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This guy talks a good game BUT he won’t commit to defunding the CBC.
I’m tired of holding my nose and voting against ????
Until the (conservatives) and I use that term loosely, clean house and get rid of lib-lites I will not vote for them.
That also goes for BC con-artists
GO WEXIT
Unfortunately , Poilievre is “controlled opposition” and many voters do not understand the situation. The situation in the UK is similar where Nigel Farage is also “controlled Opposition”.
In Canada both major parties are controlled by banks , big business and oligarchs / billionaires where Canadians outside this group don’t get a vote.
Witness Doug Ford (Ontario Premier ,PC in name only) who is essentially an autocratic Liberal , or Carney who pretends to support Canada but gets his marching orders from the WEF , or Poilievre who supposedly champions freedom of speech but forced 3 of his MPs to publicly grovel for meeting with MEP Christine Anderson at the end of COVID , and only recently released a watered down statement regarding the government show trial of Lich / Barber which could have been a Liberal press release.
Witless Doug Ford (Ontario Premier ,PC in name only)
FIFY
GO WEXIT = GO LEAFS in the world of statistical likelihood.
“This guy talks a good game”
Exact same words I was going to use. He always *says* the right things, but who actually trusts him to deliver on any of his promises?
“Until the (conservatives) and I use that term loosely, clean house and get rid of lib-lites I will not vote for them.”
Same here. It’s not enough to just TALK like a conservative…you have to ACT like one, too. I feel the same about Poilievre as I do about Donald Trump: I don’t care what he says, I care what he does. Trump says all kinds of stuff that I don’t agree with, but then he DOES things that I do like and respect. Pierre is the exact opposite: I like the things he says (or at least I used to) but can’t stand what he actually does.
Yes. Really well said.
But Orangemanbadtariffs! Elbows Out! Canada will never surrender to a radical, crazed, far right extremist like Trump! Hence, I am not the PM! But I am a proud Canadian!
Carry on Canada. As you are. Never to change. Just more vagaries like … “Hope”.
You know Kenji, normally your posts are pretty good. But you do get a bit unhinged with your take on Trump tariffs and our government’s inability to deal with him effectively. And the repeated “ELBOWS UP ORANGEMANBAAD!!” shtick kind of gets old.
Newsflash 1: Trump hasn’t been honest with you on the US/Canada tariffs, and he never mentions the flip side of the money flowing into the US in the form of Canuck investments, and that offsets any fictitious dairy deficits he’s claimed. Should we put an exit tariff on those ? And finally, the largest trade deficit item is from Canuck oil sands crude: so why not tariff that and full speed with domestic drilling? You know: give Canada the finger and use your own reserves?
Apparently your refiners like our lower prices and the US doesn’t have the reserves needed to make diesel. So maybe it’s time to put some truth and perspective into the US/Canada tariff thing. Or let it go.
Newsflash 2: last November you nearly lost your country to a cackling moron and an even bigger moron for VP: they were the stupidest POTUS ticket ever run. And in 2028: what then?
Don’t mistake me: I’m a huge Trump advocate, tariffs notwithstanding. He’s done amazing things the US needed in all areas and his perseverance is beyond belief, considering half the country hates him or perhaps wishes him dead. But rather than huff and puff about our idiotic federal government – which WE need to defeat, no mistake – you’d be better served trying to convince your fellow countrymen to abandon the Marxist and Islamist bent that has about half your country almost in a state of civil war with you, if it’s not already in progress. Certainly the leftist political violence and Democrat/media coverup and justification for same is in full swing. Are you as concerned with that as our idiot PM’s “elbows up” stupidity? Or how about the prevailing Democrat mentality that justifies (if not celebrates) the murder of Charlie Kirk? Or what about – after 25 years following the worst terrorist attacks on US soil by radical islamists – NYC which was Ground Zero for the attacks is ready to elect a communist islamist as its mayor?
I want to see the republicans and the US and its system flourish because it’s the last real hope for the West. I like Americans: I think they are a great people and generous to a fault. So if you want to continue to blog piffle about my government and the crap state of my country, then knock yourself out. But you ain’t out of the political woods yet, Toots, by any long shot and don’t kid yourself into thinking you are. There’s never been a harsher left/right polarization in the US and somehow your country has to find healing common ground between the 2 sides or you’ll get a worse Dem government in the future. You might be better served training your focus inward instead of worrying about your neighbor that’s 1/10 your size but seems to occupy more than that proportion of your online concerns.
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I agree … I’m taking cheap shots at Canada. It’s like kicking the woman already unconscious on the streets of Cincinnati. But it’s not Canada I’m kicking … it’s ONLY the utterly foolish Pierre P. who made a fatal political decision on Trump’s tariffs. All he had to say is that he would vigorously negotiate an equitable deal for Canada. That’s all. That’s fair. And that’s tough-enough. But to disavow Trump as a “fake conservative” and a “fool” and say he’s not a serious leader when calling Canada America’s 51st State? Pierre Puhleeze!
By middle school, I learned that the best way to deal with someone who’s giving you stick is to laugh it off and give the stick back … lightheartedly. That’s how MEN feel each other out. To determine whether your opponent is a violent reactionary… or a good guy who can give it and take it.
Pierre P. had to believe that the vast majority of Canadians HATE who Trump is … and even more HATE what he represents. So Pierre threw in with the majority of America-hating Canadians. It seems most Canadians are on a knifes edge re: America and Americans … say or do ONE wrong thing … and out pours the America HATE and mockery.
I LIKE Canada and Canadians. My only son in Law is a Canadian … a Métis Canadian … with full FN’s identity by blood. I was so hopeful that Pierre P. would lead a Canadian revolution as Trump has led a revolution against a hundred+ years of leftist governance. But he turned out to be a Koch Bro. or a Mittens Romney.
All true. PP tried to triangulate the reaction to Trump, and he chose badly.
He could have taken a chance, and done what you said. But that was less safe, in his mind, then trying to figure out how to dip into the huge mass of center-left, by doing the anti-Trump schtick with a slight righty bent.
But you can’t out-crazy true crazies. He just ended up losing the right, with no gain in that center-left.
There’s a center-left in Canada? Good news! Cause I’m not sure that even exists in the USA anymore.
“But you can’t out-crazy true crazies. He just ended up losing the right, with no gain in that center-left.”
Yup. He was pretty much guaranteed to fail with such a desperate tactic.
” But it’s not Canada I’m kicking … it’s ONLY the utterly foolish Pierre P. who made a fatal political decision on Trump’s tariffs.”
Not to worry…most of us already knew that and would never assume otherwise based on your posting history.
Mark Carnage’s Brookfield will own your building. You’ll be happy in your shoe box apartment, take public transit, and watch government controlled media.
Meanwhile Carnage and his cronies will be rich, fly around the planet on tax dollars, and eat sumptuous meals complete with fine wines.
The word is psyop, Pierre. Just like the psyop they pulled on Cdns to force them to take experiments into their bodies. I didn’t see you standing up then … just ordering fancy CPC branded masks if I recall to show you and Erin were on team Covid psyop.
Pierre effed up by picking the wrong side when it really mattered for conservatives, distancing himself from Trump was not the right play.
He’s a homeownership black belt and that’s a good thing but he’s painting himself as a one trick pony. The recent ostrich farm debacle was a “WTH!!! Are you going to chime in here?”
His mistake was joining the Liberals in attacking Trump, instead of going after Carney’s Circus, and forcefully pointing out that this is a Canadian Election to get away from the 10+ years of damaged growth by the Trudeau Advisor Carney.
“His mistake was joining the Liberals in attacking Trump, instead of going after Carney’s Circus”
Absolutely, JD. Anyone with half a brain could see that the ridiculous “Elbows Up!” mantra was nothing more than a calculated and hypocritical ploy to whip up some fake patriotic fervour (from the very people who had been calling Canada a “post-national state” and ridiculing the Americans for their own patriotism) for the sole purpose of *winning the election*.
We never had the even slightest chance of winning in a trade war with the US…and Carney and his enablers in the LPC KNEW that (they were just hoping that we didn’t). All that talk about how Canada “had leverage” and “wasn’t afraid to fight back” was laughable and naive. Some people actually believed it, I’m sure…but not the people in power.
But JD … P.P. was just being “Canada Nice” to all those Lib. voters. Canada STRONG! … gawd.
“Pierre effed up by picking the wrong side when it really mattered for conservatives, distancing himself from Trump was not the right play.”
It really wasn’t. When you’re Liberal Lite, and you know it, you should also be smart enough to realize what Erin O’Toole, Andrew Scheer and others have discovered the hard way: liberal voters will always vote for the *real* Liberal Party if you are espousing the same positions as the Liberals. Yes, they told you to “be more moderate” and “adopt policies closer to the center-left”. They said that on purpose, hoping you would be gullible enough to fall for it. AND YOU DID.
Nailed it, Burton and BC Fred: why choose libscum lite when you can vote the uncensored, unbridled and completely corrupt original? AND you get to self-preen that you dont vote “knuckle dragging conservative” all the while oblivious to the unending decline of your country and personal situation by the worst cabal of corrupt power-mad socialists to ever sit in the HoC?
“Pierre effed up by picking the wrong side when it really mattered for conservatives, distancing himself from Trump was not the right play.”
I hate to say this, but I don’t think he made a mistake there. As soon as #Trump made that 51st state comment to #ShinyPony, all hell broke loose with the Normies. Remember that?
People in -Toronto- were getting their gun license so they could buy a rifle to protect the nation from the Americans. They’re still doing it. Remember that?
And then there was an election, and the #Lieberals -won-. Because elbows up. Remember that? And we were all shocked, because “are you kidding me they voted for them again?!”
People in this country are stupider and less informed than you think. Nobody watches the CBC, but those morons will vote to KEEP it every time.
“And then there was an election, and the #Lieberals -won-. Because elbows up. Remember that? And we were all shocked, because “are you kidding me they voted for them again?!”
You’re not wrong, Phantom. As always, you make a thoughtful and reasonable argument.
But I wanted Pierre Poilievre to at least TRY to do the right thing. To tell the country that, “No, sorry, Canada does NOT in fact have any leverage here despite what the Liberals and their MSM lapdogs are telling you…and trying to aggressively and publicly confront President Donald Trump can only BACKFIRE on Canada and leave us in a worse economic position than we are already in”.
Then the Liberals, predictably, would immediately attack him and the MSM would stick cameras in his face and demand to know why he was “surrendering” to the Bad Orange Man. At which point Poilievre could simply speak up and TELL THEM THE TRUTH…slowly, patiently and above all factually. Tell them how “Elbows Up!” was a scam designed to fool them into voting Liberal. Tell them how little power and leverage we really have against the economic juggernaut of the US economy, and explain exactly why. Tell them how Mark Carney, after he is elected, will be in Washington *within a week*, hat in hand, begging for a deal.
Tell them all of that BECAUSE IT IS TRUE. And because you know it is true.
Then one of two things will happen: either Canadians will come to their senses, be honest with themselves and admit that Carney is wrong and Poilievre is right (and elect the CPC), or they will fall for the scam, reject the evidence presented to them and vote to elect the Liberals again….giving Pierre Poilievre the perfect opportunity to point at them, smile and proclaim that “I TOLD YOU SO!”.
Under no circumstances was he ever going to ‘out-Liberal the Liberals’ at their own game, which is exactly what he ended up trying (and failing) to do. So what moral high ground does he have now? What vindication is he basking in? How can he now point to Carney and say that Carney did the wrong thing when Poilievre himself foolishly did the *exact same thing*?
Just a HORRIBLE missed opportunity. A political blunder that a neophyte might be excused for, but not a supposedly seasoned veteran like Pierre Poilievre.
If you cucks only bash gays, mooslimbs and chinks a little harder, you can fix the problem.
Self awareness is NOT a pounder strong suit.
All the LGBTQueer-mutants need do is to stay in their lane … and leave our children alone. Oh! And don’t “Trap” hetero males with their female pantomimes. And the Muzzies? Stop all your terrorizing murder … reform your 6th century religion to at least the 19th century … and we’ll stop banging on about them.
And PS … my peaceful 85% white suburbia is 14% crazy rich Asians … including half my own street who are all mixed couples. So … meh.
“bash gays, mooslimbs and chinks a little harder”
There’s no need to bash them, dimwit. We just mention what they actually do every day.
Is it really bashing if all you’re saying is “Woah dude, that guy just stabbed some chick. That’s f-ed up.”
And PP just played a mental trick on you: a landlord is now “a multinational corporation”. Think about that.
Er, my landlord is a multinational corporation. I’ll gladly go into hysterics over PP noticing, but could you give me some grounds?
“And PP just played a mental trick on you: a landlord is now “a multinational corporation”. Think about that.”
That was a head-scratcher, for sure.
Now do the capital gain from the sale of your primary residence, which is on the horizon.
Must. Stop. Intergenerational. Wealth. Must. Crush. The. Bourgeoise. Rise. Up. Proletarian. Soldiers. Kill. The. Oldsters.
Same old refrain from the worldwide communists.
Rope is cheap
Knots are free
Trees are everywhere
Is he always this low energy?
The government could solve the housing crisis with the stroke of a pen.
Make the first $50,000 in rental income tax free.
The explosion in available rooms and apartments would boggle the mind.
And that explosion of new housing would drive down prices.
That much will be wiped out just by the next stage of the National Building Code which ensures energy savings will not break even with increased costs in anyone’s life time.
The government created the housing crisis with the stroke of a pen.
They brought in millions of low/no skill 3rd world immigrants and continue to do so to this day. And even if you rent out every room and apartment, there are millions more Indians coming this way.
And soon with the explosion in Bank of Canada printing, that $50,000 will be worth $5,000.
“They brought in millions of low/no skill 3rd world immigrants and continue to do so to this day. And even if you rent out every room and apartment, there are millions more Indians coming this way.”
That’s the bottom line, right there.
In order for the supply to meet the demand and the prices to stabilize, you must either increase the supply or reduce the demand….and the supply of available housing will *never ever* catch up if you don’t stop letting in hundreds of thousands of immigrants into Canada every year. That’s not rocket science. It’s common sense.
I only watched the beginning…
The government isn’t the solution.
Ever.
Its certainly a thief of wealth no matter how you get it and make it appreciate above inflation.
Even if PP has actually begun to see what conservatism means, he won’t win the next election.
There is no fixing it with so many low IQ voters and pathetic assholes allowed to vote.
The Shithole Ranking will keep climbing.