The Politics Thread

[I Am A Swede]

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[Maxim]

Mm-hmm. 

[I Am A Swede]

Wow, is this Nancy Mace person actually for real?!  

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  Clearly she's not all there in the head....

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[dannpan]

Dick Durbin the #2 Illinois Democrat in the Senate announced today that he won't run for re-election.  It is a good decision as he is 80 years old.  The Lt. Governor, Juliana Stratton has announced she will run for this seat.  Lauren Underwood, a Congresswoman in the House is one of the few people mentioned that may also run. 

I'm hoping Underwood runs and wins.  She is more of a moderate democrat as her district has a lot of rural area.  She is a young former nurse and a very active house member who supports her district her well.

[jasonminer1974]

Today's the big vote in canada.mark Carney vs trump light

I will spend the day driving folks to the polls

[Toups]

Mark Carney and the Liberal Party will form government in Canada!  Thanks God! No word yet if it's going to be a majority or minority government.  

I hate Pierre Poilievre and I'm so happy to see him blow a 25 point lead from January.  For those who don't know, Pierre is a populist who has tendencies to the far right.  He went on-and-on about wokeness; he wanted to defund the CBC (Canada's public broadcaster); caters to far right media (like going on Jordan Peterson podcast); has a disdain for real journalism/journalists (doesn't like taking questions from them); his Chief of Staff is a MAGAt. 

But to be real, Mark Carney/Liberal Party won because of two people: Trump for threatening Canada's sovereignty/imposing tariffs and Justin Trudeau for stepping down.  It was suppose to be a Conservative majority before those two things happened.  LOL

[jasonminer1974]

Praying for a majority. Pp would have won if had not killed the ndp

[Toups]

Sadly, it's going to be minority government.   Was hoping we wouldn't have another election before 2029 but with it being a minority, there's a chance it would happen.  Ugh.  Gonna need the NDP to gain more seats because I can see them working better with the Liberals than the Bloc Quebecois. 

[Wendy]

As an American, my knowledge of Canadian government is practically nil. But I'm guessing, even with a minority government, that Carney as PM is still a victory over the Trump of Canada, Pollievre.

So, majority or minority, I'm glad Canada doesn't take democracy for granted as so many here in the US did/still do.

[janea4old]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney post-election speech.
Powerful speech.
Transcript:
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/federal_election/mark-carneys-federal-election-full-speech

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Edited April 29 by janea4old

[DRW50]

Welcome to the board. Some posters who seem to have left post-November (if so, I don't blame them) used to talk about Underwood and how great she was. I wish we had more figures like her and less showboats, like JB Pritzker.

Carney is a banker, the type of presence who normally would not win because he isn't seen as exciting enough, not to mention the headwinds from Trudeau being in power for a decade. Trump did him a huge favor, as he is seemingly going to do in Australia soon too with their own version of Trump (Dutton). 

The funniest part is Pollievre even lost his seat. I remember seeing him being pushed for years by the same grimy networks that bankroll Dave Rubin. There were so many plans for him that Trump completely demolished.

Even if this country is likely pretty much over, at least other countries are learning from our mistake. 

[jasonminer1974]

minority means they will need to work with another party/ndp to get stuff done

[bongobong]

I'm a moderate voter. I voted for Bonnie Crombie's Ontario Liberal party a few months ago. Pollievre is nothing like Trump. For American readers, every Canadian conservative politician since 2016 has been compared to Trump. Before that, Bush.

 

[jasonminer1974]

I disagree

[Wendy]

So, sort of like what our Congress used to do with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents before the scourge of Newt Gingrich started the toxicity that led us to Dump. Got it!

Edited April 30 by Wendy