The Canadian federal election is over and the counting has finally finished. The Liberals under Mark Carney got 168 seats, four short of a majority. That’s disappointing because it weakens our government’s ability to cohesively manage the Canadian response to the assault from the fascist dictator Trump and his administrative cabal. A strong majority would have sent a better message about Canadian resistance to the MAGA cult. We should have showed MAGA we are strong, we are united, we won’t be bullied. Instead, CONservatives showed Trump that a large number of us share his MAGA views.
It’s disappointing and somewhat frightening that so many Canadians voted CONservative, since every one of them knew that the CPC leader, the rage-farming Trump mimic Pierre PoiLIEvre, was heavily endorsed by Trump, his co-owner Musk, and by rightwing MAGA bloviators like Conrad Black, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and Ben Shapiro, as well as the treasonous Alberta PM, Danielle Smith, the toxic rightwing separatist Preston Manning, and the deeply anti-democratic, much-despised former PM Stephen Harper.
Basically every far-right, anti-democracy politician and influencer came out behind PoiLIEvre because they knew he was their ideologue who would MAGA-fy Canada for them. They want Canada to be the “51st state.” Apparently, so do our CONservatives.
As Marullus says to the crowd in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”
So, clearly a vote for PoiLIEvre’s party this time was a vote against Canadian interests, against our sovereignty, against our jobs and industries, against our economy, and against our independence from US control. You wouldn’t think Canadians would do that. And yet the CONs won 144 seats, and took 8,089,959 votes (41.3% of those cast, compared to 43.7% for the Liberals). WTF is wrong with those voters? Why would any Canadian vote for a pro-US, pro-annexation, pro-fascist party? There is something seriously wrong in Canada when the numbers are that high. Are we really that fascist here? Have we become just another Western nation drifting into the proto-fascist universe?
At the news that Carney had won, Putin’s right-hand man, Culture Minister Alexander Dugin, publicly begged Trump to “treat Canada like Russia is treating Ukraine.” As Dean Blundell reported, “Dugin has urged former U.S. President Donald Trump to invade Canada, drawing a chilling parallel to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” Of course, Dugin is using Musk’s rightwing cesspool Xitter to spread his threats. So far, only silence has been heard from PoiLIEvre about these posts or Duggin’s threat.
The good news in this was that voters in PoiLIEvre’s own riding rejected the toxic little pifflesqueak, and he not only lost his seat, but lost his cushy taxpayer-funded mansion and its golden perks. Blogger Dean Blundell laid it out: PoiLIEvre lost his MP’s salary of $194,600, with its Leader of the Opposition top-up: $96,800, for a total salary of $291,400 or “$24,283/month just for rage-tweeting and pretending to read newspapers.” Plus, he will be evicted from Stornoway Mansion, a luxurious taxpayer-funded house with 19 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, massive grounds that cost taxpayers $100,000+ every year, plus renovations (“since 2022: $170,000”). But, as Blundell points out, the career politician who has never held a real job will still be able to live more than comfortably on the “multi-million dollar pension he earned by the time he turned 31.” He will never leave sucking on the public tit: it’s all he ever has done.
It didn’t help PoiLIEvre’s campaign that the deeply anti-democratic and much despised former prime minister, Stephen Harper, eagerly endorsed Pierre PoiLIEvre. Of course he did: Harper runs the IDU, an international organization dedicated to replacing democratic governments with authoritarian rightwing ones, and PoiLIEvre is his chosen instrument to build Harper’s cloud cuckoo-land in Canada. IDU’s members include dictators Viktor Orban and Narendra Modi, rightwing cultists like the UK’s Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, as well as entire rightwing parties: the Conservative Party of Canada, the US Republican Party, the UK Tories, Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Orbán’s Fidesz Party in Hungary. It’s a club for fascists.
But PoiLIEvre didn’t take his defeat maturely. He is desperate to cling to power so he can continue to rage-farm and rage-tweet against Canada. As Dean Blundell reported, he has kicked out an Alberta MP from a safe riding so he can parachute in and run in a by-election and continue to promote his Maple MAGA ideology to favour Trump’s vision:
Fresh off getting ejected from his longtime Ottawa seat of Carleton—yes, the one he held for over two decades—Pierre Poilievre is already moving to parachute himself into the safest Conservative riding in the country like a grifter looking for a soft couch to crash on.
Let’s be real: Pierre Poilievre is currently jobless, houseless, and humiliated. He just lost an election he was supposed to win in a landslide, and now faces the indignity of being kicked out of Stornoway, the taxpayer-funded mansion he occupied as Official Opposition leader.
And instead of staying in Ottawa to reflect on how badly he fumbled the most winnable election in modern Conservative history, he’s forcing Damien Kurek—an Alberta MP who just won 82% of the vote—to hand over his seat like it’s a Tim Hortons double-double.
Imagine how the people in Battle River-Crowfoot, Alberta, feel, having already faced a contentious election, and voted for a local man they believed would best represent them in Parliament only to find out that their votes meant nothing to the selfish leader and his part. An arrogant outsider with no connection to the riding was dumping their chosen candidate and parachuting in without them having a say in the matter. Because he wasn’t popular enough to win his own riding, PoiLIEvre feels he has to punish some other riding with his presence. And, of course, he will bring Trump back into the Canadian political debate: a vote for PoiLIEvre is a vote for Trump.
You have to wonder about the integrity of the party that would allow him to arbitrarily throw out a successful candidate in order to further his own petty ambitions. Well, no you don’t: CONservatives are all Maple MAGA now, having embraced the personality cult of Pierre. Thanks to PoiLIEvre, the rest of the CONservative Party has become a festering cult of far-right conspiracies, fascism, and pro-Trump sentiments.
And you can be sure that if the rage-farming Trump mimic is returned to Parliament, he will be pushing his same far-right agenda, using the same MAGA tactics he used before: insult, lie, misinform, gaslight, lie more, accuse, deflect, blame, lie again, and heckle instead of offering solutions, policies, or alternative directions. Remember: the CONs are focused on making corporations and the rich richer, at the expense of the middle and working classes. Under PoiLIEvre they never vote for anything that benefits women, families, indigenous people, children, the unemployed, students, veterans, seniors, or the homeless.
PoiLIEvre will do everything in his power to insert MAGA and Trump into Canada and Canadian politics. Just as he did last term. He will cozy up to far-right influencers and bloviators; he will abuse and insult credible media; he will use puerile three-word slogans and insulting nicknames in his attacks against his opponents. Just like his idol, Trump, does.
As former NDP MP, Charlie Angus asked after the election, “why did so many young people vote for Trump and Poilievre’s message?” His answer:
The left allowed the faux populism of MAGA and Maple MAGA to usurp our role as a voice for those on the margins. That gang replaced love with rage, hope with blame and optimism with grievance.
The fascist American dictator in cognitive decline and PoiLIEVre’s idol, Donald Trump, frequently refers to annexing Canada as a “51st state” and the treasonous Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to embrace the idea. But anyone with even a modicum of basic history knows that would not happen, although many rightwing Canadians appear to imagine they want it. We would lose our nation’s independent status, our healthcare, our dental plan, our daycare subsidy, our parliament, our labour laws, our free speech, and our freedom. Many public assets and services, like water and electricity utilities, maybe even prisons, would be privatized as they are in the USA. Our resources would be plundered, our consumer and environmental protections gutted, our national parks used for mining and drilling.
Given the resistance to the statehood fantasy by actually loyal Canadians, the US will not be able to achieve annexation through Trump’s economic blackmail and bullying while Carney is PM, so the only likely way to do so is through invasion and military occupation. Canada would become like Ukraine or even Gaza as Americans bombed our cities and moved their armed forces in. That’s not a conspiracy: military action against Canada, Greenland, and Panama has been suggested by Trump’s supporters and MAGA cultists.
Statehood is not easily granted, and the actual result would be to make Canada an occupied territory or colony like Puerto Rico: controlled by a Washington-based agency appointed by the dictator. That’s what has happened to US-occupied lands in the past.
Hawaii was an independent nation until a group of American and European insurgents overthrew its legitimate government in 1893. In 1898, they allowed the US Navy to use their ports as a stopover on their way to the Philippines to fight the war with Spain. As a result, the US seized the islands as their own territory, with no independence left to the people there. The archipelago didn’t get statehood until 1959, 61 years after the US annexed it.
Puerto Rico has also been an occupied territory since 1898, when the US invaded and captured the island from Spain. Its residents only gained US citizenship of sorts in 1917. They still can’t vote in US federal elections, and the island doesn’t have a voting representative in the US Congress. They weren’t even allowed to have their own constitution and local government until 1950, more than half a century after they were annexed. Despite numerous attempts since the occupation (the latest of six referenda was held in 2020), the island has never been granted statehood. And although PR has its own legislature, it is overseen by a Control Board appointed by the US president that has “broad sovereign powers to effectively overrule decisions by Puerto Rico’s legislature, governor, and other public authorities.” In other words: they are subservient to Trump’s whims.
Every referendum in PR has to be approved by the US Department of Justice to get federal funding. In 2019, Repugnican Senate Majority Leader and MAGA cultist Mitch McConnell refused to allow a statehood vote for Puerto Rico in the US Senate and called statehood for Puerto Rico “government overreach.” Other Repugnican members of Congress have come out against statehood; Repugnican Senator for Arizona Martha McSally spoke out against statehood for partisan reasons, “asserting that it would lead to more Democratic Party senators.” Canada, with its left-leaning and centrist politics, would not be welcome as a state by the far-right MAGA party for a similar reason. We would bring too much decency into Congress for MAGA.
Guam Island was also captured from Spain in 1898. Wake Island was invaded and captured in 1899. Both remain American territories with no chance of statehood or even being incorporated into a state. The US also owns other islands in the Pacific: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, and Palmyra Atoll, and in the Caribbean: Navassa Island and the U.S. Virgin Islands. None of which are anything more than captive lands.
Why would anyone think Canada would be treated differently? But in case you do, and haven’t paid any attention to history or politics or reality, then I am happy to disabuse you of the stupidity you harbour.
Trump lies. He always lies. He is a pathological liar, and his sycophant supporters lie to pander to his virulent madness. Anyone who doesn’t believe Trump constantly lies is either egregiously stupid or a sycophant who willingly and knowingly shares his lies. Trump is lying about the 51st state: what he means is to make Canada a subservient, occupied colony that gets raped of its resources to enrich his billionaire buddies and corporate backers. And that’s what PoiLIEvre would bring to our nation, and will continue to promote if re-elected to Parliament and remains party leader.
Canada deserves better.
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This is a piece by Oliver Kornetzke from Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/oliverkornetzke
I thought it relevant and worth reading in its entirety but since many readers here don;t have FB accounts or access to this piece, I am copying it for you here:
May 1 at 9:08 PM ·
I come from a small, rural town in Wisconsin—the kind of place where the high school mascot is sacred, the churches outnumber the stoplights, and the local diner still offers political commentary with your scrambled eggs, all filtered through a Reagan-era lens of rugged individualism and bootstrap theology. It’s a town that raised me, yes—but also one I outgrew, not out of arrogance, but out of an insatiable curiosity that was simply not compatible with fences and familiar last names.
My childhood was an oddity in that place. While most of my peers stayed anchored in the gravitational pull of local norms and traditions, my parents handed me a passport and pointed outward. Road trips across the US turned into train rides through Eastern Europe. I was the kid who collected fossils and insects instead of baseball cards, who could name capitals but not quarterbacks. Later, I moved abroad. I pursued higher education. I immersed myself in history, science, philosophy, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge and understanding, trying to understand not just the world, but why people move through it the way they do.
And then, like some tragic protagonist in a novel about the perils of nostalgia, I came back.
If distance grants perspective, then returning to the town of my youth was less like coming home and more like stepping into a diorama. The streets hadn’t changed, but I had. What once seemed wholesome now felt performative. The patriotism wasn’t pride—it was ritual. The friendliness wasn’t openness—it was surveillance. And beneath it all ran a silent, suffocating current of fear: fear of change, fear of the other, fear of being left behind.
This divide isn’t just geographical. It’s evolutionary.
For 95% of our species’ existence, we lived in small, kin-based bands where survival was contingent on cohesion, predictability, and suspicion of outsiders. Tribalism wasn’t a flaw—it was a feature. It kept us alive. To be skeptical of the unfamiliar, to prioritize the known over the unknown, was adaptive. But we don’t live on the savannah anymore. The threats we face are no longer predators or rival clans, but climate collapse, income inequality, and information warfare. Still, the reptilian brain lingers. And it does not care about nuance. It cares about belonging.
Rural America, in many ways, remains a living museum of this tribal wiring. In places where diversity is minimal and ideas circulate slowly, identity calcifies. Community becomes echo chamber. It’s not that people don’t think critically—it’s that critical thinking is punished. Conformity is rewarded. Outsiders—literal or ideological—are threats to the fragile cohesion of a community whose worldview has not been tested by difference but merely reinforced by repetition.
This is the root of the urban-rural divide—not intelligence, not morality, but exposure. In cities, survival demands adaptation: to new cultures, new technologies, new ways of seeing. In rural communities, survival demands continuity. And so when the firehose of modernity blasts through cable news and social media, it’s not processed as information—it’s processed as attack.
And the right wing has weaponized this brilliantly.
They’ve learned that fear is easier to manufacture than hope, and far more profitable. That a brain wired for tribal survival will always choose the strong lie over the complicated truth. That it’s easier to sell paranoia than policy. In my town, like so many others, they claim to be patriots who love their country, but they’ll vote for the man who promises to burn it down. They don’t believe in climate change, but their crops are drowning and their wells are poisoned. They don’t want to be ruled, but they’re desperate to be led—by someone who speaks in absolutes, who confirms their suspicions, who reflects their anger back to them like a funhouse mirror.
And this is the part that stings the most: these are not all bad people. They are people trapped in a feedback loop that exploits the very instincts evolution gave them to survive. They have been trained to confuse subjugation with strength, cruelty with conviction. To them, surrendering their rights to a strongman is not cowardice—it is tribal loyalty. It is faith.
So when I walk those old streets of my youth now, it feels less like homecoming and more like fieldwork. I see not just neighbors but a case study in inherited fear. A once-hopeful people turned against themselves by a machine that knows them better than they know themselves. A culture that clings to its myths not out of ignorance, but out of necessity—because without them, the whole house of cards collapses.
And the tragedy is this: the world they’re fighting to preserve no longer exists. The 1950s never really happened—not the way they remember them. What they mourn is not the loss of a country, but the loss of an illusion. And in their desperation to reclaim it, they have become foot soldiers in a war against their own future.
But still, I hope. Because if evolution has taught us anything, it’s that adaptation is possible. That fear does not have to rule us. That our tribal instincts, while ancient, are not immutable. That exposure, education, and empathy—slow, hard, and human—can expand the circle of who we call us.
I don’t know if my hometown will ever change. But I know I have. I know that what we choose to do with our understanding—how we wield it, how we share it, how we live it—matters more now than ever.
Because history doesn’t just happen to us. We are it. In every conversation. Every vote. Every time we choose truth over comfort, connection over fear.
That’s the long arc. That’s the work. That’s the hope.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-reiterates-51st-state-threat-as-carney-prepares-for-critical-white-house-meeting-1.7526196
Fascist dictator Trump reiterates 51st state threat as Carney prepares for critical White House meeting
Dictator and PoiLIEvre’s idol says he’ll ‘always talk about’ Canadian statehood during NBC interview.
“I’ll always talk about that. You know why? We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year,” Trump lied, reiterating his false claim over the U.S. trade deficit with Canada.
When asked if he’d consider using military force to annex Canada, Trump said he thinks “we’re not gonna ever get to that point” but threatened “something could happen with Greenland” — the autonomous Danish territory which he’s also mentioned absorbing.
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-coming-canadian-storm-magas-next
The Coming Canadian Storm: MAGA’S Next Move
I know what you were thinking: the election is over, Canada will negotiate a new deal with Trump, and life will return to normal.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s not how it’s going to play out.
In a world of gangster leaders like Trump and Putin, Canada’s repudiation of the MAGA march just won’t stand. The authoritarian, anti-democratic “project” has been years in the making. It’s been driven by the likes of Bannon and Hungary’s Victor Orban — and they aren’t going to let Canada stand tall as a model of liberal democracy.
The online platforms are already gearing up with BOT farms disrupting online conversations. It’s all about undermining both Carney and Canada.
Domestic Sabotage
On the domestic front, there is no way the Conservatives will give Carney the grace period needed to build trust with the public. The Maple MAGA machine will do everything it can to undermine Carney.
Just watch.
And then there’s the troll-in-chief, Danielle Smith.
Since the election of Trump, she has been sowing the weeds that will sprout into a full-on national unity crisis even as our nation faces an unprecedented threat to our existence.
Since the Monday night election, people have been reaching out to me with concerns about what they are seeing online. Facebook is a swamp of vicious memes, mysterious front groups and fake accounts attacking the Prime Minister, ridiculing the “Elbows Up” spirit and pushing regional discord.
Take, for example, a woman who contacted me because she was sick to her stomach after online “news” that Prime Minister Mark Carney had been an accomplice of the notorious abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
I tried to explain to her that deep fake photos are circulating over the internet that spread this kind of disruptive hate. But the fact is, these smears don’t just bubble up in the swamp farm of offshore BOTs.
This ugly claim was promoted on the side of a truck in the nation’s capital by Rebel News. Yes, the same crew invited by the Debate Commission to dominate the post-debate media scrum with leaders.
https://cultmtl.com/2025/02/pierre-poilievre-has-racked-up-endorsements-from-a-whos-who-of-fascists-fraudsters-and-alt-right-influencers/
Pierre Poilievre has racked up endorsements from a who’s who of fascists, fraudsters and alt-right influencers
by Toula Drimonis
“Is it not obvious that a lot of morally objectionable and politically dangerous people are supporting Poilievre?”
Trump Endorses Pierre Poilievre
January 6 2025: Trump endorses Pierre Poilievre on Hugh Hewitt
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyCanada/videos/1061218662470953/
from August, 2024:
https://niagaranow.com/opinion.phtml/editorial-poilievre-is-truly-great-at-pandering/
Editorial: Poilievre is truly great — at pandering
Pierre Poilievre made a stop in Niagara-on-the-Lake last Thursday.
Here is a leader who at first might seem informed, capable of holding rational arguments and making good points.
But what he’s really the best at is pandering, lying and misleading.
He panders to a crowd that’s so anti-Liberal, they’re willing to eat up and digest anything he says. He’s hoping that voters so dislike Justin Trudeau that they won’t see beyond his simplistic, bumper-sticker rhetoric.
Here are a few examples of just how good Poilievre is at spinning webs of lies that sound, to the ill-informed, like truth.
And warning, there’s a lot of purposeful misleading and contradiction to unpack here, but it’s all closely related. So bear with us.
Firstly, we asked him what his party would do to ensure it supports local journalism.
His answer?
“Free speech.”
“I am going to repeal the censorship laws, make it possible for Canadian news to be visible again on Facebook, Instagram and all other social media platforms,” he said.
“And get rid of the terrible censorship laws that have taken those news stories down from the internet and deprived independent local media to have a voice.”
OK, let’s digest this: there’s no such thing as a censorship law. Full stop.