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I am usually reluctant to link to The Sun but it’s extremely interesting to remember what most of the right thought about PP ten years ago…

https://torontosun.com/2013/07/15/pipsqueak-promotion-cheapens-shuffle

Pipsqueak is one of the Conservative Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like the Biblical Horsemen, everything he says and does is bad. Everything that is good that he touches withers and dies.

Pipsqueak, who Harper actually named minister of state for democratic reform, is in fact one of the most despicable, loathsome politicians to ever grace the national stage. He is a pestilence made flesh.

A refresher: Pipsqueak is the Conservative MP who famously joked about “tar babies” in the House of Commons, a derogatory term to describe blacks. He is the MP who attacked Harper for compensating aboriginal residential schools victims, opining that what those lazy natives needed was “hard work.” He is the MP who told his fellow MPs “f— you guys,” and then later said he would “confiscate” the tape of the occasion.

He is the Conservative MP who can always be counted upon to do the bidding of the adolescents in PMO. He is the MP who even big-C Conservative commentators, like the Ottawa Citizen’s Randy Denley, say is the poster child of “red-necked bigots” in his Nepean-Carleton riding. Ouch.

There is more, much more, but you get the point. Pipsqueak Pierre Poilievre is a disgrace to Parliament. He is a joke. And whatever Harper may have accomplished with his shuffle was unalterably diminished by the promotion of Pipsqueak.

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27 points

Yeah people forget that he’s been shitty for a long time, and that he isn’t some outsider.

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22 points

The problem was never his glasses.

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13 points

I still say his hard-on for defunding the CBC goes all the way back to The Mercer Report.

I had people challenge me on that belief awhile back, saying that nobody could hold a grudge that long. And yet we find out today that one producer stopped Babylon 5 in its tracks for 20 fucking years. So yes, Internet, people in power can hold a grudge as long as they goddamn please.

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Wait, I’m actually really curious about this Babylon 5 tidbit. Who was that? What happened?

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14 points

“A refresher: Pipsqueak is the Conservative MP who famously joked about “tar babies” in the House of Commons, a derogatory term to describe blacks. He is the MP who attacked Harper for compensating aboriginal residential schools victims, opining that what those lazy natives needed was “hard work.” He is the MP who told his fellow MPs “f— you guys,” and then later said he would “confiscate” the tape of the occasion.”

What piece of shit.

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40 points

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11 points

That is totally what he looks like without them too!

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6 points

On the one hand, I am loathe to mock or belittle people based on their physical appearance - it’s cruel and immature.

On the other hand, he chose to make this change and holy shit but does he ever look exactly like a glasses-less Milhouse, and it makes me giggle like a small child.

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35 points

Perhaps he should drop his racist “base”.

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5 points

I mean, tbf, he’s pretty racist himself

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3 points

Best I can do is contacts.

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29 points

This seems like they are trying the political version of the trope where the “ugly duckling nerd” come back to school after summer with a new haircut and contacts and is suddenly “hot”.

Do they really think the people on this country are that stupid? Polliviere is still the same cretin he was before.

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29 points

Remember when they had Stockwell Day arrive at a press conference in a seadoo?

These guys do everything under the sun other than try to meaningfully help people or be accepting of different cultures / ideas / sexuality … and instead try to pretend to be hip and new.

Whenever they try … they just come off looking like idiots.

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It works though, albeit only on people that use their emotions for decision making.

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6 points

I suspect a good portion of the people who would be fooled, are already PP supporters.

I suppose it might make a slight bump, and with FPTP, sometimes that’s all you need, but still seems like window-dressing, because it is.

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5 points

Agreed, it sucks to sit here and see every party doing easy things that makes them look good rather than tackling the real problems under their jurisdictions. It extends far past the topics you mentioned, including inflation, housing prices, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.

I’m beginning to think that the Conservatives drank their own kool-aid and actually believe Trudeau only won due to his hair.

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7 points

Do they really think the people on this country are that stupid?

Some of them are, at least in the critical thinking and self perception department.

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5 points

They forgot the bit where the “ugly duckling nerd” is clearly a fucking smoke show and they had to work hard to make them seem ugly.

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19 points

Woohoo! Hey can you get a new personality at the same time too?

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20 points

And a new set of political beliefs.

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16 points

They made him look too smart. The base hates smart, that’s elitist.

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3 points

“If I don’t personally understand it, and it might change the way I do/view things, must be a conspiracy”

Wilful ignorance

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