It was horrible. After taking a break from Canadian politics, and the right-wing sewer that social media has become, I returned to find Pierre Poilievre cackling like a hyena.
Opening his mouth and showing his teeth, believing he is on the cusp of a massive majority.
And no doubt getting ready to take a big bite out this country, and change it beyond recognition.
And who can blame him?
But after watching his ghastly speech to the Con faithful the other day, the ugliest speech I have ever witnessed, I am more than ever convinced that he must NEVER be allowed to be Prime Minister
For I thought it was a horror show, and so did Tom Mulcair, who doesn't think much of Poilievre's fake makeover.
I had the opportunity to work across the aisle from Poilievre for over a decade. They can lose the glasses, drop the tie, slow the cadence and reduce the Brylcreem. Those of us who got to know his overheated demagoguery firsthand know that nothing will have really changed -- and that’s the danger.
Poilievre tends to see nothing good in…goodness, in generosity of spirit and benevolence. He knows what’s right and he’ll try to shove it down your throat if you don’t see things the way he does. It’ll take more than a one-hour speech to paper over that fundamental characteristic. That’s why I sincerely believe that people should take a much closer look at the contents of the snake oil that Poilievre is prescribing.
The speech which seemed to go on forever, was dripping with hatred for Justin Trudeau. and what made it even more disturbing was the creepy smile on his face reminiscent of a serial killer.
Which makes perfect sense coming from a grubby Con who wants to privatize medicare, kill the CBC, make life even harder for trans kids, slash the pensions of older Canadians, kill child support payments, and do nothing to fight climate change.
And even as the planet burns, all he could offer up was even more hate...
As for winning over the young, by offering them them cheap affordable homes, that may give him a short term boost, but only until the truth is revealed.
Poilievre calls Trudeau a Marxist.pic.twitter.com/jJ3744BPaf
— Mike Campbell (@Skeptical_Mike) August 31, 2023
Which is enough to disgust most decent Canadians, but not Stephen Harper.
He was so carried away by the intoxicating stench of that bloody majority, that he finally outed himself as the real leader of the Poilievre campaign.
And that will be used against him over and over again, all the way to the next election.
Harper helped make Poilievre...
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The Libs don't have to call an election for another two years, so i wouldn't get too worried over the polls or what the Cons decide at their convention. By then, PP will be trying desperately to cut his ties to Trump and the overpowering loser stench that'll follow a few convictions.
Right what I was expecting. Gone was the time during the Harper era where you were unable to easily leave the family nest to go enjoy the college way of living close by with an appartment which the rent could be easily payed if you get a full time job instead. Humiliation should I said! I will say it again, but this is the reason Poilievre solution will solve nothing. Thanks for the Pressprogress link. What I feel sorry is for the tory fanbase that wasted their money for their airplane ticket to Quebec city and hit a wall regarding what Poilievre will put in his platform. Although I'm would've given the benefit of the doubt regarding his priorities, everyone loses since these religious doofus thought they will see their entourage just like them (not gay/trans no longer). Just like those rich pricks that live by american broadcasting and internet platforms who thought that Radio-Canada will befunded just like the CBC when in fact Poilievre had never understood that both networks are under the same corporate crown which he will have to explain why he will come back to his statement and lie on his promise to leave it alone. Just like Chantal Hébert said, Radio-Canada needs to rely on the CBC in order to gather stories from the francophones outside of Quebec. And lets not forget everyone else of us who are not his voters and never will be will have to live through worst storms and heatwaves as for rainy christmas winters. The only winners: everyone who are rich and are mostly christians (and yes, even right wing atheists who are in my opinion more worst then the first). You know, the ones who are able to live by both tradition and progress as for their celebrations while anyone else outside the bubble might have nothing of it. No clean environment like the beautiful area with the huge house far from the city, no stable family whether you are christian or not with not enough ressources, even it it's to realise their own dreams. In other words, a neo-darwinism kind of concept (my bad if I repeated that term). Just to sum it all up, vote for Poilievre and he will chew your ballot before spitting it back in your face since you will lose more chance to prosper under him if your parents is lets say not in the 1%.
Sorry to say Simon but Canada always follows U.S. electoral trends. This goes back to at least the 1960's .
Canada needs its Trump moment and Poilievre will do...
The CPC could run a cereal box and win.
Simon, you may find this interesting. Coletto tweeted earlier that Poilievre's "plan, all along" for a majority has been to shave off tiny slivers of votes from the LPC, NDP, Bloc and PPC, and add them on top of the 33-34% CPC cult. All the % he gave for each party were within the MoE. I'm not saying the polls are necessarily "fake," but that I have to keep reminding myself they're fluid and a snapshot of a weather forecast in time. And I am one of the most pessimistic people you will ever come across, so for me to say that is something.
This article explains how polling data is torqued and manipulated by self-interested media organizations to create the air of a particular narrative -- in this case Poilievre's "inevitability" and Trudeau nearing the end of his "shelf life" -- that said organizations are heavily invested in seeing through to a self-fulfilling prophecy. U.S. media is doing the same thing to Biden as Canadian media is to Trudeau. They are manufacturing a poll slump for ratings, because they desperately want Indicted Conspirator #P01135809 to run the White House from the Big House. Mark Twain said it best: there are lies, damn lies and statistics. The Poll-ievre number crunchers, and the bought media they are hired to conduct fuzzy math for, are the epitome of that.
https://www.thedailyscrumnews.com/2023/09/12/the-art-of-manipulation-how-polls-can-be-tailored-to-fit-any-narrative/
Glad to read you again.
I was struck by the reformatories rank and file ignoring PP and going full neandertal. Little Pete knows he can't show his real agenda before the election but the clowns at the back of the room want their hate and spite and insecurity to be out front.
Bozo eruptions may be on the horizon. Pollywallydoodle will have to decide whether to mollify his crazies or alienate normal, decent Canadians. His basic insincerity could alienate both sides.If he can't fool his base, he may not even last till the election.
Hi anon@9:10PM....I'm not worried about this slew of summer polls, as you point out the election is two years away. So we will have all the time we need to totally discredit the greasy Pierre Poilievre, and his grubby wife. But I think progressives have been taking it a little too easy, and I include myself. It's easy to look at Poilievre and laugh at his dirty campaign, but I think the time has arrived to start taking him apart, before more Canadians are fooled into believing what he is saying...
Hi Myworld1916....Poilievre has no serious solutions for anything. All he can do is repeat cheap slogans, and make the ignorant believe that he can solve all our problems. Unfortunately for him that Liberals are finally waking up and can use the next two years to start one project after the other while Poilievre looks on and screams like a maniac. Unfortunately for Poilievre we live in the second best country in the world, and if we can make it even better he will have nowhere to go. In my opinion Harper's public endorsement is the beginning of the end. Nobody, but nobody wants that washed up far-right extremist showing his ugly face again. Trudeau booted him out, and he will do the same to Poilievre, burying the dirty little man in a heap of his own excrement. And I for one intend to enjoy every minute...
Jackie, Mr. Coletto's musing are interesting but he is forgetting one key point. The Conservatives garnered 33-34% in the last two elections and never gained more than 120 some odd seats. With that kind of voter inefficiency it will take more than the "base" plus a few points shaved here and there to win the most seats let alone a majority. It will take significant gains in key battlegrounds and I am not seeing any evidence that they are doing that. And if anybody truly believes polls are "evidence" I have a bridge to sell you.
As well, the article you point to is a good summary of what is wrong with polling in North America. Polls used to be useful information to provide interested people with an idea of how things were going politically. However, now they are used by the media to push narratives and as the article points out polling companies are more than happy to oblige and since our media is mostly biased towards the Conservatives it is not hard to see which narratives they want to push. BTW, it used to be that polling companies published much more detailed information on their methodology. That is not the case any more. One could wonder why.
Finally, the obvious narrative the media is pushing is Mr. Poilievre is up while Mr. Trudeau is down. The question that needs to be asked is why are they doing that two years out from an election? That narrative usually does not get pushed to voters until an election is called. Here is a thought, perhaps the media still believes that in a one-on-one showdown between Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Poilievre, Mr. Trudeau would still come out on top. So the obvious solution to mitigating that risk is to convince Mr. Trudeau to step down.
He does not appear inclined to so and why would he? Even the public polls are saying his personal popularity is higher at this stage of his mandate than Stephen Harper's and Jean Chretien's at their eight year marks. I would bet that the parties' internal data are showing things to be alot closer than the public polls are indicating.
Hi Roger...I'm afraid your comment makes absolutely no sense. Canada does not follow U.S. electoral trends, and especially not in the Trump era. Trump is looking increasingly desperate, as he tries to avoid going to jail, and Canada needs a Con crook like him like we need a hole in the head. As Trump's legal woes continue, all he will do is make Poilievre look bad. When the ghastly Pee Pee threw his lot in with the Trump loving convoy, it was the beginning of the end. He may not know it now, but trust me he will...
Hi Jackie....I'm very disappointed with David Coletto. I used to like him, but not any longer. I consider his polls to be increasingly dubious, and his analysis to be simplistic. The Cons have always tried to steal votes from other parties, but how he can steal votes from disaffected Liberals and Bernier's far right freaks seems to me to be very very difficult. In my view the real problem the Liberals have is that they have allowed the Cons to smear them again and again, and have failed to reply in kind. If Trudeau and his Liberals can do that I'm pretty confident they can still win the next election. And if they can't, or don't want to, then the future could be ominous. For the sake of this country, let's hope progressives can step up their game...
Hi rumleylips....Thank you, I'm glad to be back too. Like many other progressives I took a lot of time off this summer. But now I am ready to return to the Coliseum and join others trying to deflate Poilievre, until him and his ghastly Evita are left squealing like pigs.
I agree with you, Pollywallydoodle will soon be caught between a rock and a a hard place. And if the Liberals can go after him and his ghastly Evita any lead he has in the polls will go down like the Hindenburg. Mein Harper, Mein Harper please save me my leader!!!
To expand on one of my thoughts in my last post.
You will note that the narrative being pushed is that Justin Trudeau should resign. It is not that Justin Trudeau should call an election or that Mr. Singh should force an election. After all, he could do that by breaking the agreement with the Liberal government.
If the Conservatives are in such a commanding lead, as the public polls are indicating, then the election speculation going into the Fall sitting of The House should be deafening. Instead, the lack of that speculation is deafening, and telling.
Really, the Conservatives and their cheerleaders in the media really do not want Justin Trudeau to be around for the next election and we always have to ask why that is.
Hi Ottlib….The reason the Cons are doing all they can to try to get Justin Trudeau to resign is because they know that he could beat their precious Poilievre in the next election. They also know that the more time before that election is held the more time Poilievre will have to screw things up. They’re afraid of Trudeau, and they are afraid of their own candidate. I’ve always known that Cons are cowards but that is the very limit. Like Poilievre they are a kooky lot and I can’t wait for the day we defeat them. Again….
PP paints these word pictures that make no sense. Sitting on the porch with a cold drink in one hand and a paycheck in the other. William Wallace he is not. Freedom, lets make Canada the freest country in the world. How do you measure that? He wants everything to be free, thats commie talk.
Hi Steve....Poilievre isn't very bright, but his word pictures are a deliberate strategy to appeal to his equally dumb followers. Most of them are designed to stir up a murderous hatred against Justin Trudeau, and the day will come when him and his ugly Cons met and will be held accountable. As for a Harper sucking fascist like Poilievre claiming to be a "freedom fighter" it's simply grotesque, since he has always sought to limit the freedom of others...
And which party is giving standing ovations to actual Nazis?
Hi anon@6:13 PM....It should be be obvious that members of all parties in the House of Commons gave that one-time Nazi a standing ovation. That's what makes it so embarrassing. But the Cons are trying to make it appear like it's all Justin Trudeau's fault. They are now such a cult, they live in a parallel universe, and it's yet another reason they must never govern this country again...
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