Tuesday, January 30, 2024

The Liberals Are Awful People and No One Likes Them

Not even other Liberals: 

With a provincial by-election set for Tuesday in a long-held Progressive Conservative riding in Newfoundland, there’s something conspicuously hard to find on the Liberal candidate’s campaign signs: the name of his party.

(Sidebar: is it so hard to Google a candidate? Nice strategy there.)

Instead, Fred Hutton’s signs are emblazoned with Liberal Premier Andrew Furey’s last name against a white backdrop — not the party’s signature red — with “Newfoundland and Labrador Liberals” in small, barely perceptible, text.

It’s a striking contrast to 2015, when polls showed the federal Liberals’ sweep to power had buoyed faith in provincial Liberals in Atlantic Canada, said Tim Powers, managing director of Abacus Data. But Powers said it’s also a smart move, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now lags in public opinion polls after leading that Liberal victory, while Furey polls well.

About a month after Hutton launched his Liberal-lite campaign in the riding west of St. John’s, the federal Liberals took another hit from a Newfoundland and Labrador politician. Last week, Liberal MP Ken McDonald told Radio-Canada that Trudeau had reached his “best-before” date and it was time for a review of his leadership. Though McDonald promptly walked that back, Powers said his comments could be a smart strategic move.

“He hears what’s happening. He knows what’s happening on the ground,” Powers said of McDonald, pointing to an Abacus poll released Sunday showing the federal Conservative Party well ahead of Trudeau’s Liberals in Atlantic Canada.

In an interview Monday, Hutton said the branding of his campaign was not his decision. However, he was clear about his allegiances: “I’m running for Team Furey, the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.”

 

But, seriously, Newfoundland - f--- you.

You put Justin into power and helped keep him there.

Now that he is inconvenient you, you treat him like a dirty sock. 

Until he buys your loyalty (which he can). 

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A real party would run on its successes. 

But the Liberals aren't a real party:

Canada’s Liberals, frequently close copiers of Democrat thinking, are keen to join in. With an election due by next year they’re stepping up their effort to reduce Pierre Poilievre’s formidable polling lead by trying to convince Canadians he’s a frightening northern version of Donald Trump. They accuse him of “right-wing American, MAGA-influence thinking,” of taking direction from Russia’s Vladimir Putin. They charge him with “weaponizing” voter discontent and using “Trump-type tactics.”
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Despite the fact that trying to win over voters with scare tactics hasn’t worked in the U.S., Liberals seem to believe it will have a different impact here. It’s a belief that’s open to question: Strategist David Coletto of Abacus Data notes that  many Canadians dislike Justin Trudeau even more than they dislike Trump.

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My money is on a ruse to destroy evidence:

Global Affairs Canada is scrambling to investigate a major data breach caused by a month-long “malicious” compromise of an internal network that exposed the data and emails of numerous employees.

In a series of notes sent to employees beginning Jan. 26 and obtained by National Post, GAC says it was the victim of a data breach when one of its Virtual Private Networks (VPN) — which Canada-based workers use to securely connect to GAC’s Ottawa headquarters — was “compromised” for over one month.

The VPN was likely compromised beginning on Dec. 20, but the breach was only discovered on Jan. 24, according to the memo.

During that time, it appears hackers gained access to an undisclosed number of GAC employees’ emails as well as personal and shared servers on their laptops connected to the compromised VPN.

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Ogre David Lametti is out:

Liberal MP David Lametti (Lasalle-Emard, Que.) yesterday abruptly quit the House of Commons just 48 hours after a federal judge ruled he breached the Charter Of Rights And Freedoms as Attorney General. Lametti said he was proud of his service but made no mention of the Court ruling: “I am proud of this legacy.”

 



This legacy:

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Crying like spoiled nobodies does not give off an aura of strength, even if smashing windows and freezing banks accounts does:

Carlson couldn’t have timed his Alberta visit any better. In addition to catching relatively mild weather (narrowly missing a provincewide extreme cold snap), he arrived on the heels of Tuesday’s Federal Court rebuke of the Liberal government’s use of the Emergencies Act during 2022’s Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa. Carlson, who was one of the convoy’s biggest cheerleaders, was no doubt chomping at the bit to take a victory lap on Canadian soil.
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Carlson’s Alberta double-header also came just one day removed from Donald Trump’s 11-point victory over Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary, a result that kept the 45th president of the United States on course for a November rematch against Joe Biden. Trump’s continued stranglehold over the Republican party bodes well for Carlson and his populist nationalist fellow travellers.
Indeed, Carlson looked positively giddy as he took centre stage in Edmonton’s Rogers Place on Wednesday evening, following a rousing introduction from Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms President John Carpay.
After regaling the near-capacity crowd with an anecdote of his own visits, growing up, to his family’s vacation home in Nova Scotia, Carlson launched into a ruthless skewering of the Trudeau government, showing an impressive grasp of Canada’s politics. Over the course of the near 40-minute address, he touched on the Trudeau-era immigration surge, British Columbia’s experiment with “safe supply” fentanyl tablets and the country’s medical assistance in dying program, among other hot-button topics.
“Any organization that kills 50,000 people is a genocidal organization. Period,” remarked Carlson in reference to the federal government’s rapidly expanding assisted dying regime.
While he trotted out Justin Trudeau “blackface” and “cross dressing” barbs, Carlson saved his harshest words for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Referring to Freeland, at multiple points, as “a fascist” (a likely dig at her Ukrainian national grandfather’s Nazi ties), Carlson accused her of insidiously appropriating the language of “therapy, self-help and compassion” to roll back civil liberties.
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Federal internet censors should target hurtful words against politicians, says Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault. The Minister added pending regulations may include an internet kill switch to block websites deemed hurtful, but called it a “nuclear” option: “News regulations for online platforms are needed.”

 


 


 

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I find your bitterness charming, Dr. Peterson:

 


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