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Amaryllis

(11,372 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 10:01 AM Friday

Mark Carney Just Told the Entire American Empire to Go Fuck Itself, and Every Leader on Earth Is Quietly Taking Notes [View all]

https://ifloz.substack.com/p/mark-carney-just-told-the-entire

While Trump Was Still Asleep Under a Sunbed in Three Layers of Tangerine Spackle, the Prime Minister of Canada Calmly Announced the American Century Was Fucking Finished
I Fucking Love Australia
Apr 23, 2026

Every so often in politics you get a moment where the curtain drops, the music stops, and somebody with a functioning central nervous system just flat-out says the quiet fucking part. Usually it’s an accident. Usually it’s a leaked hot mic. Usually the staffer responsible gets frog-marched out of the building before lunch with a cardboard box full of their stapler and their dignity.

Yesterday in Ottawa, Mark Carney did it on purpose. In front of the whole press pack. With a straight face. While the White House’s entire trade policy watched its own trousers fall down around its ankles in real fucking time.

Some American correspondent, clearly operating off a script written in the Commerce Department the night before by a 24-year-old intern with a lisp and a MAGA hat, rolled in with the most Trump-coded question imaginable. Loaded premise. Bigger framing. Howard Lutnick said this. Jamieson Greer said that. The Americans are confused about where this entry-fee talk is coming from. The Americans are threatening retaliation because Canadian liquor boards refuse to stock the spray-tanned cunt’s preferred brand of industrial paint thinner labelled as bourbon. What are you going to do, Prime Minister? How are you going to calm the mighty Americans down?

Carney didn’t answer. Carney picked the question up by the scruff of its scrawny little neck and pegged it straight out a seventh-storey window.

“I don’t think that was an exact quote of what I said yesterday, so I’m not going to associate myself with it the way you framed it.”

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Every word worth reading UpInArms Friday #1
Another great substack to follow - thanks! A very good turn of words. erronis Friday #2
Yes, I vowed no more substacks in the overflowing inbox but this was irresistable. I just discovered it this week. Amaryllis Friday #3
Everybody thinks they're the rude pundit these days. I'm sure this is great but the AI inflected style is a unreadable Blues Heron Friday #4
Yep. It seems every other word these days is "fuck" or fucking". Mister Ed Friday #15
A little of that as set dressing goes a long way nt GenThePerservering Saturday #22
Bravo Mr. Carney! Swede Friday #5
We might someday scour out the majority of fascists wnylib Friday #14
This felt so good to read. You go Canada! Biophilic Friday #6
Carney is turning into a modern day wwii Churchill nt Javaman Friday #7
all i can say is thank you prime minister mark carney....you are just the man we need for this time in dawn5651 Friday #8
And what we need for this time in American history. Amaryllis Friday #9
And Carney is correct. republianmushroom Friday #10
The free world is diversifying economically and militarily from the "unreliable partner". BlueWavePsych Friday #11
A must read. dalton99a Friday #12
Whole piece excellent Wild blueberry Friday #13
The fucking idiots had to give him a second chance he didn't deserve. Initech Friday #16
Does the writer think that Carney is from Australia? Renew Deal Friday #17
No, the name of his substack is I fucking love Australia. I don't know what it means. This is the only info on his Amaryllis Friday #19
That makes sense Renew Deal Friday #21
Capital will simply move Cirsium Friday #18
Must Read malaise Friday #20
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