If by "poll trackers" you're referring to projection models as opposed to actual riding polls, those are always quackery. '25 was really an exceptional election...

Maybe the bigger story than the Libs winning both Toronto byelections is the NDP apparently reclaiming nominal opposition status in University-Rosedale.

Somehow, to confront the Pope with that kind of visual imagery is by several calibers more deranged than simply confronting the Vatican with that kind of statement-mongering. Essentially, it's like siccing a bunch of J6 rioters on the Vatican to spray-paint MAGA and cr@p on the floor and trash...

Some of those highish figures for places like Dufferin, Haliburton, Muskoka, PEC (well, high enough to count in a list like this) seem propelled by affluent ex-Torontonians who chose to live in the periphery. (And I'd imagine those peripheral-place shares were especially boosted btw/2016 and...

Piggybacking off the Swalwell post above, to insist upon the full acronym is like insisting Los Angeles be henceforth referred to as El Pueblo de Nuesta Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula. (Also, take it up with residents of Dysart et al up in Haliburton.)

Yeah, ultimately, the *real* problem is with how the term "SJW" has been weaponized by bad actors--when, in fact, a lot of what they stand for is perfectly benign. Or at this point, said bad actors might as well be arguing that anyone who's pro-Roe v. Wade is a SJW. Now, I can understand...

He's twelve.

Well, superficially. But again, we're dealing with a riding that was a bellwether until relatively recently; and its falling out of bellwether status has to do with the generic recent-times collapse of the Libs in rural and blue-collar SW Ontario together with the more "local" matter of a...

He'd probably say to Hegseth: "You want it? It's yours." And then Hegseth and his gang would salivate at the opportunity to, uh, fulfil Biblical prophecy. But you know what the saddest toddler-in-chief story is? That he's being fed, for his comfort and amusement, blow'em'up-real-good war...

Not quite. It reelected the Libs' Roger Gallaway in '04; and when Gallaway was defeated in '06 it was seen as something of an upset. And up to that time it was seen as a Peterborough-style bellwether (and provincially, it elected the Libs in *1999*--but likewise somewhat contrarily fell to the...

But ultimately, what probably *really* triggered this latest case of TACO is that ***everybody***, short of partner-in-crime Netanyahu and the deepest End Times nutters, was preparing to bail on him. Maybe even his own sons. He was on the verge of being a cornered loser.

Re the justifiability of End Times, I noticed this here (emphasis mine) =============================== CNN host Pamela Brown asked Glesne about Trump's TruthSocial post threatening the civilians in Iran. Glesne explained that something like this is perfectly acceptable because the Earth is...

That really *is* the point here. Indeed, if "something happens" (and remember: for all the rhetoric about a whole civilization being wiped out, even a single nuke--which would be far more powerful than Hiroshima/Nagasaki--dropped upon Tehran would be "galvanizing"), the *only* ones I can see...

But also turn on each other in a way that'd make the breakup of Yugoslavia look mild.

But I'm not even talking about nation states; I'm talking about the citizenry. Because a nuclear attack would be a line not crossed since 1945. The reality is going to be unfathomable, in a "sh!t just got real" way--we're no longer talking about video-game or disaster-movie scenarios. There's...