Buh-bye, Stephen.
Yes, yes, I know he kept his own riding.
But his party lost. And he's going to resign his party leadership.
Yes, the party I'd have voted for if I were still living in Canada managed to scuttle itself right back down to third party also-ran status. Bad NDP, no cookies ... but ... but -
The fucking Conservatives are out of power.
Out. Of. Power.
Yessssssssss!!!!!
So, Justin? You'd best do a good job.
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Yes, yes, I know he kept his own riding.
But his party lost. And he's going to resign his party leadership.
Yes, the party I'd have voted for if I were still living in Canada managed to scuttle itself right back down to third party also-ran status. Bad NDP, no cookies ... but ... but -
The fucking Conservatives are out of power.
Out. Of. Power.
Yessssssssss!!!!!
So, Justin? You'd best do a good job.
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(And in my own riding, the Conservative MP and Minister for Science and Technology who has been described as "an embarrassment" is GONE!).
A wonderful night. An incredible achievement. And a victory for Canada.
As long as I can tell Harper to go to hell? I'm happy.
Oh, you had to deal with Ed Holder? Glad to know he's gone!
I CALL THIS A WIN, 'KAY?!?!
*DANCES*
(Applying sportsball analogy ironically, as election outcomes affect the real world far more than US baseball ever does.)
But yeah, at least the Cards went down before us. Sigh.
(Not that I actually give a rat's arse about baseball, but they're the team that I don't give a rat's arse about, if you follow.)
Regardless of the hurt for the NDP, the alien Quisling has been defeated and for that I rejoice.
Yeah, I figured there was a hell of a lot of strategic voting this time around. I feel bad about the NDP, because they match my political views most closely, and I actually like Mulcair, but I think you're right about Quebec.
the alien Quisling
I love that phrase; and man, did he ever seem alien!
Edited at 2015-10-20 02:04 pm (UTC)
(The sad thing is that, because I don't live in Canada, and therefore don't have a home riding, I haven't been able to vote in Canadian elections since coming to the States in 1981. At the same time, since I haven't taken out citizenship here, I'm not able to vote here (and it costs almost $1,000 to become a citizen, an amount I rarely have hanging around.) The end result? I've been effectively disenfranchised for 34 years, and it's almost completely my fault.)
Yikes, a grand to become a US citizen?
You really are a woman without a nation, eh? I've had that happen a couple of times when I was between states, but usually only for a year-ish. I missed two mid-term elections (that I can recall) because I was neither here nor there. Mostly I just didn't get registered quickly enough. It was frustrating, because both times IIRC the GOP won in a landslide. : ( The last time I moved (from NH to MA), registering to vote was one of the first things I did.
And yes, eight years ago, it cost just under a grand, which we were told covered the costs of an FBI background check and "biometrics" (which pretty much are fingerprints, and maybe a face scan. I was going to go for my citizenship then, in order to vote the GOP out of the White House; I'd saved the money up, and then our car's engine block cracked. There went my citizenship ....
Yikes--citizenship vs. a car. That's crazy money for what you get, IMO.
My parents had to give up a planned vacation once to use the money toward a new car. They're such a necessary evil. : / But the car is still in the family, 15 years later, now being driven by my niece, so it wasn't a total waste. : )
I was torn on whether to vote red or orange because I wasn't particularly impressed by either, but the blue eldritch horror has finally been removed and that's the main thing. I'm also more than a little bit amused by the wave of tweets proclaiming us to now have the prettiest political leader.
*snort*
Along with
I find the "prettiest political leader" funny, since they mostly illustrate those tweets with pics from four to five years ago, before Trudeau had done the perfectly natural filling out that a man his age often does. That doesn't mean he's not still a fine figure of a national leader, but he's a little less striking than he once was.
Also - you're looking at his looks, world? Really? Really???
Edited at 2015-10-21 02:05 pm (UTC)
Hmmm. On the malevolence scale? 11 out of 10.
Competence? He tried, far too successfully, to dismantle some of the things about Canada that made it Canada, including the single payer system, which he managed to erode. He touted the military, yet took money from it, and abandoned the vets, at least in terms of not paying for their hospitals well. He had people in his cabinet, and Conservatives that he appointed to the Senate (an appointed thing in Canada) who were incompetent, corrupt, or both.
tl:dr: awful, fucking man. Awful, awful, awful, terrible, bad, no good man. The term "eldrith horror" has been used, possibly in one of the responses above ....