So on Wednesday this happened:
He ain't seen nuthin' yet!Trump: "Canada is nasty. They're nasty."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Americans hate him too
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No wonder everybody hates him
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They're all afraid of him, including the judges.
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Its no wonder American voters are supporting Democrats who speak up against Trump's tyranny. As Robert Reich says today:
... Michigan Democrats didn’t choose El-Sayed because he’s “unabashedly left wing” or a Democratic Socialist (in fact, he’s not).So if anyone in the United States is wondering why nobody wants to visit their country anymore:
They chose him because he’s a fighter — at a time when America needs fighters willing to stand up to the worst tyrant who has ever occupied the Oval Office.
Corporate Democrats — such as Haley Stevens, along with Rahm Emanuel, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries — aren’t up to the task because they won’t bite the corporate hands that feed them campaign money. They won’t criticize the billionaire class. They refuse to see how big money has corrupted America.
Yet it’s big corporations and the billionaire class that are supporting Trump’s neo-fascism. They’ve sucked up to Trump for corporate welfare, giant tax cuts, tariff exemptions, antitrust acquiescence, and war contracts. They’ve given Trump hundreds of millions for his inauguration, his ballroom, his 250th birthday, his superPAC.
Jamie Dimon and Wall Street; Elon Musk and his billionaire bro’s; Brad Carp and his corporate lawyers; Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Ellisons — all have sold their integrity for huge profits. They’ve created media empires that won’t criticize Trump, financial empires that feed Trump’s crypto, energy empires that feed off Trump’s war, and legal empires that allow Trump to ride roughshod over the rule of law.
Which is why America desperately needs people in Congress who will fight against Trump and his sycophants....
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Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and
— _-Natalie-_ (@qmi20.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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It's hard enough to find people once ice gets them, the people with nobody looking for them are just fucking gone. It's going to be like after WWII when citizens had to be walked through the death camps and refused to believe it was real, the few reports from detention centers are horrific.
— Darion Brainerd (@metaphoricalkidney.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
they are bragging they took over 50K people into custody in July and honestly where are all of them considering the thousands taken each month, are some just driven to airfields & flown to wherever & the media seems almost afraid to question any of it, they just report it like the weather
— Kathy Byrne (@kab-fair.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
And as Trump continues to create more concentration camps and prisons and flights to prisons overseas, only the property tax questions are a concern for this community:Probably dumped in the ocean from a plane. There is no reason to think that wouldn't happen.
— hooplaw.bsky.social (@hooplaw.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Are people starting to learn that it's not the private sector that makes prisons bad? Because this very much looks like ICE is moving toward direct administration of their concentration camps
— Mike Isaacson (@vulgareconomics.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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I guess Americans expected their government wouldn't lie to them. More fools they...
Guaranteed protections for military spouses, parents and children are part of the recruiting package. Now immigrant relatives of service members are being detained in ICE camps.
— NetworkforDemocracy (@simple-truth.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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I've been reading lately about how the United States is in trouble with its finances, like that it now has the hightest deficit since World War II, plus Trump is spending billions on his war against Iran and so forth. Here's a terrifying article about what Trump and his Treasury Secretary Bessent have been doing, so they make it until the Midterms before everything crashes. Its a lengthy article by international finance expert Josiah Waters, so here's one clip to give you the flavour:
...Trump and Bessent are not steering the country through a difficult passage toward safety. They are steering it deeper into danger while manipulating the gauges, muffling the alarms, and insisting that the absence of an immediate collision proves the quality of their navigation. Trump supplies the recklessness, the impossible promises, and the contempt for any fact that threatens his preferred account of himself, while Bessent supplies the mechanisms through which the consequences are deferred, disguised, and transferred to someone else. One creates the crisis and the other professionalizes the concealment, allowing an administration that is steadily exhausting the country’s financial options to continue presenting itself as the author of an economic triumph.One of the reasons why I'm so glad Carney is our prime minister now is his economics background - he will recognize what is happening with the American economy earlier than most and maybe can prevent Canada from being pulled down with them. There are no guarantees that Trump can be handled, but Carney is the only one who might be able to.
The calm they have produced is not stability, the time they have purchased is not recovery, and the suppression of market signals does not make the conditions producing those signals disappear. It merely ensures that when those conditions finally force themselves into view, the adjustment will be larger, faster, and more difficult to contain. Every temporary success encourages another intervention, every intervention consumes more credibility, and every measure taken to escape the consequences of the last measure leaves the Treasury with fewer options when the next crisis arrives. Trump and Bessent are not preventing the reckoning. They are increasing its size and narrowing the country’s ability to respond to it....
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Carney can't resist an occasional Zing! Pow! moment
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Finally I wanted to share this Letter to My Fellow Americans About Canada from Ross Boulton, an American writer based in Baton Rouge. I don't usually reprint an entire essay, but in this case its worth it:
A senator from California wrote to Canada recently asking them to be nicer to us. I read it twice to make sure it was real. Then I got angry - but not at Canada.
Do you know what we did? I’m asking honestly, because most of us don’t. It went by in the noise. Our president called Canada the 51st state. Not once, at a dinner, as a joke. Over and over, from behind the seal of our republic. He looked at a country of 40 million people — a country with its own flag, its own parliament, its own dead from two world wars it entered before we did — and called it a real estate opportunity.
Then we tariffed their steel, and their aluminum too — aluminum we barely make anymore. We shut our own smelters years ago, and then taxed the neighbor who kept our factories running. And he told us Canada would pay those tariffs. That was a lie, and not a complicated one. A tariff is a tax collected at our own ports, paid by our own importers, passed down to us at the register. Canada never wrote a check. We did — on every truck, every beam, every can. He taxed us, and called it punishing them. Then we shook them down over a bridge they built and paid for — his own words: he would not allow it to open until America was “fully compensated” for a bridge that cost us nothing. Then, when they quietly stopped buying our whiskey and stopped driving south, we sent senators to ask why they were being mean.
Nobody has talked to Canada like that in over a hundred years. It took us to do it.
Let me tell you what that border used to be. It was the longest undefended border on earth — our best brag. Not the aircraft carriers. The neighbor who never needed to fear us. My grandfather crossed it to fish. Theirs crossed it to watch a ball game. Nobody checked twice.
In 1979, when our embassy fell in Tehran, six Americans slipped out a back door with nowhere to go. Canadian diplomats hid them in their homes for three months, and Canada’s own cabinet secretly authorized real Canadian passports to smuggle them out — their government put its name on our escape. On September 11th, when our sky closed, a town in Newfoundland smaller than a college campus took in nearly seven thousand of our stranded and fed them for days without asking who would pay. When we went to Afghanistan, they came. They buried a hundred and fifty-eight of their own for our war.
That’s the country our president says shouldn’t exist. That’s the country our senators are scolding.
I’ve walked the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. Everybody who’s been to Washington has — it was a park with a famous house in it, and that was the brag too: the most powerful man on earth, and you could stand on his sidewalk. This week they proposed fencing it permanently — Lafayette Square too, the park where we’ve protested every president since Jefferson. There’s already titanium fencing around the new ballroom; he bragged a bulldozer couldn’t knock it over, and there’s a bunker going in six stories beneath it. I saw the photograph of that fence and understood something I’d been avoiding: men do not build compounds against people who love them. And I grew up being told we were the good guys — every movie, every classroom, every Fourth of July. So here is the hardest sentence I have ever had to write. Right now, today, we are the country other countries protect themselves from.
Canada figured that out before most of us would say it. Now let me tell you what their answer looks like, because it isn’t rage. Rage we’d know how to dismiss.
A woman in a liquor store in Calgary turns a bottle, reads Kentucky on the label, and puts it back. Somewhere in Bardstown, a man who’s filled bottles like it his whole working life watches the orders fall and wonders what he did wrong. The answer is nothing. A family in Mississauga cancels the Florida trip they’d taken for eleven years. The motel in Bangor sits empty. The outlet mall in Buffalo where Ontario plates used to fill the lot every Saturday is asphalt and echoes now. At hockey games, they boo our anthem — and if you knew Canadians, you’d know how much it costs them to be rude on purpose.
Here’s the part I need you to sit with. They aren’t angry at you. Ask any of them — I have — and they say the same thing, almost apologetically, like they’re worried we’ll take it wrong: it’s not the waitress in Bangor, it’s not the vineyard family in Sonoma, it’s him. Our trade representative filed them next to China — “the company they’re running in,” he said, of the people who forged our way out of Tehran. And still they keep separating us from the man behind the seal, more carefully than we ever separated them from anything.
Our oldest friend is boycotting us and apologizing to us at the same time.
It broke something in me.
They watched him threaten Greenland, shake down NATO, send masked agents into our streets — and they still made sure the quarrel was with him, not us. They use a word for him up there that our own senators are afraid of. I’m done being more afraid of the word than the thing. They’re right.
So here’s what I’m asking, and unlike Senator Schiff, I’m asking the people who can actually fix it. Us.
Stop waiting for Canada to get over it. They won’t, and they shouldn’t. The empty shelf isn’t a tantrum. It’s the last polite warning a polite country knows how to give.
And understand what they’re actually asking for, because it was never about wine sales. It’s respect. A sovereign country. An equal. Not the 51st anything.
This November, vote like the border depends on it, because it does. Not just the states that always decide things — all of them, down to the school boards. And if you already vote — you’re not who this paragraph is for. The person you bring with you is. One man is not stopped by one election in one place. He is stopped when a whole country stands up at once and takes Congress out of his hands.
Then make Congress use it. We tried impeachment twice. Seven of them were brave the second time. The rest decided their seats mattered more than their country. Send them home too.
And then let the courts finish it. He broke our laws in the open, daring us to care. So care. Try him. Convict him. Put him where a president who betrays his country belongs — in a cell, for the rest of his life, where he can never again reach across a border he didn’t respect.
Not vengeance. Precedent. Every strongman on earth is watching to see whether America punishes this or forgives it. So is every friend we have left.
Our grandparents crossed an ocean to stop men like him, and Canadians crossed it beside them. All we have to do is cross a parking lot.
And I’ll say the quiet part, because some of us are already whispering it at kitchen tables: what if he doesn’t let November count? Here’s what I know from thirty years of watching systems fail. Rigging works in the dark and in the margins. It cannot survive turnout so large the count is beside the point, and it cannot survive forty million witnesses next door who have already shown they’ll call things by their name. So don’t vote like it’s close. Vote like it’s watched — because it is, from fifty feet across the river.
And when he’s gone — because these men always go, never quietly, and never on their own — I want to be there the day the Canadian plates come back over the Peace Bridge. I want to hear their accents in the motels in Maine again. I want to stand in a bar in Ontario and buy the first round with our whiskey — the day it’s back on their shelf and they’ll take it — and tell them we’re sorry, and mean it.
They spent a hundred years being the best neighbor any country ever had.
It was never them.
It was us. So it’s ours to fix.
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