We Canadians are fortunate for many, many reasons. One of them is that our adversaries, though numerous, are often fucking dumb as posts.
In recent months, increasing economic attacks directed at Canada by the Trump regime, combined with repeated verbal taunts and pettiness made it clear to all with eyes and ears that Donald Trump is fixated on annexing Canada after bringing the country to its knees economically.
Justin Trudeau, the unpopular outgoing prime minister, rose to the occasion, rallying Canadians to gird up for the economic fight of our lifetime and reiterated Trump’s serious desire to annex the nation. Canadians, not used to this kind of direct threat, rallied behind Trudeau and the Liberals and the party gained momentum in the polls at the expense of all opposition parties, but massively from the Conservatives. It seems now that the party momentum has been maintained by the selection of Mark Carney.
This has placed the Cons in a very dicey spot.
The polls began to turn against the Cons early in this process, in part because of the popularity of Trudeau’s handling of the issue and also in part because of the view that many Canadians had that Poilievre was just a little too like Trump; too eager to take advantage of populist anger, a little too eager to play footsies with the far right, a little too prone to bitching about “woke” this and that. This wasn’t helped earlier in the year when Trump opined that dealing with Poilievre would be “…very good. Our views would be more aligned, certainly”.
This all seemed just a little too… sensible.
After the Liberals chose Mark Carney to be heir apparent and their momentum continued as they caught and passed the Cons in the polls, desperation within Cons circles became a palpable thing.
Then, four or five days ago, out of nowhere it seems, in an “interview” with one of the FauxNews blonde interviewbots, Trump explained that he didn’t like Poilievre and felt that a Liberal government would be “easier to deal with”.
Because this came so far out of nowhere, and Trump is so steadfastly stupid, it was obvious that someone had whispered in his ear that his attacks on Canada were hurting his boy PPs chances in the upcoming election and he had to nix the pro-Cons talk for a bit. Unfortunately for Trump, he was trapped by his own tariff rhetoric and had already delayed kicking the tariffs off a couple of times for reasons that really didn’t seem to make sense. He was in no position to postpone them again. The only latitude he had was to burp out a “Poilievre has said mean things about me and I don’t like him and I think Libs are pushovers anyway so there, nah!”
Well, it turns out that we now know who was whispering in his ear, because she is the monumentally stupid premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, who blabbed about this on American right-wing network Breitbart.
...so I would hope that we could put things on pause so that we can get through an election...
You are as dumb as you are malicious. This is saying out loud that you approached a foreign government with a request to interfere in the Canadian electoral process. Jesus H Christ, Danielle, do an illegal is one thing, but ixnay on the appinflay of the outhmay.
Seriously, there should be an investigation into this.