The not-so-great Alaska earthquake

There was a “severe” earthquake off the Alaska coast this morning. Anywhere from a 7.9 to an 8.2, depending on where you read it and the time of day. That caused a tsunami alert all the way down the west coast of British Columbia, including some of my favourite haunts on Vancouver Island.

A few hours later, the tsunami alert was rescinded… the “tsunami” rolled into Tofino at a full 3 cm above the usual water levels.

Three centimetres?

Kinda reminds me of the tsunami alerts we’ve been getting non-stop since Dangerous Donald took over the White House a year ago. The sky was gonna fall. Top-drawer prognosticators were proclaiming the demise of The Republic.

The economy would collapse.

A year later, all that’s happened is that the Dow Jones is at record heights and even the working class got a few crumbs from the Trump tax reform that was engineered to make the super-rich much richer.

After all, everybody knows that the only problem with the US economy is that rich people don’t have enough money. They are the job creators after all, and how are they supposed to create jobs with both hands tied behind their backs by the draconian neo-Marxist taxation regimes favoured by the commies in the Obama cabinet?

Trump is making America great again!