One More Day - March 31st 2025 Diary

 March 31^st 2025

Yeah, I had the date wrong on yesterday’s post.

It feels odd to think that the US has decided to destroy it’s relationship with Canada and do so in a way that will last for a generation or more.  If the United States can not maintain a decent relationship with Canada, they will have no friends. 

The US is not nearly a big enough economy, or have a large enough population, to go it all on their own.  It is their integration into the world economy and taking the leadership that has brought them so many benefits.  The auto industry that will suffer massively with the tariffs, is American owned.  If Ford, GM, and Stellantis do move all their production to the US they will lose the Canadian and Mexican markets.  Canada is an important market for the Big Three.  They all become weaker companies.

Canada has for generations sent our brightest and best to the US.  The reality is that there has been a long term brain drain from Canada to the US.  This seems to be coming to an end now, or at least I have seen the first signs of it.  This is unlikely to hurt the US in the short term but it is will be felt.

Elon Musk is part of that brain drain.  He is a Canadian that moved to the US to make his fortune.  Do we want him back?  No and that is why people focus on his South African background, Canadians are ashamed to have him as a citizen.

Part of my issue with the whole Trump shit storm is that we have to live through each day and seeing any hope of the American administration not being evil fades further and further.  Knowing that the American administration is evil does not help because then we have to wonder when will the evil end and how long that will take.  Each day it sinks into me more and more that the US is possessed by evil people and it will be four years before anything might change.

On a positive side, I think the odds of an invasion are quite low, less than 5% as long as the US gets their oil, electricity, and potash.  The likelihood of being invaded being remote is a positive?

I also place hope in Trump’s age.  There is a decent chance he will die of natural causes in the next four years.  I do not believe this fascist regime will continue without his irrationality at it’s centre.

One more day.