This was me today, a level 5 man cold – and I still made it on to co-host Canadia Cast with Kevin, only to be foiled by a few audio issues. It was a fun and freewheeling conversation about trolls, the dangers of social media, arguing on Twitter, bullies, SNC-Lavalin.
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Political Potshots: Charlie And The Hypocrisy Factory
I have just about had my fill of NDP concern troll, and massive hypocrite Charlie Angus. Charlie has turned into the Appalachian carnival barker of Canadian politics. Charlie loves to bully people on Twitter. He seems to forget however, that these people who he calls trolls, are taxpayers and voters
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Jody Wilson-Raybould, The Media Created Seinfeld Scandal, And When There Is No There There (Plus Podcasts!)
Some thoughts and political potshots. It is getting to the point where commenting about Jody Wilson-Raybould on Social Media is getting too toxic. The subject itself is so very divisive that having a negative opinion of Jody Wilson-Raybould makes you a racist, and a misogynist. I have long held the
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: My Second Podcast Appearance – The View Up Here (And Of Course Some Thoughts On SNC Fakegate)
//percolate.blogtalkradio.com/offsiteplayer?hostId=711695&episodeId=11232575 I sat down for a wide ranging chat with Canada Glen (@canadianglen) about the United We Roll convoy and the SNC Lavalin story, it is actually quite fair, and the deep analysis into these stories that I wish corporate media would have done. The way Canadian mainstream media has
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Nothingburger Scandal And The Amazing Technicolor Dream World Of The Canadian Conservative
First, here are a few thoughts from Jody Wilson-Raybould’s committee testimony and the aftermath. What Jody Wilson-Raybould and Justin Trudeau are both saying could likely be true. They do not have to be mutually exclusive. We know now that Jody Wilson-Raybould is likely responsible for the leak, or had a
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: From Astroturf To Corporate Shill (The Ontario Proud Story)
“No massive donors. It’s not like one group or another. Small businesses, a lot of people giving $100, $200, or $300, that kind of thing,” Jeff Ballingall on Ontario Proud’s Fundraising. “Yeah, its crowdfunding. But no, we have people giving us $5,000 cheques. But no one big donor has given
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: My Saturation Point
I have realized there is a lower point than disillusionment with mainstream Canadian media. I call it my bullshit saturation point. Canada’s news media has decided that it wants to be the main influencer/decider of the 2019 election. For the last few weeks, a common thread has emerged in mainstream
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Personal Cost Of Politics
Despite our love for politics as a blood sport, there is a human side and human cost to politics. I have seen both, and have experienced both for the better and the worse. Today is the where the worse comes into play. I was lucky to have met Gerald Butts
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Who Is Andrew Scheer? Lesson #3
“Call me Stephen Harper with a smile” Andrew Scheer In this lesson, I am not going to be the one who explains Andrew Scheer. I am going to let the people with whom Andrew Scheer chooses to surround himself define him. In life, the true test of a person’s character
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: How Occam’s Razor Applies To The Manufactured SNC-Lavalin Controversy
I could be wrong, I often am wrong. Maybe I will eat these words some day, who knows. I have eaten many words in my life. Occam’s razor fascinates me, especially when applied to politics. Suppose there exist two explanations for an incident or controversy. In this case the one
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Conservative News Media Circle Of Lie
I did not get into blogging, or commenting on politics to criticize the media. Some people say that criticizing the media means attacking the media, which undermines democracy itself. I disagree, I feel that media criticism is necessary in a market in which hyper-partisan niche media outlets are directly created
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Canadian Media Echo Chamber: How To Manufacture A Scandal (Just Add Water)
News Organization A prints story with an unnamed source and zero corroborating evidence claiming malfeasance by the Prime Minister’s Office. Journalist B writes column on the original report adding additional conjecture, coincidences, and out of context information meant to echo the narrative set by the original story. News Organization A
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Podcasting – My First Ever Appearance
You can listen here Where do I get my pundit card? Sidebar: does that pundit card automatically make me histrionic as Rachel Curran, or do I have to work up to that level of utter lunacy and out-of-touchedness? The amazing people at the Canadia Podcast brought me on air today
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Shawcross, And The Difficult Questions
It’s an unpopular opinion, but until I see any actual evidence or statements that show PMO interference in the SNC-Lavalin case, I feel it is much ado about nothing. Today, Judy Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet today.. She is still a member of the Liberal caucus. I have a few questions.
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Guest Post By The Girl Who Waited: I Am Not Mad As Hell, I Am Just Tired Of Your Bullshit (Redux)
I am finished. I am done. I try to stay rational, but cannot stay quiet any longer. I know some will try to dismiss me as yet another angry leftist woman – and if so? None of what I write further will matter to you, so hit the back button
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Andrew MacDougall: The Haze Runner
If you observe politics long enough, you will witness moments of pure political amnesia. Its almost as if the commentator/pundit forgets their own past in a moment of faux moral outrage meant to generate clicks, or set up their next serving of revisionist political pablum in Maclean’s, or the National
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Who Is Andrew Scheer? Lesson #2
In the first lesson, we learned that Andrew Scheer is a regular guy. Well, maybe in his own mythology he is a regular guy. Like everything surrounding the Conservative Party of Canada, mythology never seems to match fact. Now we have to move to more serious matters. Normally, I would
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: To A Certain Someone Special
Please forgive me for waxing romantic. These things are always so much easier to write, instead of say. Yes, Valentine’s Day is coming up. Yes, we both make fun of Valentine’s Day (VD) Culture. But I cannot help it, I am a nostalgic fool. To a beautiful and amazing woman
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Why Allesleving Is My Least Favorite Verb
By making those investments we are defining the foundation upon which our country was built and what the economy will be built on not only today but into the future. That is why our government is committed to that in the budget. Leona Alleslev, (then a) Liberal, during the 2016
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: RIP Paul
Paul Dewar died on Gord Downie’s birthday. There is certain type of irony to that, as both men died from the same illness. Paul Dewar was an idealist, he was an educator, he was a fighter. Paul Dewar was banned from travelling to Russia by Vladimir Putin, and for some
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