Following in the footsteps of PSY’s Gangnam Style phenomenon, Justin Trudeau has come up with his own “Manhattan Style” PR campaign, pitching economic illiterate Chrystia Freeland as one of him main economic advisers. Ezra Levant explains:
In democracies, citizens deserve the politicians they elect. Such will be the case for Canadians if they succumb to the Media Party’s narrative and elect the Shiny Pony and his fellow “stars” in 2015.
A little background on Crystia Freeland. Here is a link to her mother’s (the little communist)obituary.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=a706e023-9c09-4809-80d3-67a9d6ef2496&k=2780
The Celebrity Apprentice is teaming up with other celebrity apprentices – and they still can’t come up with a rational idea! Trump would fire these chumps in ten minutes.
All three of them, standing on each others shoulders, would be in danger of drowning in a parking lot puddle.
The only explanation is that Trudeau is convinced he pharts rainbows like his Hopey Changey hero OBamBam. All he needs to do is smile a lot, amuse the press with earnest pronunciations of in depth thinking about stuff or other and he’ll skate to victory.
Freeland is about as vacuous as a candidate can get.
Canada is not, I repeat is not a DEMOCRACY! It is in fact a Constitutional Monarchy. I defy any Canadian to show me an actual ballot issued to a voter that has any executive position on it. Prime Minister, Premiers and all other executive political positions are appointed by the Crown in an uncodified Constitutional Convention (which is a fancy way of saying tradition).
That means that mere Canadian Subjects (technically there is no such thing as a Canadian Citizen)are just that, Subjects. They are collectively owned and managed by a congenitally retarded foreign Monarch and her Privy Council and select Upper Class members.
Robert, what you said. If we follow the route that the Americans have taken, we are a different level of screwed. This is why Trudeau must be repeatedly pummelled with the questions a real leader would have to answer (to him, the tough questions). Have anyone stupid enough to vote for either Freeland or Trudeau live in total darkness and deprivation. They might as well get used to life under the Fils.
KPD, I get what you are saying but now a more pressing issue- the potential rise of the Shiny Pony and the Valley Girl- is upon us.
Yeah back when I first marked a ballot, only the candidates name and occupation was there. After the first wave of Trudeau mania, LIVs complained that they wanted to vote for Turdeau’s man but it wasn’t marked….the LIBRANOs changed that right directly…..now it’s name and party….
Makes ya wonder how many votes the LIBRANOs and Dippers etc would lose if we went back to the original ballot format….
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;”
– from The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
Maybe some people think he’s “cool.” Whether that means they will actually show up to the polls and vote for JT remains to be seen. Freeland is a symptom of the Grits’ problems with electability. She has hovered between the LPC and NDP and has no financial credentials other than bashing at business for wrecking utopia.
The Libs free-enterprise vote has already migrated to the Tories and it`s doubtful JT can bring them back. The very mention of carbon taxes or similar measure will bury his party – people generally have had enough with politicians taxing them for this or that behaviour whereby they are expected to make everything green and OK again, while government gleefully shoves tax dollars into the black hole for their PET causes.
Disaffected Grit teenagers unable to find summer work tapping on their keyboards haven`t, and won`t, change this IMO. Summoning the Obama effect won`t work either – the pain of his borrowing and statism is already evident, with much more to come, and, despite the meme from our mediarazzi, Harper and the Tories, while not loved by the masses, are still seen as a better choice than the statism of JT or Mulcair, who will split the left-centre vote, again.
I can only surmise from his or her comments that KPD is unwell.
I wish him/her a speedy recovery.
In parts of this country, the majority will vote for the Shiny pony and his party only because they always have. They would rather watch Dancing with the Stars than the news, as it is hard to have an opinion. At least there is a channel out there for people who give a shit. I wonder if anyone is watching Sun News East of Toronto?
Well this is disturbing. Still, can’t be any more illiterate than PMSH.
Your choice- whether you like it or not- is between Harper who shows some facility for leadership or the total moron. I know you would choose the latter but do try to differentiate.
we can only hope Canadians do not experience the voters remorse Americans feel now. Same scenario – every sociopath in the greivence industry has jumped on the rock star candidates media juggernaught – with the same predictable results. Why is it voters never learn?
As much as I’m starting to dislike PMSH now that he’s been infected by Ottawa brain rot, he’s far preferable to a pneumocephalic member of the lucky sperm club. Looks like Turdeau’s brain rot started in-utero.
Hard to believe that anyone could possibly think of voting for someone so moronic but then one just has to look south to see that there are a lot of stupid people out there. One can only hope that Turdeau is struck by alopecia totalis prior to the next election as that will probably drastically cut his portion of the bimbo vote.
Quoted from Wiki on PM Harper:
He took up post-secondary studies again at the University of Calgary, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in economics. He later returned there to earn a master’s degree in economics, completed in 1993. Harper has kept strong links to the University of Calgary, where he often lectured students. Harper is the first prime minister since Joe Clark without a law degree.
For LAS, what are your credentials? Calling someone who has actually earned a Masters in Economics illiterate makes you look petty and immature. The truth hurts you, that is apparent. The people that Trudeau surrounds himself with have no actual qualifications to run a lemon-aid stand, let alone a country.
Problem for most of us here in Canada is that the voters are the illiterate ones, and so they don’t read the news. They just watch the CBC and are fed what the “progressives” wish to feed them, mostly bull-chips.
As has been observed elsewhere, the media party is showing their true colours in this by-election with 3 of their number running for the Libs, NDP, and Green Party. Yup, well balanced and fair reporting there!
Don’t know what alopecia totalis is but it sounds good to me.
Through and through the vorpal blade went snick-a-snack.
Avery good intellectual undressing.
Only an idiot or a devout left wing radical would even consider voting for this part time drama teacher to run anything.This guy is not qualified to run a hamburger franchise never mind a country,[with apopologies to those who actualy do run hamburger franchises].
apologies
That’s about right.
I’d only add that other issues (health care and foreign “entanglements”, to name two) demonstrably drove the “Obama effect”, as you well call it. Quite apart from the question of how well any of that is workin’ for Mr. Obama now, none of it is relevant to our situation — Mr. Harper has managed those kinds of issues well enough, clearly.
And, I must say, I am particularly happy with the announcement today of the Ottawa-Ontario-BC agreement on a new securities regime: the political-economy of all that is particularly luscious and formidable, from a Conservative perspective.
I found Ezra’s critique this time to be particularly trenchant: the Liberals are utterly implausible. I’m actually inclined to think that the NDP might win the by-election, even in spite of Tom’s latest moonbeam (proportional representation): ZZZZZZZZZ.
I generally don’t like “smarmy” announcers, but let’s face it, no one, and I mean no one, does it better than Ezra Levant! And in this case, there is none so deserving,so pretentious, and ridiculous, as the Shiny Pony. Let’s face it folks, deep, deep down inside the man is shallow! Unfortunately, given polling results, we must accept that much of the Canadian electorate is the same. Thank God that he looks after babies, drunks and the Canadian electorate.
We didn’t know how well off we were when Count Michael was Leader of the Liberal Party.
Justin looks very much like his mother, but she wasn’t as much a flake as he is. As for the Chrystia Freeland, she is a real find! She makes Justin look bright and well informed!
We didn’t know how well off we were when Count Michael was Leader of the LIberal Party. One of many reasons is that he might have put together a government which wasn’t a total comedy routine.
I am glad that people don’t like Prime Minister Stephen Harper very much. Liking interferes with rational thought. It is better to respect than to like. I actually liked John Diefenb**ger when he
first appeared on the scene – I was even enthusiastic, in the ripeness of my 12 year old wisdom. Another early enthusiasm was John Kennedy – but as a Canadian I couldn’t vote for him, and a good thing too. Nobody liked Richard Nixon, but he was a good President, one of the best.
“Nobody liked Richard Nixon, but he was a good President, one of the best.”
Yes he was, except for that whole rapprochement with China thing, that was a mistake.
The thing about President Kennedy which few people know was that as much of a leftist that so many on the right accuse him of being today, Kennedy was the last American President to spend money trying to pay down the national debt.
You all make extremely good points in your criticisms of Trudeau. Sadly though, we must acknowledge that most Canadians are Low Information Voters. I’m not suggesting they’re stupid but merely not very interested in the affairs of the country. I would suspect that the vast majority of actual voters rarely reads beyond the headlines of a newspaper and pays little attention beyond 10 minutes of an evening newscast. This is whom Trudeau and his backers are going to focus their energies on. Sadly, they may win. We then will collectively deserve the repercussions of their governance.
As for the Chrystia Freeland, what exactly is wrong with Harvard University? It once was a real centre of learning. Now it seems to be nothing but a nursery for nut bars.
For Turdo et al
(With my apologies to Sir Walter)
O Turdo la Doo is come out of Mount West,
Through all the wide Border his hair was the best;
And save his good fan-club he weapons had none,
He rode all unarm’d, ’cause he rode deaf and dumb.
So loving of self, with no care for you,
There was no greater naught than Turdo la Doo.
Oh that Ezra…always cutting to the heart of the matter with effortless ease. Must drive the leftazoids to distraction to see their elaborate constructs exposed and upended.
Robert, amen to that.
Oz, “Kennedy was the last American President to spend money trying to pay down the national debt.” So it seems. Almost every western world leader has bought into Keynes and has managed to bastardize even his economic theory. I’ll bet none even know who Hayek is.
His “promise” to legalize pot could work to get him elected.
Harper who shows some facility for leadership
Citation needed.
He took up post-secondary studies again at the University of Calgary, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in economics. He later returned there Blah blah blah
Your hero worship and credentialism do not a convincing argument make.
Trudeau’s no genius, but your attempts to peg him as super-stupid are over-egged and wearing thin. According to his early detractors-such as myself-he should have train-wrecked a long time ago. Still waiting.
Nixon was good for ending the draft, nearly winning Vietnam, and opening trade with China. He was a villian for declaring war on drugs, creating the EPA, and defaulting on the gold standard. And lying about Watergate of course.
“…Trudeau’s no genius, but your attempts to peg him as super-stupid are over-egged and wearing thin. According to his early detractors-such as myself-he should have train-wrecked a long time ago. Still waiting…”
So, are you saying that the fact that Turdo la Doo is still around is proof positive that (a) our initial analysis was faulty, or rather, (b)that the continuation of popular support for public figures is often contingent on factors other than the brains, experience and ability of The Star…or, for that matter, his fan club. 😉