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A senior Israeli diplomat told Haaretz: “Witkoff isn’t a diplomat. He doesn’t talk like a diplomat, he has no interest in diplomatic manners and diplomatic protocols.

“He’s a businessman who wants to reach a deal quickly and charges ahead unusually aggressively.”

The call last week from Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy was reportedly blunt and short on diplomatic nicety.

Steven Witkoff is said to have told aides to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, that he was headed to Israel on Saturday afternoon.

When informed that would be in the middle of the sabbath, but the prime minister could meet in the evening, his reply was apparently “salty” and clear, according to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.

The sabbath did not interest Mr Witkoff, the aides were told.

Mr Netanyahu duly went to his office to meet the US envoy, who afterwards jetted back to Qatar to push further on a ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza.

 


Responding to the urgent need for revenue following the American Revolutionary War, the First United States Congress passed and President George Washington signed the Tariff Act of July 4, 1789, which authorized the collection of duties on imported goods. Four weeks later, on July 31, the fifth act of Congress established the United States Customs Service and its ports of entry.

As part of this new government agency, a new role was created for government officials which was known as "Customs Collector". In this role, one person would have responsibility to supervise the collection of custom duties in a particular city or region, such as the Collector of the Port of New York.

For over 100 years after it was founded, the U.S. Customs Service was the primary source of funds for the entire government, paying for the country's early growth and infrastructure. Purchases include the Louisiana and Oregon territories; Florida and Alaska; funding the National Road and the Transcontinental Railroad; building many of the nation's lighthouses; the U.S. Military and Naval academies, and Washington, D.C.

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I reckon we better ditch that tanker moratorium and start work on the Western Energy Corridor from Prince Rupert to Churchill....
 
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I reckon we better ditch that tanker moratorium and start work on the Western Energy Corridor from Prince Rupert to Churchill....

Trudeau already had Quebec blocking Energy East, so he just needed to ban movement off the West Coast, with a compliant Obama/Biden stymying the flow south. Trudeau is the most destructive PM in Canadian history, worked against national interests. Imagine how that energy could be helping other countries right now while subsidizing many of Canada's nice-to-haves.
 
Trudeau already had Quebec blocking Energy East, so he just needed to ban movement off the West Coast, with a compliant Obama/Biden stymying the flow south. Trudeau is the most destructive PM in Canadian history, worked against national interests. Imagine how that energy could be helping other countries right now while subsidizing many of Canada's nice-to-haves.

Don't forget the involvement of US money in organizing the campaigns that locked us in. Might be useful to remind Trump of the money his country has cost us.

Tides Foundation
Rockefeller
MakeWay
OpenSociety

 
I don’t have X so I can’t see past it, but here’s the full Truth Social post as shared on Reddit.

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…except that little tidbit that the US Dept of Commerce already does that job. So which one will DOGE cut as “waste”? :ROFLMAO:

But hey, he’s not calling the “pathetically weak trade agreements” as subsidies anymore. Maybe he can learn…
Setting the narrative stage for that sweet, sweet revenue stream - effects on the population be damned - or more trolling? You be the judge ...

And, for the record, The Report ...
Also available as a PDF here, and attached if you want to dig through the granular detail.
 

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I gotta hand it to Putin and his GRU minions. If nothing else, they know what gets Trump all excited and turned on. And I wouldn’t be surprised if The Donald even comes up with a special military group for taking over Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada: The Donald Trump Salivation Army.
 
I'll just assume that a Trump family member will be assigned to administer this ERS agency ;)

Trump says he will create an 'External Revenue Service' agency to collect tariff income​

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations.

"We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying," Trump said Tuesday on his social media site, Truth Social. He compared his planned creation to the Internal Revenue Service, which is the nation's domestic tax collector.

The creation of a new agency requires an act of Congress, and Republicans hold the majority of both the House and the Senate.

Trump, who has vowed to shrink the size of government, would be creating a new agency to perform functions already handled by existing agencies, including the Commerce Department and the Customs and Border Patrol, which collect duties and revenues from other nations.


 
I'll just assume that a Trump family member will be assigned to administer this ERS agency ;)

Trump says he will create an 'External Revenue Service' agency to collect tariff income​

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations.

"We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying," Trump said Tuesday on his social media site, Truth Social. He compared his planned creation to the Internal Revenue Service, which is the nation's domestic tax collector.

The creation of a new agency requires an act of Congress, and Republicans hold the majority of both the House and the Senate.

Trump, who has vowed to shrink the size of government, would be creating a new agency to perform functions already handled by existing agencies, including the Commerce Department and the Customs and Border Patrol, which collect duties and revenues from other nations.


And DOGE will eliminate the unnecessary duplication of responsibilities, right?

Right?
 
I'll just assume that a Trump family member will be assigned to administer this ERS agency ;)

Trump says he will create an 'External Revenue Service' agency to collect tariff income​

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations.

"We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying," Trump said Tuesday on his social media site, Truth Social. He compared his planned creation to the Internal Revenue Service, which is the nation's domestic tax collector.

The creation of a new agency requires an act of Congress, and Republicans hold the majority of both the House and the Senate.

Trump, who has vowed to shrink the size of government, would be creating a new agency to perform functions already handled by existing agencies, including the Commerce Department and the Customs and Border Patrol, which collect duties and revenues from other nations.


Ahh, tackling the problems of the 21st century with the economic theories of the 17th.
 
Today's dose of shame...err CBC reports 500,000 job losses in Ontario if Trump goes ahead with his 25% tariffs. That translates into 15.8% of the province unemployed as a result of his policy. There were about 7,944,400 workers in the province in 2024.
 
Today's dose of shame...err CBC reports 500,000 job losses in Ontario if Trump goes ahead with his 25% tariffs. That translates into 15.8% of the province unemployed as a result of his policy. There were about 7,944,400 workers in the province in 2024.
Story's being shared CBC, but written by The Canadian Press, and I don't see any 15.8% figure there. Other outlets sharing the same story as of this post don't mention the 15.8%, either. Could you have seen an earlier version since corrected?

Still, 6% or so job loss is nothing to sneeze at. That's still predicated on worst case both on what's thrown at us and how the system will respond, so fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, old JB's leaving an interesting one on the table for POTUS47 ....
IIRC, it's been on/off the list with the Obama-Trump switch, so I suspect Trump'll just add it to the list again.
 
Story's being shared CBC, but written by The Canadian Press, and I don't see any 15.8% figure there. Other outlets sharing the same story as of this post don't mention the 15.8%, either. Could you have seen an earlier version since corrected?

Still, 6% or so job loss is nothing to sneeze at. That's still predicated on worst case both on what's thrown at us and how the system will respond, so fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, old JB's leaving an interesting one on the table for POTUS47 ....
IIRC, it's been on/off the list with the Obama-Trump switch, so I suspect Trump'll just add it to the list again.
not unemployment but GDP hit
 
After reading the news report, I had to google the 7,944,400 stat and forgot to reference it. Now, I can't find it.

Searching again provides are more reliable picture, Statistics Canada for December 2024 reports Ontario with 8,119,000 employed.
Therefore a 500,000 job loss continues to hover near 6% unemployment.
 
Nice clap back Mr. PM. Oregon and Washington State are pretty nice too BTW ;)

Trudeau asked Trump for California, Vermont to curb annexation talks​



Go less than 100 miles east of the beach and I doubt that anyone there would want to be part of Canada.
 
After reading the news report, I had to google the 7,944,400 stat and forgot to reference it. Now, I can't find it. Searching again provides are more reliable picture, Statistics Canada for December 2024 reports Ontario with 8,119,000 employed.
Looks like it was Ontario's stats for Feb 2024 - still well within a tight-ish beaten zone of 8-ish million or so.
Therefore a 500,000 job loss continues to hover near 6% unemployment.
Still a nasty number, for sure.
 
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