I have to say, I like Trudeau and think the Liberals have done a good job governing, passing many laws and policies I support and generally making my life better.

But on the other hand at the very least they have a problem communicating. I have family who drive a PHEV they had subsidized, send two kids to $10 a day daycare at a rural daycare center the feds funded to open, gladly collecting the child benefit while working a job that has seen a boom due to government policy. But because they basically absorb anything they see repeated enough on Facebook as true, they’re ready to see Trudeau go for… vague reasons? But their conviction is as strong as their reasons are nebulous.

A roll back to Harper era childcare policies would financially ruin them, but how can I argue against skeleton middle fingers and Fuck Trudeau stickers?

This article reads like AI wrote it. It repeats itself very early on the nature of offences, then it reads like the introduction to actual journalism before stopping cold.

I’m happy the NDP has worked with the LPC over this last parliament. Together they’ve made a number of significant policy changes that I am quite happy with.

I don’t know that there is a path forward in the near term, at least Trudeau won’t revisit it, the CPC love FPTP, and the NDP won’t take anything less than PR. This is a political impasse.

Is it possible Trudeau masterminded the failure of ER on purpose? I guess anything is possible, but that’s too conspiratorial to me, adding unnecessary complexity when a much logistically simpler, albeit narratively longer and less satisfying story played out right in front of us.

Could Trudeau have forced through STV with his majority? Yes of course but that ran counter to his personal brand, the optimism of his 2015 campaign and his early consensus approach to government.

In any case, the truth of what happened doesn’t matter much anymore because the “Trudeau lies” narrative is simple, easily repeated, and has rooted itself in popular social media discourse as practically a meme.

Well the short answer is politics.

The long answer is that when we had the opportunity to make a change, during the ERRE committee time period Trudeau was extremely concerned with presenting himself not just as a Harper alternative (IE a “Not Harper PM”) but as fundamentally different from him. Harper had tight, party whipped votes and was known for being very singular in purpose, he got done what he set out to do like it or not (And I did not). Harper did not collaborate he pushed everyone around. On the other hand, despite having a majority government Trudeau set out to govern more with consensus and collaboration, even going so far as to, under some pressure, give up majority control on the ERRE committee at the request of the NDP, making the committee proportional (this decision proved to be fatal to ER).

It was in that committee where all parties essentially refused to budge on their positions and would not negotiate with the LPC to pass recommendations that the LPC could get past both the house (in a free vote) and the senate (which was much more conservative in 2016). The NDP wanted PR so bad, and STV/Ranked Ballots so little, that they sided with the CPC who wanted to kill the entire thing with referendums instead of working with the LPC to get some change through. The result was recommendation that absolutely had no chance of passing the house, and if implemented no chance of passing the senate, and even if passed through both would not have resulted in reform before the next election as a referendum killed that idea entirely.

So rather than act like Harper would have, and use his majority to push through STV over the objections of the other parties, Trudeau chose to drop it. Instead focusing efforts on things he could pass, like the Elections Modernization Act of 2018 and the removal of senators from caucus.

Federally. STV has been a long standing LPC policy (I should know, I held a policy position for the LPC for more than 6 years). It was their preferred choice during the ER committee, but the NDP and CPC banded together to kill it reccomending vague PR and a referendum instead.

Well that is going to be bad for everyone. Looks like we’re headed back to science denial, tax credits for the rich, program cancellations for the poor, a weak fed that ignores the marginalized, bitcoin for some reason, deregulation, attacks on democracy, and just a general attitude of government by bumper sticker skeleton middle finger.

I remember when PP was in government, they weren’t good days, but I guess Trudeau has been in for so long that the list of true and imagined grievances is going to sink him and the rest of us with him.

Just a note, Liberals wanted a ranked system, STV, but the NDP and CPC outvoted them on the ER committee and effectivly killed it.

So, I’m one of those weirdos that really liked the non Casino portion of Star wars ep 8, largely because of the theme of the normal, non-special person being able to be the hero, to be a Jedi. I was excited to see where nine went with that idea and very disappointed when they threw it out.

I liked the reveal of Ruby’s mother being a normal woman. And I have some pet theories about her and Mrs Flood and such I won’t get into. Sure, I could have done with less finger pointing, and maybe a hoodie instead of one of those Sephiroth’s clone cape and cowls, but overall that reveal satisfied me.

An Olympian lecturing in personal responsibility is a sure demonstration of lack of self awareness. Between government funding of athletes directly, venues, infrastructure, security, logistics, and of course a stable society where one can dedicate themselves to sport there is no Olympics without collectivism.

But like all Conservatives the lesson he took away is “I did it all myself”.

Yea, who took that tooth anyway? Flood maybe? That would be much better than her being the Master.

If she’s a Mojo like character, I can buy her snatching him up to use him later “for ratings” or something.

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Honestly who knows, she’s been tossing misdirects all over, like calling the doctor “clever boy” like Clara used to, or that Susan haircut or like you said in mirroring things the doctor has said.

I feel like they need something to tie it all together and my theory/head cannon is that Mrs. Flood is a DC’s Mojo-like God tier character. Flood is aware of her viewers, hence the wall breaking. It’s not that Ruby’s mother was important to Ruby or the doctor that made her important to Sutek, that’s the misdirect, she is important to us the multi-reality audience of Mrs. Flood presents Dr. Who. She’s in control, scripting events, seeding mystery and events. The doctor will have to beat fate, beat the writers, to get out of next season alive.

Beauty

Nice, is your ram 4x8, 2x16, or 1x32? How about those m.2 slots?

You don’t need overclocking or undervolting to squeeze a bit more out of the system with dual or quad DDR and an nvme drive.

Maybe no over/under tweaking with the non K CPU and B motherboard. No matter, upgrade is sweet anyway.

Sweet upgrade! Good work benching it, thinking of doing a little overclock or undervolt or whatever the kids are doing these days?

Sure, here you go.

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So the lesson for republicans is if you are going to try to disenfranchise an entire state, replacing the legitimate all or nothing statewide electoral college votes with criminally fake electors and fake certificates, just sign the paperwork in a heavily republican area. Worst case scenario you might face an elected republican judge and a heavily republican jury, best case is they throw out the case. Not bad if you are a fascist working the system.