There are many Canadians who are ready to vote for the very same leadership that has brought the country to the bottom of real GDP per Capita growth in the last ten years because of… wait for it… bad, bad Trump. This is the level of delusion among common people right now.
For anyone who thought Carney would represent a return to a more centrist, Paul Martin-style Liberal government, take note: Carney is promising more inflationary spending than Justin Trudeau.
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
—Charles Spurgeon
“Our relationship is over” to “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” in 4 days.
“Elbows up” was always boob bait for the Boomers. Congrats, you got played, and worse, you’ll never admit it.
You got played, Canada.
Carney made you fear the U.S. and then co-opted those fears to win an election campaign.
"In Carney and Trump’s first phone call, the Canadian leader reportedly told Trump that he would be talking tough against the U.S. as a campaign tactic."
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”
—Mark 12:30-31
Charles Taylor (The Ethics of Authenticity) argues that our secular culture is the most morally inarticulate ever. It is highly moralistic about its ideas of justice, and at the same moment insists that all moral values are socially constructed. Both ideas cannot be true.
"Let’s dispense with the polite fiction: Carney never meant what he said. The campaign rhetoric wasn’t just exaggerated, it was fabricated. There was no principled foreign policy vision, no doctrine of Canadian independence. It was anti-American cosplay ..."
"With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning." Cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin
Starmer’s gesture will do nothing to bring peace, nothing to accelerate a two-state solution, and nothing to bring back the hostages.
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The Prime Minister was handed a rare moment. He was handed cross-party support to fix what’s broken: energy, trade, immigration, bail, housing.
But he overspent, underdelivered, and walked away empty-handed from every major resource negotiation.
Now things are worse for
The Sharpe brothers make history tonight as Shannon presents Sterling with his Gold Jacket to become the first set of brothers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
One reason, I suspect, that younger people are cynical about democracy and open to "socialism" is that they did not grow up with the USSR, Mao, & Pol Pot & don't learn about them in school. "Totalitarian Studies are Sorely Needed" open.substack.com/pub/michaelwad…