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Yep. Time for Poilievre to contact Joe Rogan.
Most Canadians don’t know who Joe Rogan is.
Or what a podcast is for that matter.
Everyone under 40 does, just like the US. Don’t discount. They also don’t even have traditional TV. The Laurentian Elite fears this, as they can’t be controlled by traditional methods.
My 21 year old son has been following Joe Rogan for years. He’s never watched TV news and never read a newspaper. Hell, I’m 60 and haven’t watched TV news or read a newspaper in twenty years.
Me either….. 🙂 And lots of young men at work are up on politics.
That’s not the demographic of concern.
Boomers.
That’s where the growth potential for votes is for 2 reasons.
1. Boomers vote.
2. Somehow, the Libs serged in this demo. So, it’s good territory to get them back. How?
Tough on crime.
Eliminate the “safe supply” nonsense.
The Health Scare System.
Libs coming after your Homes via Cap Gains.
Immigration.
All are issues they created Libs are weak and vulnerable on.
Rogan is a nice idea, and should do it, but it won’t swing the vote.
I see a problem. As the only conservative party, PPC should be polling high in SK/MB. There are many ridings where there is no risk of electing Liberal or NDP, so there’s no excuse not to vote PPC. Partly the poll is off, but voters are not that unhappy with the Liberal-CPC tag-team.
I don’t know where you live, Walter, but I’ve lived in SK for 15 months. I can say that they hate Trudeau and the Liberals, but otherwise socially, they’re mostly centrists that lean slightly to the left. (some folks lean more than just “slightly.”)
You can imagine my surprise when I discovered how woke Regina and Saskatoon really is.
Just tuned in to CBC to watch the election call live. CBC found a black guy who claims he voted Conservative last time but is hesitating this time and will probably vote Lieberal. He then went on to list his reasons as every policy conman Carney has just recently stolen from Pierre’s platform.
The National Post is trying to set the record straight. Along with the Frasier Institute.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-carney-to-lead-canada-after-trying-for-years-to-defund-it
Hi!
I’m Canadian and live outside Ontario.
Them dang Liberals are ruining this country! And it’s those dang GTA voters that hold the balance of power and tell us what to do. Why can’t they just get a clue?
Every payday I get money in my Toronto bank account and I pay my mortgage at a Toronto bank and pay for my Toronto cable and internet and pay my Toronto car loan.
Then I have to figure out how much food I can buy and have to choose which Toronto food distributor I’ll buy from. Maybe I’ll stick it to them about buy from the American one. Local ones cost a couple bucks more, idiots.
I loooooove sports! Huge Maple Leafs fan. I hope Toronto gets an NFL team one day! Super cool to sit back with a Toronto brewskie or 13 and enjoy what the Toronto TV guys tell me.
But I sure I wish those GTA loonie libs would vote properly.
Signed,
Timmie’s lover.
The choice is Maxime Bernier or liberals.
The CPC are liberal light.
You can be right and wrong at the same time. Bernier cannot win, period. Maybe the CPC can, and maybe they will change. Not optimistic, but a vote for PPC is a vote for the Liberals.
Again:
Spare me your excuses for not having any conservative principles.
Max Bernier has been espousing a much more conservative position for a long time now, but the libtard wing of the CPC (ie their true base) refuses to vote for him, because reasons. They say he’s unelectable, then refuse to vote for him. Self-fulfilling prophecy 101.
PP called Christine Anderson a racist, voted to make conversion therapy a crime, voted to make the Proud Boys a terror org, voted to investigate the Trucker’s funding, and made not a peep when Canadians’ civil rights were violated, in detail, during the plandemic. If that’s what you call “conservative”, then you are deluded, and if you vote for him based on some kind of misplaced pragmatism, then you have abandoned any pretense of upholding conservative principles. Period.
GFY, you liberal tool.
Ahh, the standard CPC libtard debating technique comes into play.
The differences between you and the left are negligible, or at best as differences in degree, not kind, as you beautifully demonstrate.
If you want to anger a conservative, lie to him. if you want to anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
The truth is that PP called Christine Anderson a racist, voted to make conversion therapy a crime, voted to make the Proud Boys a terror org, voted to investigate the Trucker’s funding, and made not a peep when Canadians’ civil rights were violated, in detail, during the plandemic. Period.
You fit the liberal template like a glove.
YW, your problem is that Peter and TP happen to be right. Voting for the narcissist Bernier is voting for the Liberals. Now try to stop being so butt-hurt for a change.
“If you vote for him based on some kind of misplaced pragmatism, then you have abandoned any pretense of upholding conservative principles. Period”
cgh, that’s like saying voting for Reform in the UK was voting for Labour when in fact it was voting for the Tories that meant voting for Labour.
The Tories were destined to lose so their supporters should have switched their allegiance to Reform, which actually started to come on strong in the lead up to the election.
I am not arguing with you. I am dealing with the world as it is, not as I wish it was. Look to Nigel Farage, he is making huge strides in the UK, but over a few cycles. Bernier is heading into third? Fourth? He has made no progress, Liz May has more seats. That is reality.
And as YW states nothing will change even if PP wins. They are a uniparty. Every time we get a con government they get elected by trying to out liberal the Liberals.
Bernier is following Trump’s podcast strategy this time out. Could make all the difference.
YW: Principles have no place in politics,pragmatism is everything. Ask the winners.
I’ve voted either Reform or Conservative my entire life. Reform had some principles and we ultimately ended up with a Harper tenure that made how many truly conservative/right gains? I voted “pragmatically” many times in the past, hoping for a truly conservative/right result, but, you know that saying of trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result?
Just because politics demands pragmatism doesn’t mean I have to sacrifice my principles just so that we end up with a government that lives in fear of liberal media and calls freezing already out of control immigration rates a win.
I’m done with that. Let this country burn, because that’s where we’re headed regardless. Voting establishment Conservative will merely delay the inevitable.
l hear ya MV. my longstanding and at least personal view of voting in Canaduh is not so much vote ‘for’ a person/party as ‘against’ the incumbent.
if, IF Harper had not voiced an intention to ROLL BACK pot penalties AND voiced intention of dismissing ‘time served’ portions in jail sentencing (without assurances the ‘spike’ in numbers would be ADDRESSED), l would NOT have voted him OUT.
yeahwell, Stock Response: #6
Max Bernier is a Quebec politician which means he will never say what he will do and never do what he says he will do.
@YW
You’re absolutely right about PP, and I too plan to vote PPC, but only because I know that the riding I currently reside in is a safe CPC seat, and my supporting the PPC will benefit them when it comes time to dole out funding to political parties.
I’m a realist, and I know that Mad Max hasn’t a hope in hell of winning. Heck, if the PPC can somehow manage to elect just one MP, it would be almost miraculous, and a moral victory for Mad Max.
So I can sleep at night knowing that I am voting for the party that best reflects my principles and values, without jeopardizing PP’s chances of winning the election.
I have to question how I would vote if I was living in a riding that wasn’t so secure for the CPC. I quite frankly am not 100% certain, but if that were the case, I would lean towards voting CPC, only because I would rather vote against the Lieberals rather than for them.
Those that live in toss-up ridings, or liberal strongholds however, will have to make a moral choice, and I do have a certain level of sympathy for those individuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpHo1Qx-stU
The CPC are going to win. A majority. The NDPee and the #Fiberals are going to be destroyed. #CarkMarney will not win his seat, and the Party will be reduced to under five seats. It happened to the Kim Campbell PCs, and it is going to happen again.
It will be a slaughter.
What happens afterwards, that’s a different question. It entirely depends how many of the CPC are owned by the Communist Party of China, or the Communist Party of India.
Now that’s really going out on a limb.
Of course, I’m hoping you’re right on everything, but I am not as optimistic as you are.
I’m not sure the cons will even win the election, let alone a majority, and it’s rather obvious that anything less than a MAJORITY government win is a loss for the CPC’s.
According to Vassey Kapelos at CTV, “This isn’t just another election campaign”, “it’s about freedom. “Freedom from Donald Trump.”
Constant Trudeau Vision is working hard to earn their Liberal cash.
Again, what makes Vassy an expert on anything?
Why do people not ask that question?
Ok, she’s a 6, not ugly, not outstanding, whatever.
For someone youngish, she’s thick around the middle, and short. Whatever.
This is all people know, the visuals.
She’s another Urinalist.
She leapfrogged over Mercedes. What happens there? M is infinitely easier on the eyes.
Knowledge? It’s all fake on TV. Just Propaganda for the simplest minds.
Sexist? Yes, the networks are.
This Liberal/ tax cash going to ALL media is something PP should keep drawing attention to.
They are all now on a countdown to it potentially being withdrawn – if he does more podcast type events it will let him talk about it more.
PP will not commit to defunding ALL media. Until he does I will not vote for him or his liblite party.
“Freedom from Donald Trump.”
Tell it like it is, Vassey.
I suppose you’d prefer that we live under China’s rule rather than America’s dominance.
Vassey… you should have said “Freedom… and stopped right there!”
By equating Trump as some kind of authoritarian dictator, you’ve revealed your bias, and that of your network.
We now live in the Orwellian age when we are told by those who claim to hold the mantle of conservatism that a vote for the most conservative party is in fact a vote for the liberals.
We could live in a fantasy land where a man who has made no gains in multiple elections will save things. Love to see him in power. But he has no strategy which has worked to get there.
Nigel Farange was in the wilderness a long time too but now his Reform party keeps gaining in popularity as the weeks go by.
Your equivalency fails, because Britains can see. Canuckistanians are still blind to the reality all around them.
Canuckistanians will NEVER wake up!
Your hero Maxipads doesn’t have a chance in hell of electing a single MP and he never will. But go on telling yourself how principled you are, you fecking loser. Politics is the art of the possible, not a purity contest like you Maxipads worshippers want it to be. And if a riding goes liberal because the Maxipad Party siphoned votes off the CPC, be happy that you showed those damned Cons. And enjoy another 4 years of liberal misrule. Folks like you shouldn’t even be allowed to vote, you’re so effing stupid.
You are correct. The flip side of that coin is we elect the Cons and nothing changes. The most conservative government we have had in my lifetime were Paul Martin’s Liberals. They are a uniparty. Do not expect a change in direction for the country if we elect the cons because you will be disappointed.
This worry about nothing changing is grotesquely cynical.
PP may or may not be able to deliver on all his promises, but he cannot possibly be as bad as Trudeau-Carney.
If I’m right, some — maybe many — good changes will materialize.
I don’t trust PP. He talks a good game, and has good ideas, but I’m still concerned about where his true loyalties are. Despite his denials, he did attend WEF meetings. His opposition could be of the controlled variety.
But if I were in a “swing” riding, I would vote for him, because even though his conservative values don’t line up with mine, his policy ideas, and promises, to fire up the Canadian economy is vastly superior to anything the liebs can come up with. So far, I haven’t heard an original policy announcement from Carnage. Every policy item he’s pledged has been stolen from the cons.
In other words, vote liberal light to stop the liberals.
Thanks to you and your ilk, Canada is truly kaput, as those who hold to any conservative principles are berated for those very principles by both the CPC and LPC fanboys.
Well done, Canada!
Maybe we are close to an age in this country at least that a vote doesn’t count for much of anything any longer, or at least within a couple fruitless election cycles?
If anything it should be obvious a liberal, fiscal conservative culture that becomes arrogant and meaningless only has one end – a brick wall.
It has nothing to do with purity, principals aren’t pretty in the first place, but living in a country that doesn’t have many as a whole is worse, but interesting none the less.
I haven’t decided if I’ll even vote.
A friend of mine astutely said:
“You’re not going to change anything voting in elections. If elections really did matter, they wouldn’t allow you to vote.”
Case in point… the Lieberal leadership race.
I was on the fence about voting CPC this time, because there’s no PPC candidate in my riding, but after reading that, I think I’ll vote Liberal. Obviously the CPC has no place for me or anything like principles, so I’ll vote to burn the country down. Congratulations Manboylovin, you influenced someone into changing their vote. Well done.
If my house was on fire, I’d do everything in my power to try to put it out.
I don’t appreciate the nihilism in your comment, but I can sympathize with your frustration.
“GFANZ”
The ideas of this cabal is clearly fascist.
They pick those that they like and destroy those that they don’t.
Is there anything more fascist than that.
I ask.
A vote for PPC is a vote for the the CPC to grow a pair.
Tried it. Didn’t work.
Perhaps the CPC is not capable of being conservative.
“Tried it. Didn’t work.”
Then keep doing it until it DOES work, because voting CPC again is *guaranteed* to move Canada one step closer to bankruptcy and ruin. Nothing will ever change until people raise the courage to do what they know they need to do no matter how much it scares them.
“A vote for PPC is a vote for the the CPC to grow a pair.”
Yes. Let’s hope that they finally get the message this time.
I can’t believe it, the bastard Carney called the shortest possible election, only 5 weeks of free buffets.
Elbows up and off the table!
Congratulations, RB&VK…
You’ve won the internet today!
In Canada the deep state NGO election tampering cabal is as strong as ever.. Along with their bought and paid for MSM.. Trudeau won 3 times.. Need I say more?..
It should be a Net Zero slam dunk for PP Poo Poo.. Carnage is in no position to keep the dream alive without finishing us off completely.. This I believe he will do.. Its why he was picked..
A uphill battle and who knows.. Maybe our owners will throw us a bone for once.. I will vote :)..
If there isn’t a time a half talented talker could touch the soul of Canadians with a detailed description of where we are headed it should be now. Instead of going to “war” and playing tough lay it out to the people of this country that this is post – national .
And if things do not change you’re going to realize too late that feeling of dread you feel.
Is when better has been made into worse.
Isn’t that where we are ?
Because it seems like it to me, and other people with old souls lots of people. Some more then others.
Yet here we are arguing about conservative lite.
Rather Monty Python don’t ya think.
Carney looks to be playing towards Quebec, screw everybody else, as he thinks he has the Maritimes in the bag (they can always be counted on). TheMaritimes has twice the MP count as Alberta while having the same population. Informing the Maritime voters of Canada’s economic reality is key.
CBC must go; what says Carney?
You got it backwards. Atlantic region has 34 seats and a pop of around 2M. Alberta has 37 seats and a pop of 4M. Get it right and leave the BS to the Liberals.
And yes I despair of my fellow residents. I also despair that a carefully crafted campaign would win over many here. Libs say that CPC would take away what some have come to depend on. I would point out that after years of voting Liberal we have the lowest per capita GDP of any American or Canadian jurisdiction. Voting Lib doesn’t seem to be working. CPC would eliminate the carbon tax, Libs would hide it better. CPC would cut deficits that fuel inflation and increasing costs of living. Libs would retain the deficits and keep funneling money to their friends. The corruption angle would also work well here. Last point, no matter how much you bow to Quebec you may expect a min of 10 and a max of 15 seats. Speaking directly to the Atlantic region would double or triple the gains from Quebec. And lay off the equalization theme. I like many were educated here, worked years in the west, and retired back here. Could you loan us Danielle Smith?
I’ve spoken to a few conservative friends already that are voting Liberal because they know it will help spur Alberta separation. I can’t quite bring myself to that level.
Even if Polly wins nothing will change for Alberta. He’s already said equalization is off the table. The cons and libs are really only arguing about the optimal amount to take from Alberta.
51 or bust
So bust then.
51 maybe, but my wish is for more sovereignty for Alberta first, then we can decide where to go from there.
Overton window people, understand that first before before you talk partisan talking points. I’ve never voted for anything other than conservative. Yes PP has policy that is more liberal than I would like, but you have to win also.
The Marxist liberal party is moderating, taking PPs policy to steal this one, if you have to the time to inform yourself.
The problem is its system and its people, not the party’s that it represents.
By Alberta freeing itself of this system, will free the nation. This country is on a trajectory for collapse !
YES x 1000%!
If Maxi and the ppc were popular, they’d be polling like their popular.
People are free to answer polling questions without any consequence, they could tell pollsters “of course I’ve voting ppc” and there would be no real life effect. By saying so doesn’t change anything about who wins, or how many seats a party will take, or if there is vote splitting, or any of that.
And still, even without the consequences of an actual vote,,, people still aren’t willing to vote ppc.
That’s the problem. There are virtually no true conservatives or classic liberals in Canada. Just various shades of freedom bashing, money sucking Liberals.
The Trudeau discount is a 16% drop in the polls for the Liberals. Now that Trudeau is gone Canadians are breathing a sigh of relief. The question is, can they come to their senses in 6 weeks? If Canadians vote for Carney, who promises to “end the carbon tax” then they deserve the high taxes and massive deficits they voted for. Would Pierre reverse our fortunes? What do we have to lose?
FYI
Just checked out my MSN feed and Global had Carney’s Election call as a story.
Comments overwhelmingly were anti-Carney, anti-Liberal.
6,7,8 to 1 ratio.
If someone like Trump ran in Canada, the people who call themselves conservative wouldn’t vote for him.
THAT is why Canada = toast.
“If someone like Trump ran in Canada…”
And who in Canaduh is like Trump?
Keep dreaming. Why don’t you vote for someone who speaks English like a foreigner?
I’m sure Canadians are itching to be governed by a guy who talks like a foreigner./
While you’re at it, please explain why Bernier can’t get elected in the Quebec riding where he grew up and his own father was a several time elected MP.
Name recognition got Zoolander elected but can’t get Bernier a seat? Tsk tsk.
Carney’s stealing Polievre’s platform? So what, it’s only temporary. I don’t hear any Liberals complaining that Carney’s too conservative or conservative light. Those Liberals you might expect to complain realize it’s all abput getting and keeping power, and then doing whatever you want.
That’s because they already know that Carnage doesn’t mean what he says. He lies constantly. We already have the receipts for three whoppers, and counting.
Canadians love to stay inside their little Overton Window prison, and hurl derision at anyone who dares to step outside of it, and this is why Canada cannot be saved.
Just like the CPC is liberal light, the “conservative” population is also liberal light.
They call themselves conservatives, when what they are is, in fact, a flock of scared little peons whose fears vastly outweigh their principles.
YW…
They’re simply asleep. We need a way to wake them up before this country goes full-blown commie.
The you-know-who’s didn’t come into being overnight. It took them over 10 years for them to get to where they were.
We’re watching history repeating in real time.
In a country where the infantilized masses have outsourced virtually all their adult responsibilities to the state, no electable party is honest or honorable and any principled party is next to non-existent and where we’ve reached Tytler’s end stage of the death of all democracies, holding one’s nose and voting for the pathetic Conservatives is not an honorable notion but it might slow the demise, perhaps delay the civil war a year or two.
There will never be a civil war in Canada for exactly the reasons you and Yeahwell stated – the overwhelming disposition of the average Canadian is that of a cocooned subject whose first question to a problem is, “how can the government solve it?”, utterly clueless that said government is the origin of said problem.
It will my default assumption going forward until Election Day – and it should be yours – that ANYONE making sad-sack, ‘Debbie-Downer’, woe-is-us conservatives ‘Eyeore the Donkey’-style comments to attempt to discourage potential PP voters is either a Liberal plant/operative or a Liberal bot. And hey, we all like Mad Max and he makes a ton of sense, but he does not, as this juncture in the Canadian Overton Window circa 2025, have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected. Facts over feelings, please.
THE CONSERVATIVE OFFENCE IS: the 9-year Liberal record. Any – ANY – insistence that the Liberals have walked back ANY of their policies that contributed to their record is about as heartfelt and sincere as a sybarite’s deathbed conversion to Catholicism. And about as believable.
It’s ALL here for the Conservatives to use: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1897281584761594268.html?utm_campaign=topunroll&fbclid=IwY2xjawJNGPVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXUoKuw8QBpbFymYkeV7E9UQYyUI3-aIw9dLrsvpJfKIsZsWVOeDtOPEWg_aem_ksnBDabez8tCG-yjO_0BTg#google_vignette
THE CONSERVATIVE DEFENCE IS: the Liberals CANNOT possibly run on their record so they are running against Trump’s America and smearing ANYONE who disagrees with them as anathematic, traitorous, Trump-fellating lackeys. Fight the smear.
Repeat the above points often and everywhere and – PLEASE!!!!! – stay on message.
Maxime Bernier is the only conservative running, but you won’t vote for him because you’re scared of Carney.
Facts over feelings, please.
okay, bot
LOL!
Stunning riposte!
yeahwell, please save this handy guide because I suspect as election season progresses I (we?) might soon become tired of replying to some of you more inane howlers. I’d prefer to ignore you but because I believe that people who shoot their mouth off should be held to account, I will supply this handy guide which – because I suspect most of us here have actual jobs – greatly reduces response time by providing a handy list of numbered “stock responses.”
SDA readers should be encouraged to add their on.
Stock Response #1; “OK, bot”
Stock Response #2: “riiiiiiight” – with accompanying Dr. Evil video – meaning “w-r-o-n-g” and “you are SO completely full of sh*t that’s it’s a wonder I am even bothering to listen to you.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37OWL7AzvHo
Stock Response #3 – “could you please – please! –for the sake of ANYONE wanting to have an adult conversation here, take your Aspergian, incel fundament back into back into the sanctuary your Mom’s dank basement where you can smoke cheap ditch weed, quaff Red Bull, pleasure yourself to old, dog-eared copies of “Scat Party” and “Pre-teen Beauty” and endlessly flame people who possess an actual life.”
Stock Response #4: “I hear UnMe is looking for a friend, so perhaps you two could meet up, although apparently, not within two hundred feet from either a school or an old age home (I won’t go into the sordid details, but UnMe can explain why).”
Stock Response: #5: “You are a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service; and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.” (lifted from King Lear, Act 2, Scene 2- spoken by the Earl of Kent disguised as Oswald)
Stock Response #6: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.” (uttered by Oliver Cromwell in 1653, and used again in 1940 to push out Neville Chamberlain)
Stock Response #7: “Zark Off!”
Yes, lotsa stock responses, ’cause that’s all you’re made of, and you call ME a bot. LOL! You have no considered positions other than emotional ones:
“I’m all ascairt of Carney, so I won’t vote for a real conservative!”
The emotional response is understandable, but dressing it up as a principled response is disingenuous, totally dishonest.
The feminization of society continues apace.
Stock Response #3
Eric, I agree with you on this thread. But try not to get so worked up about the mindlessness which is YW. It’s not good for your blood pressure. What YW has never understood (along with some others on this board), is that politics is the art of the possible. It is not about ideological purity. It’s about doing the best you can in a flawed world were nothing is pure and simple.
Think of it as an object lesson. Thinking the way YW does is why this kind of thinking loses every single election every single time, everywhere, with no exceptions. Pity him for he is doomed to a life of perpetual frustration and hatred where nothing is ever good enough.
My favourite stock response is, “There’s a fly in this soup!”
You can do better Eric.
If I’m in a tight riding, I’m voting CPC.
But, I’m in a hardcore braindead NDP riding. They would vote for a lump of waste with an NDP badge on it. And do. Last one was a flaming cueball lisping rainbow dip.
So, I can vote PPC here, comfortably.
Agreed, Dan. That’s sensible. I live in an Ontario riding which has voted moderate conservative since confederation. A friend of mine lives in the heart of socialism in Canada: Ottawa Centretown. So he votes for whichever candidate will damage their party the most.
Ah, some sanity exists. Thank you.
Ahh yes, the sanity of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Like voting Maxipad, sabotaging the Cons and then pretending that you haven’t elected Libranos? You pathetic, failure in life, hypocrite who will never amount to anything.
I had amounted to more than you ever will by age 10, Jessica.
Keep telling yourself that dipshit. You think that riding an electric scooter after losing your license for drunk driving is sticking it to the man.
Something like yourself yea well
Well Eric I, I understand your frustration.
And the value of soothing optimism , but I don’t find it as comforting as having someone real that’s about to fight for real.
I totally understand how you feel but there comes a time after so many of the exact same arguments around the time of a federal election . And folding my vote when I doubted my stance, well things have shown me I was right all along. Yeah broken clocks are still right twice a day. But there is a peace in acceptance it isn’t a surrender it’s saving what’s left for when people decide it’s time to put up a bit of a fight. Real skin in the game that was never a game in the first place.
That’s the reality to me.
Maybe Conservatives should remember this – YOU DONT TELL PEOPLE HOW TO THINK, who know who the fk they are and didn’t cheat to get there. THAT’S A CANADIAN VALUE ….. for fks sake.
Sorry, Mugs, I have no idea – none – what you are attempting to say here. What point are you making?
Another national IQ test. Canadians failed the last 3 tests by electing Trudeau, so I’m not hopeful they’ll score any higher in the fourth try.
If history is any guide the Maritimes will vote for whomever offers the most freebies. Quebec will vote in a mix of Liberals Blocs to give their province maximum extortion power. Ontario never learns – they’ve voted for Gerald Butts/Telford candidates both provincially and federally for a couple decades and they’ll likely continue to do so. Any votes/voters west of Ontario don’t matter, of course.
Hope I am wrong about central and eastern Canada but Alberta and Saskatchewan better have firewalls ready to go. Carney will attempt to complete Trudeau’s destructive economic policies.
No god damn no election! Just govern just do your job. We don’t need votes, we need competent governance.
That being said, the obliteration of the fed NDP would be very good for Canada. The last time they got chopped hard was in 1993 and the next year we got The Best Budget Ever.
The BBC refers to Marx Carney as having “called a snap election”
which I somewhat enjoy…
https://x.com/AryaCanada/status/1899079930324852911
Lots of chatter of Chandra Arya running as an independent, but no mention from Chandra yet, I doubt it while his son is gainfully employed at Brookfield Asia …
pantomiming the new demon craps:
‘blub blub blub’ lol.
ps can sumbuddy tell me HOW the ‘new’ in ‘new’ demon craps is applicable TODAY???
it *might* have been useful back in ed brodbent’s day but SURE AS SHYTE AINT ANYMORE.
more like ‘aged, obsolete, out of date irrelevant, stuck-at-the-bottom-of-the-polls demon craps’ . . . . time for a name change there jackoff meat . . . .
Any man who votes for Marx Carbon should have a tampon shoved up their arse.
I think Carnigula is more fitting ……..
Mugs, that’s a good one. Credits to you, I will borrow it.
Hey I stole it from someone else here, to be honest.
Under Caligula, folk had a de-regulated economy, and less than 3% total tax rate.
We have around 50% tax rate, red tape strangling all business and innovation, and Epstien Island.
Caligula was a piker compared to what we’re saddled with today.
Go live in russia, that is as close to Caligula as you can get, enjoy your paradise and leave sane people alone. You will feel right at home in a country full of alcoholic failures with delusions of grandeur like you.
Jessica gettin’ all bossy like the TDS tard he is.
It is Sunday night and you’re still no your feet. Shouldn’t you be drowning in Gibson’s already? What? Welfare cheque came in late this month?
Leave Mel Gibson out of this!
Here’s an interesting article with a reference to Brookfield Asset Management. Makes one wonder if there might be something to it.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/22/david-defeats-goliath-again/
Haven’t time to research it myself, off to the South Pacific on a bucket list trip!
By your DE-FUND the CBC bumper sticker on eBay:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/174004818249
Skimming the CBC coverage of the announcement of the election call, I am stunned at how ignorant Canadian media is of the mood in the US. Like him or not, Trump is right about the fact that Canada does not hold ANY cards. Back in the 50s and 60s, Canada used to know something about the US, but since Emperor Trudeau the First, things have gone downhill, with only a brief respite during the Mulroney years. Look, I get it, running against the US always makes political sense in Canada, but right now, it’s the equivalent of suicide. In the short term, all that Canada can do is to reduce tariffs, non-tariff trade barriers, inter-provincial trade barriers, buy a few dozen ice-breakers (some nuclear subs would help), and eliminate ALL barriers to the utilization of Canadian energy resources, which are the only thing keeping the Can$ above the anemic Aus$. For the long term, it’s time for Canada to be a country again, with a proud history, and without a province that eternally holds a gun to Ottawa’s head. The only alternative is basically National MAID, with the loss of AB, SK, and eventually, probably all of the Atlantic provinces. The future is in your hands, but I suspect that the land of my birth will fumble, yet again.
And again the useless, pathetic, dejected failures in life called Maxipads like YeahWell are doing their best to sabotage the only chance this country has left and to hand this election to Libranos.
// Here’s the audio excerpt (Q&A) with Premier Danielle Smith on Breitbart confirming she asked the U.S. adminstration to “put things on pause” to help Pierre Poilevre get elected as PM as she believes he aligns with Trump on many issues and the “new direction of America.” //
https://x.com/cspotweet/status/1903638559506284704
“on balance, the perspective that Pierre would bring would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America”
Not sure Pierre will appreciate this.
Trump doesn’t care who wins. He wins either way. I’m afraid Canadians haven’t figured this out yet. The best Canada can do is to get the best deal possible, but he’s holding a full house and Canada is trying to fill an inside straight. Good luck.