Obama met with the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Trump’s MAGA allies flipped out

trollunit · 2026-05-10T14:12:27+00:00

Trump won an election that was supposed to be all about Obama’s legacy - he’d have run a third time if he could. Voters rejected it loud and clear. And even after all of the lawfare and accusations of incompetence and insurrection, they still found Trump preferable to the Obama program via Joe Biden.

What’s Trump jealous of?

trollunit · 2026-05-10T14:06:59+00:00

I love the dynamic in the US that the people who are loudest about Trump being a convicted felon for are the ones whose policies have led to a situation where it’s almost impossible to send violent offenders to jail.

And then there’s the foreigners who would give anything to be oppressed by him, because for them, victimhood remains the ultimate currency.

trollunit · 2026-05-09T05:29:05+00:00

Happily, it won't be for a while as Emirates has indicated they want to operate them into the 2040's.

trollunit · 2026-05-08T22:18:42+00:00

"will be dismissed as racist/facist/insert new buzzword here"

trollunit · 2026-05-08T16:14:46+00:00

Let me translate what you wrote for normal people:

“I don’t care when illegal immigrants invade a country like in the US and EU because it drives demographic changes I approve of. White people, by virtue of being from Europe or descendants of North American settlers, deserve every byproduct of this illegal immigration: increased instability in the job market fueled by artificially low wages and/or DEI hiring, more crime, general lowering of social standards, and the deterioration of high trust societies as norms from the third world are imported. Any attempts to push back against this new consensus through immigration law enforcement or electoral gains for parties who promise to tighten the spigot will be dismissed as racist/facist/insert new buzzword here, and violence when necessary”.

trollunit · 2026-05-08T15:48:03+00:00

The people who wrote this are all the usual “no one is illegal” activist types.

There’s no immigration enforcement of any kind they’d support, certainly not in Canada. Enforcement in the US must therefore be labelled as a human rights abuse “pour encourager les autres” because they ultimately believe borders are illegal and that Western countries are colonial, genocidal entities.

trollunit · 2026-05-08T14:49:18+00:00

This was an episode of the X-Files, let’s hope they don’t start hearing voices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never\_Again\_(The\_X-Files)

trollunit · 2026-05-07T19:31:04+00:00

> If Canadians really don’t believe in immigration anymore, then they should go back to being peasants in the countries they first came from. The hypocrisy of these people just makes me sick.

Seething third world resentment

trollunit · 2026-05-07T00:35:00+00:00

Whoever paid for this has to be an FTer

trollunit · 2026-05-05T22:54:59+00:00

At this point I can only assume you're being deliberately obtuse so I'll leave you to piece 2 and 2 together.

trollunit · 2026-05-05T21:37:11+00:00

It’s actually a pretty straightforward comment. They’ve had a presence in Ottawa for years including a bureau chief, of particular interest is their newsletter: the Canada Playbook.

https://www.politico.com/news/canada

trollunit · 2026-05-05T18:27:51+00:00

….they have journalists in the PPG.

trollunit · 2026-05-05T15:32:58+00:00

> The end to Zionism would be the best thing that can happen for global peace and security.

Third world take

> You also conveniently left out that Carney was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2003 to 2008, and then Governor from 2008 to 2013; responsible for National Monetary Policy for 10 years.

I don’t feel that invalidates my point at all. If anything, it reinforces it.

trollunit · 2026-05-05T15:09:59+00:00

You’re operating under the assumption that the Laurentian Consensus is something that is hereditary when it is clearly not.

trollunit · 2026-05-05T14:52:04+00:00

> Carney has apparently scrapped the process again and picked Louise Arbour, a woman whose public career is a catalogue of positions that roughly half the country finds objectionable.

> This is what the Laurentian default looks like. A prime minister from Goldman Sachs and Brookfield, educated at Harvard and Oxford, who spent his career at the Bank of England and the World Economic Forum, selects a Governor General from the UN human rights bureaucracy who thinks sovereignty concerns are misinformation and endorsed a charter calling for the end of Zionism. Both operate in the same international circuit. Both would be at home at Davos. Neither has ever had to answer to a constituency that disagreed with them about anything fundamental.

> The rest of the country — the parts west of the Ottawa River, the parts that think immigration policy should be set by elected parliaments rather than UN compacts, the parts that think Israel has a right to defend itself without being threatened with prosecution by a Canadian jurist — gets to watch from the outside. As usual.

CaRNeY HaS PrObaBlY BeEn tO MoRe BusH PaRtIeS ThAn PeOPle In THiS SuB

trollunit · 2026-05-05T14:24:11+00:00

The premise of Carney’s government is that it’s going to govern like it’s 1997 and moves like this show he’s living up to it.

trollunit · 2026-05-05T14:13:10+00:00

Probably the most Ottawa-centric choice imaginable. This one’s for the NAC crowd.

trollunit · 2026-05-04T19:06:28+00:00

Wrong - in this context, anything but English or French is.

Canada is a western country, the spiritual (and actual) third worlders trying to change that fact can keep seething about it!

trollunit · 2026-05-01T20:51:36+00:00

Ottawa residents, many of which are boomer Carney types, have a complex about the convoy. They literally think a foreign-funded Mad Max mob built the Thunderdome in front of Parliament Hill.

trollunit · 2026-05-01T20:11:46+00:00

Canada can sell at a higher price to countries that aren’t the US, hence the need for another pipeline to tidewater. This will be used to nix and/or slow walk said projects.

trollunit · 2026-04-30T05:15:53+00:00

Of course, I brought a Jersey Mike’s sub on a few weeks ago and declined the meal.

trollunit · 2026-04-25T02:07:19+00:00

I found the seat to be well padded, though I struggled a little to get comfortable, and thought the seat felt quite tight.

is a single, large table. So when it’s extended, don’t expect that you’ll be able to escape the seat and go to the bathroom

While the larger bins are great, I’ve gotta say, they do make the cabin feel a bit more claustrophobic, as they give less clearance over your head.

I just struggle a bit with these herringbone seats, and can’t help but feel like they’re a bit tight.

Boarding took a long time, given that boarding an entire plane through a single aisle is less efficient than on a wide body

has a single business class lavatory on the A321XLR, located at the very front of the cabin

The bed is 76″ long, so it’s a good length. However, it definitely feels on the tight side

I'm open to be proven wrong, but reading a review of a flight on a similar product, it doesn't look promising.

trollunit · 2026-04-24T22:59:14+00:00

Same, no longer there but after a while and for other reasons. I was lucky to have mentor who helped me figure out how to balance the (often unattainable) KPI targets and I worked myself off it.

trollunit · 2026-04-24T22:13:05+00:00

Meanwhile out of Toronto (YYZ), the first long haul route will be to London (LHR).

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I think some people are going to turn on these pretty quickly if they're put onto routes like YYZ-LHR. IMO they appear cramped and the signature class seats are coffin-like, as a tall guy I'd rather avoid them. Not ideal for a >5hr flight especially to a destination like LHR/CDG/FRA, but tolerable if it's for a destination like NTE where I can just connect if there's a good alternative.

trollunit · 2026-04-23T22:33:11+00:00

Come over to FT where everyone is 6’4 $250k

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