{"id":95320,"date":"2025-04-26T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95320"},"modified":"2025-04-25T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:26:21","slug":"the-week-before-the-vote-bullshit-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/04\/26\/the-week-before-the-vote-bullshit-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"The week-before-the-vote Bullshit Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readtheline.ca\/p\/bullshit-bulletin-week-5-okay-okay\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Line<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s invaluable bullshit tracker includes some steaming bullshit from Mark Carney, the Conservative campaign, and, perhaps the most acrid bullshit from the NDP&#8217;s Jagmeet Singh:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95321\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Canada-Jagmeet-Singh-the-empty-turban-BCF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95321\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Canada-Jagmeet-Singh-the-empty-turban-BCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"487\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Canada-Jagmeet-Singh-the-empty-turban-BCF.jpg 368w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Canada-Jagmeet-Singh-the-empty-turban-BCF-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagmeet Singh, the empty turban. He is the current (and possibly last) leader of the federal New Democratic Party, and it&#8217;s his conscious actions that may have doomed his party to parliamentary oblivion.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>This article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/federal\/to-stop-pierre-poilievre-i-put-canada-before-the-ndp-jagmeet-singh-tells-the-star\/article_c9840fc9-69b3-4fba-8bc5-cee3d5b19504.html\" target=\"_blank\">about a recent meeting<\/a> between Singh and the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> editorial board, is just absolutely bonkers. Jagmeet. Our dude. We like you. We do. But this is some epic bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>This passage, in particular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>The NDP leader stood by his decision not to plunge the country into an early election last fall while support for Justin Trudeau&#8217;s Liberals plummeted, telling the <strong>Star<\/strong>&#8216;s editorial board he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t stomach&#8221; the idea of causing Pierre Poilievre&#8217;s seizure of power, and that he made the choice to put Canada&#8217;s interests ahead of those of the New Democratic Party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;While we could have won lots of seats, it would have meant a Pierre Poilievre majority Conservative government, and I could not stomach that,&#8221; Singh said, making the argument that an election would have jeopardized progress on pharmacare deals and dental care expansion. &#8220;I love my party. I care deeply about it. I want us to win. I want us to up our seats. I know we&#8217;re good for people. But in that moment, I made a decision for the interest of the country ahead of my party. And that was a decision I made wide-eyed, and I stand by that decision.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmmm. Okay. So. Let&#8217;s take that at face value. If only for the sake of argument.<\/p>\n<p>Singh realizes what the logical endpoint of that argument is, right? &#8230; right?! The story of this election, to the extent there is a single one, is that the NDP collapse made it impossible for the Conservatives to win. We have lots of criticisms of the CPC campaign; we&#8217;ve made some already and we&#8217;ll have more to say when it&#8217;s over. But we recognize the truth that without a strong NDP, even a perfect and flawless Conservative campaign was always going to be an uphill battle. It&#8217;s just a really difficult situation for the Conservatives to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what Singh could do to make that a permanent state of affairs? Give up! Tank the NDP completely. Do a national tour asking everyone to vote Liberal. Defect and become a Liberal. Spend his post-politics career, which seems set to start sometime early next week, campaigning for a two-party system, under which the Liberals defeat the Conservatives over and over.<\/p>\n<p>End the vote splitting by ending the NDP. That&#8217;s a case that many Liberals have made before. And fair enough. But it&#8217;s some kind of bullshit to see Singh himself making it, and we can&#8217;t imagine his NDP colleagues are particularly pleased to see their leader taking a position that the Liberals took years ago: that the best way for left-leaning voters to stop the Conservatives is to put the country first, and vote for them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Line&#8216;s invaluable bullshit tracker includes some steaming bullshit from Mark Carney, the Conservative campaign, and, perhaps the most acrid bullshit from the NDP&#8217;s Jagmeet Singh: This article, about a recent meeting between Singh and the Toronto Star editorial board, is just absolutely bonkers. Jagmeet. Our dude. We like you. We do. 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