‘wake up, babe — Donny’s stupid trade war with Canada just got stupider.’
why, what happened?
‘when Canada didn’t immediately capitulate to his first round of tariffs, Donny worked himself into a Ginormous Mad, and slapped them with additional tariffs.’
so what did Canada do in response?
‘they cordially invited Donny to eat their entire ass.’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford: “I have a lot of real estate on my ass, so [Donny] has a lot of room to kiss my ass”
what the fuck, Doug? there are children present!
look, Doug Jones’ anger was well-earned. he was simply reacting to Donny’s earlier-that-day threat to cause TOTAL ECONOMIC OBLITERATION.
the tariffs didn’t work, so have some more tariffs. typical Donny. the tariffs will continue until morale improves.
so, let’s recap. Donny, acting first and thinking never, blundered into an unwinnable trade war with Canada, because he was too arrogant to understand he had no idea what he was doing. then, when he failed to achieve victory after the first day, he freaked the fucked out, and started throwing everything at the wall, hoping that something would stick.
if all this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Donny’s following the same lack-of-a-playbook that he used when he blundered into his unwinnable don’t-you-dare-call-it-a-war on Iran.
Donny clownfucked his way into a war with Iran because his piss-drunk Secretary of Death assured him it would be a cakewalk that would be over within hours.
god knows who’s been filling Donny’s ears with fairy tales about how trade wars are fun, and easy to win. he’s got no end of economic crackpots working for him. Jailbird Pete Navarro. Soybean Scott Bessent. Granny-Starvin’ Howard Lutnick. he’s even got White House Energy Vampire Colin Robinson Kevin Hassett.
any of those dumbfucks could have convinced Dear Leader that a trade war with Canada would be won and done in a day.
wait, what if it’s Diaper Nurse Natalie who’s been telling Donny how strong and manly a trade war with Canada would make him look? I wouldn’t at all be surprised if that turned out to be the case. she’s become his most-trusted advisor.
how fucking terrifying is that?
you know. I’m beginning to think it was a mistake to hand supreme executive power to a colicky piss-baby with no impulse control, who only listens to people who tell him what he wants to hear.
it’s a wonder that Donny managed to bankrupt only six casinos. imagine how many he could have bankrupted if he’d applied himself.
if Donny had any capacity to learn — if he had any self-awareness at all — he might say to himself, ‘gee, this is how I fucked shit up with Iran. maybe I should take a different approach with Canada.’
but then again, why should he?
this pampered, privileged dipshit’s entire life has been spent making the same stupid mistakes over and over and over, and forever failing upwards, until he finally fell ass-backwards into the United States presidency, where he’s continued to fail without consequence.
it’s fucking maddening.
anyone who knows anything at all about economics knows that Donny is going to lose this trade war.
oh, did you think I meant me? oh fuck no, I’m just some loudmouth on the internet. I don’t know dick about no economics shit.
I’m talking about Paul Krugman. homey’s got a Nobel Prize in Economics — so when he talks, we should listen.
So, does Trump have any chance of winning his trade war with Canada?
The truth is that it’s hard even to figure out what a Trump win would mean in this context. Would it mean Canada agreeing to become the 51st state? That’s not going to happen.
Would it mean, as Carney suggested in his remarks after the talks broke down, Canada giving up on its promotion of French as a co-equal language with English? That also won’t happen.
Or would it mean Canada making enough concessions that Trump can at least claim victory? That’s also tricky, because until Trump went on the attack Canada wasn’t doing anything wrong. So it can’t promise to end its unfair policies when there basically weren’t any such policies.
The bottom line is that Trump is going to lose his trade war with Canada as thoroughly as he has lost his shooting war with Iran. But because he won’t face reality, trade with our northern neighbor will probably be disrupted until the narcissistic bully in the White House no longer controls trade policy.
hey, you know who agrees with Dr. Krugman? the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, of all people.
Mr. Carney said Saturday that a major reason the deal blew up is that the Trump team refused to ease tariffs on heavy and medium duty trucks, including those made at Ford’s plant in Ontario. Why is Mr. Trump punishing Ford, America’s largest auto producer?
Mr. Trump’s latest round of border taxes will hit an array of consumer goods, construction materials and manufacturing components. Republicans are already getting pounded on the campaign trail over his tariffs and inflation. One reason for Mr. Trump’s frigid approval rating is that voters believe Mr. Trump is waging blunderbuss wars without a strategy, and on trade they’re right.
look at that. you’ve got Paul Krugman on the left and the Wall Street Journal on the right, both making the same points.
who says Preznit Fuckwit isn’t a uniter?
meanwhile, Donny’s managed to piss off Canada.
think about that — Canada. the nicest, dearest, sweetest people on the planet. they’re so fucking polite. Canadians will apologize at the drop of a hat. Canadians will apologize if they drop their hat.
well, all that’s out the window, thanks to Dear Leader. bye-bye, ‘sorry.’ hello, ‘kiss my ass.’ Canada’s going to find themselves some new trading partners, and figure out a way to get along just fine without us.
ace job, shit-for-brains. you did that!
let’s move on to our Daily Dose of Dumbfuck.
we all knew that actor Kelsey Grammer was an out-of-touch shit-kazoo — but who knew he was this big an out-of-touch shit-kazoo?
“we’ve have had Social Security forever. it’s always out of money. and that’s the greatest socialist program we have in our country. nobody wants to lose it. it doesn’t work right. we have sixty-two thousand Social Security Administration employees. why? why wouldn’t we allow people just invest 12% of their income themselves, and retire off of it? they’d all be millionaires.”
hey, if people don’t want to be poor, why don’t they just become millionaires? my god, Kelsey Grammer has solved money.
what a fucking idiot. all the stupid shit that just rocketed out of Grammer’s mouth is easily batted down with ten seconds of critical thinking.
we don’t let people fend for themselves, without a safety net, because shit happens. people get sick. they lose their jobs. they’re forced to dip into their savings, should they be lucky enough to have any savings in the first place.
Kelsey Grammer wants to take us back to the early 1930s, before Social Security was implemented, when folks had the ‘freedom’ to make all their own economic decisions, without any meddlesome government interference.
spoiler alert: everybody didn’t become millionaires. people fucking died in the street, broke and penniless.
oh, and there are forty-nine thousand SSA employees (not sixty-two thousand) because that’s how many it takes to service the 75,000,000 Americans who currently receive benefits. that’s how many people it takes to answer that many phone calls and process that much paperwork 365 days a year.
math, how does it work?
Kelsey Grammer is worth eighty million dollars. if Social Security ended tomorrow, he wouldn’t even notice. he’s as out-of-touch as that granny-starving plutocrat, Howard Lutnick, who actually said that people shouldn’t complain if their SS checks don’t arrive.
hey, what that thing that Fox News fuckfaces love to say, whenever some actor or athlete espouses progressive values?
oh that’s right: stay in your fucking lane, Kelsey.
I think it’s high time for a little Daily Claudia, don’t you?
Ms Spouse’s bff Kathy texted over a couple of photos last night. she took this one of us at the Dobbs Ferry restaurant Half Moon, on January 24, 2025.
and here are some friends and neighbors helping us celebrate our 39th wedding anniversary on September 2, 2023. left to right, that’s Kathy, yours truly, Ms Spouse, Darrell, Diana and Julia.
have a great Tuesday, everyone. remember to tell Donny only what he wants to hear.
here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit:
"Two people in Pennsylvania have died from measles"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/health/measles-deaths-pennsylvania
the last time anyone in PA died from the measles was 35 years ago.
ace job, Bobby Brainworms. take a victory lap.
by the way, I chose not to write about the Supreme Court decisions allowing Donny to screw with mail-in voting, because people smarter than I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as it sounds.
I'm talking about Jay Kuo: https://www.facebook.com/nycjayjay/posts/pfbid02eg8pC9QkMNDqMuwR9o6TmJzdZqfccuX49MBE1zkFjCTjWXZFRKs3GGfExzmHJX21l
and Norm Eisen: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdfhzkjavqo5ifiofn4uafrb/post/3mtuci74zns27