From the guy who complains about having to pay for stuff, pretending it’s a subsidy.

Sure, we can reciprocate. Further, the more tariffs he puts on, the more likely we all are to remove trade restrictions on other partners.

Guy responsible for the “great success” USMCA hates the “unfair” USMCA.

I’m amazed it’s only half. Who is still buying these? His original target demographic is the one he alienated, the “drill baby drill” audience isn’t going to rush to the EV market.

The guy who sure made a big deal of “I don’t care” during cancellations and “💩” for official comment requests, suddenly demanding empathy and getting the Republican caucus and media circuit to throw him a pity party is undoubtedly the “white persecution” he continues to push.

Who needs satire.

Great note - thanks for the contribution.

I think you both have a valid point. There definitely would have been a hard pivot in the rhetoric and dissonance had it been more deadly.

There’d also be a lot fewer MAGA just because licking spittle off the ground became political.

E: I noticed a couple mistakes. Lemme know if you spot others and I can edit (at time of this writing anyways)

MPs are the (single) representatives of Canada’s Electoral Districts - generally members of parliament all have seats they win through the general (or interim) elections representing fixed regions. Whichever party wins a majority of seats makes up the government, and when a minority is formed generally some form of coalition is formed.

The party nominates a leader for their party - it is not mandatory for the leader to have a seat (even as PM), but you can imagine the media frenzy if that were the case. We don’t pick the leader (unless you’re a registered Lib/Con/etc), although it certainly has a major impact on Canadian politics in our FPTP system (as most people don’t even really know who their MPs are, as they’re generally voting for the party itself and inferring their candidate will act in accordance).

So they’re really just saying which seat Carney will be participating in for the general election, usually a safe riding.

Lol. Let’s ban accountability, refactoring, and debugging, never work alone, never coordinate, avoid productivity, and refuse ownership—then scream when things break, don’t integrate, and fall behind schedule.

“This is all your fault!” built-in. Why didn’t you intuitively know what myX is supposed to do and how it’s used?

Provocation just for “engagement” really. 102 comments so, to some degree, it works.

E: Guys, it’s satire. Lol.

It’s not really a party problem specifically - they’re more of a symptom. In reality, the FPTP winner-takes-all (with questionable SCOTUS and congression checks and balances), high risk, expensive break down then rebuild then break down then rebuild full pendulum swing incentivizes these mechanisms that result in no one winning, and a generation of setbacks every time you take a step forward.

In fairness, Trump is trying to “fix” this - you just may not agree that an authoritarian corporatocracy with him as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic is the right solution (and, frankly, most wouldn’t).

It’s kind of burying the lede to just remark PP is likened to “Trump light.” He has likened himself by exclusively pulling from Trump’s playbook, with the divisive rhetoric, outright untruths, dog-whistling, name calling, verb the noun slogans, and quite literally “Canada First” signs he still hangs in his speeches.

In Alberta he’s repeatedly espoused support for Danielle Smith’s insane policies, her personal hero and inspiration being the real “Trump light,” Ron DeSantis. Nevermind they have openly acknowledged (before the craziness) they’d rather work with Poiliviere, and he’s been heralded in the MAGA circles as Canada’s Trump moment (with a complete absence of the irony).

If he put on 200 lbs and lost all natural skin color, he’d be a slightly more articulate Trump impersonation.

Especially online - detection becomes possible over sustained interactions for only the most critical (at best), but you don’t get that online, and especially not on drive-by commenting, which is the norm for media/social media.

Phony consensus and bad rhetoric are one system prompt away, and the only thing I’d argue is there probably is no escaping it, even for the most civic minded and informed people. Your best bet in the coming months is an awareness it’s happening largely undetected, that we’ve all fallen for it, and explaining it to as many people as possible.

The big problem will be the vast majority thinks they can tell, that they’re uninfluenced, and that they have the inside line.

Two things can be true at the same time, and it can all run cover for each other.

You’ve probably nailed it, unfortunately. Which will beget more of this behaviour the next time he wants international theater and conflict of interest moneys to distract from national theater and conflict of interest moneys.

Definitely. But there’s learnings to be had here too.

Even if/when stability returns after that (on a 4/8 year basis), we know their governance is now openly bipolar, more than it has ever been; it doesn’t care what the facts are, it’s base doesn’t care what the realities are, just the pretense and if their populist icon is winning.

You can’t go back to trusting them as a center stage participant anymore, because in 4-8 years, you just get caught with your pants down again. Seeking out reliable, long term partners who are more resilient to full pendulum swings that gut everything is paramount, especially those that put international stability over momentary opportunistic grabs at public coffers.

Trump’s wiping out trillions of America’s power and credibility for coming decades for a couple billion in personal wealth consolidation. Worst case scenario for him; he’ll just fuck off somewhere else. Or maybe he becomes god king of earth through incremental annexation. Either way he doesn’t give a shit, and the next opportunist won’t either.

Sure, it’s absolutely valid that Trump has massively helped Liberals in the polls.

It’s also true that the Conservatives attempt to emulate Trump’s populist rhetoric also blew up in a post Trump victory, as they themselves drew the comparisons.

Since he subcontracts all his thinking and none of his talking out of both sides of his mouth, I would assume someone somewhere must hire some at least half-competent analytics guy before it all becomes distorted through their cronyist chain of command.

I really wish we had done more - when we realized they were bipolar during the first presidency, we had ~8 years to do more.

At the onset they were still 70% trade partner, with a target end of this year to drop it to 50%.

We should diversify more, and even when we all collectively get 4-8 years of increased stability back from the Americans, we should never fully revert back; it’s not a problem they’re going to be able to fix, especially when they take the Department of Education and eliminate it as waste.

Except the can of pop is every can of pop that has ever existed.

Confirmed already; $1-5M lunch buy-ins with corporate execs per head - the topic? Tariff exemptions.

Who cares about billions and trillions of wealth destruction of the public coffers when he can make millions per day personally?

PC versus CP - at least one is demonstrably less malicious, but I’m inclined to agree this isn’t bullish for the future.