omg anarchy!

[sabotabby]

While I was out today, our government got overthrown!



Enjoy it while it lasts, friends, and let the betting pools begin.

Comments

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I'm still hoping for an NDP/Bloc coalition. Among other things, it would get the knickers of various people in Washington into a severe knot.

[sabotabby]

We'd probably get invaded.

[agent-moody.livejournal.com]

That's my hope too, or at least a "realistic hope."

Ideally, the the election results get contested again and again, until everyone gets fed up and form their worker-based government. Of course, this forces the Liberal, Conservative, and some portions of the NDP and Bloc to unite against this new government, starting the Canadian Civil War.

Start organising International Brigades, anyone?

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

I say that, through some huge joke gone wrong, the Marxist-Leninist Party will end up winning 257 seats, a clear majority, which would allow them to form the next government. Statues of Canadian communists, lie Fred Rose, will begin to appear everywhere. Then the statues of foreign communists will start to pop up here and there. A statue of Lenin at Harbour Front Centre, a bust of Karl Marx at the Olympic Stadium, a plaque dedicated to the memory of Stalin in Regina, etc.

Next thing you know, we'll get into an ideological fight dispute with China, who will have rediscovered the wonders of Maoism. This will lead to maritime border disputes, as Canada will have annxed South Korea, royally pissing off Kim Il Jong in the process. The folks in the Kremlin will look on all of this with envy, get nostalgic, rebuild the Berlin wall and put Gorbachev back in power. It'll be as if nothing ever changed. The Americans will then decide to bring Reagan's mummified body back to life to send him to Germany so he can tell Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the wall.

Meanwhile, China says "fuck it" and invades Taiwan, Japan goes imperial and takes the Philipines and Australia. New Zealand and Fujimori, the former Peruvian President and new Emperor of Japan, decide to take South America in a series of bloodless coups (except in Belize. Who knew they could be so tough?). The Soviet Union decides to send gas bombs to every European country, but they all get away because they see the clouds coming. Every country except for France because all of their cars have been burnt to a crisp.

At this point, everyone realizes that this global catastrophe is all of Canada's fault and everyone decides to gang up on us, thus bringing an end to the debacle that was/will be the 2006 elections.

[sabotabby]

Ahahaha.

I like your scenario. It's a good scenario. I will pass it on to my comrades in CPC-ML and see what they think.

P.S. What about Nepal?

[ironed_orchid]

The Japanese will have to fight off the Indonesian hordes before they get their hands on Australia. Other than that little detail, your scenario seems entirely plausible.

Also, Kashmir will surprise us all by taking over most of Paskistan.

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

OMFG MOST AWESOME IMAGE EVER WILL YOU MARRY ME!!!!!!??????

[sabotabby]

I'm already engaged to my Detroit refugee, but I hear they'll be legalizing polygamy soon, so why not?

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

So what are the odds for the various combinations? I'd bet on a minority government, but I have no clue what sort of coalition might crawl out from under the woodwork.

[sabotabby]

Seriously?

Liberal minority, slightly more seats for the Bloc, but more or less the same composition as last time. I like lovableatheist's scenario more, though.

[r1vethead.livejournal.com]

time to haul out the "rock the vote" imagery again....

[sabotabby]

It never gets old, I tell ya.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I know, right! If only ours would be taken down... Well, one congressman at a time here I guess. Just had one tearfully resign and plead guilty to bribery and tax evasion stuff. Warmed my heart just a little. It's hard to keep track of the republican criminal scandals.

[sabotabby]

I'd rather yours be taken down than mine. It's not like this will actually change anything.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

Come on NDP! Gain some more seats and really force the Liberal Party off of their stupid privitization and tax cut schemes. Gosh darn moderates.

[sabotabby]

I think they'll gain one or two, probably in my riding, anyway. But they haven't done very well with the whole "holding the balance of power" thing in the last 18 months, so I'm not holding out much hope.

[ridemycamel.livejournal.com]

omg omg omg how weird i totally was thinking about this last night out of nowehere...like before it happened obviously, or else there'd be no point.

wait is this a good thing?

[sabotabby]

I don't know -- do you have other psychic predictions? Like, lottery numbers, maybe?

[feath.livejournal.com]

Man, that's what the US needs to do!

[sabotabby]

The parallel would be if they had Kerry as a President, and then there was an election, and it was pretty obvious that after the election they'd have Kerry again because no one wanted a fanatic like Bush in power. In the meantime, someone would get slightly richer. So, meh.

[mr-flabulous.livejournal.com]

since daytime tv kinda sucks i got the joy of watching the entire thing go down. the drama! the suspense!

[sabotabby]

Oh, awesome. Were there fisticuffs? I suppose not, this being the Canuckistanian government, but it'd have been funny.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Nice, but too bad thier electing another one or you guys would be home free.

I wish we had a parlimentry system with atleast three parties though. If that were so, Bush would be getting or no confidence vote around this time to (yup, things are that bad for the bastard and I'm loving every minute of it).

And one month long presidential races wouldn't hurt either, the 1 and a half year cycle here is ridiculously obsolete.

[sabotabby]

I know. Governments are like cockroaches -- you keep spraying, they keep coming back.

I wish we had a parliamentry system with at least three parties, too.

*dodges nasty looks from NDP and CPC-ML friends. Kidding, guys, kidding*

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have no clue what this means.

However, meanwhile mounties are still patrolling, so it's not anarchy yet. ;)

[sabotabby]

Hey, we had a transgendered Mountie at the last vigil. We were awed and a little happy about it.

[reverendgraham.livejournal.com]

normally i'm happy to see governments overthrown. but apparently this means that your pot legalization bill will die on the floor, what with parliament being dissolved and whatnot. i think that's ironic. or at least stupid. maybe not ironic, but definitely stupid. anyway, i don't understand the subtleties of canadian politics, but i am rooting for paul martin, because i want pot to be legalized. it will destabilize the prohibition regime. to some extent. but good luck with your election and whatnot.

[sabotabby]

I think Martin was the one who re-criminalized pot, although I could be wrong. You're likely thinking of Chrétien, who used to smoke it.