I simply do not understand anyone who can shrug this off. I'm more scared now than I ever have been and I do not scare easy. The momentum is building towards a dark place that I have no wish to be a part of. Really hate this feeling of being caught in a wild current.
We were so fortunate that he showed up just when we needed him. He is the steady, intelligent leader that we need. It is a pity that the USA doesn't have one but they may not know it even if one was available.
Thank you for sharing the full length video of Carney’s visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos and including his very well thought out answers to the questions presented to him after his speech 👏🏼😅🙏🏼
I have appreciated Carney’s speeches before. But this one is on another level. This one will be remembered by history. Really glad you have written about it and done such an excellent job highlighting it. I hope many, many people listen to it. I wrote my spouse immediately after watching it today and insisted it was necessary to watch.
My husband and I spoke after listening to the recording. I pointed out that we (79YO and 69YO) have never lived under anything but the international rules based order. Though we have read a lot, we truly have no idea where this is going to go. It also leaves open to me will there be anywhere in the world one could live where there will not be profound impacts. Having Carney, an adult in the room, lay it all out is the Paul Revere moment. I think we need a Borderless Living Zoom call sooner than later.
After reading his speech, I also said it will go down in history as one of the great 21st-century speeches. I am an AP/IB English teacher who will definitely have students analyze this rhetoric. It will keep them talking for days.
Canadian Cory Doctorow, author of “Enshittification” has been promoting a path against tariffs via undoing international agreements on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
For decades, the world has operated under a simple assumption: that despite its flaws, the postwar international order would hold. That rules would matter. That alliances would restrain excess. That cooperation — however imperfect — would remain the dominant logic of global power.
This week, that assumption was quietly challenged — not by a protester, not by a populist, not by an adversary — but by a senior Western leader, speaking calmly, to the world’s economic and political elite.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech that did not sound like a warning — but may prove to be one.
He said the world is not in a transition, but a rupture.
He said that great powers are weaponizing trade, finance, and supply chains.
He said that sovereignty is no longer defined by independence, but by the ability to withstand pressure.
And he said something that would have been unthinkable to state openly just a few years ago.
No applause lines. No raised voices.
Just a matter-of-fact description of a world in which the rules still exist on paper — but no longer function as advertised.
And if sovereignty now means resisting coercion rather than relying on rules — what does that mean for the United States, its allies, and the global system built around them?
We’ll discuss all of that — this morning — on Meet the Press.
Have NBC's lawyers call me. I'll be in New York in a day... and on the set, ready to produce Sunday's show... just tell Kim Harvey to quit CBS or Cory Gnazzo at MSNBC (or MS, whatever the fuck they call themselves now) to be in New York for the first show.
Wow- a real leader finally punching the bully in the face, not bending the knee! This is in stark contrast to the idiocy, arrogance by Trump, and his cronies, followed by the capitulation of corporate America, the press, law firms, Congress , Supreme Court and universities.
We are so proud of him today and grateful that we elected him.
You done good.
Wow. And god what a relief to have someone name reality, and articulate a response, with such dignity and resolution.
So reassuring to listen to PM Carney. An intelligent and articulate world leader. A diplomat. Someone who makes sense!
This is Churchill level historic
The Leader of the Free World.Elbows up. No bluster. No hyperbole.
I simply do not understand anyone who can shrug this off. I'm more scared now than I ever have been and I do not scare easy. The momentum is building towards a dark place that I have no wish to be a part of. Really hate this feeling of being caught in a wild current.
We were so fortunate that he showed up just when we needed him. He is the steady, intelligent leader that we need. It is a pity that the USA doesn't have one but they may not know it even if one was available.
Michigan will join Canada!!
So will Florida - the next Canadian province!
Thank you for sharing the full length video of Carney’s visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos and including his very well thought out answers to the questions presented to him after his speech 👏🏼😅🙏🏼
I have appreciated Carney’s speeches before. But this one is on another level. This one will be remembered by history. Really glad you have written about it and done such an excellent job highlighting it. I hope many, many people listen to it. I wrote my spouse immediately after watching it today and insisted it was necessary to watch.
My husband and I spoke after listening to the recording. I pointed out that we (79YO and 69YO) have never lived under anything but the international rules based order. Though we have read a lot, we truly have no idea where this is going to go. It also leaves open to me will there be anywhere in the world one could live where there will not be profound impacts. Having Carney, an adult in the room, lay it all out is the Paul Revere moment. I think we need a Borderless Living Zoom call sooner than later.
After reading his speech, I also said it will go down in history as one of the great 21st-century speeches. I am an AP/IB English teacher who will definitely have students analyze this rhetoric. It will keep them talking for days.
Canadian Cory Doctorow, author of “Enshittification” has been promoting a path against tariffs via undoing international agreements on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/12/disenshittification-nation-2/
38% still approve the pathetic, pedophile protector. "Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights." Be Good. Peace
You and others that write here should replace the weak sauce Politics Monday crew and Friday Brooks & Capehart on PBS NewsHour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhywTbOcZMo
ME (VO) with trumper bullshit video B roll:
For decades, the world has operated under a simple assumption: that despite its flaws, the postwar international order would hold. That rules would matter. That alliances would restrain excess. That cooperation — however imperfect — would remain the dominant logic of global power.
This week, that assumption was quietly challenged — not by a protester, not by a populist, not by an adversary — but by a senior Western leader, speaking calmly, to the world’s economic and political elite.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech that did not sound like a warning — but may prove to be one.
He said the world is not in a transition, but a rupture.
He said that great powers are weaponizing trade, finance, and supply chains.
He said that sovereignty is no longer defined by independence, but by the ability to withstand pressure.
And he said something that would have been unthinkable to state openly just a few years ago.
No applause lines. No raised voices.
Just a matter-of-fact description of a world in which the rules still exist on paper — but no longer function as advertised.
And if sovereignty now means resisting coercion rather than relying on rules — what does that mean for the United States, its allies, and the global system built around them?
We’ll discuss all of that — this morning — on Meet the Press.
Next Sunday? ;-)
Have NBC's lawyers call me. I'll be in New York in a day... and on the set, ready to produce Sunday's show... just tell Kim Harvey to quit CBS or Cory Gnazzo at MSNBC (or MS, whatever the fuck they call themselves now) to be in New York for the first show.
If I only had that kind of pull!
Wow- a real leader finally punching the bully in the face, not bending the knee! This is in stark contrast to the idiocy, arrogance by Trump, and his cronies, followed by the capitulation of corporate America, the press, law firms, Congress , Supreme Court and universities.
Yep. Rocked.
That’s my Prime Minister!
So refreshing to hear a head of state talking in full, educated, sense-making sentences. 😢
So glad Justin Trudeau is no longer in government. It's best he stays in Katy Perry while Goldman Sachs Carney leads as Pierre pines for Justin