Moonbox
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1 hour ago, I am Groot said:
So... the Conservatives shouldn't worry themselves over budget deficits or try to protect our borders or lower immigration or fight against Chinese influence or want lower taxes and smaller government because Orange man feels the same way?
Who said anything like that? 🙄
The point is that anything good he might be saying about the above is getting no traction because he's packaging it in low-brow Trump-style rhetoric. It serves no purpose other than riling up the base, but worse than that, it turns off the Red Tories that Poilievre needs to break out of rural and western Canada purgatory. As soon as he starts going off about "radical woke ideology", these folks stop taking him seriously and tune him out.
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36 minutes ago, I am Groot said:
And the strange and ridiculous belief that because the Conservatives share some policies that the Trumpers do they would immediately bow, kiss Trump's feet, and hand over Canada with a smile on their faces has taken control among the Left.
Read the room. Does sharing policies and rhetoric style with Trump, as Canadians unify against who he is, what he's doing and what he stands for, seem like good strategy to you??
48 minutes ago, I am Groot said:It doesn't matter how soft spoken a conservative leader is or how mild his policies are. The Left loathes conservatives.
In your mind, nearly 2/3 of the electorate "loathe" the conservatives for no other reason than because they are "conservatives"?. It has nothing to do with their policies, their rhetoric, and how much energy they spend promoting the priorities of the dumbest parts of their base?
I mean, if you know most of the electorate doesn't like what you're doing, why do you keep running it back down the middle?
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My dog eats kibble.
My friend's dog eats wet food.
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We Canadians get along.
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1 hour ago, CdnFox said:
Basically everything with that is wrong. I've seen you talk about politics before you're not a complete imbecile, so you're either desperate or lying to yourself for some other reason.
Who's desperate here? Poilievre's campaign is the one that's flailing. I'm trying to explain why so many Canadians dislike and distrust him, and why it looks like he could actually be losing against an incumbent government that shouldn't have even the slightest chance.
1 hour ago, CdnFox said:Poilievre has avoided almost all culture war issues or conspiracy nonsense and it's focused on the very real problems the Canadians are facing.
Right, so ranting about the WEF and globalist elites, undermining central banking and plugging crypto currencies were all focused on the "very real problems" of Canadian households?
He avoided the culture-war nonsense while spending the last 3 years ranting about woke culture, woke policy, woke ideology, the woke criminal justice agenda and the Liberal's "radical woke agenda"?
2 hours ago, I am Groot said:Poilievre has hardly mentioned it since becoming the opposition leader.
No offense, but that's utter nonsense. He talks about it constantly. He brings it up all over the place, and was even doing it today, in MTL:
Just read that sentence out loud to yourself...
While the Orange Blob is playing vandal to the USA's economy, reputation and justice system, and while Canadians watch nervously, genius Poilievre is still out there ranting about radical this and woke that, and pledging to overrule the Supreme Court on criminal sentencing? Like...WTAF!?
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1 hour ago, I am Groot said:
We should have a public discussion about this, perhaps in the English language debate.
I imagine they'll talk about it, but the Orange Blob is still sucking all of the oxygen out of the room. Poilievre has embraced and promoted the stupidification of the Conservative Party, and while he's been ranting about woke, the WEF and shouting his slogans, undecided voters couldn't help but notice the similarities with Trumpism.
That's not a bogeyman that the media invented - it's the image that little PP has cultivated all on his own, and it was working...until it stopped.
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She's a PPC candidate in an NDP riding and she's going to get like 1-2% of the vote, almost all of which would come at the CPC's expense.
What's more likely:
A) The government that will only be helped by her siphoning votes away from their main competitors froze her accounts for "political reasons"
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2) The candidate from the quack party is actually a quack.
HMMMmmmmm.....
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I don't even think that homeless guy in Owen Sound is going beat this for dumbest thread of the year. 🤣
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45 minutes ago, I am Groot said:
Oh look, more Conservative Party campaign signs trashed, this time in another riding.
There were Liberal campaign signs vandalized on my way to hockey, and Michael Chong will 100% win the riding. Let's not pretend both sides don't do this, okay?
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On 4/11/2025 at 5:57 AM, August1991 said:
Should we oppose trade with Americans, oppose the bully? Or kiss its ring, kowtow?
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Myata, you strike me as the typical colonised person, a battered wife syndrome.
You strike me as someone that nobody wants to talk to, or engage with. Go start another 10 threads nobody reads. 🙃
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1 hour ago, myata said:
Some "Trudeau" is now responsible for PP failing to obtain his security clearance? Keep sharing please: Canada wants to know.
It didn't occur to genius that part of maintaining security clearance is not sharing information with people who don't have security clearance. LOL.
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6 hours ago, suds said:
Ideologues such as Carney only commit themselves to their beliefs and ideologies and rarely to their country.
If you think that out of the two, Carney and not Poilievre is the ideologue, I'm not sure you even understand what the word means. 🙃
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3 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:
1. Ok. As a former statistician, I don't put as much faith in the polls as many.
Not putting a lot of faith in them is reasonable. Pretending they're meaningless is another. As a former statistician, I'm sure you can appreciate what a ~10 point lead means, and how hard that is to gap via polling variables.
3 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:2. Ok, but your subjectivity influences your view here. I'm not saying I disagree but pure information is hard to find these days.
Not sure where this sort of comment leads us. Other than polls, which you've already said you don't much faith in, we don't actually have any objective information, so where does this thought lead us?
3 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:3. Lots of people like this man. Lots.
Not a very useful point either, I would say. "Lots" of people still liked Trudeau, but when your net favorability is -25% and 60% of the population actively dislikes you, you have to hope they like the other guy even less.
I think it Army Guy who said his pet hamster could beat Trudeau, and he was probably right. The problem is that the hamster might have been able to beat Poilievre too... 🤔
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21 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
Lots, but they all like common sense and reason and have a healthy disdain for stupidity so you wouldn't like them
Two problems:
1) If you had any friends, or anyone in your life at all, you wouldn't be battlemoding 24/7 on an internet forum.
2) A healthy disdain for stupidity rules you out for any of these imaginary friends of yours anyway.
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...but but King James Bible says...🫠
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40 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:
2. Brave prediction. Are you saying this because 1 ) The current polls are wrong or 2 ) Some wave of realization or Liberal collapse will happen in the next 18 days ?
Short of an actual (rather than a desperately fabricated) scandal, I don't see it happening. The CPC always performs better than it polls, but the gap is so wide right now it's hard to imagine.
Pierre Poilievre spent 2 years plugging his dumb Trumpish slogans, and he mistook the CPC's relative strength as his own success, rather than it being about Justin being a useless twat. Now that Justin's gone, his image as a juvenile sloganeer is all that's left.
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8 minutes ago, myata said:
And again: are these people naive, dumb or just lying? Why couldn't they just state facts - as opposed to "leads", fumings and insinuations, etc?
It's just the stupidification of "conservative" politics - a veritable race to the bottom. After the Carney and Epstein story died out as the nothingburger it was, little PP has been flailing for a new angle. He needs that hot new slogan...People's Party Carney maybe? It can't be more than 3 words, otherwise his audience loses interest.
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On 4/6/2025 at 10:51 AM, I am Groot said:
But that you'd find this shocking just so drearily exemplifies the rigid, hierarchical dictatorship of parties that has become largely the custom in Canada - and almost nowhere else. The party leader is the absolute dictator and how dare anyone disagree in even the slightest way.
This is where I kind of turned away from the federal conservatives. The PM's office has always been powerful, but under Harper it solidified into the state it's in today. Mop head said he'd change that, but he was just as bad but dumber, so actually probably worse.
My MP is Michael Chong. He is a common-sense, principled Conservative and won my everlasting respect standing up to Stephen Harper (don't even remember for what now) and lost his Cabinet position over it. That's when I realized the individual MP barely matters. The election is about the Party Leader.
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6 hours ago, betsy said:
Lol - you better understand why I say I admire Trump as..........PRESIDENT OF THE USA!
PUTTING USA and citizens FIRST. I've said that before.
Ignoring the fact that he's not even doing that, you're still here talking about people needing to get over partisanship while lauding the most partisan BS'er the world has probably ever seen. 🤷♂️
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2 hours ago, BeaverFever said:
Interesting interview with conservative columnist Andrew Coyne on the conservative platform The Hub. I don’t agree with all of Coyne’s opinions but I often find his analyses informative and thoughtful and most importantly fair
Andrew Coyne on Poillievre vs. Carney, Trump, and the future of the conservative movement
Coyne's excellent. He's one of the main reasons I ever got a Globeandmail subscription. This is a conservative that didn't join the circus. Where are they now in politics?
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Betsy isn't a bot. She's been around these parts forever, and she's really drinking the Kool-Aid now.
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10 hours ago, betsy said:
We have to get over the partisanship.
You say that as you tell us about how much you admire what Trump is doing south of the border. 🙃
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5 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/blog/2024/what-canada-potential-capacity-housing-construction
We do more than that but our immigration has been much higher.Sweden's population was around 7 million at the time. What Sweden did would be the equivalent of Canada building over 6 million homes over the next 10 years. Even Carney's plan doesn't match that, but 500,000/year would at least have an effect.
I think we need to abandon the illusion that platitudes about skills training, subsidies and tax incentives are going to solve this problem. Out of control immigration made the problem worse than it needed to be, but the status quo on house-building in Canada has been broken for a long time.
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Sweden built a million homes from 1965 to 1974 when they faced a housing crisis.
If a much smaller country with technology and methods from 50+ years ago could do it, there's no reason we shouldn't have been able to get going with this. At a certain point, you just have to get it done, and agonizing over the details and planning is something that cities should have worked out already if they were managed properly. 🤷♂️
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2 hours ago, CdnFox said:
If you mean everybody thinks you're a loser and a liar and nobody respects you then absolutely. You hit them all!
He says, spending his entire day online fighting with people on the internet, with nothing and nobody in his life outside of that...
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GREENS KICKED OUT OF DEBATE!!! (obviously this is to benefit the liberals)
in Federal Politics in Canada
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In order to qualify for the only two federal debates, a party needs to meet two of three criteria: it must be running candidates in at least 90% of Canada’s 343 ridings 28 days before the 28 April general election, poll above 4% and have a sitting member of parliament.
They did not qualify, so they do not debate. This isn't a new rule.