Poilievre launches his campaign promising to be "respectful and firm" against Trump
Poilievre launches his campaign promising to be "respectful and firm" against Trump
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre launched his campaign on Sunday at the Museum of History across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill.
They changed the headline on this article. It originally read, "Polievre launches campaign with a pitch to heal, 'a divided country'" which made me laugh because he's spent so much time whipping up the white grievance that carried Trump to power in the US and trying desperately to ride the same wave of populist bullshit with the same message as Trump. When he's railing about the, "woke" and "political correctness" that suggests that we can expect an all out assault of LGBTQ+ rights, brown people, books, and anything else they don't like.
Their opinion section is fetid shithole of right wing propaganda. Their news room accurately reported on what Poilievre said. We need to pay attention to the right wing media is saying because that's the teat that the aggrieved white are suckling at.
Thank you for pointing this out in big bold letters. Our citizens need to know when an article they read is being skewed towards the country that owns the media.
Keep your the good work!! Get this out to everyone when they post soft on US articles.
I guess they think "respectful and firm" is their best shot at taking a stand without alienating their base.
I don't think it's going to play.
I’ve never seen Pierre dish out respect.
According to moral foundations theory, there are six pillars through which humans perceive morality
- Caring
- Fairness
- Liberty
- Authority
- Loyalty
- Sancity
The first three are known as individualizing foundations and the last three are known as binding foundations.
Liberals tend to prioritize the first three. Conservatives tend to prioritize all equally which can lead to some contradicting world views. But the last three are less important to liberals so are more apparent among conservatives.
Conservatives in general have higher threat sensitivity. They are very in-group focussed. They believe that authority is morally just for maintaining order within a group, loyalty can often matter more than caring or fairness and that the sanctity of the group and its traditions are paramount.
This is where Poilievre needs to be very careful. Canadian conservatives perceive America as a legitimate outgroup threat and so their love language right now would be authority, loyalty and maintaining the sanctity of Canadian traditions.
Essentially, they would swoon over the Canadian version of Trump but that doesn't exist so what are our options? Right now, Carney has the advantage of being prime minister and taking a relatively strong stance against Trump.
Trudeau and Ford rushed over to the US to beg for exceptions while Carney has said he isn't going there to talk until they at least acknowledge our sovereignty. He's speaking a conservative love language by being authoritative.
Unless Poilievre can flip that script, he's going to have to get used to going from front runner to underdog at the flip of a switch. Starting with being "respectful but firm" is a weak response which will hurt his perception among conservatives.
Really need to get billboards up and out in Alberta to let the bulk of their citizens know the media they’re reading with a Pro US agenda are American owned and do not have the interests of Canadians at heart.
They don't care. They voted in that traitorous curr who is currently doing her best to sell out Canada. This is what they want.
Respectful and firm for trump yet every ad i get is a blatant attack on Carney. Buddy can go find a cliff to do a flip off of
I'm not interested at being respectful towards Trump.
"Firm" is completely sufficient. There is no need to be "respectful" to someone who don't respect others in the first place.
Respectful and firm as he rolls over and licks trump’s boots.
The irony that the guy still has Canada First signs up, a direct nod to MAGA, as has been all of his playbook since the Free Dumb Convoy.
Not only a direct nod to MAGA, but a slogan used in printed materials by the "Proud Boys" (another Canadian export that no one wanted)
Like every pro-Trump Canadian votes heavily conservative, which adds up, so they have to balance not getting primaried against being remotely viable in the actual election.
It will be interesting to see where this goes if they lose. Best case scenario, a new more anti-American conservatism arises. Worst case scenario they double down without collapsing and then eventually win a government by sheer force of FPTP.
You'd think the conservative party of all parties would take a hard line stance against foreign aggression. And yet here we are.
Conservative parties around the world have become fascist dictator supporting boot lickers.
OMG, "respectful and firm," that's an election-losing rhetoric in the current political climate.
"respectful and firm" vs "will meet after Trump says Canada is a sovereign country"
I'm gonna make a bet today - I think PP will lose the election and by more than a few percentage points.
Shh don’t tell him. Let them lose
"I am a tough guy. I will be very firm."
Can't even sound tough if he tries. Fucking loser that he is.
It hard for him to be hard on Trump when he’s got a hard on for Trump.
Oh he'll be hard on Trump all right. Beyond having an eminently punchable face, I have it from a very reliable source that pp is an absolutely vicious power bottom. He's gonna say so many mean things to Trump!
Respectful? He rapes women and wants to rape our country.
He's an enemy. No respect should be given.
Is he threatening to start wearing his glasses again?
LMAO
The creator of "boots not suits", good luck finding him not wearing a suit up until he declared that campaign, then he literally just took the suit jacket off but was awkwardly wearing the rest of the suit.
He is such a snake.
Meanwhile,
ElizabethDanielle Smith, Premiere of Alberta, said this about Poilievre:“So I would think that there’d be, there’s probably still always going to be areas that are skirmishes or disputes about particular industries when it comes to the border, but I would say, on balance, the perspective that Pierre would bring would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America,” she added. “And I think we’d have a really great relationship for the period of time they’re both in.”
Emphasis mine.
She's apparently advocates for Trump to keep tarrifs on during the election because she thinks it will hurt the Liberals.
She's a fucking traitor.
Agreed, and she seems to believe Poilievre is too.
Uhm her name is Danielle
Thanks. I have no idea where I got Elizabeth from.
I don't want respectful and firm, I want a PM to shove a pineapple up the asses of those threatening our sovereignty
What kind of pansy-ass approach is this?! We are so screwed if the conservatives win.