. We wouldn't give it. Now, when the U.S. is ready to return to the bargaining table, we will come there ready to strike a deal in good faith. One that respects our sovereignty, protects, not just protects, promotes our official languages and our culture.

5:37And one that fundamentally does what we know is possible, which is to promote jobs and growth on both sides of the border.

5:48Ben Meiselas:You know, when I think about what Prime Minister Carney's saying there, at the same time Donald Trump posted one of these, like, gigantic truth social posts where he's like, look at the deal that I did with Greenland and Denmark. Look at everything we're going to get. Denmark keeps its sovereignty. U.S. keeps broad rights to operate military facilities in Greenland. That's what the 1951 deal said, where Denmark keeps sovereignty, U.S. gets broad rights to operate military facilities in Greenland. So it's basically the same thing, but I guess the new part is blocking adversarial military activity that wasn't occurring.

6:29Ben Meiselas:But then Donald Trump desperately wants to do business with Russia. And you have Russia now threatening all of Europe, according to European officials who say that they're essentially preparing for an all out war in the coming weeks and months. And so, all right, Donald, you want to brand the 1951 deal your deal. In any event, you had Donald Trump in the Oval Office while Prime Minister Carney was giving that speech. Trump said, if Democrats win the midterms, we will now have a Great Depression. This is the motivation of an actual lunatic. Here, play this clip. If the Republicans win, we're going to have a lot of money.

7:09If the Democrats win, we're going to go into a depression.

7:13Ben Meiselas:Now we need to clearly cleanse this YouTube video. After that, Prime Minister Carney then said that, look, the Liberal Party in Canada will work whenever we can with members across the aisle because we want a strong Canada. And that requires us working together. Play this clip. And our responsibility is to bring the energy I feel in this room that I know you all possess, to bring the best ideas to parliament, to represent the priorities and the concerns of each of our constituents and of all Canadians, to engage with all stakeholders, and to work whenever we can with members across the aisle, because we're all here to make the greatest country in the world even greater.

8:10Ben Meiselas:Do you see the contrast right there? Prime Minister Carney talks about how financial markets are basically voting who's reliable, who's stable. And he said what they're saying, Canada is predictable, stable, and a great place to still do business. Well, just look at those treasury yields in the United States. Here play this clip. We're now seeing financial markets starting to change the pricing, literally as we meet today, the cost of borrowing for governments around the world to separate the strong from the weak. We are the strong. We are Canada's strong.

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10:59Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip. Fortunately, my first lady was very strong and I was able to grab her back or another part of her body. It was actually a little bit lower than the back and it kept me standing tall. I was standing very tall, but you remember I was going up in the, and it came to a dead stop. And this was, I built a lot of escalators. I put in a lot of escalators. You can have some beauties right over here. But they don't do that unless somebody wants. And then I got up to make my speech. It's like a little baby, a little baby boy. No offense to baby boys. Then Donald Trump says, you know, he was asked a question.

11:37Ben Meiselas:Well, do you think that this is an authoritarian regime or that? Trump goes, we're authoritarian. He goes, in the United States, we're oppressive. I guess that was his one moment of candor, saying the silent part out loud, or I guess the loud part even louder. Here, here play this clip. Signal is extending. I think we're repressive also. We get fake news. We don't repress, but they write fake news. No, I think he's gonna come. We get along very well. It's nice that we - Then when it came to Iran, Donald Trump, the war's gonna end soon. Here play this clip. You know what? They won't. And the war's gonna end soon.

12:11And when it ends, your gas prices are gonna drop to a level that they were before, maybe even lower. When I left Iowa, just before -

12:19Ben Meiselas:Back to Prime Minister Carney, who talks about productivity and their mega deduction initiative. He's like, we didn't need a big, beautiful bill. We needed smart, targeted initiatives. Well, there you have it. Play it. Earlier this week, we announced the productivity mega deduction. It lets businesses write off a far wider. Yes, yes. Far wider range of investments. Fiber optic cable, mining properties, energy, rail, aircraft, vehicles, manufacturing equipment, much more. The result is that the effective tax rate on new investment, this is what matters for business. The effective tax rate on new investment will be the lowest of any major economy in the world, less than half the rate of the United States.

13:21Ben Meiselas:We didn't need a big, beautiful bill. We needed a targeted initiative. More for Prime Minister Carney talking about how Canada is meeting a decisive moment for the Canadian people in their country, in history. Play this clip. We are meeting at a decisive moment for our country. And I think we also have a sense, I know from talking to all of you, I know from going around Canada with you, we have a sense that over the course of the past year and a half, something's changed in the country. We all feel it and we feel it everywhere. What it is, is Canadians coming together. Confidently choosing our future.

14:10Ben Meiselas:While Donald Trump was banning reporters and saying, New York Times, you're banned. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, what do you mean by others to come? And how is this ban going to work? Others to come in terms of fake news? Yes. Well, look, the New York Times is fake news. Washington Post is fake news. The Crummy Papers, both doing very poorly, by the way. But we'll see. We're probably not going to display the paper anymore in the White House, those papers. But we haven't taken the step of throwing them out. But they're fake news, totally. New York Times is so fake. Washington Post is disgusting.

14:47I mean, they're disgusting. I don't get it. Why would they be? You know, we're doing so well. And they'll take the most positive story and make it as negative as possible. Go ahead, please. Maybe you should be free when you agree with us. No, no, please.

14:59Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump was asked, so what does this ban mean in practice? He's like, I ban, what ban? I ban you. I ban you. I deal with lots of bans. Here, play this clip. Yeah. Mr. President, on the ban, what does that mean in practice? Are you taking away their badges? Are you banning them from the pool? What does this actually mean? When you say the ban, which ban? You don't have any bans I'm involved in? I got more bans going. I've got more bans going than it's going to be. On the Q's, what does that mean in practice? Are you taking away their badges? Are you banning them from the pool? Are you banning them from the office?

15:33Ben Meiselas:What does that mean? I still don't know what that is. Yes, he's also an absolute psychopath. Indeed, as I reported earlier, he's banned Politico. He's banned MS Now. He banned CNN for being in the White House. He said Washington Post and New York Times are coming next. And then you had Pete Hegseth post the following, with everything going on with American military bases in the Middle East destroyed, American out of America out of interceptors, morale at an all-time low. We learned that there were more deaths in the war than were reported by the Pentagon. They're covering up casualty numbers. So what did Hegseth do while he's destroyed our military?

16:18Ben Meiselas:Real post by him, the high-T Department of War, reposting the Military Times article about how the Department of Defense on Thursday released clinical guidelines for testing and treating low testosterone in male service members. So the Pentagon is now forcing mandatory low testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as the loss of spontaneous morning erections and erectile dysfunction, and then to determine if you need testosterone therapy. While testosterone therapy has shown some benefits for older men, I suppose, with low testosterone. The benefits for younger men are less clear and treatment can actually carry risks of infertility.

17:08Ben Meiselas:So the Trump regime will be inspecting erections, whether they're spontaneous and they wanna examine them. They wanna examine erections. That's the sicko Trump regime for you right there. And that's what they're focused on right now. Well, Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthis control Bab al-Mandab in the Red Sea. The East-West pipeline is destroyed. The Houthis have launched their largest strikes yet at facilities in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump and Hegseth are focused on boners. That's what they care about right now, folks, and inspecting them. Hit subscribe, let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching.

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