Niki Ashton says she’ll continue to champion pulling the federal NDP to the left of the political spectrum, blaming sexist media coverage for her third-place result in Sunday’s leadership race.
Niki Ashton says she’ll continue to champion pulling the federal NDP to the left of the political spectrum, blaming sexist media coverage for her third-place result in Sunday’s leadership race.
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sexist, niki? say, isn’t this the party whose sainted leader got netted in
an underage hooker raid?
The officer’s notebook indicates he asked the suspected john:
“Did you receive any sexual services?”
He replied: “No sir, I was just getting a shiatsu.”
The cop: “Why did you have all your clothes off?”
The suspected john: No answer.
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so boytoy JT hits the gender balance, but poor nikki is still marginalized…boohoo
i can’t wait for Jagmeet vs Justin, where Andy comes up the middle for the Win.
Ah. Okay. Time to go for a walk.
That will be some trick, moving anything in Canada further to the left.
Everything is already jammed up against the left guardrails now, after the massive generations-long failure to take the curve. There hasn’t been anything genuinely right wing available to voters who wanted to elect somebody since maybe Dief the chief. Harper talked a great game but delivered mostly watered down socialism and globalism. It wasn’t good enough for the media who wanted full-on socialism and globalism, but nobody should be under any illusion that Harper was right of centre, his voters may be, but he wasn’t and neither was most of his Cabinet (which he chose, so there’s the proof, look at who wasn’t chosen or who wasn’t invited into the caucus, for example, Ezra Levant). Scheer is just a younger and even blander Harper, if that’s even possible.
It’s basically about optics, image and how quickly you want to bring about change, that’s all that separates the three main parties today. Tax breaks for patron-voters all round, makes no difference to many who won’t get a break from any of them.
From the related article, Ashton got more headline mentions than Caron and the same number of mentions as Angus. Was that sexism against Angus and Caron?
What’s pretty clear is that Singh was the runaway favorite of all candidates with the media. Ashton sounds like Hillary looking for any and every excuse for failure but her own poorly run campaign that failed to capture the imagination of an already leftie sympathetic media.
She probably should have brought someone in to cause a scene so she could show how loving she was .
“Ashton sounds like Hillary looking for any and every excuse for failure…”
Maybe she’s been reading “What Happened”?
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“concerned says… brought someone in to cause
a scene”
i’m still thinking “n@ked shiatsu”… hey, it worked for
jacko.
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Alright … I am increasingly frustrated with all this so-called feminist clap-trap about gender bias and “sexism”. So, this hardcore conservative needs to state HIS definitive position (OK, call it my “missionary” statement) on the matter.
1. I absolutely LOVE and ADORE women. I am one of those old-fashioned (I guess) people who actually puts women on a pedestal, and regard them as the most BEAUTIFUL and WONDERFUL gift that God ever gave humanity. I am a designer by trade and training … and God’s design for women is sublime. And the BEAUTY of his design can be equally effective in an amazing variety of proportion and form (well, except for FAT chicks). Small breasts, large breasts, slim, Rubenesque … the female form can be beautiful in multiple arrangements and combinations. Men on the other hand … are fairly gross … unless you get a man down to about 5% body fat with a 6-pack … and hair (on his head).
2. I absolutely LOVE and ADORE … smart women. I have not now, nor ever been, “intimidated” by a smart woman … or an “aggressive” woman. I don’t like “doormats” … whether they are male OR female. I have total respect for women … although some can be hard to take … like this harpy named Nikki (an obvious pseudonym invented to rebel against her parents).
3. I believe women can do (almost) anything a man can do. However, it is complete insanity and DENIAL to pretend that there are no DIFFERENCES between men and women. Physical differences, and spiritual differences. And yes … not between “individuals” but because solely of “gender”. Period. My wife, for example does virtually EVERYTHING differently than I do. She is slower to anger. She is more forgiving and compassionate. She raised our children as an emotional “advocate” for them, while I was the traditional disciplinarian. We are so completely “opposite” that it is a wonder our marriage has survived for 35 years … but we are perfectly aligned philosophically and spiritually.
4. I LOVE and ADORE the physical differences between men and women and the BEAUTY of the sexual union. Sorry … but that is the biological and spiritual DESIGN of the species. I am AMAZED by the differences between a female’s reproductive strategy and a man’s reproductive strategy. Men produce MILLIONS of spermatozoa … hourly. Women produce ONE ripe egg per month. So men want to get busy with as many women as possible … while women are highly selective (most of em) of their mates. It set up a rather beautiful ritual of mating … until birth control came along and women were free to be sluts. Casual sex still has no appeal whatsoever to me. I need to be VERY close … spiritually and emotionally, to my physical partner before I can enjoy sex. If you pretend that sex doesn’t fundamentally take place in your brain … then you are just a dull, dolt.
5. I would rather “hang-out” with women. I would rather chat them up at a party than stand around with the guys and argue “sports statistics”. A close friends wife calls me a “chick”. Nope. I just flat out LOVE women. I don’t want to BE one … I just like being surrounded by pussy (sorry … but I’m being honest here).
So DROP this myth of “rampant sexism”. Oh … and I know the statements above will be interpreted as “sexist” by the NASTY women of the leftist feminist stripe. To which I say … F()ck-off Beeeoches.
Jagmeet Singh’s win was great for the Country,now instead of having a far left delusional Nikki Ashton take the Party further to the left,if that is actually possible,we’ll have a Sikh socialist who will drain a lot of that community’s votes away from Justin Trudeau.
I just can’t wait for the debates,when neither Trudeau nor Singh will actually answer a question,but the media will swear they both beat Scheer soundly.
The author at “related” coined a new word for victims,”broledarity”,which I suppose,is the Great White Male Conspiracy ag’in womenfolk and other oppressed people, and ensures that only men get ahead in this world.
But wait,does the broledarity include persons of color (colour in Canada),and members of religions which are not Christian!!!? If so, them po’r wimmin has got a high mountain to climb.
I am not a man given to profanity for the sake of,but Nikki Ashton is one of those people who I just wish would f*** off go live in obscurity in Churchill or Nunavut.
That wasn’t sexism!the media exercised their usual dispassionate, analytical attitude and decided that a brown man in a funny hat was waaaay cooler than a woman of any colour.
Niki Ashton,always comes off as an angry person with the personality of a stump. If I were an NDP member she would not get my support, being a woman has nothing to do with it. All parties need to stop the gender crap and go for the best PERSON for the job.
Niki Ashton’s toughest opponent is the fact that she blew off doing her job as an MP to go campaign in a foreign country for a political candidate, which seems like it ought to be some kind of violation of foreign-interference-in-elections law somewhere.
Well, that and being named “Niki”. She’s a fundamentally unserious candidate and the party recognized that.
I almost missed this gem from the author of the Medium piece in the comments:
The only candidate who apparently faced a big challenge getting elected as leader was Ashton. The fact that there can only be one winner apparently doesn’t matter. The fact that a candidate must appeal to the electorate across many policy issues also doesn’t appear to matter. The press didn’t click with the Ashton campaign so it’s sexist.
Oh and apparently you can elect a woman leader and it can still be structurally sexist. I feel a Steely Dan song coming on (Pretzel Logic). I imagine the only thing that can please an intersectionalist, critical theory loving, vagina-owning (or vagina-coveting), leftie would be the complete self-immolation of those who stand-to-pee because “sexism isn’t fixed with representation alone.”
‘man in a funny hat was waaaay cooler than a woman of any colour’
Especially when that ‘funny hat’ is dyed hot pink.
I wonder what his Sikh friends think of that.
Those tough Sikh bastards that fought hard for the British army must be spinning somewhere.
If she wants to be selected as their leader she needs to work on what appeals to the masses. She needs to work on her NDPenis.
Media sexism? Come on, seriously? It wasn’t “Media sexism” that handed Ashton a loss. NDPers just thought a turban would be better identity politicking then a vag… The Media’s love affair with the guy wearing a turban sure didn’t help her though. Ashton is a hard core commie/cultural Marxist just like the Media douchebags she complains about, therefore she should understand that in the sphere of Marxist identity politics a turban will always win out over a vagina… everyone knows that.
You may be right. That could account for why I keep seeing more Sikh woman wearing turbans.(not a joke)
Many of their woman can grow some very scary facial hair to go along with the turban too.
I am not sure it was sexism but being a very ugly woman did not help her cause.
“Well, that and being named “Niki”.”
What’s in a name? Actually I have a granddaughter with the same name who is extremely intelligent and beautiful. Attributes to which Ashton cannot lay claim. I don’t think that my granddaughter will grow up to be an immature, whiny, delusional, perpetually angry loser putting forth lame excuses for abject failure. I guess this eliminates any future chances of the granddaughter running for leader of the NDP. How will I ever break the news to her?
Exactly and well said.
Every time I have heard Niki talk she comes across as a very angry person and I suspect that that was the main reason she did not get more support. Even commies like a more upbeat leader, think always bubbly shiatzu Jack..
Jagmeat McSingh won because a head rag beets a vagina rag!!
Good luck with that Nikki. I think Canada’s hard left is getting frozen out, and that’s good news. If Nikki’s ‘purity drive’ does gain traction it could rupture the NDP, but this is unlikely.
If your granddaughter ever asks,tell her she was named after Nikki Haley,
former Governor of South Carolina and daughter of rock ‘n roll icon Bill Haley of the Comets.
I know that last bit isn’t true,but Grandfathers are allowed a bit of leeway when it comes to tales of the Old Days.
Policy wise, there is little difference between them, so….
As with Sean, this is all about identity politics. The Sikh beat the frustrated feminazi.
She should have done something about her acne. I have a hard time believing that a guy in a turban was chosen, and the same crowd would have shunned a middle class white, anglo saxon female with a name that is befitting to a soap opera star.
And she had a pretty cool personality.
C’est la vie Niki!!
It’s lose-lose for Ashton either way.
If the Knee-Dippers are “sexist”, then she had no chance of winning anyway.
If the Knee-Dippers aren’t “sexist”, then by slandering the party membership she’s pretty much guaranteed she will never have a chance of winning.
Heh.
What’s in a name?
Diminutives, especially female diminutives, imply immaturity. Take the sexism out of it: you take someone named “William” or even “Bill” more seriously than someone named “Billy”.
Someone try and convince me that many NDP voters will not flee to the Liberals instead of the other way around.
I see Jagmoops win as a plus for sock fella and the Libs. Dippers gonna crash and burn.
Neo, do you remember Mark Steyn’s classic joke?
The cop walks into the whorehouse, and sees Jack Layton, sitting naked on a bed.
The cop says, “Okay, you, what’s your name?”
Jack Layton says, “I’m Jack Layton.”
And the cop says, “Look, I can see what you’re doing. I asked you, what’s your name?”
If you’ve ever wondered why they pay Steyn the big bucks, well, now you have some idea.