— Feature, Musings —11.23.2025 11:06 AM
— Feature, Musings —11.23.2025 11:06 AM
“Catchier than a drawer full of fish hooks.”
I am stealing that. Witch Post and Billy King & the Bad Bad Bad definitely fit the bill. Never heard of either so thank-you.
More massaging of the algorithm.
Chris who, Brian?
On the Epstein files-from Taibbi, some gold:
“Larry Summers is a rare perfect 10 on the celebrity-repugnance scale. He’s everything most normal people can’t stand about the current crop of “elites”: an arrogant Davos fixture whose toad face always looks pleased with his legacy of disastrous policy decisions, and who personifies his class’s habit of lavishing exalted academic titles on intellectual mediocrity.
Now he’s pioneered a new ritual, auto-cancellation. “I will be stepping back from public commitments” is cancel-culture seppuku, a way to give the mob a win before it gets going. That’s always a questionable tactic, but especially with the Jeffrey Epstein story, which is fast acquiring a familiar shape: a factually diffuse moral mania used as a disciplinary weapon by a media sector hungry for pelts.”
Pretty good pelt. Former president of Harvard and Secretary of The Treasury. I see his wiki page has been updated:
“In November 2023, Summers joined the board of directors of artificial intelligence organization OpenAI, before resigning in November 2025 after revelations about his ties to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.[9][10]”
I am sure there will be many others that get hoisted with their own petards and I literally said here that maybe T knows exactly what he is doing.
Warren,
Steve Outhouse, a name but also a likely metaphor. They should have chosen Jesus, because it’s a miracle that Pierre needs. He won’t get one.
Ronald,
This morning, pollster Angus Reid, reporting the Liberals out in front, 40-38.
Extremely reliable poll: 2,000 respondents.
Mystified as to why the Conservatives have essentially kept their powder dry the past few months.
Almost no social-media messaging, which they have done extremely well in the past.
No social-media messaging because the Conservative war room doesn’t know which end is up? (Likely)
Or, is it because they have a sense of what’s ahead, and they don’t want to show their cards, now?
Either way, I’m surprised the Liberal lead isn’t larger, given the favourable attention that the Carney government continues to draw from mainstream media.
The PM is one lucky guy, just like his predecessor.
Douglas,
Pierre thinks God will do a Hail Mary for the CPC. The OLO is going through the motions, hoping to get 85-90%+ on the leadership review vote. They will get that but it’s still politically irrelevant given that Pierre continues to weigh us down. That will continue up until election night. Glad I’m not him. Two humiliating losses in a row is more than I could bear.
Poilièvre, maybe 70%
Douglas,
They picked Calgary for a reason: to have staunch and unquestioning allies in control of the leadership review process. In short, no unpleasant surprises. Then they took control of the delegate selection process in each riding in order to weed out as best they could hostile opposition. It was a fine piece of devious strategy. So, the number will be a strong one. His problem is he knows how to win the party but hasn’t got a clue how to win the country and it shows. He’s no fucking Mulroney, I’ll tell you that.
Meanwhile, as I speculated elsewhere, it’s coming out how the clueless and hopeless PM was trying to sink his own government. They didn’t TRY very hard now did they…these bozos blew that like they do pretty much everything else. Carney should be running a lemonade stand at best. This is proof positive of how we would flatten them but good in a New York minute if anyone other than YouKnowWhoTM was our leader. HE can’t even come anywhere close to beating this guy. Pathetic…
Warren,
Strangely enough, I’m not a convention delegate. Ha, ha, ha.
The membership will move strongly and decisively to my side but only after he blows us out of the water in the campaign. Too little, far too late. Oh well, opposition benches here we come. At least by then we’ll have the numbers to push him out, but I don’t think it will come to that. After his second humiliation, he will finally see reason and go voluntarily just like his “idol”, Trudeau. LOL.
Apparently, the NDP got wind of the Liberal strategy and pulled off a masterstroke: voting No with a few abstentions so they could live to fight another day under a new leader. Stupid, sloppy, Liberals. Outclassed even by the champagne social-democrats.
Meanwhile, we looked like idiots with Scheer babysitting behind the curtain to make sure no one voted Red at the last minute. That’s the true picture of Pierre’s leadership in action: heavy-handed intimidation with lackeys willingly at his service. I wonder if Scheer polishes his shoes?
Warren,
The problem for Pierre is that this is an inevitable two-step process. First, they figleaf Byrne for appearances’ sake and then after the loss, they inevitably get to throw the leader under the bus in Byrne’s company. I will have a broad smile on my face when sanity finally returns to my party. We can concentrate on winning after the DynamicDuoTM is political history. Looking forward to it. Might still vote CPC in my riding. We’ll see. My MP is a great guy.
Why wouldn’t you vote CPC in your own riding? I have thoughts as someone who(again) seems to have been sucked into helping with end of year fundraising for our EDA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU
This attitude folks in our party take when they have a problem with the leader drives me nuts. The choice still remains binary(just like it was in 2015 but I digress). To be fair, I watched retired and active MPs sit on their hands just because they didn’t like O’Toole’s tactics in that leadership race. Boo hoo. Grow up. He was still better than Trudeau.
Martin,
I take your point but in my eyes, Pierre is not better than Carney. So there you go but definitely won’t be voting Liberal. The only power we have as citizens is in the vote and I will gladly keep Pierre out at all cost. Usually fully finance my MP and then vote accordingly. It isn’t a definite No so far but it could become a definite No. All of that will depend on how Pierre acts between now and the election. If he goes off the right-wing deep end, no money or vote for my MP.
The real problem is you have two parties trying to masquerade as one – the pcs and the reform party and Pierre is a reformer with limited appeal outside of his western base. A pc leader would be a better pick for the general election, but the western base won’t have it.
Hilarious CBC talking points. Until folks wise up I am going to continue to cash in my very tax efficient Brookfield payouts and enjoy the wealth shift. Elbows up!
Curious,
The western base still isn’t fed up of losing. Maybe they will be after Pierre blows us out of the water next year. By then, FIVE losses in a row, the mark of true winners…
Ronald,
I still very much believe the next election will be a coin toss.
Folks are hurting.
Mega projects, with completion dates of five years or more, does not help their current hardship.
If I were Carney, I’d go to the people by Spring at the latest because … things are not getting better and Canadians are growing impatient
The western base, like in most conservative circles these days is inundated with bullshit propaganda – so there no hope for them becoming enlightened or reasonable – they’re hooked on propaganda that rationalizes bigotry or unhinged greed – they’re completely filled with shit.
The problem with the Conservatives is they’re divided. For me, Pierre Poilievre isn’t conservative enough, but I still support him. I understand some wish he were more in the centre. For the most part, the Liberals are more united.
Well said Gilbert.
Yes. He said folks like you will vote Liberal blindly. Although to be fair, your elbows likely block your vision. So it was well said.
You must not be a fan of Ford then.
Ford would lose a federal election too – he’s done well in Ontario but voting federally is a different ball game.
That was directed at Gilbert. We know your views on everyone to the right of you.
Gilbert,
Agreed, the Liberals are more united.
They’re also extremely incompetent and corrupt.
And they have caused great harm to this wonderful country over the past decade.
Care to disagree?
Warren,
Carney says there will be no pipeline if there is no proponent. Hum.
Can you say?:
Inter Pipeline, NTS Pipeline, ADNOC Gas Pipelines,
Colonial Pipeline and Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America.
As we sing in French: La, la, la,la,la, la!
Anyone who is all excited about a MOU has never worked in the actual real world. A MOU doesn’t even reach the level of LOI. And a letter of intent literally has this language in it:
“This non-binding indication of interest is confidential and may not be disclosed other than to you, the Company, and its advisors on a strictly need-to-know basis. It is not intended, and shall not be deemed, to create any binding obligation on the part of XXXX, or any of its affiliates, to engage in any transaction with the Company or to continue its consideration of any such transaction. Subject to the immediately following sentence, none of the parties shall be bound in any way in connection with this letter unless and until the parties execute a definitive agreement, and then shall be bound only in accordance with the terms of such agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this letter, the Exclusivity and Confidentiality Agreement, once executed by the parties thereto, shall constitute binding obligations of the parties thereto.”
Martin,
Pretend you’re still with S. Think like a Liberal: the PM has the MOU moving ahead so he can enthusiastically do their bidding as a proud large cap corporatist. The proponent already exists but it’s being kept secret so the proponent can likely find a way through a myriad of shell companies to legally distance themselves from their blood ally, otherwise known as this government. Corporate masters tend to own people and it shows.
Was just talking to another pragmatist Tory who was disappointed in the election results but figured he might as well roll with it(at the expense of folks like Curious but I digress). Made a big bet on Brookfield which is up 33% since the election. That pays for a lot of elbow pads! The dirty little secret I have been talking about on this site for years. It is so cute that anyone thinks Carney isn’t just in it just for his billionaire BFFs!
On the pipeline, could make a worse bet than South Bow. And collect a 7.29% coupon while waiting for something to happen.