Yet somehow people expect Carney to be able to negotiate some kind of favourable deal with a recalcitrant man-baby who still holds a grudge against Canada because Trump hotel Toronto removed his name or something. Sometimes you have to wait for the knife to stop stabbing before you can try to stop the bleeding, much less heal the wound

Not to mention a truck trip away compared to a truck run to get to a train to get to a ship that unloads to a train that unloads to a truck to get to its destination.

There was nothing in the parent comment about Israel or Gaza either but here we all are.

Slogans and cancelling Prime for a few years isn’t going to stop the US from rolling over us, militarily or economically if they really want. It’s great everyone is willing to fight a 30 year insurgency but who wants that. I’ll be dead before seeing any kind of Canada again. Yes I selfishly want the chance at retirement I was promised my whole life. I don’t want a war if it can be avoided.

Anytime I bring up that this time is the last time Canada can build nukes with at least some plausible deniability that they aren’t aimed at the US, I’m told they’ll never allow it and it’s immoral and it’s not the Canadian way. It’s the only chance to hold off an American threat for long enough to get through this but apparently hardly any Canadians want them. So negotiation is the only way. And we’re not strong enough or unified enough to force our hand. Time is needed to forge new alliances and firm trade partners.

Carney was always a compromise to stave off a horrible outcome. No one is going to be happy. The right didn’t win, the left can’t get what they want and the middle has to scrape and fight to just maintain some of what we have. Nowhere near enough people want what the NDP is selling. Too many in the centre were dismissed, or called racist, or misogynistic, or homophobic, or fascist or whatever for veering from the party line. So too many gave up or just turned right just to feel like they’d get something.

The way this country over reacts to any kind news, real, exaggerated, contrived or just out and planted by agitators is so fucking disheartening.

I’m sure you used the same logic in regards to that Trudeau fellow who was so popular a few months back. His name seemed to be on everybody’s lips, many rightwingers seemed to fervently want to have sex with him.

HEY! His mom said to leave him alone already! He’s a special little boy…

https://share.temu.com/d64Qps9oTGA

Actual shirt being sold on temu. I honestly don’t know who it’s marketed for. It’s so ridiculous you wouldn’t think it was for supporters but with the denseness of that crowd who knows.

It’s entertaining. Funny and has heart.