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Okay, but I hate the reaction guy’s reaction video even more than pp’s response.
This is important. If we are ever given good material we need to shit on the content creator making the content instead of the actual content.
This is the way. Always take a minute to point out how superior we are. We cannot accept this savagery. What will it get us
Reaction videos are the worst of coat-tailers.
Steve Boots isn’t a reaction channel, he mostly does structured political commentary. This is really just for short form format.
I don’t really want to click it… Can someone summarize? Lol
Don’t please don’t drive traffic to content creators working to make their side look like idiots. Don’t support that stuff. We want less of that
Question: What sort of instructions have you given to your caucus and candidates about wearing MAGA merchandise or using MAGA slogans?
Paraphrasing a little here because the annoying streamer pauses every two words to interject with something like “wow!” or “muh muh muh muh” making it difficult to actually hear the answer to the question.
Poilievre: The instruction is that we put Canada first whether that means standing up to American aggression or against the destructive Liberal policies that have made us weak and helpless and reliant on the US. I also made it clear we need to unleash the free enterprise system to reverse the destructive Liberal policies of the last ten years of taxes that have made us weak and supported extremism so we can restore the Canadian promise.
Aka, he wanys us to be America, free as long as you have enough money. Removing taxes will decrease government income, they still want a raise and they get it by cutting services or selling assets and it makes Canada weaker and increases poverty which increases crime rates.
Fuck Conservatives
“we’re gonna be fiscally responsible unlike the TAX AND SPEND LIBRULS” - proceeds to say they will spend 100 billion dollars while also cutting government revenues. 🥴🤡
So he dodges the question by sliding in talking points:
- libruls bad … somehow
- free enterprise … because regulation and safety are bad
- drop taxes … and then services because no money
What’s the Canadian promise? Is it the same “private healthcare, fuck the unemployed, fuck the outsiders, why am I even talking to you plebes” conservative M-O?
We have had stagnant GDP growth for a decade, exploding housing prices, doctor shortage, food bank usage is skyrocketing, people are living in rest stops, on average we are poorer than the poorest state as they attempt to plaster over falling GDP using mass immigration. That is why Liberals are bad and why economic growth is important, part of that is dropping taxes so we can accrue investment, as the Bank of Canada literally raises the alarm bells for a lack of productive investment into Canada.
When you hurt poor people this badly for a decade usually you’d recognize the reality around you. If you’re going to tax people it also needs to be spent on something productive, not consumption but mass transit, why we still dont have high speed rail spanning from every major city while spending this much is a joke.
We have had stagnant GDP growth for a decade
Understanding basic math and economics can help a lot here. If the country’s population is growing at the same speed as its economy, the per-capita GDP will be about 0%. After inflation, Canada has seen a 17% GDP growth, which is more than the average.
exploding housing prices
Because of investors, and for no other non-trivial reason.
It’s the investors who buy up 5, 10, 15 or even more homes to then rent out, which are the problem. They are the ones who drive up the price and then leverage the “captive market” to charge whatever rents they want, because prices are too high for renters to afford, and rents are too high for them to save.
It’s the investors who buy homes “on spec” only to flip them near completion for twice (or more!) what they originally paid which are the problem. They are the ones driving home prices up purely for profit, likely having never seen the place.
It’s the investors who buy homes to flip, slap on a coat of paint and shove in a cheap IKEA kitchen before listing it for 20% more than what they paid which are the problem. They make no material improvements, frequently introduce problems via shitty work, and then expect to reap outsized rewards for something that is usually worse off than when they first got it.
And who encouraged these “investors”? The mortgage deregulation of the Mulroney and Harper administrations.
doctor shortage
Decades-long Conservative defunding of healthcare in order to “prove” it “doesn’t work”.
food bank usage is skyrocketing
Greedflation, thanks to food chain consolidation. Most of which was enabled by Conservative policies. The Libs looked the other way, but didn’t explicitly encourage it like the Conservatives did.
people are living in rest stops
See: “investors”, above.
on average we are poorer than the poorest state as they attempt to plaster over falling GDP using mass immigration.
How bad at math are you?
Canada’s GDP has grown by 17%, after inflation, over the last decade. They only reason why per capita GDP is near zero is because it is per capita… if population grows in lockstep with GDP, the math is inevitable that the per capita GDP will be almost nothing. But the overall after-inflation GDP is better than most OECD countries.
If anything, mass immigration hurts GDP numbers, it doesn’t help them.
part of that is dropping taxes
Except the only taxes that Conservatives will actually be dropping will be those of the wealthy and hyper-wealthy, because those are their campaign donors. This will put the taxation burden on those who can least afford it - the working class. And when tax revenues drop, out comes the cuts to social services, leading to more cracks that people and families fall through and more homeless people living out of their vehicles.
It’s a well-worn path walked by all conservative political parties world-wide, PeePee will be no different.
Liberal policies made us reliant on the US but aren’t the conservatives saying they are going to protect Canada’s sovereignty by trading with the US and using those profits to invest in the military? Wouldn’t that make us dependent on the US to solve the sovereignty issue that was started by the US?
Politician spews BS to avoid answering question about why one of his aides wore a stupid red MAGA hat.
Random Youtuber comments.spews BS to avoid answering question
It’s wild to witness! Not only did he avoid the question, but he started going off about “The Liberals”! LOL
Answering a question other than the one that was asked is a common avoidance technique used by politicians. It allows then to simulate a conversation and fill the air without actually saying anything.
Paying a modicum of attention to the actual content of what a politician says and rating how relevant what they say is to the matter being discussed is a very effective way to quickly determine whether you’re watching a guy with real convictions you want to vote for or a con artist.
I don’t find Poilievre’s performance wild so much as depressingly common.
The canned answer is standard-fare in politics because the media has been so happy to play clips of any mis-spoken comment on a loop starting in maybe the 90s?
The problem here is that he should have a goddamned canned response ready for such a soft-ball question. “We don’t tolerate that, I’ve told them if they are not for Canada, they are out!” (crowd cheers, he wins the election, yada yada). He can’t even manage that low bar.
When it’s done once in a while, sure.
But I think Trump set the stage for normalizing this, and it’s maddening to think that someone can hear what PP just said, and believe that he did a great job with that answer.
I think Trump set the stage for normalizing this,
Oh hell no. I’ve heard politicians use that trick literally for decades.
First time listening to a politician?
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