Also: not even the basic morality of getting government off Elon Musk's X.

For the evening crowd...

If he was waiting until he had some deals in pocket to play his hand to build credibility or something, fine, fair enough. And I do think the speech said things that needed to be said. But. What matters now is what he does. So the "if" is now the operative condition: does he deliver or not?

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🙄 Congratulations on the reductio ad absurdum. Now go fuck yourself.

"No one is perfect" but God forbid anyone notice the imperfections.

This is the best the Carney partisans can do. Insinuate that criticism by ordinary citizens is illegitimate if they haven't run for office. Pathetic, empty horseshit.

"Better than Poilievre" is not exactly the high standard to which I aspire.

It's kinda amazing the depth and breadth of the positive reaction to the Carney Davos speech. I get it - Canadians like when int'l people laud us. But Carney said similar things during the election campaign and we've seen how he's governed since. I'm almost stupefied by how naive everyone is being.

For the evening crowd...

NEW POST: Is the Supreme Court's Secession Reference Still Relevant? emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-the-sup...

New at Debating Canadian Defence: open.substack.com/pub/philippe...

@jonathanmalloy.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com

I'd just add I don't think the crisis is at all over, because Trump never sticks to agreements just because they're conventionally considered binding. The crisis will only be over when his regime is dislodged from Washington, if then.

And sometimes you need a revolution.

Alberta separatism watchers, take note. A cogent analysis, here from @emmettmacfarlane.com. A lot has changed since 1998, and the path to independence is largely uncut. Is the Supreme Court's Secession Reference Still Relevant? open.substack.com/pub/emmettma...

NEW POST: Is the Supreme Court's Secession Reference Still Relevant? emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-the-sup...

Coming soon, a post from me that asks: "Is the Supreme Court's Quebec Secession Reference Still Relevant?"

Families want Canadian provinces to end MAID opt-out policy for faith-based hospitals. There are more than 100 forced transfers at end-of-life each year, by Caroline Barghout www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca @dyingwithdignity.ca

If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%

Canadian conservatives who blame Canada for not getting a deal are either quislings or morons

America is an enemy state. We should start acting like it.

Full racist hate speech. How is anyone still in that room listening to this? Yesterday someone got in trouble for cussing telling Trump to f off. But I guess hate speech is acceptable.

For instance: "Canada lives by the benefit of the United States. Remember that, Mark, when you make your statements."

If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.

Is the unemployment rate for full-time students near an all-time high in Canada? Yes it is. But - better news - the employment rate for full-time students is also near an all-time high. It's complicated.

THAT is why it's deranged? Efficiency? Not, y'know, the part about the immoral, psychopathic vengeance from a narcissistic fascist man-child who wanted the Nobel PEACE Prize?

"When your movement’s willingness to defend your country is lower than the willingness from supporters of a literal separatist party, you don’t get to claim the mantle of patriotism and national pride."

Carney’s speech at Davos was very good, but I’m surprised by pundits’ comments about it. Carney is extolled for saying the hard truth: the internatiomal rules-based order us over and we’re facing a rupture. Duh! What world have people been living in for the past year? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

If we had a halfway decent opposition party in Canada, they’d endorse the words Carney used today, and then hammer him relentlessly on implementation or lack thereof.

Bizarre editorial choice by @nytimes.com to portray Trump's threats toward Europe as strong and fearsome rather than as a madman and unhinged tyrant spiraling out of control before our very eyes

Speech looks great. Growing a bit impatient for actions that back up such words. Had my fill of "peace board" joining, oval office gaffawing, and in-or-out un-named sources Greenland defending.

"[Ontario] wants the jobs that EV manufacturing can bring but apparently doesn’t want anyone to actually buy EVs — certainly not if the price is even modest consumer subsidies." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

My assessment of Canada's Greenland dilemma, and the need for a 'defence against help' strategy, in the @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

You know what we need? Follow up. I'll be impressed when there is actually, real follow up. Not elbows half way, not repealing of policy to placate, real actual follow up.

What Carney have you been watching this past year?

When will his actions match this rhetoric? Hell, when will his rhetoric on day x match his rhetoric on day y?

And if Mark Carney is really still considering this, he's sleepwalking Canada towards the status of vassal state, turning Canada into a fig leaf (maple leaf?) for grift and imperialism. globalnews.ca/news/1161965...

If you are a Canadian, and you travel to or support the United States in any way, you are a traitor.

If Carney is looking for a good reason to not join the Board of Peace other than the fact that it's a ludicrous idea and that doing things to please Trump never actually gains anyone anything even in the short term and also why should we degrade ourselves in such a way, here it is:

My remarks at tonight's invited lecture at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. High-level takeaway: federalists should be pragmatic, purposeful, and prepared for the probable referendum on Alberta sovereignty. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

This is correct, though it's going to take a lot of work and investment to make it work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For the evening crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social on the Federal Court of Appeal decision on the use of the Emergencies Act, and why it boils down to a technical letter-of-the-law issue as opposed to the circumstances of the day #cdnpoli #cdnlaw

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Striking though unsurprising finding from research out of UofA.

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

"We elected morons" is one of the more plausible over-arching theories of the current state of global affairs.

This is very good. And if the presidency doesn't exist, to go along with a Congress that doesn't really exist, & a Supreme Court that no longer exists (in the sense that it no longer follows the law or the Constitution), then we find ourselves with a constitutional order that has totally collapsed.

I have no photos from 2016 to share. You're welcome.