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u/2Puppers4Sale Custom Flair (Be appropriate or else we'll take it away again) 3d ago edited 3d ago

There is this weird standard in which if Carney gets a good trade deal with the US, he is a master negotiator who can handle Trump but if he doesn't, that also means he is a master negotiator who won't deal with an unreasonable person like Trump, so no matter what happens, Carney is seen as a master negotiator who is smart and pragmatic and his approval sky rockets because your average Canadian is a moron who cares more about being smugly anti-American than anything else.

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u/WeightedDips95 3d ago

Perfectly put. The Liberals have managed to manipulate the informational environment into a situation where they can never do wrong and conservatives can never do right. 

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u/2Puppers4Sale Custom Flair (Be appropriate or else we'll take it away again) 3d ago

For real, like if Pierre Poilievre was in charge instead, people would say that he folded and caved in to Trump if he got a deal and that he has no negotiation skills whatsoever if he didn't get a deal.

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u/WeightedDips95 3d ago

100%. Or if he had been calling for very specific policies for years, they would say his ideas are garbage and destructive, but if Carney stole them, they would say Carney has great ideas and that PP actually never even has any ideas lmao. 

I honestly just don’t even think Canadian democracy works at this point. We have psychopaths in control, media that has abdicated all responsibilities, and a smoothbrain electorate.