I’m out in Durham and while I was initially shocked at the amount of orange when signs started going up the blue is now out in equal measure.
It’s depressing but expected, Durham was a conservative stronghold until the last election and it seems like the Liberals up here are way more right leaning than left. We might get an upset but I doubt it .
I still can’t get over how anyone is vocally blue this time around. Doug Ford is such a corrupt incompetent ass you’d think people would be ashamed to publicly support him. Like at least pretend to not be so openly “Fuck you got mine”??
extremely excited to go vote in the riding that Ford himself is running in, in the polling station within walking distance of his campaign headquarters, which is a block from my house. it has been a crappy run up to this bad election and i am very pumped for it to be over
I’m in Toronto (Wynne’s riding) and based on the polling it looks like the race here is between Liberal and PC. It sucks to have to decide between voting for who I want (NDP) and voting for who I think has a better chance to beat the conservatives. But somehow, that’s how it always seems to go.
Same as @ClairvoyantVibes, I was in and out in under 5 minutes. The new machines are pretty neat, and they seem to maintain physical receipts so I’m not too worried about vote tampering. Fingers crossed for a strong NDP showing!
pictured: me trying to be calm for the next little while as the results come in:
EDIT: Looking at the CBC’s live updates and not surprised but intensely disappointed that a lot of Liberal incumbents are being beat out by the PC’s. Who coulda thunk that the middle of the road status quo people would skew right when things really got down to it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Wanted to boost this for any trans ontarians here or your trans friends and loved ones who haven’t done this or don’t use twitter for various (very good) reasons
In a debate he also equated the ideology of NDP and Liberal voters, who he referred to with the blanket word “activists” (for reference the NDP is probably the closest thing we have to a popular leftist party, through I think sometimes that’s stretching it. The Liberal Party are your traditional middle of the road neo-liberals. I digress) to that of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler.
That and his transphobic statements should give you some idea of who we’re dealing with.
Dear Canadian friends, so sorry about tonight. Another Ford in power… the world blows. Cracking open a bag of all dressed chips, blasting some Sloan and murdering some pixelated nazis via Wolfenstein, thinking of you tonight.
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