Blog / Week in Review: August 30, 2026

Doug Lockwood

Sunday, August 30, 2026

 

Recap of this week in the revolution: Trump regime to deport legal immigrants and Trump launches another trade war with Canada. Trump regime's plans to meddle in midterms. Idiot-in-chief wants to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.

 

Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Recap of this week in the revolution: Trump regime to deport legal immigrants and Trump launches another trade war with Canada. Trump regime's plans to meddle in midterms. Idiot-in-chief wants to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.

The bad...

Not satisfied with deporting illegal migrants, the Trump regime turns its wrath on legal migrants and visa holders [Link]
Visa

Image by Aum Global from Pixabay.

In a move that surprises no one who's paid any attention at all, the Trump regime has announced that it is pausing all immigrant visa applications and is considering revoking up to 200,000 already-approved visas.

The regime has been feeding the public the lie that they are only targeting the "worst of the worst" of illegal immigrants in their deportation efforts. But from the very beginning, they've been targeting the "easiest" people to capture by going after people actively working with the justice department to seek legal immigration status. Now, the regime is dropping all pretenses that this is anything other than trying to remove non-white people from the country.


Failing to learn from his past failures, Trump tries to launch another trade war with Canada [Link]
Flag of Canada

Image by jorono from Pixabay.

Last year, Donny 2-Dolls tried to launch a trade war with the entire world by slapping wild tariffs on imports from just about every other country. The Supreme Court ruled that he did not have the authority to levy these tariffs, which is a power that lies with Congress, not the president.

Never one to learn from past mistakes, Trump is trying again, using a Great Depression-era anti-discrimination law to try to justify the new tariffs. It's highly unlikely that these new tariffs will hold up better than his last attempt, but while the courts try to sort out the mess he's making, Americans will be paying more for Canadian goods starting in 2027.


The ugly...

Trump regime desperately tries to meddle in upcoming midterm elections [Link]
No vote for you

Images by Thor Deichmann and jette55 from Pixabay.

As the war in Iran continues with no end in sight and Trump's popularity continues to collapse, the regime is desperate to retain their chokehold on the three branches of the government. So desperate that they are openly trying to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections to try to keep as many people from voting as possible.

As a general rule, a high voter turnout tends to favor Democratic candidates over Republicans. So Donny 2-Dolls has been trying to push through measures to limit voter turnout. He's tried (and failed) to get Congress to pass the SAVE act, which adds unnecessary red tape to the voting process to disenfranchise huge swaths of the population. He's threatened to deploy ICE agents to polling stations to scare away legal non-white voters. And the Supreme Court just removed the last obstacle blocking an executive order to drastically restrict mail-in voting.


The stupid...

Idiot-in-chief signs an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America [Link]
Map of Lake Ontario

Map of Lake Ontario, c. 1817.

Right after launching a new trade war with Canada, Donny 2-Dolls makes an attempt to add insult to injury by signing an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.

The president apparently forgot to read what he signed, because the order was for the change to be made within 30 days, but he told reporters it was "effective immediately." He's also hinting that he plans to similarly rename either the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean in the future.

Lake Ontario has borne its name for over 400 years, long before the United States of America was even an idea. The name is Huron for "Lake of shining waters," which makes a lot more sense than "Lake America."


Keeping you informed...


Sounds of the revolution...

Freedom Is Free
Jesse Welles [Link]

TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out | Chicken-in-Chief Satire Song
John D. Cundle [Link]

View the full Protest Music playlist (Updated weekly).

On the lighter side...



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