I just read a new article by Umair Haque (yeah, he crawled out of thew woodwork to post something in Medium again), where he gives everyone an "I told you so." He compares what Trump just did to Britain's Brexit, only as he says, it took Britain a few years to crash after Brexit but the U.S., it will only take months. He also says that there is no going back. No do-overs, no resets. It's a done deal and the 1930's style depression is now underway. If I were Ottawa and Mexico City, I would be starting to prepare your populations for the crash. Trump will try to start a military fight with Mexico, take over Greenland and Panama soon and find a way to punish Canada for daring to stand up to him. Get ready Canadians, Trump is coming for you.
It may, and I hope so, too. My partner, his family, and a ton of our mutual friends are all Americans. I don't want to see this turn into a complete severance of the camaraderie our nations have historically enjoyed.
But, I expect it will take years. Trump has proven to us, multiple times, that the word of the United States can no longer be trusted. There's no point in making agreements and alliances with your country; we have a trade agreement in place that TRUMP negotiated and signed, and these tariffs are a violation of it.
We can't have a friendship with someone who will stab us in the back for cheap political points. It's too unstable. There was a hockey game in Ottawa yesterday and they played the American national anthem- Canadians jeered it and booed through the whole thing.
That's where the general feeling of the country sits.
I hope this is fixed in the future, but it won't be while Trump is in office. It's a sad day for all of us.
Your right! Trump is an openly greedy, intellectually questionable, dictatator wannabe, and asswad.
When, and it may take a while, his MAGA minions stop completely living in the FOX AND FRIENDS world, I hope they will finally realize that the price of eggs is not going down. Maybe, enough of them will smarten up that Trump is only concerned about Trump.
I can now appreciate why the Founding Fathers were skeptical about giving uneducated, common men the vote. They are very likely to think emotionally rather than with eyes wide open to the obvious.
I just read a new article by Umair Haque (yeah, he crawled out of thew woodwork to post something in Medium again), where he gives everyone an "I told you so." He compares what Trump just did to Britain's Brexit, only as he says, it took Britain a few years to crash after Brexit but the U.S., it will only take months. He also says that there is no going back. No do-overs, no resets. It's a done deal and the 1930's style depression is now underway. If I were Ottawa and Mexico City, I would be starting to prepare your populations for the crash. Trump will try to start a military fight with Mexico, take over Greenland and Panama soon and find a way to punish Canada for daring to stand up to him. Get ready Canadians, Trump is coming for you.
LOVE your comment! As an American I say, Stand firmly with your middle fingers held high!
I hope it isn't a permanent break with the USA. Reason will EVENTUALLY return - I hope.
It may, and I hope so, too. My partner, his family, and a ton of our mutual friends are all Americans. I don't want to see this turn into a complete severance of the camaraderie our nations have historically enjoyed.
But, I expect it will take years. Trump has proven to us, multiple times, that the word of the United States can no longer be trusted. There's no point in making agreements and alliances with your country; we have a trade agreement in place that TRUMP negotiated and signed, and these tariffs are a violation of it.
We can't have a friendship with someone who will stab us in the back for cheap political points. It's too unstable. There was a hockey game in Ottawa yesterday and they played the American national anthem- Canadians jeered it and booed through the whole thing.
That's where the general feeling of the country sits.
I hope this is fixed in the future, but it won't be while Trump is in office. It's a sad day for all of us.
Your right! Trump is an openly greedy, intellectually questionable, dictatator wannabe, and asswad.
When, and it may take a while, his MAGA minions stop completely living in the FOX AND FRIENDS world, I hope they will finally realize that the price of eggs is not going down. Maybe, enough of them will smarten up that Trump is only concerned about Trump.
I can now appreciate why the Founding Fathers were skeptical about giving uneducated, common men the vote. They are very likely to think emotionally rather than with eyes wide open to the obvious.