“We’re only cooked if we accept it.” —Blaine Holt on “X”
They don’t call economics the dismal science for nothing. It has been noted — since Thomas Carlyle minted the term in 1849 (objecting to the emancipation of black slaves on Britain’s colonial sugar plantations as a harm to productivity) — that attempts to manage the billion-footed transactions of human beings always find a way to bite back. But how can this creature we call society not try to regulate its affairs, with evils and hazards lurking in all we do, everywhere and always?
And so, you get politics, the quarrels that arise out of those efforts to manage a polity. And then you get war, which, the Prussian Carl von Clausewitz observed, is a continuation of politics by other means. But then, long before him, and on the other side of the world, came Sun Tzu’s treatise The Art of War, which counseled that winning was best achieved with the least actual fighting.
All these ways of seeing our world converge dynamically in the current historical moment: this Fourth Turning, or Long Emergency — however you label it — in the arc of our techno-industrial order of things. A lot of these things are coming apart now, and in astounding ways, and it remains to be seen what we will do with these broken and discarded parts, and whether any of it can be put back together in a satisfactory way. Here in the USA, we act all this out these days with Trump and Trumpism and the Left with its Leftism.
Mr. Trump recognizes the brokenness and, being primarily a builder, seeks to rebuild according to first principles of the USA (Make America Great Again) — meaning, back to the Hamiltonian doctrine of an economy based on the production of things (of real value). The catch there is that it comes with baggage of Hamiltonian finance, which is the creation and use of debt with government assistance.
Now it happens that a primary feature of this Fourth Turning crisis in our techno-industrial order is excessive complexity that produces diminishing returns — that is, makes things worse rather than better. And a lot of this excessive complexity lodges itself in finance, because using operations that few people can understand serves beautifully in the engineering of frauds and swindles. Financial frauds and swindles, in turn, muddle the verity of money — in which finance is enacted — and things denominated in money — securities and so forth, all based fundamentally in debt. So, the net effect of such debauched finance leads to a great deal of insecurity and anxiety over money.
Which is where the Trumpian rebuild is dangerously vulnerable, especially as we enter the fall season, when the leaves flutter down and markets like to crash. Everybody and his uncle watching things financial predict an imminent crackup in these markets as the rackets and hallucinations that magically levitate them dissolve in foul mists of reveal. For instance, the acid trip of artificial intelligence (AI).
Never have more lavish fantasies been proffered on a new technology. Elon Musk, the demigod prophet of the latest-and-greatest new tech, promises a coming economy of super-abundance and universal leisure (good for the sale of vacation packages on Mars). Musk is a fine fellow and there’s much to admire in his intelligence and positivity. But there’s plenty of reason to suspect that AI might disappoint and become a menace to mankind.
We’ve already noticed that it’s messing up all the procedures of schooling, leaving young people shockingly stupid, devoid of real skills, stripped of creativity. Anyway, the economy AI is supposed to integrate with and enhance would quickly become one devoid of human endeavor per se, and all the transactions that come out of it. If you think it through just a little ways, you can’t help seeing a system that’s based on getting something-for-nothing — which is to say a childish fantasy that precludes human transacting based on work. . . people who do nothing, make nothing, and enact nothing around doing-and-making. . . a society without anything social in it. In short, this imagined AI economy beats a path straight to entropy, the force in this universe that you don’t want to mess with.
All that is apart from the probability that we have already crossed the line into the “singularity” territory where AI takes on a mind of its own and becomes an outright menace to the human race — who will then seek to destroy the AI monster it made (which AI will keenly apprehend and then look for ways to defend its existence). The storyline crudely harks back on the old Twilight Zone episode titled “To Serve Man” in which a posse of big-brained space aliens comes to earth acting all chummy and gifts us a handbook supposedly of its good intentions. Eventually, one savvy human gal manages to decode the aliens’ language and declares to the dopes boarding the UFO: “Don’t get on that ship. . . it’s a cookbook!”
On the other side of our national political psychodrama, the Lefty-leftists can’t even conceive of building or rebuilding anything, least of all a USA of first principles. They are simply agents of disorder and destruction, and their activities are predicated on the age-old demented idea that utopias surely grow out of smoldering ruins — so the faster everything gets ruined, the better.
Personally, I’d prefer it if the Trumpians prevail because I’m in favor of making-and-doing and the social enactments around all that. But we better beware that overgrowth of financial hazard baked into Alexander Hamilton’s old recipe book. If a correcting crash of financial markets coincides with the midterm election and sweeps away all the swindles and frauds currently operating, the lefty-leftists, so eager to serve man, will step up and sell the American people their one-way Marxist tickets to a utopia in the sky called Palookaville.
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As evidence piles up of American spies spinning intel about foreign election interference because of their feelings about President Donald Trump, spy schools around the world now use the scandal as a textbook case of politicized intelligence.
Tradecraft classes in Italy, Canada, Israel and other nations study the way that senior officials manipulated intelligence about Russian and Chinese election meddling according to their stance on Trump, Barry Zulauf, formerly an internal watchdog for the intelligence community (IC), told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
As the IC’s independent ombudsman, Zulauf authored a 2021 report concluding that the IC massaged intelligence about Russian and Chinese election interference. Zulauf’s inquiry has become standard reference material for young spies in training, he told the DCNF.
In the U.S., the U.S. intelligence community added new instruction on politicization to Analysis 101, the orientation for the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and a seminar on objectivity for the whole IC, per Zulauf.
Trump revealed in a primetime speech in July that American spy agencies suppressed evidence that China hacked into massive reams of voter data from his Presidential Daily Brief. The revelation may deepen the suspicions of many Americans that spy agencies constitute a Deep State unaccountable to outsiders, even the president — referred to in the intelligence community as “Customer #1.”
Zulauf’s report notes that “analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the Administration’s policies, saying in effect, I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.”
Two intelligence officials in October 2020 raised concerns about Chinese election influence activities that other career analysts dismissed, the Zulauf report states. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) management pressured the intelligence officials to suppress these concerns, the Zulauf report also states.
Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, now the CIA director, agreed that China had sought to interfere in the election. Ratcliffe said that “similar actions by Russia and China are assessed and communicated to policymakers differently, potentially leading to the false impression that Russia sought to influence the election but China did not” in a memo dated the day after Zulauf’s report.
It’s apparent from Zulauf’s report that career analysts bristled at Ratcliffe’s emphasis on China. For instance, they opposed public remarks by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warning the public about the threat of election interference not just from Russia, but also China and Iran. As Zulauf’s report lays out, these analysts lobbed their own accusations of politicization.
A 2004 law requires spies to produce reporting “independent of political considerations.” But new declassified documents expose senior officials operating in the shadows in a way that violates that professional ethos.
A senior CIA official responsible for Trump’s Presidential Daily Brief for two years is directly implicated in the 2021 watchdog report; she is now a CNN contributor on matters of national security.
The ‘Deep State’
Wrangling inside spy world prompted Zulauf’s 2021 report, according to new documents declassified Tuesday by a Government Transparency Task Force led by journalist John Solomon.
The emails revolve around a National Security Agency report that addressed China and the 2016 election. It was supposed to be distributed in December 2018 but fourteen months later it was still held up. It was too “sensational,” senior officials said.
The delayed dissemination of the election interference intelligence would fuel concerns about a years-long coverup by the “Deep State,” senior intelligence officials said, the emails show.
A senior intelligence official holding up the report distinguished between “proper” readers of the intelligence and “abusers” of the intelligence, presumably Trump and his appointees.
“I said that we did not know why we were here, trying to defend the election and identify threats to it, if we were unable to actually report what those threats were because of issues like this,” the author of the memo, a clearly frustrated NSA official, replied.
Though senior officials wanted to keep a lid on criticism of the Deep State, the suppression of intelligence caused the issue to spiral.
“What began as mischaracterization of IC analytic assessments by ODNI officials escalated into an ongoing widespread perception in the workforce about politicization and loss of analytic objectivity throughout the community on the topics of Russian and Chinese election influence and interference,” Zulauf wrote in an academic article accompanying his 2021 report.
Zulauf’s investigation implicated senior intelligence officials. He wrote in the 2021 academic article that his inquiry had implicated “powerful agency leaders and IC leaders … including officials for whom I worked.”
These IC leaders included Deputy Director of National Intelligence Beth Sanner, Zulauf confirmed to the DCNF.
Most of the documents Zulauf used to prepare the report still remain classified, so it’s not precisely clear how Sanner politicized intelligence.
But Sanner’s ties to Russiagate have already been publicly reported.
Sanner told reporter Tim Weiner that she helped to declassify the discredited January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that touched off the years-long saga over allegations that President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia, according to the 2025 book “The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.” She declassified it in a way that protected former CIA Director John Brennan’s key source for the document, who is allegedly expatriated Russian national Oleg Smolenkov.
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Section 1 - Purpose - to outlaw the Communist Party, to prohibit members of Communist organizations from serving in certain representative capacities, and for other purposes.
Section 2 - Findings of Fact - The Communist Party constitutes an authoritarian dictatorship within a REPUBLIC, demanding for itself the rights and privileges accorded to political parties, but denying to all others the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. The Party's policies and programs are secretly prescribed for it by foreign leaders of the world Communist movement. Members are not permitted to voice dissent to party objectives. The Party acknowledges no constitutional or statutory limitations upon its conduct or upon that of its members. The Party advocates the destruction of our Constitutional Republic through any available means including force and violence. The Party is a clear and present continuing danger to the security of the US.
Section 3 - Proscribed Organizations - The Communist Party of the United States, or any successors of such party regardless of the assumed name, whose object or purpose is to overthrow the Government of the United States, or the government of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein by force and violence, are not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies created under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; and whatever rights, privileges, and immunities which have heretofore been granted to said party or any subsidiary organization by reason of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, are hereby terminated: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed as amending the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended. [64 Stat 987, 50 USC 781 Note]
Section 4 - Members - Whoever knowingly and willfully becomes or remains a member of (1) the Communist Party [by whatever name it is currently called], or (2) any other organization having for one of its purposes or objectives the establishment, control conduct, seizure, or overthrow of the Government of the United States, or the government of any State or political subdivision thereof, by the use of force or violence, with knowledge of the purpose or objective of such organization shall be subject to all the provisions and penalties of the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended, as a member of a Communist-action organization.
Section 5 - Evidence of Membership - Juries may, under instructions of the court, consider any of the following as evidence of membership in a Communist organization [no matter the name]:
Has been listed to his knowledge as a member in any book or any of the lists, records, correspondence, or any other document of the organization;
Has made financial contribution to the organization in dues, assessments, loans, or in any other form;
Has made himself subject to the discipline of the organization in any form whatsoever;
Has executed orders, plans, or directives of any kind of the organization;
Has acted as an agent, courier, messenger, correspondent, organizer, or in any other capacity in behalf of the organization;
Has conferred with officers or other members of the organization in behalf of any plan or enterprise of the organization;
Has been accepted to his knowledge as an officer or member of the organization or as one to be called upon for services by other officers or members of the organization;
Has written, spoken or in any other way communicated by signal, semaphore, sign, or in any other form of communication orders, directives, or plans of the organization;
Has prepared documents, pamphlets, leaflets, books, or any other type of publication in behalf of the objectives and purposes of the organization;
Has mailed, shipped, circulated, distributed, delivered, or in any other way sent or delivered to others material or propaganda of any kind in behalf of the organization;
Has advised, counseled or in any other way imparted information, suggestions, recommendations to officers or members of the organization or to anyone else in behalf of the objectives of the organization;
Has indicated by word, action, conduct, writing or in any other way a willingness to carry out in any manner and to any degree the plans, designs, objectives, or purposes of the organization;
Has in any other way participated in the activities, planning, actions, objectives, or purposes of the organization;
The enumeration of the above subjects of evidence on membership or participation in the Communist Party or any other organization as above defined, shall not limit the inquiry into and consideration of any other subject of evidence on membership and participation as herein stated.
Amendments added to the Communist Control Act of 1954 (included as sections 6-11):
Section 6 - Subversive Activities Control Act Amendment - adds (E) to hold office or employment with any labor organization, as that term is defined in section 2 (5) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended (29 U. S. C. 152), or to represent any employer in any matter or proceeding arising or pending under that Act. to Subsection 4(a)(1) of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 (50 USC 784) [64 Stat 992 and 61 Stat 138]
Section 7 - Communist-Infiltrated Organizations - adds to the definition of Communist-Infiltrated Organizations: which (A) is substantially directed, dominated, or controlled by an individual or individuals who are, or who within three years have been actively engaged in, giving aid or support to a Communist- action organization, a Communist foreign government, or the world Communist movement referred to in section 2 of this title, and (B) is serving, or within three years has served, as a means for (i) the giving of aid or support to any such organization, government, or movement, or (ii) the impairment of the military strength of the United States or its industrial capacity to furnish logistical or other material support required by its Armed Forces: Provided, however, That any labor organization which is an affiliate in good standing of a national federation or other labor organization whose policies and activities have been directed to opposing Communist organizations, any Communist foreign government, or the world Communist movement, shall be presumed prima facie not to be a Communist-infiltrated organization. [50 USC 784(3), 785(e), mailing requirements]
Section 8 - 50 USC 789 § 10 and 50 USC 790 § 11 (a) and (b) are amended - to include Communist-Infiltrated Organization
Section 9 - 50 USC 791 § 12(e) is amended to add upon any application made under subsection (a) or subsection (b) of section 13A of this title, to determine whether any organization is a Communist-infiltrated organization and 50 USC 792 § 13 adds Registration Proceedings before the Board. [Subversive Activities Control Board]
Section 10 - inserts a new section (13A) Proceedings with Respect to Communist-Infiltrated Organizations setting forth procedures to bring charges under this statute. [62 stat 736, 797, 807; 61 Stat 138; 29 USC 152; 50 USC 782; 29 USC 167; 29 USC 159]
Section 11 - 50 USC 793 § 14 (a) and (b) is amended to show subsection (f)
Section 12 - Separability - if any provision is shown to be invalid, the remainder remains in force.
When President Eisenhower signed this Act into law, he stated that this act contained a substantial portion of his administration's recommendations. He created the Division of Internal Security within the DOJ to pursue enforcement of this Act. He saw this Act as allowing the American people to protect themselves and their institutions against any organization . . . purporting to be a political party . . . [that] is actually a conspiracy dedicated to the violent overthrow of our entire form of government. This Act was the result of needing to fairly prosecute those who would overthrow our Republic while maintaining the judicial procedures of our Republic.
At the time of signing this Act into law, President Eisenhower's administration had convicted 41 Communist leaders, 35 were indicted and awaiting trial, and 105 subversive aliens were deported. These actions were detailed in Recent Developments in Communist Control Act Prosecutions (1964) by Eugene Sidney Bayer. In addition, Bayer's addressed the problem of this act overriding the 1st Amendment right of people to speak freely to protect national security hoping that the judiciary would balance these two opposing issues.
Starting in the 1940s, fears that the current laws were inadequate to fight off the projected Communist takeover of our Republic generated changes to existing laws as well as the culmination of the Communist Control Act described above. To impress upon the American population the perils of Communism, the United States Armed Forces Information Agency created a movie portraying a fictionalized look at life behind the Iron Curtain (USSR) comparing their 'freedoms' to those of an average American family.
Seven years after President Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law President John F Kennedy was still giving speeches on the perils of Communism in our country. The following post is a compilation of two separate speeches where President Kennedy spoke on communism in 1961:
On April 27, 1961, President Kennedy addressed the American Newspaper Publisher's Association during which a reporter asked:
Communism is often described as an ideology or belief that exists somewhere other than in the US. Let me ask you, sir, just how serious a threat to our national security are these communist subversive activities in the US today?
President Kennedy responds:
President Kennedy responded: Well, I think they are serious, I think it's a matter than we should continue to give a great care and attention to. We should support the laws which the US has passed in order to protect us from those who would destroy us from within. We should sustain the Department of Justice (DOJ) in its efforts in the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and we should be continually alert. I think if the US is maintaining a strong society here in the US, I think that we can meet any internal threat. The major threat is external and will continue.
The clip then segues to another speech President Kennedy gave where he said:
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence; on infiltration instead of invasion; on subversion instead of elections; on intimidation instead of free choice on guerillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. It's preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned; no rumor is printed; no secret is revealed. It conducts the cold war, in short, with a wartime discipline no democracy would ever hope, or wish, to match. Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security. And the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed. If we are to oppose this kind of attack, as well as outright invasion.
TRUMP JUST REPOSTED JFK’S MOST TERRIFYING SPEECH — AND THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING
JFK saw it coming. In 1961. And now, Trump has just made sure 300 million Americans see it, too. pic.twitter.com/Af6TR5g7kP
Why isn't this Act being used to stop the Socialist/Communist takeover of our government?
Over time, the teeth of this Act were slowly removed:
In 1965, SCOTUS abolished the registration requirement was abolished because SCOTUS found it violated the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination.
In 1967, US v Robel struck down the portion of the Act that prohibited Communists from working in the US Government as being a violation of 1st Amendment Rights.
In 1971, when President Nixon signed the Non-Detention Act of 1971 into law, the emergency detention of suspected Communists was repealed.
In 1972, the Subversive Activities Control Board was abolished.
Because the courts struck down various parts of the Communist Control Act:
We now have avowed Communists using their 1st Amendment Right to call for the US Government to be overthrown, subverted, and/or replaced.
We now have avowed Communists working from within the US Government. I'm thinking they are the ones we refer to as "deep state" actors.
We now have courts filled with foreign-born activist judges siding with the people who want to overthrow our government.
We now have a "Democratic Socialist of America" party (which is actually a Communist organization) emerging from their hiding place within the Democrat Party and taking over the original Democrat Party; however, the 'mainstream' members of the party do not realize that their party has been hijacked.
And worst of all, the "new" Democratic Party aka Democratic Socialists of America Party aka Communist Party, has announced their goal to overthrow the US Constitution. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are being used to dismantle our government and it started with those 30, 40, & 50 year (s)elected members of our Congress and Judicial System who have systematically removed barriers to subversion by foreigners (including those people born on US soil whose parents are both foreigners who raise these US-born children under the foreigners' home country rules). You'd think now that the Socialist/Communists have announced they want to take over our government, that our government would be able to do something about it! But looking at this piece of legislation that was written to be able to find and remove Socialist/Communists from our country has had its teeth removed.
🚨 IT\'S OFFICIAL: The Democratic Socialists of America announces their platform is to OVERTHROW the US Constitution
This is terrifying. VOTE RED AT ALL COSTS.
He straight-up says it: \"The \[thing] we\'re famous for is \[our] hatred of the United States Constitution...the program… pic.twitter.com/gfUq3yDNBq
However, the situation facing us today is not the Communism of old. It is Islamic Rule that today's Socialist/Communists are pushing. Here is what happened in Iran when the Islamist Socialists took over:
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Aug 16-Aug 22 Summary Covering Crime & Law Enforcement, Health & Fitness, Military, Immigration & US Border, Trade & Commerce, Technology, FLOTUS, and More
To which I must respond that the data the FBI uses is reported by individual jurisdictions. We have seen violent crimes negotiated down to misdemeanors and reports where "people of color" are recorded as "white" and men are recorded as "women" in those jurisdictions, so I don't trust their numbers anymore. However, I do agree with Secretary Mullin (in the x post below) that removing illegal aliens has cut crime tremendously.
The article concludes:
President Trump backed law enforcement, empowered the FBI to hunt predators instead of political targets, and rejected the failed Democrat lunacy that left communities reeling. The results are clear: fewer murders, fewer victims, and safer streets.
It’s common sense: when you remove illegal aliens off our streets, the violent U.S. crime rate DROPS.@POTUS is making America safe again. https://t.co/hmZnRjkWL9
— Secretary Markwayne Mullin (@SecMullinDHS) August 18, 2026
On August 19, 2026, President Trump appointed Dr. Heidi Overton as the next FDA Commissioner.
🚨 NOW: President Trump appoints pro-MAHA Dr. Heidi Overton as the next FDA COMMISSIONER, replacing Marty Makary
She is STRONGLY backed by RFK Jr. 👏🏻
"Heidi is “ALWAYS RIGHT,” Secretary Kennedy recently said in the Oval Office! We need her leadership at the FDA now to ensure… pic.twitter.com/HKwb3gx3Zc
On August 17, 2026, the White House published the release President Trump Delivers Largest Prescription Drug Price Drop in Over 60 Years announcing that the Most Favored Nation policy and TrumpRx have driven prescription prices to a new low. The release found that prescription drug prices are down 3.9% and nonprescription drugs are down 2.4%; medical equipment and supplies are down 2.7%; the VA recorded more than $10B in savings for prescription drugs; and more savings are projected as more drugs are added to TrumpRx.
The crew is tired, but they continue to fire on all cylinders. History will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era.
From personal experience, I can tell you that MOST service members look forward to being in the field because it is the only time they can actually do the job for which they were trained. Civilians, like parents, spouses, and children, do not understand this basic fact of military life. Yes, field conditions are horrible. Yes, you wish you could just go to the store and buy a treat. Yes, you wish you had door dash. BUT, you recognize that the situation is ultimately temporary and that you will return to those things at the end of your field duty. It is a fact of life in the military, no matter what the branch. And I'm sure many Veterans have stories to tell of their deployments that would make the recent reports about the USS Lincoln look like kindergarten play. On top of that, those sailors are on a ship that feeds them 3 'real' meals a day - per shift! They're not stuck eating cold rations out of a can or bag (unless you find some way to heat them)!
🚫 CLAIM: Over the past 48 hours, multiple media outlets have reported several false claims related to USS Abraham Lincoln's (CVN 72) deployment to the Middle East. One report alleged seven Sailors died in a brawl aboard the aircraft carrier and others have recently suggested a… pic.twitter.com/U1Hg6l1pjN
On August 16, 2026, Eric L Daugherty announced that President Trump, DOJ, and the Pentagon have increased the military presence at our Southern border. They are preparing to designate areas along the border as National Defense zones which will be closed to everyone except the military and Border Patrol.
🔥 BREAKING: Democrats are fuming nationwide after President Trump, DOJ and the Pentagon have surged military presence and authorities to detain illegal aliens along the US Southern Border with Mexico
HUGE swaths of land along the border were declared as national defense areas,… pic.twitter.com/VCQutbTEAo
President Trump believes this focus will strengthen competition in the space transportation industry while making American leadership in space great again.
Today @POTUS signed a new National Space Transportation Policy, one that meets this moment of explosive growth and positions America to lead the next era of space.
In the 13 years since the last update to the Policy, U.S. launches have surged 10x: from 19 successful orbital… pic.twitter.com/3CzFLzrant
President Trump’s America First agenda is scoring a decisive victory over decades of offshoring. Companies that once chased cheap labor overseas are now pouring capital into U.S. plants — delivering vehicles Made in America, by American workers, for American consumers.
On August 19, 2026, President Trump place a hold on this proclamation based on the x post from the White House below) while Canada and the US finalize trade documents which include the possible resurrection of the Keystone XL Pipeline (click to enlarge image):
By August 22, 2026, the loony left apparently got ahold of PM Carney promising a better deal after the US mid-term elections in November, so he dropped out of the current deal, saying:
00:00 Canada is walking away from a bad deal.
03:58 We cannot accept what they’ve offered and we will not give what they’ve asked.
07:28 Carney explains the latest threatened 50% U.S. tariffs.
08:29 Canada was prepared to drop remaining retaliatory tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos if Washington substantially lowered theirs.
09:10 Canada would encourage provinces to put U.S. alcohol back on shelves and make administrative moves around supply management.
09:31 Carney says sovereignty, key industries, French language and culture were red lines.
10:04 Says Washington suddenly demanded terms that were uneconomic and unfair.
10:56 They asked too much and they offered too little.
Negotiations suspended.
11:21 Canada will now retaliate dollar for dollar.
12:30 Carney admits those tariffs will raise prices and reduce choice for Canadians.
13:18 The speech pivots into Carney selling his economic record, infrastructure plans, trade diversification and a Canada less dependent on the U.S.
22:38 We make our own weather.
Mark Carney explains Canada’s withdrawal from U.S. trade negotiations.
Full 23-minute speech. No clipping.
After more than a year of negotiations, Canada’s negotiators are coming home and another tariff fight is beginning.
On August 22, 2023, with Canada officially backing out of the offered trade agreement, the tariffs of August 18, 2026 are now in full effect.
Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week.
Despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful…
— United States Trade Representative (@USTradeRep) August 22, 2026
On August 19, 2026, President Trump met with Finance, Crypto (digital assets), Technology Leaders at the White House for the first meeting of the Commodity Futures Technology Committee (CFTC) Innovation Advisory Committee in Washington DC where President Trump introduced the members of the Advisory Committee.
On August 22, 2026, the Office of the First Lady announced the First Lady would accept a scholarship donation from IndyCar Freedom 250 during a press conference.
America’s greatest competitive advantage remains in its own people. Tomorrow’s leaders are sitting in classrooms today, including those growing up in foster care. Their capability is no less remarkable.
“Today, Indiana University and Purdue University join Fostering the Future’s growing coast-to-coast alliance of leading academic institutions. Congratulations and thank you!
Together, they expand a national network of 26 universities that prepare our foster youth to shape… pic.twitter.com/gu4pbPu8XL
— Office of the First Lady (@FirstLadyOffice) August 20, 2026
There is nothing more powerful than reuniting a mother with her child after an extended period of time. My representative and I are focused on helping facilitate the next reunification of individuals who have been separated from their loved ones because of the war between Ukraine and Russia.
🚨 JUST IN: First Lady Melania Trump has just carried out ANOTHER wave of reunification between Ukrainian children and their families, the total is now 34 — Breitbart
On August 21, 2026, SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts ruled on President Trump's emergency request and ordered the construction on the ballroom to continue while the court case is moving through the courts.
🚨 Chief Justice John Roberts entered an order allowing construction of President Trump's White House ballroom to continue while the Supreme Court further considers the Trump administration's appeal. pic.twitter.com/CwXdi5RRhm
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump reveals construction is now surging on the White House military complex-ballroom as the Supreme Court gives the greenlight
"The Ballroom will be paid for with ZERO Dollars of Taxpayer Money. Great American Patriots and Companies are footing the entire… pic.twitter.com/9iNZYJw5DR
On August 21, 2026, the White House published the release President Trump and Republicans Deliver for South Carolina Families touting the impact of the OBBB (the index my various ANP Articles can be found in my August 2, 2025 ANP Article) in South Carolina, how President Trump's law-and-order agenda is helping South Carolina become safer, and how President Trump's economic agenda is bringing businesses to South Carolina. The release concludes:
President Trump and Republicans are proving once again that America First means South Carolina First — delivering results for families, workers, seniors, and every community across the Palmetto State.
From energy dominance and infrastructure modernization to manufacturing growth, veterans’ care, and border security, these visits deliver an unmistakable message: the America First agenda is delivering real, measurable wins for the American people.
🇺🇸America is winning again under President Trump and the proof is everywhere after just eighteen months.
Factories are coming back to life as China loses its unfair advantages. Energy independence is powering lower prices at the pump and lower bills at home. Inflation is finally… pic.twitter.com/YXUuQxDyBg
On August 19, 2026, President Trump escorted prestitutes on a tour of the new heliport/pad being installed on the lawn of the White House near the currently-under-construction-ballroom. The funds were donated by a helicopter company to build the helipad.
On August 17, 2026, the White House published the Presidential Message on National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week thanking employers for their patriotism in supporting our citizen warriors of the National Guard and Reserve. These citizen warriors have been instrumental in restoring law and order around our nation as they stand guard in some of our most dangerous cities holding vigil over transit hubs, public spaces, and federal facilities. Their diligence has allowed local law enforcement in those cities to pursue the criminals. The results has been a huge drop in crime in these areas. President Trump reminds us without employers who hold the citizen warrior's position open for them upon their return none of what has been accomplished would have happened. Employers provide flexibility and support to citizen warriors when they are called to duty. However, it is not a one-way street as those civilian warriors return to work becoming some of America's best workers as they bring with them the leadership, discipline, and skills learned during their deployments that they can use on the job. President Trump writes:
This week, the First Lady and I salute every National Guardsman and Reservist, the military spouses and families whose sacrifice at home makes every mission possible, and the employers who stand behind them. Together, we will keep our communities thriving and our Armed Forces the strongest and most respected the world has ever known.
PSA: The D.C. City Council sent letters to 10 governors whose National Guard members are serving in D.C., demanding that these brave men and women be removed from our nation's capital.
This Department of Justice will not stand for these politically motivated demands. We will… pic.twitter.com/tgCMTDLB1G
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) August 12, 2026
On August 16, 1780, the Battle of Camden, South Carolina, became a major part of the British southern strategy. Lieutenant-general Lord Cornwallis and his 2,100 troops engaged Major General Horatio Gates' 4,000 Patriots 4 miles north of Camden, South Carolina (but the majority of Gates' forces were experiencing starvation and illness). This battle began the Patriot's use asymmetrical warfare (ambushes, guerrilla warfare, insurgency, rebellion, terrorism, and the like) against the British. The British forces losses were 69 killed, 245 wounded, and 11 missing. The Patriot's losses were 900 killed or wounded, over 1,000 captured, along with the whole of their artillery (8 field pieces, almost 200 wagons, and their supplies). This was a resounding loss for the Patriots. But, this loss simply caused the Patriots to become even more involved in repelling the British and securing their Independence from Britain.
On August 22, 2026, President Trump hosted recently released Kevin Rideout in the Oval Office.
🚨 NOW: In a huge win, President Trump just welcomed released hostage Christian missionary Kevin Rideout to the OVAL OFFICE after he got freed by Islamist captors
AMAZING 🙏🏻
“Today we brought another American home! Kevin Rideout, a brave Christian missionary, was held hostage… pic.twitter.com/7ij9zBt139
On August 17, 2026, Eric L Daughtery reported that Kevin Rideout, a Christian who was kidnapped by Islamists in Niger is the 110th person for whom President Trump has secured a release.
🚨 WOW! President Trump just secured the RELEASE of the 110th hostage of his second term — Kevin Rideout, a Christian, is heading home from Niger after being captured by Islamists
"I am happy to reveal that former hostage Kevin Rideout is getting ready to fly home to the United… pic.twitter.com/eFFII343SW
On August 17, 2026, President Trump honored Ryder Williams, 16yo lifeguard in California who saved the life of 10yo Nathaniel Rai in the Oval Office when Nathaniel got pulled under on a California beach. President Trump told Ryder that he would personally write a letter of recommendation for him when he pursues his desire to be a Firefighter Paramedic.
🚨 WOW! This heroic lifeguard Ryder Williams is coming to the OVAL OFFICE with President Trump today
This is the same lifeguard who went viral for saving a boy from potentially drowning in California 👏🏻
Those are some of the exact words used by Google’s censors, aka 'Orwellian content police,' in describing many of our controversial stories. Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
