What strikes me about that part of the speech, though, is that it says the exact opposite of what they will try to spin it as saying.
Oh yes. I'm tempted to say "subtlety is not their strong point" but in reality, basic comprehension is not their strong point. Nor would it be the first time they spun something as precisely the opposite of what it actually is. (Or the second, or third, or fifteenth.)
First Ursula von der Leyen tells it like it is, now Mark Carney. It has taken too long, but world leaders are finally realizing that appeasement works exactly as well today as it did in the 1930s (and as well as it ever has in the schoolyard, when bullies stand with their expectant hands out).
This speech is a barnburner. Though not the perfect politician we all wish for, Carney is the leader Canada needs right now. Hard to remember that Canadians were thiiiis close to electing a Trump-wannabe candidate until His Orangeness blathered about the 51st state and Canadian voters reacted with rage. Had they not done so, Canada would now be a footstool for the US to rest its dirty jackboots on. Instead, their PM is telling the rest of the world: there is a path forward, we are choosing it, and we invite you to join us on it. And with a literate metaphor, no less!
(Give it five minutes or so, and you'll hear US Republicans zeroing in on a single word in that entire speech -- communist -- and firing up their outrage engines accordingly.)
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Oh yes. I'm tempted to say "subtlety is not their strong point" but in reality, basic comprehension is not their strong point. Nor would it be the first time they spun something as precisely the opposite of what it actually is. (Or the second, or third, or fifteenth.)
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First Ursula von der Leyen tells it like it is, now Mark Carney. It has taken too long, but world leaders are finally realizing that appeasement works exactly as well today as it did in the 1930s (and as well as it ever has in the schoolyard, when bullies stand with their expectant hands out).
This speech is a barnburner. Though not the perfect politician we all wish for, Carney is the leader Canada needs right now. Hard to remember that Canadians were thiiiis close to electing a Trump-wannabe candidate until His Orangeness blathered about the 51st state and Canadian voters reacted with rage. Had they not done so, Canada would now be a footstool for the US to rest its dirty jackboots on. Instead, their PM is telling the rest of the world: there is a path forward, we are choosing it, and we invite you to join us on it. And with a literate metaphor, no less!
(Give it five minutes or so, and you'll hear US Republicans zeroing in on a single word in that entire speech -- communist -- and firing up their outrage engines accordingly.)
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