Mark Carney

Reflections on a Cartoon Xit-Show

(Some venting from spending time on Xitter, digging out the Xit from the gutters, and getting disgusted by the trolls defending Trump’s pathological stream of lies by accusing Carney of lying.)

Canadians have shed blood to defend Americans.
Repeatedly throughout history.
Without hesitation.
Without calculating a bill for the cost of saving American lives.

Those days are over, permanently, because Americans have devalued Canadian sacrifices on your behalf.

When Americans were devastated by fires, Canadians didn’t equivocate.
Canadians rushed forward to help you manage a disaster and save lives.
When Canada was devastated by fires, you threatened litigation.

Canadians will never again willingly shed blood to protect Americans.

Many Americans may not care about that now, but you will.

Americans will learn to care while drowning in the regret of being alone in a world that has become openly hostile to anything and everything American.

Within the span of less than one-tenth of your nation’s history, Americans have successfully returned it to the dust from whence it came. Americans are about to become the world’s beggar, but most can’t see that yet. Americans (and Trump supporters worldwide) won’t see that because they refuse to see how broken they have become.

Don’t believe me on that score, though, because Americans have a simple litmus test to measure their sanity against by asking themselves a simple question: “How many children have died to protect unrestricted gun ownership?”

Think carefully about your answer because it speaks volumes about the state of your potential dysphoria.

The rest of the world prioritizes its children. No other nation chooses weaponry over children.

America is a sick, broken nation, and that’s not a recent development. Still, it is an unprecedented fall from grace, made even more unique by the degree of spite-motivated self-immolation.

Congratulations on such an expedient life cycle that so quickly makes way for the rest of the world to develop without the burden of your fascist tendencies.

None of history’s despots were so willing to self-immolate so publicly and in such a horrifically surreal manner.

Even North Korea is embarrassed for America and Americans.
That, in and of itself, is already incredibly pathetic, but that’s not rock bottom for Americans yet.

That’s what elevates this cartoon xitshow from sad into truly tragic.
EPIC tragedy.

THE SHATTERED ALLIANCE: America Has Betrayed Canada For The Last Time

By today’s count (26/08/26), Americans have about 40 days of reserves left. Iran is deliberately ensuring American citizens learn to feel the pain of its government’s arrogance and overreach.

Americans could have avoided this, but it was inevitable.

You just took the wrong fork in the road and decided to repeat history instead of forging a new one in a world united by a common vision for human progress.

Nobody wants this because we all take a hit when the American economy collapses.

You just needed a kick in your complacency.

The fork in the road that you most recently missed was a Bernie Sanders presidency… and that, to the rest of the world, is where the tragedy of America went from Bush dark to Trump dystopia.

Americans really should have heeded Eisenhower.
Americans really should have defended unions when Reagan began their destruction.
Americans really should have fought for universal health care, realistic gun legislation, and prioritizing the people over the plutocrats, but you didn’t… and now, the entire globe is suffering.

The entire globe isn’t going to sit back and watch you let the Tech-bro empire consume the world.

Nothing in the immediate future spells anything but significant hardship for the world and extreme hardship for American citizens. For those who abstained from voting in the last federal election for whatever petty reason you had, you really didn’t fully consider your actions. I bet you’re beginning to understand that now.

Our world is on fire. There is no room or patience for this Trump Xit.

The longer Americans take to resolve his nightmare, the worse it gets for the entire world, and as some Americans may be seeing, the entire world is becoming united in giving America and Americans a huge middle finger.

You can change that, though, by being serious about your protesting, instead of making them social events… because that shows you haven’t quite grasped how this is a fight for your own lives.

Where did Pierre Poilievre go wrong?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Where did Pierre Poilievre go wrong? How did he blow it?”

Rather than answer this question directly because it’s already been answered well enough, I want to explain why Reich-wing politics has been going wrong for a long time.

In a nutshell, they offer nothing beyond rage bait. They offer no vision, no solutions, no analyses. They offer no ideas for anything not based on imposition and an upward redistribution of wealth.

They have been wallowing in a cynically misanthropic view of their constituents and the system of governance they pretend to represent as wolves in sheep’s clothing for several decades now.

Trudeau may not have been perfect in every respect, but he came through when it counted. His heart and mind were in the right place. He is a man of integrity who realized that the public develops fatigue after a decade.

He chose to do what Joe Biden did by reading the room and putting country over personal aspirations.

He chose to do the honourable thing that a selfless person would do when they love their country. He made way for the next leader, who would be the right person to carry the torch for the next cycle.

Poilievre had a winning hand that he could have used to coast into leadership. All he had to do was offer the people some uplifting and inspirational ideas. Had he been capable of extolling the benefits of a vision that could align a nation in solidarity against a rapidly changing world where a long-standing alliance suddenly threatened our nation’s sovereignty, he could have been viewed as a potential hero for the people.

The trouble is that he’s not a people person. He cannot care about people, and he repeatedly demonstrates his misanthropic disdain for the people through numerous heinous examples, like denying the pain and suffering of families who have endured horrors like the residential school nightmare.

Instead of contrasting against the orange enemy to the south, he echoes him in attitude and virtually guarantees a similar destruction of Canada that Trump has created for our neighbours.

Poilievre, Trump, and CONservative notables worldwide have embraced this same ethos of disdain for the people and the democratic principles they have sworn to uphold.

Instead of presenting solutions to problems, they point fingers of blame at an opponent they treat like a foreign enemy and hurl confessions as accusations to stir up divisive public ire rather than messages of unity or a path to solidarity.

About four or so decades ago, Conservative campaign strategists discovered the effectiveness of negative campaigning and took to it like ducks to water.

Choosing that simplistic and simple-minded but winning strategy allowed them to abdicate their responsibility to devise productive strategies for motivating a nation to grow together.

Over time, they lost their ability to develop sound policy while focusing solely on attacking their opposition with increasing hyperbolic negativity.

Watching how that strategy has played out in the U.S. has made it clear to many Canadians that we don’t want to import that destructive nonsense. We’re better than that.

We’re getting tired of the negativity and want authentic leadership.

When a genuine leader stepped forward to present Canadians with a real vision, real solutions, solid ideas, and the courage to face down a legitimate enemy and tame him, it was immediately apparent to many Canadians that Poilievre wasn’t even in the same league of leadership.

It’s like comparing a junior league hockey player with a Stanley Cup champion.

The entire world has also been running out of tolerance for the childish antics of the narcissistic incel troglodytes and their perpetual nasal drip of toxic spew.

The endless hate-mongering is tiresome and emotionally draining. Living in a fog of pollution reminds me of the wafting odours I grew up with in a town with multiple pulp mills. There were days when the smell caused headaches.

I remember how people who were employed by the pulp mills expected shortened lifespans from their jobs, but extolled the benefits of getting a fresh coat of paint on their vehicles every couple of years because of the damage to the paint by just being parked in the lot while they worked their shift.

CONservatives today remind me of that toxic gas that one learned to endure as it filled the town’s air to overwhelm one’s senses. We learned to carry on with our days despite it. We also knew its long-term effects were destructive. We endured it because those mills were essential to sustaining our town’s economy.

We lived off the gas that poisoned us.

That’s what Conservatives have become for society and the people they revile as “woke” are waking up to how they hate being lied to and played like puppets for the benefit of a few who laugh at our naivety as they rip us off while calling us losers and suckers.

This is who and what they are. Until they can be incentivized to be better humans, they will continue to fill the air with life-threatening toxins.

Pierre didn’t “blow it” because he can’t be anything but a product of his grooming. He’s not a leader and never has been anything but a mouthpiece for those who gave him his marching orders.

The people responsible for blowing the lead they had been given on a silver platter are those who convinced a nation of 350 million people that a 34 times convicted felon would be a saviour of a country.

The toxic people who are motivated by hatred blew it because they presume everyone is as broken and toxic as they are.

It’s like every racist believes everyone else is racist. That’s the only way they can justify their hate-mongering and live with it. If they woke up one day and honestly faced the ugly truth about themselves, many would be so horrified by the ugliness in their nature that they would break into pieces.

We’re done with the negativity and want something to live for, not fight against.