[Newsbot]

Title: Conservatives start counting record number of ballots in party leadership election
Category: Political
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2022-09-08 10:12:27
Canadian

[Strutz]

This should be interesting... we'll know on Saturday apparently.

[raydan]

FUCK NO... we'd be going down Trump Lane!!!
Who the fuck is she?
Blast from the past but FUCK NO!!!
Who the fuck is he?
Who the fuck is he?

[DrCaleb]

raydan raydan:

FUCK NO... we'd be going down Trump Lane!!!
Who the fuck is she?
Blast from the past but FUCK NO!!!
Who the fuck is he?
Who the fuck is he?

- The new king, coronation predicted.
- Crazy lady.
- Chinese sellout.
- No idea.
- No idea.

[bootlegga]

raydan raydan:

FUCK NO... we'd be going down Trump Lane!!!
Who the fuck is she?
Blast from the past but FUCK NO!!!
Who the fuck is he?
Who the fuck is he?

All bad choices by most accounts, but as usual, the CPC shoots itself in the foot.

Now we just need tp wait another month to see another right wing party do the exact same thing!

[Strutz]

It kind of surprises me that the turnout for voting within a party is so low (65%) yet a record setting number. I would have thought if you are a member with voting rights you'd take more interest in who will be your leader.

[DrCaleb]

Strutz Strutz:

It kind of surprises me that the turnout for voting within a party is so low (65%) yet a record setting number. I would have thought if you are a member with voting rights you'd take more interest in who will be your leader.

This is the same trend with the public in general, and we don't have to pay for a party membership. It seems that the lack of a viable candidate breeds apathy in the voter base, regardless of general or party elections.

[Strutz]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Strutz Strutz:

It kind of surprises me that the turnout for voting within a party is so low (65%) yet a record setting number. I would have thought if you are a member with voting rights you'd take more interest in who will be your leader.

This is the same trend with the public in general, and we don't have to pay for a party membership. It seems that the lack of a viable candidate breeds apathy in the voter base, regardless of general or party elections.

True enough.

Right now I'm awaiting the final list of candidates in our upcoming municipal election with far more interest than who the next CPC leader will be.

[DrCaleb]

Whoever is chosen as CPC leader makes no difference to me. I'm still unlikely to vote for them in current form.

[Thanos]

Same. Even if they moved back from the petty populism and Trumpism they've been embracing I still doubt I'd support them ever again. I just can't deal any more with the easy fixes conservatives dream up for literally everything and how they deny afterwards that it was their fault when it blows up in their faces. Like, do they even propose anything anymore? Or is it all just reactionary nonsense combined with incessant peddling of a previous golden era that never even existed?

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

Or is it all just reactionary nonsense combined with incessant peddling of a previous golden era that never even existed?

That is how to rally and infect their base with a sense of 'the old days' and 'how it used to be'. Never mind asking any of them what those things actually mean. The good old days with gout and goitre? Is that what then mean?

[Thanos]

The good ol' days, when men & women weren't allowed to drink in the same bar together but ultimate freedom was enjoyed by, I dunno, it being seen as perfectly OK to smoke in a hospital room. When homosexual relationships were forbidden but leaving those creepy priests alone with innumerable children was perfectly fine. When birth control got a woman a stint in prison but beating up & raping the wife was something for the couple to sort out on their own because a divorce was something only a slutty whore would ask for. The lead additives included in gasoline and in the paint your children's toys were coloured with was just part of what made us great! That crap that got dumped into every single waterway including the drinking water? If you complain about it you must be some sort of a fuckin' commie.

HL Mencken was basically right all along with the "keep in mind that the vast majority of the people are genuine morons and they always will be" sort of commentary.

[raydan]

I remember the good old days when you could watch sports and not have to listen to some weird Spanish rap (before the game or at half-time), or any language, for that matter.

[Thanos]

PeePee wins leadership on first ballot:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conser ... -1.6578329

Conservative strategists now have to figure out how to sell a leader who is colossally unpalatable to the vast majority of Canadians who aren't anti-vaxx truckers, conspiracy kooks, Sons of Odin, freemen-on-the-land, Rebel "News" subscribers, farmers who vigourously like to wave pro-Trump flags, and Romana Didulo cultists. Refrain of "we aren't going to win a single fucking seat east of Ottawa and west of the BC interior with this vicious little rat in charge of things" already being sadly sung in conservative insider circles.

[xerxes]

Time will tell. I mean he could have a decent shot come next election. By the, people will be properly tired of Trudeau and anti-incumbency would work in the troll’s favour.

Dismissing people like PP is how we get monsters like Trump.