Watching Liitle Andy Scheer's Conservative Party Implode

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Did you know that before Scheer was the leader of the CPC that he had unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Butler #3 on Downton Abbey? I wonder why you guys don't make fun of him for that? He's a failed, wannabe actor after all who went into politics instead after all.



Even Harper had a cameo in corner gas and Murdoch Mysteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVAKYsHo5-s

Er... that seems to have been a fun hack. The only place it's available now is on an archived reddit story. See the comments:

MapleBeans99 107 points 1 year ago
Yes, sorry. Could have been more clear. This was actually on Wikipedia but I personally don't think it's true.

jtbc Lest We Forget 49 points 1 year ago
It appears to be gone now. Pretty, funny, though.

shakakoz Lest We Forget 23 points 1 year ago
I guess that's why my profs didn't let me use wikipedia as a source...

Thanks for posting about the cameos. Here's a link to Murdoch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82UOW9yfA0A
Good fun.

Back to Sheer Scheer.

[Omnitheo]

While members "going rogue" as you put it can be off-putting for a leader, and cause the appearance of being weak to those already in a position of pre-judgment, I'd rather have a party with MP's that are allowed to express their personal opinions,

You must have hated the Harper Regime then

[rustled]

While members "going rogue" as you put it can be off-putting for a leader, and cause the appearance of being weak to those already in a position of pre-judgment, I'd rather have a party with MP's that are allowed to express their personal opinions,

You must have hated the Harper Regime then

The unnecessary hyperbole and undermines your point.

IMO, Harper had begun leaning too far in the direction of "leader controls the narrative", although I often wondered how much of this what we saw was presented by those who promoted the "muzzling of scientists" narrative. For any party member, there's a scale by which they'll be expected to adhere to party lines. In a country as diverse as Canada, we would expect this to be the case: the party must be more aware of, more respectful of the impacts of any piece of legislation across the entire country.

A good MP will make sure the voices of their riding's constituents are heard and understood, and a good leader will always expect their individual members to not undermine the whole. The media will always be able to present one side of that or the other, and will not necessarily present both.

[d0nb]

And you just can't discount the revenge factor. Bernier led on how many ballots at the leadership convention? Twelve. And as contender after contender fell off the ballot, western voters just couldn't stomach a francophone leader and voted against him and finally coalesced around Scheer. If the Cons expect to win an election, they'll need some seats in Quebec. Scheer wouldn't include Bernier in his opposition critics. So here's some revenge, Andy.
And the subtle racist, anti-immigrant lines go over fairly well in Quebec where francophones feel threatened.

It isn’t a surprise that Andrew Scheer won his home province of Saskatchewan, but having won every riding in Calgary and a majority of the vote in the rest of Alberta, it is silly to suggest that Maxim Bernier was rejected by Westerners.

Maxime had more loyal supporters but Andrew turned out to be the second or third choice of more conservative members. Not exactly a Pyrrhic victory, but not the kind of convincing endorsement Andrew was probably hoping for. He would be wise to patch things up with Bernier before the next election.

[crookedmember]

^^^

Don't forgot little Andy also bought all of those fake conservatives in Quebec. Maxine had a chapter in his book about that.

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[d0nb]

^^^

Don't forgot little Andy also bought all of those fake conservatives in Quebec. Maxine had a chapter in his book about that.

It's unfortunate that Quebec dairy farmers put their own interests above those of the country. It didn't come as a surprise.

[crookedmember]

Conservatives have really lost their way. They don't know what it means to be a Conservative anymore.

Conservatism these days seems to be all about slow-witted memes, making false statements, supporting the Russians and Saudis over their own nation, anti-science, anti-education, anti-choice, anti-this, anti-that, anti-whatever-Liberals-are-for.

As we saw during the Harper years, fiscal responsibility got thrown out with the conservative bath water. In the US, conservatives control all three branches and next year the deficit will top $1 trillion. That's 5.1% of the GDP, a number not seen since WW2 and about 5 times Canada's Liberal number.

So they keep listening to Ezra and Alex and their eyes are glued to the crap in their facebook feeds which they inexplicably view as knowledge, and they just become angrier, more racist, more bigoted and more confused.

It's a sad state of affairs.

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[The Green Barbarian]

Did you know that before Scheer was the leader of the CPC that he had unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Butler #3 on Downton Abbey? I wonder why you guys don't make fun of him for that? He's a failed, wannabe actor after all who went into politics instead after all.

First of all, if you watched that show, you'd know that there wasn't any character named "Number 3". But seriously, how much left Kool-Aid did you have to drink to fall for this obvious hack of Wikipedia? Seriously, even for the low-level of stupidity and lies that the left are known for, this was a pretty low bar.

Even Harper had a cameo in corner gas and Murdoch Mysteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVAKYsHo5-s

and what about this failed actor turned politician? Any reason why you didn't mention him????

[burnedatstake]

so what you are saying is that the one who could act is the PM. and the one who couldnt is leader of a bunch of knobs. sounds about right.

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[RandyDandy]

I think it comes down to is who has the better set of dimples. Sorry Jag.

[The Green Barbarian]

so what you are saying is that the one who could act is the PM. and the one who couldnt is leader of a bunch of knobs. sounds about right.

now you are saying that Jagmeet was an actor too? Just like JT and unlike Scheer?