SpankyMcFarland
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Here’s a Trumpy preoccupation:
QuoteOne Conservative suggested the tension — not only between Teneycke and Byrne but also between the Ontario and federal Conservative leaders — amounts to a "civil war" within the Conservative movement.
Yet another source said the campaign has a "weird fixation" with relatively minor issues, like how the media is reporting Poilievre's rally crowd sizes. This Conservative said this should not be a concern for senior leaders like Byrne, given other issues they are grappling with.
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All political leaders make enemies in their own party - they have to - but it’s vital to limit the animosity generated when advice isn’t taken and people have to be fired. Pretending to listen is a vital skill for any leader in our system who wants to keep their job. By contrast, Poilievre and Byrne seem to have generated a fair bit of resentment in the party with their open contempt for the opinions of others and it’s coming home to roost now.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-campaign-civil-war-party-1.7497029
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This gave me a laugh. I know it’s not the same but he should have taken that money out a while ago. Now the attack lines write themselves.
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12 hours ago, CdnFox said:
I do find it hilarious that now that it's clear that pp is NOT trump's guy and Carney IS, the libs are scrambling to explain that you WANT trump's guy in power
And you’re basing that on what an avowed enemy of our country says? Dear me.Are you the kind of fan who can’t criticize his own team when they are screwing up? Do you really think PP has run a fantastic campaign so far? What mark out of ten do you think his team deserves? He’s a career politician with a devoted, uncritical base who has been preparing for this moment all his life up against an elderly, inexperienced candidate of an unpopular incumbent party. All he has to do is convince a handful of centrists that he’s trustworthy on Trump and he’s in majority territory. The contest is still his to lose if he can listen to what people on his side of the fence are saying and modify his pitch.
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So things are heating up out there. Carney has problems with his thesis and PP has problems with Jenni Byrne, apparently. It’s a bit early for leaks from the campaign as major as this.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11103509/wheels-off-conservatives-think-poilievre-needs-reset/
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16 hours ago, CdnFox said:
And does not own it. Period.
Burning teslas because you don't like musk is not ok.
I don't like the liberals. You vote liberal. If i burn your house down in 'protest' are you ok with that? Oh and what was your address again? Asking for a friend.
When people think of Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon they think in the first instance of one person - the guy who was responsible for the spectacular rise of those companies. As I’m sure he would agree, Elon Musk is that guy with Tesla. Of course he doesn’t own the entire company but I have no doubt a majority of reasonable people would agree with me that he is the public face of it. -
On 3/22/2024 at 4:11 AM, CdnFox said:
He didn't change his mind - but listen to yourself!
He didn’t change his mind on TikTok? Can you explain why you think that?
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You’ll get 1 in 5 people to agree to anything in a well worded poll. I’d say most of them haven’t thought this through.
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Terence Corcoran, the faithful friend of our cosy telecom cartel. I wouldn’t take anything he has to say on free trade or competition seriously.
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15 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
elon musk does not own Tesla
He is the public face of the company and its CEO, associated with it for twenty years almost since its founding. Does anybody hold more equity in the company than he does?
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I condemn arson without reservation but what on earth is Musk doing in such a controversial government position? Those associated with a brand are usually very careful about any act or statement that could antagonize customers. By contrast, Musk seems to be actively trolling Tesla fans at this stage.
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On 3/26/2025 at 5:32 PM, CdnFox said:
Well neither are true.
Fentynal heads south, guns head north.
And the refugees are actually similar.
But US guns have been a much bigger part of the gun problem for us than Canadian fentanyl has been for them.
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32 minutes ago, ironstone said:
No wonder Albertan's feel the way they do.
Alberta is irrelevant except when they have to fork over all those billions for equalization payments right?
Mate, I come from a province whose resources have subsided Quebec for decades so I need no lessons there. Obviously, that’s not my point. Alberta ridings are largely decided already and Smith is unpopular in the rest of the country. Poilievre should be copying a winner like Ford in a province that matters ELECTORALLY.
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Poilievre should be copying and pasting from Doug Ford in style and content. Forget about Smith and Alberta. They’re irrelevant.
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The MAGA mob has nowhere to go. Bernier is a wasted vote. Poilievre has to roast their hero if he wants centrist voters to consider him.
QuoteOne of the country's top Conservative strategists who just helped Ontario Premier Doug Ford win a sizable majority government says Pierre Poilievre urgently needs to make a pivot and start talking more about the issue voters care about most — the U.S. threat — or he risks losing the federal election.In an interview with CBC News, Kory Teneycke said only weeks ago Poilievre was on track to win a massive majority government, and now every major pollster in the country says it's the Liberals who are set to win big. If an election were held today, the Conservatives would lose, Teneycke said.He said it's because of U.S. President Donald Trump — and the Conservative Party's inadequate messaging around what it would do to try and stop his tariffs and annexationist threats.But it's not just that, Teneycke said, there's also a stylistic issue — the party's leader is just too "Trump-y" and he's got to make a change fast. -
‘Canada continues current relationship with US’ can’t happen because they have gone bonkers. We shouldn’t join them in their madness.
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Europe was entirely different in 1914, a continent ruled by six empires that had little respect for the rights of many of their subjects, especially ethnic minorities. Today only one of those despotic governments is left - in Russia. Elsewhere, norms of civilized behaviour have moved on dramatically. Thus the French don’t have to worry that Germany will invade and Ireland can discuss its issues with Britain on an equal basis. That’s why Europe is helping Ukraine. It wants to preserve the post-WWII consensus where small nations don’t have to fear powerful neighbours.
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Dude, read the memo. This debate over man-made climate change is over. The fossil fuel industry knew the truth decades ago and the science is in. Now the smarter anthracophiles focus on the politics of how much carbon we can get away with burning and on what China is doing.
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9 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
The idea federal conservatives control Daniel Smith is stupid. And the vast majority of people simply aren't watching. This is kind of a desperation move from the liberals, which is similar to their move with trying to claim poilievre's Leadership run was tainted by India.
Control? Danielle Smith is an experienced Tory politician. She should have the sense all on her own not to sabotage the federal Conservative campaign.
9 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
It's just not what the election is about. The two issues that our front and center are the economy, which poilievre pulls far better in and who's the best to negotiate with trump, which currently Carney is pulling better at. The rest are side shows that are of interest to partisans but they weren't going to change their minds anywaySeriously dude nobody but diehards care. The vast majority of people don't even know who Ben Shapiro is. And they all think Daniel Smith is nuts anyway and don't believe that the feds control her.
Campaigns determine what an election is about and PP is making a hames of it so far.
The public will be finding out about Shapiro PDQ when Smith appears beside him. There are hits one has to take in a campaign, eg Carney’s Brookfield, and then there are the unnecessary self-inflicted wounds. This is clearly in the latter category. The question I would ask: is it just narcissistic idiocy or is there active malice here of some weird sort?
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And now she’s off to Florida to appear alongside Ben Shapiro, I kid you not.
QuoteAlberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending her plan to fly to Florida to appear at an event alongside a far-right U.S. influencer who calls Canada "a silly country," saying it is her duty to do everything she can to reach out to Americans to prevent tariffs.
Smith is to make a speaking appearance Thursday with conservative media personality Ben Shapiro at a fundraiser for PragerU amid continued calls from the Opposition NDP for her to abandon the trip.
Mr. Shapiro wants to annex Canada without the problem of giving us votes:
QuoteShapiro has also written social media posts suggesting support for U.S. President Donald Trump's idea of annexing Canada as America's 51st state.
Shapiro has suggested Canada could become the "Puerto Rico" of the north, and that Canadians shouldn't be allowed to vote in American elections.
"When we take Canada, you will be expelled to Panama to work the canal," Shapiro posted on the social media site X in response to a post made by then-prime minister Justin Trudeau in January.
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The attack ads write themselves. Even the Calgary Herald is unhappy:
QuoteIf Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have one goal today, it should be to get Danielle Smith to stay home and keep quiet.
The premier seriously damaged the Conservative campaign right out of the gate, with comments linking Poilievre to Trump’s America.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/braid-smiths-cosy-ties-in-u-s-wrecked-poilievre-campaign-opening
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8 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
It's not about making a break with the people. It's not like the basic principles behind what trump is doing are wrong. Why shouldn't the government spend less money? Why shouldn't you have a balance budget? Why shouldn't we have an effective immigration policy?
The issue is that trump is an extreme version of that and divisive. All Poilievre has to show is that he has a reasonable and sensible plan that will deliver results and that he's got nothing to do with trump despite the fact that the liberals are absolutely desperate to make that fake connection just as the democrats in the states were desperate to connect Trump to Hitler.
I mean have you got a special reason why old people shouldn't get a tax break? Is there some reason you feel homes shouldn't be more affordable? Are those anti-canadian values or something?
The only reason carney is a head right now is because for whatever reason people perceive that he would be a better choice to deal with trump. That's what Poilievre has to counter. That and he's got that new leader shine, and the NDP voters believe that he can defeat Poilievre.
If he beats the first one, the second one will tend to wear off on its own extremely quickly and that will lead to the third one being null and void.
You like Trump’s policies on Canada?
We are in a national crisis that may require enormous funding to support industries under attack. There should be no tax breaks at the moment.
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As we can see in these very pages a lot of Canadian Tories like Trump and his policies. It’s up to PP to prove he has made the break with those people and wants to be a leader for all in this national crisis but his heart isn’t in it. He’s far more comfortable bashing Liberals.
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Danielle Smith must be a Liberal agent. She’s doing yeoman’s work to sink Poilievre all on her own:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/smith-response-national-criticism-1.7494395
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Liberal Party Takes Lead in Polls
in Federal Politics in Canada
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Tactically speaking, the problem with disclosure is that it leads to more demands for disclosure and on and on. In a better world, Carney would have sorted out all his thesis and money problems long before the campaign started. We live in strange times when a Tory leader is in part stoking resentment of successful people. I know he’s doing more than that - and there are legitimate issues here - but distrust of the so-called ‘elites’, people the right used to praise, is certainly one element in the MAGA playbook.