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Trudeau and his faithful media and pollsters remind everyone that Scheer is worse than Hitler. And Justin reminds us that this will be a positive, clean campaign.
HE IS WORSE WORSE THAT HITLER.
At least Hitler spoke the truth about what his goals were.
I far prefer actual NAZIs to liars. I would rather go back in time, and have a beer with anyone from the Third Reich, than suffer the company of any media person, politician, or other liar.
Fascists are objectively superior morally and intellectually; THEY DON’T LIE ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT, OR HOW THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT.
uh no Kevin, there was one helluvalot of lying going on in the buildup to nazi rule.
goebbels boasted about how effective proper use of propaganda was. at that he told the truth, no qualms about
using the term. apparently didnt have the -ve connotation of today.
Yesterday and now today, you have gone completely beyond the pale.
There is no western politician, not even M. Trudeau, who comes within a thousand miles of being the evil, brutal person that Hitler was. His regime was arguably the most vicious and remorseless that has ever inhabited the earth. Hitler saw Slavic people as being subhuman like the Jews. Had he conquered Russia he would have attempted to exterminate all of them too.
Are you blonde, blue eyed and have pale skin? If not, your conversation with the mythical member of the third reich would probably end rather quickly.
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as bad as hitler… of course… not a misunderstood guy like…
“Despite being charged with 22 offences — including gun,
dangerous driving and assault police charges — and facing
an apparently “overwhelming case,” Shakiem Anderson was
freed on bail with his mentally-ill brother as his surety
by Justice Joseph Bovard 17 days later.”
toronto’s gun problem, i think i smell a clue.
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“an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China.”
https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder
Get a grip. Breathe. Count to ten or eleven. Have a beer.
Justin can pretend to be positive and clean, as his sycophants in the media do all the mudslinging, lying, and misrepresenting for him.
From his perspective, the best of both worlds.
If Scheer were a liberal, he would be loved. But he is a conservative (so he says) therefore he is a racist a bigot, a white supremacist and for sure a Nazi. He also doesn’t put the toilet seat down every time, so he is also a misogynist. Did I miss anything?
That is the Liberal policy platform upon which they will campaign. The American Democrats have have the same strategy. it is simply shit all over Trump all day long for the next 18 months then get elected as the party that hated Trump the most. No other workable policies, just shit on Trump and go to meetings.
And Trudeau is not Lying!!!! John get a dose of sanity pills!
And the proof, Mr. Corbett, of Scheer’s lying, and his breeding of discord and hate, IS?
…Yeah, I thought as much. Scheer has enough evidence in this tweet for a libel suit as Mr. Corbett is hardly opinion-free (again, evidence in the tweet), or unbiased (rinse, repeat), and Mr. Corbett cannot claim parliamentary privilege nor is he making an argument as proof, just stating a claim as a liberal will.
Now that Israel believes they truly can count on an American President having their back Israel will put things right with the Fifth Generation of Palestinian ‘refugees’ by establishing an alternative to Hamas & eventually Hezbollah’s buying the Palestiniain’s Family’s Children’s Lives.
Golda Meir was thr Fourth Prime Minister of Israel and believed fully in the Culture and Future of Israel; and of the “Great Experiment”
“Like them, we had shaken off foreign rule; like them, we had to learn for ourselves how to reclaim the land, how to increase the yields of our crops, how to irrigate, how to raise poultry, how to live together, and how to defend ourselves.” Israel could be a role model because it “had been forced to find solutions to the kinds of problems that large, wealthy, powerful states had never encountered”.
A quick Google shows that, over the years, Mr. Corbett has been a fave go-to person for big shot Libersl types (e.g., Toronto Star, Warren Kinsella). He is also a professional movie actor, swimming in Can-Cult circles.
If he’s a pollster can he really be a professional? Paid political hack more likely.
I’ve been out enjoying life for a week, what did Scheer do? Is he guilty of plausibly winning or something?
Easy answer NOTHING.
HE DID NOTHING.
HE SAID NOTHING.
HE SPOKE TO NO ONE.
HE WAS NOT SEEN IN PUBLIC.
HE HAS KEPT HIS OFFICIAL POLICY BOOK BLANK.
HE HAS PICKED NO FIGHTS.
HE HAS DEFENDED NOTHING.
HE HAS WON NO FIGHTS.
HE HAS DEFENDED NO ONE.
And every member of the CPoC has followed his lead. Every MP, every staffer, every riding association, …
Well, Kevin, you’ve gone and said something I agree with there. What is it that Conservatives and Libertarians both want?
Smaller government and less intrusion in our lives, that’s what. NOTHING is as good as it gets. It’s a great starting point.
Just went to his Twitter page and right off the bat you read this….
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1160617331602677760
This is the quote from Scheer that sent him over the edge…
John Corbett
@johnVcorbett
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Aug 11
“Canadians tell me they’re having a hard time getting by because of all the new Trudeau taxes”.
“Canadians tell me they’re having a hard time getting by because of all the new Trudeau taxes”
Yeah I mentioned that to a pollster like John Corbett and everything went south from there.
That is a rightwing lie dontcha know.
I should not be reading such stuff from your link when I am having breakfast.
I almost gagged. She is honestly praising Trudeau’s international standing?
A quick rundown of his twitter feed shows that he’s clearly lying. He doesn’t have an unbiased bone in his body. Shows how reliable “pollsters” are.
To his defense he only said “I’m supposed to be opinion-free and unbiased”. He didn’t say he was…
How to rig a poll by a master: Sir Humphrey Appleby.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
35 years in the business and he suddenly discovers that some politicians are divisive and liars. These traits have been present in democratic politics since the start in Greece. He is either a clueless idiot, a liar or both.
“35 years in the business and he suddenly gets a cheque from the Liberals to discover that some politicians are divisive and liars. These traits have been present in democratic politics since the start in Greece. He is either a clueless idiot, a liar or both.”
– Fixed it for ya.
Corbett Communications Polling and Market Research:
“Corbett Communications profiles public opinion so that you can shape it. “
“profiles public opinion so that you can shape it”
As long as he does it in an opinion-free unbiased way, …shaping it is fine./
I guess he’ll be rolling it into balls and painting the walls with it.
I’m supposed to be opinion free and unbiased. I failed.
A ‘Selfie Shoot’ that goes horribly wrong.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B09JoVWlTHX/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again
When the leader of a country can walk down the street and garner no notice without his entourage from the Pride Parades that really has to tell the voters something.
The people on the streets assumed he was just another creeper and avoided eye contact. They worried they might get caught up in a gay pride parade.
Perhaps they were concerned they’d be Epsteined.
He was obviously told to “stroll”, and he can’t even do that without looking like a poseur!.. The sight of this tool enrages me…
” he can’t even do that without looking like a poseur!”
To think he was supposedly employed as a substitute Drama Teacher. Pfft! Bet he can’t throw a Frisbee let alone teach that either.
Adds weight to the saying, “Those that can’t do, …teach.”
Stroll? He looks more like he’s “cruising”.
So some gay, left coast, poll-smoker doesn’t want to fellate Scheer. Who cares?
Maybe he’s the one Trudeau visits whenever he takes personal time out there.
Scheer must be trying to turn the 1% milk people against the 2% crowd. He’s doing it to milk support from discord. This is not the whey forward.
Skimming over that twitter feed curdles the notion that polls are accurate to within 3.25%
Corbett, my fine feathered friend, your job as a pollster was to help the Libranos to come up with new ways to convince the Canadian women who thrust them into office year after year why they needed overpriced cheese, French on their cereal boxes and the scum of the Third World moving in next door.
Polling is market research, whose objective is to convince women to spend their husbands’ money on crap they don’t need—easier and more profitable than making sure that things the household does need (food, fuel, housing) are available on demand at prices allowing the family to live decently on only the husband’s wages.
All Andrew Scheer has done belatedly and faint-heartedly, started listening to the husbands, who have better things to do than answer surveys, and at least pretending to share their concerns. The same hardworking men who are invariably portrayed by advertisers as children or clowns, and by politicians as racists and reactionaries.
Is he serious about addressing them? I’ll believe it when I see it. Will it get him elected? Ask Donald Trump, Viktor Orban and Jair Bolsonaro if you doubt it.
well shucks a c, cereal boxes were my intro to l’autre lange officiale. or whatever.
imagine my shock when I found out the translation did not match whatsoever.
scheer STILL reminds me of the high school geek that everybody ‘liked’ but NEVER invited to the party . . . . .
Great. Sounds good to me. Give me the geek, every time, over the shiny shallow poster boy.
Trudeau is certainly learning from the US Democrat play book on campaigning I hope it doesn’t work for either of these Neo Socialist parties.
But, but, Justin loves children. He has a cabinet minister burning jet fuel at taxpayer expense, to give money for a splash pad today. He is so cool and wonderful. Women and young people love our little Justin.
It is interesting to note how embedded in the minds of the socialists/fascist, communist and other such ‘ists is the big lie.
One wonders how they stay immune to the world around them.
In the comments, there are many that are completely ignorant about their nebourhoods and people living in them. Their ideology makes them blind to anything that does not agree with theirs.
They are the socialist/fascist extremists.
Once they get hold on power, which seems not too far off at the moment, they will start the pogroms and killing fields to hold on to it.
And they would point to those that get up every morning to make a living for their families that they know what’s good for them and that their lives would be better if they just listened to the socialist extremists.
Though it has always been that way, the intellectualists, as opposed to intellectuals, insist that a guy working for living is just not up to thinking.
Having the mouthpiece and the media cartel, there is no real opposition to the garbage they spew.
As is well known, the “journalists” are the last to know about anything. They omit, misrepresent and obfuscate their “reporting” according to their ideology and the diktat of the ruling class.
Who you gonna call?
As things are now, it is up to blogs and e-media, as faulty as they are, to search and bring forward whatever is left of truth after the monumental effort of the media cartel to kill it.
The only challenge here is that it is not as wide spread as it should be.
Poll results are easily manipulated. The pollsters know this. Journalists know this. Politicians know this. Most voters know this. Yet, we’re all supposed to play the game and pretend polls mean something.
All Canadian poll agencies act like they’re biased. Many are run by former big L Liberals or have close family in the PMO. All of them rely on governments and political parties for their livelihoods. I regard polls as paid election work for political parties.
Like the stock world, pollsters should have to make a full disclosure of their financial ties and personal relationships with political parties. I know in the inbred politic world of Ottawa full disclosure might be a page or two long.
“Poll results are easily manipulated.”
Yes. The published ones exist to “shape” public opinion while the pollster tries to appear unbiased so as to accomplish that task.
Basically they’re saying, “Look at Johnny jumping off the bridge. Ignore the issue of going splat and jump like Johnny did. It’s Popular.”
LC:
I offered the thought waaaaaaay back in relation to provinical polls, that it was possible for the party in powah, to order opinion polls but only publish the one(s) favorable to them.
thus it is possible to manipulate the polling *process* without ever fudging with loaded questions etc in a specific poll.
no one yet has provided a convincing argument that this is at least possible, or certainly definitively proven it has never been employed.
There are many ways to bias a poll including selective reporting and loaded/leading questions that you mention. Another way is to deliberately make the poll non-random. For instance, in Saskatchewan there’s strong support for the provincial NDP in certain ridings. Just oversample from those ridings and, voila!, a favorable poll for the NDP even though the saskparty has a commanding lead in the province.
Deliberate oversampling to skew results is common in US election polls. Skewing individual polls then skews the poll trackers.
“I’m a professional”
So are the ladies on 3rd Avenue. Your point being?
Maybe that tweet is intended to build support for Scheer. Many conservatives don’t think he is particularly effective, but the tweet has them springing to his defense. I don’t follow Corbett at all but this single tweet is enough to tell me he is off the beam. Looking at things another way, maybe his poll results are scaring him.
“maybe his poll results are scaring him”
I think that too and it probably explains Trudeau’s taxpayer funded flights back and forth across Canada on the Liberal’s ‘Scheer is Hitler’ tour.
I agree. I’m not a professional but my WAG (wild ass guess) is that the vote splitting on the left means trouble for the Liberals. Trudeau’s strength was in attracting progressive voters and targeting voters who were Harper-weary. This time he let progressive voters down with a pipeline purchase and not killing first past the post.
Meanwhile, he can’t run against Harper this time and he completely lied about his budget promise, ” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists his pledge to balance the federal books in four years is “very” cast in stone.” Plus a carbon tax, plus harming Canadian unity, plus the tax attack on small business owners, plus SNC, plus India…That has to hurt him in Ontario with suburban voters.
Vote splitting by unhappy progressives and broken promises about budgets/taxes to fiscal conscious suburban families/small business owner are the biggest problems, I think. Hence the hysterics from Liberal pollsters and the chattering class.
Trudeau’s CBC is excited about the book put out by one of their journalists. And just in time for the election. Unbiased CBC is giving the book lots of coverage, including a segment on the National tonight. It describes how Justin was wonderful in trade talks with the evil Trump. Justin is a genius. More segments from the book coming today on how great our little Justin is. The CBC reminds us who to vote for this election.
Lol. “Journalist.” As if. Wherry is the first card in PMO Katie’s rolodex.
F— off, John Corbett.
I second that Osumashi Kinyobe!
The only way to deal with this stupidity is not to engage it.
Yes Mr. Corbett, you are SUPPOSED to be unbiased. Pathetically, you aren’t! Which is why SHE won with a 97% certainty. Which is why Trudope is overwhelmingly … “popular”
“I’m a pollster. I’m a professional”. I stopped reading at that point.
“I’m supposed to be opinion-free and unbiased. ”
LOL stop it you’re killing me. You’re a genuine hooker with a heart of gold. Suuuuure,
“Why this Scheer fellow is a mysogynist, bigoted, knuckle dragging, racist. And I don’t fabricate facts, I’m a professional, and don’t get me started on that appalling Bernier fellow”.
Yes dear sir, you are a “professional”, but the point about whether you where a professional or not is not part of the discussion. Thats because we know what kind of pollster you are, this is a debate about your fee schedule and if it includes a Layton style happy ending.
Who can forgot the polls by EKOS and Mainstreet Research about the recent Alberta election and the headlines it generated. Either journalists are incredibly gullible or they think we are.
Notley closing gap on Kenney in Alberta provincial election
https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2019/03/rachel-notley-closing-gap-on-jason-kenney/
https://globalnews.ca/news/4169937/alberta-ndp-ucp-approval-gap-poll/
Says some clown I have never heard of…
Pollster? Comparable to so called journalists and reporters
Which is somewhere south of a snake’s belly
John Corbett: I’m supposed to be opinion free and unbiased. And I’m the Queen of England.