Election Follies and Funnies #29: decision day

Well, that's the ball game:

My prediction for Sept 20, 2021 Election. @JustinTrudeau Liberals form gov't for the 3rd time. #Ontario delivers the minority. #BritishColumbia determines whether #Liberals win a majority. #Elxn44

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 20, 2021

Seats Changing Hands: pic.twitter.com/gA7vPCCjrY

— Evan Scrimshaw (@EScrimshaw) September 20, 2021

I am still hoping that Trudeau might be able to pull out a few more seat flips and end up with a majority -- but as usual, it will all come down to who can get their vote out. 

Here's a last minute reminder of what's at stake:

As a woman, this is why I voted for the @liberal_party 🗳

✅ Accessible & affordable childcare
✅ Protection of reproductive & LGBTQ2 rights
✅ The best climate plan
✅ Tough on guns
✅ Canada Child Benefit
✅ Vaccine mandates
✅ Covid response#Elxn44 https://t.co/Xeg9LY8YfX

— Lisa Kirbie (@lisakirbie) September 19, 2021

Thrilled to see so many of my climate/ocean science colleagues in Canada stepping up to speak out in support of the @liberal_party climate plan. The climate crisis is front & centre in #elxn44. Only @JustinTrudeau has a plan that recognizes the scale of the crisis #cdnpoli

— Andrew Weaver (@AJWVictoriaBC) September 20, 2021

In a nutshell, this cartoon summarizes why O'Toole won't be elected Prime Minister - when the going gets tough, he can't figure out how to be a leader:

Globe and Mail political cartoonist Brian Gable captures Erin O’Toole’s inability to explain away the promises he made to the gun lobby in his platform. #Elxn44 #cdnpoli #Page90 pic.twitter.com/o8DLXfz9zv

— Blake Brown (@RBlakeBrown) September 19, 2021

Jasmeet Singh may gain some seats tomorrow, but his relentless and bitter negativity toward Trudeau combined a poorly articulated NDP platform have really put me off.

I never thought I’d see an NDP leader out hate and out lie a Con leader. But it seems that Jagmeet Singh has managed to win that ugly race. Read the evidence, and you be the judge. #cdnpoli #Elxn44 https://t.co/kRAtpifmLv via @LooniePolitics pic.twitter.com/PolwMgoCHQ

— 🇨🇦 Simon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌈🏂 (@montrealsimon) September 20, 2021

Green Leader Elizabeth May took aim at Jagmeet Singh Thursday, saying she’s losing patience and respect for the New Democrat leader and accusing him of spreading false information.
https://t.co/UwafOnYASM#Elxn44 #cdnpoli

— Nickie with an 'e' 😷 🌈 💉💉 (@winter_canada) September 19, 2021

Election Eve thoughts:

- the NDP have lost me for good
- #cdnmedia needs to fact-check and challenge 3rd, 4th & 5th parties the way they do the cons and Libs
- the Libs not fighting disinformation from the NDP irritated me more than anything
- where’d the NDP get so much $?!

— Jenny-P 🇨🇦 (@Jenn_Pastrak) September 20, 2021

Two very random thoughts before I go to sleep:

1) Jagmeet only has himself to blame if tomorrow goes badly for him. Horrible strategy down the stretch from him

2) Feist should cover Hallelujah

— Evan Scrimshaw (@EScrimshaw) September 20, 2021

Singh followed up his airport skateboarding yesterday with a bizarre TicTok shower video today, and Twitter wasn't impressed:

My fellow olds, a TikTok trend is a micro video challenge kids perform when the algorithm surfaces something popular for them to mimic. Yes, it’s a little cringe when a 42-year-old does it, but whatever, let Jagmeet Singh have it, there isn’t much else going on for him. #Elxn44

— Asif Hossain (@asifintoronto) September 20, 2021

I definitely agree with this - I hope the Justice Minister will investigate because people died!

Conservative governments in at least 3 provinces deliberately delayed action on COVID, hoping to out wait #Elxn44 before doing the right thing. There needs to be a national inquiry into potential collusion between them and the federal CPC and the related costs to public health.

— Chris Owttrim (@cowttrim) September 19, 2021

They agreed to let Albertan's die, to try and win an election. If there is another conclusion, I'm not seeing it.

— Adrian Wilson (@AdrianW123) September 19, 2021

Alberta Conservatives are upset with Kenney and signing letters asking for leadership reviews.

Oh my God, they’re gonna kill Kenney. pic.twitter.com/HVBbkU3bmp

— David Fisman (@DFisman) September 19, 2021

And I suspect this is what will happen now with O'Toole:

#Elxn44 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Mm6e2vwgMZ

— Memeditorialist (@ajhtweeting) September 20, 2021

I thought this was sort of funny:

Well, you’re sucking the life out of most of us…. https://t.co/3eEgmFYKjl

— David Puddy (@allsystemsjo) September 20, 2021