US Tariffs on Canada

50% in additional US tariffs are now in effect on numerous things from Canada. I don’t see that there’s any point in having anything further to do with the US. The USMCA/CUSMA trade agreement might as well have never existed. I think Canada should give six months’ notice and withdraw from it, before Donnie Orangeface gets his lazy, lying, mentally-unstable, racist, oligarchic, misogynist, homophobic, pedophile ass around to it. I almost feel like giving back my UCLA Ph.D., because it also might as well have never existed. I hope the entire world boycotts the 2028 LA Olympics.

Not Travelling to the US

There’s no way I’m travelling to the US in the foreseeable future. I may never go there again. It’s no longer anything like it was when I lived there in 1995-2000, 2007-08, and 2010. It already used to rank moderately low on international and even US-based rankings of things like freedom, democracy, life expectancy, relative cost of health coverage, and most other things. Its rankings have been far below those of European countries, Canada, Australia, and others.

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