U.S. observer/commenter on Canadian political miscellany.
Trump is guilty. PP is a fascist. Michael Wernick was a prophet.
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Mar 18, 2023 • 20 tweets • 12 min read
And so as an American myself who is a great supporter and admirer of Trudeaus père et fils and wants Canada to chart its own path, I urge Canadians to resist the drumbeat of war, the pressure from the Pentagon, and the hawkishness of the dirty pigeon. #cdnpoli
“The U.S. government can no longer tolerate such a threat emanating principally from within Canada's borders,” [an uncorroborated DOJ memo from 1998] states. #cdnpoli 2/
Nov 5, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
#Thread about #Twitter chaos with a retrospective on where I've been here and there on the Internet, and the sense of community that keeps getting disrupted because of people who shit where everyone else eats. 1/
I had an account with HuffPost. A sense of community got disrupted because they moved to the Facebook API for comments, and opened the floodgates to people who shit where everyone else eats. 2/
Sep 10, 2022 • 89 tweets • 45 min read
OK. With Justin Trudeau's definite announcement that he *IS* staying on for a 4th election, allow me to recap my #cdnpoli megathread on why this was always the case. Read on for why I believe he will serve 15 years like dad rather than 10 as conventional wisdom would have it. 1/2/ Start with this RCI article (2022 March 12) about his insistence upon staying. I started with this one just to wash off the negative vibes from the hive-mind #cdnmediafailed pundits.
My favourite parts, translated by Google. #cdnpoli
OK, so... it turns out the new Abacus poll isn't catastrophic for the Liberals/JT after all. Much of that inflated CPC national lead is in BC (which is always chaotic to poll) and out west (where they run up dictator margins anyway). Thread with some of my thoughts... #cdnpoli 1/
The Liberals are well ahead in the Atlantic and statistically tied in Quebec and Ontario. That's the ballgame. The CPC need to run the tables in Ontario to have any shot of forming govt. This poll would *still* see LPC forming government were an election held today. #cdnpoli 2/
Feb 12, 2022 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
That's actually why #CdnMediaFailed to incubate trust. Their constant fixation with manufactured Trudeau "scandals" a la Hillary's emails, Hunter's laptop and Obama's tan suit -- amplified and "pundited" ad nauseam while REAL MALFEASANCE BY CONSERVATIVES gets swept under the rug.
When Michael Wernick was warning the public about the precursor to what's happening right now, what was the Canadian media fixated on? JWR's petulant tantrum, and the one-sided narrative that they pushed for MONTHS where the PM was prejudged guilty simply by virtue of accusation.
