We have a 3-day TACO plus a wide variety of disturbing Tweets to discuss.
Deal Allegedly Pending No Details
Truth Social: I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL! The great Keystone XL Pipeline, long ago killed by Sleepy Joe Biden, may be awoken from the grave! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Aug 18, 2026, 8:15 PM
Trump Pauses 50% Tariff On Some Canadian Products
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Pauses 50% Tariff On Some Canadian Products
President Trump said he would pause a 50% tariff on certain goods from Canada, as the two countries seek an agreement.
The new 50% tariff was set to cover $20 billion worth of Canadian goods—about 5% of Canada’s annual exports to the U.S.—ranging from hockey sticks and electronics to plastics and building materials.
The new tariffs, announced a month ago, would have risked escalation into a trade war between the North American neighbors. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who came to power last year by promising to stand up to Trump’s economic aggression, has said that Canada could retaliate. His country has been one of the few—along with China—to strike back at past U.S. levies with tariffs of its own
Thanks MAGA
A New Strategy
Trump’s Choice for the US Senate
“I’m just going to be honest here. I’m … not that informed on national security, so — but I do support the military.”
Well, I am going to give her an award for honesty. But sheesh, how hard was it to say yes?
Does Darlene Graham Even Know South Carolina?
More Republican Pedophiles
Republican Sex Trafficking
A Word About Communism
Remarkable Talent for Betrayal
Elon Musk Rigs Lottery
More ICE Gestapo Tactics
A 14-Year-Old Kid Fits the Description
Hello Melania Trump
Epstein sponsored Melania’s visa and then the Green Card as someone of exceptional abilities, the category that welcomed people like Albert Eistein in the past. She spent a decade supposedly modeling with exceptional abilities, yet she is not found in the pictures of modeling events, neither abroad nor stateside. Rather, there are widely publicized pictures of her performing soft porn. All while closely tied to Epstein. Then, she met Trump, while still married. Then, she bored him a son as a Green Card holder, an anchor baby. Just one more chapter in the life of the members of the Epstein Class.
Laws apply, only when people of influence and authority want them to apply.
Just as I suspected…
All this Trump tarriff nonsense on Canada was just a way to extort oil from them because the SPRs are running low.
Don’t forget to thank your favorite trump voter today!
The entire Republican Pedophile situation is out of hand. Worse is the protection they receive from the DOJ and local prosecutors that quietly steer their cases out of the courts and public eye.
Fox News was soooooo offended that Clinton got a consensual blowjob from an adult intern says nothing about the Epstein victims because Republicans like Trump were also involved.
“Justice For All”?
RICO Prosecution for all of the protection co-conspirators once the Senate and house are lost to the democrats?
Every republican is an pedo and/or protects pedos.
You can’t claim innocence anymore.
I dunno, the Biden Administration had The Files for four years and didn’t do jack with them.
He wasn’t impeached for the blowjob. He was impeached for lying about it which confirmed Slick Willy was essentially Donald Trump of the 90s.
Also not sure how consensual it was given the position of power he had. That imbalance in relationship power is verboten pretty much everywhere.
The real issue was never discussed, at least so far as I can remember. Clinton spoke to Ms Lewenski from the White House over an unsecured phone line that one must assume was being monitored by foreign intelligence services to include (at least) Russia, China and Israel. Clinton was providing all of them with ammunition for blackmail.
Watching the United States from afar, I am struck by a profound sense of unease. What unfolds there transcends mere political turbulence; it is the tragic, systemic unraveling of a society bartered away for a few cheap dollars. It is a spectacle of greed so absolute, it defies the limits of human imagination.
“When the US catches a cold, the world catches a fever”
With the US threatening so many of its allies and trading partners and gutting its leadership of ethical persons the entire survival of the human species is threatened.
Expect massive de-population events as AI takes over economic input, output and allocation of resources.
That was true when the US were an exporter and a financial center. Now they aren’t one and are quickly heading towards not being the other. The US will go down in their decadence and the world will be better off. That is, assuming that the US cease and desist from waging war WWIII: the US against the rest of the world.
It’s even worse watching it from within the US.Donald Trump has severe NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). People who hold high places have a responsibility to suppress the worst instincts of the dumbest and most depraved elements of society. Trump relishes in unleashing them.
The USA is following the well worn path (as described in many history books) from hard work to believing its own bullshit and the subsequent self destruction. Human nature is a bitch
Let us hope it resolves itself without too much more violence
If George Washington was correct in saying that “the last act of any government is to loot the treasury”, then the end seems nigh.
Oh, pal. They’ve been looting the Treasury for centuries. And our wallets, since installing a central bank in 1913.
True. But this seems to be metastasising. It is so in our faces. Used to have to hide it behind articulate competent crooks who faked sincerity and empathy. Obama. Elder Bush. FDR.
Thanks to whomever here mentioned that somewhere in the UK the word “trump” means “fart”.
At this point I feel like every sane and responsible American needs to admit that America should never be allowed to hold the kind of power it did before this again. This is beyond shameful in every single aspect of the word. We are a thug country, run by crooks and pedophiles, and drowning under corruption.
What the fuck happened to the nation we grew up in?
boomers happened. the start of boomers was the downfall of America. the end of boomers will be a new rise in America, hopefully for the better.
Well, we’re mostly all stupid hackable beasts. Herd animals bred to work and not question greater concentration of wealth and power into smaller hands, every few years, as though it’s the most natural thing in the world and not because oligarchs captured every industry and government.
Well, I feel like that about it too, at times. But perhaps you should do a bit of reading yourself before you make sweeping statements. I suggest starting (not finishing, mind) with Adam Smith.
I suggest you start *and finish* The Creature from Jekyll Island.
BINGO. WINNER. the greatest scam in our empire. i still chuckle when i pass the NYFED as i stroll around lower manhattan. the tour of the world’s gold storage on bedrock many floors below sea level was stunning.
Thanks for that. “The Creature from Jekyll Island” has been around for a long time. I’ve never actually read it, because I have had the impression that it was a rather emotional and melodramatic account. I accept that what happened was a fraud on the public.
And exactly HOW did they capture everything? I would submit that establishing a central bank in 1913 has had a lot to do with it.
I submit it was tax cuts, regulation cuts, off-shoring industry and conservative judges creating the Citizens United decision. The period of time in US history when the oligarchy was at its weakest was the 1950’s & ’60’s. Which is why we look back on those days as our golden age.
Speak for yourself, sheesh
Something we can agree on. Although I still don’t agree that people who collect Social Security are socialists.
A touch of optimism from MPO, regarding the youth in America?
You have my sincere gratitude:)
Spoiler Alert: It won’t.
The next generations will continue doing the same thing.
When you are poor you don’t understand why the rich won’t share their wealth. Once that poor person becomes rich they very rarely share with the poor.
Same goes for political power. When you aren’t in power its easy to suggest you’ll do better and won’t be taking bribes etc. But once in power it’s a whole different ballgame because precious few want to relinquish it.
There’s a reason that kids grow up to be their parents (ie kids who got beat/abused tend to beat/abuse their kids as the cycle continues).
I’ve said many times that many boomers are spoiled rotten and far brattier than Gen Z will ever be, but I don’t think the blame can be laid squarely on them. Reagan and his cronies helped kick this off and Americans as a whole have grown bitter and unkind.
Just look at all the cynical old men posting here. They refuse to believe better is possible so they’re content to lay in a soiled diaper until they finally croak. THAT is the issue, not their age, not their class, the fact that they are happy as a pig in shit to be a pig in shit.
I remember when boomers were the ones fighting on the street for blacks to have votes, gays to have rights, and a more equitable America the greatest generation couldn’t bear to imagine. What the hell happened to those boomers? The kind their grandkids wouldn’t grow up to hate as thieves?
Things were wrong a long time before Reagan. Don’t forget that the Federal Reserve was created very early in the twentieth century, payment in gold was suspended (permanently) on the outbreak of World War One, privately-owned gold was seized in the early 1930s, and President Lyndon Johnson greatly expanded “social security” to breed more Negroes and other inner-city undesirables in the mid-1960s. Dick Nixon always gets the blame for suspending international payment in gold (permanently) in about 1970, but he was just using his pragmatic judgement (he was a great pragmatist – Ayn Rand condemned him for that) on the best way, in the short term, to deal with the fact that the U.S.A. was insolvent.
If you want to be intellectually lazy, you can blame the baby boomers, but I blame the conmen rather than the ordinary people who were deceived by them. The conmen were people like FDR and Lord Keynes, who lied to the public.
Having said that, I do acknowledge that those people were living in a time of potential Communist takeover, and almost anything may have been excusable if it would stave that off. But then again, Communism is just applied Christianity, so the intellectual roots go back to the Emperor Constantine, who started off all this nonsense.
Trump did not fall from outer space. He is still a product of American education, American culture and American society.
But that is not even the bigger issue.
I think what many Americans fail to understand is that the problem is not Trump.
The issue is much much deeper and scarier.
Trump is not the problem, he is the symptom. Trump is the outcome of a highly dysfunctional republic, not the cause of it. Until that is grasped and understood, the USA will keep chasing its tail.
What makes a republic FUNCTIONAL is its ability to restrain any rogue branch of the government. That is the whole concept behind the structure of checks and balances.
That from time to time politicians trying to fuck everything up would show up is expected. That is the norm. That is why representative republics with multiple branches and checks and balances were created in the first place. That is the expected problem that the mechanism called republic was designed to address.
A shitty politician trying to make things worse is the expected scenario. The unexpected scenario are the republican institutions failing to stop him.
And the responsibility for the American republic and institutions no longer being functional ultimately lies with the American people.
The time for American society to act was back when politicians from both parties started the War on drugs, the Crime Bill, the impunity around the Iran-Contras scandal, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, the normalization of torture, the warrantless spying, the broad usage of civil asset forfeiture, the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses and without a formal declaration of war from Congress, the Wall Street bail outs and the impunity due to “too big to fail/too big to jail”, the prosecution of whistle blowers on warrantless spying and war crimes, the passing of the “Hague Invasion Act” to protect American war criminals…
Someone like Donald Trump is just where this road ultimately leads to.
A system is only as good as the people in it. And if you are looking for the guilty, you need only to look into a mirror.
It goes back further than that.
The time to act was when they passed the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment in 1913. And when they changed the Constitution to call for the popular election of Senators.
I could also argue it was when they effected a coup in the 1780s, replacing the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.
yup
BINGO WINNER. i’ve been telling my pals for decades, democracy works. always has. since ancient greeks and iroquois invented it. most modern amerikans are too vain and nihilist to admit this. so we get crumbling evil empire 101. enjoy the show.
This is unfair. The US contitution was designed to work to bring compromise between different factions of the economic elite. It was never meant to take into consideration the thoughts and needs of the common proles. Donald Trump is simply using all means necessary to discharge the nation’s resources in favor of the economic elite on the right instead of those on the left. But regardless, the economic elite on the left still favors Donald Trump over us proles actually having power over the nation’s resources. That’s why it appears to be a uniparty from our perspective.
“Trump did not fall from outer space. He is still a product of American education, American culture and American society.”
Trump was (barely) elected in 2016 over HRC, the much hyped Most Qualified Candidate In History.
Keep in mind that for most of the 99%, the GFC never ended. Not for the 1%. You can see the election of Trump as a roll of the dice, since establishment candidates and establishment policies had proven entirely self-serving, at the expense of everyone else.
Or one can see Trump as a upraised middle finger to the establishment. It helped that HRC, of course, is a sociopath who did not even bother to try to hide her disdain for normie Americans. Had she not taken WI, MI and PA for granted, she might well have won in 2016. Trump is also a sociopath, but he is better than HRC at faking empathy, or at least he tries to do so, sometimes.
n.b. I did not vote for Trump in 2016, in 2020, in 2024, and I have precisely zero present intent of voting for Trump in any future contest for any political office.
24/7 news for profit has revealed what America has always been. Polarized right/left political propaganda broadcast as news did most of the rest.
“At this point I feel like every sane and responsible American needs to admit that America should never be allowed to hold the kind of power it did before this again.”
Nobody should have such power. Power attracts sociopaths the way fresh summer dog shit attracts flies.
The Epstein Class, since Jefferson and his slave concubines.
Fat Randy Fine in that picture with Epstein protege Caruso committed a felony by going through a Florida resident’s mailbox. He’s not being prosecuted, though. He was caught on a Ring doorbell cam. It’s all over X.
Of course he’s not being prosecuted Silly! Consequnces are for the little people like us.
I live about 30 miles north of where Randy Fine lives (Melbourne Beach). He is the biggest scumbag in US political history.
When will this shit end???
A long way to go yet I think
After you and I are dead. Buckle in.
A way to 86 47 is 25.
I have no doubt that the Canada talks are going as well as the Iran talks.
No doubt the next phase is Trump talk of wiping out of the Canadian civilization..
Well, it IS Tuesday…
I doubt the Canadians will spend a dime getting sour crude to Trump’s America. 65% of our sour crude imports!
Much of their sour crude is already spoken for contractually.
Trump does not honor treaties or contracts. Canada should sell to the highest bidder and build more refineries and export facilities.
Imagine if Canada reciprocated with export fees of 50% on crude oil?
Unlike Trump, Carney is not a criminal or vindictive child, so there is one adult in the room in these negotiations.
Virtually impossible to build more refineries in Canada or export facilities.
Yes, some have been announced but already the special interests (mostly Indians) are moving to block those pipelines and terminals on the West Coast in BC. It’s likely it drags on for a VERY long time and I would not be surprised if nothing gets built for 10+ years.
Correct but it’s not because they don’t want to (many would love to sell more to the US). But rather because it will be blocked by special interests (mostly the Indians).
Right on que, TACO’s word is not worth the paper it is written on and he is playing for the fool he is by lesser countries.
It’s TACO Tuesday!