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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I keep seeing this, but does anybody have the link? I don't get why the 2nd tweet looks doctored.

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

The second one I think looks that way because they searched for the specific phrasing from the one tweet but enough of the same words were used in the second tweet, he had just reworded it slightly. Thats why some of it is bold and some of it isn’t.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

In the real world, if you don't do your job you lose it.

In Trudeau's world, you get a big fat ArriveScam bonus.

1: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1722744682302550389

In the real world, people who don’t do their jobs get fired.

In Trudeau’s world, they get bonuses.

2: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1550879202559242240

[–] LiveLoveLaff@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m looking forward to Singh’s next shots fired at PP. preferably asking him when he’s stepping down as the party leader such as any respectable person should do if they lose in their own riding.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Singh stepped down, he's gone.

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think that is the point being made

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

OK, now I see it. That might have been a bit subtle for me after work.

[–] LiveLoveLaff@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

So WHY does he still get paid our tax dollars to do nothing

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's a great question and the answer is: he shouldn't be drawing on tax funds. He cannot hold the position of leader of the opposition unless he has a seat, and I can't find any provision for unelected party members in here.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

An MP in a conservative stronghold has to resign and then he can run there in a byelection to get back into the House of Commons. The timing of the byelection is determined by Prime Minister Carney though, so he could very well be put until 2026.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 hours ago

When kissing your reflection in the mirror, you can only kiss yourself on the lips

[–] kooks_only@lemmy.ca 74 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Wearing my team Canada shirt today because the entire country won last night, whether everyone realizes it or not.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It was actually so nice. I walked into work and nobody was talking politics because it didn't feel like the world was ending.

For any conservatives, I'm sorry. I work and am highly involved with vulnerable people, and I vote to protect them as best I can. A vote for PP would not have been a vote to protect the most vulnerable I know, which in my eyes is what a society is meant to do.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

Don't be sorry, also they can't hear you here

[–] LiveLoveLaff@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

Same. I also work with vulnerable people and a vote for PP is a vote for many of my peeps at work to be tazered in a jail bathroom for something they cannot afford to medicate (such as it is in “healthcare is a big business” USA).

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 hours ago

I wouldn't say WON, but bullets were dodged for sure. Phew!

( But obviously we need to work on basic education )

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 15 points 11 hours ago

Huzzah!! Congratulations and Thank YOU!!

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 34 points 11 hours ago

did you mean fine wine because it goes down pretttttty smooth

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Any chance he might self-reflect on this? I doubt it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I doubt it. His belief system is fucked beyond belief on multiple levels. Not impossible to deprogram but it's gonna take a lot of work. He's like the right wing, Schapiro-watching, Jordan Peterson-idolizing, teenage edgelord that got paid for it for over 20 years and is now 45.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

maybe, after a few years selling shoes at canadian tire or something.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

He'll still enjoy licking the boot.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

He’s maxed out at a 20k per month pension.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How could someone even survive on that?!

(/s)

Apparently he gets a 10% reduction if he takes it at 55 instead of 65 but I’m sure you could skimp and save a bit to make that work.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

That he gets at 65

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lifetime pension for MP after two terms.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

At retirement age

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder who told him about the real world? Perhaps he'll have time to go out and discover it now.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He can retire on a full federal pension, the only way it would get higher would have been if his party won last night. He has not, and will not, need to acquaint himself with the real world.

[–] LiveLoveLaff@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

I hate this fact so much. He’s been literally USELESS to Canada.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And then he said he was gonna stay on as the opposition -- even though he can't sit in parliament right now.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago

Well, he can't quit..he doesn't have any work experience to get another job elsewhere.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Well, the voters did fire him.

Now it's up to his party to do the same, as they have done with so many other former leaders who lost.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Do they even have a viable leader to replace little pp? Not that he was much of a leader, but not exactly a party with any members that stand out as leadership material.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

Charest was the viable alternative last time and he came from outside the party. Carney came from outside politics as well.

If they do a leadership race someone will be there to fill the void, possibly someone who will pull the party back towards a progressive conservatives agenda since the message was pretty clear, Canada wanted a fiscal conservatives but not a social conservatives.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 10 hours ago

Eh, the world has a way of producing people like that when there's a niche for them (read: ignorant, bigoted and above all struggling people for them to exploit).

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh do you guys also have that thing where like 90% of your government only shows up to work a few days out of the year but collect paychecks for all 365 days?

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, terrible look nowadays.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

He wasn't complaining, he was celebrating.