I was never taken in by THE TODDLER. He's always been as shallow and dirty as a mud puddle. His name and his money got him the job of Liberal leader, then PM. "Trudeau" is a label on a puppet. His father rode around on a motorcycle in Montreal wearing a Nazi helmet during WWII when my father and grandfathers were risking their lives fighting in Europe for Canadians' freedoms. Both Trudeaus, Pere et Fils, are **its. I never voted for either of them.
The Castro theory seems more plausible every day. Buying groceries in Ontario feels like a food market in Havana when I’m all out of monthly bread tokens.
I must have seen it written a thousand times... "it's been debunked." Only, it really hadn't.
TBH, prior to 2020, when the media told me something had been debunked, I automatically believed it. I never will again.
My nearby Metro is Havana-like on most days. It's not supply issues but rather a winding down before the site is demolished for a new condo development. Because we all know Toronto needs more condos!
No, but he did influence him in that he did raise him...his mom was AWOL..... I never thought he was attractive and I never voted for him..... thank you for this great piece!
Trudeau père was a Fascist supporter or at least, a supporter of the Franco/Balthazar regimes in his youth. A fact that is and has been clear to any who’d look into it. It’s weird because Canadians have largely steadfastly averted their eyes to this sordid past of the Trudeau clan. When Puerre became disillusioned with them or, at least, with their diminution post-WWII, he turned to the successful authoritarian movements, ie., Mao, Stalin, etc. He was known to J. Edgar Hoover and other US intelligence higher-ups as ‘the Communist’.
It's amazing how the country got so swept up by this man, who famously said to Castro, while looking out upon crowds of Cubans, how nice it must be not to have to rely on their votes. He said this in hearing distance to a reporter. Visiting the Soviet Union, he complimented his hosts on the outstanding job they'd done developing their north, knowing that the cruelest system of slave labour had built it.
He was truly a beast. And it’s a reflection upon Canadians: all the evidence was there, but our nation chose to ignore it, mostly because he took a firm stand against the Québecois revolutionaries
Yes, WHAT is WRONG with us? We're obviously low-information voters or, at the least, that's the best construction I can put on Canadians' insistence on continuing to vote for the Trudeau label which is run by the CCP, perilously putting our future rights and freedoms in jeopardy. I take it as a compliment when people say that I don't act or talk like a Canadian, meaning I'm blunt and straightforward and not a Trudeau fan, because Canadians as a collective don't appear to be very smart. Who votes for a leader (sic) who proclaims to admire China's "basic dictatorship" and proceeds to either restrict or curtail one's hard-won rights and freedoms? Either they weren't paying attention or they thought he didn't mean it. He meant it and the feminists who heard this speech in 2013 laughed. I snarled. I knew he meant it. As I said, WHAT is WRONG with us?
It’s pretty simple: the U.S. had a cool sexy president with a deep voice, who didn’t accomplish a single item on his policy agenda in eight years because it might have meant ruffling some feathers, so Canada wanted one too.
I’m probably being unfair to Obama. He did manage to put a *lot* of whistleblowers in prison.
It’s hilarious to me how people just choose to forget this stuff.
> Since Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009, his government has waged a war against whistleblowers and official leakers. On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined.
I agree, what is wrong with us? I think Canada has been more of an experiment than anyone suspected. We were all taught in school to be trusting of the gov't so there were few who ever questioned it. There are very few Rex Murphy's. I think the Liberals have been great election thieves since the beginning. I choose to believe that Trudeau is gone and there's an actor in his place. Remember about a year ago after the split up with Sophie he came back not losing his smile, freshly pumped full of Botox and lots of make-up. What an embarrassment he is.
It’s so funny you should say that. I was just thinking about what happens if Trudeau steps aside and Mark Carney steps in. It could be just enough to pull the Liberals out its current nosedive. But it’s not like Carney would be better. He’d just be better at selling his party to Canada after ten catastrophic years. I don’t even think they NEED to cheat. They just act like they are the “natural” governing party. And the same way Canada fell for the pretty face, we’ll fall for the entitled one. People respond to that… people give things to other people because when they act like it was always theirs to begin with. God help us.
Pay no attention to NATO funding, Chinese police stations in major City’s , $160000 vacations, $7300 a night hotel rooms, offering MAID to disabled and Veterans, spy balloon, Drag Queen TV, two Michaels hostages, tax payer funded Anti-Smetic liberal bloggers, Russian turbines, political prisoners, and Rigged elections or
Threatening to use Military force on unarmed civilians, internet censorship, 2.40 l fuel costs, clean water on reserves, 32% inflation, 30+burned Churches with 0 arrests, Carbon tax, food shortages, hospital ICU, Vaccine failures, WE bros, SNC, 3 ethics convictions, a Non disclosure agreement with the last school he worked for
2 disgraced GG, Vance, McDonald, JWR, Philpott, Celina, Norman, Veterans, blaming the US for Iran shooting down Jets, pulling out of the Syria Fight, rail blockades, pipelines, failed UN seats, nannies, vacations, estranged wives, cardboard cut outs. Dress up, face painting, peoplekind, elbowgate, Creston, sandbagging, NAFTA, Chinese Army on Canadian soil, Chineses agents in our virology lab, Chinese agents in our space agency, used Jets, No Navy ships
sharing meals with Atwal, Boyle, Khadr, Wei Wei, voting for Mclinitick, Khans island, 600 million in media payoffs, 6 million unemployed, 638 million to the 15 yr olds, Tanker bans, plastic bans, gun bans, tracking 33 million cell phone , student grant abortion, Failed Fed payroll, enacting laws by decree, suspending the elected HOC mid pandemic, redacted documents,…
internment camps, Roxam Rd, Charter violation Coast to coast. 13 liberal HOC seats gained by China’s Cohesion, 16 tons of PPE to China, taking a knee, 400 billion blown last yr, no budget in 2 years and 1.6 trillion in debt.
Good people…just put your mask on.. stay indoors.
More source material for your Trudeau horror movie (sorry,Netflix multi-season series).
I worked in management at a university when he was first elected and actually heard more than a few female PhD's say they were voting for him because he was so cute and sexy. It was like they were voting for their favourite Beatle. I still don't know how to think about that.
I think it means what my dad used to say about a lot of PhD’s (and he held an advanced degree, himself): they’re so smart they can’t find the men’s room without a map. (Mostly men with degrees in those days.) From my own experience, I concur.
Of Canada’s ten biggest problems, nine are immigration. If you don’t go to zero immigration plus massive expulsions, including those recently granted citizenship (especially Chinese mobsters), it’s all over no matter what else you do.
This is the thing everyone is talking about… on the downlow of course and never ever the media. We’ve been groomed for years into believing all objections to mass immigration are racist.
Through a low-paid overworked Intern who couldn’t stop laughing when she picked it up. Humor is hard to write well and many who think they write it don’t. You do not that that problem.
The New Yorker knows they’re not funny, but their readers pretend they are, because to “not get it” betrays the readers’ lack of New Yorker-style intellectualism. Kind of like looking at a toilet seat nailed to a wall in a modern art museum and saying the quiet part aloud. Which I did when I saw the exact same thing in Madrid.
It was a toilet seat. On a wall. Not art. New Yorker cartoon. Not funny. Yes, the Emperor really is naked.
In the modern art vein, I saw on IG some dealer was selling an invisible sculpture for 30k. I reposted that I would probably sell mine too. I mean, the thing had given me so much joy but it was time to let it go.
I see a Prime Minister in name only. He has no functional role. The decisions of everyday operations is done outside. The signing of Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 has made Canada a full United Nations ideology following country. I know this will be difficult, yet more did not willingly follow things they do not understand. Questions need to be asked and non-compliance is vital. Government needs to work for Canadians and not outside entities like ngos.
Poor Canada is a conflicted heroine with a knack for choosing shitty sackmates. She's going to divorce Justin and rush into the arms of.... Pierre Poilievre. Speaking of thin resumes, Poilievre's makes Justin look positively Renaissance. The definitive career politician (he went to Ottawa at 24), Poilievre has literally done nothing since but spew falsehoods and bother people who don't agree with him. Oh well... Love is love.
Here’s my question: what kind of experience should someone have to be worthy/ready of elected office. I’ve always had this idea that we should require engineers to serve, literally like jury duty. One day they get a letter in the mail, requesting they report for duty. I believe this way the world would run a lot more smoothly.
How does this happen, "better ... informed citizens," when our media is in the tank for their Librano benefactors to the tune of over $1-billion/year? Canadians are sleep walking and are both woefully educated and woefully misinformed
Canadians have been programmed to participate in dumbocracy and vote for the stooges they are told to vote for. The system produced the voters and voters perpetuate the system.
How much "better" could Canada's expensive, expansive, socialist State education system get? The government SCHOOLS are the problem. Those schools produced the fools who gave us Harpo and justin.
If you mean education-wise, Scandinavia and also whichever school where Katherine Birbalsingh teaches. Highly recommend looking her up. She is accomplishing amazing things in England. Of course, the teachers union wants her head on a pike.
A few years ago, I spent a semester homeschooling my teenager. That was quite an eyeopener. I had to pilot him through this 'careers' course, which is mandatory. The whole thing, beginning to end, was designed to parlay students into a mid-level paper-pusher career, preferably in government. Not one word on wealth, wealth management, compound interest, entrepreneurialism or the tax code. SMDH.
THE TODDLER a "Renaissance man" compared to Pierre Poilievre? You've got to be kidding. Poilievre's articulate and understands nuances and that Canadian families are suffering from the Liberals' excessive and cruel tax burdens. Trudeau Fils loves being a member of the elite, admires Communist China's basic dictatorship, is scripted, and when he goes off-script all we get is um um um and a meaningless word salad full of platitudes.
pierre is every bit as bad as justin and in some ways worse. Same programme: justin's comes in Woke drag, pierre's in "populist" drag. Chretien/Martin bad, Harpo good. Harpo bad justin good. justin bad pierre good. Rinse and repeat all the way over the cliff.
Our choices are limited. Trudeau has to go. We can vote Poilievre out when the time comes but first Canada needs to be rid of the corrupt and insufferable Trudeau and his corrupt and incompetent government. At least PP is articulate and has a knowledgeable grasp of most of the important issues, unlike um- um- um Justin. There are some very solid Conservative MPs. John Collison, you always demand perfection. There’s no such thing this side of paradise.
What grasp of what "important issues" does pierre have? Who decided what the "important issues" are, and who decides what the acceptable parameters are for "debating" them?
Not you, obviously!!! John, maybe you need to live in a cave somewhere far, far away from what most of us call "civilization," where governance, as imperfect as it is ~ and under the Librano$ it's contemptuous ~ is a necessity. Or, better yet, maybe you need to be Canada's ruler, where whatever you say are the important issues are the important issues and whatever parameters you deem are acceptable, are acceptable ~ and God forbid they could ever be decided by a mere elected official.
So continue voting scum IN to power because they can be voted out a decade or more later? What is the point of it all? Other than perpetuating the Laurentian Oligarchy's rule, that is?
I agree with you. Obviously all the absurd propaganda about PP is wrong (“the Canadian Trump!!!!!!”), but he strikes me as yet another sack of jelly with an expensive haircut. Canadians need to understand that their politicians will always exhibit competence in inverse proportion to the stylishness of their hair. Steve “like many earthlings I also enjoy films and television programs” Harper proves this axiom.
The solution is clear: somewhere in Scarborough is a Chinese kid fresh off the boat with a bowl cut and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and we need to find him and install him as Dictator of Canada for life.
Even as a dictator, I'd vote for this Chinese kid! LOL
I'm on the fence about Poilievre. Who to trust since 2020 has been an ongoing matter of debate. I have those friends who say absolutely EVERYONE is controlled oppo. Poilievre's slow response to the Covid lies definitely puts an asterisk over his name. But what he's been saying lately has sure been music to my ears.
I think his biggest foe--the foe of any modern leader--is the adminstrative state. That's something that doesn't change with election. And the current one is extremely friendly to Trudeau, as it is to liberals in general.
Poilievre seems to have some common sense; I know that's his slogan, but his ideas seem valid, and when it comes right down to it, do Canadians really want another term of the Liberal-NDP coalition, which no one voted for?
No politician is perfect, but if everyone takes their civic duty seriously, Canadians can get a leader who will have most of the desired character qualities to lead well. Civic duty first means that everyone takes voting seriously: only 68% of eligible voters voted in 2015 and then, more women than men all the way up to age 64 when more men than women voted, according to Elections Canada.
In-between elections, if everyone stays informed on economic and individual-liberty policies that each leader promotes, and voices their opinions on bills that Members of Parliament want to pass, whether nay or yay, perhaps Canadians can get a more satisfactory outcome in their standard of living.
Canadians need a system more like Switzerland's direct democracy where citizens also get the right to vote on specific issues. When Parliament passes laws or amends existing legislation, citizens can request a referendum by collecting 50,000 signatures from eligible voters within 100 days and if the majority of those voters give their yay, then the new law comes into force. If the vote is nay, the current law stands. And to amend their Constitution, a popular initiative committee must collect 100,000 valid signatures in favour of the proposal within 18 months before a vote.
Another improvement to spur change in politics is Canada's education system: if children are taught the importance of civic duty, rather than just social activism, perhaps when they become adults, they will continue to research the platforms /policies /worldviews of candidates and vote accordingly, instead of voting for who is more "handsome" or "charming", or wears the best fashion, as if they're voting for a favorite celebrity.
It's important to know a candidate's worldview because they usually appoint cabinet members who think like them. To keep the politicians accountable and on the right track in putting Canadians' interests first and not themselves or the interests of other countries, requires someone to keep them accountable, which in a democracy, usually means the citizens.
Unfortunately, the citizens have not really done this and consequently, the "zoo" has run amok. :)
I would also vote for my CPC candidate but I’m in Trinity-Spadina (Toronto) and Chrystia Freeland has it all sewn up. The day this rising goes conservative, look up because pigs will be flying overhead.
Switzerland seems to have many good policies in place. I’ve heard their healthcare is second to none and also excellent gun policies—everyone learns to use one.
I’m not sure Pierre will make a huge difference but I do believe he’ll make some. We saw how life changed for middle class Americans when Trump was elected in 2016. Sadly, he lost the plot a bit in 2020 but I believe he learned some lessons.
Yeah, pushing back the tide of Trudeau’s 70% federal civil service bloat is going to be impossible. And the problem long predates Trudeau, of course.
I’m obviously going to vote for [insert name of non-Liberal/NDP candidate here] when the time comes, and if that’s PP, well okay then. But I’m not getting my hopes up.
Experience in government gets you Joe Biden, a sneaky bastard. I do not believe the money is intoxicating to Pierre, I believe he wants to eliminate this nonsense that has been going on, and make Canadians proud again. ☺️ I really enjoy Pierre’s apple crunching interviews.
pierre has never had a real job and was a decamillionaire by 40. Why would you say he is not "intoxicated by money"? Why would he be the ONLY politician in Canadian history not intoxicated by money?
> Montecito mansion with a Netflix special and podcast?
So much tragedy could have been avoided if, instead of electing this retard to office, we had just given him a Netflix series with Barack Obama so Liberals would have something to jerk off to like they did in the 2000s with The West Wing. “Not My President” etc. They're so far down the rabbit hole of mistaking the symbolic for the actual that they are perfectly happy with a TV leader instead of a real one — that’s what we should have given them.
You are SO right. For some reason we elect the appearance of a leader rather than an actual leader. Every time I think of the West Wing, I barf in my mouth a little. What a bunch of starry-eyed propaganda.
Gavin Newsome is another case in point, though not quite as superficially smooth. His inner reptile keeps peeking out of his shirt collars.
It's always a trilogy. The Trudeau franchise. If Disney gets the rights, it'll be more wokery staring the ex-wife and her battle to overcome having to drive herself around town. If indie then JT returns to the ring to fight some more truckers.
Canadians got what they voted for. Our country has been vandalized and it's tough to see how it can ever be repaired.
I was never taken in by THE TODDLER. He's always been as shallow and dirty as a mud puddle. His name and his money got him the job of Liberal leader, then PM. "Trudeau" is a label on a puppet. His father rode around on a motorcycle in Montreal wearing a Nazi helmet during WWII when my father and grandfathers were risking their lives fighting in Europe for Canadians' freedoms. Both Trudeaus, Pere et Fils, are **its. I never voted for either of them.
despised the elder for the out of touch Marxist he was, despise the younger because he's just like Pierre but without one red hot clue
But are they actually related?
The Castro theory seems more plausible every day. Buying groceries in Ontario feels like a food market in Havana when I’m all out of monthly bread tokens.
I must have seen it written a thousand times... "it's been debunked." Only, it really hadn't.
TBH, prior to 2020, when the media told me something had been debunked, I automatically believed it. I never will again.
My nearby Metro is Havana-like on most days. It's not supply issues but rather a winding down before the site is demolished for a new condo development. Because we all know Toronto needs more condos!
No, but he did influence him in that he did raise him...his mom was AWOL..... I never thought he was attractive and I never voted for him..... thank you for this great piece!
LOL!
Trudeau père was a Fascist supporter or at least, a supporter of the Franco/Balthazar regimes in his youth. A fact that is and has been clear to any who’d look into it. It’s weird because Canadians have largely steadfastly averted their eyes to this sordid past of the Trudeau clan. When Puerre became disillusioned with them or, at least, with their diminution post-WWII, he turned to the successful authoritarian movements, ie., Mao, Stalin, etc. He was known to J. Edgar Hoover and other US intelligence higher-ups as ‘the Communist’.
It's amazing how the country got so swept up by this man, who famously said to Castro, while looking out upon crowds of Cubans, how nice it must be not to have to rely on their votes. He said this in hearing distance to a reporter. Visiting the Soviet Union, he complimented his hosts on the outstanding job they'd done developing their north, knowing that the cruelest system of slave labour had built it.
He was truly a beast. And it’s a reflection upon Canadians: all the evidence was there, but our nation chose to ignore it, mostly because he took a firm stand against the Québecois revolutionaries
Yes, WHAT is WRONG with us? We're obviously low-information voters or, at the least, that's the best construction I can put on Canadians' insistence on continuing to vote for the Trudeau label which is run by the CCP, perilously putting our future rights and freedoms in jeopardy. I take it as a compliment when people say that I don't act or talk like a Canadian, meaning I'm blunt and straightforward and not a Trudeau fan, because Canadians as a collective don't appear to be very smart. Who votes for a leader (sic) who proclaims to admire China's "basic dictatorship" and proceeds to either restrict or curtail one's hard-won rights and freedoms? Either they weren't paying attention or they thought he didn't mean it. He meant it and the feminists who heard this speech in 2013 laughed. I snarled. I knew he meant it. As I said, WHAT is WRONG with us?
It’s pretty simple: the U.S. had a cool sexy president with a deep voice, who didn’t accomplish a single item on his policy agenda in eight years because it might have meant ruffling some feathers, so Canada wanted one too.
Copycats to Nowheresville.
I’m probably being unfair to Obama. He did manage to put a *lot* of whistleblowers in prison.
It’s hilarious to me how people just choose to forget this stuff.
> Since Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009, his government has waged a war against whistleblowers and official leakers. On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning
I agree, what is wrong with us? I think Canada has been more of an experiment than anyone suspected. We were all taught in school to be trusting of the gov't so there were few who ever questioned it. There are very few Rex Murphy's. I think the Liberals have been great election thieves since the beginning. I choose to believe that Trudeau is gone and there's an actor in his place. Remember about a year ago after the split up with Sophie he came back not losing his smile, freshly pumped full of Botox and lots of make-up. What an embarrassment he is.
It’s so funny you should say that. I was just thinking about what happens if Trudeau steps aside and Mark Carney steps in. It could be just enough to pull the Liberals out its current nosedive. But it’s not like Carney would be better. He’d just be better at selling his party to Canada after ten catastrophic years. I don’t even think they NEED to cheat. They just act like they are the “natural” governing party. And the same way Canada fell for the pretty face, we’ll fall for the entitled one. People respond to that… people give things to other people because when they act like it was always theirs to begin with. God help us.
I think you meant “ba-thic dictator-thip” 😉
The list of travesties until about 2021:
Pay no attention to NATO funding, Chinese police stations in major City’s , $160000 vacations, $7300 a night hotel rooms, offering MAID to disabled and Veterans, spy balloon, Drag Queen TV, two Michaels hostages, tax payer funded Anti-Smetic liberal bloggers, Russian turbines, political prisoners, and Rigged elections or
Threatening to use Military force on unarmed civilians, internet censorship, 2.40 l fuel costs, clean water on reserves, 32% inflation, 30+burned Churches with 0 arrests, Carbon tax, food shortages, hospital ICU, Vaccine failures, WE bros, SNC, 3 ethics convictions, a Non disclosure agreement with the last school he worked for
2 disgraced GG, Vance, McDonald, JWR, Philpott, Celina, Norman, Veterans, blaming the US for Iran shooting down Jets, pulling out of the Syria Fight, rail blockades, pipelines, failed UN seats, nannies, vacations, estranged wives, cardboard cut outs. Dress up, face painting, peoplekind, elbowgate, Creston, sandbagging, NAFTA, Chinese Army on Canadian soil, Chineses agents in our virology lab, Chinese agents in our space agency, used Jets, No Navy ships
sharing meals with Atwal, Boyle, Khadr, Wei Wei, voting for Mclinitick, Khans island, 600 million in media payoffs, 6 million unemployed, 638 million to the 15 yr olds, Tanker bans, plastic bans, gun bans, tracking 33 million cell phone , student grant abortion, Failed Fed payroll, enacting laws by decree, suspending the elected HOC mid pandemic, redacted documents,…
internment camps, Roxam Rd, Charter violation Coast to coast. 13 liberal HOC seats gained by China’s Cohesion, 16 tons of PPE to China, taking a knee, 400 billion blown last yr, no budget in 2 years and 1.6 trillion in debt.
Good people…just put your mask on.. stay indoors.
More source material for your Trudeau horror movie (sorry,Netflix multi-season series).
😭 😭 😭
I don’t want another season!
(Sweet Jesus what a mess! When will our national nightmare end?)
Oct 2025 at the latest! 🇨🇦 🤡 🇺🇦 🇮🇱
But otherwise OK? I heard that Canadians loved his cool hair and the fact that he knew yoga. So the rest of the stuff is a pass, yes?
I worked in management at a university when he was first elected and actually heard more than a few female PhD's say they were voting for him because he was so cute and sexy. It was like they were voting for their favourite Beatle. I still don't know how to think about that.
***sigh
“Voting for their favourite Beatle.” So true! Like lovestruck teenagers in the front row at a concert. 🤢
I think it means what my dad used to say about a lot of PhD’s (and he held an advanced degree, himself): they’re so smart they can’t find the men’s room without a map. (Mostly men with degrees in those days.) From my own experience, I concur.
😂 so true!
Other related quips: “so open minded, his brains fell out.” There’s another one about PhDs I can’t remember. Will have to look it up.
I think you missed the actual Nazi standing O in the House of Commons. But ya quite a list.
Totally meant to include that. Doh! Yes, such a long list.
Turdeau is dumb as a sack of rocks. Evil to the core, and pathological liar. I don't understand the attraction on any level.
Born and raised a Canuck, but left Canuckland many years ago.
A brilliantly funny piece Liz! It made me laugh my are off. Thanks kindly!
Oh but thank you... for the nice words and the laugh!
I too have never understood the attraction.
Weak egos make otherwise good men treacherous.
so true
Next phase of the story-
Canada: "He has a lot of problems but I know I can save him!😍😍😍"
ha ha ha... yes!
This is fantastic. Absolutely the best and the “rightest” thing you’ve written. So good. You can write Lizzie. ❤️
They swooned over Castro too...
Of Canada’s ten biggest problems, nine are immigration. If you don’t go to zero immigration plus massive expulsions, including those recently granted citizenship (especially Chinese mobsters), it’s all over no matter what else you do.
This is the thing everyone is talking about… on the downlow of course and never ever the media. We’ve been groomed for years into believing all objections to mass immigration are racist.
EXACTLY, right now, zero as in NONE. this cluster f--k has to be sorted out, then only carefully vetted and skilled persons come.
Chris Ingvaldson- Trudeau’s friend/colleague/roommate during the WPGA defenestration - I wonder what he has to say about all this?
OMG... I'd forgotten about that little creep.
If you wrote a dictionary, I would read it. Brilliantly funny writing.
I wonder how a publisher or agent would receive a dictionary pitch 🤔
LOL… you are SO kind! ❤️
Through a low-paid overworked Intern who couldn’t stop laughing when she picked it up. Humor is hard to write well and many who think they write it don’t. You do not that that problem.
Like when the New Yorker tries to be funny LOL
The New Yorker knows they’re not funny, but their readers pretend they are, because to “not get it” betrays the readers’ lack of New Yorker-style intellectualism. Kind of like looking at a toilet seat nailed to a wall in a modern art museum and saying the quiet part aloud. Which I did when I saw the exact same thing in Madrid.
It was a toilet seat. On a wall. Not art. New Yorker cartoon. Not funny. Yes, the Emperor really is naked.
Now THAT’S funny!
In the modern art vein, I saw on IG some dealer was selling an invisible sculpture for 30k. I reposted that I would probably sell mine too. I mean, the thing had given me so much joy but it was time to let it go.
The buyer will end up being a lifelong New Yorker fan.
I see a Prime Minister in name only. He has no functional role. The decisions of everyday operations is done outside. The signing of Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 has made Canada a full United Nations ideology following country. I know this will be difficult, yet more did not willingly follow things they do not understand. Questions need to be asked and non-compliance is vital. Government needs to work for Canadians and not outside entities like ngos.
Its really too bad they didn't allow him.to get his teeth knocked out during that showboat match. 🤷♂️
***giggle
Poor Canada is a conflicted heroine with a knack for choosing shitty sackmates. She's going to divorce Justin and rush into the arms of.... Pierre Poilievre. Speaking of thin resumes, Poilievre's makes Justin look positively Renaissance. The definitive career politician (he went to Ottawa at 24), Poilievre has literally done nothing since but spew falsehoods and bother people who don't agree with him. Oh well... Love is love.
Here’s my question: what kind of experience should someone have to be worthy/ready of elected office. I’ve always had this idea that we should require engineers to serve, literally like jury duty. One day they get a letter in the mail, requesting they report for duty. I believe this way the world would run a lot more smoothly.
It's less about the people running and more about the people voting. The solution is better education. Informed citizens make better decisions.
How does this happen, "better ... informed citizens," when our media is in the tank for their Librano benefactors to the tune of over $1-billion/year? Canadians are sleep walking and are both woefully educated and woefully misinformed
Canadians have been programmed to participate in dumbocracy and vote for the stooges they are told to vote for. The system produced the voters and voters perpetuate the system.
How much "better" could Canada's expensive, expansive, socialist State education system get? The government SCHOOLS are the problem. Those schools produced the fools who gave us Harpo and justin.
I know I’m gonna regret asking this but — out of morbid curiosity — is there anywhere on the planet where “they are getting it right”?
If you mean education-wise, Scandinavia and also whichever school where Katherine Birbalsingh teaches. Highly recommend looking her up. She is accomplishing amazing things in England. Of course, the teachers union wants her head on a pike.
I have heard her interviewed. She's a rock star! Thanks for a great piece by the way.
Government education will always turn out a product supportive of the government. There is no other possible outcome.
A few years ago, I spent a semester homeschooling my teenager. That was quite an eyeopener. I had to pilot him through this 'careers' course, which is mandatory. The whole thing, beginning to end, was designed to parlay students into a mid-level paper-pusher career, preferably in government. Not one word on wealth, wealth management, compound interest, entrepreneurialism or the tax code. SMDH.
First briefing to incoming PM on my planet:
Job 1: Sit on your hands.
Job 2: Keep your mouth shut.
Job 3: Leave everybody the fuck alone.
Wait 5 years, collect pension and disappear forever. (And no memoirs.}
I like that.
Couldn’t agree more.
THE TODDLER a "Renaissance man" compared to Pierre Poilievre? You've got to be kidding. Poilievre's articulate and understands nuances and that Canadian families are suffering from the Liberals' excessive and cruel tax burdens. Trudeau Fils loves being a member of the elite, admires Communist China's basic dictatorship, is scripted, and when he goes off-script all we get is um um um and a meaningless word salad full of platitudes.
pierre is every bit as bad as justin and in some ways worse. Same programme: justin's comes in Woke drag, pierre's in "populist" drag. Chretien/Martin bad, Harpo good. Harpo bad justin good. justin bad pierre good. Rinse and repeat all the way over the cliff.
Our choices are limited. Trudeau has to go. We can vote Poilievre out when the time comes but first Canada needs to be rid of the corrupt and insufferable Trudeau and his corrupt and incompetent government. At least PP is articulate and has a knowledgeable grasp of most of the important issues, unlike um- um- um Justin. There are some very solid Conservative MPs. John Collison, you always demand perfection. There’s no such thing this side of paradise.
What grasp of what "important issues" does pierre have? Who decided what the "important issues" are, and who decides what the acceptable parameters are for "debating" them?
Not you, obviously!!! John, maybe you need to live in a cave somewhere far, far away from what most of us call "civilization," where governance, as imperfect as it is ~ and under the Librano$ it's contemptuous ~ is a necessity. Or, better yet, maybe you need to be Canada's ruler, where whatever you say are the important issues are the important issues and whatever parameters you deem are acceptable, are acceptable ~ and God forbid they could ever be decided by a mere elected official.
So continue voting scum IN to power because they can be voted out a decade or more later? What is the point of it all? Other than perpetuating the Laurentian Oligarchy's rule, that is?
So, what's your solution?
He's a troll. Don't feed him.
I agree with you. Obviously all the absurd propaganda about PP is wrong (“the Canadian Trump!!!!!!”), but he strikes me as yet another sack of jelly with an expensive haircut. Canadians need to understand that their politicians will always exhibit competence in inverse proportion to the stylishness of their hair. Steve “like many earthlings I also enjoy films and television programs” Harper proves this axiom.
The solution is clear: somewhere in Scarborough is a Chinese kid fresh off the boat with a bowl cut and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and we need to find him and install him as Dictator of Canada for life.
Even as a dictator, I'd vote for this Chinese kid! LOL
I'm on the fence about Poilievre. Who to trust since 2020 has been an ongoing matter of debate. I have those friends who say absolutely EVERYONE is controlled oppo. Poilievre's slow response to the Covid lies definitely puts an asterisk over his name. But what he's been saying lately has sure been music to my ears.
I think his biggest foe--the foe of any modern leader--is the adminstrative state. That's something that doesn't change with election. And the current one is extremely friendly to Trudeau, as it is to liberals in general.
Poilievre seems to have some common sense; I know that's his slogan, but his ideas seem valid, and when it comes right down to it, do Canadians really want another term of the Liberal-NDP coalition, which no one voted for?
No politician is perfect, but if everyone takes their civic duty seriously, Canadians can get a leader who will have most of the desired character qualities to lead well. Civic duty first means that everyone takes voting seriously: only 68% of eligible voters voted in 2015 and then, more women than men all the way up to age 64 when more men than women voted, according to Elections Canada.
In-between elections, if everyone stays informed on economic and individual-liberty policies that each leader promotes, and voices their opinions on bills that Members of Parliament want to pass, whether nay or yay, perhaps Canadians can get a more satisfactory outcome in their standard of living.
Canadians need a system more like Switzerland's direct democracy where citizens also get the right to vote on specific issues. When Parliament passes laws or amends existing legislation, citizens can request a referendum by collecting 50,000 signatures from eligible voters within 100 days and if the majority of those voters give their yay, then the new law comes into force. If the vote is nay, the current law stands. And to amend their Constitution, a popular initiative committee must collect 100,000 valid signatures in favour of the proposal within 18 months before a vote.
Another improvement to spur change in politics is Canada's education system: if children are taught the importance of civic duty, rather than just social activism, perhaps when they become adults, they will continue to research the platforms /policies /worldviews of candidates and vote accordingly, instead of voting for who is more "handsome" or "charming", or wears the best fashion, as if they're voting for a favorite celebrity.
It's important to know a candidate's worldview because they usually appoint cabinet members who think like them. To keep the politicians accountable and on the right track in putting Canadians' interests first and not themselves or the interests of other countries, requires someone to keep them accountable, which in a democracy, usually means the citizens.
Unfortunately, the citizens have not really done this and consequently, the "zoo" has run amok. :)
I would also vote for my CPC candidate but I’m in Trinity-Spadina (Toronto) and Chrystia Freeland has it all sewn up. The day this rising goes conservative, look up because pigs will be flying overhead.
Switzerland seems to have many good policies in place. I’ve heard their healthcare is second to none and also excellent gun policies—everyone learns to use one.
I’m not sure Pierre will make a huge difference but I do believe he’ll make some. We saw how life changed for middle class Americans when Trump was elected in 2016. Sadly, he lost the plot a bit in 2020 but I believe he learned some lessons.
Yeah, pushing back the tide of Trudeau’s 70% federal civil service bloat is going to be impossible. And the problem long predates Trudeau, of course.
I’m obviously going to vote for [insert name of non-Liberal/NDP candidate here] when the time comes, and if that’s PP, well okay then. But I’m not getting my hopes up.
Experience in government gets you Joe Biden, a sneaky bastard. I do not believe the money is intoxicating to Pierre, I believe he wants to eliminate this nonsense that has been going on, and make Canadians proud again. ☺️ I really enjoy Pierre’s apple crunching interviews.
The apple eating was an absolute chad move! 😂
Does Chad mean………sorry I am not Canadian
In this case it basically means “alpha.” There’s also “gigachad”….
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/gigachad-meme-instagram-meaning-irl
pierre has never had a real job and was a decamillionaire by 40. Why would you say he is not "intoxicated by money"? Why would he be the ONLY politician in Canadian history not intoxicated by money?
> Montecito mansion with a Netflix special and podcast?
So much tragedy could have been avoided if, instead of electing this retard to office, we had just given him a Netflix series with Barack Obama so Liberals would have something to jerk off to like they did in the 2000s with The West Wing. “Not My President” etc. They're so far down the rabbit hole of mistaking the symbolic for the actual that they are perfectly happy with a TV leader instead of a real one — that’s what we should have given them.
***giggle
You are SO right. For some reason we elect the appearance of a leader rather than an actual leader. Every time I think of the West Wing, I barf in my mouth a little. What a bunch of starry-eyed propaganda.
Gavin Newsome is another case in point, though not quite as superficially smooth. His inner reptile keeps peeking out of his shirt collars.
I make fun of Harper for being bad at pretending to be human, but Newsom is like:
Once Nazi forever Nazi.
I say the WEF is where he will land with Freeland continuing her role as his handler.
It's always a trilogy. The Trudeau franchise. If Disney gets the rights, it'll be more wokery staring the ex-wife and her battle to overcome having to drive herself around town. If indie then JT returns to the ring to fight some more truckers.
Canadians got what they voted for. Our country has been vandalized and it's tough to see how it can ever be repaired.
It’s fun to imagine it as a Netflix series, if only to forget the nightmare of it actually happening.