my comments below excerpt the from article
Canada's Trudeau, trailing in polls, defends early election call
Early Canada election call backfires on Trudeau, who now trails in polls
HAMILTON, Ontario, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing possible defeat in a snap Sept. 20 election, on Friday defended his decision to call the election early and said his main rival would undermine the fight against COVID-19.
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Prime Minister Tinkerbell Trudeau still suffering from the lack of humility that got him in trouble earlier in the covid experience, and gave rise to this thread.
Now he is taking another beating for exactly the same reason, ie. getting too uppity about the covid situtation in Canada. As you will recall, in the first episode, he and his bootlickers boasted excessively about how well they were doing covid- especially in regard to the Americans- and then they got hammered- not only from covid but especially from the total lack of a vaccine procurement plan.
That went on for months as you know.
Finally, thanks to American and other vaccine, Canada got a vaccination program together and a high vaccine rate too because the Canadians are a complacent and compliant people. All for the good for a guy who had taken a well-deserved beating. But he dealt with it by getting uppity again. In fact, he thought that things were going so swimmingly well that it would be a good time to call a national election. His plan was that he was such a superstar know that a new election would get his party even more votes and help to consolidate his power rather than cobble together a coalition.
Problem is. It blew up on him and he is in the midst of another humbling experience. Canadians are pissed off at him for calling a national election during difficult times in the country and the world just so that he can boost his own political currency. They don't like it. Not just his opponents but lots of voters in his own party as well.
Election coming right up in ten days. He probably will hold on to power but not increase his support in Parliament any more than he has already. In other words, during difficult times he gamed Canada by putting them through an election for nothing.
So his thread was started as "a humbling moment after a summer of bragging." Now Trudeau is having yet another humbling experience after yet another summer of bragging."
I have not followed it that closely but some of the headlines look like he needs to watch his arse even though I said he will probably survive. He could get more of a humbling experience than he thinks if he doesn't stop being totally obnoxious.