Someone in Canada has created a new song, based loosely on whatever the tune is that includes the words, “From the halls of Montezuma…” And Canada has tongue-in-cheek declared the U.S. its 11th province. I love it. Good for them. Turnabout is fair play.
But also, what a shame, and waste of time and effort, because they’re playing right into Donald Trump’s hand. I find it hard to believe he has any intention of trying to make Canada the 51st state. He says shit to rile people up and see what he can get away with, to distract from the serious things going on elsewhere, like in Washington and just about every federal agency and institution.
Trump is a deluded troller, an annoyance, a buzzing mosquito, an earworm, a child who has treated the Presidency the same way he’s treated everything else in his life— as a conquest to be cast aside, but not before it is drained of everything it can give him. That he was elected to return to the White House for a second term is one of the most unbelievable and shameful events in this country’s history.
He’s an unserious sham of a human being, playing fast and loose with peoples’ lives. He’s infected with the same poisonous thinking that has claimed other of his heroes—Putin, Orban and the rest. They all take a dim view of the people they “serve.” We’re all just plebes and subjects to them, not human beings with dreams and aspirations and self-awareness and much better brains. And parents who loved us.
So, you go, Canada. And Greenland. And take heart, Gaza, and Panama and western Europe… Just know that, like us here in America, you’re all being played. You’re just the latest targets, pieces in Trump’s dumb and dangerous games. Don’t let him get in your heads. And look around for things he’s trying to get you not to notice.
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