Shannon Gormley

Shannon Gormley: When fascism came to America in 2025, it wore a red baseball cap and carried an AR-15 It took 11 months for a full-blown fascist state to rise in earnest from where U.S. democracy once stood.

When fascism came to America in 2025, it wore a red baseball cap and carried an AR-15

#Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social

In the TV Ontario studio, for The Rundown discussion of Canada's foreign policy posture

Mark Carney says Canada will no longer describe itself as having “a feminist foreign policy”.

Is this a change in the deep substance or superficial branding of our diplomacy?

I spoke with @jeyantvo.bsky.social and @shannongormley.bsky.social on @therundowntvo.bsky.social .

📺 youtu.be/VW1VpdMwpI4

So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate.

Got it.

Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶

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Shannon Gormley: No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does Next to the scene of collapse around him, the President of the United States cuts a solitary and disdainful figure.

No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does

#Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social

My travel destinations will now be based off this photo

Caption this photo?

I'll start:
Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv.

Your captions ⤵️

Canada should join the UK in committing forces to Ukraine, but our Latvia mission is barely sustainable as it is.

And if we decide to add thousands of troops along the US border? Forget it.

Opinion: Trump’s possible not-so-secret agenda: Canadian water exports and lots of them Water may be the real reason, or one of the top reasons, propelling Trump’s desire to turn Canada into Minnesota North

"What if Trump insisted the tariffs are to take effect unless Canada listed water as a tradable good?... Nice little economy you have there, Canada; shame that your refusal to turn on the faucet could wreck it." @ereguly.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Tomi Lahren on Twitter writes: "Can you think of a Canadian product that’s better than an American one? Honestly curious."

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.

I think something broke in Canadians this weekend. Everyone has had enough - but will it be enough for us to finally get our act together on defence, foreign affairs, and finally nixing internal trade barriers?

If Trump keeps up this 51st state shit, I think Canada should ask its other NATO allies to station *their* troops along our border.

I believe it says explicitly in the treaty text that this is not an "EU border". We'd have to change the text of the treaty, but that's very doable....

We don't even have to complete shut off the taps to start with. Just throttle back supply, and watch prices rise. We can hurt them AND keep our own economy turning over, and leave something in the tank (ha) to demonstrate measured resolve.

Acknowledgements page of a book. It reads: "If anyone says 'tariff' to you," an exasperated editor advised in 1894, "shoot him on the spot." Such advice probably would strike a responsive note among those who had a part in the development of this book. My family and friends have had remark- able patience. Or they were poor shots.

never have i felt so seen by a 50-year-old book

I think the worst thing Canada can do right now is be complacent. Continue to plan for the worst case scenario. Remove interprovincial trade barriers. Broaden our export markets. Support Canadian business and each other. LFG.

This is very funny, but I’ve always thought Canada isn’t as friendly and polite as we seem, more repressed. Which means when you push the wrong button, it’s like in A Christmas Story when Ralphie loses it and beats the absolute snot out of Scut Farkus. Somebody better hold onto our glasses.

For Americans, it was one of 100 shocking headlines during Trump's first 15 days of office. For Canadians, it was a nation-transforming event of historic proportions

To emphasize your point, as a citizen of one of those allies: America's not only "pissing us off," but is waging economic war on us and threatening to annex us in Canada.

I’m being so serious, this is a great chance for countries to do their own brain drain visas, especially in western countries that are struggling with birth rates

Economic nationalism has never been good for Canada. But for the moment some of it is necessary

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

Looks like this is happening.

This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening.

But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate.

A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....

Five Principles for Surviving Our Predictably Uncertain Future How can Canada (or anyone else) survive in a world without trust?

My piece from yesterday: surviving in a world in which America recognizes no friends, and doesn't care about credibility.

open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

What will Trump do in his first hundred days? Just look at what he’s said in the past hundred Trump has made his priorities clear. Here's what his first 100 days in office might bring.

I’ve spent every day of the last hundred days scribbling down what Trump has said and done. Here, for the @thestar.com, I write a chronology that I hope gives some order to the chaos. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...