I don't begrudge Mr. Poilievre his post-political career as a right-wing uninformed opinion-sharer; the guy's gotta eat, he's got a family, etc. etc.
But what's up with the party? They're content to incubate the next mini-Alex Jones?
"Bugger 'government in waiting,' we're making a Limbaugh Jr.!"
A screen grab of David Mitchell as a burgler having a really bad day.
Fans of David Mitchell & Robert Web's sketch work? Look up Bruiser from 2000. Quite nice to find them with Olivia Coleman and Martin Freeman; pre-peep show nascent genius; quite an unexpected delight.
It's like a "one last heist" thriller and this is the part where we're getting The Gang back together.
Speed cameras are a "cash grab" like parking meters are a cash grab like fines for rolling stop signs are a cash grab like drivers' licenses and vehicle registration....
We decided long ago that automobiles were so hazardous if misused we'd apply financial incentives to regulate them. It works.
"I didn't vote for thi-"
"Dad, no."
"But-"
"You voted for it, dad."
How does it work?
Menu for the White House Correspondents' Dinner:
/ Gulf of America shrimp cocktail
/ Leni Riefenstahl salad, sanewashed and served with normalized onions
/ Quisling stew
/ Quiet Piggy pork roast
/ Sauvignon Blanc, very blanc, imported from South Africa
/ Orange sherbet
/ Let them eat cake
Weird how this improvisational purity test only applies when the floor crossing goes right to left and not t'other way 'round, eh?
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"Mmyeahbut my kids *really* wanna see Disneyland this summer."
~ Asshats
"Whuddabout all them tricked-out vans with, like, gnarly paint jobs and custom windows? Other provinces got loads of 'em; how come youse won't let me have one? No fair, Ontario."
~ Doug Ford, Probably
This is why I find it increasingly difficult to meet my Ontario neighbours with a hale & hardy "how d'you do!" when I bump into them walking their dogs or selecting bananas or whatever.
Forty percent (!) of you would still vote for a guy who spends your taxes like my auntie buys tchotchkes on TSC.
1) buys jet
2) public outcry
3) promises to sell jet
4) explains in detail how unfair it is that he has to sell his jet but other politicians get private jets and somehow that's just okey-doaky yet when I do it you get all huffy and you know what that's fine just fine whatever I'll be in my office.
It seems natural to assume they would want to win elections and form government, but what if a decade railing against Trudeau has inured enough of them to perpetual opposition?
What I'm seeing now is what I'd expect from cantankerous curmudgeons content to impotently shake their fists at the sky.
A b&w photo of Gong in the '70s.
Happy #fourTwenty to all who celebrate.
"If you want to get into it, you have to get out of it."
~ Gong
Indeed. They tried a more-or-less electable leader and they didn't like it — they sent Mr. O'Toole packing.
I can think of better ways for an Opposition to represent their constituents, but who am I to tell people how to vote? They like it like this? Fine, let 'em have it.
COUNTERPOINT: He's winning at retaining the affections of the most stridently right-leaning elements within his party. They don't want an electable leader; they want angsty indignation and ham-fisted calumny directed at "Wokeness," and Mr. Poilievre wants to live in Stornoway.
Everybody's happy!
Today on Conservatives Are Prudent Stewards of the Economy...
"I'm investing in wildly volatile crypto tchotchkes!"
"I bought a luxury jet just to sell it at a loss when folks noticed!"
"I stole from importers and now I gotta pay the money back!"
Stock photo of the woman from the previous post without the wineglass, again on the phone.
"Hi, The Shopping Channel Customer Service? Yes, can you help? I purchased a Bombardier Challenger 650 last week and, well, it just doesn't fit. How do I, like.... Do you send a guy or do I have to drop it off someplace or... ok. I see. Uh-huh. Restocking fee, huh? How much is... oh, wow. Gosh."
I'm glad he's sensitive to public pressure, and hooray for us for making a stink that made a difference this time, but it's still a helluva way to run a province.
Please, my neighbours, I'm begging you: vote!
A woman with a glass of wine on the phone. stock photo
typical screen grab the home shopping channel
"...and she says to me go take the dryer at the end but- wait, hang on, hold the phone Gladys... they got a private jet plane on TSC, it's in my colours! I gotta get it call you back K bye."
The money lost instantly reselling a custom-outfitted luxury private jet is no big deal — to Doug Ford. It ain't *his* money he's spending like my drunk auntie watching The Shopping Channel & ordering random tchotchkes.
Remember this the next time you hear, "Conservatives are good fiscal managers."
This would be a good time to have an informed, intelligent and mature leader guiding the Official Opposition, but Mr. Poilievre is still working through issues that have haunted him since recess forty years ago.
This [below] is still live on their website.
Creepy b&w photo of a sad clown.
At first, the Geek resents being demoted to the lowest rank in the circus. But after years of children laughing at him as they fling nickles, he becomes inured to his fate and actually develops an appetite for chicken heads.
Guy Whose Mom Says He's Handsome Not Getting Any; Why?
Quincy M.E.
a longitudinal slice of rancid pickle
It's as though their fear and loathing manifested into the very thing they could not stop themselves imagining.
Make movies of your cat heroically schnagging treats out of mid-air and set them to music. Chicks dig it.
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The malice which motivates Mr. Ford's "attend-or-else" punishment is not aimed at children as they are, but rather as he imagines them: truant slackers with nothing better to do than skip class and hang out at the mall with their drug buddies.
Because that was *his* experience of being a teenager.
If you were some kind of Batman villain who wanted to make sure the maximum number of children were as sick as possible for the maximum amount of time — making grades dependent on attendance in ill-ventillated close quarters would be your first move.
