It is days like today I wish truth.social was Federated so I could personally tell Donald Trump to stfu.

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦

@stephanie @chris
Well, we all know Trump’s ‘border crisis’ is a fabrication. Just as it has been at their Southern border.

Trump just needs there to be some kind of ‘crisis’ in order to leverage people’s fears to drive his agenda, and it turns out that racism plays well with his base.

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@stephanie @chris
We’ve just committed $1.3B to address a made-up problem, based on the impulsive musings of a compulsive liar.

I can just see the convicted felon bragging to his crony pals about how when he says ‘jump’ Canada asks ‘how high?’.

And he’ll slap us with tariffs anyhow, because it was never about the border. ‍️

#CDNPoli #CDNNatSec

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-plan-leblanc-trump-1.7412456

Hubert Figuière

@Crispius @stephanie @chris I wonder if that's why Chrystia Freeland said "fuck this". Because as a key negotiator in the previous trade deal (that fucked us on copyright) she knows...

Courage isn't an attribute of our class of politicians

(and just to put it into context, PP would bend even further)

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦

@hub
PP is campaigning to become Obergruppenführer under the new reich.

@stephanie @chris

Stéphanie

@Crispius @hub @chris I keep refreshing LaPresse to see what's happening with Trudeau lol

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦

@[email protected]
It looks like we’re not going to find anything out until after the Christmas break, as JT plans to ‘use this time to reflect’.

@hub @chris

Stéphanie

@Crispius @hub @chris Oh did he say that?

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦

@stephanie
That’s what I took from this:

https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2024/12/17/justin-trudeau-taking-the-time-to-reflect-after-chrystia-freelands-departure/

@hub @chris

Stéphanie

@Crispius @hub @chris Thanks for the info! That makes sense.

But you can see how power changes people. I read the comments of a journalist who wrote about Trudeau before he was PM, and he couldn't believe the change in ego, and lack of self-reflection

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@stephanie
My [completely amateur & speculative] take on this whole debacle is that there has been a plan to replace JT in the works for quite a while, and it involves crowning Mark Carney as JT’s replacement. (Somebody on here called it Ignatieff 2.0 and I think the that’s pretty accurate.)

Whether or not JT is in on the plan is unclear.

I think Freeland either caught wind of the plan, or Carney wrote some/all of the financial statement and she refused to put her name to it. Either way, Freeland smells blood in the water and decided to use the opportunity to establish herself as distinct and separate from the PM and prepare for her candidacy in the oncoming leadership challenge.

I expect JT to step down at some point, but something needs to be done about getting Carney a seat in the house, so that might determine the timeline.

I suspect a prorogation of parliament will happen at some point to allow the liberals to select a leader before the writ is dropped.

@hub @chris

Tim Locke 🇨🇦♥🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@Crispius @stephanie @hub @chris I heard they are running Carney in Ottawa South in a by election.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@timlocke @Crispius @stephanie @hub Carney would be a fool to run right now…

Tim Locke 🇨🇦♥🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@chris @Crispius @stephanie @hub ...to be FM not PM.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@timlocke @Crispius @stephanie @hub either one. He’d be on a sinking ship. Who wants to be FM for 30 days to 6 months. Let LeBlanc do that.

Dani 🌹🌻

@chris The piece of orange shit just has to stay in the news 24-7 and Canadian news has to carry it. This is how it's going to be the next 4 years. It's sickening.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@DaniEhm 🤮

JeffreySmith 🌻🍉

@chris

It is always unfortunate when you have a rapist as a neighbor. Almost as bad as having one for a president. I worry most for our neighbor to the south, Mexico, as trump seeks a scapegoat for our failure to decrease american demand for drugs.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@JeffreySmith agreed on all points