White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.

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    1 day ago

    When it was instituted our Premier (Trudeau) was in British Columbia on the Holiday and rather than meet with the Indigenous leaders at a celebration observation, he went to his island home to chill out. To me this showed exactly how much Canada cared about Reconciliation.

    It was a huge political blunder. The sort of mistake that doesn’t make sense at all until you remember that he spent the day with his wife, and got divorced not long after. He was trying to save his marriage. He shouldn’t’ve let his marriage get so precarious that he’d have to make a fuckup like that to try to save it, so I’m not excusing him, but I think it helps to understand it.

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      1 day ago

      Is that the coverup story for the blunder? You could easily do both in the same day here.

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        24 hours ago

        I don’t know what you mean by both, it’s not a coverup story. It’s my attempt to understand how a politician so obsessed with virtue signaling could fuck it up so badly. It’s the only explanation I’ve seen that makes any sense.

        Is there another explanation?

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          19 hours ago

          You could meet indigenous leaders for an hour and still go work on your relationship later. We don’t know that he was working on his marriage, other than if he offered that as an excuse later. As a leader of the country you sort of need to put the job ahead of personal plans