Lance
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Hey, my name is Lance. I run a number of different channels, usually under the banner of The Surf's. There's YouTube.com slash The Surf Times and at The Surf's TV on most other social media. I cover news, politics, internet slop, usually from a dumpster fire like perspective.
I was going to say, this has got to be a scary time to be living in the United States as a Canadian citizen right now.
Well, minority or majority government led by the conservatives, no question that that was where all the major polling was trending. And then the exact opposite on this rollercoaster election in both directions. I I think it's pretty easily explainable, especially to your American listeners who might have been wondering what was happening.
Essentially, the country had a combination of burnout on Justin Trudeau and the person who replaced Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney, effectively took the number one campaign. It was the actual campaign slogan of the conservatives away from him immediately after being crowned the new leader of the Liberal Party, which was axe the tax.
which is what, you know, fascist millhouse we call Pierre Polievre over here. That was his big campaign promise. The conservatives were going to ax the carbon tax. And that had a lot of people excited. A lot of people didn't like Justin Trudeau. And then along comes Mark Carney, and he takes both of those things away from the conservatives. He's not Justin Trudeau, and he axed the tax.
And so they had to kind of completely reset. And this was before the wild card of Trump shows up. Yeah. Which, of course, now is scaring not only Canada, but the world overall. I would say, like most countries now are kind of having to completely reset how they think and want to do geopolitics into the future because of his policies.
Which was propping up their entire economy outside of the oil.
Yeah, for conservatives, a lot of it really became increasingly more intense with COVID. And I think internationally, there was an association with very basic safety protocols and tyranny.
So I guess some people, the United States and Canada, both saw the idea of wearing a mask or having to wash your hands as some form of dictatorship akin to some of the worst war crimes ever committed on any population. That made a schism happen where the sentiment kind of really started accelerating towards less of, you know, blaming Trudeau for everything, kind of like Obama.
There used to be a joke like, ah, Trudeau, to actual fuck Trudeau merchandise and the idea of, you know, Trudeau being an enemy of the state and a communist dictator. That was on the right side of things. On the left side of things, everyone got burned out from Trudeau because of the performative progressive politics of his entire character.
He was very vocal about standing up for a lot of issues that on one end he would pretend to care about, such as indigenous rights, land back, stuff like that. And then he would be suing the survivors of residential schools in federal court to try and prevent them from getting too much money from the federal government.
So there was a lot of Trudeau seems to performatively enjoy being perceived as someone who's enlightened and progressive and trying to steer progress. society in a good direction, where his policies are effectively exacerbating wealth inequality very rapidly, because that's effectively what you get with neoliberal centrists, right?
It was it was 22 or 23, but I believe it was it was around then.
Yeah, I don't want to play, you know, give the far right any kind of kudos or points, but I think from an analytical standpoint, something that people should realize is that within the last, I'd say, year and a half or so, Pierre was really, really effective at doing faux populism in a way that a lot of people were starting to get very worried about, and that he was starting to speak a lot about populism
the working class, you know, the housing crisis in the country and the fact that the liberals are out of touch elites who only care about enriching themselves. And, you know, obviously you'd have a lot of the right wing kind of nebulous terms like woke ideology being tied into that kind of stuff.
But he was for a long time kind of starting to gain a lot of ground and traction as more of a moderate style conservative who was concerned with helping the working class, which is astonishing considering the man is a lifelong politician like that. That is who he is. He was making fun of people like the leader of the Social Democrats here, Jagmeet Singh.
He was making fun of him for just working for a pension and not even caring about the people or the working class. The man has never marched with the union. I'm talking about Pierre. He's never marched with the union. His voting track record is decidedly anti-worker. It's decidedly exacerbating wealth inequality. He's worked his entire life to make houses more expensive.
But marketing and branding really work. work, especially like, you know, there's compilation clips of him saying things that are JK Rowling tier in terms of both their nonsensicalness, like talking about how electricity is crafted by harnessing the power of the lightning bolts into the wire that the electrician holds up. Very cool. Yeah, very cool. Thor-like powers. I'm on board.
But like, unfortunately, that's just not how we usually generate power in this country. But like it works on some people. They like to see a man who fakes owning like different kinds of wood and tools, you know, like a Tucker Carlson ask. Yeah, I've got a wood shop in my back. And it's like that. Well, no, I think this is the first time you've ever seen that lumber, sir.
But, you know, again, some voters, they really started his rebranding in that respect actually worked pretty successful for the last year and a half against Trudeau.
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