Canada Caves on DST, NC & NE Lose GOP Candidates, Patriotism Peters in Recent Poll
3 Martini Lunch
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
First, Craig and Jim are pleased that just two days after Trump declared on Truth Social that he was suspending trade talks with Canada over their digital services tax, Canada announces they're rescinding the tax. Jim argues this tax to be particularly unfair and discriminatory toward U.S. businesses. Craig notes how Trump has been following through on his threats, and Canada seems unwilling to test him on this.
Next, they mourn the bad news that North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis AND Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon will not be seeking reelection. Because the Republican Party won by narrow margins in those states, Jim worries this may swing states blue making it a good week for the DSCC and DCCC.
Last, they are aghast at the recent Gallup poll which shows pride in America to be down significantly from last year particularly among Democrats. Jim is amused that Democrats felt more pride in the country when President Biden was in office. Ultimately, Jim and Craig argue that pride in one's country should not be contingent upon who is in office.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:05.1 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.7 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to three martini lunch on a Monday. |
| 0:15.9 | I am not Greg, as you are used to having. |
| 0:18.5 | My name is Craig filling in for Greg. |
| 0:20.4 | I think every time I do this, Jim, we make it easy on you. You just got to change that one letter a little bit. |
| 0:26.1 | And if people listen carefully, they can tell it's almost indistinguishable of my accent. |
| 0:31.3 | Perfect. But we are here to talk about the good, the bad, and the insane, or the crazy once again. We can start with the good, and this is |
| 0:39.0 | uniquely good, I think, and I love the way that you referred to it when you sent over this |
| 0:43.1 | topic to me. You said that sometimes Trump's public tantrums work out. This might be one of those |
| 0:48.8 | cases involving trade with Canada. What do we got here? Yeah, look, and listeners to this podcast |
| 0:54.1 | know that I am not |
| 0:55.2 | usually a big fan of Trump jumping onto truth social and, you know, raging and fuming and venting his spleen. |
| 1:03.2 | But it seems to have worked out this case. As people know, we're basically in a trade war with a |
| 1:07.6 | big chunk of the world. Canada was one of the first targets of it. |
| 1:11.6 | And while there's a whole bunch of cases where economists will make criticisms of this approach, |
| 1:17.8 | Canada does have some policies that seem genuinely unfair to the U.S. |
| 1:21.6 | And probably the most notable one is the digital services tax. |
| 1:25.2 | It has long drawn criticism from U.S. officials across the political |
| 1:28.2 | spectrum. The Biden administration objected to it and said this is violating the U.S. Mexico-Canada |
| 1:33.8 | agreement, arguing that the tax is discriminated against U.S. companies, and a group trade group |
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