I knew it. The only way to do this is to be methodical & surgical, & Trump's starting with a basic commodity. Unless you're a Komodo dragon, don't try downing the salami all at once. You cut it up into bite-sized chunks. I suspect Trump has assurances U.S. suppliers can & will address any shortfall immediately or shortly. If his game plan involves tariffs, he will start basic, consolidate, then move up the line to more complicated items with multi-national cross-border inputs. Wash, rinse, repeat. 🇺🇸

@TWilsonOttawa Kudos to both coaches. It doesn't feel good to get whipped 10-0. Maybe next time they'll dig deeper. Good life lesson. Kids these days need more like it. You also can't excel at something unless you engage with people who are better than you. 🇨🇦⚽️

@MarioNawfal They're trying the same with AI. They want AI to ask for & respect pronouns, operate within the parameters of "settled science" on the "climate emergency," & which says the clot shot saved millions during COVID. Wherever this ideology came from it isn't American. 🇺🇸🤖

@karol These abuses DOGE is sharing are flipping a lot of moderate Democrats into the Trump camp. They're ashamed of how they voted in 2020. It makes sense now why they wouldn't prosecute theft, shoplifting & looting: Democrats were doing it too & they were trying to normalize it. 🇺🇸💰

That's been happening periodically for decades. The U.S. has a long history of plowing under production or allowing productive fields to lie fallow so farming can produce a living wage. Food is not like other commodities. We need food & we need a guaranteed supply of it. Budgeting for a guaranteed surplus is how you avoid chronic shortages. You get chronic shortages & unaffordable prices when farmers can't meet their production costs & stop what they're doing. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🐄🧀🥛🧈

@CurmudgeonTired A whole day will be wasted trying to figure out how to force AI to respect pronouns. 🇫🇷🇨🇦🤖💃

@Chesschick01 Overturned on appeal 3x & you're out. That's how you get a court that respects the Constitution. There would be a lot less litigation in America if every other judge wasn't a liberal wildcard. 🇺🇸 👨‍⚖️

The Superbowl half-time show became a thing when networks noticed viewers were straying during the nothing-happening recess between the second & third quarters. If, by chance, a team was up by two touchdowns at the half, it’s easy to conclude they’ve made their point & maybe there are better things to do than watch a second-half replay of the first. On the other hand, a glitzy pop cultural spectacle gets the kids through the long drive across Kansas before things get interesting again. My cracker ass doesn’t listen to rap music & I’ve never understood its appeal. But the name “Kendrick Lamar” is in the ether & I’ve heard his name a dozen times in recent months without a clue about the hype & what he’s done to earn it. “Not Like Us” is apparently the anthem de jour & we’re assured we’ll hear it during tonight’s half-time show. Word in the hood is that Kendrick is feuding with Canadian rapper Drake & “Not Like Us” is his take-down. I gave the song a whirl & I was surprised to hear that people are trying again to make atonal, rhythm-free music work. This was an avant-garde conceit that came & went in the early 20th C. It threatened to do to music what free verse did to poetry but thankfully everyone realized it was a dead end, just like the idea of calorie-free pasta is a dead end. I could go on about the profane, libelous subject matter of Not Like Us & whether the biggest spectacle in television is a fit showcase for it. But I wonder if the larger issue is pop-culture attention junkies fabricating conflicts as a means of manufacturing interest in what they’re doing. I really couldn’t care less what Kendrick & Drake have going or whether they get along or not. If I should care, enlighten me. I thought the same last week when an article appeared in my feed regarding Elton John having a meltdown in the studio while working on a duet with some singer I’ve never heard of. John reportedly buckled under the pressure of a hectic schedule & was crankier than usual. Fine. Sounds like the big baby needs a nap. Check his diaper while you’re at it. He’s 77 for god’s sake. But a seed has been planted: What is this mysterious music that nearly broke Elton John & where can I hear it? The media hype machine strikes again. This is how pro wrestling used to hype cage matches & smackdowns for the belt between bouts on TV in the time of Gorgeous George & Whipper Watson. It was laughable then & remains laughable today, except it’s become mainstream Madison Avenue marketing. Maybe the critics are right: Maybe we are getting dumber. If there has to be a half-time show, it’s appropriate at this moment that it feature 20 minutes of atonal, arhythmic sounds that are vaguely menacing in a disturbing sort of way. This is the twilight of the Biden years & they were – if anything – weird when not downright ugly & perverse. I’m not sure a rapper swearing at Americans & venting his spleen about a rival will have the audience- retention power the half-time architects envision. But I will suggest a crowd-pleasing alternative that would keep Americans engaged for a full 20 minutes regardless of the score, one in keeping with the light-hearted fun of tossing around a pigskin & trying to run it into the house. Bluegrass is 100% made-in-America feel-good music & -- like polka tunes – cannot fail to make you smile & tap your toe. Think of it: Three instrumental classics by the Grand Old Opry’s very best house musicians: Foggy Mountain Breakdown, The Orange Blossom Special & Dueling Banjos, followed by an old hand like George Strait performing Ring of Fire & closing with Ghost Riders in the Sky. Hell, I bet that would get football fans off the couch & working off some beer muscle with the missus with an impromptu square dance on the living room floor. It’s a new day in America. The skies are literally clearing & I predict – in one year’s time – football fans everywhere will be ready to do a little endzone jig of their own. 🇺🇸🏈🪕🎻

Notice that the intensity of hatred toward the West is directly proportional to how much we spend on foreign aid. We literally spend money to make people despise us. Not hard to understand why: It's easy to persuade ignorant people in shit-hole countries that we have ulterior motives; that we're messing with their internal affairs. Frankly, I don't want degenerate lefties intruding on primitive cultures & suggesting, on my behalf, that their kids should have the option of "gender-affirming care" if they want it. That makes me, my family & my friends unsafe when they travel abroad. 🇺🇸🥷💃

@Northerngold01 I look forward to Carney's articulate defence of what Trudeau did to our country. 🇨🇦

@DefiyantlyFree They all have that vibe, don't they? Not hard picturing this guy in a beret at a cafe on the Left Bank, half smashed on cheap wine & chain-smoking Gauloises, arguing loudly that Mao was a greater humanitarian than Stalin but not in the same league as Castro. 🇺🇸👨‍⚖️ 🍷🍾

@DoryBeutel @BasedMikeLee What's he doing? The Supreme Court recently stripped unelected bureaucrats of their ability to act independently of elected officials with the Chevron decision. He has to know this so why is he wasting everyone's time? Sounds like a one-man insurrection. 🇺🇸👨‍⚖️

@SrvG_d The New Deal was a flop. Nothing FDR did really made a difference other than demonstrating to distressed Americans that he was trying. Full mobilization to meet the demands of total war in WWII provided the shock therapy America needed to pull it out of the Great Depression. 🇺🇸

@stellaaaaaax @elonmusk Why is everybody losing their stuff? There were two major restructurings of the executive in the 20th C. -- one under Teddy Roosevelt & one under Truman post WWII. DOGE will also bring techno-peasant bureaucrats up to speed with the latest computers & management programs. 🇺🇸 🤖

McKinley lived in a much simpler time. He didn't have to untangle this giant plate of spaghetti known as the global economy with its infinite number & variety of micro-integrations. Not saying it can't be done but Trump should move patiently & surgically sector by sector & not bite off more than America can chew. 🇺🇸

The trick is to use this "financial leverage" without damaging your own people. I don't know how Trump does this. Maybe the American economy emerges stronger in the long run but there will be disruption & a lengthy period of adjustment that Trump couldn't endure without angering his base. 🇺🇸

LOL. The Liberal Party of Canada has had 10 years to fix this yet here we are. We just had a public inquiry whitewash into foreign interference & we're back at Square 1 with Carney & the Liberal leadership race. Liberals are demonstrating in real time that they are incapable of protecting our sovereignty & the integrity of our political institutions. If I were this incompetent I'd be too embarrassed to ask for anyone's vote. 🇨🇦

Trump is bluffing on tariffs. He can't impose them on Canada & Mexico without tanking the stock market while igniting another round of hyper-inflation. Remember: He's supposed to Make America Great Again. Crashing the stock market while destroying consumer buying power is a page out of the Great Reset globalist playbook. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽♠️♣️♥️♦️🃏

@wikileaks Why would a gov't agency need a "captive subsidiary" in Cayman Islands? 🇺🇸🤔🤨💰

@BGatesIsaPyscho This is the only water Gov. Newsom is retaining these days. 🇺🇸