Optical Delusion

Copying finds thin political ice

For those who don’t know, copying is an old pass-time among young people in Newfoundland and Labrador. They jump from ice pan to ice pan in the harbour, one after another until they get to the other side or back to where they started. The idea is not to fall in, obviously, because the water is very cold. Copying can be very dangerous too as you can get crushed between the pans or trapped under water so you cannot get through to the surface. In the worst cases, people get pulled away by currents and tides never to be seen alive again.

Now look at the tweet shown in the picture. Someone who is a strong partisan for the local Pea Seas and the federal Conservatives recirculated the CBC story about Andrew Furey and his sclerotic ad hominems, miffed that CPC leader Pierre Poilievre was helping out the local Pea Seas’ enemy.

There’s plenty of things to take your eye there but look at the “Axe the Tax” hashtag.

It’s not the carbon tax.

It’s the sugar tax.

The Pea Seas copied the axe the tax campaign when they saw how popular the anti-carbon tax slogan was with voters.

But they fixated on the sugar tax so they could localize it a bit.

Makes no sense at all because no one really notices the sugar tax but the Pea Seas and their leader are so obsessed by it that they talk about the sugar tax everywhere, all the time. They even included it in the victory stuff Tony Wakeham talked to reporters about after their win in Fogo Island - Cape Freels. Proof, said Tony, people are fed up with the sugar tax or words to that effect.