Flight Of Fancy

The war with Iran continues and there is a lot going spawning multiple levels of concern.

Who knows where to start?

Well, I don't and I won't.  

I'll summarize my feelings on this war as best I can: 

• It shouldn't have started in the first place.
• It's creating nothing but chaos and uncertainty.
• It will not end on good terms for anybody.
• And Donald Trump is just lying about eveything.

If you seek more cogent analysis, you need to look elsewhere. 

Meanwhile, today's post is about something else.

About my own gullibility.

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About a month ago, I saw a video on Tik Tok that got my attention. A nondescript Asian gentleman in glasses and a button down shirt solemnly declared that the United States has lost a war.

With Canada.

As you know, Donald Trump has had a mad on at Canada, accusing our northern neighbor of taking advantage of the United States and Li'l Donnie was not gonna take it anymore.

He slapped punative tariffs on Canadian goods to teach them a lesson. Along with multiple insults directed at Canada to show his utter disdain for the country. 

What Li'l Donnie fails to reckon with is that the people he bullies can fight back and that was the gist of this video.

Basically the story goes is that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's government issued a directive to suspend preferential overflight rights that the United States airline industry has enjoyed for decades. 

So what this amounts to is that shortcuts that various American airlines used for international flights through Canadian airspace to save time and fuel (and therefore money) were no longer available.  Airlines would need to make longer trips, make more frequent stops and use more fuel without those shortcuts through Canada.

Basically if Trump thought he could fuck with Canada, he forgot Mark Carney could fuck with America right back.

I posted a comment: "As an American, I find myself rooting for Canada."  

Whatever it takes to put that orange fat fuck Donald J. Trump in his place, am I right?

To date, I have 37.8K likes on that comment!

But...

Why wasn't I hearing more about this story?

It seems a ballsy move like that by Mark Carney would've elicited some kind of whiny bitch session from Li'l Donnie on his moth eaten Truth Social shit show.

The video was posted by a Tik Tok account known as story.tale962 with the innocuous descriptor of providing financial analysis on daily commodities.

And all the videos have the same static shot of that nondescript Asian gentleman in glasses and always with the same button down shirt.  

Ah geez! Did I fall for some generative AI shit?  

I did some digging and found no other viable sources for the "Canada shuts down airspace to the United States" story anywhere.

I did find a write up in LinkedIn that backs up what I found, that there's no credible reporting behind this story.  

What is going on is due to Trump's negative actions and rhetoric which has decimated Canadians' desire to travel to the United States and instead maybe visit Mexico or some where else. 

Canadian airlines have addressed their falling capacity for U.S. flights by reducing the number of flights scheduled to go to the United States.

But Mark Carney and the Candadian government blocking American access to Canada's airspace? It's not a thing.

It's just a flight of fancy. 

And I fell I for some generative AI shit!