4 thoughts on “Roundup: More deficit vapours”

1. Looking forward on your column about Tory shitposters. don’t hold back!

2. Re: “Own the Libs” article.

   This article from the Columbia Journalism Review and the feed of this Global reporter (who was laid off along with several other BIPoC colleagues because her bosses deemed stories important to their communities as unserious “lifestyle” coverage and a waste of their budget) give a deeper insight into why the media dropped the Soros story like a hot potato in favor of horse race coverage (that for right now is somewhat unfavorable for the Liberals), and why they won’t go anywhere near Ballingall or ask Poilievre why he retweeted this stuff. (Ironically, O’Toole was asked about his “definition of systemic racism” on Ms Krishnan’s former network, by a *white, blonde* anchor who once *interned for the Pentagon* — that’s how systemic it is, *the media itself is an example of it*).

   https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/canada-oil-production-demand-climate-crisis.php

   https://twitter.com/ManishaKrishnan/status/1302000345900515328

   The CJR piece is about *oil companies underwriting Canada’s press* and why climate coverage is so lacking, but it gives credence to the notion that they are definitely running interference for the Conservatives. You won’t see much coverage of polls indicating that *their voter base doesn’t see climate change or racism as being a big deal*. The two are intertwined, which is why you don’t see any critical pushback of O’Toole’s “serious” Reconciliation plan that amounts to *moar pipelines* and sending in the cops to get those pesky natives out of the way like he and his party wanted Trudeau to do back in January.

   The media are oil-and-gaslighting that O’Toole is a “moderate” while ignoring Ballingall just like they did Hamish Marshall. Talk about two solitudes, the social media environment is a totally different universe from what gets presented in MSM. They’re again trying to push Trudeau out and now discredit Freeland, because they want to hang on to white (male) supremacy and oil supremacy. The fourth estate in Canada is gated, very white, and its property values underwritten and inflated by stranded assets that nobody wants.

3. Some new polling shows the penny-pinchers in the media are having an effect. That being said, a breakdown of that same poll shows that men, especially in the West, are more concerned about “muh deficit” than women, particularly in the East. Not coincidentally, the latter is where the Liberals dominate. Which is why the poll also showed that there is room for the Liberals to prove they have an economic plan. Build Back Better is also Biden’s slogan and Republicans have been fearmongering about deficits for years. Biden isn’t very articulate but Trudeau and now Freeland have a better grasp on framing the Cons as wanting cuts cuts cuts, “efficiencies” and austerity.

   At the same time, another poll by that same firm and for the same network conducted by the AFN, shows that Canadians want action on FN issues. Well, you can’t have it both ways because the latter won’t happen without investment, and the Cons aren’t going to provide that. So either there’s cognitive dissonance among the electorate or there is still a lot of uncertainty and polarization around this issue, or both things can be true at the same time.

   What appears clear as of right now, is that an actual election won’t be fought on the ballot box issue of fake scandal nonsense about Hillary’s/Justin’s WeMails/WeGhazi. It’ll be a choice between Building Back Better for the future, or Taking Canada Backwards, to the tight-fisted misery of 2006-2015. Plus some obligatory meat throws to O’Toole’s deplorable base who want to Make Canada Germany Again “Because It’s 1932.” The Cons can sputter b-b-b-but blaaaackface all they want, but at the end of the day I’m optimistic they’ll actually have to come up with a substantive policy platform that isn’t 100 pages of Trudeau bad. Which is something that they have never been able to do.

4. By the way, on this Labo(u)r Day I notice that O’Toole is pandering to the blue-collar demographic in his latest online ads. At the same time, Amarjeet Sohi has a new op-ed in the Edmonton Journal talking about how proud he is to be an immigrant who worked his way up mopping floors at Mickey Dees and being a bus driver. Wasn’t O’Toole part of the same newly fake-populist “grassroots” party that LAUGHED at Sohi when he spoke about this same experience in the HoC?

   Yet they, like the Republicans who count as White House occupants *checks notes* a Hollywood movie actor, a trust fund brat of a Texas oilman (and said Texas oilman himself), and a casino/hotel magnate turned reality TV D-list celebrity who tweets on gold-plated toilets and never does any work, as friends of the everyday working man, have the nerve to call the Liberals a cadre of out of touch elites in the same way the Republicans do to Democrats. Sure Jan, the party bankrolled by Koch Inc on both sides of the border is genuinely concerned about “crooked corporate elites.” The party that rammed through FIPA talks a good game about the Liberals being in hock to Ghina.

   Such allies of the Canadian worker who demean teachers every single day, both with their policies and their rhetoric of slamming Trudeau for never having a “real job.” Real jobs aren’t “women’s work” and they’re certainly not green work. Real jobs are manly man manufacturing and drill, baby, drill. This is the same party that ousted its leader for skimming 900 grand from his own party to send his kids to an expensive religious school. O’Toole is a corporate lawyer, the privileged son of an Ontario MPP. For that matter, how did Skippy, who’s never had a job besides career CPC hack, become a multi-millionaire? I’m waiting for O’Toole to “Don” an orange wig and start crowing about draining the swamp.

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