With a steady lead in the polls and a healthy war chest of political donations, the Conservative Party is rolling out a trio of new advertisements that are being viewed as aiming to redefine and soften Pierre Poilievre’s image and messaging.
Is this like when Stephen Harper tried to demonstrate he that he was a real human?
This is, uh, before he signed away our rights to China, right? He was an embarrassment before that?
He was an embarrassment long before that.
“farewell, fellow human, son of mine, in this authentically staged photo-op as you go to human-school. actual-humans exchange human emotions through a physical gesture of some sort. perhaps a handshake? yes. a handshake. the human photographers will surely document this actual-human interaction between myself (a human) and my son (also, a human) and the people of this country will finally embrace me as an actual human.”
(narrator: humans don’t shake their sons’ hands when they drop them off for the first day of school…)
The GOP clone CPC want to turn Canada into florida-north.
As ever.
It seems to me that what’s resonating with Canadians is the promise of reduced inflation though budget cuts. The GOP has a very poor track record regarding excessive spending in America, so there’s that difference (in messaging) at least.
All fiscal Cons peddle the absolute same baloney, including Harper. And then we get the opposite.
Cons are liars, every single last one of them. Their whole philosophy is fundamentally provably false.
I may be misunderstanding things, but did Harper not follow though?
GOP also promises things it can’t keep. Budgets will be cut, and oh, look at that. People are still poor.
At least they won’t have healthcare anymore, right?
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Spending on cops and corporate handouts, sure. Gotta give Daddy Musk his welfare bucks. Reward all that “innovating.”
And where did all that money go?
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There is a reason why I can say Squinty McProudBoy and everyone knows whom I am talking about. His only concern is with his white supremacist “base” and his “Trudeau bad” as his only plan on governing Canada.
With a steady lead in the polls
Is this true? I have disconnected myself from a lot of political media for the summer while working in the bush, and this caught me by surprise. What the fuck?
If people are pissed at Justin, it’s because Milhouse finally made his molehill into a mountain.
It seems to me people like PP because of their stance on inflation, which for most is the single biggest issue facing Canada today. Cons are proposing budget cuts, and the NDP are proposing a grocery store tax as solutions. People will probably be more favorable towards whichever solution they think will be the most effective.
People will probably be more favorable towards whichever solution they think will be the most effective.
But they think that budget cuts will be effective because they’re conservatives, so in the end it’s a circular argument.
If removing gas tax is any indication in Ontario, and gas prices stayed the same because the price was still what the market could bear, cutting taxes on grocery stores just means that the stores make more profit. The NDP idea of taxing profit “seems” more effective, but if anyone familiar with Hollywood accounting will say that profits will disappear before taxes are properly paid. They need to tax income.
They need to tax income based on standard profitability rates.
Yes, that would work.
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Tax scales as a function of margin.
Though, applying the supply management system to grocery stores would probably work too, good suggestion!
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Income: money in (gross). Profit: money after expenses (net).
While humans have to pay income tax (because the government is afraid we’d have no money left to tax because we’d spend it all), business pays tax on profit. This means that they can totally “expense” more in a year and pay less tax. The only thing preventing that are stockholders, who often like profit as it gives them dividends and makes the stock more desirable and drives the price of the stock up. This assumes that there is a large number of stockholders and not a filthy rich Food Barron holding all the stock (a la Weston).
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This is so infuriating. But so true. Thanks! I think…
Aggregate polling has CPC at 37% +/-4% with the LPC at 29% +/-3%.
Thanks. I guess I will have to try to mobilize more people to get off their ass and go vote. So many of the people I know just don’t care enough to vote. But maybe the bitcoin and convoy-fellation facts about this pile of shit will help motivate more.
I have no hope that it will… But if I don’t try, I will hate myself.
Remind them that there are exactly 0 safe CPC members now for abortion rights due to recent voting (yes, private member bills are still showing up to try and remove rights, but this time Squinty is in charge and all his members are allowed to vote ‘with their conscience’ now).
I tend to use this to help motivate people. That’s over half of them, and two years ago.
Does this douche supported the ottawa’s truckers?
Yes, he also wanted to replace the bank of Canada with bitcoin and I don’t know why he doesn’t get more flak for that. He was the finance critic at the time too.
Conservatives are allowed to say dumb things.
Because of their base, and the way that it is.
I do love the “only we can be fiscally responsible” and “buy high on this speculative asset to reduce inflation”, it’s a strong juxtaposition.
One of his names is bitcoin milhouse for a reason.
Yes, he’s a garbage politician with no good ideas and no real world experience. He would’ve crashed our economy with his Bitcoin fiasco.
Literally stood at the side of the road and got his picture taken handing them Tim Hortons and thanking them for coming.
If Canada elects this career grifter and fake family man poseur, I am genuinely done with this country. I don’t think I can take another rightwing government at a time in history when we desperately need a party for the working class.
The last thing this country needs is yet another white male cishet christian fiscal con telling us what the fuck we need. “Everything is broken.” Yeah, because your donors own all our hard work, you muppet.
I will genuinely move to Europe or something.
It’s astounding how when the API fiasco happened, it seems that most Reddit users who migrated to Lemmy were predominantly Leftist, leaving a bunch of copycat subs behind that are almost exclusively alt-right shitholes. The difference in discourse over PP is night and day.
/r/canada has always been a shit hole.
Did you check /r/onguardforthee?
I honestly don’t know from one day to the next which one’s going to be an absolute fascist embarrassment to the country while STILL complaining we’re too leftist socialist creeps.
It seems daily we’d see
- no, people get rights. It’s part of not being a dick
- see? This sub got too woke and commie reeeeeee
… And it becomes exhausting trying to discuss amid all but actual feces being flung.
r/onguardforthee isn’t the copycat type of sub I mean. r/canada_sub i’m pretty sure is almost entirely populated by ragebaiting bots because no one ever actually replies to comments. There’s like several different r/canada_housing subs now? Truly a clusterfuck over on reddit these days.
Fucking Handmaid’s Tale got it right with
last season
Canada approaching Gilead instead of distancing itself from it
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And still he presents as such a bigot xeno? He’s just missing the Cancun tickets.
Let’s be clear here: PP is not a smart man.
Yes, he has a background of being adopted by an openly-gay man in a stable relationship with his partner, the both being public school teachers, and he married an immigrant, and he’s a native French speaker from Saskatchewan. By all accounts, he would be an NDP darling. I don’t know how he ended up in with the SOCONs that would vilify his parent’s line of work and interfere with their collective bargaining rights, outlaw them getting married, outlaw them adopting the young PP in the first place, and restricting his wife from entering the country, on top of being ‘French’… But now that he’s with the SOCONs, he’s picked up on the magical formula for success to winning the CPC leadership: campaign on the right - the far right - as right as you can go. Now he has the same problem O’Toole has: appear moderate enough to the electorate so people outside the CPC will vote for you. Problem is, the more on the right you are in the CPC, the less moderate you can appear in the General Election, and thus, perform worse. If you swing too far moderate though, you can lose your base support in the CPC… His image is so closely tied with the far, far right that he will crumble fast with his own people as he starts to stammer out any policy that isn’t the most vile and deplorable garbage that the basement dwelling trolls demand, and the LPC will press him on the fact that he has no plan or any thoughts at all. Also, if he does try to communicate some of his terrible ideas, they can easily get shot through by the LPC and NDP - again, he’s not a smart man and has made some very stupid statements that are easy shot apart by numbers and facts. His thoughts are designed to appeal to losers - people that are suckers for get-rich schemes and think some ‘group’ in Canada are the source of their woes; call them immigrants, or gays, those on pogey, or unwed mothers… or even “them-there so-called ‘experts’ that are telling us vaccines work.”
That being said, he’s going to get a boost in two areas: the continued crumbling of the PPC, and growing disdain with the LPC. This is probably already reflected in the poll numbers. It’s really the LPC’s election to lose, and as long as he’s passing enough scraps to the NDP to stay in power and fight another day at improving image, the LPC can turn around the Trudeau image: he’s working hard for the country - it affected his marriage, or at the very least: look ladies, he’s single! There’s no way that they can save PP’s image. Milhouse with the glasses, Squinty without the glasses, are cute names but the Proud Boy love for him for all his dog-whistling, and open association and appreciation with the truckers are the giant anchor around his neck and the others get to punish him for that if he tries to avoid communicating his stupid ideas.
I think the rise of far-right leaders (US, UK, Brazil etc) demonstrate that people will eat up whatever is offered as a mean to “shake up” the house when they feel things have been stagnant. I think unfortunately Canada is more akin to the US than France (they were able to stave off Le Pen) and we will have to go through a cycle of rightwing hindrance so people can remember why these people suck in practice, not just in theory. In other words, PP already has everything stacked in his favour and as contradicting as it is to attract far right voters while trying to maintain a moderate surface, it works.
France has staved off Le Pen temporarily. Macron’s race is run, and they’re going to be the next country to fall into the fascist shit heap.
And unlike Italy, they’re a big enough part of the EU to make a massive impact on the rest of the continent
Unfortunately I think you’re onto it. The only solace is that the alt-right rise to power is somewhat off-sync, so international relations are still one of the fields where they face some real resistance.
Everyone hating on Millhouse…
