Canada Disinvited From Legion Of Doom -- Andrew Fleming

[erronis]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/canada-disinvited-from-legion-of

You've probably heard by now about Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's big Captain Obvious speech in Davos that riffed on Danish author Hans Christian Anderson's children's fable "The Emperor's New Clothes," which was a nice touch now that Denmark has joined us in the mad king's crosshairs.

The pantsed old man likely didn't listen to it all because Carney began in Not English, used fancy words like "hegemony" and "aphorism of Thucydides," and didn't even pay the courtesy of mentioning the motherfucker by name, but clearly he saw snippets on Fox or a henchman gave a heads-up about the rhetorical shot heard around the world.

Evan already wrote a breakdown of the sober barn-burner that got a rare standing ovation at the World Economic Forum, incuding the full transcript at the bottom, but I'd be remiss as Wonkette's token Canadian for not translating the opening remarks from the PM's steadily improving French:

It's a pleasure -- and a duty -- to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world. Today, I'll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.

But I also submit to you that other countries, particularly middle powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that embodies our values, like respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of states. The power of the less powerful begins with honesty.

Donald Trump, of course, responded to the idea of the world reluctantly moving on without America with threats of violence like the geriactic mob boss he is.

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[Klarkashton]

1. Go ahead and dig a deeper fucking hole asshole.

China isn't playing wise ass games. Trump seems to
Think that the rest of the world is like the US congress and supreme court.

[malaise]

2. Great Read - get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[fujiyamasan]

3. Trump has done a hell of a job in driving a lot of countries toward China

Even if those countries don’t necessarily agree with China on a number of issues, they view their leadership as more predictable and trustworthy than the US.