But I do see a military strategy potentially evolving from this: militias of pre-euthanized death-wish Canadian kamikazes throwing frozen water bottles from snowmobiles. They might be able to hold-off an American attack on Nuuk for a couple hours until their gas tanks run dry. Then they could hop off their snowmobiles and write some strongly worded letters to the US government, and then crawl into some ice cave and freeze to their deaths feeling like they got the moral upper-hand.
Euthanasia: are there statistics kept that you know of? Race, age, employment, immigration and tax-paying status? Wondering who is taking advantage of this service?
I read about the woman whose husband recently decided euthanasia over caring for her… w/ Dr. ok’ing it. Neato.
Elbows up! Carney is a court eunuch for Emperor Xi. He will arrest anyone for misgendering the gunperson who just shot up a school. His own son is trans. The entire country of Canada is a cringe LinkedIn flex.
So is that why I never really cared for Canadians and the Canadian psyche? Nor have I ever had the desire to visit our neighbor to the north. Now our southern neighbor Mexico, that is a whole other deal. I grew up around Mexicans, on the U.S.- MX border, and I speak Spanish. I love Mexico, the food, the culture, the people. It is a diverse and colorful country in the ‘old school’ meaning of diverse and colorful.
The irony to my “interactions with Canadians”, is most of them that I have met were the Canadian expats down in Mexico, that flock there in the winter, and some who have relocated to Mexico permanently. They still seem like “sheeple” to me.
Even funnier story: I was sitting in the hotel lobby in San Jose Costa Rica and a Canadian came up to me and started asking questions in English . I hesitantly answered “yes” and “no” since I didn’t know where this was going. Finally I had to answer with a full sentence and she exclaimed “Oh, you speak English!” So I was mistaken for a Costa Rican BY a Canadian.
I have never learned Spanish but I am sure I could if I could have spent more time in Costa Rica.
Honestly in my travels in Mexico and Central America I have found there are a lot of tourists (mostly Americans and Canadians) who are totally clueless. They are naive and don’t know crap about the locals or even the place they are visiting. I have been mistaken for a German or a Scandinavian, many times in Latin America. I am tall, blonde, with light eyes. I have that “Euro” look over an “American” look”, and I don’t carry myself like a typical American “tourist”.
There is a phrase in Spanish that I love… “listo” (m) or “lista” (f). (And if you are confused on the sex, the masculine form of “listo” is the one to use.) It literally means “ready”. It can also refer to how “with it” a person is, like having situational awareness and what have you, a person “in the know”. If a person is “listo” they are “ready”, on top of their game and know what is happening, so to speak. Sadly in these times we are presently navigating in, many people are not at all “listo” or “lista”. Their brains are in cognitive decline.
Oh a PS when one “lives” in à language other than their native language, like when one lives for any time in a foreign country, it makes it much easier to learn and absorb it. I had a cursory knowledge of Spanish from growing up around Spanish speaking people and studying Spanish starting in school when I was 10 years old up through high school, then two semesters in college.
It was when I lived for months at a time in Mexico or Guatemala, was when it all kicked in for me and I could think and speak in Spanish. I also watch a lot of Spanish series (with English subtitles) on Netflix from Spain, Mexico and Colombia to keep up on my Spanish as well.
Costa Rican Spanish is slower than most, it is equivalent to the American Deep South English drawl. By the time I left I felt as though I was close to having a good start.
Yes, but there are a fair number of pale Costa Ricans. One of my big surprises there was watching people of Chinese descent speaking Spanish (this was long before China started flexing muscles). One old guy I met in a public park told me he was friends with astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz’s father.
There are a lot of “pale Costa Ricans” because there is not an heavy indigenous population in Costa Rica, in fact it is relatively small. You have dark skinned people over on the Caribe/East Coast but in the Central Valley/San Jose, it’s mostly people of European/Spanish descent. I just looked up on Brave AI and it says that “94% of Costa Ricans identify as “white” in official statistics”.
Ironically the Chinese have been in Mexico for a very long time. I grew up in a small town in an agricultural area in the SE corner of SoCA, next to Mexico and AZ. Mexico was 30 miles to the south from my town.
When I was growing up my grandparents would take us for Chinese food in Mexicali, Baja CA Norte. Though we had a Chinese restaurant in our town, the Chinese food in Mexicali was better. We would park the car in Calexico and walk across the border to the restaurant which was a block away. Chinese people had immigrated to Mexico and opened up restaurants and businesses. They were a presence in Mexicali.
Back in those days in the 50’s and 60’s it was very easy to cross back and forth from Mexico into CA.
During prohibition my grandparents and another young married couple who they were friends with would go over to Mexicali for a night of dinner and dancing, because Mexico had not outlawed liquor.
When I was 16 I had a couple of older (college age) girlfriends who would take me over to Mexicali with them to the clubs and bars that lined the border. I never showed an ID to cross the border or to drink in the bars. My mom never knew what I was up to. That’s where I had my first (and only) Singapore Sling cocktail! (What a nasty drink that was.)
I rather like Canada. Huskies, Mounties, the Frozen Logger song, and the whole facing down a tough country ethos. In the days of traveling carnivals didn't there used to be a person called a Carney Barker?
Wait, shooter is racist? Sexist we can concede (the feminine is Shootress, of course) but which part is pale people supremacist? Have to say an awful lot of dark-skinned diversity shows up at gun shows these days.
“At the top of a tall white pole that dwarfs a tiny red cottage on the edge of Greenland’s snow-capped western coastline, a brand-new flag flies in the Arctic air.” NIne adjectives in one sentence - is that to distract us from the fact that the whole story is a non-event?
Why is it that as I read that ridiculous sentence I am hearing in my head the voice of the late Sebastian Cabot reading it as if to an audience of five year olds. If it was part of a radio report on the previously listenable and relatively unbiased CBC, it would be accompanied by the nat sound of the flag rippling in the breeze, gathered by some CBC tech producer who was forced, mic in hand, to shimmy up the pole to get the audio.
I've said this elsewhere and I'll say it again here: there is no one, *no one*, who can teach Canadians on how to be smug, sanctimonious, oblivious and hypocritical. We are absolute masters of those dark arts. Carney flexing is akin to his doppelganger Mr. Burns looking in the mirror - hunched back and sunken chest - and thinking Lou Ferrigno in his prime is looking back.
> smug, sanctimonious, oblivious and hypocritical.
Lib, through a local outdoor sports club I knew a dual-citizenship Canadian. He was such a puffed-up sort, constantly running down the US and our Constitution despite preferring to live under it, rather than Le Crown. (We have quite a few dual-citizenship Canadians here in the PNW. I'm still waiting to meet a sufferable one.)
He was constantly bragging about having been "Canadian Special Forces" and regaling everyone with his youthful tales of...well, stuff that most youths do, but his was special, having been...uh, him, and in Canada. Or something.
So this one chilly summer evening around a campfire people are scuttlebutting and bliveting and throwing elbows and talking trash after a tournament we'd hosted...and I can't remember what I said on what topic, but it was to the effect that Canadians were among the most smug and sanctimonious knobs I'd ever met. I wasn't digging at him. It was just a comment from my many years of traveling in Canada, doing professional stuff (ag related) in Canada, and knowing Canadians, in response to something someone else had observed. (The Canadian aggies were the least insufferable, for what it's worth.)
This guy suddenly froze, stared, mouth agape, and blurted in his very loud tenor, "Wait, you don't like Canadians?"
This guy, no exaggeration, ever shut up...but this time he sat there, jaw hanging...and after a few seconds all he could manage was to repeat himself. "EVERYBODY LIKES CANADIANS! WE'RE THE MOST LIKEABLE PEOPLE ON EARTH!"
At first I thought he was being ironic. He wasn't.
My darling used to quote that sotto voce when we'd encounter someone being obliviously obnoxious. "EVERYBODY LIKES CANADIANS!" Or "Echo Lima Charlie."
So as someone who has a friend whose son was in the "Special Forces" (it's called something else which I won't reveal) I can tell you that that is something you *don't* go around telling people. He sounds full of shit, which is par for the course for many Canadians regarding the US, a strange inferiority-superiority complex that's embedded like a parasite inside many Canadians' brains.
It's really come to the forefront recently, hasn't it? I don't even want to go outside anymore, lest I meet yet another preeening boomer looking to passive aggressively start a conversation about Trump with their favourite "Oh, you're American. So.......how do YOU think things are going down there?"
I cannot think of a single thing that Canada's federal government has done to benefit its citizens in an appreciable way in the last 10 years. For all his faults, Trump has actually improved the lives of his subjects, er voters.
Thanks a lot, Chris. I was already a nervous wreck, waking to cold sweats, having nightmares about some Bad Bunny monster. Now I have to live in mortal fear of the Canucks.
It's too bad Gen. Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold failed to conquer Canada when they had a chance in 1775-76. We could have turned that place into nothing but strip malls and condos for as far as the eye could see. LOL.
Instead, Canada became a sanctuary for the Loyalists who got kicked out of the US. The country has had a chip on its shoulder ever since.
Mark Carney becoming the "leader" of Canada was a balant signal by the central banks that the usurious money printers are taking direct control of the world. ...and millions cheered having no idea what just occurred.
CBDC nightmare, here we come...
BIS Chief Agustin Carstens: You Will Not Use Our CBDCs Without Our Permission (In Real Time)
: "A key difference with the CBDC [and cash] is the central bank will have _absolute control_ on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability--and we will have the technology to enforce that."
I'm still chumbling the Anon who observed that the term "mark" originated from carnies (carnival workers) who would put a chalk-mark on rubes who could be counted on to continue to play obviously rigged games. Other carnies would see the mark, and entice the player into their own scams.
> How are the masses this stupid
I'm sure it has nothing to do with a century of forced mandatory public schooling where nobody learns how interest works and how money is created.
Watch it yanks! We are the undisputed world leader in virtue signalling.
And it shows 😣😣😣😣😣
Britain and Germany have you beat but you are a close third.
You don’t euthanize your citizens like we do. Its an industry
But I do see a military strategy potentially evolving from this: militias of pre-euthanized death-wish Canadian kamikazes throwing frozen water bottles from snowmobiles. They might be able to hold-off an American attack on Nuuk for a couple hours until their gas tanks run dry. Then they could hop off their snowmobiles and write some strongly worded letters to the US government, and then crawl into some ice cave and freeze to their deaths feeling like they got the moral upper-hand.
I'm shocked and dismayed that you would think these wouldn't be electric snowmobiles, which makes me suspect you might not be entirely serious.
Nuuk, does that rhyme with Nuke?
I must grant you that, dear Unvaxxed Canadian. And by the way, unvaxxed in Canada, my respects.
Euthanasia: are there statistics kept that you know of? Race, age, employment, immigration and tax-paying status? Wondering who is taking advantage of this service?
I read about the woman whose husband recently decided euthanasia over caring for her… w/ Dr. ok’ing it. Neato.
Our Euthanasia Industrial Complex.
After sending 17 troops to Greenland, a German posting asked " and who will defend Germany now?"🤔
😋🥳🤣😏😎
🤣🤣🤣
TheRepublicIsDying. It's asking for MAiD assistance!
No way, man. Canada is KING. Queen. Trans. Whatever. Point is, Canada is ALL performative. ALL.
Alas, no no no. Such a silly sentiment.
Cue "Adventures With Bill" segment from Red Green Show. Canadians "flexing."
- A Handsome AND Handy Yank!
Red Green was hilarious! The duct tape car…😂🤣
Canadian "Flexing":
Bill vs. the Bees
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gHEC0faDeq4
Removing a Stump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8anGjrj68
Snowblowing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4z25q_F3JU
Moving:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6EQiCtFGvM
Grappling Hook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g4er2TAKMQ
Car Trouble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZorOtA4oAM0
Truly funny, thanks!
😁😁
“When you’re in a being a faggot contest and your opponents are Canada and Britain”
The Aussies are gaining behind you! And the Kiwis are so far ahead no one notices anymore!
Elbows up! Carney is a court eunuch for Emperor Xi. He will arrest anyone for misgendering the gunperson who just shot up a school. His own son is trans. The entire country of Canada is a cringe LinkedIn flex.
That’s a daughter, now non-binary but originally female.
It's all so confusing. I need one of those "decision trees."
But still a ‘confused’ daughter!
So is that why I never really cared for Canadians and the Canadian psyche? Nor have I ever had the desire to visit our neighbor to the north. Now our southern neighbor Mexico, that is a whole other deal. I grew up around Mexicans, on the U.S.- MX border, and I speak Spanish. I love Mexico, the food, the culture, the people. It is a diverse and colorful country in the ‘old school’ meaning of diverse and colorful.
The irony to my “interactions with Canadians”, is most of them that I have met were the Canadian expats down in Mexico, that flock there in the winter, and some who have relocated to Mexico permanently. They still seem like “sheeple” to me.
I was mistaken for a Canadian once upon a time in Costa Rica. At the time I took it as a compliment. Now I wonder.
And what do you think it was about you that someone mistook you for a Canadian? Humm….
Blue eyes?
Even funnier story: I was sitting in the hotel lobby in San Jose Costa Rica and a Canadian came up to me and started asking questions in English . I hesitantly answered “yes” and “no” since I didn’t know where this was going. Finally I had to answer with a full sentence and she exclaimed “Oh, you speak English!” So I was mistaken for a Costa Rican BY a Canadian.
I have never learned Spanish but I am sure I could if I could have spent more time in Costa Rica.
Honestly in my travels in Mexico and Central America I have found there are a lot of tourists (mostly Americans and Canadians) who are totally clueless. They are naive and don’t know crap about the locals or even the place they are visiting. I have been mistaken for a German or a Scandinavian, many times in Latin America. I am tall, blonde, with light eyes. I have that “Euro” look over an “American” look”, and I don’t carry myself like a typical American “tourist”.
There is a phrase in Spanish that I love… “listo” (m) or “lista” (f). (And if you are confused on the sex, the masculine form of “listo” is the one to use.) It literally means “ready”. It can also refer to how “with it” a person is, like having situational awareness and what have you, a person “in the know”. If a person is “listo” they are “ready”, on top of their game and know what is happening, so to speak. Sadly in these times we are presently navigating in, many people are not at all “listo” or “lista”. Their brains are in cognitive decline.
Oh a PS when one “lives” in à language other than their native language, like when one lives for any time in a foreign country, it makes it much easier to learn and absorb it. I had a cursory knowledge of Spanish from growing up around Spanish speaking people and studying Spanish starting in school when I was 10 years old up through high school, then two semesters in college.
It was when I lived for months at a time in Mexico or Guatemala, was when it all kicked in for me and I could think and speak in Spanish. I also watch a lot of Spanish series (with English subtitles) on Netflix from Spain, Mexico and Colombia to keep up on my Spanish as well.
Costa Rican Spanish is slower than most, it is equivalent to the American Deep South English drawl. By the time I left I felt as though I was close to having a good start.
My guess is he was really pale.
Yes, but there are a fair number of pale Costa Ricans. One of my big surprises there was watching people of Chinese descent speaking Spanish (this was long before China started flexing muscles). One old guy I met in a public park told me he was friends with astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz’s father.
There are a lot of “pale Costa Ricans” because there is not an heavy indigenous population in Costa Rica, in fact it is relatively small. You have dark skinned people over on the Caribe/East Coast but in the Central Valley/San Jose, it’s mostly people of European/Spanish descent. I just looked up on Brave AI and it says that “94% of Costa Ricans identify as “white” in official statistics”.
Ironically the Chinese have been in Mexico for a very long time. I grew up in a small town in an agricultural area in the SE corner of SoCA, next to Mexico and AZ. Mexico was 30 miles to the south from my town.
When I was growing up my grandparents would take us for Chinese food in Mexicali, Baja CA Norte. Though we had a Chinese restaurant in our town, the Chinese food in Mexicali was better. We would park the car in Calexico and walk across the border to the restaurant which was a block away. Chinese people had immigrated to Mexico and opened up restaurants and businesses. They were a presence in Mexicali.
Back in those days in the 50’s and 60’s it was very easy to cross back and forth from Mexico into CA.
During prohibition my grandparents and another young married couple who they were friends with would go over to Mexicali for a night of dinner and dancing, because Mexico had not outlawed liquor.
When I was 16 I had a couple of older (college age) girlfriends who would take me over to Mexicali with them to the clubs and bars that lined the border. I never showed an ID to cross the border or to drink in the bars. My mom never knew what I was up to. That’s where I had my first (and only) Singapore Sling cocktail! (What a nasty drink that was.)
🤣🤣🤣
I rather like Canada. Huskies, Mounties, the Frozen Logger song, and the whole facing down a tough country ethos. In the days of traveling carnivals didn't there used to be a person called a Carney Barker?
All such good reasons to like Canada. 🤣
Hey! Our bears, cougars, elk, moose, wolves and wolverines are still as tough as nails and not cringe. No trans in the forests and on the mountains.
All ours are tough as nails, too.
Yep. “Shooter” is racist. “Gunperson” or “gun-holding person” is the approved terminology.
Wait, shooter is racist? Sexist we can concede (the feminine is Shootress, of course) but which part is pale people supremacist? Have to say an awful lot of dark-skinned diversity shows up at gun shows these days.
“feminine is Shootress”
Reminds me of Walter Matthau in “First Monday in October” referring to Jill Clayburgh (playing the first female on SCOTUS) as “Jus-TESS.” 🤣
You spelled Canaduh wrong.
Carney is the City of London’s eunuch, not Xi’s. Xi knows the Brits were behind the failed military coup in January.
“At the top of a tall white pole that dwarfs a tiny red cottage on the edge of Greenland’s snow-capped western coastline, a brand-new flag flies in the Arctic air.” NIne adjectives in one sentence - is that to distract us from the fact that the whole story is a non-event?
Quit being such a hater. Just wait until Canada arms their new consulate with a fax machine. (A surplus fax machine from the US, of course)
A fax machine! Oh, they must really mean business then.
It just reinforces my opinion that in real journalism adjectives should be banned.
If you read that with an AI-generated Walter-Cronkite-like voice it sounds even better.
Why is it that as I read that ridiculous sentence I am hearing in my head the voice of the late Sebastian Cabot reading it as if to an audience of five year olds. If it was part of a radio report on the previously listenable and relatively unbiased CBC, it would be accompanied by the nat sound of the flag rippling in the breeze, gathered by some CBC tech producer who was forced, mic in hand, to shimmy up the pole to get the audio.
I've said this elsewhere and I'll say it again here: there is no one, *no one*, who can teach Canadians on how to be smug, sanctimonious, oblivious and hypocritical. We are absolute masters of those dark arts. Carney flexing is akin to his doppelganger Mr. Burns looking in the mirror - hunched back and sunken chest - and thinking Lou Ferrigno in his prime is looking back.
> smug, sanctimonious, oblivious and hypocritical.
Lib, through a local outdoor sports club I knew a dual-citizenship Canadian. He was such a puffed-up sort, constantly running down the US and our Constitution despite preferring to live under it, rather than Le Crown. (We have quite a few dual-citizenship Canadians here in the PNW. I'm still waiting to meet a sufferable one.)
He was constantly bragging about having been "Canadian Special Forces" and regaling everyone with his youthful tales of...well, stuff that most youths do, but his was special, having been...uh, him, and in Canada. Or something.
So this one chilly summer evening around a campfire people are scuttlebutting and bliveting and throwing elbows and talking trash after a tournament we'd hosted...and I can't remember what I said on what topic, but it was to the effect that Canadians were among the most smug and sanctimonious knobs I'd ever met. I wasn't digging at him. It was just a comment from my many years of traveling in Canada, doing professional stuff (ag related) in Canada, and knowing Canadians, in response to something someone else had observed. (The Canadian aggies were the least insufferable, for what it's worth.)
This guy suddenly froze, stared, mouth agape, and blurted in his very loud tenor, "Wait, you don't like Canadians?"
No, I said, I do not, overall, like Canadians.
"That's ridiculous! WTF? EVERYBODY LIKES CANADIANS!"
I don't.
This guy, no exaggeration, ever shut up...but this time he sat there, jaw hanging...and after a few seconds all he could manage was to repeat himself. "EVERYBODY LIKES CANADIANS! WE'RE THE MOST LIKEABLE PEOPLE ON EARTH!"
At first I thought he was being ironic. He wasn't.
My darling used to quote that sotto voce when we'd encounter someone being obliviously obnoxious. "EVERYBODY LIKES CANADIANS!" Or "Echo Lima Charlie."
So as someone who has a friend whose son was in the "Special Forces" (it's called something else which I won't reveal) I can tell you that that is something you *don't* go around telling people. He sounds full of shit, which is par for the course for many Canadians regarding the US, a strange inferiority-superiority complex that's embedded like a parasite inside many Canadians' brains.
> He sounds full of sh!t
That would be a big affirmative. :^D
100%
It's really come to the forefront recently, hasn't it? I don't even want to go outside anymore, lest I meet yet another preeening boomer looking to passive aggressively start a conversation about Trump with their favourite "Oh, you're American. So.......how do YOU think things are going down there?"
I cannot think of a single thing that Canada's federal government has done to benefit its citizens in an appreciable way in the last 10 years. For all his faults, Trump has actually improved the lives of his subjects, er voters.
its not even an office, sounds more like they are sleeping on iceland's couch...
They are a bit short of cash up there.
I'm going to give it a year - no, 6 months - before Iceland starts leaving post-it notes around the place telling Canada to pull its weight.
LOL.
And someone needs to clean the microwave. And stop eating my yogurts.
Trump tweaking Carney on the Gordie Howe bridge is top notch. I think he should re-name the bridge as “The Bridge to America.”
The other Trump tweet about China eliminating hockey when they take over Canada was also perfect. I haven’t seen any reaction to that one.
Maybe because Canada hasn’t won a Stanley since 1993. I expect to see that in a Trump tweet when needed.
"The Bridge to America"
this is gold, well done.
So funny, Chris! Carney is a total joke. I’m really enjoying your Federalist articles, too!
The Knights Who Say Nuuk!
I thought the Three Stooges said that, over and over.
It’s a Monty Python reference (Holy Grail)
Oh, I get this now. You’re referring to Curly. Nice!
Thanks a lot, Chris. I was already a nervous wreck, waking to cold sweats, having nightmares about some Bad Bunny monster. Now I have to live in mortal fear of the Canucks.
But
What if we send Justin to sit in that chair in the new office.
I bet that scares someone.
Yeah.
The janitor who has to clean the slime he leaves behind.
Way too cold in Greenland for his Cuban blood.
Carney flexes muscles!!!
We’re done for!!!
Ohhhh, noooooooooooooo!!!!!
I may go into hiding
I hide out at NHL games. No Canadian threats there.
Ouch, eh?
😂
I love Canada and spent all my family vacations there when I was growing up on fishing trips. All fond memories.
Replacing your young hockey players with young cricket players does not bode well for the future.
"At the top of a tall white pole with dwarfs in a tiny red cottage" - I could have sworn that's what it said... No, really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKy8wYFn0OU
(All the full clips have been taken down, alas.)
It's too bad Gen. Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold failed to conquer Canada when they had a chance in 1775-76. We could have turned that place into nothing but strip malls and condos for as far as the eye could see. LOL.
Instead, Canada became a sanctuary for the Loyalists who got kicked out of the US. The country has had a chip on its shoulder ever since.
Most of them weren’t kicked out, they left on their own accord.
Not necessarily, but it's sort of a distinction without a difference.
Had they tried to stay they would have been prosecuted for treason in most of the States, and most of the Loyalists had had their land confiscated.
You're not an anxious cat lady with eyeballs glued to the CBC/CNN so you could not possibly understand Carney's mastery of world affairs.
That is precisely whom all this stupidity is aimed at.
Indeed. Cat ladies + bureaucrats + heavily propagandized 'new Canadians' + a few tactical Quebec voters, and you've got yourself a majority.
Mark Carney becoming the "leader" of Canada was a balant signal by the central banks that the usurious money printers are taking direct control of the world. ...and millions cheered having no idea what just occurred.
CBDC nightmare, here we come...
BIS Chief Agustin Carstens: You Will Not Use Our CBDCs Without Our Permission (In Real Time)
: "A key difference with the CBDC [and cash] is the central bank will have _absolute control_ on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability--and we will have the technology to enforce that."
How are the masses this stupid...?
Propaganda and moral superiority complex.
Check out our state broadcaster CBC. They give Pravda a run for their money
Run for their money? They are jealous. The North koreans have it better
Oh yeah, they were COVID all-star pied pipers, I remember them well.
I'm still chumbling the Anon who observed that the term "mark" originated from carnies (carnival workers) who would put a chalk-mark on rubes who could be counted on to continue to play obviously rigged games. Other carnies would see the mark, and entice the player into their own scams.
> How are the masses this stupid
I'm sure it has nothing to do with a century of forced mandatory public schooling where nobody learns how interest works and how money is created.
Reminds me of the poker quote:
If you can’t spot the sucker within your first half hour at the table. Then you are the sucker.
“Mark Carney”… thank for clarifying…