Canadian Politics Today

A Trudeau-booster complaining about fakeness?  Hilarious.

 -k

Fake empathy is better than fake outrage any day of the week.

Michelle Rempel ... make it so!  C'mon, even the 'darkPrince' Kinsellout says she's the one.

Why so excited, waldo?  Got some personal insults left over that you didn't get to use on Rona?

 -k

There's a lot of fighting going on in the party right now between "red Tories" and social conservatives.  The so-cons say that they refuse to become "Liberal-lite", but it seems as if their only notion for how to not be "Liberal-lite" is to cling to issues like gay marriage. They're apparently too dumb to recognize that that fight was lost over a decade ago. 

There has been a war of words going on between Rempel and the knuckle-dragger wing of the party, with Rempel asserting-- rightly-- that if people like Derek Sloan or Richard Decarie win the leadership contest, the Conservatives will continue to lose.

 -k

I disagree that Rempell is Any more fake than Trudeau, or whomever.  she would be a good candidate for the CPC, if they can break away from the gun nut stupidity, social conservative stupidity, etc.    Those are big ’ifs’  though. 

REmpell’s Alberta-is-hard-done-by nonsense would need to go as well...   Ontario, Quebec, Maritimes and BC aren’t going to vote for a Western Reform party. 

I disagree that Rempell is Any more fake than Trudeau, or whomever.  she would be a good candidate for the CPC, if they can break away from the gun nut stupidity, social conservative stupidity, etc.    Those are big ’ifs’  though. 

She's all of those things, so she wouldn't be getting away from any of that.

Trudeau suffered from a lot of the same things Obama did.  Expectations were far too high, and that's partly his own fault.  Arguably, his government has been largely successful, certainly no less so than the last one.  I've seen a lot recently about how Trudeau has grown up since the election.  The truth is simply that the media narrative has shifted.  He looks no different to me than he did before the election or for the last 2 - 3 years. 

I disagree, he has made a conscious effort to act like a grown-up since the election.  I think that even the beard is an attempt to project a more mature image. I do not think we'll see him doing cos-play, trick-or-treating, yoga, Bollywood style dance numbers, super-hero costumes with Catherine McKenna, Star Wars socks, "peoplekind", or any of the other fun-loving shenanigans we saw in his earlier years as PM.  I think at most we might see him wear a cowboy hat and jeans if he goes to the Stampede.

 -k

Trudeau suffered from a lot of the same things Obama did.  Expectations were far too high, and that's partly his own fault.  Arguably, his government has been largely successful, certainly no less so than the last one.  I've seen a lot recently about how Trudeau has grown up since the election.  The truth is simply that the media narrative has shifted.  He looks no different to me than he did before the election or for the last 2 - 3 years.

Are you saying the media is the reason a lot of people don't like him?

It’s not that I’m in love with Justin Trudeau - it’s that I see the attacks on him as more of the attacks on the social order that got us Trump.  I’ll push back against that as hard as I can.