#conservative

#Americans need to get out of this mindset where they think in terms of the two-party system (let's be honest, it's one corporate party just with a #fascist wing & a slightly less-fascist wing). Hating #Trump doesn't make me a #liberal, just like hating #Biden doesn't make me a #conservative.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism

This is PP's sure-win riding of Battle River-Crowfoot: Aryan Nations are conservatives. These nazis are also across the border in SK, where Coulton Boushie was murdered by a white racist farmer.

Only you can stop fascism.

#CdnPoli #AbPoli #SkPoli #CanadianFascism #Conservative

In the states, #FGA has become known as a #conservative "thought leader," said Brian Colby, VP of #PublicPolicy for Missouri Budget Project, a #progressive nonprofit that provides analysis of #state #policy issues.

"Conservatives used to try to chop away at the #federal #budget," Colby said. "These guys are doing it at the state level."

In its 14 yrs, FGA has created a playbook to shape state policy discussions about #PublicBenefits behind the scenes.

#law #PublicAssistance #healthcare #Trump

The main foundation started out as a staff of 3 w/about $60k in the bank. As of 2023, it had a budget of >$15M & a team of roughly 64, acc/to the latest available tax documents, & that's not counting the lobbying arm.

The #FGA got early funding from a grant from the State Policy Network, which has long backed right-leaning think tanks with ties to #conservative activists including brothers Charles & David #Koch.

#law #plutocracy #Trump #RFKJr #health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #USpol

Meet the Florida group chipping away at #public #benefits one state at a time

The organization largely behind social restriction #legislation is the Foundation for Government Accountability [#FGA], a #conservative policy think tank in #Florida, & its affiliated lobbying arm, which has used the name Opportunity Solutions Project [#OSP].

#law #plutocracy #USpol #PublicAssistance #SNAP #Medicaid #healthcare #Trump #RFKJr
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387527/fga-foundation-for-government-accountability-states-snap-work-requirements

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday in a major blow that threw politics in Europe's largest economy once more into disarray.

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250506-what-will-happen-in-germany-now-that-friedrich-merz-has-failed-to-be-elected-chancellor

#news #politics #europe #germany #conservative

An analogous process with the present #conservatives might be for some to fuse with #reformUK in due course while much of their 'One Nation; wing went over to the #liberaldemocrats in much the same way as 'Peelites' such as #gladstone did to the #liberals in the nineteenth century. Whether anyone would be as kind to a rump #conservative party as #churchill was to the independent #liberals in 1951 is something about which I will not speculate.

"I Escaped #Christian #Conservative #Indoctrination"

https://www.thekaysemeloneshow.com/p/013-i-escaped-christian-conservative

"When I was in grade school, I was taught that #liberals were my enemy, #God will send these #nonbelievers to #hell, and how it was up to me to ensure that the #Democraticparty failed in everything it attempted.
Because I wasn’t just raised in a #church. I was #indoctrinated into Christian #Conservatism. And I was one of the fortunate ones who were able to eventually walk away from it."

#atheist #atheism #religion

It's fun to dunk on #Poilievre losing his own seat, and by no means should anyone stop!

But... having a leader run in a safe seat is just how it's done. Someone steps down. The leader steps in. This is the system.

I'm just saying.

#Canada #CanPoli #Conservative #CPC

You know what isn't a fun game? That game that goes "At what point do my #conservative af #catholic parents give up on the literal antichrist they are enthralled by?" If Biden or Obama posted a pic as #pope, my parents would be funding a private militia to ransack DC. If either tried to run for a third term, same thing. If either claimed they didn't know if they had to actually defend the constitution they swore on a bible to do, again, DC would burn. WTF #MAGA? What is your red line?

Last week:

#Conservative opposition leader #Poilievre loses his own seat in #Canada

This week:

Conservative opposition leader (of the Liberal Party, but that's the conservatives in Australia) #Dutton loses his own seat in #Australia

Congratulations Australia and #LaborParty's #Disability advocate #AliFrance!

She lost her leg in a car accident in 2011, sparking an interest in protecting the public #healthcare system

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ali-france-disability-activist-who-overcame-grief-oust-australia-opposition-2025-05-03/

#maga and #trump are turning the rest of the democratic countries #liberal as any country that had/has an election coming up was #conservative leaning during Trump's campaign. Then when the #tariffs started, and the #usa became a spectacularly hated country, conservative support dropped like a hammer.

#canada first, and now Australia has this trend. Others too.

It's being called "The Trump Effect,".

https://scoopzapp.com/n/10q8q9Oc?ctype=native_video&nid=3990726402806&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1746289911&actBtn=null

#politics #uspol #australia #scoopz

People who know nothing about politics explain why they voted Conservative in Canada's federal election. “They're going to implement different systems to control us more and more. Less affordable housing. Bringing in people who shouldn't be in the country. Liberal, for me now, is anti­Canada,” he said, adding he gets his information from Elon Musk's social platform X rather than mainstream news outlets." #conservative #election #canada https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/the-most-honest-reflection-of-the-country-inside-the-905-the-ridings-that-helped-deny/article_aa0235be-1401-448d-a3a5-2ad22ca51c50.html

@Daojoan
That's partly because #USA set the example on how bad #rightwing, #fascist, "#conservative" politics can be.

Oh, and remember: In #USA, voters "are not going to need to vote anymore". Unless something is done to stop it, #TheOrangeMenace will be in control there for more than a few years.

#DarrenBeattie has also personally promoted these views. Before joining the #State Dept, he started Revolver News, a website that espouses #FarRight talking points that often gain traction in certain *conservative* circles. Among the ideas promoted in Revolver News is that GEC was part of a “censorship industrial complex” aimed at suppressing American #conservative voices, even though GEC’s mission was foreign #disinformation.

#ConspiracyTheories #law #Trump #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics

Both #GEC & #RFIMI, its pared-down successor office, focused on tracking & countering foreign #disinformation efforts from #Russia, #China, & #Iran, among others, but GEC was frequently accused—& was even sued—by *#conservative* critics who claimed that it enabled *censorship* of conservative Americans’ views. A judge threw out one of those claims against GEC in 2022 (while finding that other parts of the Biden admin did exert undue pressure on tech platforms).

#Trump #law #RevengePolitics

Oh hey look, 1000 more #cbsa and 1000 more #rcmp.

Also, impeding bail.

Classic #neverpoilievre and #conservative policies.

I'm waiting for him to quote the crime stat lies in this postcard from last month...

Please don't be shocked...

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

Given the results of this election moderate Conservative Party of Canada members should consider who their dancing partners are and whether it might be better to go separate ways similar to what moderates did from the now officially certified as extremist AfD in 2015:

https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/114438855177016282

#CanPoli #CanPolitics #CDNPoli #Conservative #PierrePoilievre #CPC #CanElxn #CDNElxn #cdnelxn2025

“AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence”

…Wonder what they think of #reformuk ?

#uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #farright #rightwing #bnp #farage #nigelfarage #conservative #afd #germany #deutschland #politics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy6zk9wkrdo

Vote splitting is how Doug Ford got three shots to ruin Ontario. The majority of Ontario residents didn't want Ford, who won a "majority" with 18% of registered voter support in 2022. "It's time to accept the obvious: Liberals and New Democrats who keep competing against one another, and splitting the vote between each other, will keep delivering closely contested ridings to the Conservatives." #truth #liberal #ndp #conservative #election https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/theres-only-one-path-to-survival-for-the-new-democrats/article_48ca8653-b4e7-4da0-b7f2-f64f5b6bd54f.html