OTTAWA - A smug man from Canada wasted no time this morning chastising Americans for re-electing terrifying liar and felon Donald Trump, despite the fact that he plans to vote for terrifying liar and asshole Pierre Poilievre in the next Canadian election.

OTTAWA – A smug man from Canada wasted no time this morning chastising Americans for re-electing terrifying liar and felon Donald Trump, despite the fact that he plans to vote for terrifying liar and asshole Pierre Poilievre in the next Canadian election.

Matt Hunter, a 36-year-old barista, took time away from attending a Poilievre rally to rant about how stupid Americans were for falling for Trump’s fascist bullshit.

“I just can’t believe that someone could look at a petty asshole running on slogans, lies, and faux outrage and think, ‘Yeah, this guy will be good for the country,’” Hunter laughed, taking a quick second to repost an “Axe the Tax, Build the Homes, Fix the Budget, Stop the Crime” tweet on X. “It makes no sense. Luckily we up here in Canada have more common sense. Pierre says so.”

“When Poilievre becomes Prime Minister next year, he’s gonna stand up to Trump. They’re so different in ways that I can’t even describe. Don’t even ask me what those ways are. Just trust me, bro. He’ll bring Canada home again.”

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    372·
    2 months ago

    Spot on.

    This is Canada’s largest weakness: we put the bar at American stupidity, and anything marginally better gives us insufferable smugness.

  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
    262·
    2 months ago

    I haven’t met anyone yet who was pro Trump and didn’t have a “fuck Trudeau” bumper sticker or flag or whatever.

    But I do live in Alberta where there are just straight up genuinely people, in droves, that are pro trump antivax idiots.

    The other day several people all in a group tried to convince me that electronic voting was unreliable and only hand counting votes could be relied on…

    I love my province, but I feel an incredible sadness for most of the people that live here.

      • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        I’m talking about electronic counting machines. Which have been repeatedly demonstrated to be far more accurate than counting by hand.

      • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 months ago

        As an engineer, you should know that no system is perfect and there are several trade-offs and threat models to consider. And electronic voting can’t be discussed in a vacuum, but measured against existing voting systems which are also full of their own kinds of issues and risks.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      There’s no shortage of those kinds here in Ontario. I’m sure it’s not nearly as many, but I’m only trying to point out that, it’s not a uniquely Alberta phenomenon.

      It genuinely confuses me that people can have their whole identity be defined by “Trump good, Trudeau bad”

      Are people really this uninteresting? I mean, I have opinions on politics, even US politics. I don’t feel strongly enough about any of them to put a bumper sticker about it on my car, nevermind buy or fly a flag about any of it. I don’t even put political signs on my lawn (nor do I allow anyone else to). I just have so much going on that I can’t be arsed to advertise that I even have an opinion on what’s going on in politics.

      I try to always vote, and show up for every election, unless there’s a very good reason why I can’t (like being very ill, injured, hospitalized, etc). But I am not my political views, and I can’t understand people that build their identity around a politician. Surely something else you do is important? No? Okay then.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    102·
    2 months ago

    The only thing I can hope is that after seeing Trump’s disaster south of the border people steer away from Poilievre.

    However at this point I’m terrified they’ll actually embrace it and prove we’re no better than they are.

  • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
    61·
    2 months ago

    I came across an absolutely horrendous term the other day, “Maple MAGA”. Used un-ironically by someone I kind of know. I am quite concerned about our next election as most Canadians do NOT remember this tool was in charge of the housing portfolio under Harris. They also have not interacted with him as a low paid employee. I guess no real work experience doesn’t really matter either, only ever a politician. At least Trudy, with his trust fund, was a teacher.

  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
    4·
    2 months ago

    Don’t worry we in Germany have the same Problem. According to the polls trump would have gotten like 15% here, but our conservatives and straight up fascists are at about 50%.