Venerable alt rock band Dinosaur Jr. is back in its original lineup (J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph) and is out with a lead single "Several Got Away," from their August- release album "There Near." It sounds like they're back to their musical origins as well, and that's good. Hope you enjoy.
Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE thugs Tuesday as he drove to work, the victim of mistaken identity. Now, the official ICE account of Araujo's murder is unraveling:
"A statement from federal officials about what led to the fatal shooting of a man in Houston during an immigration operation this week doesn’t match the version of events from three men detained during the incident, an attorney who spoke with them says.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have said an agent opened fire after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, rammed a law enforcement vehicle and refused to follow verbal commands during a a traffic stop that was part of a 'targeted operation' Tuesday.
But attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra said three men detained during the operation told him the version of events presented by ICE is false.
'At no point did they use the van to ram into the ICE agents and at no point were these ICE agents’ lives ever in any danger,' Balderas-Ibarra said in a video posted to his Instagram.
The men said the agent who shot Salgado Araujo opened fire almost immediately after exiting his vehicle, Balderas-Ibarra told The Washington Post. CNN has reached out to Balderas-Ibarra and ICE for comment." (our emphasis)
The ICE goons, who were not wearing body cameras of course, were "tipped" that two undocumented men that they wanted to detain were traveling in a white van, neither of whom turned out to be Araujo. Also, you can imagine how many white vans there are in the Houston area, but when dealing with brown people, the Malignant Fascist's trigger-happy StormTrumpers dispense with Constitutional niceties.
There are multiple investigations of the killing underway, including the Harris County District Attorney's office. As with the investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the MF's Federal law enforcement officials are withholding information from local authorities. "Investigations" by the Homeland Security's Inspector General and the local FBI are expected to white wash the killing, blame the victim and exonerate ICE.
BONUS: Now they're trying to deport the witnesses to the murder.
(photo: members of Araujo's family at a press conference. Antranik Tavitian/Reuters)
The indicted 2020 election fraudster Malignant Fascist continues to ramp up his election-stealing game now that the illegitimate Republican Supreme Court said he could do just about anything in the Executive Branch. Yesterday, to make voting harder, more open to tampering, and vulnerable to charges of fraud, he fired the last of the Election Assistsnce Commission members:
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday terminated the last three members of the Election Assistance Commission, the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide, the White House confirmed.
The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission were forced out of the commission on Thursday in different ways. The one Republican appointee resigned and the other two Democratic appointees were fired via an email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, according to one person familiar with the decision and two other people briefed on the terminations.
The fourth commissioner departed the commission in April.
The terminations follow the recent Supreme Court decision that granted the president more power to fire members of independent agencies, and a push by Trump for more federal intervention in voting processes, traditionally the purview of the states, as midterm elections approach in November.
"On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service," the termination email, seen by Reuters, said. [snip]
The Election Assistance Commission serves as a "national clearinghouse of information on election administration," accredits testing laboratories and certifies voting systems, and maintains the national mail voter registration form developed by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, according to the commission's website.
The terminations follow advocacy from Trump and top administration officials to change vote-by-mail requirements ahead of the midterm elections, and investigations into the 2020 presidential election outcome, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden... (our emphasis)
The specific harm that the MF intends to do is to affect the Federal vote-by-mail structure, since he's been rebuffed by courts who have rightfully been ruling that States, not the President, run elections in accordance with the Constitution. This action would seem to be an attempt to cripple the administrative side of the issue, making it more difficult for States to take advantage of the national mail voter registration form and of testing that can provide legitimacy to voting systems.
This is why there has to be a Democratic tsunami in November, one so
massive and nationwide that any attempts to claim fraud and to deny the
will of the voters won't be tolerated. For a massively unpopular President, it would trigger paralyzing mass resistance, at the very least, because it would mean the most important function of a democratic society -- free and fair elections -- had been overthrown.
(Image: let's remember who the fraudster is / via New York Magazine)
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Operation Epic Fail --
It should be blindingly obvious by now that Trump has no idea what he’s doing in Iran. He doesn’t have a plan now and never had one. And everyone who worked for him before warned us he’s got no idea what he’s doing. The pilot has no idea how to fly a plane. And we’re all on the plane.
— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A reminder that mere threats of this nature may violate the law of war. "Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”
— Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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The calculation isn’t really that high risk. Iran knows that all U.S. options at this point carry a cost Trump has been unwilling to accept.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - Oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was at a near standstill on Thursday, according to data and sources, as shipping risks escalated after the U.S. renewed airstrikes on Iran, triggering retaliation by Tehran in the Gulf. @reuters.com
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
The deranged Malignant Fascist's clown show at NATO summit --
You may think it's disrespectful to compare the president of the United States to a rabid baboon. I think it's reckless to ignore the similarities or pretend they're not putting us all at grave risk. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-unhin...
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Severe personality disorder. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
— John Sipher (@johnsipher.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Game 👀 game --
game recognize game.
— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Trump’s comments on Platner June 6th: He’s a pig. Trump’s comments on Platner after the new allegations: It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Not this White House press "corpse." The show must go on! --
Maybe now a White House reporter will ask the president of the United States about the woman he sexually abused and defamed.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Man it is fucking wild watching the White House press act like E Jean Carroll doesn’t exist.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
They’re holding the WHCD at the former Trump Hotel that served as the gateway to corruption during his first term.🙄
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) July 9, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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Everything Trump Touches....Turns Brown --
The cascading fountain in Meridian Hill Park is seen with brown water following ongoing restoration work by the Trump admin in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 8, 2026. REUTERS/Brad Ulery
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) July 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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A reminder of better days --
Found on the Internet:
— Thom Hartmann (@hartmannreport.com) July 8, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Former Federal prosecutor Joyce Vance writing in her Substack on the corrupt sexual abuser Malignant Fascist on trying to delay and frustrate payment of the judgement he owes to his rape victim, journalist E. Jean Carroll:
"The most annoying thing, from a legal perspective, about Donald Trump is how he plays the delay game, drawing cases out far longer than any other litigant could get away with. He relentlessly files borderline (and sometimes outright) frivolous motions and fights every step of the way, using every motion to reconsider and every other procedural tool available, even when it’s hopeless.
That’s how it felt today in the E. Jean Carroll case. We’ll get to what happened during the day in a minute, but first let’s start with how it ended, just after 10 p.m. ET. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump’s request to stay District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s order that it was time for Trump to pay Carroll the $5 million, plus post-judgment interest, that he owes her. The Second Circuit ruled just hours after Trump asked for the stay.
Trump, of course, isn’t done yet. Next, he’ll ask the Supreme Court for a stay. Prediction: It will be similarly unavailing. Stick a fork in this case. It’s done."
It's a sign of how far the culture and corporate media have been degraded to treat this story with a yawn, as if it's commonplace for a U.S. President to avoid paying for his criminal actions, in this case, defamation of his rape victim. But it's time to stick a big fork in the MF's desperate move.
The first of a two-part published in the Wall Street Journal (!) came out earlier this week, and with the help of a gift article, we have a disturbing look at what our European allies of decades -- if not centuries -- are doing in the wake of the disastrous start of the Malignant Fascist's second term in office. Here are some lengthy excerpts, but please take advantage of the opportunity to read the entire piece:
It was almost midnight in Brussels and the leaders of Europe were locked in their fifth hour of an emergency meeting with a single theme for discussion: how to manage a breakup with America.
The new year was only three weeks old and President Trump, after removing Venezuela’s autocratic strongman, had briefly threatened to seize Greenland from Denmark. Around a circular table in the European Council headquarters known as “The Space Egg,” heads of government were venting so emotionally about the 47th president that some of the nearly 30 leaders present would later call the session “therapy night.” There were no cameras or recordings and each of the presidents and prime ministers was told to come alone, no phones allowed, for a moment to speak candidly.
“We are drawing a line here,” began Emmanuel Macron, president of France, according to several leaders present and their most senior aides. For a year, America’s closest allies had tried to placate Trump with a mix of flattery and concessions on mutual-defense and trade issues, hoping to buy time. Now, French soldiers were in Greenland, alongside Danish special forces equipped for a shooting war with America. The French president repeated an argument he’d been pressing for years, with mounting urgency: that Europe’s overreliance on America was a security risk. “There is no going back,” he said.
A clutch of European leaders chimed in to complain that the administration seemed more interested in mining and energy deals than upholding America’s traditional role in the world. Europe risked becoming “a miserable slave” to the U.S., groused the prime minister of Belgium. The conservative prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, dissented, telling the roomful of more-liberal leaders that while they might not like President Trump, he could still be reasoned with, according to people present.
To Meloni’s left sat Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen, trying to maintain composure. After a week of brinkmanship with Trump, the Danish prime minister looked so shaken that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took a moment to ask how she was holding up: “You OK?”
Hours passed as people talked over each other in a conversation with such seismic implications it seemed surreal: In its 250th year, had America, protector of Europe, now become a threat?
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American allies have begun pushing the gas pedal on an unprecedented experiment in de-Americanization. Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office. Belatedly, they are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to try to boost Europe’s own private space firms, AI companies, and data centers, to avoid leaning on U.S. juggernauts.
Europeans are running studies on where they would store their data or process their payments should friction with the U.S. escalate, and how well their American-made weaponry would operate without Washington’s authorization. Nations whose empires once spanned the globe are now stuck trying to extricate themselves from their humbling dependency on American technology and military power, without provoking the U.S.
More recent U.S. actions are only stiffening the Europeans’ resolve. By the time European Council leaders met again at the Space Egg in March, Trump’s airstrikes on Iran had spiked fuel prices across the continent and Chancellor Merz was furious. Russia, he said, would be the only winner of the Middle East’s newest war, according to leaders present. Several participants began a wry debate over whether a JD Vance presidency would be preferable. Even Italy’s prime minister conceded she was revising her view of the American president. Trump, Meloni lamented, “is not reasonable.”
To understand this historic shift, The Wall Street Journal spoke to heads of government, their ministers and top aides to reconstruct the closed-door meetings where the alliance began to splinter. The Journal was able to review detailed notes taken by some participants as well as classified assessments that European intelligence agencies gave leaders struggling to navigate the new Washington.
One assessment, from Southern Europe, reads: “You are not dealing with an administration that has processes, you are dealing with a single volatile individual.” Britain’s MI6, struck by the climate of fear in Washington, offered Prime Minister Keir Starmer a more allegorical warning: Trump’s second White House, it said, “is ‘The Crucible’ meets ‘Wolf Hall,’” referencing two fictional works about the Salem Witch Trials and the court of England’s ill-tempered Henry VIII. The British spy agency instructed its staff not to broach the subject of the president with their CIA counterparts.
The article goes on to describe Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's role in convincing European leaders that they could no longer count on America to be as it once was, with the Malignant Fascist and his MAGA movement in charge; the allies' shock at the disturbing deference the MF plays to war criminal Putin; and the role of NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in enabling the MF with a policy of flattery to the detriment of the alliance. As this first part concludes:
The fragile consensus on flattery was starting to splinter, a trend captured by Britain’s MI6. That form of diplomacy, per an assessment from the spy service, was “subject to the law of diminishing returns.”
Like it or not, if there was ever such a thing as "the American Century," Putin's puppet the Malignant Fascist has strangled it with his short, vulgarian fingers.
Kudos to the Wall Street Journal for doing that rare thing called "journalism."
BONUS: Also read Robert Farley's piece on how this debacle results from the Malignant Fascist acting out of frustration and weakness.
(Photo: the MF with his band of incompetent fascist advisors / USA Today)
The Daily Show's Ronny Chieng does a masterful job with the bumbling, narcissistic and mentally unfit Malignant Fascist's clown show at the NATO summit in Turkey -- from his malicious attacks on Spain and Denmark, to his ludicrous claim that it was a love fest behind the scenes (a "circle jerk?"), to confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and naming Japan as an Islamic State. All of this as the MF declares the ceasefire with Iran is over. The MF's a dangerous and reckless national humiliation, and worthy of mockery.
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(Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Canada)
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"Moron in the middle
"Trump found the lure of the World Cup irresistible, comparing it to multiple simultaneous Super Bowls. It’s the kind of global spotlight that, like the women he boasted about, he simply cannot leave ungrabbed. He had blessedly mostly stayed out of the tournament’s earlier rounds, focused instead on the 250th birthday celebrations for the U.S., an event critics said he had also inserted himself into excessively. [snip]
"For 18 months, Americans have watched the Trump regime bend and break the rules while the Supreme Court puts its finger on the scale in his favor. As writer Anne Applebaum observed, Americans have grown so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many missed why the rest of the world was quietly rooting for Belgium.
"Over the past few days, the world finally got a sample of what it’s felt like for us under Trump..." --Jay Kuo, in his Substack "Status Kuo," on the narcissistic sociopath Malignant Fascist's need for "inserting himself into something good and ruining everything," in this case, the USMNT's run in the World Cup. Sic transit gloria, America.
The Epstein-Trump Files / Todd Blanche stonewalling before confirmation hearings --
The Justice Department is urgently battling a government watchdog's bid to force the release of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's private communications about Jeffrey Epstein before his Senate confirmation hearing. #ToddBlanche #DOJ #EpsteinFiles #AmericanOverSight #GovernmentWatchdog
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) July 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Operation Epic Fail / Trump's demented brain and desperation --
Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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The US govt, markets, and a lot of media told you there's peace with Iran and shipping is flowing. What's actually happened is the war entered a new phase: the fight for Hormuz. Trump lost his war so badly the US aim now is just to get back to the pre-war status quo. I explain in @ms.now, ICYMI:
— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Call me a cynic, it I’m starting to get the sense Trump isn’t really sure what he’s doing on Iran.
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) July 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Mark Rutte is a lying, sniveling, ass-kisser, and no friend of America --
TRUMP: I don't like these people, you know that? I like him [Mark], I like the leaders, I like I think all of these leaders RUTTE: Great. And they love you. TRUMP: I think they didn't treat the United States fairly for many years
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 8, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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NATO Secretary Mark Rutte desperately glazes Trump: "I could not do this without you. Trump 45 and Trump 47 -- in total, more than $1.2 trillion! I call this 'the Trump trillion.'" "That's why I like him," Trump replies.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 8, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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It seems like the rest of NATO is taking longer than advisable to catch up with Spain. The flattery/eggshell-walking strategy has failed.
— Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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Loathing Trump --
Trump's net approval rating is ... -50 among independents -12 among his best age group -16 among men -12 among white people if you're a Republican running for congress this fall the technical term for this data is "yikes"
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Mocking Trump --
I’m sorry, but this video of Belgium’s squad mocking Trump in their locker room after demolishing the USMNT is hilarious.
— Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Resisting Trump --
🎉 WIN: The DOJ’s request for the personal information of thousands of 2020 Fulton County election workers was “unreasonable,” a federal judge ruled. The judge found that the DOJ was clearly motivated by Trump’s repeated false claims of widespread voter fraud.
— Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) July 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Trump's demand that law enforcement miraculously "find" widespread voter fraud (which is nonexistent) has gotten so unhinged that Republican officials are openly mocking AAG Harmeet Dhillon for her buffoonishly heavy-handed tactics
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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A major Little League home run --
This is the most hilarious little league home run I've ever seen, the Royals have outdone themselves
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Just a day ago, legendary Irish band U2 serenaded a lucky crowd in Mexico City with their new song "Street of Dreams," and it's a beauty as the joyous response from the audience demonstrates. For a band that's celebrating its 50th year, their music and voice for humanity is forever fresh and compelling. Enjoy.
There is reporting that Texas MAGAt Attorney General and candidate for Senate Ken Paxton apparently used an address for voting registration purposes where he didn't actually live. From ProPublica's investigation, co-published with The Texas Tribune:
"Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to report people or groups suspected of voter fraud.
'Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of a thriving republic, and with the authority granted to my office by the Legislature, we will stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity,' Paxton said in a February news release announcing the tip line.
The announcement linked to guidance from his office about election laws in Texas, which included a requirement to be a U.S. citizen, a prohibition on collecting mail ballots on behalf of others and a warning that 'it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records or to establish a residence for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election.'
'You must register to vote using the address where you reside,' the attorney general’s guidance stated.
Despite his own warnings, Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years, including in May’s runoff that made him the Republican nominee for U.S. senator, according to records obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. (our emphasis)
The fact that the corrupt and mentally disturbed Malignant Fascist endorsed securities fraudster and adulterer Paxton over sitting Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary makes even more sense, given the their records of criminality and fraud. There's real chemistry there. The article continues:
"It is unclear where Paxton has lived for the past two years, but reporting by ProPublica and the Tribune has linked him to a home in neighboring Denton County since February.
Three election lawyers told the news organizations that Paxton may have violated the same Texas laws his office cautioned about in its news release." (our emphasis)
MAGAts like Paxton believe that laws -- election laws in this case -- don't apply to them because they're pre-ordained to hold office and continue their corruption. Here's a link to support his great Dem opponent James Talarico.
The highly erratic, mentally damaged Malignant Fascist/ Dementia Don is on the rampage again, declaring the Iran ceasefire and MOU "over," and directing trade with ally Spain to stop:
Iran war / Operation Epic Fail
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Washington’s ceasefire with Tehran is over, after hostilities between the two sides escalated overnight.
During a joint press conference with NATO chief Mark Rutte at the military alliance’s summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, Trump said, “I think it’s over” in response to a reporter’s question.
“I don’t want to deal with them anymore … as far as I’m concerned, it’s over,” he added.
He added that Washington’s delegation wanted to negotiate a peace deal, but that he saw it as “a waste of time dealing with” the Iranian side.
Trump’s comments came after the U.S. and Iran accused each other of violating a ceasefire that was reached last month, in the wake of fresh strikes.
The U.S. military conducted a “series of powerful strikes” against Iran in retaliation for three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz coming under attack on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department withdrew a waiver that had allowed Iran to sell its oil.
Oil prices rose dramatically after Trump spoke, with global benchmark Brent crude
futures for September delivery jumping 5.7% to trade at around $78.41 per barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures added 5.9% to settle at $74.60 a barrel.
The unstable, ignorant MF owns this mess, lock, stock, and oil barrel. The U.S. and its allies are far worse off economically and strategically than before the moron was talked into attacking Iran by Netanyahu. Iran holds the Strait of Hormuz cards and has increased its position vis-Ã -vis its neighbors and its ability to affect global economic stability. Meanwhile, we have a puerile pinball President bouncing from one bumper to another.
"We no longer want to do any kind of business with Spain. I would like that to stop. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. They don't pull their weight, they don't pay. I don't want anything to do with Spain. Cut off all trade with Spain, please, including visits," Donald Trump declared at a joint press conference after the NATO meeting in Ankara on Wednesday.
The US president's remarks stand in stark contrast to the way the European Union's trade policy works. Since the creation of the single market in 1993, tariffs, trade agreements and other measures in this area have been an exclusive EU competence, exercised through the European Commission.
Any measure targeting one of the 27 member states would have repercussions for the single market as a whole and could trigger a coordinated response from Brussels.
Trade flows between two of these countries are not even considered exports, but rather "intra-EU supplies". This interconnectedness also means that oranges grown in Valencia can be processed in another European country before being shipped to the US, so a unilateral move against Spain would create major practical and legal difficulties.
"The US federal government knows how the EU's trade relations are managed and is not interested in breaking off trade ties," replied Teresa Ribera, the EU competition chief and former minister in Pedro Sánchez's government, last March, when asked about the issue after Trump once again threatened Spain.
Sounds again like an childish, policy-by-the-seat-of-his-clown-pants hollow threat. Someone other than the lap dogs Scott "Smirker" Bessent or Howard "Nutlick" Lutnick should tell him the limits of trying to punish one member of the EU in isolation. As a sanction, it won't work, but as another distraction ...
(Image: look who's driving foreign, military and trade policy)
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