Boos for the US

Trump's tariffs are an incredible unforced error nationally on our part, because we never had that level of animosity with our neighbor to the north before (I guess since the war of 1812). I don't know that Trump understands what Candian energy means for New England states in winter, or to what degree imposing these tariffs makes him the asshole, but we are going to readily see the problem in action because our good allies are going to reciprocate--because why shouldn't they? 

Trump doesn't understand water conservation in California and probably thinks BC needs to turn a spigot somewhere so I'm not going to try to parse his wrong-headed grievances. The last North American Trade agreement was the USMCA which was a Trump Administration coup! (As far as successful Trump Administration coups go!) and now he wants to say it's all been problematic? 

It seems to me that Trump is performing his own kind of crisis economics, where he creates a crisis and then "solves it" and relents whatever costly stupidity he was engaged in to "save" us whenever the pressure to do so comes to a head. 

It might impress the lowbrows, but it exhausts the goodwill we very strategically and with constant care have to maintain--the kind of care that would come naturally if we didn't have a president who was a whole bastard. 

MAGAs love the bastardy. I hope our allies to the North and South appreciate many of us know the bastardy of Trump is neither necessary nor helpful and that the relations we have had were amicable and should be maintained to some degree in spite of Trump, in the hopes of his eventual exit. 

 I get a little careless about how Trumps exits with every passing day. 

I also do not have a lot of love for his (would-be) successor:

JD Vance is an asshole:

The president the people elected ran on lower prices and stopping inflation. He never said jack beforehand about the 51st State or taking Greenland or the Panama Canal. He lied. But to the extent that we have unelected bureaucrats--what the fuck is Elon Musk? 

The definition of oligarchy is:

  

oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command')[1][2][3] is a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political, or military control.

It has nothing to do with casual employees who have a defined remit. It more exactly suggests DOGE. Whose remit is undefined and certainly not agreed to by the people. It suggests the moneylenders that Trump prayed with in the Temple near to his inauguration. 

Vance, of course is confused.  (He doesn't know he represents DEI for a white guy at his alma mater, which he has of late slandered by proclaiming the professors there "the enemy" while they were actually his matchmaker and his book deal hook-up. AND lots of etcetera.) 

If how the US is viewed by other nations is any metric one respects, Trump is really not pulling up our esteem. They like us depsite him. He isn't "making us great again" though. 

And this time around, I think it may go much worse, because HE is much worse.