idk why i keep bringing up canadian elections here but this grpahic i saw really describes how funny this flipping has been
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/
politics
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
I keep saying as much mint
liberals for sure are winning
Conservatives lost hard in the 11th hour
It is literally just
- Cons did not come out hard about the 51st state thing and people view them as weak when dealing with trump
- Libs got rid of Trudeau
its just that easy
For the record, of the 3 actual parties excluding bloc my beloved, I think libs are the best choice of the three major parties rightnow
not that my opinion of this matters
Cons were basically running on a single issue (carbon tax) which Carney removed in his first couple weeks of being interum PM, so they lost their single issue
NDP is perma fucked into irrelevance unless they get rid of their current leader
they are a non factor and won't be for the next 10 years unless he fucking leaves
I think liberals without trump would have done okay after getting rid of trudeau, trump just sealed the deal
There is a genuine cultural shift occuring because it hit the point where the average "well meaning" person is fed up, stances on immigration are basically flipped from being very pro as a country to against
He is a politician and a banker, they are all evil
literally every politician is evil
Dude, not being nationalistic right now is lost capital in this election
I said this before, this is the most nationalistic I have seen my country
Spooky does not believe me because I guess his circle of Canadians are super pro joining the US
Because Polievier is viewed as trump lite (policy wise, absolute not, but he has tried to copy what made trump popular like having name slogans for the opposition like carbon tax carney)
Which was doing alright when people hated Trudeau, but not that he is gone is tanking him hard
Also the carbon tax carney thing backfired since carney got rid of the tax lmao
We will see how things turn out on the 28th
I still think its a lib minority government, but time will tell if they manage a majority somehow
Since NDP nuked itself, and bloc voters (seemingly) have mostly swapped to lib this election, this is the closest Canada has ever been to a 2 party system
I love Canadian elections because I keep forgetting its happening because excessive campaigning is not a thing like the states
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak Spooky does not believe me because I guess his circle of Canadians are super pro joining the US
I feel like I explain this over and over again
it's not "oh boy we can't wait to be victimized by daddy US as a 51st state"
the MAJORITY of normal non-boomer Canadians want to proceed with a system that advances shared cross-border intermingling and get to a point where they can have broader access to everything in the US
I know I was taking the piss
and most reasonable people, think the path to that is statehood, versus a larger union thing
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I know I was taking the piss
ik, I just had to confirm that I was lurking :p
I think a more european style of open borders would be the ideal most Canadians would have wanted pre-trump
Anyways fuck you mint, I am going back to studying
stop distracting me
Housing and immigration are still the top two issues in Canada, irronically Trump is a good distraction
because fixing either of those is..... hard
gl Canada
agreed those are the top two issues. Immigration was making some decent steps at the end before trump at least with them actually starting to kick people out of some provinces
not nearly enough, but some progress at least
housing is fucked because most of our wealth is tied in it, and it will not be fixed until an economic collapse maybe incentivices fixing it
hopefully the larger economic downturn convinces you guys to kick the rest of them out
since like 70% of politicians have investment houses
and thats just the ones who report it and don't do some shell game shit
I think immigration is easier to fix if we just make it prohibitively hard for the people who came on loopholes to work during their stay (they originally were, this was relaxed because the government is greedy and companies wanted cheap labour)
if the "students" cannot work a full time job, a lot of them will have no choice but to leave instead of "study"
If they leave, this will cause a cooling on the housing market presumably, at least for apartment rentals I think
I do not trust any party of my government to do this though, because again, they are evil
yep, though I do think it's fixible once the will is there
yeah I am curious to see what happens post this election
@mint
I cropped out the gay sex pic
was a very funny retweet
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak It is literally just
- Cons did not come out hard about the 51st state thing and people view them as weak when dealing with trump
- Libs got rid of Trudeau
I love watching J.J.McCollough (semi popular conservative canadian journalist) malding whenever Carney says something anti Trump/anti America and being like “no that’s not good don’t say that 😠” conservatives are dropping the ball on this free pass to win easy votes
They don't even have to say "we hate Trump". Literally just come out and say "the 51st state comments are unacceptable, and we will fight for the best interest of Canadians" or a similar platitude without specifically stating how
and they'd be better off
It won't happen, and stats show the majority of Canadians know its not a real threat, but it is annoying
in a sense that most Canadians do not want to be belittled by our "ally"