tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post1519218412879299687..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: Mad Max Bernier and the Incredible Cowardice of Andrew ScheerSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-78495835020521181292018-08-15T13:08:02.614-04:002018-08-15T13:08:02.614-04:00Hi Steve...as I told Jackie I am impressed by the ...Hi Steve...as I told Jackie I am impressed by the decency of Justin Trudeau, and the fact that he does not engage in the same kind of dirty politics as Scheer and company, endears him to me even more....Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-57117703369584391602018-08-15T13:05:54.359-04:002018-08-15T13:05:54.359-04:00Hi Jackie...Mallick's article is interesting, ...Hi Jackie...Mallick's article is interesting, although I had trouble wading through the story about the grotesque Boris Johnson who I despise with every bone in my body. But yes, who can ever forget our nightmare years with the psycho Stephen Harper. To me decency is charming, and it's one of the main reasons I like Justin Trudeau. Not because he's glamorous, but because he seems to share the values I believe in.<br />While Scheer on the other hand could flash his creepy smile at me all day, and I would still find him as charming as a boa constrictor...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-86483076910960092522018-08-15T12:43:10.871-04:002018-08-15T12:43:10.871-04:00Hi anon...I also found that graph interesting and ...Hi anon...I also found that graph interesting and encouraging. It only quantified what I always believed, but it does explain why we are such a successful society, and it's a huge slap in the face to the bigots who would divide us...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-61094146565115627322018-08-15T12:40:40.112-04:002018-08-15T12:40:40.112-04:00Hi anon@4:25...Scheer does have a lot to hide, nam...Hi anon@4:25...Scheer does have a lot to hide, namely his close association with right-wing radicals, we now know as alt-right supporters. And if our shabby media ever closely examined his background, there is no telling what they might find...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-51767224269793062662018-08-15T12:38:06.958-04:002018-08-15T12:38:06.958-04:00Hi anon@2:34 PM...I don't know why Scheer is a...Hi anon@2:34 PM...I don't know why Scheer is acting so strangely, or why he seems to be paralyzed with fear. But one thing is for sure, he's no leader...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-88629137496949880922018-08-15T12:36:49.033-04:002018-08-15T12:36:49.033-04:00Hi Kathleen...well first he has to publish the one...Hi Kathleen...well first he has to publish the one he has written. But if he releases a chapter a month, and drives Scheer crazy or crazier, I might even buy a copy to use as emergency toilet paper when camping, or start a fire in the winter... ;)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-15841789589112658722018-08-15T12:33:36.279-04:002018-08-15T12:33:36.279-04:00Hi Jackie...I agree, Bernier's rants are now b...Hi Jackie...I agree, Bernier's rants are now beginning to resemble those of people on the far-right in the United States. And by not condemning them Scheer has also shown his true colours. As to why our Cons seem to hate Canada and its values so much I have no idea. I suppose it's inevitable that when a giant country like the U.S. shares a border with you, some in Canada should suffer from an inferiority complex and feel that we should be more like the Americans. That's why it's so important to stand up for our values for only they can save us...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-86508587005404275672018-08-14T20:20:03.092-04:002018-08-14T20:20:03.092-04:00For the most part Truedough has remained the cake ...For the most part Truedough has remained the cake we all want to eat. Let the cons roll in the mud. Unlike our stupid cousins we are not buying crazy, the shelfs are full down south if you want to buy. Its wise of JT not to buy into the cesspool when he has real ideas of a real country. Not a place where its one dollar one vote<br />and thank the invisible hand and Ayn Rand.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-42147991050160727812018-08-14T18:09:06.942-04:002018-08-14T18:09:06.942-04:00Somewhat off topic: Interesting essay on the value...Somewhat off topic: Interesting essay on the value of charm in political life. 'Course I happen to disagree with her about Trudeau, and find BoJo the clown more of a poison frog than a prince especially with his hateful comments about Muslim women. But she raises a point about conservatives, only mentioning Harper, Ford and of course Trump specifically, although the same could easily be extrapolated to Bernier or Scheer:<br /><br />https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/08/14/the-missing-ingredient-in-political-life-charm.html<br /><br /><i>Charm works. <b>Conservatives are generally devoid of humour — remember Stephen Harper, the least charming man alive — and I have no idea why.</b> Charm requires sincerity, attention, a genuine concern that a guest gets a drink and introductions, a little self-deprecation.<br /><br />Charm greases the skids of human interaction. <b>People with charm don’t take things personally and don’t hold grudges.</b> They can talk you into things because you trust them. You can see that bitterness hasn’t yet crusted over them.<br /><br /><b>Insecure people cannot be charming. All their effort is spent on shoring up their own dilapidated structure in order to impress you.</b></i><br /><br />Bernier seems to think he's all that and a rogue ladies' man to boot, while Scheer fancies himself the humble altar boy who God himself appointed to deliver Canada from the wickedness of liberal debauchery and sloth. Scheer is so insecure, in fact, that he is literally "shoring up his dilapidated structure," throwing stones at Trudeau's self-financed swing set even as the glass house of Stornoway is on track for a massive, and far costlier, upheaval. While Trudeau is not perfect he has more than demonstrated that he is earnest, respectful, and above all compassionate at a time when it is needed most. He is also genuinely empathetic and interested in listening to others' perspectives from all walks of life. He is even playful, intrinsically predisposed to that good-natured sense of humor that the writer points out conservatives, with their mean streak and fondness for a malicious chuckle at a suffering person's expense, simply do not possess.<br /><br />Bernier and Scheer are as toxic as the most impacted bowels of the Internet. Theirs is the kind of lethal venom that is injecting itself like fentanyl throughout the global political atmosphere, with Trump being perhaps a Patient Zero and Bernier and Scheer being additional infected cells carrying the contagion throughout the "body politic." Hopefully Canada can heal itself and develop an immunity to this sickness before it reaches the same levels it did during the great plague of the 1930s. People's lives literally depend on it.Jackie Bluenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-3485118592391817652018-08-14T16:34:07.388-04:002018-08-14T16:34:07.388-04:00That Frank Graves graph is really interesting. I t...That Frank Graves graph is really interesting. I think it helps explain why Canada is such a peaceful and successful society. Those idiotic Con bigots just don’t get it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-70586841348723724092018-08-14T16:25:52.102-04:002018-08-14T16:25:52.102-04:00Maybe he has a lot to hide 🤔Maybe he has a lot to hide 🤔Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-20806710259995814072018-08-14T14:34:14.158-04:002018-08-14T14:34:14.158-04:00The creeper Scheer is starting to look as if he mi...The creeper Scheer is starting to look as if he might be having a nervous breakdown. How else can his bizarre behaviour be explained? He seems almost paralyzed like a rat caught in the headlights of a cobra. Is he praying for guidance? Is there something happening in his private life that is preventing him from doing his job? How could somebody be even more of a coward than Harper? It’s truly disturbing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-15868318386150927662018-08-14T11:40:10.636-04:002018-08-14T11:40:10.636-04:00Bernier should write another book!Bernier should write another book!Marmaladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01651890655542192076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-63420425845193352912018-08-14T10:04:53.018-04:002018-08-14T10:04:53.018-04:00Max's rant sounds disgustingly similar to Fox ...Max's rant sounds disgustingly similar to Fox News' Laura Ingraham's diatribe about "demographic changes" -- that was heartily endorsed by none other than David Duke. But as the old saying goes, silence is complicity, and by not condemning his racist bozo eruption Scheer proves once and for all that the Cons are little more than a Canadian offshoot of the GOP. Scheer is the Ted Cruz to Bernier's Trump: they share all the same bigotries, but Scheer is the stealth putz with a punchable face while Bernier is the loudmouth, "colorful personality" who "tells it like it is." I don't want to see Canada produce a rerun of the reality-TV shitshow down here.<br /><br />What I wonder is why, if they hate Canada so much and everything it stands for, they don't just pack up and GTFO to some pasty-white fascist homeland like, oh, I dunno, Russia, where I'm sure they'd be more comfortable. I'm sure Vlad would love to go riding around shirtless on Max's big-boy bully bike, maybe with Scheer bobbling around in the sidecar and Trump tooling along in his golf cart.<br /><br />The irony is if Kellie the Leech ever did implement her Canadian Values Test, it would see pretty much the whole CPC deported. Maybe Trudeau should "steal like an artist," as Steve Jobs once said, for the 2019 agenda. Nazi punks fuddle-duddle off.Jackie Bluenoreply@blogger.com