So I wrote a 100+ tweet 🧵on the great many & ever-growing failings rendering "Conservative" leader Poilievre unelectable as Prime Minister but it got mangled at the end. Given the 3x weekly proto-fascistic bozo eruptions of this man & his enablers, this 2nd 🧵was needed. Mahalo!
If you actually understand #ClimateChange is real but think it's not a big deal because folks can just sell their newly underwater homes and move, you're the sort of person Team Poilievre wants to attract /103 #cdnpoliindy100.com/news/ben-shapi…
With America's "Conservatives" doing everything they can to make abortion illegal & start imprisoning women, what does it say about Team Poilievre that he was so interested in attracting #Shapiro's audience he hid hashtags in all his Youtube videos to lure them in? /104 #cdnpoli
Ever wondered how the world's slowest, stupidest & most racist people get all worked up over the skin colour of a Disney mermaid? Look no further than guys like #BenShapiro. That's what his audience gobbles up & Poilievre WANTS THAT AUDIENCE /105 salon.com/2018/02/14/ben…#cdnpoli
Look who's at it again. Your boss just got busted for playing footsie with Canada's most violent women-haters so trot out these great big lies of yours and keep trotting, Scheer. You're gonna be busy. Keep that slop bucket handy, Andy. /107 #PoilievreHatesWomen#SlopBucketScheer
Nailed it. From leader of the "Conservative" party to head slop bucket man. Nobody deserves it more than Andrew Scheer. /108
That's the end of Poilievre's "honeymoon phase." *Extremely* fast given the 3x incumbency metrics against PM Trudeau that normally applies. Only gets worse from here & as far as extremist bozo eruptions go we've barely scratched the surface. /110 theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…#cdnpoli
If you want to know how bad it's getting for Poilievre the entirely in-the-bag @nationalpost would like him to stop being so obvious about playing footsie with all those violent extremists. *At least* until the election, right, Chris Selley? /111 calgaryherald.com/opinion/chris-…
This is an extremely important (and TERRIFYING) point. Poilievre courts violent extremists AND supports greater access to mass murder tools /113 #PoilievreHatesWomen#PoilievreMGTOW#cdnpoli
If you want to know how bad it's getting for Poilievre the entirely in-the-bag #PostMedia editors are now asking for an explanation. I'm sure any will do so long as they can put on something resembling a straight face when they try to sell it /114 torontosun.com/opinion/editor…#cdnpoli
Pop quiz #cdnpoli fans, will notoriously media-and-debate-questions-averse Poilievre be more or dramatically less able to take questions from the media or debate his political opponents given this latest possibly politically fatal debacle? /115
"Conservative" leaders are now realizing Poilievre was an excellent fact/scruple-free attack dog for their fact/scruple-free party but as far as an actual leader they can sell to a governable majority of men & women across the country? He's an unmitigated disaster. /117 #cdnpoli
And mark these words: IT ONLY GETS WORSE FROM HERE. /118
Of course there's still plenty of time between now and the next election for "Conservatives" to replace #UnelectablePoilievre with somebody less extreme but the base LIKES extreme. They'll drop the Cons like a hot rock for Bernier's openly racist #PeoplesParty /119 #cdnpoli
Bitcoin champion, convoy enthusiast and walking climate disaster Pierre Poilievre is officially the new leader of the "Conservative" Party of Canada. I'm told I should be *very* afraid he'll become the Prime Minster. I'm not. I don't think he has a hope in hell 🧵#cdnpoli
People have short memories and the (ongoing) pandemic feels like a lifetime ago which is why Canadians may need reminding what "Conservative" leadership would have looked like during that time had Polly been PM. No CERB. No nothing. You're on your own. /2
Might as well nip this in the bud: I'm not AT ALL advising anybody "let their guard down". I think this generation of "Conservatives" need the electoral reckoning of their entire existence so all future generations know not to float this extremist garbage at Canadians. /3
"All politicians are the same," they mooed lazily, chewing their collective cud in a field now openly ablaze. "There's no difference between political parties, *everybody* knows that!" /2 #cdnpoli
Just don't get yourself arrested. @CalgaryPolice are just as forceful as ever AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT AN ANTIVAXER. Might get hit with a bike or other blunt instrument. They don't even care if you're a senior citizen, right @neufeld_mark? /41 #yyc#yyccc
DO YOU GET THAT THIS IS YOUR WHOLE CAREER FLASHING BEFORE YOUR EYES CHIEF @neufeld_mark? This IS a policing failure. We don't NEED to be told its not & we don't NEED to be told to just LIE DOWN & TAKE IT. You need to EXPLAIN THE FAILURE. /42 #yyc#yyccc
Friends don't let friends mindlessly share propaganda that enables power-mad, murderous dictators. Wherever you see the RT icon get it taken down. #FreeUkraine
Canada's "Conservatives" have been carrying Putin's water for years. Useful idiots at best, though there can be no doubt that some have taken money directly, just like their American counterparts /2 #cdnpoli
If Trump is Putin's puppet what does that make @candicebergen? (Hint: nothing good). That said, so far Canada's "Conservatives" aren't openly praising Putin like their U.S. counterparts are, indeed they're proposing counter-measures vs Russia. Nice to see but will it last? /3
They say "you can't fight City Hall" but of course you can & whether it's City Hall, the Alberta Legislature or Parliament Hill if the cause is right, your strategy is solid and your numbers are good, YOU'LL ACTUALLY WIN EVERY TIME.
That's right, I said it: you'll actually win every time. That's Science. /2 bbc.com/future/article…
Yesterday some of us were hearing rumblings. Maybe an emergency cabinet session amongst Kenney & his henchmen & henchwomen (henchpeople?). If they were meeting they were meeting over Covid. They *had* to be /3