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Congratulations to Canada’s Soccer Team. What a Victory! But Carney? Three words my British cousins would say: "What a Wanker!"

Carney is testing the boundaries of narcissism.

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Jun 19, 2026
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There is a word for this, and the word is narcissism.

Not ordinary vanity. Not the small political vanity of wanting a photograph near a happy crowd. This was something more revealing: out-of-control narcissism, the inability to witness a national moment without assuming it somehow requires your presence, your voice, your interpretation, your little serm…

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