He has basically unlocked what the NDP has struggled with for a long time. How do you appeal to both factions NDP have historically targeted - young voters/union workers. Affordability.

"We don't need to be fighting each other. It's the rich who are fucking us all over and making life cost more."

The NDP can't seem to figure out a cohesive message but it seems pretty clear what it should be. The cons are lifting the trump playbook. NDP should go lift the Mamdani one.

Oh this budget is passing. The NDP don't have their ducks in a row and I think the bloc (and honestly probably the cons) would prop up the libs if it came to it anyway. But this can, and should, be the start of a long game on messaging from the NDP.

Regardless, I think that shift puts the NDP in a good position messaging wise. They can very credibly target the Cons for having harmful social/economic agendas and the libs for white washing the con economic agenda for public consumption. NDP should brand themselves as the unofficial opposition.

Ideally, that happens and the Cons take from that that Pollievre (and that kind of candidate broadly) isn't a winning proposition on a national level and they ditch him in favour of a Carney like figure (a la Erin O'Toole). Hopefully that happens before the next election but that's unlikely.

I think Carney's play is that there have historically been a lot of votes that kind of just float between lib and con and that by shifting to centre right, you make it a much more palatable choice to vote lib in the next election vs the clearly super right Pollievre. Which I think is possible.

A rebuke of Pollievre in that specific moment was pretty important imo. But yeah, I don't imagine there'll be much reason to vote strategically going forward. Conservative caucus fracturing w. Carney appealing to the centre right. NDP need to recognize the moment and present a clear, leftist message

"why did you think I called you Honey?"

"Was there like a deal or something?"
Just like the regular deal you get for a combo. Here's your apple slices and green tea btw.

"Why'd you bring me this?'
For lunch.
"But why this specifically?"
Just to, like, eat.
"I've literally never ordered this."
Seemed like you wanted one.
"???!"

Yeah Berube needs to pivot here and they should be looking at adding a dman who is a bit more mobile but I don't think they are nearly as far from where they were as people are claiming.

Sure. But having Tanev out is a big factor there too. I'm not so much saying they don't need to make changes. More so that the "welp. Put a fork in em. Tank for top five so they can keep their first" stuff is pretty overblown.

You thought doing that required a nickname?

Don't have their next two first round picks

Zomb. James Zomb.

Ford has ridden a wave of unprecedented crises where he performed fine compared to many of his conservative peers who performed like dog shit. The result is he earned a "good in a crisis" rep. Meanwhile, the libs and NDP haven't been able to clearly establish why anyone should vote for them at all.

Just saw a Gemini ad where a person took a picture of a bunch of sunglasses at a store and said "Gemini, I have a heart shaped face. Which of these would look best on me?"

You are at the store... put them on your heart shaped face, dummy.

Casino Royale, by contrast, is the best Bond movie. Note perfect.