WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: Mail-In Voting Restrictions, Canadian Trade War, Record High ICE Detentions 0:00:01.850 --> 0:00:02.910 Call zone media. 0:00:07.890 --> 0:00:11.310 This is It Could Happen Here, Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:11.350 --> 0:00:14.460 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, 0:00:14.570 --> 0:00:17.230 and what this means for you. I'm Garrison Davis. Today 0:00:17.250 --> 0:00:21.240 I'm joined by James Stout, Mia Wong, Robert Evans, and 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.619 special correspondent Carlos Berrios-Pilanco, who we have had on a 0:00:25.660 --> 0:00:30.820 few times for regular episodes. This episode, we are covering 0:00:30.860 --> 0:00:35.820 the week of August 19th through August 26th. Robert, do 0:00:35.979 --> 0:00:37.839 you want to start us off with our tribute? 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.380 Yeah. So before we get going today, as I'm sure 0:00:40.420 --> 0:00:44.879 everyone listening is at least broadly aware, Dolly Rebecca Parton 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.780 Dean passed away the day before we recorded this on 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:52.989 August 25th, 2026. Dolly Parton was more widely beloved than 0:00:53.250 --> 0:00:56.690 pretty much anyone that was still alive in the United States. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.020 Her death was met by immediate mourning from every side 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.220 of society. And I do mean every side. President Donald 0:01:03.260 --> 0:01:05.560 Trump ordered all flags to fly at half staff and 0:01:05.610 --> 0:01:08.119 issued at least as genuine a statement of respect as 0:01:08.140 --> 0:01:10.290 he's ever put out about anyone, saying this is a 0:01:10.330 --> 0:01:12.590 true loss for millions of people. There has never been 0:01:12.610 --> 0:01:14.930 anyone like her and never will. It's hard to argue 0:01:14.950 --> 0:01:17.410 with that. The DSA also sent out an official in 0:01:17.430 --> 0:01:20.410 memoriam praising Parton as a hero to the working class. 0:01:20.790 --> 0:01:23.670 And you would find anyone hard pressed to genuinely disagree 0:01:23.709 --> 0:01:27.160 with that statement, too. Dolly was born in a one-room 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.900 cabin in Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children of a 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.399 dirt poor and illiterate sharecropper. She wrote more than 3,000 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.600 songs in her life and had 44 career top 10 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.160 country albums, which is nuts. But I wouldn't be talking 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.660 about Dolly on this show, which does not do obituaries 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.479 as a rule, if she'd just been a rags-to-riches entertainment 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.730 industry success story. Dolly had the good luck to become 0:01:48.830 --> 0:01:51.170 rich and famous, and she would always emphasize that luck 0:01:51.210 --> 0:01:53.010 had a lot to do with it, even though she 0:01:53.070 --> 0:01:55.720 worked very hard. And she grew up poor enough that 0:01:55.780 --> 0:01:58.520 she never, ever forgot that had things been a little different, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.620 she would have stayed dirt poor. So she dedicated her 0:02:01.660 --> 0:02:03.920 life and her fortune to helping the least fortunate in 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.180 our society. Parton established the Dollywood Foundation to improve education 0:02:08.220 --> 0:02:11.799 in Sevier County, Tennessee, and in participating classes, the dropout 0:02:11.820 --> 0:02:16.580 rate fell from 35% to 6%. She founded the Imagination Library, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.040 her best-known charity, and donated her 100 millionth free book 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:24.310 to children in 2018. She helped build hospitals and universities 0:02:24.350 --> 0:02:27.150 and was the single highest dollar donor to research that 0:02:27.190 --> 0:02:31.370 created the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. When getting vaccinated became a 0:02:31.430 --> 0:02:35.070 political hot-button issue, Dolly posted a video of herself taking 0:02:35.110 --> 0:02:38.169 the vaccine and performed a cover of her own song, Jolene, 0:02:38.270 --> 0:02:42.170 themed after getting vaccinated. She was also a longtime and 0:02:42.230 --> 0:02:45.829 vocal advocate for queer people. In 1990, The Sun, a 0:02:45.870 --> 0:02:48.740 British magazine, found out that her Hollywood chauffeur was a 0:02:48.790 --> 0:02:51.710 trans man named Jason Pirro. They interviewed him, and he 0:02:51.770 --> 0:02:54.150 told the magazine, Dolly has been good to me. I'm 0:02:54.169 --> 0:02:57.060 not real comfortable talking about myself. Dolly knows all about 0:02:57.100 --> 0:02:59.780 me and is a very nice lady. Even back in 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.300 the 90s, Dolly Parton was comfortable openly supporting trans people 0:03:03.340 --> 0:03:05.860 and the rest of the queer community. Her song Family, 0:03:05.940 --> 0:03:09.220 released in 1991, is probably the first country music song 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.420 to use the word gay, certainly the first to use 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.250 it in like a positive sense of the word. And 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.770 she had queer and trans employees as far back as 0:03:16.810 --> 0:03:20.510 the early 90s and talked openly about that. In 2016, 0:03:20.500 --> 0:03:22.770 she was interviewed by Chris as a party for Pride 0:03:22.810 --> 0:03:25.510 Source and said, I have many gays and lesbians in 0:03:25.550 --> 0:03:27.630 my own family, she revealed to me, and then she 0:03:27.710 --> 0:03:30.370 used a word that stuck with me for a decade now, ours. 0:03:30.790 --> 0:03:33.029 They're ours, and they're who they are, and we know 0:03:33.050 --> 0:03:35.990 they're wonderful, and they're like us. Some relatives back in 0:03:36.010 --> 0:03:38.060 the mountains, she admitted, still weren't quite sure what to 0:03:38.090 --> 0:03:40.300 make of it. She also told me casually, like it 0:03:40.340 --> 0:03:42.540 was nothing, which is exactly how she wanted it treated, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.560 that she had transgender employees on salary in her own company, 0:03:45.660 --> 0:03:48.140 years before most corporations would say that sentence out loud, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.410 let alone mean it. People came to her the way 0:03:50.430 --> 0:03:52.310 they used to come to her mama, she said, to 0:03:52.330 --> 0:03:54.490 be told it was safe to be honest. You need 0:03:54.510 --> 0:03:56.450 to let people know who you are and you need 0:03:56.490 --> 0:03:58.350 to come on out, she'd tell them. You don't need 0:03:58.390 --> 0:04:02.170 to live your life in darkness. Parton strenuously avoided direct 0:04:02.230 --> 0:04:05.210 political punditry when she could, but after the right-wing moral 0:04:05.250 --> 0:04:08.510 panic over trans rights ignited in the 2020s, she spoke out, 0:04:08.710 --> 0:04:12.130 stating her explicit and direct support for trans people. I 0:04:12.170 --> 0:04:14.430 know how important this is to them. That's who they are, 0:04:14.630 --> 0:04:16.930 she said. They cannot help that any more than I 0:04:16.950 --> 0:04:19.089 can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people 0:04:19.130 --> 0:04:21.270 know me. If there's something to be judged, that is 0:04:21.310 --> 0:04:23.870 God's business, but we are all God's children, and how 0:04:23.910 --> 0:04:26.930 we are is who we are. There's so much more 0:04:27.089 --> 0:04:29.750 to who Dolly was and what she did, from reinvesting 0:04:29.790 --> 0:04:32.450 royalties from Whitney Houston's cover of I Will Always Love 0:04:32.470 --> 0:04:34.890 You into the black community, after refusing to license the 0:04:34.930 --> 0:04:37.370 song to Elvis, to starring in The Best Little Whorehouse 0:04:37.410 --> 0:04:40.930 in Texas, arguably the best film about either Texas or whorehouses. 0:04:41.410 --> 0:04:43.740 She did it all in her life. I think the 0:04:43.779 --> 0:04:46.219 loss of Parton hurts so keenly because of the very 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.440 thing I started with, though. The fact that her loss 0:04:48.460 --> 0:04:51.820 has been mourned across the aisle almost regardless of political stance. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.890 Dolly Parton was the closest thing our culture had to 0:04:54.930 --> 0:04:57.990 a secular saint, a Joshua Norton-like figure who could have 0:04:58.029 --> 0:05:00.589 waded into the middle of a deadly partisan riot and 0:05:00.670 --> 0:05:02.910 parted the fighting with her presence like that baby at 0:05:02.930 --> 0:05:05.100 the end of Children of Men. I might be going 0:05:05.130 --> 0:05:07.039 a little bit far with that last one, but in 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.500 my research for this, I came across a recollection of 0:05:09.540 --> 0:05:11.960 Dolly by Roger Ebert that I feel I need to share. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.970 Roger Ebert, if you're on the younger side, was a 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.130 very famous Pulitzer-winning film critic, and this is him talking 0:05:18.170 --> 0:05:20.910 about meetings that he and his partner Gene Siskel had 0:05:20.950 --> 0:05:23.580 with Dolly Parton. In Dallas for the premiere of 9 0:05:23.580 --> 0:05:25.800 to 5, I had an uncanny experience, and on the 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.420 plane home to Chicago, I confessed it to Siskel. I 0:05:28.460 --> 0:05:30.779 had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:32.920 and as we spoke, I was filled with a strange 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.219 ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. 0:05:36.380 --> 0:05:39.420 It was healing and comforting. Jean listened and said, Roger, 0:05:39.500 --> 0:05:41.720 I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her. 0:05:42.100 --> 0:05:42.860 We looked at each other. 0:05:43.140 --> 0:05:45.460 What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt 0:05:45.500 --> 0:05:47.990 that feeling again. From time to time, we would refer 0:05:48.020 --> 0:05:50.719 to it in wonder. And to close off, I think 0:05:50.779 --> 0:05:53.710 I should give us all some advice courtesy of Dolly Parton. 0:05:54.310 --> 0:05:56.350 Find out who you are and do it on purpose 0:05:56.570 --> 0:05:58.730 and do it with purpose. You got to know who 0:05:58.770 --> 0:06:01.110 you are because so many people try to emulate or 0:06:01.150 --> 0:06:02.190 copy somebody else. 0:06:03.050 --> 0:06:04.790 And that's what I got to say about Dolly. 0:06:05.930 --> 0:06:11.300 Thank you, Robert. For some less good. I mean, how 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:11.660 do I say this? 0:06:13.230 --> 0:06:16.089 Some people who are less good than Dolly Parton. There 0:06:16.170 --> 0:06:17.430 are billions of them. 0:06:18.570 --> 0:06:20.790 Let's start with some small things regarding people who are 0:06:20.830 --> 0:06:25.050 not as good as Dolly Parton. Darlene Graham just won 0:06:25.089 --> 0:06:30.190 the runoff election for the Republican Senate nomination in South Carolina. 0:06:31.089 --> 0:06:34.010 Graham won with 52.5% of the vote, dominating in the 0:06:34.029 --> 0:06:36.570 eastern part of the state where Trump campaigned for her 0:06:36.630 --> 0:06:42.279 last Friday in Myrtle Beach. On Wednesday morning, the Department 0:06:42.300 --> 0:06:45.900 of State in partnership with the Department of Treasury, has 0:06:46.060 --> 0:06:52.560 announced the Italy-based autonomous anti-capitalist digital service provider Autostici Inventati, 0:06:52.940 --> 0:06:57.609 or the IA Collective, is now a specially designated global 0:06:57.710 --> 0:07:02.089 terrorist organization. To quote from Treasury, quote, Today, the U.S. 0:07:02.110 --> 0:07:05.670 Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.580 took action to counter the growing threat posed by violent 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:14.000 far-left terrorist groups by sanctioning the IA Collective, an Italy-based 0:07:14.020 --> 0:07:18.230 entity that supplies specialized digital architecture tools and services for 0:07:18.330 --> 0:07:23.070 Antifa cells and other violent far-left extremists, including the foreign 0:07:23.190 --> 0:07:30.040 terrorist organization Palestine Action. The IA Collective also operates the 0:07:30.180 --> 0:07:37.730 web platform NoBlogs, which hosts many Antifa and anarchist communiques. Though, notably, 0:07:37.750 --> 0:07:43.150 the State Department has repeatedly asserted that Rose City Antifa 0:07:44.130 --> 0:07:48.690 used the NoBlogs platform online, and that is simply not true. 0:07:48.790 --> 0:07:52.130 What they are referring to is Rose City Counter Info, 0:07:52.770 --> 0:07:55.790 a separate website that is not affiliated with Rose City Antifa, 0:07:56.230 --> 0:08:00.570 which is used by local anarchists to make community bulletin 0:08:00.630 --> 0:08:04.440 board-style updates. I cannot emphasize enough that these are totally 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:09.540 separate groups with often very different politics. But on both 0:08:09.780 --> 0:08:13.360 social media and official State Department press releases, these two 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:18.440 groups have been conflated, asserting that Rose City Antifa used 0:08:18.540 --> 0:08:22.960 the AI collective tools to organize and incite violent and 0:08:23.060 --> 0:08:26.860 criminal acts. Something else I want to emphasize is that 0:08:27.540 --> 0:08:34.610 Palestine Action, the UK-based organization, is described as a foreign 0:08:34.670 --> 0:08:41.310 terrorist organization in the Treasury Department's announcement about sanctions regarding 0:08:41.429 --> 0:08:45.160 the IA Collective. And in that same announcement, sanctions were 0:08:45.179 --> 0:08:50.100 also imposed on Palestine Action, which the Treasury Department accused 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:55.100 of supporting, quote, numerous acts of terrorism. But as of recording... 0:08:55.140 --> 0:08:59.420 Palestine Action has not been officially designated as a foreign 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:00.620 terrorist organization. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:05.470 And then one thing from me, the Trump administration moved 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.190 ahead this week with its plans to rescind the 2001 0:09:09.190 --> 0:09:13.730 roadless rule, which blocks road building in infantry roadless areas 0:09:13.770 --> 0:09:18.340 of national forests, not in wilderness areas or national parks, 0:09:18.390 --> 0:09:20.640 as some people have been reporting. 0:09:20.660 --> 0:09:24.290 And The new rule was proposed on August 18th with 0:09:24.330 --> 0:09:28.050 a public comment period beginning that day. The justification that 0:09:28.070 --> 0:09:31.840 they're going for with this is it will prevent wildfires. 0:09:32.380 --> 0:09:35.400 And I believe they're going for it will allow fuel 0:09:35.420 --> 0:09:38.300 mitigation to prevent wildfires. It's worth noting that there were 0:09:38.380 --> 0:09:43.110 already provisions in the roadless rule to allow for thinning 0:09:43.150 --> 0:09:46.090 of small diameter timber. What they didn't do is add budget. 0:09:46.429 --> 0:09:48.849 to do that, right? So like if they were making 0:09:48.870 --> 0:09:52.559 a serious attempt to do fire mitigation in so much 0:09:52.580 --> 0:09:55.380 as that is something we can prevent, which I don't 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.750 think it is, then they would have added budget, but 0:09:57.770 --> 0:09:59.970 they haven't done that. It's just worth pointing out that 0:10:00.059 --> 0:10:02.520 the construction of roads will allow people to get into 0:10:02.620 --> 0:10:04.500 areas that were harder for them to get into before. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.590 And the thing that tends to start wildfires is people. 0:10:08.210 --> 0:10:10.750 So people being in these areas will allow people to 0:10:10.809 --> 0:10:13.980 start fires in these areas. I'm going to cover this 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.240 more in depth on natural causes in a couple of weeks, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.920 but I wanted to flag it because the comment period 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:23.189 will probably end soon after I do my episode. So 0:10:23.309 --> 0:10:25.390 if you want to comment and so much that matters anymore, 0:10:25.410 --> 0:10:26.949 I'll include a link. 0:10:28.030 --> 0:10:30.750 So in other news that has thus far wound up 0:10:30.910 --> 0:10:36.240 not really being news, President Trump has declared, quote, economic 0:10:36.429 --> 0:10:41.160 D-Day in his attempt to end the war in Iran, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:45.380 win the war in Iran. So in theory, economic D-Day 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.140 is supposed to be a bunch of what are called 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.800 secondary sanctions. Secondary sanctions are not just sanctions on a country, 0:10:52.860 --> 0:10:57.040 but are sanctions on any country that does trade with 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.190 the first country, in this case, Iran. The specific focuses 0:11:01.230 --> 0:11:05.809 here are supposed to be, quote, cryptocurrency, technology, gold, aviation, 0:11:05.950 --> 0:11:10.510 and shipping. Now, the issue here is that if you 0:11:10.570 --> 0:11:14.870 are going to do... secondary sanctions against countries that trade 0:11:14.929 --> 0:11:20.010 with Iran. The actual largest target here would be China. Now, 0:11:20.110 --> 0:11:25.750 reporters repeatedly asked Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who is nominally 0:11:25.770 --> 0:11:28.620 the person supposed to be running these sanctions, if he 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.939 was going to name which countries there were going to 0:11:31.980 --> 0:11:38.460 be secondary sanctions against. Besant refused repeatedly. So these sanctions 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.400 were supposed to begin later this week. But the administration 0:11:43.740 --> 0:11:47.820 has been, I don't know if slow-walking them is the term, 0:11:48.059 --> 0:11:51.330 but they have refused to actually impose any. They are 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.430 claiming that they are not imposing any because they are 0:11:53.450 --> 0:11:58.470 giving countries time to comply voluntarily. But as of Wednesday, 0:11:59.070 --> 0:12:02.890 August 26th, there have been no actual sanctions imposed. Every 0:12:02.950 --> 0:12:06.390 conceivable joke comparing this to D-Day has already been made. 0:12:07.210 --> 0:12:11.020 Many actually, by the press corps, in an unexpected bit 0:12:11.059 --> 0:12:14.220 of bravery, there were several members of the press corps 0:12:14.300 --> 0:12:18.469 in various press conferences asked, hey, so D-Day was a 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.329 surprise and you're announcing this. Can you explain this conflict? 0:12:22.550 --> 0:12:24.189 And they got a bunch of non-answers. 0:12:24.710 --> 0:12:29.309 So... Maybe this is the giant inflatable set of sanctions 0:12:29.630 --> 0:12:32.150 that they are using to draw attention from the actual 0:12:32.190 --> 0:12:32.970 set of sanctions. 0:12:34.350 --> 0:12:38.570 James, you unfortunately know significantly more about D-Day than every 0:12:38.630 --> 0:12:40.590 single person in this illustration can find. 0:12:41.030 --> 0:12:42.290 Oh my God. 0:12:42.350 --> 0:12:44.510 It's a thing that they make you do when you're 0:12:44.530 --> 0:12:45.929 a British man in your 30s. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:53.040 But if any sanctions actually come from this, we will 0:12:53.100 --> 0:12:53.780 let you know. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:54.920 But as of. 0:12:56.010 --> 0:13:00.920 As of Wednesday, August 26th, this is another failed attempt 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.860 to win the war in Iran that seems to have 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.140 been called off before it began. Speaking of tariffs. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.710 Tariff, don't like it. 0:13:10.750 --> 0:13:11.790 Rocket Casbah. 0:13:11.870 --> 0:13:12.970 Rocket Casbah. 0:13:12.990 --> 0:13:14.230 Tariff, don't like it. 0:13:14.370 --> 0:13:15.510 Rocket Casbah. 0:13:15.570 --> 0:13:16.410 Rocket Casbah. 0:13:25.190 --> 0:13:29.099 So the other big piece of big tariff news is 0:13:29.140 --> 0:13:31.760 something that we talked about a few weeks ago, which 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.739 is the US's attempt to impose 50% tariffs on a 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:39.740 broad swath of Canadian goods. Ever since then, the US 0:13:39.780 --> 0:13:42.790 and Canada have been in trade negotiations over these tariffs, 0:13:42.890 --> 0:13:46.730 and these negotiations have completely fallen apart as Canada has 0:13:46.850 --> 0:13:51.630 walked away from the table. Now, there are a bunch 0:13:51.690 --> 0:13:57.099 of reasons why These specific negotiations broke down completely. I'm 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.620 going to go through some of them. One of the 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.559 big ones is that one of the biggest sources of 0:14:02.620 --> 0:14:05.860 cross-border trade between the U.S. and Canada is the fact 0:14:05.980 --> 0:14:08.340 that in a similar way to the U.S. and Mexico, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.190 there is a lot of cross-border trade revolving around U.S. 0:14:13.290 --> 0:14:17.370 auto manufacturing, right? And Canadian auto manufacturing, a lot of Ford, 0:14:17.450 --> 0:14:20.160 General Motors, stuff like that. A lot of trucks are 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.690 produced in Canada. The US was negotiating reducing the tariffs 0:14:23.990 --> 0:14:27.290 on Canadian automobiles to 15%, but they were only doing 0:14:27.310 --> 0:14:29.890 this for cars and not trucks. And so they wanted 0:14:29.930 --> 0:14:31.790 to leave the truck rate at 50%. And there were 0:14:31.830 --> 0:14:36.720 a whole bunch of very, very fancy trucks that American 0:14:36.740 --> 0:14:40.980 consumers buy and that Canada makes that would still have 50% tariffs. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.400 Sure. Yeah. 0:14:44.780 --> 0:14:47.900 This is one of the things that normally when these 0:14:47.940 --> 0:14:51.350 kind of Trade battles have happened before. Automotive stuff has 0:14:51.390 --> 0:14:54.290 been written out of them almost immediately because it's terrible 0:14:54.350 --> 0:14:57.590 for a bunch of American companies. But the administration was 0:14:57.630 --> 0:15:01.060 refusing to back down on this. And, you know, the 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.880 Canadians walked out. They have wooden alcohol tariffs that are 0:15:03.900 --> 0:15:06.800 already in effect. There are going to be more tariffs 0:15:06.860 --> 0:15:12.320 coming on September 8th. More bafflingly, one of the big 0:15:12.380 --> 0:15:15.930 things that Trump has been on is trying to restart 0:15:15.950 --> 0:15:17.270 the Keystone XL pipeline. 0:15:17.710 --> 0:15:17.970 Yeah. 0:15:18.930 --> 0:15:21.510 Which Carty is like, no, we're not doing this pipeline 0:15:21.550 --> 0:15:25.340 unless we get a better trade deal. But then in 0:15:25.380 --> 0:15:31.160 a truly startling set of proposals, the U.S. wanted to 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.280 be able to set Canadian steel tariff rates? 0:15:34.700 --> 0:15:35.160 Sure. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.180 The nominal argument here is that the U.S. is trying 0:15:39.230 --> 0:15:41.870 to like, quote unquote, stop the import of the flood 0:15:41.910 --> 0:15:45.090 of cheap steel from countries like China and And they 0:15:45.130 --> 0:15:47.359 could only do this if the Canadian steel tariff rate 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:51.480 matched the American steel tariff rate. But the goal for 0:15:51.500 --> 0:15:53.960 this was for the U.S. to be able to review 0:15:54.100 --> 0:15:57.900 and set Canadian tariff rates and make sure that they 0:15:58.110 --> 0:16:02.630 match American tariff rates on other countries. Which, this is 0:16:02.650 --> 0:16:05.750 the kind of stuff you do to a colony? 51st state. 0:16:06.850 --> 0:16:10.380 Yeah. Can confirm. Very colonial thing to do. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.200 Shocking from America. 0:16:12.220 --> 0:16:16.170 Yeah. I've never seen a country do this, try to 0:16:16.190 --> 0:16:18.510 do this to another sovereign country like Canada. 0:16:18.550 --> 0:16:18.810 Yes. 0:16:18.870 --> 0:16:19.070 Yeah. 0:16:19.150 --> 0:16:19.970 Yeah. 0:16:20.190 --> 0:16:23.110 I don't think we did this to Iraq. I've never 0:16:23.170 --> 0:16:24.390 I've never seen anything like this. 0:16:24.580 --> 0:16:26.080 It's it's bizarre. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.080 The insistence that like, yeah, we have any sort of 0:16:29.140 --> 0:16:32.700 say in their international policy is de facto making Canada 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.420 trying to make Canada agree that they're a colony. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:34.840 Right. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:35.960 Yeah. 0:16:36.220 --> 0:16:38.680 Yeah. It's very weird the way this is being written 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.510 about in the American press, where they're like, oh, well, 0:16:41.530 --> 0:16:45.850 this is Canadian autonomy and sovereignty has become a political issue. 0:16:45.930 --> 0:16:49.970 And yes, obviously, there's no country on earth that would 0:16:50.010 --> 0:16:50.770 agree to this. 0:16:51.150 --> 0:16:51.530 No. 0:16:51.770 --> 0:16:54.770 Even the staunchest American, like Saudi Arabia, would not agree 0:16:54.820 --> 0:16:58.180 to let the U.S. dictate its tariff policy. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:16:58.859 No. 0:16:59.020 --> 0:16:59.560 It's absurd. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.840 And this has managed to accomplish the absolutely staggering feat 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.730 of uniting... Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with Doug Ford, 0:17:09.750 --> 0:17:11.650 the right-wing premier of Ontario. 0:17:12.050 --> 0:17:12.869 Jesus Christ. 0:17:13.310 --> 0:17:18.669 And also, because these people just hate winning, I don't 0:17:18.690 --> 0:17:22.460 have another explanation for this other than racism. Canadian negotiators 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.260 claimed that the U.S. was trying to intervene in Canadian 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.840 policy about the digital promotion of French films. Which is 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.400 a direct attack on Quebec. 0:17:33.190 --> 0:17:35.790 On the Quebecois. Yeah. 0:17:37.470 --> 0:17:40.290 And a bunch of very, very important legal protections in 0:17:40.410 --> 0:17:45.740 Quebec about the French language. So they have somehow managed 0:17:45.780 --> 0:17:52.590 to unite a political coalition of Doug Ford, the Quebec separatist. 0:17:54.060 --> 0:17:57.580 And the ruling liberals, all of whom... It's pretty insane. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:58.620 It's unbelievable. 0:17:59.460 --> 0:18:04.970 They're just going systematically through every single conceivable political bloc 0:18:05.430 --> 0:18:10.870 in Canada and pissing them off. So these negotiations obviously collapsed. Obviously, 0:18:10.930 --> 0:18:14.310 the Canadians walked away. Obviously, there was almost total support 0:18:14.350 --> 0:18:15.990 in Canadian society for doing this. 0:18:16.010 --> 0:18:17.490 Yeah. 0:18:17.690 --> 0:18:19.970 Canadian nationalism is at an all-time high. 0:18:20.010 --> 0:18:20.310 Yeah. 0:18:20.810 --> 0:18:23.060 This is really just... carrying over the sort of trends 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.580 that we saw in the last Canadian election where Carney 0:18:27.740 --> 0:18:32.100 saved the liberals from like total, total and utter demise 0:18:32.660 --> 0:18:36.920 by feeding into this, this sense of like nationalism, like 0:18:37.380 --> 0:18:41.119 based on being under threat from Trump. And the guy 0:18:41.140 --> 0:18:44.440 who was running for the conservative prime minister was too 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.820 associated with Trump. And so that, that really hurt them. 0:18:47.180 --> 0:18:50.020 And it, it, it built this really big coalition in 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.869 Canada that, to push back against the conservatives as a 0:18:53.910 --> 0:18:57.629 way of pushing back against Trump and really put forward 0:18:58.130 --> 0:19:02.890 the Liberal Party as this counterforce to Trump's America and 0:19:02.910 --> 0:19:06.430 the attempted incursions into Canadian sovereignty, which Trump is still 0:19:06.450 --> 0:19:10.090 trying to do. And it's impressive how much Carney's been 0:19:10.109 --> 0:19:14.770 able to hold on to that coalition while ruling, because 0:19:14.850 --> 0:19:17.610 it's been over a year now. and stuff like this 0:19:17.650 --> 0:19:22.740 shows that it's, if anything, only gotten stronger in recent 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:27.520 weeks during these negotiations. Pulling together Doug Ford, the Liberal Party, 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.320 And the Quebecois into one united bloc is like an 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.200 unprecedented piece of like national unity. 0:19:35.310 --> 0:19:38.730 The fact that other Canadians are backing up the Quebecois 0:19:38.910 --> 0:19:41.649 after fucking Trump tried to make restrictions that like the 0:19:41.710 --> 0:19:43.150 French language and can't like that. 0:19:43.190 --> 0:19:43.850 That's nuts. 0:19:44.530 --> 0:19:47.369 The fact that I'm going to be on the side 0:19:47.550 --> 0:19:48.930 as like a Midwest Canadian. 0:19:49.030 --> 0:19:49.450 It's nuts. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:51.419 Very impressive by Trump. 0:19:52.830 --> 0:19:53.050 Yeah. 0:19:53.310 --> 0:19:55.610 And I think what's interesting about this, right, is that like, 0:19:55.630 --> 0:20:00.550 you know, throughout Canadian history, there's been a bipartisan series 0:20:00.590 --> 0:20:03.540 of debates that have cut across You know, like as 0:20:03.580 --> 0:20:05.950 cut across every political party, there have been factions in 0:20:06.050 --> 0:20:08.510 both about whether the extent to which Canada was going 0:20:08.530 --> 0:20:11.590 to be sort of a branch plant economy of of 0:20:11.609 --> 0:20:16.690 the United States. And that's just over. Everyone at this 0:20:16.770 --> 0:20:19.600 point has has, you know, sort of unified and saying, no, 0:20:19.780 --> 0:20:22.220 we're not going to continue doing this, you know, to 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.880 sort of cap this off. One of the demands from 0:20:24.900 --> 0:20:28.860 the Trump negotiators were that Canada would end this program. 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.950 It's been doing this sort of this sort of by 0:20:31.010 --> 0:20:34.720 Canadian program. where they've been doing something that the U.S. 0:20:35.380 --> 0:20:38.720 also has been doing for ages of encouraging people and 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.580 encouraging government contracts to go to Canadian companies, which has 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:52.840 been intensified in response to sort of their– And Canadians 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.719 have refused to do this. And instead, this has been 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.649 intensifying attempts to sort of do whatever is possible to 0:20:59.710 --> 0:21:02.410 try to decouple the US and Canadian economies. Obviously, that's 0:21:02.690 --> 0:21:06.869 not something that's particularly possible in a macro sense, just 0:21:06.910 --> 0:21:10.820 because of the reliance on both, you know, oil exports 0:21:11.140 --> 0:21:14.380 and also the way that the auto sector is intertwined. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.679 But this has become economic policy in a way that 0:21:17.700 --> 0:21:19.520 would have been unthinkable even like five years ago. 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.900 In specific, like the Buy Canada campaign to push for 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.220 consumers just to buy products made either by Canadian companies 0:21:28.260 --> 0:21:31.640 or made in Canada has been a massive success. Yeah. 0:21:31.859 --> 0:21:35.180 Talking with my family in Canada about this, like this 0:21:35.260 --> 0:21:40.030 is penetrated into all parts of the country, including like 0:21:40.050 --> 0:21:43.610 the conservative Alberta province where my family lives, where, yeah, 0:21:43.630 --> 0:21:47.470 this is like a big thing. It's hard to understate 0:21:47.510 --> 0:21:49.550 how much of an impact that has had in the 0:21:49.609 --> 0:21:51.650 country's consuming habits in the past year and a half. 0:21:52.090 --> 0:21:54.770 Yeah, Trump has the ability to do this in an 0:21:54.810 --> 0:22:00.280 incredible number of countries, actually. He has created some fantastic alliances. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:01.969 He's been great for the maple syrup business. 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.440 Let's go on ad break and then return for more news. 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.000 Ads for poutine and maple syrup coming up. 0:22:10.260 --> 0:22:11.680 From your mouth to Katya's. 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.060