grateful
Was anyone at all surprised by the headline that he has no plans to renew the trade agreement? At least that is what the headline was yesterday. It is still early morning, and I haven't seen any news yet today. It has likely changed three times since I saw that headline yesterday.
He doesn't care about the people in his own country... oh, sorry, I meant to say he “doesn't think about them at all.” He also loves inflation. Maybe both of those things were the dementia speaking, and not just because he's a monster with a job he should have never been given. Why would he care about the people and economies in Canada and Mexico if he doesn't even care about his own?
Was thinking about when I was young, and I had just dropped out of high school. I started my first job, and was there doing that job for a year or so. I needed a car, so I went to the bank. They gave me a loan, and then I started paying them back.
When I was about a year from paying off the money they had loaned to me, the car was wearing out. I most likely could have had repairs done, maintained it properly, and could have drove it for possibly several more years. I was bored with it though. I succumbed to temptation and desire instead of taking better care of my financial future.
I borrowed more money. Enough to pay off what was left on the first loan, and to get another car. I kept on repeating this cycle over and over, for years, until the monthly payment of my loan was on the brink of being impossible for me to pay. I was young, inexperienced, had no guidance, was not thinking about the future much, and I wanted new cars. I do take most of the blame.
Something to think about though is how the bank knew the position I was putting myself in financially. They could see the numbers, and they could see me sitting across the desk from them.
Each time I showed up at the bank for my next loan, they filled out the paperwork. Larger amounts borrowed each time, over and over. Ended with a smile and a handshake. No advice. No questions asked. Never denied. They knew I was committing a very large portion of my income to the monthly payments to them. They also knew that I was young and stupid. They knew how fucked I would be if anything went wrong in my life. I do shoulder nearly all of the responsibility for that financial hole I jumped into, but they were definitely an active participant by letting me do it to myself.
What the hell is the point?
Oh yes, the old moron, and how he slurs and blathers like we have been sneaking in the back door in the middle of the night and stealing billions from the US of A, for years, and the regime just now caught us. It is such shit. Both countries have been actively participating in the game. Similar to the story of me and the bank loans. It was in no way a matter of us taking advantage of them any more than it was me taking advantage of the bank so I could have new cars. The bank was also not taking advantage of me. It was a mutual agreement. They were helping me fuck myself over financially.
He puts on the shit show like it was us doing a bad thing to them when it was international deals made by leaders and decision makers on both sides of the border. Good? Bad? Fair? Unfair? Right? Wrong? It was what it was all along by decisions, deals and agreements.
I guess this is how fascism works. Create the perception that we are the enemy stealing from them. Give his regime, minions and supporters something to fucking jerk off to. It has to be him and his incompetent thugs pawning off propaganda as truth. The only alternative would be that they really are THAT stupid. So stupid that they actually believe it.
On he goes about how grateful Canadians should be. Am I grateful? I don't know. Yes and no. Yes, I am grateful to be Canadian. No, I don't live my life with constant inner thoughts and feelings that everything I now have is because they were generous enough to let me have it. I'm just living my life here in a system governed by decision makers.
Perhaps our country never should have become so involved with them just in case a self serving idiot like him ever took charge. Hindsight, right. But what's done is done. We can't just erase the past. I suppose fascist dictators aren't known for their diplomacy or for making deals with their neighbours. Add in aging and dementia. Surround him with bootlicker podcasters. Let’s make a deal.