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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: rainman2 on August 30, 2026, 12:16:16 AM
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lake Ontario...
The Other 98%
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"We'd really prefer affordable healthcare." That was the response as Donald Trump spent Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office signing an executive order to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America." Groups piled on the stunt all day.
Bernie Sanders was blunter. Nobody is lying awake wishing their lake had a new name. People want to afford a doctor, childcare, rent, the things this administration gutted to hand a windfall to the top one percent.
This is the method. Start a fight nobody can look away from. A lake. Maybe an ocean next, he joked, standing behind a giant board with "Lake America" slapped over Ontario. Asked what message he was sending, he said "no message." The stunt is the message. Dominating the feed is the message.
Within an hour the feed is arguing about a body of water, and nobody is covering the family that just lost the plan paying for their kid's inhaler.
Here is the water people are actually drowning in.
The subsidies that kept Obamacare affordable expired in December, and out-of-pocket premiums jumped 58 percent on average. For millions, the bill more than doubled. Another round of double-digit hikes is already filed for 2027.
Roughly a trillion dollars was carved out of Medicaid and the ACA to pay for the tax cut. Food aid for hungry kids got slashed in the same bill. Eight million people have already lost coverage, and the government's own budget office says that number keeps climbing.
A government exists to keep the people inside it safe, fed, and cared for. When it spends its energy rebranding a lake it does not even fully own, the priorities are not hidden. They are propped on an easel in the Oval Office.
Trump can rename it on every American map he controls. He cannot touch the northern shore, which belongs to Canada, and every official from the prime minister down has already told him no. The name is four centuries old. It outlasts both countries, and it will outlast him.
He gave a lake a new name so you would not notice everything he is taking away.