Canadian surrender monkeys? Not this time, you fascistic Orangutang!
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“You campaign in poetry,” Mario Cuomo once famously said. “You govern in prose.”
That was a fancy way of saying that politicians often say one thing, of course, and end up doing another. Or - at least in the view of the former New York State Governor - that elections are sun-drenched daydreams. Elections, once won, rapidly devolve into reality - and, often, total nightmares.
Welcome to Mark Carney’s nightmare.
It’s not all his fault, of course. Donald Trump is the Mango Mussolini, the Cheeto Benito. He is a monkey with a machine gun. There was never going to be any serious give-and-take with the U.S. President, because he’s a maniac and a thug.
But, but, but: Mark Carney told us he could handle Trump, didn’t he? Over and over, too. “Elbows up,” and “We’ll fight back” and “I’ll get a deal” and “We're all going to stand up against Donald Trump. I'm ready.” Those are the things Mark Carney said. Repeatedly.
Remember those? Those were Carney’s election-time bits of poetry. Fast forward to now, when Mark Carney, the bard, is hearing a different tune.
Actually, no, he isn’t. Even though 100,000 Canadian families could still lose their livelihood, even when the Canadian economy is about to get body-slammed by the most-despised U.S. President in modern history, the Liberal leader still isn’t telling us, exactly, what happened. He hasn’t let us in on the devilish details in “the deal,” either.
If past political behaviour is a good indicator of future political behaviour, and it is, Mark Carney isn’t going to tell us anything anytime soon. We’ll have to wait for the inevitable late-night, all-caps Truth Social proclamation of domination over us, the hapless 51st State. For his part, JD Vance had tried to anticipate the result. Late this week, the bilious U.S. Vice-President told a gathering of young Republicans: “It’s hilarious because Carney presents this as some victory for Canada when fundamentally, like, they climb down on a lot of issues.”
Like, yes, Carney did, many times.
But not, apparently, this time. Carney walked away.
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Warren,
He was perhaps more candid in the presser than was in his political self-interest and I applaud that. Even PP said this is our fight and we must stay united. Take it to 'em.