Jon Abner

Fortis et Liber

Amateur writer of Victorian Fantasy

Bit of a Sasshole

I also have a Green Thumb

[Jon Abner @JonMerleAbner]

@duchess_elle How come? You don't strike me as someone in favour of Big Brother.

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@duke_canuck Are those meant for your cat?

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@Gunblaze1969 Kitty!

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@TrollingCanuck Pretty much.

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@Marks_On_Media @J0hnADouglas Pale Rider

[Lee Humphrey @tleehumphrey]

Not once in 11 years & some 22 budget updates has the @liberal_party gov accurately predicted the state of the economy or the size of the deficit.

In every single case they’ve stood before CDN’s & lied their asses off & the subsidies addicted MSM have magnified their lies. Hell just last year, the media harshly criticized the acting PBO for using plain & accurate language to describe the economic shit show!

The saddest part is that 3 times in a row, enough CDN’s primarily located in Atlantic Canada, Montreal, the GTA & GVA have bought their collective BS & handed these failed Liberals the keys to the national treasury!

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@Rorythemuser You're asking for more then I can provide.

[5DME81 @5dme81]

THE MONEY IS GONE ❗️ Liberals wasted $300,000,000 of your tax dollars on PrescribeIT, a useless digital prescription system that changed absolutely nothing. Now they are trying to sweep this massive failure under the rug. LIBERAL SCANDAL🚨

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@HealthierLonger @its_Lexieroy Oh no limiting spending, my god! Fewer gender neutral rice farms, no more pakistani gender studies, can't possibly not have well funded bureaucracy, no more peruvian rock music theory, no more biased mainstream media, cant have ukrainian crimin I mean gov buying fewer mansions.😱

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@jengerson @beerguychris "everyone is getting what they deserve." Except the Party itself, it's sycophants, Carney himself, and the people who have been harmed by the Party's awful decisions don't get their vengeance.

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@CaitlynMadlener Good find.

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@dougcraig3 @KarlDHarrison Then Carny should have formed a Unity gov like Borden or Churchill.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Why Do 50% Still Support Carney? My long-winded response.

That is a question we need to take seriously.

Leger’s latest federal polling has the Liberals at 50% support among decided voters, their highest level in that firm’s tracking since the Liberals first formed government in 2015. Abacus also found the political environment still favourable for Carney and the Liberal government. So this is not imaginary. This is not just CBC fairy dust sprinkled over Ottawa. The support is real. The harder question is whether it is rational.

My answer is simple: many Canadians are not voting for results. They are voting for the illusion of relief.

Even though Carney was in the economic background since 2020 he appeared to arrive after the Trudeau years like a man in a clean suit walking into a room after the dog crapped on the floor. Trump threatened 51st State. Carney looked calm. Unlike Trudeau. He spoke in complete sentences. He had the central banker aura. For exhausted voters, that was enough. They did not examine the wiring. They just saw someone who did not seem to be setting the curtains on fire.

Carney’s appeal is not built mainly on performance. It is built on contrast. Compared with Trudeau’s theatre-kid government of slogans, selfies, and moral lectures, Carney looks serious. But “serious” is not the same as right. A surgeon can look serious while operating on the wrong leg.

Canada’s economy is now weak enough that Carney himself has had to acknowledge ugly economic data. Reuters reported him addressing Canada’s technical recession and warning that some data will be “uneven” “ah ah ah” as the government pushes through policy changes. The Wall Street Journal reported GDP weakness, including two consecutive quarterly contractions, while Carney framed the pain as part of a broader economic rebuild.

That is where the sales pitch gets slippery.

When the economy weakens under Conservatives, it is called failure. When it weakens under Liberals, it becomes “transition,” “restructuring,” or “long-term transformation.” Same corpse, nicer label on the toe tag.

The deeper problem is that Canadians were never really asked whether they wanted Carney’s ideology. They were sold competence, not doctrine. They were sold expertise, not a governing philosophy that puts the state, regulators, climate finance, and elite managerial planning at the centre of national life.

Nobody knocked on doors saying, “Would you like a prime minister who believes markets should be bent around elite-defined social and environmental values?” No. They said, “He is smart. He ran banks. He knows Trump. He will steady things.”

That is not a mandate. That is a branding exercise.

And this is why the Conservative attack has to get sharper. Not louder. Sharper.

Calling voters stupid is a dead end. Many Carney supporters are not stupid. They are terrified of Trump. They are tired. They are anxious. They are looking at housing, debt, food prices, crime, productivity, health care, and a country that feels smaller than it used to, and they want someone who looks like an adult. Carney gives them the visual. He gives them the voice. He gives them the vibe.

But vibes do not build houses. Vibes do not raise productivity. Vibes do not lower debt. Vibes do not attract investment. Vibes do not make young Canadians believe they have a future.

The Carney government’s strongest weapon is not success. It is emotional permission. It lets Liberal voters tell themselves they have moved on from Trudeau without admitting the Liberal machine remains fundamentally intact. Same operating system, cleaner looking wallpaper.

That is why 50% still support him.

They are not endorsing the results. They are postponing the verdict.

Canada does not need a better-spoken manager of decline. It needs a government willing to reverse the policies that caused the decline in the first place.

Because a tight ship headed toward the rocks is still headed toward the rocks.

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@SnarkyPotatoes

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@kelly_ques Ruler of Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[Alicia Rhae @Prairielily22]

Let's say that hypothetically. The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan remain in Canada. How many years do you believe it will be before the Conservatives actually form a MAJORITY government federally?

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@TristinHopper Correct.

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@duchess_elle @UlisesDavid__ @grok 😆😅

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@MarkReid42 There used to be a pinko saying, they'd put it on stickers, patches n stuff. "If you're not outraged you're not paying attention."

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@SnarkyPotatoes Did you go see where Custer bought it?