Stuff like this and the “base” he has created give off pretty harsh trump vibes. Here is a link confirming for those wanting one. Sorry I did not include it originally. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.712106
Stuff like this and the “base” he has created give off pretty harsh trump vibes. Here is a link confirming for those wanting one. Sorry I did not include it originally. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.712106
What the actual fuck? I didnt know he’d said that. Isnt this the quiet part out loud.
Conservatives do that quite regularly.
Problem is that people often don’t listen.
Even worse many agree
Yeah. A lot of Canadians hold suuuper regressive views about indigenous people. Try driving through or stopping for gas in a reserve with friends or family sometime and see how the react.
Because way, waaaaaay more will react, and react poorly, than you’re probably prepared for.
We’ve gotten to the rate of progress where even a normal conservative backbencher from 20 years ago will have said stuff that’s now extremely dated. 20 years as an MP is right around what you need to rise to leader the normal way, I think.
Edit: To be clear, I think this is good. If you don’t want to be painted a bad way by history try being on the right side of it.
He’s said a lot of awful things. He’s hung out with fascists and Nazi’s. He’s literally the bottom of the barrel. During the pandemic he pretty much said that the cerb was bad and Conservatives would never do that as Conservatives don’t help people.
He also said afterwards that he was wrong. So there’s that.
Yes. That’s the plan.
He says he was wrong, the centrist media says “Well, that’s all fine and good then, he’s certainly prime minister material and no mistake!”.
Meanwhile, the fascist dogwhistle was already blown.
Exactly.
And if you try to call it on that, they go “you’re twisting my words”, without actually ever explaining how their words are twisted.
It happened 15 years ago. Nobody would have even remembered it happening at all if this CPC ad wasn’t posted to remind us.
Why are we allowing political ads, again?
I’m sorry, aren’t you one of the “hurr, durr, Trudeau blackface” crowd?
So NOW you believe people can change?
Remembering bigotry is bad, apparently.
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This happened 15 years ago. You have high confidence in people’s memories if you think that the intent was to prime a population that largely were children or no longer with us to push for his PM appointment 15 years later.
So in other words he doesnt like that there was pushback.
He also has said that he doesn’t know where to stand on certain issues to hold political advantage. These people have no principles.
How long afterwards? Shortly, or years down the line when he had to?
June 12th, 2008. The original doesn’t state which day in June he said the remarks originally, but mathematically we can determine the recant was said no more than 12 days later.
Oh, okay. I’ll put my pitchfork away then. A little bit anyway, “lazy 'injuns” was still a shitty thing to say and not promising from a prospective leader, regretted or not.
I expect this clip to appear in Liberal and NDP ads during the next election campaign.