I Told You So

Basic Dictatorship You Might Be A Liberal 230 Comments

Well, you can’t say we didn’t warn them.

The PPC had just over five per cent of the popular vote at last count. The party has notably done better in Ontario, where it has so far garnered just under six per cent of the vote.

And its stronger showing might have hurt the Conservatives. According to an analysis by CBC News Labs, vote splitting between the Tories and the PPC may have cost the Conservatives up to 24 ridings. They include a handful in southwestern Ontario, such as Cambridge, St. Catharines and Kitchener South—Hespeler.

The party, which describes itself as populist, classically liberal and libertarian, was founded by Bernier in 2018. It campaigned on lifting many COVID-19 public health restrictions, as well as expanding the oil and gas industry, balancing the budget, ending official multiculturalism, and reducing immigration levels, among other policies.

PPC also ran second in a number of rural prairie ridings.

The shiny new progressive carbon taxing, gun grabbing, Paris accord signing ‘Not your dad’s Conservative party’ lost two seats.

A national journo, in a private email yesterday: Well, you’ve always understood the Conservative base better than the, um, Conservative Party of Canada, so there’s that. 😂

Free advice: When your core argument against a Prime Minister is “Nobody Wanted This Election!”, don’t be surprised when millions of voters interpret that as “There’s no pressing urgency to remove the Liberals from government. Please let them carry on.”

I mean, I didn’t think it was possible to come up with something worse than “Just Not Ready”, but it turns out they could.

Morons.

I have more to say in the comments, in response to LyndaL — “Just not ready” was good and entirely appropriate. At this point, it is clear that Justin will never be ready. He holds the office of PM, but fails miserably as a leader.

No, it was stupid. Red hot midday sun on Mercury stupid. The underlying message of “just not ready” was that Trudeau had the core essentials to be Prime Minister, and only lacked experience. That’s a high price to pay to work in a clever word play on the name “Just”in.

These people are morons from top to bottom. When Conservative faithfuls are arguing “we know you aren’t happy with our new progressive leader but we have to stop Trudeau” you’ve LOST THE FUCKING PLOT.

Add this –> 400,000 identified conservative voters in Alberta stayed home last night.

Update: Mark Steyn checks in.

230 Replies to “I Told You So”

  1. Kate.. hehe… I’ve been there. Just fucking i-RATE over the vote splittin’! Oh VOTE SPLITTIN’! We gots to UNITE THE RIGHT!

    No… no we don’t. It doesn’t matter. None of this matters. It’s actually better than the Liberals get to rape the country’s finances again because it will lead to a total default sooner than later. It doesn’t matter that Maxime and his party took away seats from the Conservatives because even if the CONS had won a majority… it still WOULDN’T MATTER. Because they could busily and diligently rebuild our finances and start patching the wounds… but in 4 years the stunted, mentally retarded Canadian electorate would just return the Liberals to power and they’d just start shitting all over everything again. It doesn’t matter… just ignore it..

    Here’s another thing.. in order to care about the election, you need to consume mainstream media content. That alone should ward you off. It’s not worth it. Oh OH the CBC election analysis team discovered that the PPC cost the conservatives 24 ridings??? Oh WOW.. I bet that had nothing to do with the entire MSM suddenly talking about a PPC surge late in the election campaign, right! Canada’s corporate media is garbage because this country is garbage. It’s filled with 60-70% of garbage people who simply can’t think for themselves.

    The sooner you convert your savings into dividend producing investments, the sooner you can quit earning and get off the tax rolls. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em I say. UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME here we come!!!!!!

  2. Anybody have figures on how many Western votes went to Maverick or PPC? Clearly not enough to unseat entrenched CPC, but were there enough votes for the CPC “brain trust” to become afraid of erosion of their base?

    I hope this massive failure on O’Toole’s part leads to his swift removal from CPC leadership.

  3. You guys have hope, you have 18 months to straighten this out. We are stuck with President Robinette, who “bravely ran away,” for three more years.

  6. canada is done……. doesn’t matter anymore………….
    the chicoms have complete control now………. here come the cattle cars……….

  7. Without an agenda to seriously dismantle the state, no sane (libertarian-leaning) government can hold power in Canada. Even if a “conservative” party that wasn’t just another shitty milkshake won a majority, they would inherit an unprofessional, partisan, and duplicitous bureaucracy (see Obama’s third term under Trump), an unprofessional, partisan, and duplicitous media complex all within a cultural – academia complex of unprofessional, partisan and duplicitous “employees”.

    2. Of course, JC, you are right.
      Its the useless paper-pushers that control the levers of power.
      There was a TV show from Brittin (sic), they called it Yes Minister.
      It rather accurately illustrated how the bureaucracy steers the things.

  8. With respect to a few comments about “true conservatism,” …. Canada has never seen true conservatism in practice.
    It is as rare as true Christianity, true grit, and other elusive ideals.
    I am currently reading “conservatism” by sir Roger Scruton.
    Highly recommended.

  10. The son of a bitch was instrumental in handing riding after riding to LPC.
    He was not even able to win his on.
    Clearly, he is on JT’s payroll.

    Look over your shoulder, Max! You’ll have to, for the rest of your life.

    2. Yes, by all means look over your shoulder Max. You are leading a growing number of Canadians who actually think for themselves. Never in Canadian history has a political party arisen out of nowhere in a matter of three years to amass the number of voters and followers that have joined the PPC in this election. If O’Tool and the CPC had held onto the true principles of conservatism then perhaps, just perhaps we would have had a different outcome this morning. When you throw your principles under the bus for adopted principles from another party then you don’t deserve to be in charge of even cleaning out the washrooms at Timmy’s.

  11. I would imagine that for almost all of the PPC base (which is now roughly one-sixth the size of the CPC) the only way to get any of us to vote CPC ever again would be a merger where Max Bernier was the leader and the policy set was the same as the PPC now has. And I can’t see the back-room boys who run the CPC allowing anything remotely close to that, so it just won’t happen, our votes are gone and are not coming back.

    When we had the party merger around 2003-04 and Harper emerged as a strong leader, at first it appeared to many that the “Reform/Alliance” wing of the merged party was entirely in control and the old PC red Tory group had just given in, realizing they were done. But within about five or six years, an accommodationist globalist-lite mentality took over, the final phase was when very authoritarian rather dubious types like Blayney and Richardson gained influence. You could see before the 2015 election that the merged party had turned into something that very few of its base of support really wanted. No surprise that it was swept out of office.

    And everything that has happened since then is basically just a rebranding of the party as a sort of bargain basement get Liberal policies for half the price sort of enterprise, a bit of this and a bit of that, and it cannot generate much enthusiasm anywhere, which is why it remains stuck in the ditch waiting for a tow truck.

    Unless they call Max Bernier Towing they might as well just stay there and get comfortable.

    1. “I would imagine that for almost all of the PPC base (which is now roughly one-sixth the size of the CPC) the only way to get any of us to vote CPC ever again would be a merger where Max Bernier was the leader and the policy set was the same as the PPC now has.”

      Nope. Will not vote for a central Canadian politician ever again. Harper, too, was born in Ontario and even with a majority he couldn’t/wouldn’t get the job done!

      WEXIT!

  12. The CBC article said Max may have cost the CPC 24 ridings.

    If that is true, this election will mark the beginning of the reform of the CPC into a true opposition party.

    All conservatives should be grateful to Maxime Bernier, today, for fighting the good fight.

  13. re: “400,000 identified conservative voters in Alberta stayed home last night.”

    ‘Cause, like many of us, they probably had no one to vote for. And, even if they did, what’s the point? The election is decided east of the Man/Ont border anyway. Nothing we do in western Canada has any bearing on federal politics.

    WEXIT is the *only* option.

  15. I was listening to a couple of political experts (ha!) on the radio today. One was a “progressive Conservative” and the other was a Liberal. Both explained that O’Toole nearly won (no, really?) because he did the right thing and moved the part toward the centre (centr of th USSR I’d say!) and is transforming the party to a modern one. One wonders why have elections if there is only one set of policies on offer and no deviation is allowed. Canada sounds like, no, Canada IS, a one-party state masquerading as a democracy.

    So conservative and libertarian ideas are now passee? He should then rename the party to the Dithering Middle Liberal Lite Party

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