This is fuckin’ embarrassing.
I’m not sure what the author was expecting Carney to say. The Prime Minister is not exactly likely to be cheering political violence of any sort, and he still has to deal with Trump after this news cycle moves on. “Violence bad, thoughts and prayers to the family” is about as close as he can come to “I really don’t give a shit that that douche nozzle bit it”.
That’s the rub. No one in a position of power or influence having the stones to say the truth is a big fucking problem.
What “truth”? Do you consider escalating political violence to be a good thing? That may be a valid opinion, but it’s far from a verifiable truth. In the case of a leader of a country, whether or not it’s a “truth” matters even less. Let’s say Carney says exactly whatever it is you want him to say. Great. What does that gain the Canadian people? It will for sure antagonize Trump, so what’s that cost? Do the gains outweigh the costs?
Is it just how things are now that people pull whatever they want from a comment? I’m not talking about praising violence, I’m talking about saying that Kirk was a Nazi and he died because another Nazi adjacent moron didn’t like the particular brand of hate he was spewing. He wasn’t a good husband and father or a man just expressing his opinion freely; he was a hate and fear monger. Antagonizing Trump should be the point. But I guess you canucks are just as cowardly as most Americans.
Canada doesn’t have the power (or really the responsibility) to deal with Trump. The Americans have to get their shit together and do that themselves. Antagonizing Trump is fine if it gains us something. In this case, it would gain us nothing, and likely cost us in the future. Doing self destructive things just for hollow “victories” that feel good is how Trump got into power in the first place. I have no interest in following that strategy.
Eschewing responsibility sounds about right.
How in the fuck is Canada in any way responsible for Trump’s bullshit? Clean up your own mess.
How about Carney saying nothing at all
Definitely an option. Best guess is they put out a generic statement like this to short circuit any media questions about it, and to take some wind out of Poillievre’s sails if he decides to go grandstanding about it.
Well. There’s that. I feel nauseous.
Their emotional support Kirk.
The amount of people who didn’t look into this and feel offended by the House applauding a monster should really watch the video on parlvu.ca to see why they have egg on their face.
