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Amaryllis

(11,357 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 10:01 AM 14 hrs ago

Mark Carney Just Told the Entire American Empire to Go Fuck Itself, and Every Leader on Earth Is Quietly Taking Notes

https://ifloz.substack.com/p/mark-carney-just-told-the-entire

While 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 it’s an accident. Usually it’s 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 House’s 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 cunt’s 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 didn’t answer. Carney picked the question up by the scruff of its scrawny little neck and pegged it straight out a seventh-storey window.

“I don’t think that was an exact quote of what I said yesterday, so I’m not going to associate myself with it the way you framed it.”

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Mark Carney Just Told the Entire American Empire to Go Fuck Itself, and Every Leader on Earth Is Quietly Taking Notes (Original Post) Amaryllis 14 hrs ago OP
Every word worth reading UpInArms 14 hrs ago #1
Another great substack to follow - thanks! A very good turn of words. erronis 14 hrs ago #2
Yes, I vowed no more substacks in the overflowing inbox but this was irresistable. I just discovered it this week. Amaryllis 14 hrs ago #3
Everybody thinks they're the rude pundit these days. I'm sure this is great but the AI inflected style is a unreadable Blues Heron 14 hrs ago #4
Yep. It seems every other word these days is "fuck" or fucking". Mister Ed 10 hrs ago #15
A little of that as set dressing goes a long way nt GenThePerservering 17 min ago #22
Bravo Mr. Carney! Swede 14 hrs ago #5
We might someday scour out the majority of fascists wnylib 11 hrs ago #14
This felt so good to read. You go Canada! Biophilic 13 hrs ago #6
Carney is turning into a modern day wwii Churchill nt Javaman 13 hrs ago #7
all i can say is thank you prime minister mark carney....you are just the man we need for this time in dawn5651 12 hrs ago #8
And what we need for this time in American history. Amaryllis 12 hrs ago #9
And Carney is correct. republianmushroom 12 hrs ago #10
The free world is diversifying economically and militarily from the "unreliable partner". BlueWavePsych 11 hrs ago #11
A must read. dalton99a 11 hrs ago #12
Whole piece excellent Wild blueberry 11 hrs ago #13
The fucking idiots had to give him a second chance he didn't deserve. Initech 10 hrs ago #16
Does the writer think that Carney is from Australia? Renew Deal 10 hrs ago #17
No, the name of his substack is I fucking love Australia. I don't know what it means. This is the only info on his Amaryllis 7 hrs ago #19
That makes sense Renew Deal 2 hrs ago #21
Capital will simply move Cirsium 8 hrs ago #18
Must Read malaise 7 hrs ago #20

UpInArms

(55,146 posts)
1. Every word worth reading
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 10:12 AM
14 hrs ago
Because the world has been doing a quiet, methodical audit. And the audit came back with a very fucking interesting result. Turns out the US is 25% of global GDP. Which means the other 75% is right there, waiting to trade, waiting to invest, waiting to build something that isn’t on fire. Canada just signed 20 new trade deals since the tariff war started. 20. TWENTY. While the American farmers who voted for the syphilitic circus clown are standing in empty barns wondering where the Chinese soybean orders went. They went to Brazil, you absolute magnificent fucking geniuses. They went to Brazil and they are never coming back. Enjoy your cat food. Enjoy your bankruptcy auctions. Enjoy voting for the prick who took your farm off you because you thought owning the libs was worth more than owning your own fucking land.


Thank you for posting

Amaryllis

(11,357 posts)
3. Yes, I vowed no more substacks in the overflowing inbox but this was irresistable. I just discovered it this week.
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 10:15 AM
14 hrs ago

Blues Heron

(8,924 posts)
4. Everybody thinks they're the rude pundit these days. I'm sure this is great but the AI inflected style is a unreadable
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 10:22 AM
14 hrs ago

Mister Ed

(6,953 posts)
15. Yep. It seems every other word these days is "fuck" or fucking".
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 01:53 PM
10 hrs ago

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".

Swede

(39,776 posts)
5. Bravo Mr. Carney!
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 10:27 AM
14 hrs ago

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)
14. We might someday scour out the majority of fascists
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 01:35 PM
11 hrs ago

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.

dawn5651

(785 posts)
8. all i can say is thank you prime minister mark carney....you are just the man we need for this time in
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 11:56 AM
12 hrs ago

canadian history.

BlueWavePsych

(3,412 posts)
11. The free world is diversifying economically and militarily from the "unreliable partner".
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 12:51 PM
11 hrs ago


... now with South Korea, India and all of the ASEAN countries!

Amaryllis

(11,357 posts)
19. No, the name of his substack is I fucking love Australia. I don't know what it means. This is the only info on his
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 05:15 PM
7 hrs ago

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.

Cirsium

(3,998 posts)
18. Capital will simply move
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 04:03 PM
8 hrs ago

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.

While the American farmers who voted for the syphilitic circus clown are standing in empty barns wondering where the Chinese soybean orders went. They went to Brazil, you absolute magnificent fucking geniuses. They went to Brazil and they are never coming back. Enjoy your cat food. Enjoy your bankruptcy auctions. Enjoy voting for the prick who took your farm off you because you thought owning the libs was worth more than owning your own fucking land.


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.
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