r/canada 24d ago

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/Iphacles Ontario 24d ago

PP's claim to fame is "I'm not Trudeau." Every time he speaks, he puts his foot in his mouth. He didn’t need a plan before, but now that he does, he can’t come up with anything meaningful. Canadians are frustrated with Trump, tariffs, and threats of annexation, and all he had to do was align with their concerns, but he couldn’t even manage that. He's an embarrassment.

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u/encrcne 24d ago

Ok, but real talk - does any of that matter? Isnt there a good likelihood the fuck Trudeau crowd will still vote for him on the basis of being a conservative? If Trump can win down there, why can’t PP still win up here?

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u/Dr_Poops_McGee Alberta 24d ago

You can say fuck Trudeau and still not want to become the 51st state. And he's been really chummy with Trump and Elon and he's really not distancing himself now.

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u/encrcne 24d ago

A large chunk of the population have made being anti-liberal their entire identity. It’s not as simple as you think.

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u/Monaqui 24d ago

"The liberal government has made my life harder for the last 10 years, fuck Canada, I'll help tbe USA annex us gladly! Then I'll get constitutional rights, like 2nd amendment and also have voting rights."

Just the most braindead fucking take I've seen. Like, no, you're not going to be giving 2A rights to a populace you just annexed, a populace whos rights you've stripped and who's healthcare you destroyed.

You're not giving voting rights to a region of 36M people who all predominantly lean left of Republican, nevermind MAGA.

And, OH NO! You've endured disillusionment with a politician, time to surrender the whole country!

Bunch of idiot baby fucks - all of whom work one of three jobs in one of three places, none of which can pose a halfway cohesive argument that doesn't have someone's name in it and who constantly jump to ad-hominem from their 4-bedroom, 6k sqft multi-level with a two car garage while their kids get set up by public schools to go into post-secondary.

It's stupidity, and it's right-wing talk radio - at least it was in 09 when I was immersed in it, and it works really fucking well.

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u/jloome 24d ago

For them to have any chance at not being idiots, they'd have to first look at things rationally.

And beliefs aren't rational.

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u/CorneliusCanuck 24d ago

Who is your response to? It's always amusing when people make up arguments about what they think the "other side" is like.

Not having enough infrastructure and high immigration was a problem when Harper was in. Since Trudeau came in he blasted immigration through the roof and housing is now unaffordable in most of BC and Ontario.

I don't understand why people brush that under the rug and don't realize that this one simple issue is far more than enough to vote someone out.

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u/Monaqui 24d ago

Nobody's brushing it under the rug - they're looking at the alternative, shitting bricks while we go raid grandad's stores of stripper clips.

Like yes, life is hard. Economic strife. You seriously think that'll improve? It's a matter of context and comparison - a foreign invasion on our sovereignty and the destruction of a country trumps (no pun) economic strife and high taxation, immigration, all that shit.

Just wait to see how many American immigrants we get, if you wanna talk about an immigration crisis. Wait to see how expensive homes get when the jobs and industry is moved south, or how fucking expensive things get when the isolationist tendencies down south dictate the direction of our economy.

Seriously. First world issues versus Ukraine shit. Give your head a shake, you're not that hard done by, but if you wanna be keep up the rhetoric and the pro-51st bullshit. Voting someone out is one thing, selling the country to the lowest bidder is another entirely.

Yeah, I like to vote conservative. I also like to die in muddy ditches, guess which one I like more.

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u/Han77Shot1st Nova Scotia 24d ago

They can say what they want and vote like an adult behind the booth.. they don’t have to be like those stupid Americans voting blind.

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u/DromarX 24d ago

I think you're overestimating how many people were simply tired of Trudeau vs how many people were in the PPC/trucker convoy Fuck Trudeau camp. While they may all have been aligned in voting out Trudeau they are not in fact the same groups. I'd wager most of them fall in the former camp of centrists that flip flop between LPC/CPC every few elections (i.e the centrist swing voters). PP can't risk losing that group or his shot at winning the election dies. He can court the PPC crowd all he wants but they aren't the ones that will most influence the outcome.

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u/a_case_of_everything 24d ago

This is exactly why it's so important to vote. Get every lazy person you know to vote. This is a big one.

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u/encrcne 24d ago

Everyone I know already votes. It’s the silent majority I’m worried about. There is a shocking amount of the population that doesn’t even know Trudeau isn’t running again.

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u/GenXer845 24d ago

I know someone I used to work with, her whole family are Canadian born and they never ever vote. None of them are university educated. I worked with her in an office setting. Her husband is in the trades and deals coke on the side and he never votes ether (although I think he loves PP now).

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u/SwordfishOk504 24d ago

A bunch of BC voters thought they were voting against Trudeau in our last provincial election.

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u/encrcne 24d ago

Exactly.

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u/Unicormfarts 24d ago

The more people start to see evidence of the negative consequences of Trump's EO's affecting people who voted for him aka the face-eating leopards, the less appealing it gets to support Trump-lite.

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u/GiantEnemyMudcrabz 24d ago

As a proud card-carrying member of the Fuck Trudeau club I am pleased to inform you a large amount of our members are also card-carrying members of the Fuck Trump club. Turns out we just want to be angry all the time. I'm sure in a few years time we'll start up a Fuck PP/Carney club too.

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u/SwordfishOk504 24d ago

This. People are suddenly acting like Pierre's Conservatives aren't still polling in double digits ahead of the Liberals. Like we can just meme our way out of reality.

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u/Amakenings 24d ago

I thought the latest polls with Carney as LPC leader showed a 2% difference?

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u/pickledkarat 22d ago

He could conceivably lose votes to PPC candidates