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Trump says he renamed Lake Ontario because: Lake Ontario is a “tremendous asset to the United States” and part of the nation’s heritage. Because the deepest parts of the lake are in U.S. territory, the United States “claims most of the Lake’s volume.” The lake has long been important to American exploration, settlement, commerce, and defense. It served as a critical artery for American trade, commerce, and military logistics. It was important to Fort Oswego, Sackets Harbor, shipbuilding, and naval operations during the War of 1812. It helped move goods, settlers, and industrial cargo between the American interior, eastern markets, and the Atlantic. Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway commerce generates substantial economic activity, American jobs, and business revenue. The system ...

John Roberts, despite his obvious concern for his legacy, will be remembered as one of the worst chief justices in American history, which is quite an achievement considering that he followed William Rehnquist. During his confirmation hearings, Roberts sold himself as a modest judge who respected stare decisis . He warned that overturning precedent delivered “a jolt to the legal system” and compared judges to umpires who merely call balls and strikes. Then he got the job. One of the clearest early demonstrations of the fraud was Citizens United . The case was heard twice. After the first argument, the Court could have resolved the narrow dispute before it. Instead, Roberts’s Court ordered the case reargued and specifically directed the parties to address whether major campaign-finance precedents should be overturned. The case was argued in March 2009, set for reargument in June, and heard again in September. The precedents were overturned. Apparently, a “jolt to the legal...

January 6 was a peaceful demonstration. That is what Donald Trump’s defenders, including members of Congress who were inside the Capitol while it was happening, now expect Americans to believe. If it was peaceful, why were they hiding? Why were doors barricaded with furniture? Why were lawmakers rushed from the chambers under armed guard? Why were some crouching behind seats while police officers drew their weapons? Why were others sheltering in secure rooms and calling for Trump to stop the mob? These people did not learn about January 6 from television commentators or partisan reports. They were there. They heard the windows breaking, watched the mob invade the building, and fled for their own safety. And they knew exactly what had happened. It was only years later, after Republican leadership and other bad-faith actors began rehabilitating January 6 and recasting the attack as a “peaceful demonstration,” that the rest of the party largely joined the bandwagon. Though t...

I’m so tired of Harry Enten treating poll numbers as though they were delivered from Mount Sinai in a golden chariot. He’s concerned almost entirely with the numbers, not what they represent, why they reflect what they reflect, or what forces shaped them in the first place. To him, the number is the meal . Context is just cauliflower pushed to the edge of the plate. And this isn’t new. He was just as excited about poll numbers before the 2024 election, when the spread was usually two points at most and often much smaller. Once you factored in the margin of error, half of what he was breathlessly analyzing wasn’t movement at all. It was statistical pink noise . There he stood in front of his magic wall, treating every tiny fluctuation inside the margin of error like democracy had just handed him a notarized confession. That’s the problem with so much political polling coverage. The number goes up. The number goes down. One candidate gains a point. Another loses two. Suddenly, we’r...

In May 2025, former FBI Director James Comey was vacationing on the North Carolina coast. During a walk along the beach, he came across seashells that someone had arranged to form a four-digit number. Comey photographed them and posted the picture on Instagram with the caption, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” Trump allies quickly manufactured an assassination threat out of the post. Comey removed the photograph, explaining that the violent interpretation had never occurred to him and that he opposed violence. Trump then personally endorsed that interpretation, insisting the number meant Comey wanted him assassinated. The administration subsequently turned that interpretation into a federal investigation and, eventually, an indictment. Donald Trump explained that “86” is a Mafia term meaning “kill.” To make the point, he asked, “You ever see the movies?” Well, yes. I have seen the movies. If Mafia movies are evidence, The Godfather is Exhibit A. It is by far the greate...

 If Trump is only joking about running again in 2028, then first and foremost, he needs to stop. For one thing, it is not funny. There is no wit in repeatedly hinting that you may violate the Constitution and then smirking while your supporters cheer. Second, it is unbecoming of the office of the President. The president is not a nightclub comic testing material on a friendly crowd. He has a duty to respect constitutional limits, not turn them into a running gag. Third, the joke is aimed mostly at stupid people. It is designed for people who either do not understand the Twenty-second Amendment or do not care what it says. They hear “Trump 2028,” laugh, applaud, and treat constitutional government as another prop in the show. Meanwhile, Trump preserves the usual escape hatch. If the crowd likes the idea, he keeps feeding it. If critics object, he says they cannot take a joke. But when asked about serving a third term, Trump did not simply toss off a funny line. He said there were “...

“From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” What in the hell is that supposed to be? There are just so many things wrong with it. First, you do not make war policy on Truth Social. War policy is supposed to emerge from intelligence assessments, military planning, legal review, diplomatic coordination, clearly defined objectives, and some serious consideration of what happens after the first bomb falls. There should be discussions about what the United States is trying to accomplish, what targets actually serve that objective, how Iran is likely to respond, how American forces and allies will be protected, how escalation will be controlled, and what conditions wou...

Over the weekend, I watched White House Down . In one scene, Air Force One is shot out of the sky. My immediate reaction, based on general knowledge and military training, was that the scene was Hollywood bullshit. Air Force One is not merely a large airplane with “United States of America” painted on the side. It is a national command platform protected by secure communications, defensive systems, military planning, and layers of procedures designed to keep the president alive and the government functioning during an attack. Then I remembered which Air Force One Donald Trump had been flying. Almost immediately, the movie scene stopped looking so ridiculous. The Trump administration did not build a new Air Force One in a year. It rushed a former Qatari royal aircraft into presidential service even though it lacked the full defensive capabilities of the older aircraft already available to the president. The press is now treating those missing system...

The Profession of Faith Was Optional Donald Trump began his presidential campaign unable or unwilling to say what religion he practiced. Asked directly, he answered, “I don’t know.” A few days later, he identified himself as Presbyterian. Then came the Bible questions. Trump called the Bible his favorite book, but when asked to name one or two favorite verses, he produced the theological equivalent of Sarah Palin’s “all of them.” He refused to name even one, insisting that his relationship with the Bible was too personal to discuss. Asked whether he preferred the Old Testament or the New Testament, he answered, “probably equal.” A little more than a month before the Bible interview, Trump had been asked whether he had ever sought God’s forgiveness. His answer was equally revealing: “I’m not sure I have.” He explained that when he did something wrong, he simply tried to make it right himself. “I don’t bring God into that picture,” he said. These...

Those who supported Donald Trump during his first administration can offer all the familiar excuses: party loyalty, conservatism, judges, taxes, abortion, etcetera, etcetera, blah blah blah, whatever else they prefer to cite. But January 6, 2021, was the dividing line. And January 6 did not begin on January 6. It began on election night, when Trump declared victory while millions of legally cast votes had yet to be counted. He announced that he wanted the voting stopped and said he would take the matter to the Supreme Court. The following morning, he made his demand even plainer: “STOP THE COUNT!” Halting the count at that moment would have left Trump ahead in several states where the remaining ballots were expected to favor Joe Biden. Perhaps, in Trump’s pea brain, Bush v. Gore had established that the Supreme Court could simply stop an election whenever the Republican happened to be ahead. It had not. The Court stopped a disputed recount in one state. But nuance has never b...

Why do members of Patriot Front hide their faces? Because they are cowards. I would call them pussies, but that would unfairly suggest they have ever been near one without a restraining order, a podcast microphone, or a twelve-part manosphere theory about why women, accountability, and direct sunlight are all part of the same conspiracy. You cannot claim to belong to a white supremacist movement, claim your race is superior, claim your intellect is superior, and then be too afraid to show your face in public. If you truly believe you are standing for something noble, powerful, or righteous, why hide behind masks? Why conceal your identity? Why march like some discount militia cosplay troupe and then scurry back into anonymity? If you are supposedly the superior race with the superior intellect, why are you marching around dressed like Lamont Cranston in a Cub Scout uniform mommy just ironed? Oh wait, are the masks an admission that even you know the pointy hoods are a brand...

After the Supreme Court reaffirmed birthright citizenship, Stephen Miller went on Jesse Watters’ show and tried to explain why that was supposedly wrong. His argument, if we are being generous enough to call it that, was this: “Look, Jesse, I can step tomorrow onto the deck of a 747. It does not mean that I am the pilot of that plane and I'm qualified to fly it. Just physically being on U.S. soil does not make you a citizen or qualified to carry on or capable of executing the inheritance of this country.” What in the non-sequitur fuck is he talking about? Does he think birthright citizenship comes with a pilot’s license? And that was only the opening salvo. Miller then spent nearly six minutes flooding the zone, spewing spittle, spite, and speculation. He talked about “deep knife wounds” to the republic, pregnancy-scam fantasies, “Third World nations” that allegedly never invented the wheel, babies growing up to vote for mayors and governors, welfare checks supposedl...

It was quietly announced in late May that Tulsi Gabbard would be stepping down as Director of National Intelligence . Almost immediately, Bill Pulte was named as Trump’s choice to take over in an acting capacity. That should have been its own scandal. When the position of DNI was created, the law said the person nominated for the job “shall have extensive national security expertise.” Pulte had almost none. But Trump does not care about that, because Trump’s singular qualification for any position is blind fealty to Trump. Not experience. Not judgment. Not competence. Not even a passing acquaintance with the job description. Loyalty. And because Republicans control the Senate, and Trump still holds most Republican senators by the short hairs, he had little reason to fear serious resistance. If he tells them a man with no intelligence background belongs atop the American intelligence community, most of them will nod, swallow hard, and pretend the law is more of a decorative su...

JD Vance appeared on The View , and during the appearance, attention turned to Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Vance said Trump “literally reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police.” Then he tried to make that sound even bigger, saying Trump “narc’d on him to the police” and claiming that Trump’s supposed report “led ultimately to Jeffrey Epstein’s down That is a gross misrepresentation of reality. “Narc’d on him to the police” is doing a whole lot of work; and apparently we are saying “narc’d” again. Vance is trying to turn Trump into some kind of heroic informant, as if Trump marched into a police station like Secret Squirrel, or maybe Morocco Mole, carrying a folder, a conscience, and a sudden concern for teenage girls. That is not what the record shows. What has been reported is that a former Palm Beach police chief later told the FBI that Trump called him in 2006, after the Epstein investigation was already moving and as Epstein’s first sex-crime charges were bec...

Okay, I hate to be writing about the same subject in less than two weeks, but Trump says vandals chemically damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Well, I did a little research, and I asked some friends of mine who are deep into the chemical world, very deep, what magical chemical could both induce algae growth and peel the newly painted surface off in chunks. The closest answer was trisodium phosphate : TSP, Na 3 PO 4 . It contains phosphate, which can feed algae, and, in concentrated form, it has been used in paint preparation. So I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations to figure out how much of this magical chemical you might need to create that kind of effect. The rebuilt Reflecting Pool holds about 4 million gallons of water. Since one gallon is about 3.785 liters, that means the pool contains roughly 15 million liters of water. Now, if our magical vandal chemical is, in fact, trisodium phosphate, hereafter known as TSP, we need enough of it not merely to f...