After two weeks in the United States, it is good to be back home, although we miss the warm weather from Los Angeles. As they say, typical English weather; it's rainy and 9. Still, stiff upper lip and all.
My impression of America is a sea change from what it was just months ago. The change is dramatic, far worse than what is reported in the press. Price rise and availability of certain goods have not really occurred yet, but the writing is on the wall.
Trump it seems is playing some kind of mad checkers game that has no rhyme or reason, tariff policy changes daily, and even takes some of his own people by surprise, the chaos is total and when the President says "they are all coming to negotiate" the question has to be what and with whom?
I mean, attacking Harvard because it doesn't support Israel enough when the university president is Jewish...letters are sent, disavowed, but then policy is implemented on what the letters say? If Trump's idea is to remove certification from Harvard, Yale, MIT and the other bastions of liberalism, do you know what will happen? No one will pay attention to the certification process.
We were careful to keep our mouths shut, but god were we baited by the idiots. The only bait I took was when we were discussing the high cost of beef in England and how American beef was so much better and cheaper. I simply said, our customers will not eat meat that has been injected with growth hormones and pumped full of antibiotics. I also pointed it out that the mean being offered at the dinner that evening was from grass fed beef that was not given growth hormone, or antibiotic, that there is a reason why cattle ways 300 pounds less in the UK than in the US, and why chicken is tastless in America, but its cheap!
Anyway, glad to be home to the great British mess.
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