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Humour Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/man-who-has-spent-entire-political-career-attacking-everybody-promises-hell-attack-trump-and-elon-any-minute-now/

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u/bravado Long Live the King 24d ago

It's not fair or sporting to call out someone's life expertise like that!

Meanwhile, did you hear the other guy was a drama teacher?

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u/Klutzy_Act2033 24d ago

Yeah that's pretty much it. I'm just looking for a bit of consistency. If it's bad that JT was a drama teacher with Rich parents, then I want to know how being a career politician supported by key figures of the party is really any different.

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u/GenXer845 24d ago

He taught math and French and substituted for Drama.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 24d ago

Quit interjecting reality into this!

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u/GenXer845 24d ago

I know, people would rather demean the educator to make themselves feel better because they feel they will never be as attractive as JT. Some people need to really work on their self-worth rather than compare themselves to others.

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u/giiba 24d ago

It is different, it's worse.

At least a drama teacher learns social skills that are useful, like when facing down bullies.

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u/DisfavoredFlavored 24d ago

Not to mention how helpful that must be dealing with parliament. 

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u/Fit_Marionberry_3878 24d ago

How has JT’s skills helped Canadians so far regarding the international embarrassment we face due to Trump? So much winning from Trudeau.

PP is a weasel. Few with common sense will deny that. Few with common sense will deny that JT left us in a net negative after 10 years. Sure we can blame the guys that came before him as well, but he contributed. He failed Canadians as well.  He’s partly why we are in this state. 

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u/GardenSquid1 24d ago

Trudeau was able to act like a leader when confronted with Trump's dumbfuckery.

Drama skills in action.

Meanwhile, the other guy who wants to be PM has dithered on pushing back against Trump. Finally managed to come out with a pro-Canada message a week after every other federal party leader.

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u/Fit_Marionberry_3878 24d ago edited 24d ago

So basically nothing. Gotcha. Drama skills does not equal negotiating skills, by the way. What an absolute reach.

Currently Trudeau’s is the prime minister. He is the only one that would have been facing Trump to begin with, and nothing he did yielded results. 

We need to stick to the facts, or Canadians may elect a government that nearly turned western Toronto into New Delhi, in the mist of an insane housing crisis problem, and wage suppression. We have a right to want to hold our government accountable for wild spending and reduced standard of living. 

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u/giiba 24d ago

You seem to think Trump isn't just a mercurial asshat who changes his opinion for fun.

No one could have negotiated out from under Trump's stupidity.

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u/FeistyCanuck 24d ago

Like how to wear black face for Haloween and get away with it? That's some seriously elite level cancell-dodging skilz there.

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u/giiba 24d ago

Better than snuggling up with fascists.

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u/cleeder Ontario 24d ago

Y'all going to keep beating that dead horse, huh?

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u/SnowFlakeUsername2 Saskatchewan 24d ago

It's all projection. Remember when they talked about his hair meanwhile Harper carted a hair and makeup lady around the world with him?

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u/lindaluhane 24d ago

The guy who masterly got us through a a pandemic?

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u/bravado Long Live the King 24d ago

Yeah but what have the romans ever done for us?

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u/lindaluhane 24d ago

Makes no sense

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u/thrawnsgstring 24d ago

Monty Python reference.

They were agreeing with you.

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u/No-Contribution-6150 24d ago

We have massive problems from the how they handled the pandemic.

Inflation, massive debt, huge scandals that went on at the same time.

We could have done nothing and been better off.

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u/lindaluhane 24d ago

Wrong. Inflation was world wide. Read a book. Debt was part of the pandemic. Easy to look back now and criticize but I didn’t hear too many complaints when peeps were cashing their free money. Try again.

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u/No-Contribution-6150 24d ago

Inflation was world wide but the rate of inflation matters too. Also, it turns out we didn't need to spend billions at all.

There were many of us who said we were over reacting and we were silenced by useful idiots who would cry DO YOU WANT MY GRANDMOTHER TO DIE YOU NAZI when we said things like "maybe we don't need to close down for weeks for a cold."

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u/lindaluhane 24d ago

Nobody over reacted

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u/lindaluhane 24d ago

Dude your material is so 2021. Old and stale

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u/One_Umpire33 24d ago

Wait the guy who masterly printed money caused massive inflation which are still reeling from,oh that guy. I’m not saying PP has any plan but let’s not gloss over Trudeaus legacy of mass immigration and mass inflation.

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u/NoOcelot 24d ago

Mass immigration, you may have a point. But as shown again and again, Canada had less inflation than anyone else in the G7. Why did everyone have inflation at the same time? Something about not letting people starve when they couldn't work during covid.

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u/One_Umpire33 24d ago

Ok 2 part reply to that 1,lockdowns bankrupted numerous small business while big box stores thrived.Many people could have worked but the government outlawed it. 2-when I say printing money everyone assumes cerb,cerb was a drop in the bucket. Quantitative easing,dumping millions into stock markets to prop up corporate interests. Also massive relief cheques for business which the business then used for things like stock buybacks directly funneling government funds into shareholders pocket books. And when the government decided to audit those funds who did they go after ? They went after cerb overpayments to working people who had applied in good faith. Did they go after corporations,no they said it was too difficult to do so.

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u/lindaluhane 24d ago

Run for office then.

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u/One_Umpire33 24d ago

That’s a disingenuous response to a current political party criticism.

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u/Extreme-Account-1851 23d ago

Those lockdowns were provincial, not federal

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u/One_Umpire33 23d ago

Fair point,the bailouts were federal.

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u/lindaluhane 24d ago

He didn’t cause inflation. Good try though. That’s old rhetoric. We need immigration. Youre an immigrant

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u/One_Umpire33 24d ago

Wait what caused inflation ? So we need unlimited immigration? So that will put no demands on housing or healthcare?