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It amazes me that anyone who supported and/or still admires Stephen Harper can be critical of Justin Trudeau's performance at the #EAInquiry. That most Harper supporters *are* critical says everything about their moral emptiness & puerile partisanship...
When you're a politically homeless Tory such as I am, you can't afford to determine provisional partisan allegiances on policy alone, because no current policy stances reflect your views. You thus tend to fall back on that most conservative of ethical considerations: character...
Then the question becomes "Does this party leader have a baseline level of integrity? Does he/she accept responsibility for his/her decisions? Or is he/she a weak, mendacious, venal, vaguely human-shaped sack of dogshit who runs away from accountability like a fucking coward?"...
Wrote 100 post thread on this here #BirdSite about everything that'd NOT be covered by the #EmergenciesActInquiry & how we'll need a #Jan6thInquiry that digs into ALL OF IT, not just whether Trudeau was justified (because OF COURSE he was). /2 #cdnpoli
Lots worth adding today but I'm feeling the weight of being here. Building here. When every day it feels increasingly like things are DESIGNED to chase me and people that think like me outta here to somewhere else. It's gross these days. Getting grosser /3 #mastodonmigration
I can't believe how this convoy lawyer is trying to destroy Ms Lee's credibility. Her age, her job, people she knows, being 2022 co-chair for Leadership Summit for Action Chinese-Canadians Together, as if being 21, being a public employee, knowing Liberal and NDP
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politicians, and being Chinese-Canadian, invalidated what she was saying in her testimony. She said quite clearly that her actions were as a private citizen. He tried to make it sound like she was a pawn of the government, that she was too young to know what she was doing,
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that there was something disingenuous about her testimony or her role in the class-action lawsuit. And then he gets totally hung up on a passing reference she made in a speech to the movie, The Purge.
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