I'm pretty sure that most Canadians know very little about Andrew Scheer, the new leader of the Cons, who likes to call himself "Harper with a smile." They just see a friendly looking man who always has a smile on his face, even when he's talking about the recent death of his mother. Or trying to stick a metaphorical knife into the back of Justin Trudeau. But sadly, Scheer is not as nice as he appears to be. He's a dangerous religious fanatic who could threaten the rights of millions of Canadians. Just don't expect our Con media to warn people about that, because they're too busy trying to make Ol' Smiley look like a nice guy, and a real leader.
We know what he has become; the monstrous leader of the most evil political cult this country has ever known. A morally depraved demagogue who is using fear as a weapon against his own people, and using racism to divide them. So he can snatch another another bloody majority, and use his anti-terrorist bill to turn this country into a police state. Even if, as Ralph Surette writes, he destroys our Canada beyond recognition.
It's scary enough that the wonky nerd Stephen Harper should see himself as a Great Warrior Leader, a strategic genius on a par with Napoleon. Or that he is both an avid student of Stalin AND an ardent believer in The Rapture. Who is presently trying to trigger a superpower confrontation in Ukraine, by among other things comparing Putin to Hitler. And apparently hypnotizing Prince Charles into believing the same thing.
Just to win votes in Canada. But what makes all of this even more deeply disturbing, is that the Orwellian monster Stephen Harper is actually trying to rewrite this country's history.
Oh. Mein. Gott. I see Tom Flanagan, the Dr Strangelove of Canadian politics, is back with a new book. And a warning for his former master Stephen Harper. His all-out assault on Justin Trudeau is just not working.
As you may know, I have for many years portrayed Tom Flanagan as Dr Strangelove. I've always considered him a bizarre right-wing crank, and Alberta firewall separatist. I never understood why the CBC hired him, and then didn't fire him after he said Julian Assange should be murdered. So I'm not really surprised by his latest outrageous statement.
Well in case anyone didn't understand why the Harper Cons are calling native people and environmentalists "radicals" and "foreign interests."
Leave it up to Tom "Strangelove" Flanagan to explain Big Oil's plan for Total World Domination.
The branding of opponents as "radicals" is part of a strategy to make sure the pipeline gets built, argues Tom Flanagan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff and an expert on aboriginal issues.
Flanagan said there is a concerted world-wide attack against the oil industry."Shrugging it off, I don't think, is good enough anymore. It's a battle and you have to start pushing back."
Which is at least refreshingly honest eh? Big Oil Uber Alles. But unfortunately, in the case of Canada, The Plan is tragically flawed.
Last, but certainly not least, Simon, I have always liked your blog, but I find myself at odds with you lately, like today. The passage below, I find particularly interesting.
But if they don’t see the errors of their ways, and keep on attacking the NDP instead of the Cons, I will have no choice.
Attacking the NDP instead of the Cons? Uh, excuse me, I don’t remember any protesting when the NDP starting putting out attack ads on Iggy and Iggy alone following the debates and basically leaving Stevie Spiteful alone, just as they had in previous election campaigns.
Because as far as I know I've always criticized BOTH sides. And who knew I was a friend of Stevie Spiteful. How frightful.
Another sign a merger will not happen? This rambling post by Montreal Simon is a good reason. Where's the co-operation everyone on that side has been talking about? All I see is arrogance and hubris.
Rambling ? Rambling? How rude. Or should I say how BLUNT. Gawd. I hate being called a partisan by other wildly partisan bloggers. WTF?
But of course I'm not surprised. At this point, almost a month into The Great Darkness, I suspect much of the progressive blogosphere, after wallowing in the pit of despair, has descended into a barely suppressed state of mutual loathing.
With both sides secretly cheering on their champions. In this corner CK in this corner Buckdog.
And it's far safer to be a partisan, because then only ONE side wants to kill you. Instead of BOTH of them.
But I just can't. It's not in my scientific nature. I reserve the right to criticize any progressive party. To speak truth to power the powerless.
Because at this point I don't give a damn what anybody says. All I'm interested in is seeing the two sides merge into a new party. I believe that's the only way we will beat the Cons.
And how do I know this? Because I can count to THREE.
Mr. Harper is doing the Liberals, NDP, and Greens a favour by cutting off their lolly. If he were as Machiavellian as his critics allege, he would keep the allowances in place, thus encouraging the centre-left parties to remain separate. Ending the allowances is in the long-term self-interest of these parties (or at least of their supporters), because it will drive them to co-operate in order to compete with the Conservative juggernaut.
Gawd. How galling. Having the Strangelove Machiavelli tell us that Great Machiavelli Leader isn't Machiavellian. But what if he's right about the LOLLY?
Oh well. The good news is that we've got four long years to find out eh? And fight each other. Before we lose the next election.
And in the meantime I've found something that we can ALL agree upon.
Nobody might notice eh? Except Duffy's favourite BBQ chicken and ribs place, But since the turkey coop is now controlled by the Cons, killing it would at least give us SOMETHING to celebrate.
I can just see it now. Great Turkey Leader.
Breaking the sad news to his Con flock...
Yes it's true. Da truth will set us free. Reality will force us to unite.
Rabid partisanship will eventually prove tiresome.
A 500-page dossier of potentially damaging remarks by Stephen Harper has hit the election campaign, but don't blame the opposition parties — it was prepared by the Conservatives.
Oh no...decisions...decisions... I can't decide which quote I like more, this one:
"I'm not ashamed to say that, in caucus, I have more pro-life MPs supporting me than supporting Stockwell Day."
Or this one.
"Providing for the poor is a provincial, not a federal responsibility."
Isn't this warning interesting?
A cover note on the 2004 instalment says the quotes "that have the potential to be the most problematic are the quotations dealing with health care."
And isn't this simply DELICIOUS?
The research was begun in 2003 by Harper's former chief of staff, Tom Flanagan, who appears to have believed the old adage that forewarned is forearmed.
But of course he would eh?
Mein Strangelove, mein Strangelove....da Fuhrer the Calgary School would be proud of you. Just like I am.
But of course, Great Ugly Leader and his Con mob are VERY upset, so the sooner you can propel yourself to Paraguay the better.
Gawd. How spooky eh?
The Con quest for The Thousand Year Majority, is ending.
OMG. I understand that Tom "Fatwa" Flanagan is having trouble trying not to strangle himself like his mentor Dr Strangelove.
And who can blame him eh? Now every time anyone mentions his name they'll think of Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Tom Flanagan — a former senior adviser to the prime minister — should be charged with incitement to commit murder for calling for Assange's assassination.
And Strangelove's crazed comments.
Which only makes me wonder, since Flanagan is Stephen Harper's mentor, what Great Ugly Leader must be thinking. Because who could ever forget what Ezra Levant once said about their special relationship?
These days, Levant sees Flanagan and Harper more as “symbiotic partners.” But he does not disagree with a Globe and Mail report that once referred to Flanagan as the original godfather of the city’s conservative intellectual mafia. “I call him Don Tomaso,” Levant says. “He is the master strategist, the godfather — even of Harper.”
Yikes. Don Tomaso? The godfather? Oh well. That explains the fatwa contract.
Why is it that most people are not disturbed that American officials who apparently committed heinous crimes in the war on terror will not be investigated and held to account, while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is hunted to the ends of the Earth?
Or explain why Cons are so disgusting.
Even in Canada, Flanagan wasn’t the first to advocate Mafia tactics. That honour goes to Ezra Levant, a columnist with the Sun newspaper chain and the man who distinguished himself on the Omar Khadr file by arguing it was unfortunate American soldiers didn’t grease the wounded 15-year-old on the spot. “They should have walked up to him and shot him like a mangy dog,” as Levant put it.
But then that's Con Canada eh?
Stephen Harper is a maniac.
Ezra Levant is an asshole.
Don Tomaso is Dr Strangelove...
And you know how that one ended...
Mama Mia. I mean Mama Fuhrer. I make you an offer you can't refuse.
As you probably know I've always considered Tom Flanagan, Stephen Harper's former mentor, to be Canada's Dr Strangelove.
So his crazed final solution to the Wikileak's truth offensive isn't really surprising...
But it sure makes this Wikileak nugget even more ironic.
“The degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to feed longstanding negative images of the U.S. — and the extent to which the Canadian public seems willing to indulge in the feast — is noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada...”
And humiliating.
A trove of diplomatic cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a number of publications, disclose a perception by American diplomats that Canadians “always carry a chip on their shoulder” in part because of a feeling that their country “is condemned to always play ‘Robin’ to the U.S. ‘Batman.’ ”
I mean can you believe that eh? When that batty villain Strangelove is spewing this American-style garbage ....on the CBC.And Canada has never been more American.
The Harper Cons are running on a law and order platform even though the crime rate is going down. And vowing to build new prisons, just like they do in the U.S.A.
We're following the Americans on climate change. Even though it's making us look like eco-criminals.
We're staying on in Afghanistan because they asked us told us. Even though our ambassador thinks the situation is hopeless.
We have a Prime Minister who think he's a President.
And thanks to him and his American Albertan Cons, we're ALWAYS playing the role of Robin...
I mean what more do these Americans want eh? That we should replace our tuques with top hats, put on our long underwear, pretend we're The Penguins, and tap dance to Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Don't worry. With Stephen Harper and his AmeriCons in power, sooner or later we will.
Oh boy. Remember when Canada was an independent country, and we didn't have to apologize for not being Amerikan?
Don't you miss this old ad?
And isn't it time we fought back?
Attention Harper, Strangelove, Con stooges, Yankee doodles.
Is it my imagination or is Stephen Harper being followed on his trips by a Great Flying Toilet?
Because after you say HARPER, VISIT, and EMBARRASSING eh? That's what comes to mind.
First he misses not one but two summit photo ops because nature called at the wrong moment.. Then he flushed what was left of his credibility/sanity down the toilet by attacking Michael Ignatieff...for something he didn't say.
Now he goes up north and insults the people of Iqaluit by making it sound like THEY don't wipe THEIR bums?
Just because he has John Baird to do that for him. What a nerve eh?
While he tries to win the Don Cherry vote by picking a fight with the Russians.
During his five-day tour through Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon, he will hold a Cabinet meeting, board one of Canada's submarines and try to send a message to Russia, the United States and other Arctic powers that Canada's aspirations to be a northern power are not to be taken lightly.
Because he'll say or do ANYTHING for a vote.
And because he's suffering from minority constipation, he needs an election before he EXPLODES. And he thinks the time is NOW.
And his mentor Tom "Strangelove" Flanagan thinks he knows how to provoke one.
The opposition parties formed their famous coalition and threatened to vote non-confidence against the Conservatives, who quickly retracted the proposal. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, however, has vowed to bring it back as part of his campaign platform in the next election.
Because the good doctor knows very well that it would be perceived as an attack on the Bloc Quebecois. And that would allow Harper to run against the separatists/Quebec and place the other parties in a difficult position.
Hmmmm.... I know that most people don't think there's going to be an election this fall. But with this gigantic Arctic photo-op, and yet another Obama photo-shoot coming up. And the fact that the real economy is melting faster than even the ice up north. And the ominous flight of the Great Flying Toilet. And the madness of Stephen Harper.....and Dr Strangelove. And oh yeah...the war with the Russians. I don't know about you eh? But I can feel the Big One coming....
Imagine if the love of your life was dying in a hospital bed. But you weren't allowed to say goodbye. So your lover died alone wondering where you were. Even though you were just outside the room. How would you feel for the rest of your life? Which is why this story haunts me.
“I have this deep sense of failure for not being at Lisa’s bedside when she died,” Ms. Langbehn said. “How I get over that I don’t know, or if I ever do.”
But then I wouldn't have to because in Canada we have a Human Rights Commission that keeps bigots from firing people, or not renting apartments to them, or discriminating in other ways just because of who they are.
And helps keep Canada a civilized country, and women and minorities safe from the haters.
Which is why I was not surprised to see the uber neocon Tom Flanagan calling for it to be scrapped.
...we should remember that the existence of the commissions is itself an abuse. They have little to do with genuine human rights such as freedom of speech and worship, security of the person and ownership of property. They are specialized agencies to enforce anti-discrimination legislation, and issues of prejudice and discrimination are far too complex to be resolved by human-rights sloganeering.
But then he would.
Because this ridiculous Calgary School Strangelove has been trying to turn Canada into a jungle ever since he arrived in Canada from the United States. And even though when he sneezes, Stephen Harper FARTS, it ain't gonna happen. Because this is Canada eh? Not Amerika. Although I'm sure that after this pathetic performance Flanagan WILL get a chance to dip his lips in paint and plant a big kiss on Ezra Levant's Butt of Fame. Because goodness gracious everybody knows.....it's BIG enough for all of them. As for me ....I'd just like to dedicate this song to Strangelove and all the other right-wing weirdos and dinosaurs who would destroy the Human Rights Commission and turn our beautiful country into a racist, sexist,homophobic jungle. Call it my salute ...or OUR salute. From the Big Gay Collab.
This time all the way from Paris...
Because sometimes you can argue with the k....k....k....KRAZY doctors and dinosaurs.
Sometimes you need a bulldozer. And sometimes why BOTHER?
