Let’s go Blue Jays , 19 games left. Just gotta get into the playoffs ,then anything goes
— Jared Benson (@jb-rider-fan.bsky.social) September 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Canada's retaliatory tariffs take effect Sept 8, and the target list runs through Maine, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Every one of those states has a race worth watching. Ottawa isn't hiding the logic. #Tariffs #Canada www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/09/03/t...
— tolkadot.bsky.social (@tolkadot.bsky.social) September 3, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Well said #cdnpoli #Canada
— Scott Tribe -A proud "Ketchup Chip Nationalist" member (@stribeprogblog.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Hegseth punching down because he is a douchebro and a bully
— Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Dear Mr Rapist, Lake Ontario is named as such in the Treaty of Canandaigua, signed by President George Washington and ratified by Congress in 1795. An executive order can’t override it, you stupid, uneducated arsehole.
— Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 (@jeffrudd.bsky.social) August 31, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Premier Doug Ford unveiled a Lake Ontario sign at a park on the shores of the Great Lake on Saturday, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change its name to Lake America. 🔗 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
— The Globe and Mail (@theglobeandmail.com) August 29, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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More Canadian small businesses hit by American tariffs that YOU can support! #BuyCanadian
— Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 (@todmaffin.com) August 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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...When your back is against the wall, it tends to stiffen the spine. Perhaps Mr. Trump expected Canada to fold like the others, but the extravagance of the U.S. demands made that impossible. It is difficult to see how any government, of whatever party, could have accepted the terms presented to us, not least because there was no guarantee we would receive anything in return: as it has since been reported, the U.S. reserved the right to raise tariffs in future to whatever level they please, notwithstanding anything in the deal. So we are headed for heavy weather. It is highly unlikely that Canada will give in, no matter what punishment is meted out to us. And yet it is hard to see how the Trump administration could yield, either, precisely because of the admiring notice we have been getting elsewhere. It is true what they say: In defying Mr. Trump, we are setting an example for the rest of the world. Therefore it is likely he will try to make an example out of us. This is about much more than trade, in other words, more even than our existence as a sovereign state. Fate has assigned us the role, as it has other nations from time to time, of a kind of Horatius at the Gate, the one who “keeps the bridge” when all the rest have fled. Our fight, it is no exaggeration to say, is the civilized world’s fight. It is a fight for reason and comity in the affairs of nations, against an administration whose worldview, and behaviour, is increasingly that of an aggressive dictatorship, in all its crudeness and its thuggery...
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...The “Naked Man” was first formally introduced on November 24, 2008, in Season Four, Episode Nine of How I Met Your Mother. But like many important developments in American foreign policy, nobody understood its significance at the time...Thus, in mid-July Trump suddenly threatens Canada with 50 per cent tariffs, and for the rest of the summer that's the only thing Canada is talking about. Other CUSMA issues fade into the background as Canada sends a team to Washington for negotiations and the media breathlessly report on every scrum.
...if a date is going badly and [Mitch] suspects there is very little chance of sex, he waits until the woman leaves the room. Then he removes all his clothes.
Naturally, Ted asks the only reasonable question: Does that actually work?
According to Mitch, “two out of three times.”
To be clear, the Naked Man is not a pickup line. There is no seduction involved. Mitch simply eliminates several intermediate stages of human courtship and confronts his date with a radically altered set of facts. And nudity....
Mitch’s war/love strategy depends entirely upon scrambling the normal sequences of human interaction. Five minutes earlier, Robin was trying to decide whether she even liked Mitch. Now Robin must decide what to do about the naked man on her couch. Thus, Mitch’s brazenness collapses the normal sequence of female decision-making. Or so his theory goes.
And, stripped of the testicles, there is an actual theory of power buried in there. Mitch has created a new reality and left everyone else to respond to it...
Political scientists have a more respectable term for this: a fait accompli.
I prefer Naked Man.
Because once you recognize the maneuver, Donald Trump starts looking less like a deal maker and more like a man who has spent eighteen years taking foreign-policy advice from CBS reruns....
Action first.
Authority later.
Never ask permission.
This is an old philosophy wearing a very long red tie.
....But Naked Man Doctrine is not only a joke about impulsivity. It is power exercised through presumption.
The ballroom: I have already demolished it.
Venezuela: We have already bombed them.
Greenland: The equipment is already here.
The boundary has not technically disappeared. It has simply become everyone else’s responsibility to enforce it. And enforcement is tiring. It requires lawsuits, coalitions, votes, sanctions, diplomatic confrontations, and sometimes throwing a drink in a creepy naked man’s face...
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