Has the Trump presidency changed you, politically?

[Valmy]

I never thought I would long for the days of Jiang Zemin.

[Jacob]

Xi could easily be worse than Trump in the long run 

Really bad news for China and pretty shitty for the rest of us too.

Agreed. Xi's another one like Trump who's a shitty combination of insecure and not very bright at all.

[alfred russel]

I'm just far more deeply cynical. Now I think the lunatics really can take over the asylum.

[HVC]

Yet. The Conservative Party of Canada is going down that road right now and Ontario elected Doug Ford.

I know Douggie is in the same mold as Trump and Johnson, but he doesn't seem quite as egregious from the things I hear. And I don't see him undermining institutions in the same way either. But I could be missing things, I have no doubt. I'm far from Ontario.

When he was elected I thought he'd be Canada's trump. But as time wen on he's more bush if anything. Dumb with a mean streak, but ultimately affable and with at least some sense of his public responsibility. He took covid seriously and listened to the people that are more knowledgeable then himself, for example. So he seems to be able to take advice, something trump and Boris lack.

[Malthus]

Yet. The Conservative Party of Canada is going down that road right now and Ontario elected Doug Ford.

I know Douggie is in the same mold as Trump and Johnson, but he doesn't seem quite as egregious from the things I hear. And I don't see him undermining institutions in the same way either. But I could be missing things, I have no doubt. I'm far from Ontario.

When he was elected I thought he'd be Canada's trump. But as time wen on he's more bush if anything. Dumb with a mean streak, but ultimately affable and with at least some sense of his public responsibility. He took covid seriously and listened to the people that are more knowledgeable then himself, for example. So he seems to be able to take advice, something trump and Boris lack.

Agreed - I thought we were in for serious populist nastiness. Though his dismantling of social institutions was and is ill-judged. We need more 'socialism' when dealing with a pandemic, not less!

I was pretty happy when he called out the anti-maskers as idiots, though.

[chipwich]

I learned that my neighbors are my enemies.

[Eddie Teach]

I never thought I would long for the days of Jiang Zemin.

Or Huge-in-Toe.

[Monoriu]

No.  I remain convinced that I must refrain from participating in politics and leave all decisions to the politicians.  Despite Trump's appalling behaviour. 

I am shocked that over 70m people still vote for this guy, though. 

[saskganesh]

Agreed - I thought we were in for serious populist nastiness. Though his dismantling of social institutions was and is ill-judged. We need more 'socialism' when dealing with a pandemic, not less!

I was pretty happy when he called out the anti-maskers as idiots, though.

I think Ford is taking more advice from Bill Davis these days than Mike Harris.

Today Harris is chair of a company that runs for-profit retirement homes, and Ford is desperately trying to lower the covid body count in that sector.

[frunk]

I think I've listened to more Run The Jewels these past few years than I would have if Trump wasn't elected.

More seriously my "don't vote Republican, re-evaluate next year" has changed to "don't vote Republican until the last of the Trumpists are out of the party."

[crazy canuck]

I no longer dismiss Canadian right wing lunes as harmless idiots.

[Grey Fox]

I no longer dismiss Canadian right wing lunes as harmless idiots.

Just as good since Erin O'toole is giving the White Supremacists exclusive interviews.

https://twitter.com/DanielMinden/status/1348657716449996800?s=20

Apparently, Ezra lied & he's just got a PR person to answer a bunch of questions in an email.

[crazy canuck]

Levant is a good example of what I am talking about.

[Malthus]

I no longer dismiss Canadian right wing lunes as harmless idiots.

Just as good since Erin O'toole is giving the White Supremacists exclusive interviews.

https://twitter.com/DanielMinden/status/1348657716449996800?s=20

According to someone on that thread, there was no interview with O'Toole - Rebel media simply sent some emails to Conservative staffers, and cobbled the replies into an "interview".

From someone named Justin Ling:

The Rebel is playing you. O'Toole did not do an interview.

The Conservative leader's office responded to a series of questions via email, and Levant published it to make look like an interview, pretending O'Toole wrote the answers himself.

The Rebel is ginning up publicity.

Not sure whether this is true or not.

[Razgovory]

I learned that my neighbors are my enemies.

Thank God my neighbors haven't learned this yet.