Best thing to come out of the Trump presidency thusfar. Glad our Canadian neighbors are resisting the conservative takeover, even though we aren't.
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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We're trying, but PP's cons still have a chance, because most of the Liberal gains have come from other smaller parties, ie: the NDP and the Greens.
We have yet to break through the Con brainwash in any meaningful way.
CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp
Definitely true, but the Liberals are starting to pull from the Cons a little bit from what I’ve seen. His first move being killing the consumer carbon tax killed both of PP’s talking points (carbon tax & Trudeau), while also showing that he’s different than Trudeau. That mixed with the fact that he’s kind of the stereotypical definition of a “fiscally aware” conservative politician where his entire focus is getting the country’s financials all in order above all else; at least if we ignore dealing with the sovereignty threats.
All that to say, I think he’ll more and more start pulling in the moderate conservatives that aren’t completely bought into the Facebook cesspit politics. PP is already very disliked to them so it wouldn’t take much
Iirc around a 35% chance of a CPC majority
Fingers crossed for a coalition
That's kinda Trump's thing.
He lets his crazy off the chain, and occasionally, good things happen by accident.
It's like drowning, but when you were first plunged into the drowning experience at least you were dying of thirst.
That's probably fair, at least to a point.
Trump is loud, crazed, and vulgar, but at the end of the day all he really is is just a louder, exceedingly public version of the things the US already does outside of the public eye.
It was just an excuse to weave an old Dimitri Martin joke into my day.
To your point, exhausting as it is, I (almost) kind of appreciate how Trump's and GOP's blatant behavior has made me, and probably many more in the population, much more aware of events than normal...because things seemed boring and steady enough that it didn't seem like it was worth the effort to remain well-informed. These days I care much more about civics and voting and activism...so I guess that's a good thing? Dang, I wish I and everyone else had cared more back before things had gotten this bad. But yeah, the US has historically done some really shitty covert stuff.
I wish I and everyone else had cared more back before things
TBH, watching one of the 49% partisan blocs seeming absolutely giddy that people are starving, or suffering from fascism, or whatever, because they voted Republican kind of makes me vomit in my mouth a little. I wish we could agree that maybe we want our friends and neighbors to have their basic needs met even it if makes the other team's guy look good.
I just really hate that, no matter who we elect, there's always 49% of the electorate actively rooting for the country's failure.
Well said. One of the reasons I really miss the era before 2016, when the president seemed to care just as much about people experiencing natural and manmade disasters in opposing states as he did in supporting states. At least that's how I remember it with Katrina and Deepwater Horizon and California wildfires.
At the very least, there wasn't a reflexive antipathy towards the states governed by the other party.
And now, I fear, and feel, meetings akin to this one have convened, their seeds carefully germinated and cultivated in tilled social soil, the saplings beginning to bare their first blossoms to be pollinated by ever more inciteful rhetoric, and their thin-skinned, caustically-juiced fruits of actionable vitriol ready for harvest upon the onset of the next seasonal upset.
Until we have an actual election result, all of this is kind of pointless. Let's see what happens on election day. I fear it will be close.
Yes, the media are very good at celebrating prematurely and spreading complacency, and right-wingers are good at last-minute nasty surprises.
It's kind of burying the lede to just remark PP is likened to "Trump light." He has likened himself by exclusively pulling from Trump's playbook, with the divisive rhetoric, outright untruths, dog-whistling, name calling, verb the noun slogans, and quite literally "Canada First" signs he still hangs in his speeches.
In Alberta he's repeatedly espoused support for Danielle Smith's insane policies, her personal hero and inspiration being the real "Trump light," Ron DeSantis. Nevermind they have openly acknowledged (before the craziness) they'd rather work with Poiliviere, and he's been heralded in the MAGA circles as Canada's Trump moment (with a complete absence of the irony).
If he put on 200 lbs and lost all natural skin color, he'd be a slightly more articulate Trump impersonation.
How can the people of Canada vote for anyone in Trump's camp? Anyone who has said they agree with Trump should be voted against 100%. Why give someone the power to hand the country over to this orange sack of shit?
Conservatives want to be ruled by a king. That's why they are conservatives.
This is the fucking thing this is the fucking thing
I feel like they want to watch their boogeymen get ruled and conquered by a king... I'm not so sure they're thinking far enough ahead to realize their own eventual subjugation and domination, unless they're rich, isn't worth watching others suffer.
Technically, in Canada they are.
This could have been a perfect Fresh Prince pun in an alternate editorial timeline.