The World Just LOVES that Justin Trudeau!
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Justin Trudeau: Canadian Prime Minister, Free World's Best Hope? - Rolling Stone
Best hope for??????
Best hope for??????
Yabut tater tot takes lots of selfies and wears colorful socks.
Fair to say that the world is thusly saved
Dubbed the North Star.
Justin Trudeau, dubbed 'The North Star,' lands Rolling Stone cover - Entertainment - CBC News
Blasphemy!
There is only one North Star, and he does not share power.
Justin Trudeau, dubbed 'The North Star,' lands Rolling Stone cover - Entertainment - CBC News
Blasphemy!
There is only one North Star, and he does not share power.
And so is Trudeau (and a lot of other politicians including Tessa May)
so why do you accept trump for all the things that you hold against Trudeau?
yeah, that's what the world needs...make belief people. lol. trump's as fake a person as you can get while still having a physical form and he aint' doin sh!t, but stuffing his pockets, his kids pockets, and his cronies pockets, while the poor starve and die. Nice.
Seems the Star want's to point out that Trudeau is not quite what they see flashed on the media.........and they get a big applaud from me for alerting their readers........
You see, when it comes to covering Trudeau, the U.S. media are now so grateful he’s not Donald Trump, they continue to lionize him in a way that is failing readers on both sides of the border who may believe incompetence is not a zero-sum game.
Sure, your guy is a demonic clown. We get that.
But you know what? Our guy is not exactly keeping his promises or doing anything that might place this country on a solid footing for future generations.
This is something the U.S. media can’t grasp in the fog of Trump.
From the opening paragraphs to the unending subtext to the panting cover-line query — “Why Can’t He Be Our President?” — the Rolling Stone profile of Trudeau that landed on Wednesday is so glowingly submissive, so blindingly quixotic, that even if you tool around in a T-shirt that reads “Sunny Ways,” you might be wise to put on shades while skimming to avoid damaging your retinas.
This two-state media dynamic is clear: It’s much easier for Canadian media to cover Trump than it is for U.S. media to cover Trudeau.
Trump is so detached from all reasonable standards of decency and intelligence that he is a cartoon villain. He is a fool on the hill who hurls thunderbolts from his social media citadel, insults that are invariably powered by paranoid scorn and delusions of grandeur because, in the absence of any real accomplishments for this White House, unhinged tweets are all he’s got left.
Trump is presidential in the same way my cat is a Tiffany lamp.
His supporters believe the fake media is on a witch hunt — that their beloved leader is under siege by diabolical elites who are waging partisan warfare. They are mistaken: From the start of this doomed odyssey, Donald Trump has been under siege by Donald Trump.
His ineptitude, naked greed, lunatic ego-cravings and severe allergies to both policy and hard work have exposed intractable failings as both an elected official and a human no sensible person would now choose to defend.
This makes covering him easy, albeit exhausting: Watch him shoot himself in the foot and document the bloodshed. Repeat. Repeat again.
Anything less is journalistic malpractice.
But for the U.S. media, in both the crosshairs of Trump’s incontinent rage and the vortex of his death spiral, covering Trudeau is not as straightforward. There is no obvious monster.
Whether he’s on the cover of GQ, in an issue devoted to “The Most Stylish Men Alive” or brooding in black and white in Vogue as “The New Young Face of Canadian Politics,” the U.S. media have already chalked out Trudeau’s silhouette in a fairy tale imagining that continues to endure.
In style and temperament, Trudeau is the anti-Trump. He projects idealism on the world stage. He is not vile, at least not in any personal sense. And this yearning for an anti-Trump to call their own means the U.S. media are glossing over or ignoring the troubling similarities between both leaders, not the least of which is an obsession with celebrity that is ultimately counterproductive to governance.
Yes, Trump is obviously repulsive. But is there not something also repulsive in walking back electoral reform or dithering on Indigenous crises or blowing through taxpayer dollars with the fiscal restraint my young daughters exhibit at Toys ‘R’ Us? If Trudeau ever spends a little less time sitting for cover stories or making cameos on award shows and podcasts, he might start breaking fewer promises.
In Canada, day after day, the media hold a flame-thrower to Trump’s toes. But as we can see from this Rolling Stone profile, America only has a concert lighter it holds up in the darkness while cheering on Trudeau.
The attention might be nice.
But a bit more neighbourly honesty would be even better.
https://t.co/kwxYRNA5vc
You see, when it comes to covering Trudeau, the U.S. media are now so grateful he’s not Donald Trump, they continue to lionize him in a way that is failing readers on both sides of the border who may believe incompetence is not a zero-sum game.
Sure, your guy is a demonic clown. We get that.
But you know what? Our guy is not exactly keeping his promises or doing anything that might place this country on a solid footing for future generations.
This is something the U.S. media can’t grasp in the fog of Trump.
From the opening paragraphs to the unending subtext to the panting cover-line query — “Why Can’t He Be Our President?” — the Rolling Stone profile of Trudeau that landed on Wednesday is so glowingly submissive, so blindingly quixotic, that even if you tool around in a T-shirt that reads “Sunny Ways,” you might be wise to put on shades while skimming to avoid damaging your retinas.
This two-state media dynamic is clear: It’s much easier for Canadian media to cover Trump than it is for U.S. media to cover Trudeau.
Trump is so detached from all reasonable standards of decency and intelligence that he is a cartoon villain. He is a fool on the hill who hurls thunderbolts from his social media citadel, insults that are invariably powered by paranoid scorn and delusions of grandeur because, in the absence of any real accomplishments for this White House, unhinged tweets are all he’s got left.
Trump is presidential in the same way my cat is a Tiffany lamp.
His supporters believe the fake media is on a witch hunt — that their beloved leader is under siege by diabolical elites who are waging partisan warfare. They are mistaken: From the start of this doomed odyssey, Donald Trump has been under siege by Donald Trump.
His ineptitude, naked greed, lunatic ego-cravings and severe allergies to both policy and hard work have exposed intractable failings as both an elected official and a human no sensible person would now choose to defend.
This makes covering him easy, albeit exhausting: Watch him shoot himself in the foot and document the bloodshed. Repeat. Repeat again.
Anything less is journalistic malpractice.
But for the U.S. media, in both the crosshairs of Trump’s incontinent rage and the vortex of his death spiral, covering Trudeau is not as straightforward. There is no obvious monster.
Whether he’s on the cover of GQ, in an issue devoted to “The Most Stylish Men Alive” or brooding in black and white in Vogue as “The New Young Face of Canadian Politics,” the U.S. media have already chalked out Trudeau’s silhouette in a fairy tale imagining that continues to endure.
In style and temperament, Trudeau is the anti-Trump. He projects idealism on the world stage. He is not vile, at least not in any personal sense. And this yearning for an anti-Trump to call their own means the U.S. media are glossing over or ignoring the troubling similarities between both leaders, not the least of which is an obsession with celebrity that is ultimately counterproductive to governance.
Yes, Trump is obviously repulsive. But is there not something also repulsive in walking back electoral reform or dithering on Indigenous crises or blowing through taxpayer dollars with the fiscal restraint my young daughters exhibit at Toys ‘R’ Us? If Trudeau ever spends a little less time sitting for cover stories or making cameos on award shows and podcasts, he might start breaking fewer promises.
In Canada, day after day, the media hold a flame-thrower to Trump’s toes. But as we can see from this Rolling Stone profile, America only has a concert lighter it holds up in the darkness while cheering on Trudeau.
The attention might be nice.
But a bit more neighbourly honesty would be even better.
https://t.co/kwxYRNA5vc
So a ‘privileged white guy beats up Indian’
When I read that line beneath the photo of a bare chested Justin Trudeau standing beside a bare chested Patrick Brazeau, I thought, "oh no, not now." That was years ago. Why is it coming up now?
The answer - JT is drawn to publicity like a moth to a Coleman lantern. In his recent Rolling Stone interview the Dauphin was asked about his boxing match with the Tory senator.
“It wasn’t random,” Trudeau told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview published this week. “I wanted someone who would be a good foil, and we stumbled upon the scrappy tough-guy senator from an indigenous community. He fit the bill, and it was a very nice counterpoint. I saw it as the right kind of narrative, the right story to tell.”
The comments – part of a 6,800-word August cover story on the prime minister – sparked immediate reaction. “So ‘privileged white guy beats up Indian’ was the ‘right kind of narrative?’ Seriously?” wrote one person on Twitter, while another noted: “White guy in power & entitlement looks 4 an #Indigenous human to beat up so he looks like a strong white dude. How precious & colonial supreme.”
Others pointed to Trudeau’s much vaunted commitments to diversity and tackling the deep-rooted inequities facing many indigenous peoples in Canada. “What is up @JustinTrudeau after all your talk of inclusion you brag about beating up a guy with the issues you swore to address,” tweeted one.
Another said: “Trudeau literally using indigenous people as political props.”
Okay Cap'n Cuddly you stepped in it this time. They don't know that there's less to you than meets the eye. Why not just leave it that way?
When I read that line beneath the photo of a bare chested Justin Trudeau standing beside a bare chested Patrick Brazeau, I thought, "oh no, not now." That was years ago. Why is it coming up now?
The answer - JT is drawn to publicity like a moth to a Coleman lantern. In his recent Rolling Stone interview the Dauphin was asked about his boxing match with the Tory senator.
“It wasn’t random,” Trudeau told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview published this week. “I wanted someone who would be a good foil, and we stumbled upon the scrappy tough-guy senator from an indigenous community. He fit the bill, and it was a very nice counterpoint. I saw it as the right kind of narrative, the right story to tell.”
The comments – part of a 6,800-word August cover story on the prime minister – sparked immediate reaction. “So ‘privileged white guy beats up Indian’ was the ‘right kind of narrative?’ Seriously?” wrote one person on Twitter, while another noted: “White guy in power & entitlement looks 4 an #Indigenous human to beat up so he looks like a strong white dude. How precious & colonial supreme.”
Others pointed to Trudeau’s much vaunted commitments to diversity and tackling the deep-rooted inequities facing many indigenous peoples in Canada. “What is up @JustinTrudeau after all your talk of inclusion you brag about beating up a guy with the issues you swore to address,” tweeted one.
Another said: “Trudeau literally using indigenous people as political props.”
Okay Cap'n Cuddly you stepped in it this time. They don't know that there's less to you than meets the eye. Why not just leave it that way?
What has Brazeau said of his comment and the boxing match? That's the opinion that matters most, not some Twitter users.
Kinda relatable
It's like when my Cree buddy and I get drunk and start ripping each other. Were both careful not to rip each other in public or around people who get offended easily because we don't need no bozo filming us with their iPhone. In the end its none of their business.
Nothing represents Canada's sexy sovereignty better than bears, geese, moose-riding, and Justin Trudeau's rippling abs… at least according to one shop in Iceland that is capitalizing on the internet’s obsession with Canada’s Prime Minister.
Canadian Radio Host Bill Carroll shared the image of the T-shirt after his friend spotted it for sale in Reykjavik, Iceland (of all places).
https://t.co/EAUj4rsIDk
One cyber-sleuth managed to find it available for purchase via a San Francisco based online retailer. Trudeau stans are desperately trying to get their hands on the shirt before they run out, and before UPS stops shipping things to Canada for the winter (no, not really).
Tru-Dat!
Oh, Canada. Land of beefcake prime ministers, moose-riding bikini models, and sunsets straight out of "Baywatch." At least, that's how we imagine it. Truth be told, it's been a while since we visited. But let us have our fantasy, if only to escape our own news cycle for a minute.
Canadian Radio Host Bill Carroll shared the image of the T-shirt after his friend spotted it for sale in Reykjavik, Iceland (of all places).
https://t.co/EAUj4rsIDk
One cyber-sleuth managed to find it available for purchase via a San Francisco based online retailer. Trudeau stans are desperately trying to get their hands on the shirt before they run out, and before UPS stops shipping things to Canada for the winter (no, not really).
Tru-Dat!
Oh, Canada. Land of beefcake prime ministers, moose-riding bikini models, and sunsets straight out of "Baywatch." At least, that's how we imagine it. Truth be told, it's been a while since we visited. But let us have our fantasy, if only to escape our own news cycle for a minute.
