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With a steady lead in the polls and a healthy war chest of political donations, the Conservative Party is rolling out a trio of new advertisements that are being viewed as aiming to redefine and soften Pierre Poilievre's image and messaging.

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this like when Stephen Harper tried to demonstrate he that he was a real human?

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@weew @sik0fewl

Those were some fun vest-filled times.

[–] huiccewudu@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@huiccewudu

Oh gawd. I'd forgotten about that.

What a fucking embarrassment he was.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is, uh, before he signed away our rights to China, right? He was an embarrassment before that?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

He was an embarrassment long before that.

[–] JustADrone@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

"farewell, fellow human, son of mine, in this authentically staged photo-op as you go to human-school. actual-humans exchange human emotions through a physical gesture of some sort. perhaps a handshake? yes. a handshake. the human photographers will surely document this actual-human interaction between myself (a human) and my son (also, a human) and the people of this country will finally embrace me as an actual human."

(narrator: humans don't shake their sons' hands when they drop them off for the first day of school…)

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The GOP clone CPC want to turn Canada into florida-north.

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[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

There is a reason why I can say Squinty McProudBoy and everyone knows whom I am talking about. His only concern is with his white supremacist "base" and his "Trudeau bad" as his only plan on governing Canada.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With a steady lead in the polls

Is this true? I have disconnected myself from a lot of political media for the summer while working in the bush, and this caught me by surprise. What the fuck?

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Bo7a @sik0fewl

Yup. People are pissed at Trudeau and the Liberals so automatically turn to the Cons instead of, you know, the NDP or Greens ... like we have a two-party system or something.

*eyeroll*

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If people are pissed at Justin, it's because Milhouse finally made his molehill into a mountain.

[–] knitwitt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems to me people like PP because of their stance on inflation, which for most is the single biggest issue facing Canada today. Cons are proposing budget cuts, and the NDP are proposing a grocery store tax as solutions. People will probably be more favorable towards whichever solution they think will be the most effective.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

People will probably be more favorable towards whichever solution they think will be the most effective.

But they think that budget cuts will be effective because they're conservatives, so in the end it's a circular argument.

[–] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If removing gas tax is any indication in Ontario, and gas prices stayed the same because the price was still what the market could bear, cutting taxes on grocery stores just means that the stores make more profit. The NDP idea of taxing profit "seems" more effective, but if anyone familiar with Hollywood accounting will say that profits will disappear before taxes are properly paid. They need to tax income.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They need to tax income based on standard profitability rates.

[–] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that would work.

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[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

This is so infuriating. But so true. Thanks! I think...

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aggregate polling has CPC at 37% +/-4% with the LPC at 29% +/-3%.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks. I guess I will have to try to mobilize more people to get off their ass and go vote. So many of the people I know just don't care enough to vote. But maybe the bitcoin and convoy-fellation facts about this pile of shit will help motivate more.

I have no hope that it will... But if I don't try, I will hate myself.

[–] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Remind them that there are exactly 0 safe CPC members now for abortion rights due to recent voting (yes, private member bills are still showing up to try and remove rights, but this time Squinty is in charge and all his members are allowed to vote 'with their conscience' now).

[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I tend to use this to help motivate people. That's over half of them, and two years ago.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does this douche supported the ottawa's truckers?

[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

Yes, he's a garbage politician with no good ideas and no real world experience. He would've crashed our economy with his Bitcoin fiasco.

[–] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Literally stood at the side of the road and got his picture taken handing them Tim Hortons and thanking them for coming.

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Canada elects this career grifter and fake family man poseur, I am genuinely done with this country. I don't think I can take another rightwing government at a time in history when we desperately need a party for the working class.

The last thing this country needs is yet another white male cishet christian fiscal con telling us what the fuck we need. "Everything is broken." Yeah, because your donors own all our hard work, you muppet.

I will genuinely move to Europe or something.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's astounding how when the API fiasco happened, it seems that most Reddit users who migrated to Lemmy were predominantly Leftist, leaving a bunch of copycat subs behind that are almost exclusively alt-right shitholes. The difference in discourse over PP is night and day.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/r/canada has always been a shit hole.

Did you check /r/onguardforthee?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly don't know from one day to the next which one's going to be an absolute fascist embarrassment to the country while STILL complaining we're too leftist socialist creeps.

It seems daily we'd see

  • no, people get rights. It's part of not being a dick
  • see? This sub got too woke and commie reeeeeee

... And it becomes exhausting trying to discuss amid all but actual feces being flung.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

r/onguardforthee isn't the copycat type of sub I mean. r/canada_sub i'm pretty sure is almost entirely populated by ragebaiting bots because no one ever actually replies to comments. There's like several different r/canada_housing subs now? Truly a clusterfuck over on reddit these days.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fucking Handmaid's Tale got it right with

last seasonCanada approaching Gilead instead of distancing itself from it

[–] ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Immigrant wife and adoptive gay dads according to The Globe and Mail

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And still he presents as such a bigot xeno? He's just missing the Cancun tickets.

[–] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's be clear here: PP is not a smart man.

Yes, he has a background of being adopted by an openly-gay man in a stable relationship with his partner, the both being public school teachers, and he married an immigrant, and he's a native French speaker from Saskatchewan. By all accounts, he would be an NDP darling. I don't know how he ended up in with the SOCONs that would vilify his parent's line of work and interfere with their collective bargaining rights, outlaw them getting married, outlaw them adopting the young PP in the first place, and restricting his wife from entering the country, on top of being 'French'... But now that he's with the SOCONs, he's picked up on the magical formula for success to winning the CPC leadership: campaign on the right - the far right - as right as you can go. Now he has the same problem O'Toole has: appear moderate enough to the electorate so people outside the CPC will vote for you. Problem is, the more on the right you are in the CPC, the less moderate you can appear in the General Election, and thus, perform worse. If you swing too far moderate though, you can lose your base support in the CPC... His image is so closely tied with the far, far right that he will crumble fast with his own people as he starts to stammer out any policy that isn't the most vile and deplorable garbage that the basement dwelling trolls demand, and the LPC will press him on the fact that he has no plan or any thoughts at all. Also, if he does try to communicate some of his terrible ideas, they can easily get shot through by the LPC and NDP - again, he's not a smart man and has made some very stupid statements that are easy shot apart by numbers and facts. His thoughts are designed to appeal to losers - people that are suckers for get-rich schemes and think some 'group' in Canada are the source of their woes; call them immigrants, or gays, those on pogey, or unwed mothers... or even "them-there so-called 'experts' that are telling us vaccines work."

That being said, he's going to get a boost in two areas: the continued crumbling of the PPC, and growing disdain with the LPC. This is probably already reflected in the poll numbers. It's really the LPC's election to lose, and as long as he's passing enough scraps to the NDP to stay in power and fight another day at improving image, the LPC can turn around the Trudeau image: he's working hard for the country - it affected his marriage, or at the very least: look ladies, he's single! There's no way that they can save PP's image. Milhouse with the glasses, Squinty without the glasses, are cute names but the Proud Boy love for him for all his dog-whistling, and open association and appreciation with the truckers are the giant anchor around his neck and the others get to punish him for that if he tries to avoid communicating his stupid ideas.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think the rise of far-right leaders (US, UK, Brazil etc) demonstrate that people will eat up whatever is offered as a mean to "shake up" the house when they feel things have been stagnant. I think unfortunately Canada is more akin to the US than France (they were able to stave off Le Pen) and we will have to go through a cycle of rightwing hindrance so people can remember why these people suck in practice, not just in theory. In other words, PP already has everything stacked in his favour and as contradicting as it is to attract far right voters while trying to maintain a moderate surface, it works.

[–] HLB217@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

France has staved off Le Pen temporarily. Macron's race is run, and they're going to be the next country to fall into the fascist shit heap.

And unlike Italy, they're a big enough part of the EU to make a massive impact on the rest of the continent

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I think you're onto it. The only solace is that the alt-right rise to power is somewhat off-sync, so international relations are still one of the fields where they face some real resistance.

[–] djvinniev77@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone hating on Millhouse...

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