Boomer Libs to Canadians:
“Let them live in shipping containers…”
We’re in the home stretch of the run up to the forthcoming Canadian federal election: where the left-wing Liberal Party is seeking a fourth term after swapping out the domestically reviled, internationally ridiculed Justin Trudeau for the globalist, ultra-rich technocrat and central banker: Mark Carney.
The Liberal base has had it easy for a decade. With a compliant, sycophantic press and a loyal army of boomers—presumably the only ones still answering calls from pollsters on their wall-mounted rotary-dial landlines during CBC commercial breaks—they greet any resistance to the prospect of four more years of controlled demolition of the Canadian economy with smugness and derision.
There are endless cases caught on video of deranged elderly liberals gyrating in spasmodic fashion chanting “elbows up” at each other and the rest of us and they seem to think it’s some kind of “gotcha moment” to fly off the handle or flip us the bird…
Mating call of the white-haired Canadian boomer looking to fuck over their grandchildren. pic.twitter.com/XtAOBtLS40
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks29) April 19, 2025
But none of them has become more iconic than this one (at least not yet):
Elbows and/or fingers up. #cdnpoli #Brantford #Elxn45 #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/jTKswfmgVp
— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 19, 2025
Captured by @carymarules – this erstwhile unknown Carney supporter (he has since been identified but I haven’t confirmed it) became emblematic of an older “I got mine” generation of liberal supporters who are fine with racking up even more debt than Trudeau was planning before his Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland set off a chain of events which ousted him over it.
Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/cCDik2aMYR
— Martin Pelletier (@MPelletierCIO) April 20, 2025
Now, the “liberal boomer” image has gone viral and the guy who probably thought he was “0wning the opposition, lol” is a meme now – it has captured the essence of the Liberal Party’s campaign platform:
- Rack up another quarter-trillion in national debt by 2029.
- Build a bunch of “modular homes” and stick the rabble in them.
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) April 20, 2025
The “Brantford Boomer shot”, and perhaps this version below of it being tweeted, is what set off the chain-reaction of memetic contagion that may inadvertently come to define the entire Liberal election run:
The last thing you see before you are priced out of a house, forever. pic.twitter.com/U1PhVkDiJd
— Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) April 19, 2025
Which picked up on Carney’s idea to build hundreds of thousands of new modular homes to house future generations of Canadians:
The first thing you see after you leave your 150 sq ft modular home you share with 7 immigrants pic.twitter.com/bsKj8UpEu9
— Canadians For Annexation (@CAN4ANNEX) April 20, 2025
It didn’t take long to get picked up by the latest meme wrappers:
🇨🇦 Had some fun with ChatGPT this morning. It got about 95% of what I was looking for… pic.twitter.com/msDpvSwN2S
— CRC (@DerailleurAgile) April 20, 2025
And of course it was Studio Ghibli-ed almost instantly (ok, I did this one):
Liberals defined. pic.twitter.com/EfnfMubsaA
— Mark Jeftovic, The ₿itcoin Capitalist (@StuntPope) April 19, 2025
Somebody created a PNG template to make it an easier payload for more liberal introspection:
Here is the PNG file, have fun pic.twitter.com/75n8RjbFUy
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (@cosminDZS) April 20, 2025
Which of course happened immediately:
(h/t to: @alexbrown17, @JJ_McCullough, @El_Guapo_604)
With “Elbows up” going beyond Mass Formation Psychosis and morphing into an ubiquitous liberal salute:
Mark Carney’s supporters in Nepean. Why are Liberals so Unhinged?? They seemed to be more aggressive than Trudeau’s supporters. pic.twitter.com/UUJKldsCG0
— Bradshaw (@myabradshaw78) April 20, 2025
A favourite expression among the unhinged left is “when somebody shows you who they are, believe them”.
Oh look, another absolutely ignorant Liberal. pic.twitter.com/DDWKFKXjZl
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) April 20, 2025
At least they’re right about that.
Canada’s election is April 28th, and I’ll be appearing on a special Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast edition at 8pm ET (don’t miss the regular show at 7pm) to livestream the results.
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