The Blanche Report Sunday Edition

On Friday, President Donald Trump emphatically ended trade talks with Canada effective immediately.

Wait a minute. Wasn't Mark Carney the second coming and the 'adult in the room' negogiating with Trump? Were we not minutes away from a deal?

Clearly, we were all sold a massive bag of bs.

On Friday, our supposedly very smart prime minister Mark Carney enacted the Digital Services Tax - DST. And to add salt to the wound, it will be retroactive to January 1, 2022 and he is forcing companies to pay up by this June 30.

Before we explain this in terms even we can understand, one thing is glaringly obvious:

If you want to make Donald Trump angry, we could not think of a better way. One has to wonder exactly how smart Mark Carney really is and even more, who keeps promoting this fantasy.

DST Unpacked...

So what's the big deal about this tax and why is it sending Trump off the deep end? Let's start with what this tax really is in a nutshell:

The Digital Services Tax is a way for countries to collect revenue from digital giants like Google and Amazon who profit off their populations without paying significant local taxes.

In plain terms: The Digital Services Tax makes tech giants pay up where they profit even if they don’t set foot there.

The U.S. is our biggest trading partner, tensions are already high so what does our 'very smart' Prime Minister Carney do? He slaps a retroactive tax on American tech giants. Blanche, nothing says diplomacy like picking a fight with the people who control your supply chains.

You may be saying to yourself this is fair, maybe Carney is right. Why shouldn't these mammoth companies pay tax for taking our money? The answer is survival.

Every sector of every business in Canada saw the wall with the writing if this tax were imposed and begged Carney not to impose it. They warned of massive financial disruptions, threats to investment stability, and damage to border operations.

And all of this while the automotive sector is slowly suffocating due to steel and aluminum tariffs.

Carney pushed through the DST anyway and now all trade talks have collapsed.

Now how smart is he and how is he going to get out of a mess he just created for no reason?

Oh, and one more thing. Parliament is on vacation until some time in September so anything Trump does will just have to wait to be dealt with until then.

Antisemitism and Jew-hatred are clearly not confined to North America. This weekend, at the massive Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK, where over 200,000 people have gathered, it appeared live on stage.

In the UK if you offend someone online you will be arrested.

If you use the wrong pronoun you will be arrested.

If you burn a quran you will be arrested.

But if you call for the murder of Israelis onstage, in front of 200,000 people, live on the BBC... “We’re reviewing the footage”. No arrests.

And chanting death to the IDF by over 100,000 people is also fair game with no consequences and no one stopping them.

May we suggest that hamas pay them a visit as they did at the Nova festival? We believe that they would be chanting something entirely different. Shame on Great Britain.

Today there is a massive gay pride parade taking place in Toronto. There are boundries as to what people can wear or do in this parade.

Yes, gay people suffered over the years. But guess what? So did Jews, black people and many other minorities. If you do see a parade, everybody is dressed appropriately. We will leave it at that.

And yet, we will never understand why it is necessary to hold this kind of public exhibition of insane behavior while prancing around half naked. Who cares what you are? Just live your life and move on.

Update: This year's is much smaller than in previous years due to lack of funding. It appears people are starting to wake up.

Anti-Israel protesters are loud, obnoxious, and armed with nothing more than slogans.

Israelis quietly bring something far more powerful to the table: brains.

Let's call a spade a spade: intelligence, strategy, and patience get you a lot further in life than shrieking in the streets.

Mossad, the Israeli intelligence had boots on the ground inside Iran as far back as 2010—nearly fifteen years before the Israel-Iran war officially erupted.

Their agents were already meticulously tracking Iran’s nuclear development, long before the world caught, including on having to watch that fool Obama give Iran tens of millions of dollars to further their quest to make a nuclear bomb.

What Mossad discovered was chilling: the Iranian program wasn’t confined to the high-profile sites like Fordow, Natanz, or Isfahan. It had tentacles—workshops, factories, and supply chains spread out like a spiderweb across the country.

According to intelligence reports, Mossad had eyes on every one of those facilities. And when the war began, Israel struck not just the known sites, but the entire infrastructure that made mass missile manufacturing possible.

So while anti-Israel mobs are busy chanting recycled slogans and spray-painting public buildings, Israeli intelligence has been quietly dismantling Iran’s nuclear infrastructure—piece by piece, facility by facility. Not with hashtags, but with precision. Not with protests, but with planning.

In the end, strategy beats screaming. And if history has taught us anything, it’s that the smartest player in the room doesn’t need to shout. They just win.

And one day the world will wake up and realize that Israel saved us all.

So much for saving the climate-change-net-zero hysteria group.

All those save-the-whales worry-worts ran to Venice to see Jeff Bezos get married to what appears to be someone who has had so much work done that she looks like a mannequin.

No less than 90 private jets flew into airports near Venice Italy. And how much does such a wedding cost?

No one seems to know but it's somewhere between $50 and 300 million.

The couple’s wedding planners commissioned about 30 private water taxis to escort guests around the city. Each taxi costs between $210 and $290 per hour. Assuming they were booked for 12-hour days, the cost would be at least $270,000 spent on water transport alone.

The wedding was catered by three-Michelin-star chef Fabrizio Mellino of Quattro Passi, a restaurant in Nerano near Naples, which Bezos has been known to frequent. The restaurant charges around $1,800 per person, including staff and food transport, to cater weddings of this level.

That’s at least $360,000 in food-and-beverage costs for the one night—but it is likely a three-day contract, adding up closer to $1.1 million.

The floral arrangements cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Then there's the security for all the a-list people. That runs in the tens of millions of dollars.

The wedding dress was thought to be about $300,000.

All in all, even if you're the richest man in the world, it's a total waste of money. It's not going to buy him happiness if that's what he's looking for. If he wanted arm candy, he certainly got that.

As for the two-faced climate changers?

They are leaving a carbon footprint the size of a small country while preaching austerity to the rest of us and nothing screams “save the planet” like sipping champagne at 35,000 feet on your private plane.

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