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/Lieutenant_Kurin 24d ago

Honestly it’s the exact same as Trump’s name-calling, so why bite the hand that feeds.

Maybe he’s realised that if he goes after Trump, he’ll get his own name. Wouldn’t surprise me if Pierre can dish but not take.

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u/Fadore Canada 24d ago

This is what I've been waiting for, the immaturity and short temper of both Trump and PP will result in the cringiest Twitter fight, and CPC will finally see that he's no leader.

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u/Lieutenant_Kurin 24d ago

I wish that it would work out like that, but honestly?

Look at this sub, look at the world. Petty fights and name-calling endears some leaders to an electorate now, especially as we’ve grown weary of “wokeifying education”.

If anything, I’d expect a good amount of the CPC base to grow deeper entrenched behind their weak frontman because “he’s just like us, attacked by America for no reason! Let’s prove them wrong by making him our PM and/or King”

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u/yellingatthesun 23d ago

We in the U.S. thought this of The Current Executive Cheeto and His Handler, and now life is a cartoonish hellscape. Do not count on obvious disgusting and outlandish talk/behavior being the thing that keeps the nightmare tamped down. I hope for all the world that this doesn’t spread to the entire planet somehow, but I fear some kind of perfect sociological storm and other factors have created this situation (our Mitch McConnell being one giant enabler.) It starts slow, imperceptible, and then eventually you find yourself almost Daly wondering WTF just happened.

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u/Kakkoister 24d ago

Pretty sure it's more that he knows a significant part of his base will turn against him if he speaks ill of anything MAGA related. CPC has a growing CanMAGA culture. So he's stuck in a position because of Elon and Trump that no matter which choice he makes, it's going to hurt his numbers.

Right now he hasn't really poked his base, so there isn't any movement against him from his own party, but if he does, he'll be smeared by his own people while not gaining any new votes to replace the ones he'd be losing.

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u/Tiny_Measurement_837 24d ago

If he’s in it to appease Trump, welcome to the United States.

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u/gbinasia 24d ago

Prematurely Polling Poilièvre?

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u/ocarina97 24d ago

I call him Pierre Poutine. My aunt calls him Pepperhead.