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Mouthy Disrupters
Nov. 12th, 2024 07:01 pmI am thinking about this story because of Pierre Polievre.
You may have read or heard about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asking her followers/voters to tell her, if they voted for both herself and Trump, why they did so.
https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-supporters-donald-trump-split-ticket-reasons-establishment-1983849
In broad strokes, people said the reason they voted for both was that the two candidates both seemed to be outsiders and they both seemed to care about the working class.
AOC is not the typical Congresswoman, and has been taunted about her background. Trump, the Orange Boy or OB, is definitely not from the politician mould.
The "cares about the working class" seems to be a stretch with regards to OB. I wonder if it isn't that he is mouthy and appeared, towards the end of his campaign, to be going wildly off script, and so out of his handlers' control. A lot of his off script stuff was aimed at hating people that got in his way, and planning to do something nasty to those people. People that voted for him might want a little revenge politics, and might think that this revenge will be directed upwards (I don't think it will be, but I'm not even slightly dazzled by him, so I'm trying to think of a way a person who is predisposed to like him might positive-interpret what he was saying).
So both AOC and OB are mouthy - I believe I may have heard her called "strident". And both AOC and OB have groups that they blame for the troubles of the world. And both AOC and OB have plans for dealing with the people they blame for the troubles.
I think there are entire universes of differences between AOC and OB, starting with a lack of innate viciousness on the part of AOC.
However. I think when people said they didn't "know" Kamala Harris, what they meant was that they didn't know who she hated/blamed for current troubles, and because she hadn't named them, she also didn't have anything to share about how she planned to punish/leash those she identified as the miscreants.
So.
Poilievre.
I find it difficult to think of him as an outsider, since he was manhood in prophylactic with Harper, and was the initiator of a number of high-profile Harper-directed Conservative policies. That seems pretty insider to me. However, as far as the current Liberal gov't, he has been on the outside of the toyshop, drooling on the window, so maybe that counts?
No one can say he isn't mouthy.
And he does hate people and have plans for punishing the people he hates.
So. Is Canada going to be buffaloed into thinking of PP as a maverick outsider who cares for the working class because he shouts a mindless set of three-word slogans, and has a list of people he plans to punish?
You may have read or heard about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asking her followers/voters to tell her, if they voted for both herself and Trump, why they did so.
https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-supporters-donald-trump-split-ticket-reasons-establishment-1983849
In broad strokes, people said the reason they voted for both was that the two candidates both seemed to be outsiders and they both seemed to care about the working class.
AOC is not the typical Congresswoman, and has been taunted about her background. Trump, the Orange Boy or OB, is definitely not from the politician mould.
The "cares about the working class" seems to be a stretch with regards to OB. I wonder if it isn't that he is mouthy and appeared, towards the end of his campaign, to be going wildly off script, and so out of his handlers' control. A lot of his off script stuff was aimed at hating people that got in his way, and planning to do something nasty to those people. People that voted for him might want a little revenge politics, and might think that this revenge will be directed upwards (I don't think it will be, but I'm not even slightly dazzled by him, so I'm trying to think of a way a person who is predisposed to like him might positive-interpret what he was saying).
So both AOC and OB are mouthy - I believe I may have heard her called "strident". And both AOC and OB have groups that they blame for the troubles of the world. And both AOC and OB have plans for dealing with the people they blame for the troubles.
I think there are entire universes of differences between AOC and OB, starting with a lack of innate viciousness on the part of AOC.
However. I think when people said they didn't "know" Kamala Harris, what they meant was that they didn't know who she hated/blamed for current troubles, and because she hadn't named them, she also didn't have anything to share about how she planned to punish/leash those she identified as the miscreants.
So.
Poilievre.
I find it difficult to think of him as an outsider, since he was manhood in prophylactic with Harper, and was the initiator of a number of high-profile Harper-directed Conservative policies. That seems pretty insider to me. However, as far as the current Liberal gov't, he has been on the outside of the toyshop, drooling on the window, so maybe that counts?
No one can say he isn't mouthy.
And he does hate people and have plans for punishing the people he hates.
So. Is Canada going to be buffaloed into thinking of PP as a maverick outsider who cares for the working class because he shouts a mindless set of three-word slogans, and has a list of people he plans to punish?
