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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 10h

They should let him resign in the lame duck & rush the appointment through, then Dems take the Senate & contest the appointment for various reasons, one of which is that brain dead Mitch McConnell is one of the deciding votes, and then when that doesn’t work, move to court expansion to fix the mess

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 14h

That “terrorist attack” that wasn’t was amplified by Trump, Rubio and right-wing media. Very suspicious.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People need to remember that people with mental and physical disabilities were among the Nazis’ earliest victims of systematic mass killing.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As a Canadian, I wish more Americans knew how damaging this trade war with 🇨🇦 is to your economy. It’s basically bc we’ve hurt the 🍊🤡’s ego by standing up to him. We’d love to get back on good terms with our American friends.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Question for 🇺🇸 national security lawyers: if Trump gives a blanket pardon to Kushner et al, can he still somehow be charged with misuse of classified information in these “negotiations”? I don’t believe he’s even a government employee so he can’t have a security clearance.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you read their financial statements, Trump’s idiotic tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and auto parts were key factors. Basically killed the company.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They haven’t “expanded”! This is what the Witkoff-Kushner negotiations have always been about-forcing Ukraine to capitulate in exchange for corrupt deals for the Trump crime family.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe it’s unbelievable because it’s not believable

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I give them some credit for actually publishing this. It’s like an interview with a person confined in a mental hospital for their own protection.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey Politico, you turned yourself into a Right Wing Trump-supporting echo chamber for the MAGA crowd and look where it got you? Banned from the White House. How about you try journalism for once?

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They had their talking points distributed. And they’d planted the Schmitt for VP story in Axios this morning to amplify this gotcha moment that blew up in their face.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New headline: Trump offers sanctions relief to Putin in exchange for election interference. Why do you think Witkoff and Kushner were there a few weeks ago?

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Boy, it’s great that you opened up those booming markets for US agriculture in (checks notes) Bangladesh and Cambodia. You know that shipping foodstuffs thousands of miles by ship isn’t exactly ideal? Or you could just stop pissing off 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽 and actually create markets for 🇺🇸 farmers.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wait until they learn about life insurance.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The rest of the world is dying (literally and economically) for the lack of “elite management” at the helm of the 🇺🇸 government.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The 2nd part of your #2 (to empower Trump/GOP to cheat to mitigate the risk of court expansion by Dems) seems now to be the clear underlying goal. It's a bit like the fear of AI-the hard-right justices have escaped containment by Roberts and now only care about self-preservation.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's lucky you can't literally “die of embarrassment” bc holy Sh*t there’d be a lot of dead Americans.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think the word he meant to use is “fascist” not “communist”. He's not good with words.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Because it's so blindingly obvious. Trump’s promise to end the war on “day one” was always based on forcing Ukraine to capitulate. This was the deal he made with Putin.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ask Canada if the USA is a trustworthy negotiating partner.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We’ve disowned any relationship to him. He's all yours

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This guy thinks he can run for President and win? Delusional.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'll put Iran and Canada in a sentence: “Name two countries the 🇺🇸 is losing wars with?”

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I some news for the USA and your economy: unless Stephen Miller and JD Vance can convince young white women to have 5x as many babies as they are currently having, you're going to need immigrants. And most of them aren't going to be white. Take your pick: functioning economy or white ethnostate.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here’s all you need to know: it's a lie and it's never going to happen.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Off point but Collins’ body language in this interview is so revealing. She's clearly repulsed by Cruz, as she should be. His believing that he has a chance to be the 🇺🇸 President proves he's as delusional as Trump.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trump sent Kushner & Witkoff to get their marching orders from Putin and take them to Ukraine to impose a capitulation. Zelensky told them to FO. IMO, Trump is begging Putin to interfere in the midterms. That's what this is all about.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think it's time to stop trying to make sense of the rants of a demented old man and start treating it as what it is: incontrovertible evidence of mental health issue. I'm not a physician so I don't know the correct word for the diagnosis but it’s surely some form of what we used to call insanity

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wasn't there a whole Trump commission on the scourge of left-wing violence?

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a minor point but aren’t these guys part of the same crew that screamed at Zelensky for not wearing a suit?

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m always baffled by the argument that a machine is better at a game than a human. For decades, there’s been a machine that hits golf balls perfectly. They call it “Iron Byron”. There’s machines for pitching, tennis etc. I don’t care how a machine hits a golf ball. I care how a human does.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In what scenario short of a global economic meltdown of epic proportions is this even plausible. Is that what they’re trying to engineer?

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Who’s going to tell the US exporters who sell $350 Billion of goods to 🇨🇦that they’re no longer allowed to do that?

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you! Canadians want nothing more than to get back on goood terms.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The real key to this mess is when the UK (Starmer) came running with King Charles and then the EU followed. That was the time to stand up to Trump.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Americans need to know that the key to the 🇺🇸-🇨🇦 trade dispute is that we refuse to do these kinds of backdoor deals with the Trump & Nutlick crime families. That’s why they call us “nasty”. Nutlick inserted a 11th-hr demand in the negotiations that 🇨🇦 companies be sold to US parties at a discount.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And a “war” he’s easily winning although it’s still going on 6 months later?

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s legitimately hilarious that the ONE thing he could have expected to happen (even though it’s virtually meaningless economically) is for the trade deficits to lessen. But the tariffs didn’t even do that.

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Musk has said it repeatedly and it’s become a defining feature of MAGA and other Neo-fascist groups

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Mark Rutledge🇨🇦 @markrutledge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And you “lose” it mostly by buying products and raw materials (like lumber and aluminum)that you re-manufacture into higher value products that you then sell to the rest of the world. This idiotic idea that you are losing money to 🇨🇦 by buying more stuff from us drives Canadians crazy.

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