Eric James, CD

Kicking your cat all over the place — feel the beat of the tangerine just like a one-winged dove. 🎶

Veteran and transplant recipient; living new life. 🎗️💚

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

“Free enterprise, taken as a governing philosophy, is not conservatism. It is a preference for one economic arrangement got up in the costume of a first principle.”

My latest, on how Canadian conservatism lost its footing — and what it would take to get it back. #BCpoli https://t.co/7RZ1vq9wRW

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

An X discussion by another means.

Tweet: This door is ajar.

Reply: Are you blind? The door is a door.

OP Reply: I know it’s a door, I’m saying it’s ajar.

Reply: Are you stupid or something? The door is clearly a door!

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@Clif_Clemotte Thank you!

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

Canadian conservatism didn't lose an election — it got sick from the inside. It traded its philosophy for grievance and forgot what it was for. My attempt to diagnose how it happened, and to point at the way back. #BCpoli (link in comments)

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

https://t.co/VryNMXVRKn

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

BC Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay responds to NDP attacks in a CBC interview this morning.

"We are not the extremists. They are the extremists. They're ideological extremists and they have had very radical policies that have hurt British Columbians."

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

In this post-leadership election period let us all take a moment and acknowledge how lost we all would be with Anthony. Truly a hero for our time. #BCpoli

[Anthony Russo @AnthonyRussoBC]

This is exactly why so many grassroots members walked away from Team Caroline. You call it a "dick move" to speak up when campaign leadership was making decisions that members overwhelmingly opposed. I call it accountability.

The difference between me and Denhoff is pretty simple: he left Kerry-Lynne because he thought she couldn't win. I left Caroline because I couldn't defend what I was watching happen.

One move was about opportunity. The other was about principle.

And now the members have spoken.

The candidate Denhoff abandoned won.
The campaign I left lost.

You can call me whatever you'd like, but history has a funny way of settling these arguments.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@naturally_zo I think that he is. There’s no such thing as Maple MAGA. It’s cheap political shorthand deployed by ignorant people who cannot think for themselves.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

Maple MAGA. This guy gets paid serious public money while he writes this childish nonsense. #BCpoli

[Ravi Kahlon @KahlonRav]

Maple MAGA won the BC Conservative leadership race.

Bad news for British Columbians who want less Trump, not more.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

Yes. I pay for Netflix premium and miss huge chunks of the fights for no reason. They just freeze and jump to a whole other thing happening. On Youtube you get the whole fight and pay nothing. It is so weird. #WWE needs to fix this.

[Wasted Adulthood @mathyu_junior]

One thing this match did do for me is stamp Youtube as the place all wrestling shows should be. Fuck the networks

[Stewart Prest @StewartPrest]

If you need a shorthand for the Findlay-era BC Conservatives, they're what happens when SoCred voters are largely shut out of power for a few decades, and spend the intervening years watching a lot of Fox News.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

How it feels to comment on BC politics:

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@erat_perfect @rwrandall I have a whole series right here: https://t.co/jnJvgdVMsy

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

The off-putting subculture didn't lose — it won. KLF's most energized backers are the vaccine-mandate, gender-politics, anti-Indigenous-grievance crowd. The conservatives who lost are the ones wanting real, everyday issues to drive this party. It was nowhere to be found. #BCpoli

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

I don’t want to overstate things—it was close—but Caroline Elliott’s defeat in the BC Conservative race is a blow for a certain subculture of conservative consultants, staffers, and pundits who thought they had a dream vessel. They should now reflect on why they turn people off.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

I am not a centerist. I am conservative. I have been my whole life. The fallacy in your argument here is that every strong position is worth defending. It is not. A strong argument can also be a bad one. I am sifting through the bad ones through a lens of classical conservative thinking.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

Repealing DRIPA and doing nothing to fill the void is not going to save the province. It is going to throw us into even more chaos. We have to negotiate because these are real agreement and we inherited and have entrenched in our constitution. How can you be a conservative and not want to honour what has been inherited and do the right thing by agreements that have been made?

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@subincherian1 Neither but you are blocked. Bye bye now.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@IanSeanDesign I didn't have a candidate of choice in this race. And I do not know if I am voting for this conservative party. We shall see what is produced come election time.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@JasonBryanArt @JJ_McCullough The big cough? I lost my mother and my brother during your so-called big cough.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@IanSeanDesign Who was *my* neo-lib-con exactly?

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

I have written extensively about those things. I am well aware. What I am not willing to do is hold my nose to make it happen. It is possible to support something and also challenge it to do better. In fact, that is what any support should be doing always. Conservatism is about so much more than just defeating the NDP.

[Eric James, CD @InklessEJ]

@subincherian1 You think I am a centrist? I read everyone's platform. You could actually just pretty much read one and you had them all. This post actually had very little to do with KLF herself and more the people who brought her to power who are two different beasts entirely.