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"Canadian visits to the US are down 35%—dealing a massive, sustained economic blow to the US economy that shows no sign of reversing in 2026" “In my 37 years in the travel industry, I have never seen anything like what the Canadians have pulled off" forbes.com/sites/suzanner…

What was meant to be a show of force has spiraled into a full-blown agricultural disaster. T.r.u.m.p’s latest potash tariffs were designed to pressure Canada, but instead they detonated inside America’s own farming heartland. In an emergency meeting at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump adviser reportedly admitted the unthinkable: the policy had backfired so badly that American farmers may not survive the growing season. Canada wasted no time. As the world’s largest potash supplier, Ottawa redirected exports to Asia and Europe within days, locking in billion-dollar contracts and tightening its grip on the global fertilizer market. One Canadian official mocked the situation bluntly, saying that if the U.S. doesn’t want Canadian potash, the rest of the world gladly will. On the ground in Iowa, the consequences turned personal. A U.S. farmer broke down during a live interview, explaining that without Canadian potash, crops simply cannot be grown at scale. The result is stark: Canada posts record profits and cements its status as the undisputed “fertilizer king,” while the United States loses control of a critical supply chain at the worst possible moment of the planting season. Analysts are already calling this the worst trade failure of Trump’s year — a pressure tactic that ended up crushing the very people it claimed to defend.

Read slowly. "We don't need the Strait." "Go open it yourselves." "Fine, we'll open it." "Actually, we're blockading it." "OK not blockading everyone." Five positions. Six weeks. Two of them today. And our armed forces just sat there, sipping tea, watching America negotiate with America over a strait Iran already blockades. Empires used to fall in centuries. This one can't hold a policy for an afternoon.

What’s the line for you Christians? What’s the final straw? “Epstein is a hoax” wasn’t too far. No new wars to war with Iran wasn’t too far. F bombs on Easter morning wasn’t too far. $5 a gallon gas wasn’t too far. Threatening a “whole civilization” that they would die in a night wasn’t too far. Attacking The Pope wasn’t too far. What about this? Trump posting himself as a Jesus like messiah figure. Complete blasphemy and antichrist vibes.

Periodic reminder that the president has lost his fucking mind

Remember when economically illiterate democrats blamed GROCERY STORES for higher food prices as food inflation accelerated? Now Trump, after starting a war that obliterated much of the global pipeline of ammonia and urea used in nitrogenous fertilizers, claims there is fertilizer "price gouging" from the "fertilizer monopoly." That's what happens when you start a war that decimates the global supply chain of fertilizer feedstock chemicals, you idiot. Trump has become just as economically illiterate as democrats.

An American voice: “Listen up, Trump, and every dumb f... in Washington who still thinks the Strait of Hormuz is some kind of American parking lot. This aint international waters. Never was. Never will be. Under the law of the sea, every coastal country gets twelve nautical miles of its own goddamn territorial water. The narrowest choke point in Hormuz is only twenty one miles wide. That means Iran and Oman own the whole fucking strait from shore to shore. Overlapping. Locked. Closed. No high seas. No open ocean free for all. Iran controls the big islands too, Qeshm, Hormuz, Larak, Abu Musa, the whole chain. You sail through, you are in somebody elses house. Iran never even signed that UNCLOS treaty, so they dont have to play your transit passage game. They say innocent passage and they mean it. You bring guns or you bring trouble, they can say no. America starts wars because it never learned geography in school. They  bomb first, read the map later. Before you drag us into another bloodbath, open a f...ing atlas. The water belongs to the land that touches it. Not to the country that prints the most dollars. Learn it now or bleed for it later.

So now Trump legitimizes the blockade. Then why was he complaining about Iran's blockade? And how can he complain if China blockades Taiwan? Or if the Houthis blockade the Red Sea and make the Suez unusable? Trump is wrong if he thinks the U.S. can outlast the patience of Persia. And the entire world will now blame Trump for blocking energy transportation. Don Tzu. The Art of Idiocy.

IDF soldiers sniped a girl in her classroom today, in front of her whole class. She was 9. Her name is Ritaj Rayhan. Please repost this.

I am no fan of the IRGC. I am a big fan of the average Iranian citizen who just wants to live their life. But good god, the latest regime-produced Lego rap has no right to go this hard and nail the current American experience so precisely.

Liars. They were civilians, children, old women, young women, people attending a funeral, people having lunch. It was a killing rampage by bloodthirsty lunatics. Liars.

NATO. Is. A. Defensive. Alliance. You. Attacked. Someone. Absolute dimwits.

🚨 BREAKING: This is BRUTAL 🔥🔥 🇺🇸TRUMP at 10:00 AM : "CEASEFIRE doesn’t Included LEBANON." 🇵🇰PAKISTAN at 10:10 AM: "United States and Iran's CEASEFIRE Included LEBANON. Israel and US are Lying to the world" Imagine Trump is so low that even Pakistan is schooling him." 😭🔥

Israel is deliberately targeting civilians in one of the most brutal days in Lebanon’s history. If you want to know which side doesn’t want a ceasefire and peace you now know. The war didn’t go as Netanyahu planned so he takes revenge on innocent civilians. Fucking disgusting behavior HOPE PEACE IS ACHIEVED SOON. GOD BE WITH LEBANON 🇱🇧

Israel 🇮🇱 gives it’s response to a ‘ceasefire’: •50 🇮🇱 jets dropped 160 bombs in 1 min •100 Lebanon 🇱🇧 sites bombed in 10 mins •multiple Lebanon 🇱🇧residential locations •300 plus people murdered Israel 🇮🇱 is a pariah state Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

⚡️Lebanese angel Ahmad was found martyred alongside several members of his family following an Israeli strike

This is my city, Beit Hanoun. It was once known as the “Green City” for its abundance of olive and orange trees. It produced and exported oranges and olives to the entire world. Israel has bulldozed the city, leaving not a single tree behind. Trees as old as history itself, that had lived for hundreds of years, were spared nothing by this Zionist terror.