Canadian Reparations

Jul 17, 2026

⚽Earlier this week, I talked about being hooked on the England-Argentina game — and now wanting Argentina to win but for no apparent reason… Well, I’ve found my reason.

✍️Linda Weisnberg responded to War Notes, saying:
- “Leland you are rooting for Argentina, like I am, because Milei is Israel’s new best friend and Spain’s leader is a raging antisemite”
- 🍻Rachel and I will be rooting for Argentina (at a Spanish bar) on Sunday….wish us luck!
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✏️Our part-time copy editor Dana Waterman wrote in about our First Dispatch video headline “Can Vance Be Destoryed?!?”

“Destoryed or destroyed?!?”
😂That’s how you know War Notes isn’t AI, Dana…as promised

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    The sun through the smoke and trees in Leland, MI

OH Canada!!!🔥 : Much of the Midwest and the Northeast looks and feels apocalyptic because of Canada’s wildfires — Trump wants reparations

Trump: “Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

🚨Detroit has the worst air quality in the world
Whose to blame👀: It turns out most of these fires are preventive.
- 📑Canada follows the same wildfire management playbook as California, where the Palisades fire burned over 23,000 acres and a thousand homes.
  Congressman Nick Langworthy@RepLangworthy
  Americans should not be forced to breathe hazardous air year after year because Canada refuses to properly manage its forests. This is no longer a one-time emergency—it’s becoming an annual public health crisis. That is unacceptable. I am reaching out to Members of Parliament
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The problem‼️: In much of America, you can’t be outside — this isn’t dramatic.
- It’s AWFUL and getting worse
Lives ruined🚨: The upper Midwest from northern Minnesota through Michigan and New England rely on tourism during the summer for their yearly income — that is very much in jeopardy.
AccuWeather@accuweather
Canadian wildfire smoke is blanketing the sky over New York. Before-and-after images show the impact of the smoke, which has created dangerous air quality for millions.
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Iran Reality‼️

👀If actions speak louder than words, Trump’s escalation in Iran tells you his pick in the Vance vs. Rubio never-ending primary

U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM

On July 16, U.S. forces successfully destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower, part of a maritime surveillance network along Iran’s Gulf of Oman coastline used for decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to track and target commercial

2:30 PM · Jul 17, 2026 · 582K Views

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📱Vance lives in the podcast world and threw in with the isolationists — Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, etc.
- Tucker now says Trump is weak
  Raylan Givens@JewishWarrior13
  🚨WATCH: Tucker Carlson: President Trump is weak. In an interview with the Bloomberg news agency, Tucker Carlson said, "I don't think Trump is the strongest person in the world. Many presidents have, in one way or another, resisted attempts to control them from the outside – and
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- Look back🔙: Vance’s political evolution isn’t a new thing
  - He called Trump Hitler back during the 2016 race
  - Became a staunch Trump defender
  - Now everything is Israel’s fault, including his disastrous Iran deal and the response
    Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر@emilykschrader
    Vance is a loser in every sense of the word. He fails miserably in talks the Islamic regime (as expected) and instead of owning his failure, he claims that ISRAEL pays to activate a smear campaign against him. 😂 Sure JD, sure. 🙄
    9:46 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 276K Views
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  - Best take down
  - Emily in Tel Aviv — seriously, watch this.
    Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر@emilykschrader
    JD Vance doesn’t need an Israeli conspiracy to explain why people criticize his foolish view of the Islamic regime. Americans, Israelis, Iranians, Arabs, and national security experts have watched him misread the regime, smear allies, ignore Qatar’s documented influence
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    - Pro tip❗: Never piss off an Israeli woman.

👀Everybody is coming for Vance — just like they did for Trump in 2015

📰George Will and Kimberley Strassel with devastating op-eds
- “President Vance Goes AWOL”
- “The endlessly pliable JD Vance has no aversion to conversions”
Look here‼️: One of Fox’s key behind-the-scenes political guys with a devastating appraisal —
Will Ricciardella@WillRicci
Every time Rubio and Vance speak, the difference is stark. Rubio can carry traditional conservatives without losing his MAGA bona fides. Vance increasingly speaks to a small online populist sect that mistakes its volume for a coalition. You’re watching the 2028 primary inside
Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich
Every American needs to listen to this entire speech. Not just clips. It is phenomenal. Thank you @SecRubio for recognizing the severity of the problem and most importantly, working to combat it.
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Hint❗: Rupert Murdoch has made his choice — that can change, but Fox’s cheerleading on Iran is important

Hit pieces📰: Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” credit got destroyed by an MS NOW report that he planned to take a military helicopter so his son could get a golf lesson.

Those kinds of leaks are devastating.

All is fair in love, war and politics — here we go.

Watch tonight📺: Charlie Dent, Caroline Sunshine and Mark McKinnon for a lead-off panel unlike any other.

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House Divided➗

🤦Democrats can’t stop hating the Jews — and soon Israel committing genocide will be a required talking point in the party.

Reality‼️: If Israel really wanted to commit a genocide, there would be nobody left in Gaza
🗳️Over 100 House Democrats voted to end U.S. aid to Israel this week
- Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — Former House Speaker
- Katherine Clark (D-MA) — House Minority Whip
- Joe Neguse (D-CO) — Assistant Minority Leader
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) — D-NY
- Ro Khanna — D-CA
- Seth Moulton — D-MA
- Jamie Raskin — D-MD
🗣️Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says he’ll leave the party if they officially go anti-Israel
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs
Sen. John Fetterman on the Democrat Party turning against Israel, "If you make that official platform, that's my red line in the Democratic Party"
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Look back🔙: Just over 2 years ago, only 37 House Democrats voted for the last crackdown on Israel aid

Watch📱: One of the smartest Democratic political strategists, Lis Smith, says the Overton Window on Israel is shifting

Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸@HBendaas

Lis Smith gives a shockingly sober assessment of what is driving Democratic voters away from Israel and Dana Bash at the end says they’re falling for misinformation and that Palestinians are responsible for starvation in Gaza

Tim Graham @TimJGraham

CNN's Dana Bash brings up over 100 Democrats now opposing more aid to Israel. Dem strategist Lis Smith admits this is become a litmus test for Democrat voters: They've "shifted wildly in recent years, largely due to what they see as the overreach from the Netanyahu government and

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Smith was the one who created Pete Buttigieg and Mallory McMorrow

Tonight📺: Corbin Trent and Julian Epstein on whether Democrats hate the Jews more than they love winning.

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Put Up or Shut Up‼️

👀Donald Trump set a trap up for himself last night — if China did all these terrible things, how can he sit around and call Xi Jinping his “great friend”

Look back🔙: This was Trump just two months ago —
- Trump: “We’re going to have a fantastic future together. I have such a respect for China. The job you’ve done. You’re a great leader…it’s an honor to be with you. It’s an honor to be your friend”
‼️Yet last night, Trump made the case for really horrible behavior from China
- Meddling with our elections
- Dividing Americans through social media
End game❌: Trump needs to stop calling Xi his friend and punish China — and there are real ways to do it:
- Throwing out Chinese diplomats
- Canceling Chinese student visas
  Steve Cortes@CortesSteve
  Ok action items: 1. Every Chinese student out of our country. 300k of them. 2. Our giant Treasury Debt to China — renegotiated or eliminated. 3. FBI/CIA officials who covered for China…arrested! Now. Handcuffs and serious charges.
  NewsWire @NewsWire_US
  TRUMP: "Starting during the 2020 election cycle, China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history."
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Flipside 🔃: Last night was also a trap for Democrats — is the party for China interfering in our elections? Are Dems ok with noncitizens on voter rolls?