Mark Dunham

Chemical engineer, maker, sustainability nut, the opposite of an HOA

[annanimiddy @annanimiddy]

There's a section of the liberal/progressive punditry class who are getting very worked up about Eric Lombardi and some of his fans like "far right" Adam Zivo (two gay dudes who have only voted Liberals or NDP for most or all of their lives and by the way Adam has reported from Ukraine, you fucking weasels calling him names) and my only advice for those of us excited about Eric's campaign is to treat this disingenuous and chickenshit stupidity with the disdain it deserves.

There is no substance at hand. There is no effort or interest to engage in good faith. No other candidate running for leadership is even remotely close to being as on record on a range of policy issues as Eric. Where is the engagement on these issues? It's nowhere, and there's a reason for it.

The truth is that Eric's positions on criminal justice and immigration, and Adam's writing about radical Islamism and homophobia, just like Jesse Brown's writing about radical Islamism and antisemitic hate crimes, INFURIATES them but they can't admit it.

If this crowd was serious, they would come on here and mount a vigorous defence of slaps on wrists to serial abusers of women and bail for suspected terrorists. I want to see passionate defences of lighter sentences for Indigenous men who murder Indigenous women and non-citizens who commit crimes because judges don't want them deported. I want to see their insistence that Canada's immigration policy pre-2015 was racist. Tell us how you hate the ultra wealthy with far right political views but welcome investment from, and fawning over, the CCP and Qataris by the former Goldman Sachs and Brookfield guy who poached the most "MAGA North" member of the CPC to help get that majority.

Tell Adam that he's stoking Islamophobia because he's a gay man worried about radical Islamism, whereas you know it's better, as liberals, to ignore news stories of Islamists either plotting to bomb Pride rallies or destroying Pride flags.

Tell us what your liberal values are. Don't tell us that it's not the band you hate but its fans. Tell us about your liberal values.

Stick your chests out and tell us why you called critics of the Trudeau government's immigration policy racists but then stayed quiet when they reversed course. Tell us why you were fine with Trudeau's legislative changes to the criminal justice system and now say nothing while Carney reverses course, like he reversed course on a bunch of other stuff you pretended to care about.

Imagine getting so upset with a cheery policy nerd like Eric Lombardi. He wants to solve problems. He is more transparent about how he feels on a solid range of issues than anyone in that race, and his reward from the self-appointed liberal vanguard who refuse to engage on substance, largely because they know they're full of shit, is nothing but sneering contempt.

Look at the screen grabs from Eric. Why did Bruce Arthur completely ignore this story when it happened, while he was screaming about Bari Weiss and CBS constantly? So someone like Eric calls them out on being illiberal idiots, only more politely than need be, and they hate him for it. How dare he? Conservatives also don't like bail for terrorists! GRRR!

There's nothing to do here for the rest of us. The vanguard does what the vanguard does. See it for what it is and let it go. These are not serious people. They believe in nothing. And they have absolutely no shame whatsoever. In time, it will be nothing but farts in the wind.

[Alex Banks 🇨🇦 @alexcerne]

This is one of those policy positions that enjoys greater than 80% public support but is anathema to two thirds of Ontario's political parties and somehow also to all public transit advocates.

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@NeoliberalAkiho YIMBYism and trans people are both about freedom - to do what you want with your body and property.

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

@KeepCanStrong I don't get why using public transit is left-coded but wanting it to be a safe and comfortable experience is somehow right-coded.

If you use public transit on a regular basis, the deterioration of conditions in most cities in recent years has been palpable.

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@EricDLombardi @bruce_arthur Amazing how much can be written with it mentioning anything of substance. No policy critiques, no quotes, no names of people owned. Just vacuous

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Opinion: When a government spends more money on its wealthiest class than anyone else, even as others fall further and further behind, something is profoundly broken, writes Sabrina Maddeaux. #cdnpoli https://t.co/MEkiG09VSg

[anna b @Bananrama2]

This you Andrew?

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@WDiminishment "the current presumed front-runner, Navdeep Bains, is a former federal Liberal cabinet minister. Two of the other candidates are sitting MPPs (Rob Cerjanec and Lee Fairclough), with a fourth one (Dylan Marando) being a former advisor to Justin Trudeau."

These are handicaps right

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

.@EricDLombardi earnestly cares about Ontario’s future and, by volunteering countless hours of his time, has already had a major impact on the province’s housing policies. His accomplishments seem to irritate some of the old guard, yet, as these fossils find it hard to engage with the substance of his arguments, they resort to empty snark. It’s disheartening, but also reinforces the need for political upheaval.

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@kinsellawarren You know people can discuss things separately right? Like one thing can be fair and another is true?

[Dakota Jeffery-Petts 🍁 @JefferyPetts]

Lee Kuan Lombardi is gonna beat Disorder Ford and turn Ontario into the Singapore of the North at this rate.

[Duncan Dee 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @duncandee]

And the kicker: "Yet new members to our party must endorse basic liberal/Liberal values."

Based on how much of Justin Trudeau's "liberal/Liberal values" Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau's own former cabinet members, MPs and even ordinary party members that they're now running away from, who the heck knows that those even are!?!

Someone ask Steven Guilbeault.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Let me be clear that when it comes to public order, I will put transit riders first.

That means I’d demand cities enforce strict rules against drug use, menace, occupying multiple seats, blocking aisles, playing audio without headphones, smoking, vaping, camping, and other anti-social conduct that drives paying riders off public transit systems.

Repeat offenders should face escalating consequences up to and including involuntary solutions.

We do not have to tolerate disorder. And I’ll invest in space to help those in need at the same time.

But we should not be a culture that valorizes bad personal conduct as empathy.

[wanye @xwanyex]

I imagined adults would be smart and knowledgeable, but it turns out that most of them don’t know how anything works. So I guess we both have our crosses to bear.

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@stphnmaher Then sue him for murder

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@andrewaperez @OntLiberal Can you list said values that these people don't have? Get specific

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@JJ_McCullough @jbsteinberg I voted for Trudeau in 2015 and like the carbon tax and I would vote for Eric.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

This is what happens when all the adults go up to the cottage for the long weekend, and there leave the keys to the @globeandmail social media account with the 22 year old social justice intern

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

There are some long-time Liberals upset that I’m running for leader, in part, because I am trying to pull my party back towards liberalism.

I believe that:

- The law should apply equally to everyone
- People should be judged on merit
- Markets should be competitive
- Opportunity must be real for all
- Government should be secular
- Speech should be free
- Excellence should be celebrated

These values are simple, but they are good, and our politics has wandered too far away from them.

[Rahim Mohamed @rmohamed_yow]

Tired: the Trudeau/Ford voter

Wired: the Poilievre/Lombardi voter