Loading ...THE VIEW OF TRUMPISM FROM A CANDIAN “CONSERVATIVE”
Spencer Fernando is a Canadian Conservative Political Analyst I have been subscribing to. I often post his stuff here . he of course is a strong Supporter of Pierre Poilievre and a strong Critic of the Turd .
However he has always taken the view that Putin is Evil and Ukraine is a democracy we MUST support no matter what . I have sent him scathing emails explaining what we here at the tent know to be true in this regard…no reponse
At any rate I find it incredible that he just posted this position and am sorry to say it is likely the position of many in the Conservative party and the vast majority of Canadians….all except for the “Freedom” wing of the party who are responsible for massively voting for Poilievre as the new leader following his endorsement of the trucker rebellion.
I am posting his comments here as they are important to understand what the mass majority of candians feel about Trump….this is very explicit though and disgusting as far as I am concerned
What a fucking moron this guy is to feel the most important thing in the world is supporting Ukraine and resisting Putin
Screw you Spencer Fernando…I am and (I am sure half of your subscribers) am / are cancelling you …sheesh
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Trump
And this brings us to Donald Trump.
Following the 2016 election and in the run-up to the 2020 election, a somewhat decent case could be made that Donald Trump governed like a relatively normal Republican, even as his statements were far more ‘outlandish’ than his Republican and Democratic predecessors.
That case was demolished on January 6th, 2021.
Having decisively lost the 2020 election – Trump lost the popular vote by over 7 million votes and all his election challenges were thrown out of court (often by Republican judges including some appointed by Trump himself), he spread lies about the electoral process and claimed the election was rigged against him – even as those close to him admitted that he knew he had lost.
This was in large part because Trump’s entire worldview is centred around him being a ‘winner,’ and unable to cope with the humiliation of being decisively rejected by the voters, Trump decided to lie instead and craft a fantasy world in which he had somehow won.
Trump incited his followers to assault the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the election certification process. As that took place, he waged a brutal pressure campaign against Vice President Mike Pence. Trump wanted Pence to block the certification of the election and then wanted the election results thrown out so that ‘alternate’ (AKA illegitimate) slates of Electors could be sent to ‘give’ Trump the win in states he had lost. Trump is on tape calling for officials in Georgia to ‘find’ just enough voters for him to overturn his loss in the state.
Essentially, Donald Trump wanted to remain in power despite losing the election, incited violence to block the certification of his defeat, and pressured the Vice President of the United States to violate his oath to the Constitution of the United States.
Thankfully, Mike Pence – after years of total loyalty to Donald Trump – found his courage in the moment it mattered most and did the right thing by certifying the election.
For that, Pence was ‘excommunicated’ from the Trump Republican Party.
Trump has since replaced Pence with JD Vance, someone who once called Donald Trump ‘America’s Hitler’ and denounced the former President vehemently, before flipping once he realized that flattering Trump was his path to power.
Vance has chosen to embrace Trump’s Big Lie about the election and has even said he would have done what Pence did not: Refuse to certify the election.
In my mind, that alone disqualifies both Trump and Vance.
But it goes further.
I simply cannot shake the feeling deep in the pit of my stomach that something has gone seriously wrong in the Republican Party of the United States in its current form.
And yes, it does come down to Russia.
Trump has flip-flopped on almost every issue, aside from his praise of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Vance is the most anti-Ukraine & pro-Russia Senator in the United States.
The two ‘Democrats’ Trump brought on board – Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. – just so happen to be among the most anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia political figures in the United States.
Donald Trump Jr. regularly exhibits barely concealed hatred for Ukraine.
Trump-aligned Republicans blocked aid for Ukraine for many months, during which Russia made advances on the battlefield.
Trump has allied with Elon Musk – who has often repeated Russian propaganda near-verbatim and is now alleged by the Wall Street Journal to have had multiple secret conversations with the Russian dictator. Further, Musk has regularly amplified Russian propaganda through ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter.
The right-wing media figures who wittingly or unwittingly took massive payments from Russia, just so happen to be the most pro-Trump, pro-Russia, and anti-Ukraine media figures in the United States.
There are simply too many connections here to ignore.
The one common denominator between people in Trump’s orbit is a disturbing affinity for Russia and a willingness to demonize the United States.
It should also come as no surprise that Trump, Vance, Gabbard, and RFK are all hostile to NATO – the world’s greatest defensive alliance.
What a coincidence that destroying NATO happens to be Putin’s long-term dream because it would enable him to overrun free nations that were once locked in the prison of the Soviet Union.
As much as I wish this wasn’t the case, I simply cannot shake the sense that Donald Trump and those around him represent what would in many ways be a takeover of the United States by a Russia-aligned faction.
And I have little doubt that that faction would ultimately turn on Taiwan and Israel down the road to appease Russia and other members of the Authoritarian Axis.
After all, Donald Trump’s invocation of the ‘enemy within,’ and his repeated statements that his domestic political opponents are enemies while claiming that Xi, Putin, Kim, and other dictators are not enemies is exactly how a leader would prime their populace for internal violence and external submission.
I simply cannot look the other away and pretend this is something I am alright with.
That’s why, if I was an American voter, I would vote for Kamala Harris for President of the United States. Harris may not be the ideal choice, but the U.S. election is not normal. And compared to Donald Trump, Harris is the far superior candidate.
There’s more in the first comment section if you can stomach it
what a retard
What about Canada?
Reading this you may be wondering my thoughts on Canada.
And here, there is actually little change.
I continue to enthusiastically support Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and believe it is essential for Justin Trudeau to be defeated.
And I see no contradiction here.
Ask yourself this question:
Do you ever wake up in the morning worried that Pierre Poilievre is facing criticism for threatening to use the military to kill his political opponents?
Do you ever wake up in the morning worried that Pierre Poilievre is calling for the termination of Canada’s constitution?
Do you ever wake up in the morning worried that another dozen women have accused the Conservative leader of crimes against them?
Do you ever wake up in the morning worried that Poilievre has praised the world’s most evil dictators while calling for violence against those who disagree with him?
Do you ever wake up in the morning worried that scores of former Poilievre staffers warn he is a fascist, wannabe dictator, and praised Hitler?
Of course not, because Poilievre doesn’t do any of those things.
And he doesn’t do any of those things because he is a normal political leader who believes in limited government and chooses to be a decent human being, rather than an authoritarian wannabe dictator who wants to rule with an iron fist through a disturbing personality cult.
People can agree or disagree with him on the issues, but supporting Pierre Poilievre doesn’t require sacrificing one’s sense of personal ethics, whereas Trump regularly demands that his supporters defend the indefensible.
Poilievre has also been consistent in defending individual freedom, whether that’s through pushing for lower taxes, expanding freedom of expression, supporting democratic nations like Ukraine and Taiwan and pro-democracy movements in places like Venezuela and Iran, and defending a Woman’s Right to Choose.
The Conservative Party as it exists today under Pierre Poilievre is very different from the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
So long as it stays that way, I will gladly support it.
And – though I don’t see it as likely – if that were to change in the future and the party/movement ever went in the pro-authoritarian, post-truth, pro-Russia direction we see among elements of the right in the United States, I would simply not be a part of that movement any longer. No party or ideological label should ever trap us into going in a direction that conflicts with our sense of right and wrong.
Closing thoughts
I recognize that many of you reading this will deeply disagree with much of what I have said here. Ultimately, I felt I owed it to you to speak the truth as I see it. After all, how could you trust the things I say that you do agree with if I just pandered all the time and told you what you want to hear?
For those who will say ‘they got to you’ or ‘who is paying you’, I can simply say that the only thing that ‘got to me’ was my conscience, and sense of regret that while I played a role in helping to build up the independent media in Canada (something our nation certainly needs), I also at times played a role in increasing division and weakening trust in a way that now makes it more difficult for our nation to be united on anything, at a time when we face external threats that we must be united to overcome. Since nobody has a time machine, all I can do is try and be the best version of myself going forward.
As for the ‘who is paying you’ question, nobody is paying me to say this. The fact is that it would be much more lucrative for me to jump on the ‘Trump Train’ and get the endless views and Retweets that come along with that. Shifting in a less divisive direction has left me financially worse off. But, while it is nice to have money, no amount of money can make up for selling your soul and saying things you don’t believe in.
I would rather fail while standing up for my sense of the truth than succeed in selling lies.
Spencer Fernando
If you don’t recognize the Socialist/Marxist collective that is trying to turn the west Fascist, you can’t see what Trump is about (beyond his warts). He wants none of the UN sponsored garbage. We all see his warts. Narcissism is one of them, for sure. That’s where his motivation comes from. So what?
But it boils down to Americans putting their FAITH with a man who is not a career politician, who sees the Inside Beltway Corruption, and has taken more than his share of arrows to reveal it all to the American people, at least those who’ve had the wool pulled from their eyes.
In the end, he may do a repeat (drop taxes for the rich and achieve little in terms of real reform and thereby sent a clear message to the Future). And then we’ll all be disappointed that he left the door open to the swift return to a future Dem with more charisma who will finish us off. Hell, beating Hil, FJB and Kam should not have been all that difficult, even with cheating. But we’ll get four years of sanity at least.
As for overseas opinions of Trump, its always through the lens of (censored) foreign media. Thankfully, Europe and Canada don’t get to vote this time.
Good stuff pedro
As always I am more optimistic
With over 50% of Americans Awake to the Cretins ..NO ONE will Finish “Us” off.
pedro, Canadian Liberals hate Trump.
Many Canadian Conservatives hate Trump as well.
Why?
They watch Canadian and US MSM which paints Trump in a negative way.
Canadians for the most part support Ukraine.
Why?
MSM tells them so.
The Ukraine boosters in Canada and likely the US do not take the time to look back to the fall of the Soviet Union and the history of Nato’s relentless march to the Russian border. To the Ukrainian boosters the war started in Feb 2022 without any analysis of why Russia felt compelled to
initiate the SMO.
I get the above response all the time from Canadian Conservatives. Even Poilievre is rah, rah, Ukraine.
Middle-aged White female Conservatives are the worst.
Yes, I have an opinion on the Ukraine-Russia conflict with the knowledge that Russia is far from perfect. The West has more in common with Russia than China. Faith and Family. Communism destroys those right away but they came back in Russia.
The only comment on the Middle East conflict I have is please end the death and destruction and try for a lasting peaceful arrangement. History is not kind to either side’s position. Not going there.
Yup, anyone who is a Ukraine support nut is a dumb fuck of the greatest magnitude. No one in the Canuck “conservative” camp gets it, so no matter what happens in 2025 Canada is fucked, and worse than the USA. You folks don’t have a Trump, or a mass of people who are sold out to true freedom. You need the truckers to take over the government and do what Trump will do to the bloated monster in DC. Freedom and Canada are at opposite ends of the teeter totter.
Just love to gloat and rub it in, don’t ya?
For once, I don’t think we are “fucked no matter what happens in 2025”. And I’m not sure what you are trying to accomplish by pointing a finger at Canada and doing the “Nyah Nyah we have Trump and you don’t Nyah Nyah you are fucked” thing. You have made it painfully obvious on numerous occasions that you think anyone who still lives in Canada must be stupid. How about we acknowledge your point of view and then move on to trying to support one another on this forum?
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The teaching of History and geography in both Canadian and US schools is dismal. Has been for decades. People now live in the moment, have such a short attention spans, no curiosity.
Over the years I have asked people about their family.
As we are a mobile society and no longer live around our extended families, a good percentage of the population can not tell me much about their Grandparents. Many either don’t care to know or never bothered to ask.
So why would they study history.
But, they can tell me everything about Celebrity gossip and sports stars.
The future is indeed scary.