Holy ****. I cannot believe it.

Yup...
In fact our federal Immigration website...crashed...
I think they got it back up now..
Boy the stock markets are taking a hit...
If he does win...
come the morning and the opening of the markets...
Stocks will tumble globally... further...
I called the stock market tumble if he won...
and it is looking all but certain he will now...

anyway...
gerbick...
you want to escape the impending nightmare...
and move your family here...
I'll vouch for you...

It's final then?
I'm so sorry, my thoughts are with you.

I might actually need therapy after this.

Bad news indeed fo trade this year. First brexit and now this. Why poeple?

Now we will never know about all the aliens at Area 51

Shocking but hardly surprising. Brexit all over again, only bigger and better, in true American style.

So are mine. And with you and me. And my kids' goldfish. After brexit, I had a slim chance to emigrate to Europe. Not realistic but at least a chance. Where do I emigrate now? Mars?

"Just like Brexit" ?
"Bad time for trade"?
Boy this is epically epically epically worse ..
wow...
just wait guys...


well ..
It's done.
The majority has spoken..
and boy it speaks volumes...
Come the opening bell for the markets...
it will get bad...

And I do not see it getting better..
Not for the U.S. and all the hard one advancements towards equality...
for same sex couples...
for the right to self determination concerning women and the right over their bodies ...and the abortion issue...
not for all the social advancements for their health care system to provide adequate and affordable services for all...
not for minorities and trying to stop racial, ethnic and religious profiling and persecution...
wow...
it is going to get rough...
there is going to be a lot of law repealled ...
Feel for any American who has to suffer through the next 4 ..possibly 8 years...

And it isn't any better a situation for the world...
Not for NATO or the U.N.
Amazingly trump was stating that Canada should do more..
I think trump should first look at perhaps paying off the back dues owed for the U.S. being a U.N. member ...
since the U.S. has never payed their U.N. member dues ...
not since the beginning ...
not since the inception of the U.N. ...

Sigh...
It doesn't look good for immigration and refugees needing help ..
It doesn't look good for attempting to keep Russia or China in check..
It doesn't look good for being proactive and helpful on the global stage either...
I see a time coming of inward naval gazing ...
where internal issues will be the interest...not external..
It doesn't bode well for NAFTA which trump means to tear up... not all that great for either mexico or canada...
it will mean renegotiating all trade since trump thinks it has been a bad deal for the U.S.
hahahaha....which is excellent...he should tear up NAFTA... wait until he realises that it is actually the other way around...
For years I have watched the actual winners and losers of NAFTA ..and the US has hardly been the loser ...
well the last thing the new trump regime better do is try to squeeze us here in Canada...
Especially since there are all the electricity and water and other resource bills which are long long overdue which are owed...and those very old resource agreements ending between U.S. and Canada..are going to have to be renegotiated too
Hell....Trump believes the U.S. must reclaim Canada ...since (In his thinking he believes) at one point Canada "must" have been part of the U.S. and believes it was a bad deal to give up Canada!
So ...it will be very interesting to see what happens and how strained relations will get...

Our prime minister has deftly avoided the trump as president issue...
One thing that is a certainty...the pair of them trump and trudeau are like north and south poles...
so far from finding common ground it isn't even funny...

It is going to be very very interesting times coming...
for Canada...for the U.S. ...for Mexico..for North America...for the world....
that is for sure

Oh wait..
I forgot...there is only one good thing trade wise with Canada and the new trump regime..(I refuse to use a capital "T" in his last name...and I refuse to call his new order a "government" ...."regime" is more fitting...)
He wants the Keystone Oil Pipeline to recommence from Canada to the U.S. ...on condition he gets money out of it....hahahaha.....
He is already getting the oil!
and wants more?
Considering we figured on something going afoul 'twixt the keystone pipeline and the U.S. ....we long ago started a pipeline to the west coast to simply ship oil internationally ...to foreign countries that "actually" pay their bills...
So trump's outrageous demands have little weight in the end...

I pretty much agree on the points you made; of course I look at it from the European perspective but the general conclusion is similar. Things are not looking so bright at the moment.

However this I find a bit disturbing;
I did read an article that stated so, but I thought it was a pastisse or lampoon; does that really reflect his beliefs??

Yup...
He actually believes his skewed view of historical events...

I would hope that someone will or has actually sat him down to explain the history of north america to him...

Regardless...
it has been obvious...a given... from the start ...in our country ...
all our analysts on our Public National Broadcaster...CBC...
have for a long time stated..
that a trump regime will be a colder relationship with Canada than any ever before...
His view is coloured concerning his neighbouring countries..
And how that will play out over time...
will be interesting...