Carney’s Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump (1 Viewer)

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    zztop said:
    From what I understand, before all this bullshirt by trump, the liberal party was on course to be handedly defeated

    apnews.com

    Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump

    The Liberals are projected to win more of Parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservatives, though it wasn’t clear yet if they would win an outright majority, which would allow them to pass legislation without needing help.
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    Yeah, the Conservatives were the equivalent of being ahead 28-3 in the third quarter of the Super Bowl, i.e. they were estimated to have a 99% chance of winning just a couple of months ago.

    Trump turned them into the Falcons.
     
    This isn't reflecting well on Americans. Carney is screaming American betrayal. Americans are this stupid.
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    When faced with the threat of Donald Trump a country's citizens rallied and rose up and defeated the conservative party....... it just happened to be a different country

    When we were faced with the same threat we elected the guy
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    Racism, sexism and misogyny won that day. A lot of people looked at the two, and picked a lunatic convict sex offender over... a normal, ordinary woman of color with no serious faults
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    When faced with the threat of Donald Trump a country's citizens rallied and rose up and defeated the conservative party....... it just happened to be a different country

    When we were faced with the same threat we elected the guy
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    guess this can go here
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    The Australian opposition leader likened to Donald Trump for apeing his policies has lost his seat as the incumbent Labor government secures a landslide win.

    Peter Dutton has suffered more than a 10 per cent swing against him to Labor rival Ali France, who has so far claimed nearly 59 per cent of the vote under Australia’s two-party preferred system, with election analysts projecting the conservative leader’s ousting.

    It comes as Australia’s centre-left prime minister Anthony Albanese secures a second term just days after Canada’s centrist Liberal Party, led by Mark Carney, retained government, in what will be seen as part of an international backlash against the Trump administration.

    Earlier on Saturday, Coalition senator and campaign spokesman James Paterson conceded Trump’s unpopularity in Australia had definitely played a part.

    “One factor I think we can all acknowledge and recognise is the Trump factor. It was devastating in Canada for the conservatives, where the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost 20 points over the course of a few months,” Mr Paterson, seen as a rising star in the Liberal and National party coalition, told the ABC.

    “I think it has been a factor here, just how big a factor will be determined in a few hours’ time, but I think it’s been significant.”...............


    www.independent.co.uk

    Australian conservative opposition leader loses seat in ‘Trump factor’ backlash

    It comes days after Canada’s centrist Liberal Party stormed to victory in what will be seen as part of an international voter backlash against the Trump administration
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Another unexpected win for democracy—ironically, thanks to Trump. Australia, much like Canada, seemed poised for a 'Trump-lite' government, but the people made their voices clear with a strong and decisive victory for the Labour Party. It’s a powerful reminder that when extremism shows its face, voters around the world are more ready than ever to push back.

    Anthony Albanese says his job is to “represent Australia’s national interest” after his thumping election win, shrugging off questions about when he might visit the United States to speak to Donald Trump about tariffs and trade.

    The re-elected prime minister said he had spoken to the leaders of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, France and the UK, and looked forward to calls with the presidents of Indonesia and Ukraine.


    “My job here is to represent Australia’s national interest and that’s what I’ll be doing, and the first thing I’ll be doing is going to Canberra,” he said.
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    The prime minister, in his victory speech on Saturday night, raised workers’ rights, housing, gender equality, childcare, the NDIS and Indigenous reconciliation as the priorities of his second-term government.

    “We will be a disciplined, orderly government in our second term as we have been in our first.”
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    https://www.theguardian.com/austral...trump-as-other-world-leaders-congratulate-him
     
    Another erstwhile American ally felt the Trump effect last week in a big way.

    In an upset similar to Canada's recent election, Australia voted for the incumbent Labor party against the Trump-like right-winger who led the polls in the run-up to Election Day. (In both cases, the conservative candidate even lost his own seat in the parliament.) Germany, too, just a couple of months ago, managed to beat back the far-right AfD party after Elon Musk and JD Vance stuck their noses in the campaign on its behalf.

    Something is happening among America's allies, and it's a tremendous relief. For some years now, we've seen the MAGA-infused global right gaining a foothold amongst western democracies, largely driven by the same demagogic, nationalist, pseudo-populism that has fueled Donald Trump's dominance on the American right. Some countries like Hungary have served as a sort of experiment for the kind of post-democratic autocracies dreamt of by the modern right wing in which government co-opts, intimidates and de-legitimizes the political opposition to create an authoritarianism that dominates the culture and the politics without a lot of overt violence. But the rise of the far right among the Western allies seems to be stalling out.

    The American right during the Trump years has been dazzled by the possibilities of creating a Christian nationalist/tech-utopia (depending on who you talk to). So they have joined forces to destroy their common enemy: the American constitutional framework, the rule of law and the government safety net, all of which they loosely define as "the left." They managed to win the last presidential election and form a majority in the legislature and are now busily enacting their agenda. It's an ugly, depressing spectacle for all the world to see, but America has no one to blame but itself.

    However, nobody else in the world signed on for what Donald Trump and his Republican henchmen are up to, and the countries most like us are making that very clear to their leadership. They have to. Whether anyone likes it or not, the U.S. is still the most powerful nation on the planet with massive economic clout, military might and a heavy influence on the global institutions it helped build over the past 80 years. Unfortunately, we have decided to put all that in the hands of an aging, incompetent, narcissistic demagogue, and having inexplicably done it twice, we lost the trust of sane people everywhere.

    People in other countries have good reason to be hostile to the United States. Our president is a very unbalanced person who is awash in resentment over things that are not true and problems that don't exist. His relationship with the rest of the world is based solely on the idea that everyone is "ripping off" America and taking advantage. He's uneducated about history, so he doesn't realize that it was America that built the system he rails against. We did so to create a stable world order that might prevent another catastrophe like the two horrific wars of the 20th century.

    That system may be fraying at the edges, and it may be time to create a new system of global security, but what Trump is doing is making everyone unsafe. By threatening to invade sovereign nations, treating foreigners in our country like criminals and seeking to dominate the world economically through his daft tariff scheme, he is making the United States into a pariah nation.

    The Canadian people were ready to elect a conservative government after 10 years of Liberal Party leadership that had run its course. Incumbents have been being thrown out of high office at a record pace ever since the pandemic so it seemed like par for the course. But after Donald Trump took office and decided to treat our closest neighbor, ally and trading partner like an enemy, insisting that the U.S. should annex it and make it into the 51st state, they turned on the Trumpish conservative party and elected the new leader of the Liberals who promised to resist Trump and his hostile aggression. The Canadian conservatives realized too late that the 2025 Donald Trump model is a dud..............

    www.salon.com

    The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism

    The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again
    www.salon.com www.salon.com
     

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