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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am usually reluctant to link to The Sun but it's extremely interesting to remember what most of the right thought about PP ten years ago...

https://torontosun.com/2013/07/15/pipsqueak-promotion-cheapens-shuffle

Pipsqueak is one of the Conservative Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like the Biblical Horsemen, everything he says and does is bad. Everything that is good that he touches withers and dies.

Pipsqueak, who Harper actually named minister of state for democratic reform, is in fact one of the most despicable, loathsome politicians to ever grace the national stage. He is a pestilence made flesh.

A refresher: Pipsqueak is the Conservative MP who famously joked about “tar babies” in the House of Commons, a derogatory term to describe blacks. He is the MP who attacked Harper for compensating aboriginal residential schools victims, opining that what those lazy natives needed was “hard work.” He is the MP who told his fellow MPs “f--- you guys,” and then later said he would “confiscate” the tape of the occasion.

He is the Conservative MP who can always be counted upon to do the bidding of the adolescents in PMO. He is the MP who even big-C Conservative commentators, like the Ottawa Citizen’s Randy Denley, say is the poster child of “red-necked bigots” in his Nepean-Carleton riding. Ouch.

There is more, much more, but you get the point. Pipsqueak Pierre Poilievre is a disgrace to Parliament. He is a joke. And whatever Harper may have accomplished with his shuffle was unalterably diminished by the promotion of Pipsqueak.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah people forget that he's been shitty for a long time, and that he isn't some outsider.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The problem was never his glasses.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still say his hard-on for defunding the CBC goes all the way back to The Mercer Report.

I had people challenge me on that belief awhile back, saying that nobody could hold a grudge that long. And yet we find out today that one producer stopped Babylon 5 in its tracks for 20 fucking years. So yes, Internet, people in power can hold a grudge as long as they goddamn please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait, I'm actually really curious about this Babylon 5 tidbit. Who was that? What happened?

[–] MyDogLovesMe 14 points 1 year ago

“A refresher: Pipsqueak is the Conservative MP who famously joked about “tar babies” in the House of Commons, a derogatory term to describe blacks. He is the MP who attacked Harper for compensating aboriginal residential schools victims, opining that what those lazy natives needed was “hard work.” He is the MP who told his fellow MPs “f--- you guys,” and then later said he would “confiscate” the tape of the occasion.”

What piece of shit.