Two Days at Davos
Carney's Triumph. Trump's nothingburger.
The Moronians had a very bad day at Davos.
Nothing commerce secretary Scott Bessent promised on Monday of Donald Trump’s speech came true.
Europeans and Canadians were not made happy by anything Donald Trump said.
A meandering, addled wander through a Trump rant rather than a focused statement on anything. He confused Greenland and Iceland too much for it to be a one-time slip. Made his usual claims none of which were even remotely truer now than they were before and they were never true before. Threatened Carney and Canada because Carney had a hit speech on Tuesday. Trump said all sorts of contradictory nonsense during the question and answer session on top of the confused mess in the speech.
People made too much of his promise not to invade Greenland. It was never a serious threat anyway. He just talked about it like he talks about invading Canada because it gets attention and he is all about attention.
Needy baby. Greedy baby. The title of a new Trump biography.
Remember: Trump has only managed to blow up speedboats and snatch a couple of people in a quickie raid in Venezuela with an armada that could have remounted D-Day. Then the Yanks ran. It was a military TACO.
Trump is bluff and bluster and in Davos he was all of it, all the time.
Trump knew there was a deal on Greenland, the one announced at the end of the day so he exaggerated Moronian military capability with claims of magical weapons that are all nonsense. Trump is not just a bullshitter. He is an obvious bullshitter. Only Moronuan voters and Fox News fall for it.
Then later came the announcement from the NATO secretary general of a non-specific “framework” agreement that Trump would not describe for reporters since it gives him nothing at all. It is more talk by officials and in the end, if anything comes of it, there’ll be nothing like what Trump claimed he wanted.
That’s the story of Trump. Bluff. Bluster. Bluff and bluster. Rinse. Rinse. Repeat.
The best Trump might get is a re-activation of some of the bases the Americans already abandoned and on those bases, they will legally be like Turmp described them (American sovereignty) but the Moronians will not own Greenland.
Trump’s audience was at home, of course, and nowhere else. The Yanks got enough to claim they won something even if the reality is they got what Mike Johnson knows, which is nothing.The NATO announcement was a sop, coming from the alliance as a whole, and not Denmark alone. NATO can talk it out and talk Trump to death and use it as a bargaining chip on Ukraine, where Trump still has nothing. NATO has always been about keeping the Americans in and the Russians out of Europe.The only change since the early 1990s is that no one worries about keeping the Germans down anymore. There’s no need.
The Trump tribe are discovering how the world really works, which is what Tuesday was all about. Canada and NATO/EU are working their plan. Carney went over well and got what he wanted.
Meanwhile, Trump is staring at a clock that is winding down to the fall. If current trends continue - and there is no sign of a swing up for Trump - he will lose the Congress to the Democrats and enter the lame duck presidency of every second termer’s last two years. He will have nothing at this rate, except a grand ball-room, which the next President will strip of all the Trump trappings just as surely as they will clean up the second rate, Atlantic City casino of an Oval Office and the West Wing under Trump.
Carney triumphant. Trump not so much.
Those are the two days at Davos. Amazing contrasts.
Now the heavy sledding starts, less for Trump, but for Carney. The PM has produced already on his plan, despite what some parts of the Canadian commentariat say. The North American free trade deal is still open for review. It might come crashing down. There might be a deal. The Americans may wreck it all. That is for another day.
Meanwhile, the Ontario auto sector is still not on the same page as Carney’s speech. Union boss Lana Payne sounded like a Canuck version of Trump and Howard Lutnick, which to those familiar with her start in Newfoundland and Labrador is no surprise. She talks progressive, but walks reactionary. “If you’re going to sell in Canada, you need to build in Canada. What we’ve just done with the China deal created a bigger problem for ourselves because we have been moving, more and more, to a bigger portion of what we sell in Canada being imported to Canada.”
Things cannot go back to the way they were. Wednesday’s newser in Tranna showed how hard it will be for Canada to deal with the Moronians when Canadian unions sound like they are ready to cave to whatever the Moronians want. Wrap your head around Dipper Payne and Can Con Poilievre as tightly aligned as she was with Newf Con Danny Williams even as she repeats the slogans of leftie. That’s where it comes out in practice. “When you wage an ideological war,” the ideologue once wrote, “lies are necessary weapons.” Believe people when they tell you who they are.
And on the second day after Carney’s triumph, the Can Cons are still flailing, almost as desperately as the poor Liberals in Newfoundland and Labrador, tossed out of their sinecures and now trying to dominate Facebook and TikTok with cheesy videos and made-up crises. Both are trying to find something to say that sounds halfways sensible.
Neither may ever find it.
The message from successful governments in Canada could be the same to Trump or PP or Johnny Hogan for that matter.
Don’t fuck with eagles unless you know how to fly.
Ed, Did you say it was best to ignore the Orange Man? Can you ignore a pandemic, or especially global warming? Try to avoid it maybe, or counter it.
That his audience is just for America?
Maybe primarily America, but I suggest worldwide, as many are viewing and saying "What kind of nutcase is this? Isn't Xi of China the person who walks softly but carries a big stick? And too the EU?
One thing that rattles Trump and the Republicans is when the bond markets react negatively, and their near 40 trillion debt is a risk.Then for sure its a TACO event. Is it not the world that is holding up the hottest country in the world, with USA debt? And that a matter of trust and rules based, that is on shaky ground.