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Will the craziest of the crazies split the crazy?
Or will he normalize it.
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8 minutes ago
Sunday, August 04, 2019
Normalizing Andy?
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EverythingVille
I haven't quite figured it out yet...
Will the craziest of the crazies split the crazy?
Or will he normalize it.
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EverythingVille
I haven't quite figured it out yet...
Will the craziest of the crazies split the crazy?
Or will he normalize it.
.
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I hope for a minority gov`t. With our system, lot better than another 39% majority.
If only a split will make that happen.
Read @AndrewScheer’s immigration “plan,” where he DEPLORES that a record number of Canadians want lower immigration.
He says it’s “sad.”
Bernier is trying to do a trump, and as we've seen this weekend we know how that has turned out. Extreme multiculturalism, wonder what that actually means to Bernier. One would conclude it means we only accept one type of immigrant into Canada. Now would that be only those from China, only those who were Muslim, those only from India, or those who were only WASPs? If we are to eliminate "multiculturalism" the we ought to start by all of us leaving Canada and leaving it for the First Nations.
The craziness has begun and don't be surprised if Bernier has engaged some American republican strategists. As to Scheer and his immigration plan, in my opinion, he is lying. He loves a "record number of Canadians want lower immigration". Lets remember his campaign manager is Hamish Marshall, formerly of The Rebel and for those of you who have had the misfortune to read it, its not exactly welcoming of non WASP types. If I'm not mistaken Hamish and Ezra used to mingle with the alt-right out of the u.S.A., faith goldy, etc. We know there are pictures out there of Faith goldy and her little boy band and Ford. You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Looks to me like Bernier, is trying to take his Quebec nationalism country wide. Perhaps he'd like some of those white terrorists to come to Canada also............
Maxime Bernier could win the votes of every outlaw biker across the land for whom crazy-ass bigotry is already normal, but still not normalize it in the popular context. How his appeal to extreme monoculturalism relates to splitting the neo-right vote probably has as much to do with the other-made man himself as with the ever-politically distinct Quebec whence he came and so peevishly painted himself into a corner where demagoguery is his last chance to make a name for himself in a field for which he’s all but disqualified himself.
Harper’s grand strategy needed to unite the right and rebuild support in Quebec, the personnel for which he picked on the basis of appearances rather than merit, as Peter MacKay, needed for the former, and Bernier, intended to achieve the latter, showed: both their politician fathers got them their jobs and both typically displayed a certain degree of self-entitlement in doing them. Bernier, who was groomed as Harper’s “golden boy” Quebec lieutenant, has been a particularly spectacular example of a ‘reverse Peter Principle’: instead of rising to his level of incompetence after winning his father’s old Beauce region seat in 2006, he rather sank from the top down, as soon as the rookie MP replaced MacKay in the powerful Foreign Affairs portfolio (for which Neither was competent), to his own level of competence which is apparently recruiting fringe groups of anti-immigrant racists like the quasi-biker gang La Meute (“The Wolfpack”) or the Soldiers of Odin on the Prairies.
That Bernier could interpret such a fall, from powerful minister of the Crown to a one-seat shit-fly, as an achievement perhaps explains how he seems genuinely oblivious to the fact that most observers see him as peevishly gormless instead of politically clever. Selecting himself the revealing dress he wanted his buxom biker girlfriend to wear at the Queen’s representative’s mansion for the Cons’ swearing in stirred opprobrium he seemed to honestly not understand; and of course he did accept that leaving official, top-secret documents at her pad was worthy of his resignation—which he affected with barely a hint of snit. As Ms Quillard wrote in her subsequent tell-all book, Max seemed more concerned with his looks that with matters of diplomatic politics. His oft-cited charm is, in other words, skin deep and, under the sizzle there isn’t much steak.
But losing the 13th ballot to Andrew Scheer in the Con leadership contest—after leading him for 12–saw Mad Max in full peevishness revealed. Worse, his Prairie rival sneaked into Bernier’s home turf to do it by assuring the powerful Quebec dairy industry that managed production quotas would be protected under Scheer’s leadership —especially irksome that Max’s main object had long been to do away with marketing boards altogether and let the free market reign. Max had won 49% of members’ votes touting such a policy—almost half the party—which he felt justified publishing a book about his self-perceived unfair loss while he should have been doing the job his constituents elected him to do. It brought him to the zenith of a nadir he didn’t seem to recognize and soon led him to quit the party so treacherously united to start a second, rival neo-right party with one Commons seat, his own.
Slick cluelessness might be characteristic of political sons like MacKay and Bernier—maybe even JT himself. Yet we notice that JT shot from a rookie leader of a third-place party to become the Prime Minister while Bernier never did much more than sink from the next most-powerful position in government to his present, one-popular-rung lower than even Elizabeth May’s Greens at the other extreme of the power spectrum. He has shrivelled back to his starting point to find the mojo for his empire of bigotry—and it won’t extend much outside Quebec, even for splitting votes.
Scotty on Deman, great piece!
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Agreed!
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