Word to Peggy Wente And Comic Relief: A Cheesy Cartoon And Latest From Montreal Icons, Bowser and Blue

Keep thinking you live in a democracy, dear.

What’s happened to my country? I went away for a couple of weeks and all hell broke loose. I came back to find that someone named Poutine stole the last election. At first I thought this was a typo, that they meant Putin.

Go back to sleep, dear.

It turns out that Russia is a shining beacon of democracy compared to Canada.

Let me back to you on that one. This will require some thought. And yes, I’m starting to wonder  if there is much difference between what happened at Russia’s last election and our’s.  The geography don’t matter. Election fraud is election fraud.

Not a single voter claims to have been prevented from voting.

Just because your average Canadian prefers shopping over civil literacy don’t mean it didn’t happen.  And  what would you call being told your polling station has moved much further away from your home than the real one actually is?  Yep, sadly, many don’t think outside the box or think of checking.  This is how the Harpercons continue getting away with what they get away with.  It also doesn’t make it right.   If they tried this bull-shit in any other jurisdiction where folks were more engaged with their politics, they wouldn’t get away with even half of what they get away with.

No ballot boxes appear to have been stuffed.

Oh, gee, Pegs, thanks for setting us straight. See, boys ‘n’ girls? No stuffed ballot boxes! Case closed! That means no electoral fraud happened!

There weren’t even any hanging chads.

Oh well! That settles it, boys ‘n’ girls! No hanging chads!  Does this mean since we can never have a hanging chad, given our electoral system doesn’t have that sort of thing,  that electoral fraud can never ever happen here in Canada? I guess in the world according to Peggy Wente it does.

Oh yes, and Peggy enlists the help of ol’ Michael Bliss who really, REALLY  needs new material–desperately!

“From the point of view of anybody concerned about our political system, it’s a non-scandal,” says Michael Bliss, the eminent historian. But parliamentary politics is such a bear pit that, in the absence of a real scandal (such as the sponsorship affair), a non-scandal will have to do. Opposition politicians, along with a fair portion of the media, have clamped on to the Harper government like a pack of rabid chihuahuas. They’ve escalated the rhetoric so much that you’ve got to wonder what they’ll say when a real scandal comes along.

ADSCAM!!!! The crime of the 20th century!  Rabid chihuahuas? Cute, Mikey, now be a good boy and drink your kool-aid now.  As for a real scandal, well, Mikey,  I guess a “real Scandal” as you put it, would never ever be perpetrated by your precious Harpercons now would it? Because, after all, anything goes if you’re a Conservative, ain’t that right? I’ve said this before and I will say it again; this is how things appear to work nowadays: I bet if the Harpercons committed ADSCAM, all would be forgiven and forgotten and Stevie Spiteful would probably get the Order of Canada for it.  On the other hand, if the Liberals or the NDP ever perpetrated even less than half of what the Harpercons have done since they’ve taken office, they’d have been railroaded outta Ottawa in short order.  I’m waiting for one of those cheerleaders to just be honest and come right out and admit this fact. We all know it.

And just because we live in Canada, as you and your other Harpercon cheerleaders put it, doesn’t mean a dictatorship ain’t happening here.  Remember one thing, dear Pegs, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…

Now for a cartoon. Thanks Rev Paperboy for the entertainment!

This cartoon is going to be a guilty pleasure for me.

And speaking of new material, fellow Montrealers Bowser and Blue have always come up with new material for the past three decades now! This time is no different.

Thanks again, Reverend Paperboy!