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https://ifloz.substack.com/p/mark-carney-just-told-the-entireWhile Trump Was Still Asleep Under a Sunbed in Three Layers of Tangerine Spackle, the Prime Minister of Canada Calmly Announced the American Century Was Fucking Finished
I Fucking Love Australia
Apr 23, 2026
Every so often in politics you get a moment where the curtain drops, the music stops, and somebody with a functioning central nervous system just flat-out says the quiet fucking part. Usually its an accident. Usually its a leaked hot mic. Usually the staffer responsible gets frog-marched out of the building before lunch with a cardboard box full of their stapler and their dignity.
Yesterday in Ottawa, Mark Carney did it on purpose. In front of the whole press pack. With a straight face. While the White Houses entire trade policy watched its own trousers fall down around its ankles in real fucking time.
Some American correspondent, clearly operating off a script written in the Commerce Department the night before by a 24-year-old intern with a lisp and a MAGA hat, rolled in with the most Trump-coded question imaginable. Loaded premise. Bigger framing. Howard Lutnick said this. Jamieson Greer said that. The Americans are confused about where this entry-fee talk is coming from. The Americans are threatening retaliation because Canadian liquor boards refuse to stock the spray-tanned cunts preferred brand of industrial paint thinner labelled as bourbon. What are you going to do, Prime Minister? How are you going to calm the mighty Americans down?
Carney didnt answer. Carney picked the question up by the scruff of its scrawny little neck and pegged it straight out a seventh-storey window.
I dont think that was an exact quote of what I said yesterday, so Im not going to associate myself with it the way you framed it.
much more at link
UpInArms
(55,146 posts)Thank you for posting
erronis
(24,170 posts)Amaryllis
(11,357 posts)Blues Heron
(8,924 posts)Mister Ed
(6,953 posts)It doesn't really offend me, but it certainly doesn't add value or provide any useful information.
Reading such dispatches is like listening to a speaker whose every other utterance is "umm".
GenThePerservering
(3,540 posts)Swede
(39,776 posts)Someday (soon I hope) the USA will be led by adults. Those adults will have a enormous job of scouring out the Fascists in its government, and being a normal, first world country.
wnylib
(26,277 posts)in the US government. Not all. Some will crawl back under their rocks to hide and hope for another rise to power in the future.
But, the US returning back to being a first world country? Not in the near future. Maybe not in the distant future. So much damage has been done to the American economy and to American institutions that we are falling behind first world countries already. The fall will continue as long as the fascists are in power.
Only when they are gone from power will we be able to start recovering from the disaster they have inflicted.
Biophilic
(6,609 posts)Javaman
(65,911 posts)dawn5651
(785 posts)canadian history.
Amaryllis
(11,357 posts)republianmushroom
(22,475 posts)BlueWavePsych
(3,412 posts)
... now with South Korea, India and all of the ASEAN countries!
dalton99a
(94,803 posts)Wild blueberry
(8,344 posts)PM Carney is a treasure, for Canada and all the world.
Thank you.
Initech
(108,992 posts)Renew Deal
(85,279 posts)Amaryllis
(11,357 posts)substack page: "Facts lead to knowledge. Opinions lead to ignorance. We swear a lot. Not affiliated with any political party."
Looks like he is Australian.
Renew Deal
(85,279 posts)Thaanks
Cirsium
(3,998 posts)The other side of the immigration "coin" is the ease with which Capital can move across borders - unlike Labor. That means if China is not importing soybeans from the United States, the money behind the soybean industry will simply move to Brazil, if it is Brazil where soybeans are being grown.
The notion that US farmers will experience "FAFO" maybe emotionally satisfying but not supported by the facts. Do farmers - farm owners - trend Republican? Of course. All owners do. But there are not enough farmers to affect elections, even in heavily agricultural districts. The big capital controlling the food industry is not constrained by any borders.
The supposed farm vote that the Republicans have a lock on is all an illusion. It's a bunch of Walter Mittys fantasizing and identifying with various stereotypes: the pioneer, the cowboy, the lumberjack, the rancher and the farmer. The Republicans know how to play on those fantasies - W. Bush with his phony ranch, Reagan on horseback, and Trump with all his macho imagery.
Here in a heavily agricultural district there are approximately 300 or so farm owners. But Trump picked up 30,000 votes here. When JD Vance was holding a rally nearby, he went on and on talking smack about agriculture, how Trump was going to help farmers by rounding up immigrants and imposing tariffs, which of course is absolute nonsense. Those moves hurt farmers. But the thousands of people in that crowd cheered and cheered. "Yeah! We're on the side of the farmers! We're real Americans! Rugged pioneer stock yippee ki yay!" I doubt there were many growers in that audience at all.
malaise
(297,048 posts)K &R