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I'm not deeply knowledgeable about early cdn political history, but I've been around since trudeau senior days, and I cannot think of an opposition party leader as uncouth, inexperienced, dishonest, garrulous, dull and sociopathic as mr poilievre.
#PierrePoilievreIsAbsurd
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i’ve said this and i will say it again: we are lucky to have a really decent human being as our prime minister. is he flawless? of course not. is he one of the finest among the world leaders? i think so, and history will record this.
#IStandWithTrudeau
#cdnpoli
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canada’s biggest problem isn’t the price of turkey, but the price of politicians like
@PierrePoilievre
, doug ford, danielle smith and scott moe. we cannot afford to have these lying sociopaths anywhere near power over our futures.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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it turns out
@ABDanielleSmith
doesn’t need the new boosters because she “takes care of her immune system” unlike most of us who are too lazy or something. congrats alberta, you win the dumbest, most illiterate, vacuous premier race. dougie can’t touch this.
#cdnpoli
#UCP
#ableg
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it is depressing to watch all the "freedom" people literally salivating to get into power so they can take away other people's freedoms.
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biggest embarrassment for the cdn parliament in the history of this country is not some nazi veteran showing up by accident, but having a leader of the opposition who is an endless fountain of lies and disinformation, and cheered for it.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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so
@PierrePoilievre
had a choice. he could have accepted the appt. of former GG David Johnston as the special rapporteur.
in an incredible failure of judgment. he decided instead to lie, and attack the character and integrity of an outstanding Canadian.
sad days.
#cdnpoli
#CPC
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in my opinion,
@RobertFife
has done more damage to canadian journalism than anyone else, and is responsible for turning canada's once upon a time slightly right leaning "paper of record" into a thinly disguised rw propaganda sewer. what a shame.
#cdnpoli
#cdnmediafailed
#cdnmedia
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no party in cdn history has done as much damage to politics in and out of the HOC as
@PierrePoilievre
and his merry band of Dummköpfe. we do know that *everything* that holds a liberal democracy together, is targeted. this is MAGA a la canada.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLying
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my continued assessment of
@PierrePoilievre
is this: not particularly bright, can’t handle intellectual sparring well. his basic cover is slogans and memorized conservative talking points. as soon as he is pulled off his script, he crumbles.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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it’s incomprehensible to see a sizable fraction of the cdn voters think if they elect a cons government they will get “powerful paychecks” and “canada will be better” while there’s decades of empirical evidence to the contrary at every level of governing.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpolitics
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i think this statement by
@PierrePoilievre
proves that he is a dangerous sociopath.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
"The fastest way to get more of the doctors and nurses we need? End all the discriminatory vaccine mandates blocking them from doing their jobs ..."
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imagine, if it came to light that Trudeau leadership campaign paid some whistleblower to take down his rival in 2013,
@globeandmail
,
@nationalpost
etc would be in rapid explosive meltdown, questioning legitimacy. when
@PierrePoilievre
does it, /crickets/.
#cdnpoli
#CdnMediaFail
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by now
#CPC
,
@PierrePoilievre
and his drooling band of orcs are not a political party, but a toxic trumpian disinformation and projection collective, aided and abetted by cdn media. as per quote: “You won't recognize Canada by the time I'm done with it.”
#cdnpoli
#cdnpolitics
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trudeau sings bohemian rhapsody, and
#cdnmedia
is in full shock and awe, but when conservative leaders play patty cake with grumbly fascists dragging confederate flags, media goes into quiet distraction mode. i’m sick and tired of it.
#cdnpoli
#IStandWithTrudeau
#CdnMediaFailed
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some canadians don’t realize how lucky they are to have a decent and intelligent prime minister like justin trudeau. thank you pierre, you raised him well… he is not perfect, but he is one of the best leaders in the world.
#cdnpoli
#IStandWithTrudeau
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at this point, most canadians should be aghast seeing the revolting garbage spewing from
@PierrePoilievre
and his grumpy band of trolls. my theory still is that PP is a sacrifice, to be displaced by someone less despicable, thus more electable.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsBroken
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Something Noam Chomsky has observed:
“A former political organization now calling itself the Republican Party is dedicated to accelerating the race to catastrophe.”
this now holds true for the Conservative Party of Canada and it’s assorted vomitous provincial clones.
#cdnpoli
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our PM is living with an incredible flood of hate and threats of violence. women journos, who know exactly what that is like, hardly ever write anything about PM's situation and the amount of hate directed at him. why not tell cdns this is not right?
#cdnpoli
#IStandWithTrudeau
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Pierre Poilievre doesn’t have a likability challenge. like trump, he has a mental challenge that cannot be made over. dear
@torontostar
stop trying to play footsie with a hate-filled, duplicitous wanna-be authoritarian.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsANeoFascist
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the only "Conservative Renaissance" we need in Canada is to have far fewer people cons like Steven Harper,
@PierrePoilievre
, Doug Ford, Danielle Smith and Scott Moe in politics and positions of power.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsAFascistTroll
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a few truths:
* PMJT made far fewer mistakes than oppo would have you believe.
* most "scandals" are manufactured. eg. WE.
* when picking a side, memory and attention helps.
* mr Poilievre is far more dangerous than most realize. see also: Hungary, Turkiye
#cdnpoli
#cdnpolitics
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mr
@PierrePoilievre
has turned
#HoC
into a disgusting sewer, where he and most of his party clearly feel at home, in their natural habitat. what a disgraceful, shameful situation for Cdn democracy.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsAFascistTroll
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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in a burning and slowly dying planet, all mr Poilievre can endlessly talk about is the dismantling of the carbon tax, one relatively small way to try to help the planet. mind boggles.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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this is a terrible day for the canadian democracy. “leader of the opposition”reduces himself to a twitter comment section troll to try to discredit former Gov Gen Hon David Johnston, an exceptional canadian and ten times the scholar and a parliamentarian he will ever be.
#cdnpoli
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PMJT is heading to NATO leaders summit. what will
@PierrePoilievre
and his howling gang of reprobates pick on? Canada not doing enough? doing way too much? Justin broke something? NATO is irrelevant because Putin is a harmless friend? bring on the
#CPC
bumper stickers.
#cdnpoli
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another
@PierrePoilievre
slogan we'd like to see: "bring home powerful US style health care! I will work with premiers to make sure you get the kind of health care you can buy, for example pay $75,345 for your heart bypass, or thoughts and prayers."
#cdnpoli
#PoilievreIsBroken
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imagine a media breathlessly writing articles on a "foul-mouthed liberal staffer" but no investigative reporting on
#JenniByrne
the cons strategist and campaign manager for Pierre Poilievre, and a loblaws lobbyist.
#CdnMediaFailed
#cdnmedia
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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i worry that canadians don’t really understand our neo-reform cons under Harper’s protégé mr Poilievre and the danger they represent to our democracy. their good friend Orbán and his bizarre “illiberal democracy”, and the transformation of 🇭🇺 should be studied as warning signs.
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the howls of joy coming from
@PierrePoilievre
and his mindless gang of zombies after the resignation of an honorable scholar and parliamentarian is an alarm signal to every thinking cdn: they don’t care what they destroy in order to gain power. *nothing* is off limits.
#cdnpoli
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deAdder drew this fruitloop conspiracy cartoon last year (or was it year before) but it doesn't get old, and of course
@PierrePoilievre
and his obstreperous band of trollidites find uglier depths to plumb.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
#ConspiracyTheories
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i cannot imagine how anyone can take a careful stock of the political disintegration in the US and not be absolutely terrified about the future of Canada if
#GOP
-clone
#CPC
under
@PierrePoilievre
ever wins an election.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
#floridanorth
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make no mistake: that big tent
@PierrePoilievre
created that envelopes christofascists, white-supremacists, neo-nazis, anti-LGBTQ2S+, and other cons awfulness, of course also embraces antisemitism, xenophobia and islamophobia. no amount of looking away will fix this.
#cdnpoli
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CHOW is how you stop bunch of right wing con artists kissing Ford’s pinky.
#topoli
#OliviaChow
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mr poilievre has three tools: populism, polarization and post-truth. with a mostly compliant, complicit media, his work is considerably easier. we are in trouble: we either dismantle him, or watch him dismantle canada.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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it is especially amusing to watch a dishonorable serial liar and shameless disinformation firehose like
@PierrePoilievre
accuse someone else of lying and calling for resignation. what a disgrace to house of commons.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsToxic
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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I think
@atRachelGilmore
is spot on when she points out that
#cdnmedia
is burying the story [and depth] of
@PierrePoilievre
's homophobic, transphobic speech. our media has reduced itself to a compliant collaborator, enabler of social cons at its very worst.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpolitics
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this would be an excellent time for
@PierrePoilievre
to show that he is PM material by acting like a thoughtful, principled parliamentarian and publicly [and in social media] show his support for PJMT's selection of former GG David Johnston
#cdnpoli
#cdnpolitics
#PierrePoilievre
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If we have too many cdns who believe high gas, food and rent costs have anything to do with the federal government and is a good reason to vote for cons, we are in very deep trouble. some mistakes cannot be corrected.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
#NeverVoteConservative
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journos never ask
@PierrePoilievre
about his tax cuts and how he plans to pay for them, or some independent analysis about the impact on the public finances. what will he have to cut, sell, destroy in order to support tax cuts?
#cdnpoli
#CdnMediaFailed
#PierrePoilievreIsLying
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i don't think enough many canadians are doing a careful enumeration of what will be lost if
@PierrePoilievre
were to ever get power. think about the destruction of universal healthcare, central bank, CBC, environmental protections, women's bodily autonomy, for starters.
#cdnpoli
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every time i listen to mr poilievre, i see a younger, angrier but dumber Viktor Orbán. let’s hope we never get to find out how much he and his mentor mr harper learned from the hungarian autocrat.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsALiar
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dear
@theJagmeetSingh
that's a very very risky game you're playing: juggling progressives with neo-fascists and calvinball. please get a grip. that you side with poisonous mr. Poilievre, a direct threat to this country's democracy, calls your principles into question.
#cdnpoli
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dear leader
@PierrePoilievre
's aggressive vilification of
#CBC
should make any sane canadian shudder. It is a classic authoritarian move, attacking the news orgs that are not playing his tune, and questioning him. we have seen this before...
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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there are many, many reasons why
@PierrePoilievre
should never be PM, but one of the critical reasons [for me] is the grave risk he represents for cdn women's bodily autonomy. what he believes is *irrelevant* he will call a "free" vote on the issue as per
#CPC
policy.
#cdnpoli
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“support for Poilievre drops with the level of education” no surprise there. it also explains why
#CPC
, republicans and authoritarians hate public education and educators. they know a well informed general public can destroy their rich futures.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreMustGo
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mr poilievre's manifest loathing of well-educated, well-informed, intelligent cdns is revealing. he /knows/ they won't vote for a fire hose of lies like him. his target audience is the gullible, the misinformed, the credulous, the ignorant.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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we should view the howling, snarling disrespect shown in the HOC by
@PierrePoilievre
and his merry band of trolls with great alarm: they are repeatedly showing who they really are and what they think of the canadian democratic institutions.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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so 45% of cdns think an inexperienced, garrulous ideologue is "better at managing the economy" compared to 28% for Trudeau. cons certainly have many cdns exactly where they want them: discombobulated, unable to tell truth from fiction, and have zero perspective. jfc
#cdnpoli
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given everything we know about a pandemic and how other nations under poor [sometimes psychotic] leadership have suffered, we were lucky to have PMJT and his team at the helm, instead of the
#CPC
sociopaths. hope in two years time cdns will remember.
#cdnpoli
#PoilievreIsBroken
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any canadian who hears the phrase ��that’s common sense! let’s bring it home!” should be terrified. he or she is in the presence of a lying, despicable con artist who will say or do anything for power.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsFullOfShit
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alberta, the lost star province: I cannot understand how someone as jaw-droppingly awful and incompetent as ms smith is tied with ms notley to decide the province's future. albertans, stop copying ontario please, vote for sanity.
#cdnpoli
#ableg
#DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead
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“trickle down” economics is one of the greatest scams of the 20th century. that
#CPC
cons are still enamoured with this long discredited piece of nonsense tells you everything about their claims of economic intelligence, and what to expect.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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as we see,
@PierrePoilievre
and his merry band of bobbleheads have decided that the only way to get power is to lie early, lie often, lie big. this is not even a "campaign" yet. this will only get worse, and rw
#cdnmedia
is a pliable enabler.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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at this point
#PierrePoilievre
cannot be said to be a responsible parliamentarian in the Westminster system of governance. he is a nasty and dangerous demagogue in a war path, in the style of some of the republican senators and reps. he needs to be resisted and stopped.
#cdnpoli
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next: four ford years of "i told you so"
people seem unable to grasp that there is no turning back from some mistakes. for example, greenbelt cannot be restored.
i'm furious.
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every passing day it is clearer that "freedom convoy" was a hodgepodge gathering of malcontent, idiots, racist shitbags and fascist wannabes who wanted to overthrow a democratically elected government. sadly one major canadian party encouraged them.
#Freedumbers
#cdnpoli
#CPC
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one psychological characteristic that is easy to recognize in people like mr poilievre is the crushing inferiority complex. the fountain of lies both to himself and canadians is a symptom. alas, this man is a nobody, and he really knows it.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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i view
@nationalpost
with disbelief and disgust, and sincerely root for its destruction. at one point, I may have felt bad about some of the journos, but what's left working in this toilet-worthy paper is just toxic $#%!.
#cdnpoli
#CdnMediaFailed
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it is worth remembering that constant lying is not just a deep character flaw for
@PierrePoilievre
but also a well known tactic for an authoritarian. unless he is constrained and fact-checked by the media [we wish], he will lie outrageously and shamelessly at every turn.
#cdnpoli
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even some liberals buying into the fiction “trudeau is disliked by a majority of canadians” shows you how well disinformation and bullshit works even on those who ought to know better.
#cdnpoli
#IStandWithTrudeau
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can someone who’s familiar with the recent poll questions/numbers enlighten me as to how mostly left leaning or centrist canadians could possibly vote for a party led by a fascist libertarian sociopath determined to deconstruct canada? curious.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLying
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watching cdn newspapers and journos with sadness and pity: a tsunami of opinion pieces on alleged attempted chinese interference, but hardly a note on the very real neo-nazi visiting the country and linking arms with members of the conservative party.
#cdnpoli
#CdnMediaFailed
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“populist” is a lazy, nearly useless term. call
@PierrePoilievre
exactly what he is: a would-be authoritarian. a destructive, not particularly bright, thin-skinned one who would follow the paths of Orbán, Trump, Modi, Netanyahu, Erdogan.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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as those of us old enough or have lived in the right places to know, a handbasket for hell or fascism can be woven in a matter of a few years, in a couple of election cycles.
see also: “strongmen” by
@ruthbenghiat
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it is well past the time we start cataloguing *every* lie
@PierrePoilievre
utters anywhere, just as trump was catalogued, and bring it to the public consciousness as often as possible. if our media doesn't have the guts to step up, we must.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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we know PMJT has a very smart, well qualified team, but what about the strategists? i wish I could figure out what the plan is to disassemble the mind-numbing disinformation structure mr poilievre and his lurching gang of trolls have created.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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the moment you start saying “this is not my canada” slap yourself. this *is* our canada. the ugliness and hate has just found the right political terrain to finally surface fully. this will get much worse, thanks to mr poilievre and mr bernier.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLying
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"Mr. Poilievre has suggested in media interviews that while he believes in defunding the CBC, he sees the value in its French-language programming." -- globeandmail
the /only/ value he sees in Radio-Canada is his election chances. [Québécois can see right through him.]
#cdnpoli
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dear
@globeandmail
and
@nationalpost
when will you cease to parrot
@PierrePoilievre
and his merry band of bobbleheads and start reporting as befitting news organizations with critical journalistic faculties? is there no tipping point for you?
#cdnpoli
#cdnmedia
#CdnMediaFailed
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it is critical to understand that Viktor Orbán is a role model for mr Poilievre and mr Harper. for more info on this loathsome authoritarian, see eg. M. Albright "Fascism: A Warning", G. Rachman "The age of Strongman", R. Ben-Ghiat "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present" ...1/2
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attention conservation notice: if you come to my comments spewing garbage about how PMJT and liberals have permitted CCP interference in our democracy, you are basically too insane to talk to, and you get blocked instantly. seek help.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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let's simplify: those who think Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation's resignations are an "own the libs" moment, something to celebrate, have allowed disinformation to destroy their brains, and perhaps drifted too far from a just society to recover. how unfortunate.
#cdnpoli
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it is fascinating to watch the citizens of an admirable liberal democracy decide to deconstruct it, province by province, and if we are extremely stupid, at the federal level with Poilievre, who is congruent with Trump, Orbán, Modi, Netanyahu, Erdogan, Bolsonaro et al.
#cdnpoli
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this makeover is the funniest thing i’ve seen in cdn political scene. you cannot cover up this dung heap.
@PierrePoilievre
is well recognized from the stench.
#cdnpoli
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just as we thought mr. scheer had firmly welded his mouth shut in the backbenches of the conservative party, he dances to the gallery, calling prime minister names in a deplorable performance as conducted by
@PierrePoilievre
, but forgets he is not protected.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpolitics
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the funniest thing in canadian politics right now is
@PierrePoilievre
, an inveterate liar, lying about not getting an invitation email. it’s like bad office lies people tell: “oh it ended up in my spam folder!” what a howler.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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i think
#PierrePoilievre
’s despicable attempt to cast doubt on the integrity and results of our elections is an incredibly dangerous development. he will work to suppress lib and ndp voters via “fair elections” legislation if he ever gets power.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreMustGo
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#PierrePoilievre
"he is risen" to the surface like an algal bloom, to pollute, suffocate and decimate everything around and under it. sad for
#CPC
, really.
#cdnpoli
#IStandWithTrudeau
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it is clear that red states have had just about enough of liberal democracy and will not tolerate it anymore. i'm certain
@PierrePoilievre
and some premiers like
@fordnation
and
@ABDanielleSmith
are taking notes and making plans.
#cdnpoli
#uspoli
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the question is not what
@PierrePoilievre
and his merry band of loathsomes are saying and lying about now, but what they will say and lie about next: there is no way to come down from this giant tower of lies, deception and disinformation.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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fascinating to note that
@PierrePoilievre
actually waited for the reactions from press and his horde of deplorables before posting his drive-by character assassination.
every day I expect him to turn down his poisonous rhetoric, and every he cranks it up a notch.
#cdnpoli
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must-read piece by
@RadioFreeTom
"Putin, however, is now politically weaker than ever. The once unchallengeable czar is no longer invincible."
#PutinVsPrigozhin
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[i’m a big fan of
@deAdder
] i assume the original meaning of this cartoon was about dying newspapers and/or press under attack, but my interpretation today is quite different: that hand is the hand of
#postmedia
which has zero interest in supporting cdn democracy.
#cdnpoli
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there is no question in any well educated mind that in the US democracy is under attack. in canada,
@PierrePoilievre
and his drooling gang of orcs have the *exact same playbook* and being aided by media. Orbán’s hungary with its “illiberal democracy” (!)is a blueprint.
#cdnpoli
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some people will object that my observations regarding mr. Poilievre are hyperbolic, “sure, he is heavy on rhetoric but will moderate if elected” this is a fatal underestimation of this politician, and the future of canada under someone like him.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievre
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i think feds are absolutely correct in ignoring the calls for a public inquiry. it’s an attempt to create political theatre without substance where PP can posture, scream and try to chip away at PMJT’s popularity and our institutions he targets.
#IStandWithTrudeau
#cdnpoli
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change eh. a large part of the cdn voters have no idea what kind of a govt
@PierrePoilievre
will run. simple: take the actions of the worst cons premiers, like ford, moe and smith, mix with some neo-fascism and illiberalism and you’re done.
#cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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take those polls with a large grain of salt. unless it is from a respectable, unbiased organization, it is just another way to manipulate the public opinion. it is also not predictive, though it pretends to be.
#NobodyLikesPierrePoilievre
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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