I'm watching Trump and his tariffs John, but nothing has really developed yet other than Trump-hate based hysteria. That is in full swing.

I'm also watching the Rockets in the playoffs. The games are 4 quarters. I don't want to stop and engage in a debate about how the games will turn out every time someone steals a ball and takes it to the basket.

For the next few days I'm in West Texas riding around the mountains, so my GAS quota is very low.

But there is a scenario with regard to Canada that I am sure is lost on you. I think it bears some reality.

Trump was in a meeting with trade advisors when he realized how bad America's overall deficit was.

Then he started looking at individual nations and realized that Canada needed an adjustment.

Then Trump said, how do I bring attention to this? An advisor said, "you could say that Canadians are eating the dogs and cats."

Trump responded, "No, I've used that one. I have a better hand grenade. I'll tell them that they are getting a free ride and it's too much, so I'm going to make them the 51st state. I'll call Trudeau, who they are running out of town now, governor Trudeau. When I do that, they will crap their pants and go into a pointless frenzy.

Then Trump was asked, "what good will that do?"

Trump said, "they have elections coming up. We don't want their conservatives in office to deal with. We want the same inept liberal gumballs in office that the country wanted rid of only a few weeks ago. Their ineptness and neuroticsm will cause them to make all sorts of completely insane moves in dealing with us, because they have to keep a crazy base happy. So...on the eave of the election I'm gonna pour it on even more and churn them up so much, that the country will elect the most outlandish liberal nimrods that they have available."

https://soundcloud.com/sunset-poet-of-texas