Politics

They say politics is show business for ugly people. We don't have leaders, we have actors and actresses. Have you ever heard our countries "leader" speak off script? "uhhh, uh, uhhhh, uh, I um uhhh".

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I have...

Jan 13, 2018 at 6:16pm

... played politics for years. Press conferences are fun. I know I speak clearly. Jack Layton, Stephane Dion, Trudeau II, Ujjal Dosanj, and others I can't recall, all of them had trouble following what I was saying because I was speaking to them like I would speak to grad students. Make of that what you will.

@I have...

Jan 13, 2018 at 7:39pm

Maybe you enunciate clearly, but your thinking seems to be rather confused and vague. Maybe that's why they had trouble following you.
If you want people to understand what you're saying, know exactly what it is you want to convey and try to be more articulate when you're expressing it.

...for ugly people? ...our leader?

Jan 13, 2018 at 7:45pm

Justin Trudeau's not ugly at all, quite the opposite - (?) - So who are you referring to?
You must be an American.

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LooooooL!

Jan 13, 2018 at 7:52pm

Funny how OP says politics is show business for ugly people (Justin may be a disappointment for those who voted for him, but ugly he is not) and then writes "our countrIES leader"!
Do us Canadians own more than one country?
It's country's, Einstein.
Don't even try to blame it on auto-correct.

Politics is corrupt

Jan 13, 2018 at 8:17pm

The people may elect them, but they don't work for the people, they work for the multinational corporations. They're just more loyal to the bribes that global corporations pay, on top of what our taxes pay them. Traitors have usurped our country and the UN on behalf of the central banks, along with the Vatican City bank.

All roads lead to Rome. The Roman empire never came to a total end. They have retained their sovereignty. Their empire is most purely economical and financial now, they have no currency themselves, their currency is the entire world's. The Roman Empire has been masquerading as a charitable Christian religious denomination for thousands of years, and in all that time accumulating far more wealth then they dispense. They hold massive amounts of shares in all the world's most powerful corporations. The Jesuits are Luciferian. They're like the Sith in hiding in Star Wars Episode III just before they roll out the Storm Troopers on the street.

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Just listen

Jan 13, 2018 at 11:09pm

To Trudeau when asked a question or not reading a teleprompter. About 25% of his words is "uh"

@@I have...

Jan 14, 2018 at 9:43am

I am aware of that---I'll use the example with Stephane Dion, which was years ago at UBC, when he was doing his run for the Liberals. I asked a question, and he just stared at me. I know that it was intelligible, because someone from the press started laughing out loud. Then Joyce Murray had to whisper in his ear what it was about. Maybe this is because Dion isn't an anglophone, I heard that given as an 'excuse' for why this sort of thing would happen, but it also happened at UBC with Dosanj.

I remember at that one, a lot of the students understood what I was asking, because many of them stared to boo, and some of my friends had to scream at them to shut up and let me speak. Then I repeated the question and Dosanj understood it.

Trudeau, I asked him a question in _plain English_ and he just responded to a question I hadn't asked, I think because he had memorized an answer that he'd use if he thought it was a "drugs question"---I got the sense he was like Dion in that he couldn't really listen to the question, but he could pick out a noun or two and respond on that basis.

Layton at least did a bit of a comedy bit---and maybe he was just being a showman, I'll give him that. He sort of heard my question, but he said "you'll have to excuse me, I am a bit hard of hearing, I went to a lot of rock and roll concerts when I was young..."

I am live to the option you outline, but I am also live to the fact that our political discourse is conducted at about a Grade 10 level, in terms of intentional PR by the parties. If they do anything more than that, they sound, to the majority of the electorate, like they're "talking down" to them, "using big words to sound impressive," all of the things that hoi polloi say to act like everyone smart is just "choosing to sound smarty pants."

@looooool

Jan 14, 2018 at 12:39pm

You're missing the point. They're all actors/actresses.

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Justin Trudeau

Jan 15, 2018 at 11:31am

Is NOT hot.

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