Some news clips and commentary....

 
Palm Beach International Airport’s name officially changed its name to Donald J. Trump International Airport on Thursday.....
The project is expected to cost around $5.5 million, according to an estimate from the Palm Beach County Department of Airports....
On Thursday afternoon, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled the newly renamed Donald J. Trump Bridge in East Tennessee......

President Donald Trump threatened to stop the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge. He is demanding Canada turn over at least half of the ownership of the bridge to the U.S. amid cross-border trade issues.
In February he cited Canada's refusal to stock some U.S. alcoholic beverages on ‌Canadian store ⁠shelves, Canada's tariffs on dairy products and its trade talks with China as grounds for why he might not allow the bridge to open.

If it were called the Donald J. Trump International Bridge and we here in Canada bent over n kissed his arse, which fewer and fewer of his diminishing number of followers at home and abroad are doing, it would probably be carrying traffic by now!

Just saying.....

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It Bears Repeating …...

America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he won’t completely lose his grip on reality and drag us all into catastrophe.......

This is a deeply unstable old man threatening sovereign nations like he’s flipping over a Monopoly board because he’s losing. This is not normal behaviour. This is not leadership. This is not strength. This is a walking, talking international crisis.......

And let’s be brutally honest. This man is nearly 80. He’s frail. He’s clearly deteriorating. He is not some long term visionary playing chess. He’s at the end of his lifespan and acting like nothing matters after him. That is the most dangerous type of leader there is. A man with nothing to lose and an ego that demands constant feeding.............

Get this lunatic under wraps before he ruins it for everyone.

A small extract from our friend Lorne at Politics and Discontents where the full text can be read as found on Facebook.

....and now he wants to take over Greenland a NATO country !!!

 

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What Is a Wartime President and What Are Their Powers?

 With the U.S. leader and his minions increasingly ignoring diplomatic norms and threatening to invade and takeover not only non NATO countries to their south as they have at least in part Venezuela but both Greenland and Canada I tried to find out what limitations their were upon their moves. Very little it would seem in both practical terms and as recent actions have made obvious, sure “congress” supposedly has check and balances but does not even have to be notified until 2 days after he has already started one!

A “wartime president” is a descriptive term, not a formal title, for a U.S. President leading the nation during significant armed conflict.

Constitutional Authority and Expanded Powers

A president’s wartime role stems from the Commander-in-Chief clause in Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. This clause designates the President as the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” This grants the President broad powers to direct military operations, deploy troops, and formulate combat strategies.

This role allows for expanded presidential powers during conflict, enabling the issuance of executive orders related to national security. These orders can mobilize resources, direct industries towards war production, and establish new agencies to manage the war effort................

Checks and Balances on Wartime Presidential Power

The U.S. system of checks and balances limits presidential power, even during wartime. Congress holds the constitutional power to declare war, raise and support armies, and provide for a navy. This legislative authority checks the executive’s ability to unilaterally commit the nation to prolonged conflict.

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 defines the balance, requiring the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and limiting deployments to 60 days without congressional authorization.

From (https://legalclarity.org/what-is-a-wartime-president-and-what-are-their-powers/)

Seems to me that unless congress gets it act in gear and puts the brakes on this regime that we are all, world wide, in for a rough ride, and even if they do act will it even then stop this power hungry bunch of autocrats.

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Trump starts WW 111 ?

"If the United States asserts the right to use military force to invade and capture foreign leaders it accuses of criminal conduct, what prevents China from claiming the same authority over Taiwan's leadership? What stops [Russian President] Vladimir Putin from asserting similar justification to abduct Ukraine's president? Once this line is crossed, the rules that restrain global chaos begin to collapse, and authoritarian regimes will be the first to exploit it."

(Democratic vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner. )

Donald Trump seems to believe that he makes the rules, and what applies to the US under his command does not mean others can expect the same privileges.

But that is not how the world of power works.

His actions at the start of 2026 point to another 12 months of global turbulence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y45nyz124o

I fear that it may well be the start of something way worse than a year of “ turbulence”!

Add this to his threats to take over Greenland , Canada, turn Gaza into a resort and his inability to tell the same lies twice and I believe this guy belongs in the funny farm rather than the White House.....

 

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