Monday, November 30, 2020

The Ugly Cons And Their Dirty Vaccine Game

It's getting bleak out there. The Great Darkness is descending upon us even as Covid cases are surging all over the country.

Many hospitals are close to being overwhelmed, the smell of death is in the air.

So it's not surprising that many Canadians are clinging desperately to the hope that vaccines will end our long nightmare.

Which only makes what our grubby Cons and their stooge media have been trying to do even more obscene.

Playing dirty games trying to turn the vaccine question into yet another fake scandal. 

Trying to scare anxious Canadians into believing that they will have to wait a long long time to get vaccinated. 

Trying to destroy Team Canada by appealing to the chauvinism and the racism of some Canadians, like the ghastly Michelle Rempel has been doing...

Which at a time when Covid's second wave is threatening to kill thousands of Canadians, and bring our exhausted healthcare system to its knees, isn't just obscene it's CRIMINAL.

To make matters worse, Con premiers have also been jumping on the fake vaccine scandal bandwagon to try to deflect from their records of murderous incompetence.


By claiming they can't do anything, because the federal government doesn't have a PLAN.

While Erin O'Toole and his Cons, and our shabby media, focus all their attacks on the Trudeau Liberals.

Most of the provinces where the pandemic is resurgent — Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta — are governed by conservatives, including heavy hitters within Canada’s conservative movement like Premiers Doug Ford and Jason Kenney.

That has created a difficult situation for Erin O’Toole’s federal Conservative party: How does it rake Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the coals for Ottawa’s pandemic response while avoiding criticism of provincial allies who are largely responsible for the pandemic policies that affect daily life for most Canadians? 

Which again couldn't be more dishonest, or just plain disgusting.

Especially since there IS a plan...

It's a good one. 

We are also in a select group of four countries, along with the U.S. U.K. and Japan, who have ordered enough vaccines to immunize ALL of their citizens.

And whatever the Cons say, we're NOT at the back of the line to get vaccines.

The head of a U.S. biotechnology company developing one of the most promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates says Canada is not far behind other countries on receiving doses of its vaccine, despite criticism of the government's procurement plan from the Conservative opposition.

Afeyan said that because Canada was among the first countries to make a pre-order with Moderna, the country is guaranteed to receive a certain portion of the company's initial batch of doses as long as the vaccine proves safe and effective and is given regulatory approval.

The Cons are just lying, like thieves. Again.

Playing dirty politics in the middle of a pandemic because they just can't help themselves...


It is what it is, they are who they are. 

And the good news?We have a decent prime minister who never smears his opponents, but just acts like a real Canadian leader should. 

A leader who still enjoys enough support from Canadians to easily win an election.


If opposition parties triggered an election now, the Liberals would enter it in better standing than they had in 2019, by a considerable amount.


The PM personally is holding a relatively good level of personal support especially in BC and Ontario, and in those provinces, Mr. O’Toole has not to date either been causing damage to Mr. Trudeau’s standing or building political capital for himself personally.

And most importantly a leader who still believes that we're all in this together...


And that decency matters.

If we can keep that spirit, and our Canadian values alive.

We will survive this terrible time, and we will defeat the nasty virus and the ugly Cons...

24 comments:

Jackie Blue said...

As I said in the previous post's comment thread, being American myself I can tell you that the U.S. is probably going to be a total shitshow when it comes to distribution because our states suck. (Never mind our ongoing chaos with testing -- have you seen the way we vote????) O'Foole as usual is a lying sack of shit, but again, it's pathetic to see the Dippers tagging along with them. Davies is an idiot, and Singh needs to quit politics and make a career of playing Fortnite with AOC. The party is utterly useless as anything but a spoiler vote and needs to fold.

You'd think that the dishonorable member for Calgary Nose Pick had spent enough time in Oklahoma to realize that our healthcare system is crap on a normal day, let alone in a crisis. Trudeau annihilated her in QP listing all the labs that Harper chased away. Her response was to call him a sexist, and today she accused him of giving money to the Kielburgers instead of vaccine manufacturers. Why doesn't she get in her covered wagon and go back to the plains already? She can model for a box cover of a new Oregon Trail game as the prairie maiden who infected everyone with dysentery.

Katie needs to get the red machine war room retweeting G.T. Lem's clip library, because the opposition's bullshit needs to be countered with rapid-fire facts. I don't know who that guy is but he's good. He got under Amir Attaran's skin this weekend, that absolute hack filling in for Jordan Peterson as Canada's most insufferable pseudo-academic blowhard who needs to stay in his lane. As usual, "Liberal Twitter" is doing yeoman's work.

Now, if O'Foole wants to vote down Freeland's mini-budget over this phony vaccine nontroversy, I say go right ahead. He'd face such a wrath from the populace it'd make the '93 PCs' result look like a thundering majority. Trudeau has got this down pat. Pity that Moderna can't produce a truth serum to cure the opposition of pathological lying. But that would require a massive re-engineering of their DNA.

Steve said...

Its a co ordinated attack by the Climate Change five and the O Fool.

rumleyfips said...

Serum will be delivered to Canada on time and Trudeau et al will have under-promised and over-delivered. The reformatories will try to trigger an election even though the old tool will be seen as the boy who cried wolf. Having proven himself an incompetent liar will do him a lot of damage during a campaign.

Marmalade said...

Just listening to Boris Johnson online and they are waiting for an acceptable vaccine, as well! Canadians are being lied to via the opposition parties here in Canada! Go figure!!!!

Anonymous said...

Killer Cons, the last thing Canada needs is a high visibility import schedule for vaccine when the exporting countries do not have well published vaccination plans in place. As with PPE exports, resident Cons will rise up and prevent export even if they have no intention of using the vaccine themselves. Under promise and over deliver is the smart strategy. The Cons are either too stupid or don't care as long as political destruction is the game. Its likely the latter as most of their supporters will not get vaccinated anyway. Surveys indicate only 40% will get vaccinated as soon as its available with 60% either waiting to see how it goes or just outright refusing. Covid is going to be around for a while yet and longer if the killer Cons get their way!
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1185639/coronavirus-vaccination-canadian-opinion/

RT

rumleyfips said...

Leger's poll this morning says that Canadian's are not unduly alarmed about vaccine delivery. Sorry Michelle; big mouth and small brain doesn't work with Canadians.Sorry tool; lying like Trump alienates Canadian voters. Sorry Pete, being a nasty peckerhead wins few friends.

Anonymous said...

You know what galls me more than the constant lies that are spewed by the Cons? The totally ineffective or non-existent counter messaging from the Liberals. Here's an idea I hope the PM will seriously consider. Hire a highly respected spokesperson, preferably female so as to release the inner misogynist of most Con males and have her counter with facts, each and every bullshit narrative the Cons fabricate on a daily basis. It would serve as a pulpit of facts to inform Canadians of what's actually going on on any given day on any given file. It's obvious that the overwhelmingly Con MSM wont do it and for the few that do, well, they're being drowned out by the far right noise. Please direct a tweet at Gerald Butts, Simon, explaining this to him. He's supposed to be a strategist, right? Well, he's doing a shitty job at it. Get the message out Gerald!!! Maybe then we can get a consistent source of information that will clear the fog and shut down these lying pieces of shit who's sole purpose is to undermine every decent thing this government is trying to accomplish during this pandemic. If they don't, we're at serious risk of losing the next election due to a pandemic of lies from nothing more than a bunch of con artists who's logo should be Qcpc.
JD

Jackie Blue said...

Not sure if you guys saw this today, but the paper trail has more facts. Anita Anand is seriously impressive

https://globalnews.ca/news/7494262/coronavirus-ottawa-procurement-strategy-memo/

and then there's this, apparently Derek Sloan of all people wants to investigate Muldoon lol. More Trumpian posturing to the Tool's tin foil conspiracy base that believes the Chinese vaccine would have included the same Huawei 5G mind control technology that supposedly turned Trudeau into the Manchurian Canada Date.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-vaccine-deal-1.5823628?cmp=rss

JD, you're right about the QAnon rot infecting the Cons and I agree LPC comms has been lacklustre to say the least. But Gerry doesn't work for them anymore ever since Jody's tantrum forced him out the door. He did "volunteer" for them at campaign time last year though and probably will again. Which could be sooner rather than later.

I like Katie but she seems to be AWOL. Maybe Charlie the tuna scared her by ganging up on her and her husband with Pigeon. Perhaps they should offer a backup job to Dale Smith?

Anonymous said...

Thanks for clarifying that about Gerry, Jackie. I knew he was back during the campaign but didn't know it was temporary. However, Butts or no Butts, I wish JT would drop the high road method of dealing with the buttholes of the Con bullshit machine and meet them head on. Fact vs fiction, True-deau vs the tool, vs peewee penishead, vs Michelle and Candy aka psycho barbies, etc.etc.etc.
Dale would be an excellent choice as he has a vast treasure trove of past and present Con antics. It's time to drop the gloves, Mr. Prime Minister.
JD

Simon said...

Hi Jackie...I'm lucky. I have been so busy I haven't been able to follow the news as closely as I usually do. But I can count on you to bring me up to date with what matters. And of course I agree with everything you say. O'Toole is a slimy liar, the NDP can't go any lower, and Michelle Rempel debases our parliament every time she opens her mouth. I thought I had been immunized against fake scandals, but politicizing vaccines, and trying to demoralize the population as the second wave prepares to wreak havoc has really shocked me. The Cons really are low creatures...

Simon said...

Hi Steve....Yes, the Con premiers are playing cheap politics to try to make Canadians forget that they have totally fucked up the fight against Covid 19. And the Tool is so desperate he'll do or say anything to try to boost his sagging polls. It's simply pathetic, and I can only hope that Canadians make them pay for their criminal behaviour...

Simon said...

hi rumleyfips...my faith in Canadians was kicked up a notch when I saw that Leger poll, suggesting that most of them are not freaking out about vaccine delivery dates. I have no time for those who wail and moan about vaccines. We will get them when we get them, and in the meantime the important thing is to focus on keeping the virus from spreading even more than it has. In short, show the kind of discipline from line medical workers have been forced to demonstrate for almost a year. If they can do it so can we....

Simon said...

Hi Marmalade...yes, the situation in the UK is far more confused and critical than it is here. The Cons are fighting the Cons, doctors and nurses are dropping like flies, and the clown Johnson is leading his country to disaster. But for the ghastly lying Cons in this country, we're the ones who are at the back of the line, and it's all Trudeau's fault. They are a sad lot....

Anonymous said...

To be blunt the Cons are covering up their deadly failures. The Cons wouldn't have spent the money Trudeau has. They wouldn't have done the things Trudeau did. We can see that with Alberta which now has a CoVID infection rate 3x that of Ontario.

What we're looking at is how Kenny failed the people of his province. He sat on his ass and basically did nothing. So rigid in his thinking/ideology that he would let a virus stomp all over the people of his province than spend money to stop it. Instead of admitting failure/mistakes he is going to do the time honored RW tradition of blaming others for his failure.

Simon said...

Hi RT....I can't say what I feel about the evil games the Cons are playing with the vaccine issue, it would be too rude. I never thought I would see a Canadian political party stoop that low. If we normalize that kind of behaviour this country is doomed. The vaccine issue is a very complex one. There are dozens of vaccines in different stages of development and clinical trials, and it's like the wild West out there. Our government has been holding its own, so the way the Cons are behaving is both unfair and disgusting...

Simon said...

Hi JD...I know how you feel, but while I also believe that the Liberals could be a little more aggressive, I don't think they have been doing that badly. Trudeau and Freeland have started jabbing at the Cons, the minister for procurement Anita Anand has also been holding her own. And the vaccine issue is now starting to hurt the Cons more than it is hurting the Liberals. Canadians are starting to realize that O'Toole is another Scheer and as you can see from every recent poll the Cons are going absolutely nowhere. My natural tendency is to jump on the Cons and beat the shit out of them, but I don't think we have to. The Cons will destroy themselves...

rumleyfips said...

The press conference by the Moderna CEO was more devastating to the reformatory liars than anything Trudeau could say.

Simon said...

Hi Rumleyfips...I agree, the Cons are trying to ignore what the Moderna CEO said, but hopefully Canadians will see through their bullshit and punish them accordingly....

Anonymous said...

Once again, Kinsella lumps on the scandal bandwagon. The guy is pathetic and I suspect will die a lonely old man.

Steve said...

Boho is taking a educated risk, I think JT should do the same. Fuck the cons.

Steve said...

RE Derek Sloan in particular and the Cons in general.

Woody Allen who has to be said was dry humour in the best way at one time
and later let himself be Perire Penius, once said

I would never want to be part of a club that admitted me

That is the cons

Steve said...

Celibate Jason is making Perier Penius look like mother Teresa. If you do not believe in planet Gia and I do not. Its like the Aviator view of the world. In my day it was simply and elegantly said " you do not fool mother nature"

The fact is that people who are intrinsically ageist the plant are being taken down by the covid crisis. If the voters reflected the idea of a better planet more effectively would we even have had this crisis?

Maybe yes, there was no disease caused by Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney.

Jackie Blue said...

Derek Sloan is the male version of Jenny McCarthy and a stinking albatross around Eric O'Foole's fat neck. This guy is just an infinite blooper reel for the Liberals to run during campaign season and man, I hope they do.

Anonymous said...

The Con's base are a collection of reactionaries tied to a view of better times in the past and how progress ( liberal thinking) made it all go wrong. For some it might be the demise of a community because of migration for new opportunity, factory closures due to outsourcing & automation, gender equality movements, legislation to take god out of the bedroom etc. Because the gripes are so diverse the Cons know that actual policy statements would be supported by some and rejected by others. That is why they ware so desperate for a leader that can lie in a manner that each group hears what they want to hear while the general public is lead to believe they are a viable alternative to the corrupt ineffectual Liberals. Let me arouse you by whisper sweet nothing lies into your ears.
Trump uses lies to consolidate his base and beat others into submission. Scheer tried the sweet nothing lies but always looked as if God was going to strike him dead when he had to lie about his religious agenda. The party backers are betting that the Tool will be a master at whispering sweet nothings with platitudes such as I am delaying (base appeal) end of life legislation because of concern about the disabled ( general voter acceptance). The Tools problem is that he is not a very charismatic or strong leader to start with and the dance of the sweet nothing lies further weakens his image in spite of all the situational posing his handlers conjure up. When it comes to his lying ability he is certainly not a Trump, somewhat Scheer like but more like a puffed up Pinocchio made out of play dough.

RT