Wearing my team Canada shirt today because the entire country won last night, whether everyone realizes it or not.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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I wouldn't say WON, but bullets were dodged for sure. Phew!
( But obviously we need to work on basic education )
It was actually so nice. I walked into work and nobody was talking politics because it didn't feel like the world was ending.
For any conservatives, I'm sorry. I work and am highly involved with vulnerable people, and I vote to protect them as best I can. A vote for PP would not have been a vote to protect the most vulnerable I know, which in my eyes is what a society is meant to do.
Don't be sorry, also they can't hear you here
I appreciate that, but I also want to avoid tribalism in relation to politics whenever I can. It's not about teams or colours in my eyes.
Make teams less important by passing electoral reform!
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Same. I also work with vulnerable people and a vote for PP is a vote for many of my peeps at work to be tazered in a jail bathroom for something they cannot afford to medicate (such as it is in “healthcare is a big business” USA).
Huzzah!! Congratulations and Thank YOU!!
did you mean fine wine because it goes down pretttttty smooth
I wonder who told him about the real world? Perhaps he'll have time to go out and discover it now.
He can retire on a full federal pension, the only way it would get higher would have been if his party won last night. He has not, and will not, need to acquaint himself with the real world.
I hate this fact so much. He’s been literally USELESS to Canada.
Any chance he might self-reflect on this? I doubt it.
I doubt it. His belief system is fucked beyond belief on multiple levels. Not impossible to deprogram but it's gonna take a lot of work. He's like the right wing, Schapiro-watching, Jordan Peterson-idolizing, teenage edgelord that got paid for it for over 20 years and is now 45.
maybe, after a few years selling shoes at canadian tire or something.
Lifetime pension for MP after two terms.
At retirement age
He’s maxed out at a 20k per month pension.
How could someone even survive on that?!
(/s)
Apparently he gets a 10% reduction if he takes it at 55 instead of 65 but I’m sure you could skimp and save a bit to make that work.
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That he gets at 65
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I’m looking forward to Singh’s next shots fired at PP. preferably asking him when he’s stepping down as the party leader such as any respectable person should do if they lose in their own riding.
Singh stepped down, he's gone.
I think that is the point being made
OK, now I see it. That might have been a bit subtle for me after work.
When kissing your reflection in the mirror, you can only kiss yourself on the lips
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So WHY does he still get paid our tax dollars to do nothing
That's a great question and the answer is: he shouldn't be drawing on tax funds. He cannot hold the position of leader of the opposition unless he has a seat, and I can't find any provision for unelected party members in here.
An MP in a conservative stronghold has to resign and then he can run there in a byelection to get back into the House of Commons. The timing of the byelection is determined by Prime Minister Carney though, so he could very well be put until 2026.
That would be so funny, and imagine if he lost it again?
That would be hilarious but they're going to make sure it's a conservative stronghold. Sucks for whichever MP gets booted on his behalf but that's what you get for having a leader like PP.
Yes, quite right - but until such time as this takes place, Polivere shouldn't be paid with taxpayer funds. Maybe there's a provision in some rule that allows party funds to be used? {/Speculation}
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I keep seeing this, but does anybody have the link? I don't get why the 2nd tweet looks doctored.
The second one I think looks that way because they searched for the specific phrasing from the one tweet but enough of the same words were used in the second tweet, he had just reworded it slightly. Thats why some of it is bold and some of it isn’t.
Makes sense, thanks!
In the real world, if you don't do your job you lose it.
In Trudeau's world, you get a big fat ArriveScam bonus.
1: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1722744682302550389
In the real world, people who don’t do their jobs get fired.
In Trudeau’s world, they get bonuses.
2: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1550879202559242240
Thanks! So they are slightly skewed, but it still works lol. I ditched my twitter account ages ago and was having trouble getting to the sources.
Well, the voters did fire him.
Now it's up to his party to do the same, as they have done with so many other former leaders who lost.
Do they even have a viable leader to replace little pp? Not that he was much of a leader, but not exactly a party with any members that stand out as leadership material.
Eh, the world has a way of producing people like that when there's a niche for them (read: ignorant, bigoted and above all struggling people for them to exploit).
Charest was the viable alternative last time and he came from outside the party. Carney came from outside politics as well.
If they do a leadership race someone will be there to fill the void, possibly someone who will pull the party back towards a progressive conservatives agenda since the message was pretty clear, Canada wanted a fiscal conservatives but not a social conservatives.
Good. What a fucking piece of shit.
And then he said he was gonna stay on as the opposition -- even though he can't sit in parliament right now.
Well, he can't quit..he doesn't have any work experience to get another job elsewhere.
Saw Protest the Hero open for BTBAM last night and the lead singer was pretty stoked about PP losing his job and house.
It was fun watching someone be happy about an election … 🫠
Remember when the liberal party made it their job to pass electoral reform and then didn't do it?
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
There's hope that this might not have aged as badly as some think.
After all, PP might actually get fired as the Cons leader for not doing his job. (Though honestly, I'm rooting for the party to break up. A far right party and extreme right party splitting the votes will only show just how terrible each side is, and with a split, the animosity between them means that neither will gain traction for decades, and hopefully make Canadians realize just how terrible the parties they've been voting for really are)
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Oh do you guys also have that thing where like 90% of your government only shows up to work a few days out of the year but collect paychecks for all 365 days?
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