1d ago

Love to see it

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So, now what for Poilievre?
Maybe the knives come out and he's forced out as Conservative leader. I mean, he had a 20 percentage point lead over the Liberals and lost it. That has to piss them off. All he needed to do is do what Doug Ford did and stand up for Canada and against Trump.
But, if he doesn't step down, where does he get someone to step down so he can run in a by-election? If he wants to stay near Ottawa, he'll really have to move somewhere rural. He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who actually likes rural people or rural life very much. Or, he could move to Alberta. Lots of safe Conservative ridings in Alberta, some are even in urban areas. But, will they want a guy who is the very model of a carpet-bagger? A politician who has never had a job outside of politics, not just from "Ottawa" meaning the federal government, but who has literally lived in Ottawa(ish) for years?
I hope they ditch him. I'm sure the conservative party could do a lot worse, but there's also a chance they could find a leader who has actually done something with their lives outside politics, and who has their own ideas, not just reheated culture war crap from Canada's Shorts and just shouting down anything the Liberals suggest.
- He lost his seat. He's toast. He'll be writing op-eds for Postmedia in a month.
  
  He will get a $20,000 per month for life pension, unless he renounces suckling at the teat of the public purse and gets a real job.
  So, he will get a $20,000 per month for life pension.
  
  Writing op-eds for Postmedia is not a real job, to be fair.
  
  How will he get that? Serious question
  
  He's been in parliament his whole career. He's never had a real job. He gets an MP's pension.
  
  That's a ridiculous pension jfc
  
  A real man of the people. Remember that he wanted to cut taxes on the wealthy, but services for the rest of us to pay for it, and run up an extra $100 billion of debt over the next four years.
  
  Good riddance
  
  I'm sure Rebel has a seat open for him.
- do what Doug Ford did and ~~stand up for Canada and against Trump~~ grandstand at a podium for the cameras.
  There. Fixed that for ya.
  
  Carney is the kind of person that Trump has always tried to impress. Polievre is the kind of person and Trump has always turned into a sniveling sycophant. We're better off with Carney.
  
  Sure, phrase it that way if you want. But, the point is, he did something to convince people he was anti-Trump and standing up for Canadians and it worked. Poilievre didn't do that and lost.
- He just has to move one riding over to Lanark.
  
  He's a city boy though, would he survive living in Carleton Place? Also, the conservative candidate there only won by 5 percentage points. There's probably a risk that if he ran there he'd lose again. Same name as his riding, but definitely no longer just suburban.
  
  Please no.

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