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Dec 10, 2023·edited Dec 10, 2023

There are so many gifts for the Liberals from DoorDash Pierre, it is hard to know where to start.

Women are likely not that impressed by forcing an 8 1/2 month pregnant house leader to be present for 30 hours, while key Conservatives are nowhere to seen during the stunt.

Going fundraising in a different city while you are filibustering is not a good look. Your conservative colleagues probably do not appreciate it either.

It galvanized the Liberal caucus. Nobody is talking about an Atlantic caucus threatening the prime minister to revolt.

Nobody is talking about the speaker scoring an own goal with a clumsy video message to a provincial politician.

But most of all, it was 30 hours of dickish behaviour that confirmed that it is more important to be assholes than anything else.

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“It galvanized the Liberal caucus”

Lord knows something needs to. The next election is very winnable if they actually start acting like an organized political party with a vision

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I want the liberals in, you’re a man, try being a woman under these conservatives. I’m ready for suicide I’m tired of the bullies and rejection. The liberals are ten times better the Harper and regime. You men love money, it’s all about the money while women constantly are the losers. We are exhausted on Trudeau/liberal hate we are tried of being beat up by conservatives and selfish, entitled people. Social media is the worst place to be, our media sucks. But we are getting angry, tired of being robbed. Tired of man yelling and not fighting for fairness. No one speaks up for any of us. But anyone giving our rape’rs a pass. Using polls when they don’t ask us the politic questions. There will be a war if Pierre gets in, guaranteed. Then all those weak conservative voters can have their guns. Let’s give them booze with those guns. This isn’t a life by calling the liberals down when they are the only party keeping us alive. No one will make it under these conservative/republicans. Money is the only priority these days. People’s lives not so much. I’ve been passionate about politics for years and I’m disgusted with online behaviour and journalism. How long before we crack

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Are you calling for an armed insurrection if the CPC wins power? Am I reading you correctly?

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.. I read it as a statement of certainty .. hardly ‘calling for’ anything

Does ‘there will be a rain’ resemble ‘calling for a rain’ ?

Please feel free to translate Pierre Poilievre’s daily deceits thanks !

I like ‘Trudeau is banning guns !’ & ‘Trudeau is coming for your guns !’

It’s a nice typical sample of CPC WarRoom ‘Headline Propaganda Grooming’

The current ‘axe the tax’ is classic Case Study - successful viral Propaganda material

Note how it replaces the word & term ‘POLLUTION’ with a 3 word rhyme

& is only quoted in league with ‘carbon tax’ - among other ‘wordplay’

& ensuring Pollution & actual Name & Purpose of The Legislation is lost

If you can assist in explaining what ‘It’ is.. that he promises to “Bring It Home” I’ll be grateful as well ! I keep ‘it’ in my jeans by the way eh ! You ? 🦎🏴‍☠️

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I was reacting to these sentences:

"There will be a war if Pierre gets in, guaranteed. Then all those weak conservative voters can have their guns. Let’s give them booze with those guns."

Doesn't sound like a weather forecast to me. Sounds more like a call to ... arms ... insurrection ... overthrow of an elected government. Kinda like January 6 2021 in Washington.

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The upcoming campaign is going to be extremely messy, but I think you're right. Both sides keep shoveling each-other more and more ammunition for what I fully expect to be one of the most underhanded and viciously-fought election in memory, even if it will mercifully be but a month long. The CPC has an obvious edge now, but as we've time and time again, surefire victories turn into humiliating defeats rather easy in Canada, and everything can change once the writ drops.

Once the general population starts really paying attention, all your mistakes and mishaps get to be laid bare. Things are bad right now, but if there's even a slight recovery, Poilievre is handing Trudeau enough that he can feasibly make the case that he's the only real option.

That being said -- I still think everything hinges on what the Liberals' final Online Safety plan comes out to be. If it's a measured bill which addresses the issues of hate speech and propaganda on major social media platforms, then it'll pass by like C-11 and fade to the back of peoples' minds.

If it's a full-on-attack on digital freedoms, like some Senators seem to want it to be with various suggestions being pitched about mandatory age verification, anti-privacy measures, banning VPNs, mandating surveillance on messaging services, etcetera, then everything we're talking about now is a bunch of vapor because the current coalitions' chances of holding onto power will crater beyond the point of recovery.

It's the frustrating thing about being an NDP voter watching all of this unfolding: it's like a constant game of chicken, hoping my party figures out a way to get some momentum, hoping the Liberals contain some of their more concerning ideas to the arena of being just that--bad ideas that they never pushed--but having the full expectation that a bad ideas and bad legislation will open the gate for a CPC majority, leading to worse ideas and worse legislation.

I honestly can not remember a time in my life where it felt like the political sphere was this... kind of hopeless. I want to get excited for someone, or something, but all I'm excited for is Parliament going home for holiday vacation so I don't have to hear any more dumb ideas to make a bad situation worse, and invent new bad situations where none were before.

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.. you had me at ‘upcoming’ & I stopped right there

Will return of course & finish the read.. & indeed look forward to a careful read or even several thanks ! 🦎🏴‍☠️

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