Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

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  1. She’s a good dog.
    Well trained and obedient.
    Sit.
    Stay.
    Attack the opposition leader.

  4. FILTHY LIBERALS
    PP with Grace is nice to see. He could have embarrassed her more but didn’t.

    WE AREN’T FILTHY LIBERALS

    1. Since when is being nice to somebody who is essentially on the enemy’s side a virtue?

        1. “It’s not a virtue. It’s a strategy.”

          An ineffective and cowardly strategy. Poilievre must have listened to Erin O’Toole’s recent musings about needing to make people like him by being more like a Liberal.

          1. I think that an aggressive “Trump-like” strategy would not get him close to elected, such is our electorate these days. You can have the right message and a great delivery and never see power.

          2. “the right message and a great delivery” and a take-no-prisoners strategy is what’s needed, not pantywaist shit. There’s too much of that in PC politics going back a long time.

            Remember, nobody thought “aggressive” Trump would win an election for President, yet he did it three times in a row.

          3. “An ineffective and cowardly strategy.”

            You play the ball where it lies, Fred. This is Canada, not the USA. Americans are eating up the #Trump conflict, because they LOVE conflict. Love it!

            Here in Canada people love appearing virtuous. They love to take their vaxx shot and line up and maintain social distancing. If you expose their scammy scam in a direct and unforgiving way, as #TheDonald does, you are the Bad Guy.

            Nobody votes for the Bad Guy, Fred.

          4. Phantom, to hell with Canadians appearing virtuous, the US is virtuous where and when it counts going back decades.

            It led the fight against Communism,
            It keeps the world’s sea lanes open and free from pirates as best it can,
            Its citizens give the most to charity per capita,

            That’s just three off the top of my head.

      2. “Since when is being nice to somebody who is essentially on the enemy’s side a virtue?”

        It is a good practice to be nice to the stupid blonde girl on television. You don’t want to be that mean bad man who made the poor girl cry, right?

        Not even if she’s trying to stab you. Always be the Good Guy, no matter what.

        This is why I never watch television, except for these little clips where we get to see Blondie expose her agenda live in colour. NOTHING on TV is worth watching, except for the unintended comedy. Absolutely nothing.

        1. Good guys finish last.

          And to paraphrase Trivinian: Niceness is an overrated quality; it’s how someone who doesn’t have the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant attempts to gain acceptance.

        2. “It is a good practice to be nice to the stupid blonde girl on television. You don’t want to be that mean bad man who made the poor girl cry, right?”

          I do, actually…or at least I want to be able to vote for someone who does.

          I want a leader strong enough to face down all the idiots and ‘elbows up!’ lemmings, and have the balls to TELL THE TRUTH to the Canadian public. I want him to take them by the hand and slowly, patiently explain the simple truth that “Reality just doesn’t care about your feelings”.

          I want him to explain that the current trade war was started by *Canada* violating the USMCA (and not the Americans) with our attack on online news and streaming services, and our deliberately manipulative game-playing with the dairy quotas (passing an actual *law* preventing any negotiations? Seriously??).

          I want him to explain why the current antagonistic strategy of dealing with Donald Trump will only BLOW UP IN THEIR FACES. I want him to explain the disparity in trade deficits and compare the relative sizes of our two economies, and how Canada could merely inconvenience a handful of US states while the US could literally DEVASTATE our entire economy (which is the size of California’s). in a month or less.

          I want him to ask the Liberal/NDP supporters exactly what they think Canada has to fight with, and demand that they *be specific* when they answer.

          Then I want him to explain how he would avoid inflicting economic disaster on Canada *for the sake of his ego*, and how he would sit down and talk to Donald Trump respectfully and honestly and resolve our differences like adults.

          THAT’S what I want from my ‘conservative’ leader.

          And if the Canadian public still proves childish and petulant enough to reject all those explanations and re-elect the Liberals, that’s okay too…because the consequent economic crash will STILL happen, and my leader will then be in the perfect position to say:

          “I TRIED TO WARN YOU, but you wouldn’t listen.” (mic drop)

        3. The thing is, he’s not there to talk to the blonde girl. He’s there to talk to the people watching.

          She is only an instrument to the purpose. So, there’s no point educating or disciplining her. Unless in so doing you can get something across to the audience. And if you’re disrespectful or mean to her, the audience will turn against you. They mostly tune in to watch her.

          Look, I enjoy a good verbal nunchuk mugging as much as the next guy, but there’s a time and a place, and this wasn’t it. So if he played it cool, he played it well, in my book.

  5. I don’t know who this person is, she’s pretty enough to be a CTV reporter, but I don’t know of the other reporters / talking heads to compare her to.

    Her hands appear fidgety after making that statement as though she’s aware she may have opened up the conversation into a room she’s not fully understanding. Pierre’s are locked in firmness on where he stands, which would be normal for anyone who understands where inflation comes from.

    addition:
    Yes “Filthy Liberals” above, Pierre could have taken that conversation to offer a “teaching moment” for her. She was let off easy.

    1. “Yes “Filthy Liberals” above, Pierre could have taken that conversation to offer a “teaching moment” for her. She was let off easy.”

      Too easy, I think.

      Lupus solus got it right above: these people are not our friends and never will be, so why treat them with any respect when they clearly treat us with such obvious contempt? Being ‘nice’ or ‘polite’ means nothing to them.

  6. Understanding economics and critical thinking is not a strong point for Canadian media, Canadian politicians and voters in have-not provinces. That is why Canada is poorer than Alabama. There are reasons beyond resources why certain provinces are considerably wealthier than the rest of Canada.

    Saskatchewan wasn’t wealthy until they ditched the socialist NDP provincial government – they learned the lesson. Alberta learned that lesson when they briefly let the NDP form government. The natural resources in both provinces remained constant. It was the ideology of the socialist/left leaning government that created the economic problems (spending, taxation, debt, woke policies, anti business policies, green energy obsession, etc.)

      1. Wouldn’t be surprised if Canada already is or will soon be poorer than all 50 USA states. Alberta and Saskatchewan as individual provinces do rank respectably high, in contrast to the other provinces.

  7. What she said is based on demand-pull inflation theory, although misapplied when it comes to the Canadian fuel market. She probably has no idea what demand-pull inflation theory is and is simply stupid.

  8. Way too dumb to teach and not interested in learning even if she had the requisite background. “my dear talking head, demand for gasoline except at the margin is completely inelastic.” Yeah, that would sink in. /sarc

  10. She’s probably proud that she pursued “journalism” and not chatting. I know, she fits the ‘dumb blonde’ to a tee, yet someone should explain to her that what she did in this interview is prostitution.

      1. Well, I don’t want to be mean here. For all we know she expressed grave doubts and her most trusted mentors convinced her it was the wise and principled thing to do. She may be the victim of a betrayal of trust. Although at this point, those big blue eyes start to look just a bit too open for that to wash.

    2. Lowering taxes will increase inflation

      For the government

      They have to make do with less.

    3. Raising gas taxes reduces the general purchasing power. This has a deflationary effect in the long run. It also makes producing commodities more expensive. This is an inflationary effect. These two slow down the economy. Then, the socialists can insert the tax money into the economy where they want. This is inflationary. The net is inflationary and harmful, with socialist grifters as winners as they picked the arbitrary winners with subsidies.

      The socialists want to pick the winners, though.

  12. Very remotely related to the specific thread topic but the nutty economic thinking reminded me of an equally impressive example of nutty thinking from at least 2-3 decades ago. Don’t remember the genius (Doug Saunders?) but the argument was that increasing income taxes was a great idea because the lower take-home pay would incentivize people to work harder. I did not make up or embellish this.

    1. Currently, being entrepreneur requires you to be willing to and know how to avoid taxes and regulations, and that’s why Nites of the Rod are becoming more and more common in all businesses. So taxes do not incentivize working more, but to let Indians do the tax avoidance.

      It is a sad end to a socialism.

  14. Incredible,
    groomed on precisely what to say.

    This can’t last; even CTV viewers aren’t naturally that unobjective, incurious, rote,
    and neither are this gals managers.

    Desperation.

  15. L – If Polivre was a populist… millions more would hear and understand what he just explained.
    He’d be out there defining himself and garnering enough popular support; that Carney would have to either put him in jail (in a cell next to Francis Widdowson) or flee the country.

    The MSM is largely watched by a small minority of Canadians, most of whom are unable to think critically. That is the only reason that the Ottawa grants them a license, advertises with them and subsidizes their “reporter/journalists”, and why now they are nicknamed presstitutes.

  16. So … when does Pierre pivot to his “Elbows up against Trump” narrative. I’m shocked he didn’t immediately invoke Trump’s name as causing all of Canada’s ills.

    1. “So … when does Pierre pivot to his “Elbows up against Trump” narrative. I’m shocked he didn’t immediately invoke Trump’s name as causing all of Canada’s ills.”

      It’s coming. He just can’t help himself.

      He was handed the perfect opportunity to be the adult in the room and he blew it.

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