JohnnyCanuck

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

He wants to be emperor.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Now it's because of banks or some shit. The goal posts will just keep moving and because the real goal is to cripple the Canadian economy.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago

PH blocks itself in those states because of their ID requirements.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I've never tried it but almost did during Covid: you can use brewers yeast if you get desperate and I believe there are quite a few Canadian suppliers for that.

https://youtu.be/-ujgmQQSOWQ

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

I'm not positive, but I always took it as a conservative way to say "I have a tiny penis and I want to fuck Joe Biden!" Pretty sure that's what marjorie taylor greene means anyway.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I thought that's what let's go Brandon was too?

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Not yet, we still have hope it won't happen.

Our system is a bit different. We elect a party and that party has a leader. The leader of the elected party is the Prime Minister. The leader can step down and the party stays in power and selects a new leader, who then becomes Prime Minister. Trudeau stepped down and his party selected Carney to replace him, so we have a new prime minister and maintain a centrist government. (Centrist to us, left wing to the US.)

We can also have elections at any time, either by choice of the party in power, or forced by the opposition parties if they have enough seats in the government. Our current party in power, The Liberals, don't have a majority, so they've been maintaining power by making deals with a left wing party (the NDP or New Democratic Party). Liberal + NDP is one seat or so from a majority right now, so they've been finding additional support from other parties. This has actually worked out pretty well, as it has forced the government to be a little more proactive and given the left a good amount of power. There is always the threat of losing power and having to make different parties happy.

If the NDP (or others) decide they don't like Carney, they can force an election and then we will have the chance of getting that Conservative government you were worried about. Most likely they will wait a bit to see how things are going before doing that because their worst fear is forcing an election and ending up in a worse position (a Conservative majority.) If you hear that Canada has a new Prime Minister named Poilievre in the next year, you'll know we just ran into the same shit you guys did.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

because we want him to be better than Poilievre

Or at least seem better than Poilievre to the people who might vote conservative.

 

Nothing says "classy" like flying that flag.

Good L🍁ck Trudeau! (But also, don't let the door hit you on the way out...)

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I just learned about it, but it's called the "Newfoundland Curse" not the "Newfoundlander Curse" or the "Newfie Curse".

It's a curse of the land that some newfies get struck with, not a curse of the people that all are afflicted with.

A Newfie Curse would be "Lord tunderin' Jesus, the arse is gone out of 'er!"

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will shit, this would be quite the way to find out I'm cursed. I get irregular heartbeats all the time and half my ancestry is Newfie going way back...

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 days ago

Get Brianthompson'd, Reddit.

 

Would it be antithetical? Would it help them push the agenda? Could it be an end game?

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