49 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Pony!”

  1. The LPC elected a high school kid to lead them.
    I have often wondered if Liberals have a threshold of embarrassment or shame, but after seeing them elect Trudeau to lead them, the answer is obvious.

  2. Awaiting the “leave Britney alone” support chorus any moment now. (Fortunately, not here.)

  4. Several times during the service, the camera swung by Trudeau in his seat. He was entirely emotionless, like he was watching a boring movie. While those around him had their heads bowed during prayer, he just looked straight toward the alter. Never saw him look at a program, or in any way demonstrate any respect for the funeral he was attending. A serious question would be why he even bothered to attend, other than he got another free trip. He has none of the statesmanship of his dad, who would have been appropriately reverent during the service, politics and ideologies notwithstanding. A truly clueless perpetual youngster. Mulcair didn’t seem to be whole lot better. I liked Harper’s speech, if a little too “political”, especially since he apparently wrote it himself. Poor Laureen was an absolute mess.

  5. Shiny Pony is a kneejerk Leftist/statist and I assume lightweight atheist. Not because he believes deeply in such things, but because they are fashionable in his social circle. He doesn’t know enough to conceal his disdain for religious events or for his political opponents when in public. Because disdain is fashionable, and the Pony is -never- unfashionable.
    Pony is clearly not big on compromise.

  9. Trudeau is not a Statesman, he has a long, long way to go. The Flaherty funeral was wonderful, boring it was not, but Trudeau had that demeanor,that said I don’t want to be here, like someone who has not grown up.
    If he had any scruples he would have refused any attention from “fans”as he entered the church, this day was not about him.

  10. I am sorry Skip but, you mentioned “the statesmanship his father had” and I cannot leave that well alone. I was a teenager in the 70’s and even then I could recognize that PET was a vacuous poseur and manipulator and an academic with all the limitations one expects from people cut from the cloth of the Westmount elite. PET was a stand alone demagogue mastermind who thought he could give the stink finger to members of the public, thought that he could control wages and prices in a free market economy, thought he could regulate a Canadian only price for crude oil in a world petroleum market, thought it was acceptable to use the phrase “just watch me” that belied his ugly totalitarian inner character, and thought it was okay to befriend and visit a communist dictator who held thousands of political opponents in prison. Statesman? The word cannot be applied to his character portrayal in the slightest. The man was a thinly veiled monster. I fear his son who has shared no particular political philosophical leanings in public, has not fallen far from this tree.

  11. Laureen Harper has class and grace. She’s REAL.
    Jim Flaherty’s family really impressed me, too.

  12. PET was a dilitante with very little respect for anyone. Junior is just a joke, he would rather have been playing his Nintendo game than attend the funeral.

  13. I was graduated from university in the 70s. You are confusing PET’s politics and ideologies with his human sensibilities. Trudeau very clearly understood when it was necessary to be reverent, and when he could get away with being irreverent. It was his stock-in-trade. It wasn’t his politics that got him elected, it was his charisma – his knowledge of knowing when to stroke the dog, and when to poke it. Jr has none of that.

  15. Which is what I found particularly alarming about PET, Skip. He was the classic manipulator which, for people who could recognize this and were not entranced by the cult of personality, was plainly scary. True as you observed about his politics not being his stock in trade in getting elected. I remember well when Trudeau, having been reelected as LPC leader, bleated out in his acceptance speech about the need to repatriate the Canadian constitution and the delegates very audibly moaning in the background.
    Please excuse any harshness in my previous comment as it certainly was not directed at you. PET simply makes my blood boil.

  17. There are precious few statesmen left in the world. Stephen Harper may be one of them. The current occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and 10 Downing St certainly aren’t.
    Sadly I suspect Canada will succumb to the idiot-disease currently infesting most western nations and elect this unfit, immature, incurious, unintelligent, egotistical man-child to be prime minister one day soon. A selfie won’t make dumb voters any less dumb.

  18. PeeAir Turdough was a pathological narcissist just like Obumbles, but he had the smarts to be a better people manipulator . Obumbles just has more LIVs to drool or him that PeeAir did.

  19. 43 year old man child. In the end, the only vote he will attain is the 40+ single women, suburban vote.

  20. Excuse me ?? ” Trudeau very clearly understood when it was necessary to be reverent”.
    Like doing that stupid pirouette behind the Queen’s back at the G7? Right…

  21. Hey, that’s not just any high school kid. That’s the leader of the cool kids.

  22. It just proves that the Pony is more interested in how HE looked at the funeral than what the event meant to the many other in attendance and watching. He was definitely the odd person out when it came to acting statesmanlike. Hell, even Elizabeth May was more statemanlike than Trudeau…and THAT’S saying something.

  23. There used to be a time when liberals were too politically
    savvy to do something this stupid. Even Bill Clinton would
    not do something this narcissistic. No wait, he did.
    Posing for “Selfies” at a funeral is about as low class as
    one can get. Even a decade ago, this would have been
    considered insensitive. If anything is going to destroy
    the liberals, it will be things like this. Their own
    behavior will defeat them.

  24. jr is a classless act. The old man was as well.
    jr very much wants to be the old man, sliding down bannisters, trying to be hip, spontaneously acting up. It’s not working. If he keeps this up he might get a spot on Jackass.

  25. Arrested development ?
    Perpetual adolescence ?
    Either term fits.
    The man is not fit to lead the Liberal party, let alone the country. His shortcomings have been hidden well by the MSM, but I doubt if they can do it for another year or so.
    OTOH, the USA does have a two-term Obama.

  28. Turns out Rob Ford, Peter MacKay and Jason Kenney also did selfies with people in the crowd.

  29. Interesting comments on the Sun link to the effect that the “selfie” was taken AFTER the funeral when the crowd was dispersing and was – therefore – not disrespectful. While the shots of the Flaherty family and the PM were unambiguous in context, those of Trudeau and Mulcair were not.

  30. I read Trudeau’s comments in the National Post this morning and thought they just sounded “off”, as in glib, and not quite respectful or deferential enough. Perhaps a little too “me, me, me” focused:
    “I had dinner with him a number of times and always had good times and good conversations with him. I didn’t always agree with his views and his vision, but I certainly know they always came from a good place and it’s an honour to be here to celebrate today.” — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau
    Compare that to Mulcair’s response: NDP leader Tom Mulcair was close to tears as he spoke to reporters about Flaherty’s death, calling him an “extraordinarily dedicated public servant.”

  31. I remember reading somewhere that PET went to dine with Lester Pearson a short time before Pearson died and never said a word about Pearson’s illness. A cold, arrogant so and so.

  32. Mulcair had crocodile tears.
    Much more cynical than Trudeau’s disaffection with not being able to speak and say “Je t’aime, Flaherty”.

  33. So where were their hands, is that why they were smiling?
    Two morons just finishing the bong, no doubt

  34. I can’t imagine Justin having a conversation at a dinner with Jim Flahrety. It would have had to be a larger group of people rather than just them alone. His quote tries to make it sound like they talked economic strategies together. I don’t think young Trudeau would have a clue about anything other than social issues and even in those his opinions would be so predictable. If he’s elected he won’t actually do anything. He will just give all the power to a cabinet that I doubt he would be able to put together without someone telling him who he should appoint. He will be just like Obama having parties all the time, jet setting the world trying to act like he’s the coolest world leader ever. I can’t even imagine him at a G8 meeting or anything important. LOL we will be the biggest joke.

  36. As much as I deplore Pierre Trudeau’s attempt to create Plato’s Republic in Canada I don’t think it is right to be happy he lost a son.

  37. In the West where taking out of the closet all our old Separation stuff( Thankfully we never did stop laying the social & political infrastructure for a free west) if this nincompoop is voted in.Being liberal is bad enough, but can be endured if sane. When it comes to the Aristocrats of Canada being so inbred that can’t be said here. We all in Alberta know owe thing, except the NDP type. His first order of business will be about nationalising the oil industry. That way Ontario can have all the money, minus minor scraps to Alberta.
    Hey if they own the oil the federal Liberals even get the transfer money it used to be divided from. To garnish Quebec more in free “stuff”. Trudeau phone any one?
    How about Making arabic Canada’s third language?

  39. “There used to be a time when liberals were too politically
    savvy to do something this stupid.”
    That was back in the day when they had the hubris to pretend they were the Arbiter of Canadian Values, back when they could pretend to be both fiscally conservative(before stealing $400 million in Adscam) and ‘socially just’ representing pretty much the same constituency that the NDP/Greens do otherwise.
    They can’t pretend fiscal conservatism anymore, it was a onetime trick, socialism eats fiscal policy because of it’s ramping costs and the LPC can’t pretend to be the Champions of Confederation since some of the stolen Adscam funds were given to the Parti Quebecois.
    I believe if the LPC disintegrates, most of the remaining voters will go conservative, large previous losses among nominal LPC base voters already having gone to the NDP/Greens a few elections ago.

  40. Justine must have been bored at the funeral because it wasn’t about him. Anyone remember how he hijacked his step-father’s* funeral with that BS performance? It’s no wonder he was only able to be a part time drama teacher because he sucks as an actor.
    * it’s quite likely his real father was one of the Rolling Stones

  43. Per the comments about PET being astute.
    He had a media environment at that time that enabled his bad faith politics. If the internet was around in 1965 PET would never had the opportunity to become liberal leader.
    If the media environment of today was the same as it was in 1965, Stephan Harper would never had gotten the chance to enter politics and we would be into the fifth decade of liberal rule.
    To be fair, entering political life is not something I believe Justin decided on. I believe that he was talked into it and agreed to do it because he had nothing else on the go and thought it would be real cool.
    He’s also obviously been convinced is going to bea cakewalk to 24 Sussex.

  44. Aw common now, the guy worships Mao, publicly stating that he respects Mao’s Communist China which butchered +60 million of it’s own citizens – and people wonder about a few selfies at a funeral?

  45. Ugh. Can’t stand that boy- man. A friend of mine, who is very non-political, told me recently she gets nauseous at the sight of him, and covers his face up with a tea towel if his pic is in the morning paper. Just, ugh. Will be buying lots of gravol in 2016.

  49. Was that Chrystia Freeloader on Mulcair’s arm?
    If it’s his wife that’ll explain why he looks angry all the time.

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