The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships. Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best — ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.
The White House decided there was a threat so great that Donald Trump was secretly moved to another plane but they never told the passengers on Air Force One. Cowards look out for themselves. Leaders look out for their people.
https://t.co/BcIYJEkrXb
The average national gas price is $4.11.
The war with Iran has cost taxpayers over $150 billion and counting.
The DOJ is protecting the Epstein class.
Brought to you by the guy who promised $2 gas, no wars and justice for the Epstein victims.
I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
It’s easy to get bogged down in bad news, so it’s worth remembering that many of the president’s attempts to consolidate power are failing.
For example: A judge granted an order requiring Trump admin officials to follow the Presidential Records Act.
https://t.co/1aDDNoyuxF
Neither is Christian white nationalism. Here’s what is:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
And: “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Got it now?
The House just released their interviews with Bill Gates and Leslie Groff (Epstein's assistant).
Groff lied to Congress at least 7 times. She denied ever paying the tuition of young women, but her own emails in Jmail prove otherwise.
See for yourself in our annotated viewer, where we link each statement to emails and documents in Jmail