A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.
Donald Trump won’t let it open.
Here is why.
The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.
Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.
He called Trump.
Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.
Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.
Canada paid for the entire bridge.
Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.
This is corruption in plain sight.
A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.
Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
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The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.
This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.
I'll tell you what, Dinesh. Even if you had 400 kilos of 90% U-235 and a box of matches, the length of time it would take you to make a nuke is NEVER.
The fact is, 60% enriched uranium like the Iranians had isn't even 10% of the way to a bomb. The rest--- engineering, machining, fabrication and assembly of the watch-like innards of a nuclear implosion bomb---is the real hard part. And even that ignores the fact that no one in their right mind---even the mullahs---would attempt to launch against the USA a beginners bomb that had never been tested and which no Iranian missile could carry for the 10,000 kilometer trip to the US in any event. And that's to say nothing of reentering the atmosphere successfully under blistering heat and percussion. In short, Iran's possession of 10 bombs worth of HEUs was not remotely an imminent threat, and that's according to the repeated attestations of the 17 US intelligence agencies, including DNI Tulsi Gabbard's testimony to Congress in March 2025. So what in the hell are you gumming about in year pathetic, self-evidently barking ignorance?
In case anyone is confused about what this is:
This illegal Israeli occupation map includes the sea, coincidentally where Lebanon’s gas and oil fields are.
This is and always has been a land and resources grab.
The world is too comfortable with Israel bombing ambulances, hospitals, wiping out entire villages and massacring whole families. This isn’t normal. Future generations will look back at this era in shock and disbelief.
Voters: We want Universal Healthcare
Democrats: Okay we'll do that
Healthcare Lobby: If you do that, the $20 -
$70 million we give you is cut off
Democrats: Whoah, we need that money. How about we allow most of the party to vote yes, but we get at least 3 dems to vote no so that it will fail, this way the heat is on those 3 democrats instead of the whole party. This way the party looks like we want to give it to the people, but we cant because those 3 Democrats stopped it.
Fred DeLorey on Pierre Poilievre's shadow cabinet DOGE letters: "They were insulted by this. And I'm told this is what ultimately set Marilyn Gladu off -- what really upset her was this final straw ... There's no question that this did upset a lot of folks."
Watching Israel move into Lebanon, seizing land, destroying everything, and imposing ethnic cleansing on Shia Muslims- to the extent that Druse and Christian Lebanese HIDE their Muslim neighbors- is like watching Germany roll into Czechoslovakia in 1939, while the world yawns.