She was not fired, she quit. And she quit at least partially because she didn’t approve of the Trump bootlicking. It’s much more complicated than that, of course. The government is falling apart for all the same reasons all the governments everywhere are falling apart and she’s in opposition to her former ally Trudeau on a number of issues.
Chrystia Freeland used to be a journalist and a good one. She’s going to run for Prime Minister and I hope she wins. She will not put up with Trump’s bullshit.
Meanwhile, Trump’s continuing on because he has the mind of a 12 year old bully:
He’s trolling, of course. But it also illuminates how idiotically he sees the trade issue. If we buy things from Canada he sees that as a subsidy. Apparently all the goods we are buying are worth nothing? It’s right up there with his insistence that NATO has to pay us “dues” like some Florida fat cat Mar-a-Lago member. It’s so embarrassingly stupid I don’t even know how to explain it.
I realize that by this time most people probably think this silly trolling stuff doesn’t matter and really don’t want to hear about it. But it does. This imbecile is dumbing down the entire world in ways that are going to damage us irreparably. We have some very, very serious problems to confront, the most important of which is climate change. Idiocracy isn’t going to fix that, it’s going to make it worse. And nihilism or exhausted fatalism will only help that happen.