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Not only is Poilievre an unimpressive politician, he has also surrounded himself with equally unimpressive people. His team, without exception, has only one gear: attack Trudeau or the messenger. The imaginary prayer ban for today is a good example, it was not true a year ago and it is still not true. Nevertheless they go all out making this claim and use the Epoch Times as a reference. The base is loving it, but anyone outside the base is scratching their collectives heads.

Back to Poilievre, the lack of security clearance is definitely hurting him. And I expect this is only the beginning of the trouble for Poilievre when it comes to foreign interference. Without doubt he had help from India in his leadership race. And while he did not need this help, he received it nevertheless. It is all going to come out, and it is going to hurt him even more in the polls in th coming months.

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"Governmental unpopularity only goes so far." Indeed.

The problem is that the mob excitement generated by "throw the bums out" is naturally unsustainable over time even when algorithmically exponentialized, but when young people are increasingly and alarmingly seen as the main victims of "big tech," but paralysis shockingly persists, surely it becomes clear that we have a SYSTEMIC problem beyond the purview of mere governance by WHOMEVER.

Most of our media is complicit in this problem because like big tech, big oil, and ALL big corporations, it's now primarily owned by greedy conservative/male interests, the same guys who embody neoliberalism and the whole capitalist system where corporations rule via disproportionately psychopathic CEO's bent on winning at ALL costs.

Only such literally otherworldly egotism could so blithely eschew their own essential "creatureliness," casually dismissing climate change while imagining relocating on fucking MARS FFS. And they accuse WOMEN of "living in their heads!" But women are also the natural adults in the room because they are the mothers, as in Mother Nature.

Again you have to wonder how different it might have been if we'd just called it "Father Nature," but oh no, the male "god idea" stole the show as usual....

But when the "bums" continue to patiently govern like the adults in the room which the Liberals clearly ARE, but out of proper respect have simply FAR too patiently indulged "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition" even when they've gone full-on rogue by sporting the essential political immaturity of da proud boys' trademark libertarianism, thereby manifesting ever more destructive-of-all-our-institutions-including our-parliamentary-democracy and therefore civilization as we have known it?

Under those circumstances, time and the Trumpster fire so close by are definitely on the Liberals' side.

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