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He Broke the Window and Sold You the Glass
Read more . . . →Trump set a deadline of August 19 — tomorrow — for 50% tariffs on Canadian dairy, alcohol, and autos. The “deal” he’s offering to make them go away: Canada drops its retaliatory tariffs, opens up dairy markets, kills provincial procurement rules, and accepts the American interpretation of trade quotas. In exchange, the US would reduce some of the tariffs it imposed on Canada in the first place. That’s not a negotiation. That’s a guy who breaks your window and then offers to sell you the glass. Carney keeps saying Canada won’t accept a bad deal, but the framework leaking out...
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They Sold You Trump. Now They Want a Refund.
Read more . . . →The guys who spent two years telling you to get off the couch, hit the gym, grind your crypto portfolio, and vote for Trump are now calling for his impeachment. Sneako — the man who converted to Islam on a livestream to impress Andrew Tate — posted that Trump “would rather drag America into WW3 than have his Epstein blackmail footage released.” Rogan’s doing the same slow walk backward he does every time he realizes the person he platformed for three hours might be a problem. These are not political thinkers experiencing a crisis of conscience. These are brand managers...
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His Lawyer Said AOC Would Be President Without Him
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate’s lawyer went on Instagram this week and wrote that AOC will be the next president if Trump doesn’t intervene to stop his client’s extradition to the UK. The client in question is sitting in a Miami jail on 59 charges of rape and sex trafficking, using his phone to complain about the food and beg his followers to show up at his bail hearing on August 13. His lawyer, Joseph McBride, went on the Fresh and Fit podcast to make the pitch: help the man facing nearly five dozen rape charges, or lose the youth vote. The White...
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She Came from UnitedHealth and Promised Not to Make Trouble
Read more . . . →The CDC has a new director. The last one got fired for disagreeing with RFK Jr. about vaccines — the real kind, the kind that wiped out polio, not the Facebook comment section kind. The replacement is Dr. Erica Schwartz, previously of UnitedHealth Group, where she pulled $850,000 a year. At her confirmation hearing she said vaccines are safe and effective, then dodged every question about whether she’d push back if Kennedy told her otherwise. Said she was “unaware” of some of his policy changes. The whole audition was don’t know anything, don’t push back. The agency she’s inheriting has...
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He Lost in Court So He Changed the Name
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him the tariffs were illegal. So he kept the rates, swapped the legal citation, slapped “forced labor” on the label, and went right back to taxing 99.4% of U.S. imports like nothing happened. Twenty-five state attorneys general filed suit yesterday because they can read a calendar — the old tariffs expired and the new ones showed up at the same rates, on the same goods, the next business day. His own trade rep went on record promising “continuity.” That’s not even a cover story. That’s a guy plagiarizing his own paper after the professor caught him...
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The Guy Who Leaked Airstrikes Put His Third Wife in Charge of Military Families
Read more . . . →Trump signed an executive order yesterday creating a “Presidential Military Spouse Commission” to improve the lives of military families. He put Jennifer Rauchet in charge. Her qualifications: she’s Pete Hegseth’s third wife. That’s it. Former Fox News producer, no government title, no confirmed security clearance, no accountability to Congress. She does sit in on Pentagon meetings though, so at least she knows where the bathrooms are. This is the same Hegseth who leaked airstrike schedules to a Signal group chat she was in. The same Hegseth who purged so many Pentagon staff he had to start bringing her to work...
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He Fired the Guards and Blamed the Neighbors
Read more . . . →Trump went on camera this week and blamed Minnesota for getting hacked. Not Iran, whose state-aligned hackers the FBI is actively investigating. Not his own administration, which fired a third of CISA’s workforce and is trying to slash another $700 million from the cybersecurity budget. Minnesota. Because they have a Democratic governor, and that’s apparently how threat attribution works now — not by forensic evidence, but by party affiliation. Hackers hit water systems in seven states starting July 27. Thirty-six municipal water systems in Minnesota alone — the kind of infrastructure where failure means people can’t drink the water. DOGE...
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He's Taxing Your Prescriptions and Building Himself a Ballroom
Read more . . . →The White House confirmed today that construction on a $200 million ballroom starts in September. Ninety thousand square feet. Capacity for 650. Designed after Mar-a-Lago, because the man looked at the people’s house and decided it needed more of his living room. “Private donors” are covering it, which is Washington for people who need something from this administration and are buying the most expensive receipt in the country. Also today: 100% tariffs on imported patented drugs kicked in. Seventeen pharmaceutical companies were big enough to negotiate their way out. The rest pass the cost straight to you. He is taxing...
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He Told You It's the Same Tariff
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him no. Six justices, including three he appointed, said the tariffs were illegal. That was February. By July he’d slapped tariffs on sixty countries under a different statute and walked up to a microphone at a GM proving ground in Michigan to say, out loud, that the new ones are “doing the same thing” as the ones the court struck down. He said it was “a shame” he had to “go a harder way.” The man described his own workaround for a Supreme Court ruling like he was complaining about a detour on his commute. A...
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The Big China Deal Is That You Keep Paying
Read more . . . →Trump announced a “trade deal” with China today. Here’s the deal: the 20% fentanyl tariff stays, the 10% reciprocal tariff stays, the effective rate on Chinese goods sits near 30% — the highest on any country on earth — and the bigger tariffs he threatened get paused for sixty days. That’s the whole agreement. He held a press conference to tell you nothing changed and that this is a tremendous win. A tariff is a tax, and you’re the one who pays it. The Tax Foundation put a number on it: this trade war is the largest tax hike as...
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