Idiocracy 2024

[mr grieves]

Does really look like they're doing great powers spheres of influence. It is depressing.

 

[cabber24]

It feels like the rest of the world is getting fed up. Hopefully, there will be a unified economic response.

 

[Bender]

Congress could literally take away his tariff authority right now and not stand for his insanity but no, they're a bunch of spineless, feckless excuses for human beings.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013640563296207154

He dropped some big time headline soundbytes in this speech
Full:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013637218997301311

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

globalnews.ca

 

[Bender]

I read the highlights in a news article and I thought it was a well articulated speech, but it just is so painful to see the world fracturing as it is. For all their flaws, the world was better when the west could reasonably count on each other and the biggest scandal was Monica Lewinsky.

 

[herman]

the biggest scandal was Monica Lewinsky the most powerful person on the planet leveraging a power disparity to take sexual advantage of a staff intern.

FTFY

The speech is about a repudiation of power being used to coerce and take, and a recognition that the old structures that created those powers are not something to strive or long for.