Michael Blackwell

[Michael Blackwell @Meblackwell73]

@HardmanCasey Thank goodness!

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

LIVE: from the World Economic Forum • EN DIRECT : au Forum économique mondial https://t.co/fcNf3WUYbf

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works."

It's rare that a world leader speaks so candidly about how the world really functions. This speech will be studied in the history books...

"We knew the story of the international rules-based world order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically," Carney said during an address at the Davos World Economic Forum. "And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

"This fiction was useful and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes," he continued. "So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works."

"Let me be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture not a transition," said Carney. "Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid the bare risks of extreme global integration."

"But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons," he said, clearly referring to Trump. "Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructures as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

Carney's analysis offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the post-World War II order. Western nations, led by the United States, created a sophisticated network of global institutions and rules that privileged their interests, often at the expense of developing nations. It was a flawed system that nonetheless brought peace, stability, and prosperity to the nations that it was created to benefit.

"The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied, the WTO, the U.N., the COP, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat," Carney said.

"And as a result many countries are drawing the same conclusions, that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains," he continued. "And this impulse is understandable, a country that can't feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself."

Carney was driving at a hard truth that MAGA refuses to acknowledge. Despite what Trump thinks, European nations haven't been content to accept a kind of vassal state status simply because they're scared of the United States. They've gone along with the world that America designed because it directly benefited them in concrete ways. Now that Trump is stripping away those benefits, they're going to begin decoupling economically and strategically from the United States. Canada's massive recent trade deal with China proves that.

The problem is that Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters are too ignorant and paranoid to understand that the system they're destroying helps them. They take for granted the American dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Once these hidden pillars that hold up the world start crumbling, quality of life in the U.S. will plummet.

"But let's be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable and there's another truth..." Carney continued. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate."

"Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They'll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty, sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure."

There is no putting this genie back in the bottle. Thanks to the stupidity, pettiness, and egomania of Donald Trump, America has been hurled into a dangerous new status quo. The rest of the world will never trust us in the same way again, but if we can remove him from power and vote in Democrats, we can at least set about undoing some of the damage.

The future is uncertain, but what is certain is that our country will only survive if Democrats are the ones at the wheel.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is destroying America.

[Michael Blackwell @Meblackwell73]

@HardmanCasey When can I buy this?!

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

The first amendment is dead. That’s basically what Jimmy Kimmel just said.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring

[📹 Protect All Wildlife]

[Shawn Harris for Congress @ShawnForGeorgia]

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can spread the word?

[Shawn Harris for Congress @ShawnForGeorgia]

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, retired General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you retweet and spread the word?

[Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher @EileenforCO]

I'm Eileen Laubacher. A retired Rear Admiral and the Democrat running against Lauren Boebert.
I know what sacrifice means and service looks like. Boebert doesn’t have a clue.

Can you help me get to 20k followers to show her we can do this?!

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Today a 69 year old man known as Robert his entire life walked out on a balcony and self identified as Leo. The entire world now calls him Leo without question. See how easy it is to accept and respect what an individual identifies as?

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Life in the 1970s 🧵

1. San Francisco's Lombard Street, 1975

[Shawn Harris for Congress @ShawnForGeorgia]

Marjorie Taylor Greene, my opponent, has millions of followers. (I don't, yet.)

Mainly because I don't peddle conspiracies or throw tantrums on social media.

But to spread our message, we must expand our audience.

Can you retweet and follow us so we reach 150,000 followers?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm going to post this video every day until the election

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning admission, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisors, Jason Miller, says a future Trump Administration would allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies. Retweet so all Americans know to vote against this creepy behavior

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, CNBC hosts believe that Kamala Harris will do a better job balancing the budget than Donald Trump. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona: I am a lifelong Republican. I do not recognize my own party. The Republican Party has been taken over by extremists. I have something to say to those of us who are in the middle. You don’t owe a damn thing to that party. You don’t owe anything to a party that is out of touch and hellbent on taking us backward. You owe no displaced loyalty to a candidate who is morally and ethically bankrupt. In the spirit of the great Senator John McCain, please join me in putting country over party, stopping Donald Trump, protecting the rule of law, protecting our Constitution, and protecting democracy by voting for Kamala Harris

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Um, she's not the one with 7 corporate bankruptcies, a failed airline, a failed magazine, a failed scam university, three failed casinos, a failed pandemic response, the worst jobs record of any U.S. president, two impeachments, and 34 criminal convictions, but ok.

[Michael Blackwell @Meblackwell73]

@DjsAviation Calgary!

[Michael Blackwell @Meblackwell73]

@ChamberlainRaj Been there! Haha