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Christmas in America!

We rented a few condos in Vail for the Christmas period, in fact, we landed in the US on the 26 of December for 10 days of skiing and fun.   The skiing and the fun were all there, which was great, what was less fun was the "political discussions".  For some reason, Americans are convinced that the entire world is interested in the bowel movement. I mean, sure Trump won, but he's not taking office for a few weeks yet and the stuff coming out is amazing, I mean invade Canada, Greenland and Panama.  My favourite was three nights ago when some guy was trying to convince everyone that it was not Putin who had invaded Ukraine.   I mean that's beyond revisionist history.   

When did America's far-right become pro-Russian?  In short Americans are nuts and that's that.  I have no idea how successful Trump will be in his second term,. because he did absolutely nothing in the first term, he did cut taxes and built about 10 km of new walls with Mexico, which begs the question, why invade Canada and not Mexico?   I mean the economic relationship is far stronger with Mexico, there is greater dependence.  Canada is the US's second-largest trading partner because it exports a lot of oil to the US.  

Personally, it was that part of the trip that was disagreeable.   I met a French couple who went out of their way to explain they did not speak English to avoid the American nuts (which is 100% of America).  One thing is for sure, if Trump actually follows up with his plan to invade Canada/Greenland/Panama he will hurt the US economy.   

Anyway, he has managed to antagonize Congress (and they are on his side) in the past few days.   I suspect that the next four years, assuming that Trump keeps his mind, will be a series of tweets and announcements and not much else.


Aside from that the snow was nice, as was the food.  However, it's nice to be back.




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