Tiktoker calls to storm the WH with a bunch of people and kiII Trump and staffers
Cc @FBI pic.twitter.com/KkQmcelKAd
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 23, 2026
WTF?
Author: Blazingcatfur
Trump says Canada wants ‘benefits’ of being US state after trade talks collapse
US President Donald Trump has said Canada wants “the benefits of being a State, without being one” after trade talks between the two countries collapsed late on Friday.
In his first comments since negotiations broke down, triggering new 50% US tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, Trump also said American farmers had been charged “massive amounts of Tariffs” for years.
It comes after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called the fresh tariffs a “miscalculation” designed to “hurt and divide us”.
Cuba claims it’s the new Gaza – everything is genocide now
The UN is outraged over events in Cuba. Not at the political repression by the Communist regime, the detention of over 1,200 political prisoners, the arrests of protesters, and the government-backed prostitution of children to foreign tourists, but at the U.S. sanctions which have kept foreign tourists from coming by to molest little kids and spend money in Cuba.
This guys travelogue is often interesting
How to Lose a Trade War
U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed last night. Punitive Trump tariffs will now go into effect. Canada will reciprocate with retaliatory tariffs of its own.
The story may not be over. Donald Trump is notorious for issuing threats, then reversing them. Wars are on, off, on again, off again, then on a third time—but only as a “little detour.” This is not an administration that thinks even one move ahead. But without a supersized Trump TACO, the U.S.-Canada impasse likely won’t resolve soon.
The Trump administration has one big idea about Canada: The U.S. is larger, stronger, and richer than Canada, so Canada must sooner or later surrender to Trump’s demands.
David Frum alert.
Europe in Free Fall
On February 14, 2026, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a laudatory speech about Europe and its legacy at the Munich Security Conference. He noted, however, that Europe is weakening. “We don’t want our allies to be weak,” he said.
His remarks initially were well received by the European political leaders and journalists in the room; not for long. Several journalists soon mentioned that, while Rubio appeared friendlier toward Europe than US Vice President J.D. Vance’s had been a year earlier, he was still “arrogant” in presuming that Europe needed advice on how to be stronger.
Canada ‘doesn’t have a military,’ Duffy says as cross-border trade war ignites
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy fired back at Canada on live television Sunday morning after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced “dollar-for-dollar” retaliatory tariffs in response to the new 50% U.S. tariffs.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Duffy said it was “foolish” for Canada to start a trade war with the United States, in part, because America’s northern neighbor “doesn’t have a military.” Canada does have a military, though it is much smaller than the U.S. military.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Canada:
Canada is a country that doesn't have a military.
To think that they're gonna go to war with Donald Trump and actually win that war with the US, I think it's foolish on their part.pic.twitter.com/sEYqmao6rh
— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 23, 2026
Ukraine: Zelenskyy rejects wartime elections
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that holding elections in his country amid the full-scale Russian invasion would be highly dangerous, in remarks made in response to a call from the former defense minister to organize a vote.
“I believe that in a war like this, elections as such are a huge risk. Elections right now are a tsunami for the country that will split Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in remarks released on Sunday.
Under martial law, elections are currently suspended in the country as it fights the invading Russian forces. The measure has wide public support.
Conservatives call on government to release U.S. trade offer details
OTTAWA — Federal conservatives are calling on the government to release the full details of the trade offer from the United States that Canada rejected this week.
In a letter to Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Canada-U.S. relations critic Shuvaloy Majumdar said while his party supports the government’s decision to reject the deal, Parliament is in the dark on what was on the table.
Majumdar said he’s not asking for “negotiating secrets,” but rather information that both the Canadian and U.S. governments already know.
Surely someone took notes? Or did the dog eat them.
AOC Is Unfit the Lead the Nation
Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
But AOC refuses to pay back her student loans, despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress. That’s a red flag that she’s fiscally irresponsible and holds taxpayers in utter disdain.
Her supporters claim her college loans make her relatable. One fan posts on X, “I need a president that’s still drowning in student loan debt with me.” Democratic activist David Hogg posts, “this is what happens when we elect normal people to Congress who have student debt and don’t engage in insider trading.”
I so much want AOC to run.
Mark Carney doesn’t stop the United States from driving negotiations over a cliff
After a week of manufactured drama and unnecessary strain, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged on Saturday morning to explain “why we’re walking away from a bad deal — and what comes next.”
“For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new, comprehensive trade deal,” Carney said. “We’ve been pragmatic, patient and persistent.”
Apparently that was not sufficient. In a statement released 20 minutes to midnight on Friday night, Carney said that “last-minute changes” in the terms proposed by American negotiators were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
Curious Carney play: He frames US demands for alignment on tariffs with third countries (steel, aluminum, derivatives) and any language restricting Canada’s ability to cut independent trade deals as a novel “power play” that tramples sovereignty—something “Canadians wouldn’t… pic.twitter.com/S4CLjLtslf
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 22, 2026
He is a ChiCom asset.
Bill Maher Admits Democrat Party Is Antisemitic
On Saturday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host said the quiet part out loud about his own party’s relationship with Judaism. The exchange came after CNN anchor Dana Bash raised the case of Texas Democrat James Talarico, whose outspoken “Christianity,” she noted, means he “wears his faith on his sleeve” in a way Talarico believes could help him politically. Maher wasn’t buying the idea that all faith gets an equally warm welcome in the Democrat Party.
FACT CHECKED: CNN’s Dana Bash looks uncomfortable as Bill Maher says the Democratic Party is fine with faith “as long as that faith isn’t Jewish.”
BASH: “James Talarico wears his faith on his sleeve in a way that he believes will help him.”
MAHER: “Well, in the Democratic… pic.twitter.com/OcpfF4DNHD
— Sergeant News Network (@sgtnewsnetwork) August 22, 2026
Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected
The United States had offered to reduce its tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos, and eliminate a recently imposed tariff on Canadian lumber, before negotiations suddenly collapsed last night, Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Saturday.
In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Greer detailed previously confidential and unreported elements of the U.S. trade offer to Canada, saying those measures would have given Canada the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.
Meghan’s Netflix acting role ‘in doubt’
The Duchess of Sussex’s acting role in Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series has been thrown into doubt, The Telegraph understands.
In an about turn less than 24 hours after the news was revealed, the Duchess’s role in the third series of The Gentlemen is reportedly uncertain following a public backlash.
Oh No!
Smith says Alberta could have a binding referendum on secession in early 2027
Alberta will hold a binding referendum on secession early next year if the results of October’s provincewide vote favour launching the process to separate from the rest of Canada, Premier Danielle Smith asserted during town halls this summer.
The Premier’s timeline allocates about 2.5 months for consultations with Indigenous people, a window she said aligns with what Canada pencilled in for discussions over a proposed bitumen pipeline to the west coast.
Russia sabotages weapons factories across Europe
Russia has launched a fresh wave of attacks on European armaments factories under the guise of plausible deniability, according to Western intelligence sources.
The Kremlin is recruiting local gang members to sabotage defence manufacturers to test Nato’s resolve.
The attacks appear carefully calculated to fall just short of triggering Article 5, Nato’s mutual defence clause, intelligence officials believe.