In recent days, I’ve noticed an increased amount of anti-Trump rhertoric being posted on social media. This is par for the course among Leftist anti Never-Trump Americans but it’s particularly interesting coming from Canadians THESE DAYS. For example, yesterday a close friend in Vancouver told me what an idiot Trump was for telling off a reporter. I responded to to him matter of factly, “But no matter what Trump says or does, you’re going to find fault with him, right?” No response. I then asked him why I’m not getting stories from him about how Trudeau has been handling things. In fairness, he has been no fan of Trudeau either but since Covid-19 has taken hold of our society, it has been Trump-this, Trump-that 24/7.
Since this crisis heated up, and especially since Tuesday, when the “Shelter In Place” order came into effect in San Francisco, I’ve taken it upon myself to both follow the rules but also capture many photos of this extraordinary time, because I think it’s important to document the extraordinary events unfolding before us. As Steven Bannon recently said on his excellent War Room: Pandemic vidcast, sometimes not much significant occurs in history over a period of years but once in a while, major historic events occur over a period of days and weeks. He added that historians will be discussing this period of time we’re living through at the moment one hundred years from now.
So in the interest of documenting history, let’s compare what has transpired in the United States of America and Canada over the past few months: