r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

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u/WeightedDips95 3d ago

Gotta love how how Carney was elected on being a master negotiator and crisis man and 1.5 years has nothing to show for it and we’re getting ground into dust. Judging by his supporters discourse on Reddit and X, they’re in a negative feedback loop where the worse he does and the more tarrifs we get the more they’re convinced he is a god. It even seems like they’re willing to nuke our economy over this. Pretty scary shit. We’re in a mass psychosis

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u/2Puppers4Sale Custom Flair (Be appropriate or else we'll take it away again) 3d ago edited 3d ago

There is this weird standard in which if Carney gets a good trade deal with the US, he is a master negotiator who can handle Trump but if he doesn't, that also means he is a master negotiator who won't deal with an unreasonable person like Trump, so no matter what happens, Carney is seen as a master negotiator who is smart and pragmatic and his approval sky rockets because your average Canadian is a moron who cares more about being smugly anti-American than anything else.

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u/LordRaizer 2h ago

I've noticed this, did people conveniently forget that this guy ran a campaign on "getting a deal with Trump" and that he was the one who was "best equipped to handle him" ?

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u/Lumindan 1h ago

The goal post has shifted to "no one can deal with Trump" when it's brought up (including some interesting interpretation of elbows up).

Ironically Pierres entire point was exactly what people are now using to defend Carney, that we work around trump and diversify our resources and trade systems. (Let's also just ignore that every party in Canada stood up against trump but I digress).

The bridge debacle is really telling tbh. Granted Canadian voters have gold fish memory so I doubt it'll stay relevant (not to mention the hilarious slant by our media, don't get me started on that)