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.
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.
"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…)
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.
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.
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?
Yup. People are pissed at Trudeau and the Liberals so automatically turn to the Cons instead of, you know, the NDP or Greens ... like we have a two-party system or something.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.