Moonbox

I don't even think that homeless guy in Owen Sound is going beat this for dumbest thread of the year. 🤣

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?

You strike me as someone that nobody wants to talk to, or engage with. Go start another 10 threads nobody reads. 🙃

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.

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. 🙃

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. 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? 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... 🤔

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. 🤣👍

...but but King James Bible says...🫠

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.

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.

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.

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. 🤷‍♂️

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?

Betsy isn't a bot. She's been around these parts forever, and she's really drinking the Kool-Aid now.

You say that as you tell us about how much you admire what Trump is doing south of the border. 🙃

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.

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. 🤷‍♂️

He says, spending his entire day online fighting with people on the internet, with nothing and nobody in his life outside of that... 🤣

It speaks to his recognizing it was an unpopular policy, and nothing else. You're basically trying to argue that not doing the stupid thing that everyone knows is stupid is plagiarizing, because someone else called it stupid already. 🥴

True enough, and Carney's been pro taxing carbon for a long time. Even so, is Carney a "thief" for ditching an unpopular Liberal policy, and not giving Poilievre the easy target he'd prefer?

The carbon tax was unpopular. The only "idea' Poilievre had was to campaign against it, and it was good fodder for him. Now that Trudeau is gone and Carney has walked away from the carbon tax, PP is just punching at air, and that's what you're probably more upset about than anything. Now he has to come up with something better than a low-brow 3-word slogan. To say it's "stealing" to abandon bad policy is really weird logic.

I heard a rumour that Pierre Poilievre isn't actually a biological male, and that he goes to furry conventions. It might not be true, but we should definitely talk about that too. 🤡

So unless he keeps doing the thing you think is dumb, he's stealing? 🤔

Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake". Up until a couple days ago, PP was still spending millions on pamphlets and advertisements squawking juvenile three-word slogans in a political environment deeply and negatively focused against the master of juvenile three-word slogans. This sort of self-inflicted injury is a gift to his opponents, and they're wise to just step back and let him hurt himself as long as it lasts.

I would too, if not for the fact that he posts 40+ times a day and is at all times derailing at least a half a dozen threads with his belligerent stupidity. 🙃