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I feel like a talking cheeseburger would have my vote. I mean, holy shit it's a talking cheeseburger!

You don't shit where you eat.

Eating sentient mushrooms slow your aging. That's the real reason for the battle between peach and koopa.

Then you slowly start to realize how shallow our pop culture is, and it's an existential nightmare you never awake from

I'd like to know how many of these economists failed to predict inflation being a problem back in 2020, how many of them claimed inflation was going to be "transitory" when it did show up. Nobody who failed to predict those two predictable things gets any say in economic policy moving forward because they're stupid.

Real talk: Biden and Trump will be doing similar things in terms of not doing the stuff actually needed to not destroy the economy imminently. They'll both run up debts like they did, they'll both rack up spending like they did.

Honestly, a lot of people are quite happy seeing this happening because Trudeau is becoming immensely unpopular.

The Conservatives lost the last election in part because they weren't presenting a differing vision of how to run the country. The PPC got more votes than the green party in the last election in part as a protest vote because Erin O'Toole got off to a good start by contrasting his worldview to the Liberal Party worldview, but as the election neared he started to pivot the Conservatives into liberal lite while Trudeau steered the liberal party into being the more leftist NDP. I said at the time that we had a choice between the red NDP, the blue NDP, the orange NDP, the Separatists, the PPC, and the green NDP.

Besides the PPC, the other option on the ballot was staying at home watching Netflix, and if people got the impression they were going to get the exact same stuff, Netflix would win the election.

Poilievre is hammering hard on the differences between how he wants to run the country and how Trudeau has because that's what a lot of people need to see. They're going to be mobilized to get out there if and only if they think heading to the polls next October actually stands a chance of changing something. They don't want the Liberal party Lite, they want someone who they think is going to try to get the car back on the car because it hit the ditch a long time ago and we've been driving through some farmer's field for several years now.

As a study in contrasts, the NDP's Singh barks like a little Pomeranian dog, and he's shown the entire country he's a lap dog living in Justin's purse. He'll bark, but then he'll accept a treat from his master and do as he's told. That's why the NDP isn't doing much better than it is despite the Liberals getting killed in the polls.

Now, do I worry that Poilievre will take this dickish nature into being Prime Minister and then start to take it out on Canadians similar to how Trudeau already does? Of course, that would be really bad. On the other hand, people across the country want to feel like someone is standing up for them, and this to me looks like that strategy at work. Trudeau is an abusive leader, so it's appropriate to push back.

Far too late for that.

Justin Trudeau spoke of anyone who disagreed with him with all kinds of names. Racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, American, Russian, or bots. He called people who disagreed with him a "fringe minority". He spoke of how upset he was at the unvaccinated "taking up space".

You might like him, but he's acted how he's acted, and the entire world saw.

You might be thinking "Oh, this stupid conservative for life loser, what does he know?" -- Well that's fine to think, but I voted for Chretien's liberals, and I voted for Martin's liberals, and I voted against Harper's conservatives, and supported Trudeau in 2015 because I'm a liberal, and over the past 8 years I've gotten to learn Trudeau isn't one.

Yeah, and it's not because it's diversity but because it's more about the message than about the art -- you remember ever watching one of those horrible Christian movies? Very few were even watchable because they were so busy literally sermonizing. That's fine, but it makes for crappy movies.

And on the other side of that, there's lots of works out there that integrate Christianity as a theme that are first and foremost about making something good, and often they're awesome.