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PittTheElder posted:God drat. I expected it to be bad, but not three POC MPs bad. I'm going to be generous and count the Lebanese guy and the half-Chinese guy and give them 5.
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May 17, 2022 21:26
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infernal machines posted:But if they can't, well the Liberals are right there, and frankly not that much less conservative on many issues. This is the really odd thing: I think basically stealing the Liberal platform and saying "we'll spend 5% less, and not play dress-up on international trips," would be a winning strategy for the CPC. Maybe it's different outside of Alberta, but amongst people I willingly spend time with, it always comes down to: "he's a rich little Eastern princeling up to his balls in corruption and he spends too much money [on what, exactly, they never specify]." It's very, very personal with them. I don't agree with that, but policy-wise I don't think there's a lot of daylight between actual Liberal policy and what a lot of the more metropolitan "gently caress Trudeau" people believe. What the CPC should find is a Canadian version of Joe Biden. It's what the people want. I think, in terms of having a viable candidate for PM, Jean Charest would be an inspired choice and they'd be foolish to pick anyone else. I think he'd be a poo poo PM, obviously, but he'd be a force to be reckoned with in an election.
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May 17, 2022 21:37
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infernal machines posted:There are at least a couple more who probably The above edited for accuracy. Non-Anglo can't be real whites, don't you know? I hate that fighting Nazis makes me sound like a conspiracy theory nut job.
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May 17, 2022 21:41
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PT6A posted:What the CPC should find is a Canadian version of Joe Biden. It's what the people want. I think, in terms of having a viable candidate for PM, Jean Charest would be an inspired choice and they'd be foolish to pick anyone else. I think he'd be a poo poo PM, obviously, but he'd be a force to be reckoned with in an election. I mean, they already had Scheer and O'Toole, I'm not sure how much more milquetoast white-boy you can get. Charest, being very clearly French, seems like he'd have the same kind of problems as Trudeau out west.
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May 17, 2022 21:43
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infernal machines posted:I mean, they already had Scheer and O'Toole, I'm not sure how much more milquetoast white-boy you can get. Charest, being very clearly French, seems like he'd have the same kind of problems as Trudeau out west. Scheer was repellant, and O'Toole was actually quite good but did the stupid thing of trying to be all things to all people. He had a winnable election in 2021, and he hosed it up hard.
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May 17, 2022 21:51
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If lil Polli Crypto is smart, he'll run on being able to bring all the PeePee's back into the fold, giving the Tories enough votes to form gov't. That's all the rightists generally care about ime; winning and thus owning the libs. They don't really care about policy on any coherent or consistent level Bernier might settle for another cabinet post! He doesn't seem proud lol
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May 17, 2022 21:58
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Doug Ford would wipe the field if he wanted to be PM
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May 17, 2022 22:58
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evilpicard posted:Doug Ford would wipe the field if he wanted to be PM Sadly, I do believe you're correct here.
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May 17, 2022 23:03
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evilpicard posted:Doug Ford would wipe the field if he wanted to be PM If he has to minority govern Ontario he's gonna be a colossal piss baby about it
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May 17, 2022 23:17
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Another Bill posted:If he has to minority govern Ontario he's gonna be a colossal piss baby about it At first I couldn't see that government lasting long. But actually I can because if the OLP have enough seats to prop up Doug and friends, and not enough money to run another campaign, well, they'll do it. While I would absolutely love to see the wailing and gnashing of teeth around a OLP/ONDP coalition government, that just ain't how things are done here.
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May 17, 2022 23:59
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Blood Boils posted:If lil Polli Crypto is smart, he'll run on being able to bring all the PeePee's back into the fold, giving the Tories enough votes to form gov't. That's all the rightists generally care about ime; winning and thus owning the libs. They don't really care about policy on any coherent or consistent level Even if every single PPC vote went to the Tories that would’ve been like 6 extra seats, not enough to form government. And the only reason the PPC got as much as they did is because lockdowns/mask poo poo were dealbreakers for many voters. Assuming that’s not an issue in 2025 and the PPC has to run on their regular platform of racism, plenty of their voters will come to the CPC regardless. So I don’t really see how that’s smart for them all.
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May 18, 2022 00:41
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infernal machines posted:At first I couldn't see that government lasting long. But actually I can because if the OLP have enough seats to prop up Doug and friends, and not enough money to run another campaign, well, they'll do it. OLP will 100% go along with whatever Ford wants so long as it lets them memory hole the NDP being the official opposition and go back to the old "a vote for the NDP is a vote for the conservatives" BS.
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May 18, 2022 01:00
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PT6A posted:it always comes down to: "he's a rich little Eastern princeling up to his balls in corruption and he spends too much money [on what, exactly, they never specify]." I just don't see how you can logically get from this to "let's elect a partisan hack whose life experience outside politics makes Justin Trudeau look a salt-of-the-earth everyman laborer in comparison." And that's just it, I think—there is simply no logic involved. Another Bill posted:If he has to minority govern Ontario he's gonna be a colossal piss baby about it We can all hope, but the polls aren't looking great at the moment.
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May 18, 2022 02:13
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Seen some signs in my riding from a new political party. Let's see what they're all about :
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May 18, 2022 05:37
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It looks great! I hope the New Blue party finds success, and spawns some more spinoffs, like the True Blue Party and the New True Blue Party. I don't want conservative voters to lack in choices.
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May 18, 2022 05:44
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eXXon posted:It looks great! I hope the New Blue party finds success, and spawns some more spinoffs, like the True Blue Party and the New True Blue Party. I don't want conservative voters to lack in choices. Saw a few of them in the NIMBY part of town amongst the usual Conservative signs. I'm so glad I'm moving away from this hell hole.
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May 18, 2022 06:12
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eXXon posted:It looks great! I hope the New Blue party finds success, and spawns some more spinoffs, like the True Blue Party and the New True Blue Party. I don't want conservative voters to lack in choices. The Blue Chew party would probably solve a lot of their underlying issues.
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May 18, 2022 12:54
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There’s a campaign afoot to try to rehabilitate the image of the WE charity with a suspiciously expensive ad blitz for a book (by a WE board member) about how terrible it is that their important work was sabotaged by politics. They’re getting weird about it. https://twitter.com/charlieangusndp/status/1526887276453761024?s=21&t=qGPuazFno7p1l108Oylsmg https://twitter.com/jessebrown/status/1526741975533248512?s=21&t=qGPuazFno7p1l108Oylsmg
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May 18, 2022 13:19
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_Publishing_Internationalquote:Optimum continues to make global leaders, academia, the intelligence apparatus and most importantly the public about Human Rights atrocities, malign state sponsored criminal activities and influence (graft) operations targeting democracie’s political, academic and business elite through it’s Conference, multimedia and publishing divisions. Just lol. Not only did they clearly edit this into their own wiki article, they don't know how to spell democracy. The wiki editor is "Dean Baxter", the company's owner is "Dean Baxendale" He also edited the We Charity scandal page and the edits are hilarious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dean_Baxter
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May 18, 2022 13:39
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Entropic posted:There’s a campaign afoot to try to rehabilitate the image of the WE charity with a suspiciously expensive ad blitz for a book (by a WE board member) about how terrible it is that their important work was sabotaged by politics. They’re getting weird about it. I was wondering where that was coming from. Because no one outside of WE has ever given a poo poo about WE or "the important work they do"
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May 18, 2022 14:00
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Syfe posted:Saw a few of them in the NIMBY part of town amongst the usual Conservative signs. There's a house at the bottom of the hill by my house which has a sign. During Fed election they have a sign advertising Ezra Levant's book and a Christian Heritage Party sign. So, you know, one day, I am just gonna plant a bunch of rainbow flags on their lawn in the middle of the night. bunnyofdoom fucked around with this message at 14:23 on May 18, 2022 |
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May 18, 2022 14:09
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TBH, sounds like the rainbow flags would probably have a bigger effect on them.
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May 18, 2022 14:15
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Volunteer to help take down the GAY signs from Ottawa-South after the next election, and ask if you may please keep one
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May 18, 2022 14:21
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Didn't know Christina Heritage was a national party. For some reason I thought it only existed in the prairies
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May 18, 2022 14:58
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Aces High posted:Didn't know Christina Heritage was a national party. For some reason I thought it only existed in the prairies Christina Heritage won best girl-girl scene at the 2021 AVN awards
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May 18, 2022 15:02
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this is 2 days old and already old news but:Furnaceface posted:I think this is the part that makes me the most mad. As far as I can tell there is no legal way for them to protect themselves from a law like this in Quebec and no one in the media seems to give enough of a gently caress to even touch on this side of the story. For what it's worth, La Presse is definitely running plenty of "Bill 96 sucks and will only negatively impact refugees, Mohawk and vulnerable communities" columns, but I don't think that's going to change much in the grand scheme of things. To rural boomers, La Presse is just the mouthpiece of the filthy Montreal urbans, and Great Ethnofascist Leader Legault only ever pays attention to his loving Facebook page for approval. I've tried leaving concerned comments on said Facebook page a couple of times but it just gets drowned out in the sea of sycophantic messages. I've had some of my Facebook friends have those messages prioritized by the almighty algorithm, though, and they replied/agreed with me in DMs about how hosed up it is that our premier is basically governing through Facebook comments. And now he wants to issue more Legaultbux and send 500$ for the poor rurals to pay for gas, instead of putting on his big boy pants and at least attempting to say gently caress you to the oil companies raking in record profits. It's also election year, what a strange coincidence! God, our premiers are a joke. I can't tell whether I dislike Jason Kenney, Doug Ford, Scott Moe or François Legault the most.
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May 18, 2022 19:34
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Arivia posted:Christina Heritage won best girl-girl scene at the 2021 AVN awards Wow, that's an amazing autocorrect that I'm keeping
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May 18, 2022 19:42
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Gonna make sure and throw Tim Houston into the 'Premiers who suck' ring
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May 18, 2022 19:49
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Jan posted:this is 2 days old and already old news but: Jason Kenney’s leadership review results are being announced tonight, so that could be cathartic…
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May 18, 2022 20:03
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Jan posted:God, our premiers are a joke. I can't tell whether I dislike Jason Kenney, Doug Ford, Scott Moe or François Legault the most. May I suggest throwing Heather Stefanson into that ring? Preferably if said ring is as far from Manitoba as possible?
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May 18, 2022 20:30
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Randalor posted:May I suggest throwing Heather Stefanson into that ring? Preferably if said ring is as far from Manitoba as possible? I'm sorry, the ring is just east of Winnipeg, at the longitudinal centre of Canada.
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May 18, 2022 20:54
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enki42 posted:OLP will 100% go along with whatever Ford wants so long as it lets them memory hole the NDP being the official opposition and go back to the old "a vote for the NDP is a vote for the conservatives" BS. The sad thing is I have to believe there are still good policymakers in the party, somewhere. While the OLP went for an absolutely clownshoes performative handgun ban before the writ even dropped, the ONDP platform explicitly asks "what if we tried to figure out why people think shooting each other is their best chance at upward mobility??" It doesn't hurt that my incumbent MPP seems cool, active, and accessible, so they're getting my first ONDP vote ever based on those two things alone (three if you count my eternal stance of "gently caress Doug Ford", but even if they hadn't ratfucked Brown I think that time John Tory kamikazed himself into Don Valley West will remain my lone OPCP vote). Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 00:48 on May 19, 2022 |
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May 18, 2022 23:04
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So we find out if Kenney is dropped as leader of the UCP today, yeah?
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May 19, 2022 00:29
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ZeeBoi posted:So we find out if Kenney is dropped as leader of the UCP today, yeah? 4pm mountain time. Yes i'm aware that has passed, the new time is 5:30 mountain time Yes I'm aware that that has also passed. Kenney showing up late to his own firing, pretty on brand.
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May 19, 2022 00:31
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infernal machines posted:I'm sorry, the ring is just east of Winnipeg, at the longitudinal centre of Canada. But we can at least throw her into the ring, right? I mean, it's not like she does anything here anyways.
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May 19, 2022 00:37
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Some progress... that music however  
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May 19, 2022 00:49
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Powershift posted:4pm mountain time. Theyre just delaying while they try to figure out how to explain to everyone that they voted Kenney to be premier for life.
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May 19, 2022 00:50
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Furnaceface posted:Theyre just delaying while they try to figure out how to explain to everyone that they voted Kenney to be premier for life. It's announced for 6:15 now More likely that Kenney cheated extra hard, got 91%, and wants the live news to cut to his victory speech. If he lost they'd be announcing it during the Flames/Oilers game to bury it.
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May 19, 2022 00:54
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Powershift posted:It's announced for 6:15 now Lol its now past that as well.
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May 19, 2022 01:18
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PT6A posted:Lol its now past that as well. They updated the stream graphic to 6:30 for reals this time
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May 19, 2022 01:22
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