I applaud Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney standing firm and saying straight up that Canada’s not for sale during his talks with what somehow continues to pass as America’s seat of government. Good on him. Glad he did. But he didn’t have much of a choice in this non-real reality TV series that needs to be canceled.
There’s a trouble-making part of me that would have loved to have heard him say to the decaying orange turd sitting next to him something like, “I’ll tell you what, Mr. President. You agree to step down from your office and our government will give any proposal consideration. Other than that, no thank you.” I mean if we’re going to waste our time on nonsensical fantasies, let’s have some fun. Otherwise this farce is running out of steam while the players play a game that the audience is already exhausted with.
Of course that would ever happen and I’m not criticizing Carney, He laid down the appropriate marker while standing up to the bully-in-chief. But at some point, from some quarter, I’d like to see someone land a harder punch in the nose or a kick in the groin. Even if they were only rhetorical.
Elbows up!
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Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3 