Republished with permission from Steve Schmidt
Quebec City is a jewel of North America and the wellspring of French civilization on the North American continent.
The city was founded in 1608, one year after the Susan Constant brought 71 colonists to Jamestown, Virginia.
Towering above the city is a magnificent hotel named the Château Frontenac, which hosted two historic war conferences during the Second World War between FDR, Churchill, and the Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King. There, monumental decisions were made about the peace of the world by people of good faith and goodwill during an existential fight against the greatest evil humanity has ever known.
Not too far from the grand 19th century hotel is a battlefield called the Plains of Abraham, where the French and English armies met in battle 17 years before the American Revolution on September 3, 1759. The short battle killed both commanders, the British General Wolf and the French General Montcalm.
Today, there is an obelisk that remembers the battle between two European empires fought on Canadian soil—one led by a Catholic king, the other a Protestant, one speaking English, the other French. The commemorations on the monument are inscribed in Latin, the mother of both languages.
It makes the point that what stands before the world today is a unique fusion of two great languages and cultures that exists nowhere else in the world.
What it created in time was Canada.
The monument commemorates what has endured, and stands today as a light in the world.
There is another plaque in Quebec City that recalls the failed American invasion of 1775, led by Benedict Arnold.
Today, there is another American invader in Quebec City. His name is Marco Rubio.
Like Benedict Arnold, Secretary Little Marco is a thin-skinned and petulant man. He is a poseur and a conniver, a striver and a liar.
He shares much in common with America’s most famous traitor and eternal totem of disloyalty to the Republic with one enormous distinction. Though Benedict Arnold was as morally hollow and empty as Rubio, as arrogant as Musk, and as entitled as a Trump, he was unquestionably brave in battle.
If it were the case that Benedict Arnold could be resurrected from his eternal treachery to stand in the dock at this hour of national crisis he would object and rightly so.
He would thunder that he had done nothing that should cast him in the same death as such despicable men as Trump, Musk, Vance and Rubio.
Yes, together, of course, they are all treacherous men, but only one has claim to stand beyond the realm of the coward.
Marco Rubio comes to Canada as Trump’s Ribbentrop, a defiler of his father Mario’s dreams and his nation’s values.
Secretary Little Marco, who is dumb, arrogant and out of his depth is loose upon the world stage.
A blusterer abroad, Little Marco is a Washington, DC, shine boy, a defenestrated punk and Cabinet Room eunuch.
Whether slumped on an Oval Office couch, or sailing upon silver skies in his blue and white airplane, he is a “hired man”. He is a shadow of nothing.
He is a vassal, a clerk and a joke. He is a sycophant, not a diplomat. When he breathes in Quebec he will expel a noxious gas of nonsense and a distinct type of helium that is lighter than its source, and carries a terrible stench.
For Little Marco and for the record, in consideration of Kings and Empires and the languages of North America, particularly now that English has been declared the official one in America by your Trump Fürhrer, and on behalf of all of the marlins and fish of the Gulf of America, the stench I’m talking about is singular.
It is the most dishonorable smell in Quebec City this weekend. It is the dishonorable smell of an American Puta.
My friends, cancel your summer vacations and head north to stand with Canada and the Canadian people in their magnificent country. The Warning community member Sandra shared this photo of people protesting outside of North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis’ office. Be like Sandra and send a message to our elected officials:
Spend as a little spend money in America as possible.
Only consume what is necessary, and do not buy OUTSIDE OF LOCALLY-OWNED BUSINESSES AND FARMERS.
Every American should appreciate the giant country that spans the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rocky Mountains to the Arctic. She is the world’s oldest bilingual, pluralistic, parliamentary democracy, and a force for human dignity, rights and liberty around the world.
Wherever the Canadian maple leaf flies, it is as a symbol of tolerance, freedom and equality.
Canadians and Americans have fought and died with each other from the killing fields of the First World War, Normandy Beach, the Pacific, Korea and Afghanistan.
Our peoples have married and raised families together (including me!) that have strengthened the bonds between our countries. We share sports leagues and a vast economy that trades more than a trillion dollars a year across the most prosperous border in the world.
The bonds between America and Canada are unbreakable—or so we thought.
More than 50,000 Canadians volunteered to serve in the US Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.
Canadians rescued scores of Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980, and sheltered thousands during the terrifying hours of 9/11.
Canadians are our friends, colleagues, partners and spouses. They are our family, and we are theirs.
The Canadian nation is 40 million strong and growing. It is a land of great and modern cities filled with the energy of new immigrants.
The birth of Canada is among the most momentous events in human history. It marked the announcement of a redoubt of justice, peace and prosperity.
Americans should appreciate three things in this moment.
- Donald Trump is waging economic warfare against Canada.
- Donald Trump is attacking Canada in your name.
- Americans should be ashamed, embarrassed and enraged over this.
Americans should know that it is up to us to stop this.
This weekend do something. Go to a Tesla dealership and do your part.
Go outside. Put your phone down and march.
Meet people, put your hand out and your fist in the air.
Let the whole world see you, and let them hear you.
Let it be shouted from the rooftops that we will not tolerate this obscenity at hand, and it will be confronted until it ceases.
We sit at the dawn of an age of utter madness and mayhem.
The edge of the abyss is within sight. It is directly ahead, and soon it will be seen on three sides as the edge draws closer and closer.
What is swirling is a foul wind and ill tide.
This is what Little Marco brings to Quebec City.
This weekend he will be walking in the footsteps of Churchill, FDR, King, Marshall, Dill, King and Leahy. Truly, there are no words, but this Turkish proverb fits:
When a clown goes to a castle he does not become a sultan; the castle becomes a circus.
There is an American clown in Canada this weekend.
He is an embarrassment to his country and his office.
His title might be secretary of state, but he is no such thing.
He is as he’s always been: an American nothing who has his prize. He has climbed to the peak of American life.
Marco Rubio is an “Apprentice” contestant, a humiliated speck.
In fact, he’s so small that he is hard to see at all.
Steve Schmidt
Steve Schmidt is a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. He served as a political strategist for George W. Bush and the John McCain presidential campaign. Schmidt is a founder of The Lincoln Project, a group founded to campaign against former President Trump. It became the most financially successful Super-PAC in American history, raising almost $100 million to campaign against Trump's failed 2020 re-election bid. He left the group in 2021.
