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Distaste for political dynasties perhaps? I don't really like Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada because his dad was Prime Minister as well. I hope he pulls a Biden and drops out before the next election to get someone fresh in.
Hillary Clinton willingly campaigned with "close family friend" Henry Kissinger after it was public knowledge that he conspired with the Nixon campaign to sabotage Vietnam peace talks to win an election.
Fuck her. She wasn't less corrupt than Trump, she just wasn't as stupid.
I mean, she's a LOT less corrupt than trump. There are scales to this. trump literally stole state secrets to sell to our enemies for a profit; he tried to extort Ukraine, he's so firmly in Putin's pocket that he may as well be a Russian agent, and he's threatening genocides and dictatorships and political violence daily, maybe hourly.
So yeah, she's a hell of a lot less corrupt. That doesn't make her blameless or uncorrupt, but there's shades of gray to this my man. :)
She’s not dumb enough to get caught. At this stage governments all over the western world have been selling their voters taxes, health and wellbeing and service regulation to big business since at least the 80s. There’s not a single person near the top of any of these steaming shit heaps that isn’t greedy and amoral.
Can you blame the 101st senator equally, then?
I said near the top, lol. There are people there who want to help, like Sanders, but they never have any real power outside their constituency.
The Idiot invited Kremlin agents into the Oval Office to laugh about firing the FBI director, and we only found out because Russian photographers published the pictures.
She was a lot less corrupt than The Idiot.
Say Trudeau pulls a Biden, is there any MP you would be excited to see lead the Liberal party?
(Caveat: I am an NDP voter)
Chrystia Freeland isn't my favourite, but she would absolutely be a better choice than Trudeau. She can lock up our centrist voters, she's an easy 'economy good' candidate, and she'd absolutely dumpster Poilievre in a debate. She was lead editor for the Financial Times (London), she's half-Ukrainian and fluent in the language, and frankly I feel this this story says just how fantastic a candidate she could be:
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MP, you say? How about Maddie Phillips from Ghost Wars and The Boys? 😛
(Yes, I know what an MP is. It's a Member of Portishead)
Dummy!
Oof! Right in the glory box!
That's not how dynasties work. Hillary was Bill Clinton's peer. She was an influence for why he got into politics, she pushed universal healthcare from early in the 90s, and she was elected to the US senate twice.
Stop comparing her to anyone's child, and slap anyone suggesting Michelle Obama get involved.
Honestly I was willing to accept Michelle Obama back when Biden was the nominee, because she had better odds of beating Trump than Biden did. They just need to be more competent than Trump, so... pretty much anyone.
You lived through 2016 and still think 'smarter than The Idiot' is the only factor?
No, I think likelihood of beating the idiot matters too.