cfijwpg.bsky.social
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| Canadian prairie socdem, New Democrat 🍊
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🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Right now the biggest divide in the Democratic Party isn't even moderate vs. progressive, it's those who want to fight vs. those who want to fold.
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Considering how much this administration has spat on the idea of due process, we can't exactly trust their word on "the only citizens who'd be deported are heinous repeated violent criminals"
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and let me be very clear, this is NOT strictly a problem with conservatives.
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I can only assume the people angry in the replies are intentionally trying not to understand how politicians use weasel-words to convey their position.
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Have you never heard a politician use weasel-words before?
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I wish people would get angry at their politicians for reneging on important issues, rather than getting angry at people like us for still caring about them.
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"I'm cool with committing a felony, but I draw the line at basic peaceful political dissent."
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Neither Trump nor Poilievre forced Carney to go back on Pharmacare expansion, or Trudeau to go back on electoral reform. They did that on their own.
I will never understand people who get mad at others for expecting better of our leaders.
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Arguing with someone who thinks it's inconceivable that a PM whose career started in Goldman Sachs might possibly be aligned with the interests of wealthy profiteers over working class people...
...is like arguing with a child about the existence of the Easter Bunny.
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"If there WERE to be an expansion, it'd be in the context of decisions around a range of priorities" is politician-speak for "Absolutely not."
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Agreed. We wouldn't have gotten these programs if not for the minority government, and evidently a minority government is the only way we'll continue to build on them.
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If I had a nickel for every time I've seen one of your signs placed illegally, I'd have enough to finance a whole campaign.
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The Clinton campaign deliberately elevated Trump in 2016 because they thought he'd be the easiest to beat. "Right about everything" my ass.
www.salon.com/2016/11/09/t...
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She openly knew his track record with neglecting baby mamas, and decided she wanted to be one of them.
I'm here for her airing out his dirty laundry, but she had to have known what she was getting into.
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Oh wow, that's bad.
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Wait, what happened?
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That's why they kept saying "I don't recall", recollection is a lot harder to prove in a perjury case
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I agree that Canada needs a strong NDP, especially now with a Goldman Sachs plutocrat leading the Liberals. We need a working class left opposition.
But Singh is doing a bad job of providing that, and that's a serious problem.
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"Canadians have become quite humorless about this"
If China started repeatedly talking about annexing the US and turning it into a Chinese territory, would Americans find it funny, or would they be taking it as a declaration of war?
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I agree that Jagmeet's time as leader is finished after this. But I still don't think that the NDP losing massive seats and the balance of power is a good thing, and I think accusing them of collaborating with the Tories is flagrantly dishonest.
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He speaks very critically of Carney, and rightfully so, but I see nothing here that rings positive of Poilievre. He said similar things about Trudeau before the 2021 election, and still went on to make a confidence deal with him.
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Yes, this definitely sounds like a glowing endorsement.
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True enough.
Quick question, which "recent comments" are you referring to here? Because if I had a nickel for every time I've heard a Liberal supporter say "NDP are aligning with the Cons" based on absolutely nothing, I could finance an entire national campaign.
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The biggest obstacle in effectively meeting this moment is not Jagmeet Singh. It's Danielle Smith, and she's not going anywhere.
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Parliament hasn't been in session this whole time. Everything Canada has done in combating the tariffs has been done by the PM unilaterally, or in collaboration with NDP and Conservative provincial governments.
A continued balance of power would not be an impedence to their ability to respond.
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We would never have gotten the Canadian Dental Care Plan or the Pharmacare Act if we'd had a majority government this whole time. Cross-party governance is healthier for our democracy.