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[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Blah Blah Blah. Shut the fuck up you rambling orange bullshit machine. Every speech is just a blender full of lies, self-congratulation, imaginary victories & whatever random country wandered into your head. Your country’s a fucking joke because of you.

[Mike Angelle ⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜ @trainofangels00]

What did you expect, America?

What did you expect when your administration launched a trade war and hit our nation with completely unnecessary tariffs?

What did you expect from your once closest ally, the very nation that rushed to your side on 9/11?

Did you forget Operation Yellow Ribbon, when Canadians opened their homes to house and feed over 33,000 stranded passengers from 239 diverted American flights?

What did you expect when we bleedingly stood by you in Afghanistan, sacrificing Canadian soldiers and civilians in your longest war?

Did you think Canadians would just lie down when there was absolutely no recognition of our sovereignty?

What did you expect when the White House trolled us on social media, calling Canada a "51st state" and labeling a Prime Minister a "future governor"?

What did you expect our response would be?

And how your Fox media and MAGA supporters claim we need the U.S. for protection.

Let us be clear: Canada NEVER once asked you for protection. We are EQUAL partners sharing the sky through NORAD, yet you allow these lies to keep spinning.

What did you expect when your ambassador, Pete Hoekstra, chose to amplify the offensive "51st state" insult online, later dismissing it as just a "great discussion"?

What did you expect when your administration arrogantly declared they "don't need anything Canada has"?

So, what did you expect when we decided to fight back?

We did not break; we stood our ground....

What did you expect when we banned your goods from our shelves and began our pivot away from your nation to forge new, trustworthy partnerships globally and reaffirm our trustworthy NATO allies?

After many years of loyal alliance, it seems Canada did more for you than you ever did for us....

Now that Canada is moving forward without you, we leave you with one final question:

- What did you expect?

#canpoli
#Canada
#MAGA

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is literally walking all over your tax dollars. 

For decades, every president since Truman has used the walkway between the White House residence and the Oval Office without issue. Trump decided it wasn’t good enough for him.  

He said he would pay to retile it himself. Suprise, surprise, it was another shameless lie.  

Internal budget documents show you, the American taxpayers, paid $689,232 for it.  

And where is he getting the money? From our national parks.  

Our parks are already short $23 billion in repairs, and more than 900 projects have lost their funding. Yellowstone lost a project to stop roof leaks. Acadia lost its free shuttle. A Colorado park lost the money to fix a guardrail.  

But Trump found money to pave the ground he personally walks on with special granite. 

Trump is forcing America’s national parks to slash budgets, cancel badly needed repairs, and lay off workers. He takes the money those parks actually earn – nearly $100 million in visitor fees –  and has been funneling it into his own personal projects, including paving the very ground he walks on with special granite. 

And it’s not just park fees. Your tax dollars are in that pot too. Taxpayer funding for projects in our nation’s capital surged by 92% over the last year. 

Trump seems to think your tax money is his money. He thinks he is entitled to raid national parks, cancel repairs, lay off workers, and use public funds to redecorate the place where he lives and works.  

The level of greed is just disgusting. 
https://t.co/MkByWYBZwX

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “It’s not just that he’s getting wealthy, it’s that there is this crew of people that the whole U.S. is explicitly being RUN FOR. It is for them…for the people at Maralago and the people around the White House and the oligarchs that lavish Trump and his family with gifts and contracts and contributions—The foreign emirs, and the crown princes, the Ellisons, and the Bezos, and the Zuckerbergs, and the Musks, the Lutnicks, and the Witkoffs and the Kushners. Our government is being run explicitly for this Oligarch class. Full stop. That’s what he cares about. That’s who he’s looking out for. He’s part of that class and you ain’t, and it’s a total, complete desecration of what makes self governance, our very birthright as Americans, so precious.”🤦‍♀️

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Sorry American soccer fans, but after listening to this demented pile of orange shit openly brag about his FIFA corruption, I hope Belgium beats the living shit out of Team USA tonight. Trump has singlehandedly turned millions of us into Belgium fans. 🇧🇪

[BenGmen @NYGFTBL]

@Mollyploofkins 🤡

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DHS Inspector General just opened an audit into a $38 billion warehouse-to-detention scheme that Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski rammed through.

ICE bought 11 vacant warehouses in a matter of months, paying 11 to 13 percent above market value.

The properties weren’t even zoned for detention. No working plumbing for thousands of detainees. But Noem and Lewandowski pressured ICE to open them by year’s end anyway.

The result? At least $1 billion already spent on nine facilities. Nearly 50 contractors paid $1.7 billion since Trump took office.

Companies with zero immigration detention experience suddenly winning massive federal contracts.

One firm that didn’t even exist until June 2024 got a $6 million DHS contract this January.

Noem is gone.

Lewandowski is gone.

But the bill is still landing on the taxpayer, and the IG investigation is just getting started.

Accountability cannot end when the perpetrators walk out the door.

Every contract needs scrutiny.

Every dollar needs to be traced.

Every official who steered money to inexperienced contractors needs to answer under oath.
https://t.co/GGvxSniGqM

[BenGmen @NYGFTBL]

@PolymarketBlitz Deranged.

[BenGmen @NYGFTBL]

@atrupar Disappointed in you Jaxson Dart.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If you honestly believe that any of the violent 1,600 rioters that stormed the Capitol and beat cops with flagpoles and fire extinguishers on January 6th deserves ONE CENT of our hard-earned tax dollars, you are a DISGRACE and an asshole.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump got the U.S. nothing from his visit to China, other than China promising to buy some Boeing planes, fewer than expected.

Trump FAILED to convince China to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Xi and China were showered with endless praise and groveling from the president of the United States for the whole world to watch.

China keeps getting stronger, more emboldened when it comes to Taiwan, and more powerful globally while Trump picks fights with longtime U.S. allies.

Back at the White House, Trump had nothing concrete to point to as a success:

“All I can say is that was a great success… A lot of things have happened and you’ll be hearing about them, but that was a tremendous success. I think it really was a historic moment.”

An absolute embarrassment for the United States.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“Unprecedented destruction”

Majority of U.S. military sites in the Middle East damaged by Iran, CNN investigation reveals.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth desperately tried to keep the extent of the damage from the public so people wouldn’t see how badly this was botched. Now the images are coming out and they’re disturbing.

[Chris Christie @GovChristie]

These problems with Iran have been going on for 47 years. We need skilled negotiators with depth of historical knowledge to get a deal that makes this military action one that actually protects America’s national security.

The president sent two real estate developers. Why would any of us be surprised by the lack of results?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

FBI Director Kash Patel was asked on Fox & Friends what he’s learned about the WHCD shooter that he wants the public to understand.

His answer: “First and foremost, I want to remind your audience of President Trump’s leadership, literally courage under fire. He’s assembled the greatest law enforcement team that I’ve ever seen.”

Patel is so desperately trying to save his job. Just a few days ago, a top White House official told Politico that “It’s only a matter of time” before Patel gets fired.

This is beyond embarrassing. The head of the FBI knows that to keep his job, he has to grovel and kiss Trump’s ass 24/7.

This is straight-up banana republic behavior

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

Grandpa is having a senile moment again. So much to unpack here.

First he claims that Spirit was about to merge with People Express. People Express went out of business in 1987. Spirit didn't even form until 1983 as Charter Airlines and didn't acquire its first jet and become Spirit until 1992. Dude doesn't even know what century he's in.

Then he claims that if we bought Spirit, we'd be buying a company with virtually no debt. The whole reason Spirit is going bankrupt because of its debt. It has 7.4 billion worth, in fact.

He then goes on to say that Spirit's problem is high oil prices. Spirit has been failing for years, and especially last year when oil prices were at their lows. The reason Spirit is failing is because they never recovered their post-Covid budget traveler segment and, as a low cost carrier, they can't increase prices without losing their captured customer base, which means their margins are being crushed. Rising fuel costs are just the last cherry on top.

As if ALL THIS weren't bad enough, Trump then goes on to claim that he could "flip" the company because "they've got a lot of good aircraft". One of Spirit's biggest problems is that a large portion of their fleet is grounded because Pratt & Whitney sold them a bunch of dud engines and the frames aren't airworthy. Spirit literally can't even use a lot of its "very good aircraft".

They also haven't been profitable in 7 years.

Someone put grandpa to bed, he's gotten into the medicine cabinet again.

[BenGmen @NYGFTBL]

@atrupar Deranged.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

There is a particular kind of American politician who, upon achieving high office, feels compelled to announce publicly the things he is most proud of.

It is, when you think about it, a remarkable instinct – the urge to share, unprompted, the moments you consider your finest hours.

JD Vance has decided that one of his proudest achievements is cutting off military aid to Ukraine.

Not, you understand, brokering a ceasefire. Not negotiating anything at all, really. Simply stopping the flow of weapons to a country that has been defending itself, with considerable tenacity and very little outside help, against the largest land invasion in Europe since 1945.

That is the thing that makes him proud.
It is worth pausing on the word “proudest” for a moment, because it does a great deal of work in that sentence.

Previous generations of American leadership had, by most accounts, a somewhat different set of things to be proud of.

George Marshall, who served as Secretary of State after World War Two, oversaw the reconstruction of an entire continent.

He didn’t do it because Europe asked nicely. He did it because he understood, with the particular clarity that comes from having watched the alternative, that democracies left to collapse tend to produce outcomes nobody enjoys.

Dwight Eisenhower, who had seen rather more of war than most people ever will, spent the rest of his life trying to prevent the next one through alliances, commitments and the steady accumulation of trust between nations.

These were not perfect men. But they grasped something that appears to have been entirely lost in the current administration – that American credibility is not a renewable resource.

You spend it once. You don’t get it back.

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and JD Vance have, between them, the collective historical memory of a particularly inattentive golden retriever.

They have confused loudness with strength, grievance with principle, and the act of abandoning allies with something they have inexplicably decided to call realism.

Vance flew to Budapest recently, had what was described as a warm meeting with Viktor Orbán, and returned apparently satisfied that something useful had occurred.

Vance flew to Budapest, embraced Orbán warmly, and flew home.
Three weeks later, Orbán lost the Hungarian election in the most decisive repudiation of his rule in twenty years.
The Midas touch, in reverse.

The men who planned the Normandy landings – who coordinated seventeen Allied nations, crossed the most heavily defended coastline in history, and did it in bad weather with inadequate maps – would have found the current American foreign policy apparatus quite difficult to explain to their grandchildren.

Proudest, he said.

There it is, I suppose.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

JD Vance just called Iran’s Strait of Hormuz tolls “economic terrorism against the entire world.”

Then said: “Two can play at that game.”
Read that again.

The Vice President of the United States just described America’s own blockade as playing the same game as economic terrorism.

He said it out loud.

On camera.

[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

⛔️⛔️WAKE UP AMERICA ⛔️⛔️

⛔️⛔️ A total disgrace to America - to who we are, to what we were. These clowns are a disgrace… We have the finest diplomats and scholars in the world and the deranged Trump send those 2 Bozos to represent our great nation ‼️‼️😡

⛔️Is that how to Make America Great Again...‼️ Bunch of losers and liars ‼️