America is Over

Donald Trump has destroyed more accumulated wealth in the last five days than any human being in history.

That is fact, not hyperbole. More than 10 trillion dollars have been wiped from global coffers, if not far more. It’s so hard to keep count of these unfathomable sums.

Sure, policy has generally caused every economic downturn ever, but the difference this time is the sheer stupidity and delusion behind those choices.

Where do we go from here?

No one has a clue. This is beyond unprecedented. This is an act of global sabotage that will destroy so many lives. So many elderly people being wiped out. So many businesses. Families won’t eat.

There’s no logic to any of this.

But, here in Canada, we don’t have the economic threats to the same extent — retirement savings will vanish, yes, but our economy has breakers in it and we’re already walking away from the American market.

All this reconfirms how critical it is that we change partnerships even faster, and forever.

Everything I said before, two weeks ago, remains true — except now Donald Trump has pulled the plug on the American Empire. No matter what happens now, it’s over. There’s no coming back from this.

This piece from Jonathan V. Last, who I generally don’t read, gave me literal chills when I read it. Sadly, they've put the second half of the article behind a paywall, but I read the article when it came out.

I essentially wrote similarly on some things a couple weeks ago, but we didn’t know THIS would be happening to THIS extent, and with such rapidly profound effect, after cratering every market on the planet.

But I will pull the first section from his post for you, because he uses Canada as the point when Last knew America was over.

Fittingly, it was the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, who declared the official time of death.

“The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was yesterday. The system of global trade anchored on the United States, that Canada has relied on since the end of the Second World War—a system that, while not perfect, has helped to deliver prosperity for our country for decades—is over.

Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over.

The eighty-year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership—when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of good and services—is over.

While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality.”

And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended.

I don’t know where we go from here.

I don’t know what Americans do next. So much of this depends on them, their courage, their willingness to change this, and what that takes to achieve.

An estimated 3 to 5+ million people protested peacefully last weekend, but I suspect the growing realization of how bad things truly are will change the numbers and severity of those protests, and soon. Eventually, it will be violent.

As people lose their jobs, they’ll have nothing left to lose. Many accounts of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 hinge on violence becoming part of their forced downfall of the USA, but that doesn't mean it will go their way.

I imagine there’s nothing scarier than 100 million or so rebels with nothing to lose when you’re a billionaire with everything to lose.

Whatever happens now, there are a few things that remain true:

• You’ll need to know how to cook.
• You’ll need to have a trusted network of people around you.
• Fascism always fails.

We stand on the cusp of a new world order. Nothing we have known is true anymore. Nothing we have done will protect us from what’s coming, but we can control how it changes our world, how we rebuild. This can be the impetus for a new future, a different way forward.

What’s very certain is America cannot be trusted. Not now, not ever again.

Any politician who won’t tell you that or doesn’t believe it, they’re suspect. That means Pierre Poilievre — the man who still doesn’t have security clearance, who thinks there are only two genders, who considers Indigenous people ‘lazy,’ who loathes immigration, who thinks Trump and Musk have good policies, who has been ENDORSED by both, and who wants to weed out “waste” in the government, DOGE-style.

I have been saying terrifying times are coming. I hate to be cynical or seem pessimistic, but this is the world we’re in and being an optimist will only leave you unprepared and crestfallen if you’re wrong. Optimism serves no one today.

We need to prepare for an economic depression and a changing world where our former ally is now our greatest threat.

I hate cults of personality and I don’t think any politician will ever be Jesus-like. So, no, I don’t think Mark Carney is perfect, and I don’t love the Liberal Party.

But I think we have never had the right person for the job more than we currently do — and it’s why there’s such a wild swing of anti-Carney sentiment from trolls overnight, because he’s against the economic aspirations the billionaire class stands for.

Three weeks until we vote, Canada.

Every single day, it becomes clearer how important this election is. Make sure your friends and family know this isn’t the Conservative Party we once knew — it’s a party that wants to betray Canada by continuing to befriend America. They’re a party who fails to see the urgency of the moment… or perhaps wants to embrace the chaos to serve their own ends.

Voting on April 28^th (or preferably by mail or advance polling!) is the most important thing you’ll ever do as a Canadian. The future of our country depends on it like never before.

Stay strong, folks.