Here’s another good Linda T. substack article Mark Carney Isn’t Disrupting the System. He’s Dismantling It, where she compares Poilievre, Trump and Carney. It is a long read, but worth it. Here’s how she starts:

…dismantling is very different from disrupting, and the distinction matters because a dismantler doesn’t just change how an inherited system works. He removes the inherited system and creates an empty space where something else will eventually have to go.
A disruptor changes the systems around him. He shakes them up, rips pieces out, starts processes that have been shut down and shuts down processes that have been running for too long. It’s a massive renovation of your house – the kitchen gets gutted, walls get knocked down and you may spend six months eating takeout beside a stack of drywall – but you can watch it happening in real time and the basic house remains standing.
Poilievre is a disruptor. He wants to radically change what the federal government does, but he still imagines himself taking control of the same government, the same Parliament, the same public service and the same political structure. He wants to march into the inherited house, fire the contractors, rip out the Liberal’s ugly cabinets and install his own.
Trump, on the other hand, is a destabilizer. He shakes everything at the root to see what falls out, spends an enormous amount of political capital on shock and awe and then moves his agenda through while everyone else is staring at the chaos. Immigration raids, shootings involving federal immigration agents, sudden tariffs, annexation threats, attacks on allies and military strikes on Iran all arrive in overlapping waves, until nobody can tell whether the latest crisis is the actual policy or merely cover for another one.
Trump understands that destabilization consumes the attention of everyone around him. By the time the courts, Congress, the media, allies and the public have figured out which fire they’re supposed to be watching, something else has already been moved, cancelled, signed, threatened or destroyed.
Carney doesn’t operate that way at all. In fact, he does the opposite. Carney projects calm, normalcy and an almost aggressive form of “everything is fine” energy. He exudes competence and stability, he likes tradition, he appears to value relationships and he’s very good at maintaining them. He doesn’t come at institutions with a wrecking ball while shouting that they’re corrupt; he comes at them like the new chairman of the board, thanks everyone for their service, commissions a review and then quietly makes half the organizational chart disappear.
The longer I watch Carney, the more convinced I am that this is what defines him. He dismantles everything around him that he believes has to be reinvented, and then he either builds something very different in its place or intentionally leaves the second part – the rebuilding – to someone else….

Yes, chaos is a pretty good description of Trump – and on Tuesday, it happened again, damnit!

Trump posts an image featuring a map showing the United States taking over Canada and Greenland

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 14, 2026 at 9:52 AM

I liked David Frum’s reaction:

On this map, Mark Carney would be the front-runner for the 2028 Democratic nomination and very likely next president of the United States. https://t.co/U4XbdNrvO7

— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 14, 2026

Remember Monday when Trump announced he expected a bribe from every ship using the Strait of Hormuz? Well, it was TACO Tuesday again.

Not the biggest issue with mainstream media coverage but not the smallest: There was no plan. There never was a plan. Trump just says shit. An unbiased headline would read, “Trump’s Hormuz Bluster Turns Out to Be Total Nonsense, As Usual.”

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— A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) July 14, 2026 at 11:20 AM

Remember Trump’s Reflection Pool fiasco? Its still a mess. Here’s a photo from Tuesday:

In an interview published in the FrankNews substack, economist Richard Wolff explains why the United States economy isn’t working anymore

….Every politician in America has to say, as often as possible, in front of as many cameras as possible: “this is the greatest country in the world, and our greatness is ahead of us.” And it’s not true. It is, if you’ll pardon me, total bullshit.
We’re done here. I don’t mean you and me, but in terms of the country, we’re done. Our good period is over. We are on the downturn. And like every other empire, it was way more fun going up than it is coming down. We are running into one war after another. Look at this president — he’s the president who says he doesn’t want more wars. What is he doing? More wars.
I’m not into blaming him. I don’t think he matters. He’s not doing any more than what Biden did before him, or Obama, or Clinton, or Bush. They are caught up in this process.
And let me end with this. During this whole story I’ve told you, a surprise happened. I’m going to use the metaphor of horse racing. In horse racing, the horses line up, there’s a bang, and off they run down the track. There’s always the possibility that the horse in the rear, the one who doesn’t get out of the gate well, or stumbles after a few moments, the so-called dark horse, the one you shouldn’t bet on, roars ahead toward the end and finishes first. And if you bet on that horse, you are incredibly lucky.
In economics, that horse is called the People’s Republic of China. Over the last 35 years, as the United States has tried, with decreasing success, to hold on to this empire, this dark horse — one of the poorest countries on earth 50 years ago, cursed not only by its long poverty but by an enormous population, three or four times the size of the United States. And then, led by a Communist Party, opposed to capitalism, opposed to the West, taking charge after a bitter civil war, and at the end of four years of civil war, 1945 to 1949, Mao Zedong establishes control, goes to work building an economy rivaling that of the United States, and has now done so.
So we’re confronted with the worst of all possible worlds: an American economy with increasing difficulty competing against a rising power whose limits no one knows, because it keeps growing far faster than the West, becoming more and more powerful — economically, politically, ideologically, and militarily too. We’re at a very difficult point. And unfortunately, being a declining empire, we get the leadership a declining empire often produces: clown figures who don’t know what’s going on, who don’t know what to do, who simply gesture emotively all over the place and stumble from one mess to another — while a very quiet, smiling Xi Jinping watches from China, watching the fireworks in the hands of people who don’t know which way to point them….

Meanwhile, in the US Congress…

Hilarious that he cited Mamdani as the most serious threat today in America to a free press while Trump sues, threatens, subpoenas, yells at, and tries to intimidate reporters on a daily basis. But Mamdani is the problem. What a clown. bsky.app/profile/atru…

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) July 14, 2026 at 10:26 AM

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