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Ripper: Pierre Poilievre and the new politics

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If Pierre Poilievre is not a true conservative, what is he? Bourrie attempts to pinpoint this and ends up with a blend of nationalism, populism, a hint of racism, and something close to demagogic fascism. This depends on the lie for its success. The bigger the lie the better, and Poilievre is a master of this art. Sometimes well concealed.
Poilievre does nothing positive, has never had a proper job, always criticizes others for what they do while offering no initiatives of his own. He's a political grifter, a fake, who has no idea of how to govern and no interest in doing so. All he knows is how to complain and tell a self-serving lie. It's easy to criticize others but difficult to do better oneself, and his solution has always been not to even try.

Went to highschool with PP. He's a been a power chasing fascist shit head his entire life. He's literally never built a single thing his entire life. He's literally a political class leech.

We have no idea how lucky we are that Trudeau stepped down when he did.
Almost like he planned it.
- If it was planned they deserve an award for pulling it off so flawlessly.
  Or maybe Canadians don't vote for leaders they vote against leaders. PP's high numbers before Trudeau stepped down were not indicative of people's love of Pierre, but rather their disdane of Justin. This is not a new concept and is demonstrated continually in Canadian politics.
- I dont think anyone could plan for what trump did. The timing for everything was quite spectacular though
- We're not out of the woods yet.
  
  I heard there’s a couple polls saying PP could lose his seat. I will jump for joy if that actually happens. I can’t wait for his party to kick him to the curb and for him to be gone from public life forever.
- The way the entire Liberal party basically didn't respond to the smear campaign against them -- on top of displaying an incongruent level of confidence -- had me for quite a while wondering if they had something smart planned. And there is room for interpreting their moves as chasing one or more of these strategies:
  Run a political decoy (Trudeau) until the last minute to defuse the smear campaign
  Save all dirt on CPC until election season to blitz their support when it's most impactful
  Use a disastrous Dumpster administration to expose CPC's populist platform
  But in the last quarter of 2024 the LPC spent so much time struggling precariously to run out the clock that I abandoned all of these possibilities -- or at least any of them still having a viable path.
  Ultimately, Trudeau's moves worked flawlessly to massive effect, but they relied on far too much luck, some of which could not have even been predicted as a possibility. When Trudeau announced his resignation, he was completely out of time and chips, without any of the requisite win conditions in place yet. If LPC's actual plan was some subset of the result we got, then they are master gamblers (and maybe actors) with stones of stainless steel. The only way I could believe now that they had a plan along any of these lines and were remotely in control of the situation is if Singh was in on it. And if he was, that was one hell of a political sacrifice.
- Lucky why? So Carney could step in and obliterate PP?

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