Writing for the prestigious French newspaper Le Monde, journalist Eliott Dumoulin discussed the Trump fanboy who aims to be Canada’s next Prime Minister.
Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Trump-inspired conservative leader: Like the US president-elect, the Canadian Conservative Party leader casts himself as a victim of the elites and the media, calls for lower taxes and likes to use insults.
Poilievre has been heartily endorsed by Elon Musk and right-wing commentator and Donald Trump promoter Megyn Kelly. To people on the far-right, those are meaningful endorsements. To humane conservatives, centrists, and progressives, any government person in the Trump/Musk orbit is frightening.
New York Times essayist David Wallace-Wells wrote about the Trump/Musk administration, but his words suggest Canada’s future if Pierre Poilivre is elected Prime Minister.
It is, so far, worse than I feared. Last Friday, at the end of a week in which a vaccine skeptic and sometime conspiracy theorist auditioned to lead the country’s nearly $2 trillion, 80,000-person public health apparatus, much of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website went dark — its weekly mortality reports, its data sets, certain guidance for clinicians and patients, all taken offline. C.D.C. researchers were ordered to retract a huge raft of their own, already-submitted research.
Next to go dark was the website of U.S.A.I.D., which Elon Musk announced that he would be working to shut down entirely, after several staffers resisting agency takeover by the billionaire were abruptly put on leave. (When the agency website later popped back online, it featured an announcement that all overseas personnel would be placed on leave and ordered to return.).
This is after the new administration had already suspended the country’s most successful global-health initiative, PEPFAR, which has saved millions of lives globally.Xa blitzkrieg against core functions of the state, operating largely outside the boundaries set by history, precedent, and constitutional law, and designed to reduce the shape and purpose of government power to the whims, and spite, of a single man.
Or perhaps two men. The news about U.S.A.I.D. wasn’t delivered by President Trump, for instance. Instead the case against the agency was mounted on X by Musk, who this weekend called it a “criminal organization”…
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All true, but what about the price of eggs?
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All the brown eggs were deported by executive order!
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I do not like Trump or Musk and what they are doing is destroying the USA. so what does that have to do with PP. Canada needs new different leadership. the Liberals have led us into a very bad situation. PP wants to be prime Minister not the king. I know he is not perfect but we need a change.
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Anyone with a modicum of awareness watching what Trump and Musk are doing to their own country (and by virtue of the US footprint, all other countries) must know that much evil is yet to come. They’re just getting things in place for the main events.
The reasons Elon and the Felon would like Skippy to become PM do not include the belief that he is what Canada needs. That should be self evident and a flashing red warning.
The reasons do include the belief that caused them to nominate people like Hegseth, Bondi, Gaetz, Kennedy Jr., Noem, Patel, Stefanik, and others of their distasteful ilk (I feel like I need a shower after reciting those names): They will do the devils’ bidding without push or shove, and will never, ever, ask why.
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