It’s common to see the F Trudeau bumper stickers outside urban areas in western Canada. There’s a handful of trucks that fly F Trudeau flags even in suburbia. It’s eye-opening once one gets away from the insular, pretentious urban centres of government and media that gloss over what us plebs really think.
The reason for the vulgarity extends back to an incident in 1982 when Trudeau Sr. was Prime Minister. I was a toddler then so I couldn’t indulge in the moment, but Trudeau Sr. gave the middle finger from a train to the folks in the humble town of Salmon Arm, BC. News spread. As the train lumbered eastward it had eggs, rocks, and rotten food thrown at it. It was dubbed the Cesar Salad Express. It was the culmination of hatred between western Canada and Trudeau Sr stemming from something called the National Energy Program. That revulsion rippled generations downward to rural and suburban western Canada despite the vomit-inducing “Trudeau mania” honeymoon that captured the remainder of the country when Jr assumed power in 2015. Now, even urban Canada has had enough. It’s a moment of a big I-told-you-so! from those of us that are the “fringe minority with unacceptable views.” (Trudeau’s exact words).
How about this: Annex Vancouver Island and the western half of the Lower Mainland to the Puget Sound and Portland? They can enjoy their “progressive” crap-hole policies and meddlesome authoritarian bureaucrats. It can be a big Chaz zone where the Summer of Love and granola crunching can continue in perpetuity. As a bonus, New England can take for free southern Ontario and southern Quebec.
The next time the economy sucks under a Republican president, let’s see how many Trump voters will vote Democrat. My guess is close to zero.
Just another fake excuse for people to vote for Trump 1 more time.
I don’t vote for president based on the economy unless something was blatantly done wrong or we are falling behind other developed countries in terms of growth (which we are not, in fact we are doing the opposite).
Most of the inflation we saw actually happened because of stuff (covid) that happened under trump. So I don’t blame Biden for that, nor do I blame trump. I blame Covid. It messed up a lot of global supply chains which don’t necessarily reach the consumer right away.
Big +H5 pattern over the East Coast Oct 31-Nov 1 rolled forward to the following Winter (since the PDO went negative/AMO+ in 1998, 9 analogs):
Since 1993 (11 analogs - Nov-Feb)