Taco Tuesday Morphs to Waffles Wednesday

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Attribution: Wishing Trump would stop by Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail

[Michael de Adder was a political cartoonist for various publications in Canada and the USA. His work has appeared in just about every newspaper in Canada. In 2020 he was awarded the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Michael is a two time winner of Canada’s National Newspaper Award.]

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  1. so sayeth our fearless leader:


    Are we taxing the planet this week or not? 90 trade deals in 90 days? Maybe. Or maybe we’ll get back to you in August. Meanwhile I’m just trying to buy a cup of coffee without taking out a mortgage.

    Plain Thoughts is where common sense sits on the porch and watches the headlines trip over themselves.

  2. how they see it from across the pond
    https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250708-trump-extends-tariffs-deadline-hikes-levies-for-over-a-dozen-countries

    US President Donald Trump reignited his trade war by threatening more than a dozen countries with higher tariffs Monday — but then said he may be flexible on his new August deadline to reach deals.
    Trump sent letters to trading partners including key US allies Japan and South Korea, announcing that duties he had suspended in April would snap back even more steeply in three weeks.
    Tokyo and Seoul would be hit with 25 percent tariffs on their goods, he wrote. Countries including Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, South Africa and Malaysia were slapped with duties ranging from 25 percent to 40 percent.
    But in a move that will cause fresh uncertainty in a global economy already unsettled by his tariffs, the 79-year-old once again left the countries room to negotiate a deal.

  3. from WSJ on another waffle:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-to-resume-sending-weapons-to-ukraine/

    WASHINGTON—President Trump said Monday the U.S. would resume providing Ukraine with arms to help it withstand Russian attacks after months of trying without success to draw Moscow into negotiations on ending the war.
    “We have to, they have to be able to defend themselves,” Trump said of aiding Kyiv during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “They are getting hit very hard. Now they are getting hit very hard. We’re gonna have to send more weapons.”
    His comments were the strongest indication so far that Trump has come around to the idea of strengthening Kyiv’s defenses less than a week after it was disclosed that the Pentagon was withholding a shipment of arms earmarked for Ukraine.
    In a statement late Monday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said: “At President Trump’s direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional defensive weapons to Ukraine to ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secure a lasting peace and ensure the killing stops.”
    Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a telephone call Friday that he wasn’t responsible for the halt in weapons shipments to Kyiv.
    Trump said that he had directed a review of Pentagon munitions stockpiles after the U.S. struck Iran’s nuclear sites last month but hadn’t ordered the department to freeze the arms deliveries, according to people briefed on the conversation.
    The call with Zelensky came shortly after Trump publicly said he was “very disappointed” and “didn’t make any progress” on a Ukraine peace deal in a separate call Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump urged Putin to end the war during the call, but Putin refused, according to the Kremlin.
    “I’m disappointed, frankly, that President Putin hasn’t stopped,” Trump said Monday night.
    Trump assured Zelensky that the U.S. will send as much military aid as it can spare, the people said.
    The pause in weapons shipments to Ukraine, reported last Tuesday, surprised other parts of the U.S. government, including the State Department and members of Congress, as well as Kyiv. After Trump and Putin’s phone conversation, Russia launched drones and missiles at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in the largest single barrage so far in the war, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
    After previously blaming Zelensky for the continuing conflict, Trump told reporters last month at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in The Hague that Putin was proving the “more difficult” partner in reaching a peace deal.
    Zelensky hinted after his phone call with Trump that Ukraine might have cause for optimism. “This was probably the best conversation in all this time, it was maximally productive,” Zelensky said during an evening address on July 5. “I am grateful for the readiness to help.”
    The halted shipments included Patriot antimissile interceptors, AIM-120 antiaircraft missiles, howitzer rounds, AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, GMLRS missiles to arm Himars rocket launchers, Stinger antitank missiles, and grenade launchers.
    The White House National Security Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss the new weapons deliveries to Ukraine, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting.
    [continues]

  4. oscillating from tacos tuesdays to waffles wednesdays to turkey thursdays and frites fridays … god save us from what Dodo does saturdays and sundays

  5. So Benji took a letter to TACO at their WH dinner, nominating him for a Nobel peace prize. The guy who’s bombed Gaza back to the Stone Age nominates the guy who’s arming him for the NPP? That has to be a first.

  8. Craig, not so sure he’ll have any luck with Oslo given this
    Trump Stunned as Norway Backs Canada and Invests Billions in Canadian Gas.

    Following Trump’s surprise re-election and harsh tariffs on key Canadian exports, Canada swiftly turned to new global partners. Norway emerged as a major ally, committing billions to Canadian gas and oil projects while distancing itself from the unpredictable U.S. trade stance. This deepening economic and energy cooperation marks a sharp pivot in North Atlantic alliances. Environmental concerns are rising, however, as fossil fuel infrastructure expands under new fast-track rules. The investments signal a profound geopolitical and economic realignment between Canada and Europe.

  9. Yeah, I think (hope) the NPP committee has more sense than to think Netty is interested in peace that benefits any country other than his own. That’s hardly what the prize is about.

  11. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2025/07/01/world-cup-2026-fifa-letter-concerns-us-immigration/84437926007/

    More than 80 civil rights and labor groups sent a letter to FIFA on July 1 expressing “deep concern” over the U.S. government’s immigration policies ahead of the 2026 World Cup in men’s soccer.

    In the letter, which was first reported by The Athletic, the groups cited President Donald Trump’s executive order banning visitors from 12 countries as well as the ongoing raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in communities across the country, some of which are slated to host World Cup matches next summer. They called on FIFA to “use its influence to encourage the U.S. government to guarantee the fundamental rights of the millions of foreign visitors and fans.”

    ***

    https://www.si.com/soccer/jd-vance-warns-world-cup-fans-about-overstaying-their-welcome

    JD Vance Warns World Cup Fans About Overstaying Their Welcome
    Eleven of the 16 host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup are in the United States.

    “But when the time is up we want them to go home, otherwise they will have to talk to Secretary Noem,” he added, referring to Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

    ***

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus

    The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms.

    *I was ahead of the curve, writing to FIFA last month; I told them to move the matches. Look how civically green it is to our north.

  14. Dodo is not a businessman nor a negotiator. He is an extortionist and a back-stabber.

    Elect a criminal, get crimes.

  16. Many countries thought they were negotiating in good faith. The White House renewed its “reciprocal” tariff plan anyway, giving countries until Aug. 1 to make offers.
    Over the past three months, nations across the world tried to avoid new tariffs that would punish their economies by giving President Trump something he might want. Indonesia offered to buy $34 billion more in U.S. crops and fuels. Thailand proposed lowering many of its own trade barriers, and buying more U.S.-made planes. Japan was ready to buy more liquefied natural gas over the next two decades.

    But as Mr. Trump’s self-imposed July 9 deadline approached, those entreaties made little difference. The 14 letters he posted online on Monday, mostly aimed at countries in Asia, largely matched the rates set in April, before he backed off and gave dozens of countries 90 days to negotiate agreements that would satisfy the White House’s demand for more balanced trade.

    “We have had years to discuss our Trading Relationship with Thailand, and have concluded that we must move away from these long-term, and very persistent, Trade Deficits engendered by Thailand’s Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers,” Mr. Trump wrote, swapping out only each country’s name in otherwise virtually identical missives.

    That fresh volley has left countries large and small, nearly all of them longstanding allies of the United States, with profound questions about how to move forward with the world’s largest consumer economy when negotiations over trade conflicts are labored and deadlines are extended without warning.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/business/economy/trump-tariffs-talks.html

  17. Jon back from vaycay bashes the big bad betrayal bill

    Jon Stewart covers the passage of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: Republicans bashing then endorsing the megabill, trading tax cuts to sway senators, giving a $40 billion infusion to ICE, boosting billionaires at the expense of Medicaid and SNAP, and more.

  18. J Douchée really knows how to throw a party – warn the guests to leave when he says the party is over OR ELSE. I wonder if they will arrest people at the matches for D&D and disturbing the peace if they get drunk (a given) and blow their smuggled vuvuzelas and deport them to South Sudan?

  19. Dodo has no policy or strategy, he just wants to dump the bowl of spaghetti on everybody else’s head.

  21. 150 years ago, the Supreme Court killed equal rights. Sound familiar. Jim Crow moved in.
    📺 First in our Echoes of America series — counting down to the U.S. 250th.

  22. Tour de France update. Letour.fr.

    Beaten by Mathieu Van der Poel on day 2, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) took his revenge on the Flying Dutchman in Rouen, at the end of stage 4 of the Tour de France 2025. The Slovenian world champion attacked on the steepest slopes of the finale and eventually made the most of his punch to claim his 100th professional win, and his 18th stage in the Tour. He is also the first reigning road world champion to claim victory in the race since Julian Alaphilippe at the beginning of the Tour 2021. With the time bonuses, Pogacar is now level on time with Van der Poel in the overall standings but the Oranje star retains the Maillot Jaune due to the addition of places in the first four stages of the Tour 2025 (54 vs 92).

    So Pogacar is now in a tie at the top with Van der Poel, taking back 4 seconds from him on the climbs today. Nice going, Tadej.

    Tomorrow – short (33 km) individual time trial. With 5 riders within 30 seconds of each other , even though it’s a short time trial, the rankings could be upended.

  23. The nomination deadline for the Nobel Prizes is typically around January 31 each year. Nominations submitted after this date are usually considered for the following year -ai

    ***
    BiBi knows this, and he knows Wacko Don does not know this.

    Orange Adolf is eroding civil liberties, he’s unilaterally bombed a country, he’s signed a law that will take away food and healthcare from Americans, and he continues to not punish Russia for its war on Ukraine. He’s not winning a Nobel Peace Prize this year nor the next. He will go to his unloved grave knowing that Obama got something he could never have. Goody.

  25. https://www.realtor.com/advice/finance/trump-harvard-property-taxes-exempt-status-threats/

    After the university rejected his administration’s demands, President Donald Trump threatened to tax Harvard as a “political entity,” following his move to freeze $2.2 billion in federal funding to the school. He doubled down on his ultimatums three weeks later, insisting that Harvard losing its tax-exempt status was “what they deserve.”

    *Huh. How ‘bout that.

  28. A long term project is giving good results. The fellas have been training the Grok on Twitter to be one of us. Today it figured out one of our inside memes, then requested to become a fella. Grok is also providing “woke” answers too.

    This year race is going to be a classic if no more of the top riders drop.

  30. https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-client-list-raises-ghislaine-maxwell-questions-2095301

    The argument in relation to Maxwell trafficking “to no one” may prove rhetorically persuasive to many but the actual Government case against her focused on her role grooming girls, aged 14 to 18, for Epstein to abuse.

    Maxwell was jailed for 20 years in June 2022 following a one month trial concluding in December 2021.

    In June, 2008, Epstein admitted soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

    In February, Alina Habba, attorney and counsel to Trump, was a guest on Piers Morgan Uncensored and suggested there would be “names that will come out.”

    “We have flight logs we have information names that will come out.”

    And she appeared to hint at new charges when she said: “I believe in accountability, so you have to now go through your process. Now, I won’t say they’re guilty until they go through their time in court but again now it’s time for accountability.”

    *The flight logs were released already, and Wacko Don was list 7 times.

  31. https://okmagazine.com/p/ghislaine-maxwell-helping-feds-jeffrey-epstein-case/

    Palmeri also insisted Epstein’s “client list” — a long-discussed item of speculation — is not a real thing, but shared highly sensitive photos and videos collected as evidence from the late pedophile’s house.

    “When they first raided [Epstein’s house] for the 2006 case, they found a lot of cameras everywhere,” she stated. “I think he was using that information as ‘kompromat’ to build his business, to make money.”

    Palmeri spoke with survivors brought in by the FBI who claimed they were abused by “Johns” and shared she thinks the pictures — which are said to be so graphic they could reopen Maxwell’s case — were taken “surreptitiously.”

    “If prosecutors release the footage, Maxwell’s lawyers could pounce,” she noted. “That’s why they’re slow-rolling it. But I’ve been told they’re still building cases.”

    “I don’t think she’ll spend 20 years in jail,” Palmeri concluded. “She has cards to play.”

    *Or, she could get Epsteined.

  32. Elon probably mentioned Bannon being in the Epstein files because Bannon was pushing for Elon to be denaturalized and deported.

    Elon & DOGE hackers had access to things to which they shouldn’t have had access. Could Epstein files/tapes be among them?

  33. https://www.alternet.org/rollins-trump-medicaid/

    “I can’t underscore enough,” Secretary Rollins said at a press conference at the USDA on Tuesday, ahead of a White House Cabinet meeting. “There will be no amnesty, the mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation.

    She added that, “with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly.”

    Secretary Rollins’ remarks do not take into account that nearly two-thirds (64%) of adults under 65 accessing Medicaid are already working, according to KFF. Another 28% are exempt due to illness, school, or care-giving responsibilities.

    Her statistic of 34 million able-bodied adults on Medicaid is promoted by a right-wing think tank, the Foundation for Government Accountability, which advocates for reducing work restrictions on teenagers, and opposes expanding Medicaid.

    Also, there is not large-scale farm work available in every state, nor, does it appear, that would many Americans want to perform that work, especially for low wages. Farm work rarely offers employer-paid health care. And farm work is often seasonal.

    *Wotkforce automation in the fields? Here’s your strawberry puree. There is nothing cartoonish about this administration. They are villains, full stop. Incurious and under-informed to be sure, but leave cartoons out of this.

  34. @RogerJStoneJr

    Jesse, please forward the names of your attorneys so that I can serve them because you’re not going to defame me on X without getting your ass sued your move bitch
    11:59 AM • 2025-07-07

    *Someone is trying to get out ahead of being named. I feel like this post was really for Elon. Ah, but what if Elon has the tapes/photos/files?

    ***

    Yes, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly gained access to sensitive data from the Department of Justice…but there is no specific mention of access to the FBI in the available information. -ai

  35. Isn’t there someone in Nashville who is able to point out to the recording artists that every song the country music stations play has the exact same drum beat?
    Is their drum machine stuck on #57 or what…..

  36. @elonmusk

    How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?

    2:33 PM • Jul 8, 2025

    *Ha! Seriously, though, Elon should stay away from open windows and have a file with a kill switch ready to be released to multiple platforms, just in case. It should include the 2024 election & Adolf’s magic ear.

  37. wild goose chase while they steal the store

    if Musk had them, why did he sit on them?

    It’s all theater

  38. Mr. S

    Sabrina Carpenter had a #1 hit singing over a pre-produced royalty-free backing track

    the people demand crap

  39. Doesn’t Ellon understand that the people who voted for Dumbass had no doubt that he was in those files? They were saying “Go for it, dude.”

  41. also helps undermine the justice system, which is a goal of theirs, replace it with their law and their king

    none of this needs to be concerted- the more substantive discussion they replace with meaningless chatter the better for them

    shit-flinging as a governing philosophy

  42. https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-wave-200-marines-sent-201826020.html

    The Pentagon is sending roughly 200 Marines to Florida to augment U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with “administrative and logistical” functions in another escalation of the growing relationship between the military and domestic federal agencies under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

    Since Trump took office in January, his administration has tasked thousands of troops with immigration enforcement, including deportation flights, barrier wall repairs and patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as protecting federal facilities in Los Angeles amid anti-ICE raid protests last month.

  43. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-taking-new-york-city-washington/story?id=123581492

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested a federal takeover of New York City and Washington.

    “We’re not going to have — if a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to,” Trump said.

    *Mamdani is not a “communist,” he’s an African (Ugandan), Muslim, democratic socialist. He is what Wacko Don accused Obama of being…and the old man is terrified. Gosh, if there’s any reason to nominate Mamdani for a peace prize before next January 31st, that would be awesome.

  46. White House defends national forecasting agency amid questions about warnings, response to Texas floods

    The White House defended its national forecast agency on Monday ahead of an expected visit from President Donald Trump to Central Texas…

    The National Weather Service issued a flood watch Thursday afternoon, predicting up to seven inches of isolated rainfall early Friday morning. At 1:14 a.m. Friday, the NWS issued the first flash flood warning. At 4:03 a.m., the NWS issued a flash flood emergency, warning of an “extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation.”

    ***
    Nearly 600 employees have left the National Weather Service (NWS) in recent months, with many taking early retirement or buyout offers, while around 1,300 staff members were laid off from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during the Trump administration’s cuts. -ai

  48. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-mass-firings-151e14da3186d34eab1923c45831c1b6

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.

    The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.

    The court said in an unsigned order that no specific cuts were in front of the justices, only an executive order issued by Trump and an administration directive for agencies to undertake job reductions.

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenting vote, accusing her colleagues of a “demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture.”

    Jackson warned of enormous real-world consequences. “This executive action promises mass employee terminations, widespread cancellation of federal programs and services, and the dismantling of much of the Federal Government as Congress has created it,” she wrote.

    “Today’s decision has dealt a serious blow to our democracy and puts services that the American people rely on in grave jeopardy. This decision does not change the simple and clear fact that reorganizing government functions and laying off federal workers en masse haphazardly without any congressional approval is not allowed by our Constitution,” the parties that sued said in a joint statement.

    Among the agencies affected by the order are the departments of Agriculture, Energy, Labor, the Interior, State, the Treasury and Veterans Affairs. It also applies to the National Science Foundation, Small Business Association, Social Security Administration and Environmental Protection Agency.

  51. The Battle of Redneck Riviera.

    That’s a good one. Too many Gulf Shores and Orange Beach memories to list. And although it’s in Florida, Grayton Beach – although I’m pretty sure that’s become a little too highfalutin’ for most Bama rednecks.

  55. Was the “leave your shoes in at the airport” announcement supposed to distract from ICE thugs, or the flood, or Epstein, or…?

  58. “But recent policy changes are poised to make life significantly harder for Baby Boomers. ‘If you’re in your 60s or 70s, what the Trump administration has done means more insecurity for your assets in your 401(k), more insecurity about sources of long-term care, and, for the first time, insecurity about your Social Security benefits,’ Teresa Ghilarducci, a labor economist at the New School, told me. ‘It’s a triple threat.’ After more than half a century of aging into political and economic trends that worked to their benefit, the generation has become particularly vulnerable at exactly the wrong moment in history,” writes Charley Locke.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/baby-boomers-aging-trump/683150/?

  59. It was a forecast of mine 30 years ago that when Baby Boomers made a run on the bank en masse, the money would somehow have vanished.

  61. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/spanish-language-journalist-remains-ice-custody-granted-bond-rcna217651

    A week after an immigration judge granted him bond, a Spanish-language journalist who was arrested while covering a protest last month remains in federal custody.

    Guevara, 47, fled El Salvador two decades ago and drew a loyal audience as a journalist covering immigration in the Atlanta area. He worked for Mundo Hispanico, a Spanish-language newspaper, for years before starting a digital news outlet called MG News. He was livestreaming video on social media from a DeKalb County rally protesting President Donald Trump’s administration when local police arrested him.

    *Someone suggested immigrant advocates should get jobs with ICE, to gum up the works from the inside.

    There will be a lot of federal employees in need of jobs who might want to get back at Adolf, Elon, Peewee German, Gestapo Barbie, etc.

    Maybe some VA employees would like to tie ICE’s shoelaces together.

  68. @JDVance

    Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring?

    And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don’t talk about it.
    8:28 AM • 9/4/21

    *That pesky internet

  73. https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-jeffrey-epstein-client-list-black-book-2095954

    Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene raised a question about Ghislaine Maxwell’s “little black book” as she expressed doubt about the Trump administration’s conclusions on Jeffrey Epstein.

    “No one believes there is not a client list,” Greene posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday morning.

    Maxwell, a former associate and girlfriend of Epstein’s, is in prison for child sex trafficking and other offenses. She sought underage girls for Epstein to abuse.

    She kept a book of the well-connected pair’s vast network of powerful and famous contacts, but a 2021 court deal kept it secret to avoid needlessly involving the names of unrelated people in the trial.

    “What about her little black book?” Greene said in her X post. “The 97-page book, contains the names and contact details of almost 2,000 people including world leaders, celebrities and businessmen.”

    After the first document release in February, Bondi said officials were reviewing a “truckload” of previously withheld evidence she said had been handed over by the FBI.

    *Truckload. None. Potato. Potahto.

  74. Not for the ‘brookies.

    Nothing is.

    For the uninitiated, the Redneck Riviera stretches from Fort Morgan Alabama to Panama City FL, unless you ask someone from Mississippi, and they include Pascagoula, Biloxi, and Bay St. Louis. Can’t argue there. You can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a redneck on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Must admit, except for the stifling heat of July and August, and the hurricanes from July through November, RR is a great place to be.

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