It is not that we have been ignoring what is going on with the Americans. We just keep hoping it will heal itself. Past President Trump is under indictment and on trial in a few states and it seems that he sees no problem to continue running to be president again.
These are uncharted seas. The man continues to delude himself that he can again run for president. And the people who want to vote for him who are suffering from the same delusion.
The really scary part of this fiasco in the United States is that it happened before. It must have been the soap opera that entertained us through the pandemic. Watching the antics of Trump and friends in the White House was our entertainment. It was unreal. It couldn’t happen here, we told ourselves. We lied to ourselves.
We’ve got a guy named Pierre Poilievre who is further right wing than Trump and friends, thinking he can be prime minister of Canada. If you believe pollsters, two years before the voting, can pick a winner, you might be just as deluded as those poor Americans.
Can you just imagine a pissing contest between the American White House and the falling down 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa? And you thought relations were bad between Ottawa and New Delhi? Just wait until you’ve got two right-wing twits slinging right-wing insults back and forth on the Internet. And we used to think that aluminium embargoes in the East and softwood lumber in the west were a strain on our economy?
With our luck, President Trump would send a platoon of American Marines to Ottawa to arrest the Canadian prime minister. Maybe we could embed a CBC camera crew and reporter with the Marines to record the historic event. We would see the Marines asking directions of an Ottawa police officer on how to get to Sussex Drive. They could still go to the wrong side of Sussex and break into Rideau Hall in error. Imagine taking the Governor General back to Washington as a prisoner of war. Would she have to confess to the burning down the White House in the War of 1812?
Would the Americans expect the Brits to pay a ransom for their Governor General?
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