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Karlheinz Schreiber was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison. Mulroney got treated like an elder statesman.
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Mar 1, 2024 00:57
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Man I would expect all those politicians to poo poo on his grave.
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Mar 1, 2024 01:26
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lol are they all really terrified that his estate/worthless failchildren are going to sue if they call him a crook?
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Mar 1, 2024 01:52
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No, this is what you do when you remember that one day you too will die and you don't want your successors poo poo talking your corpse. Everyone plays nice.
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Mar 1, 2024 02:03
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With apologies to George Carlin: Aw that poor guy. He died. Poor guy. That other dude? Nah that crooked fucker's still goin.
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Mar 1, 2024 03:49
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Mulroney was a loving traitor that sold his country to the Americans
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Mar 1, 2024 04:17
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Remember that CBC doc from back in the mid 00s that was all "man he had a troubled time as the PM, huh?" I mainly remember it because it had a soundclip where Mulroney said something like "even loving Hitler had something nice said about him over 10 years." and all I could think was "then maybe you shouldn't have signed up for NAFTA or done that AirBus poo poo." Another one bites the dust
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Mar 1, 2024 04:25
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The CBC changed the wording in the title of their article from “…one of Canada’s most divisive Prime Ministers” to “…one of Canada’s most consequential Prime Ministers”.
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Mar 1, 2024 05:24
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Consequently, they were divided.
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Mar 1, 2024 05:39
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HackensackBackpack posted:Brian Mulroney has died. not the former conservative PM I was hoping for but I shan't complain
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Mar 1, 2024 06:11
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We're tiny, we're toony, we're all little happy That Brian Mulroney is dead from SCD
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Mar 1, 2024 11:13
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I'll give this much to Jagmeet, this feels like THE most phoned-in eulogy post, and I appreciate that.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:44
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Mulroney was out a decade before I was even slightly politically aware so I know next to nothing about him except that people seem to dislike him generally.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:33
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I think it's telling that Trudeau's and Caroline Mulroney's tweets are the only ones (barely) over 10K likes.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:38
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Fidelitious posted:Mulroney was out a decade before I was even slightly politically aware so I know next to nothing about him except that people seem to dislike him generally. Mulroney got the ball rolling on free trade agreements and political processes that appeased the Americans and greatly weakened the Canadian welfare state.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:43
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All I really remember about Mulroney is Air Farce doing impressions of him on the CBC that I was too young to understand
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Mar 1, 2024 15:39
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He was the first PM I remember. The worst I think but we haven’t had any good ones either.
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Mar 1, 2024 15:48
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Every Prime Minister is Mulroney now but he was the first
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Mar 1, 2024 15:50
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If "He really didn't like apartheid" is the best thing you can say about someone...
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Mar 1, 2024 16:01
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Glimpse posted:Every Prime Minister is Mulroney now but he was the first
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Mar 1, 2024 16:01
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Fidelitious posted:Mulroney was out a decade before I was even slightly politically aware so I know next to nothing about him except that people seem to dislike him generally. https://www.amazon.ca/Take-Crime-Corruption-Greed-Mulroney/dp/0770427081 Stevie Cameron also wrote a soul-crushingly in depth book on Robert Pickton.
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Mar 1, 2024 16:36
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flakeloaf posted:If "He really didn't like apartheid" is the best thing you can say about someone... We can't even say that about our current prime minister.
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Mar 1, 2024 17:09
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CBC spent 30ish minutes covering his legacy last night and didn't even mention that he loving sued the country for libel and won a $2.1M payout by lying his rear end off. He didn't even have the decency to slink off into the darkness after it was revealed he accepted Whatever the National Observer is at least bothered to mention the obvious as well as his reputation for corruption and patronage appointments, although I don't know how accurate it is as a relativrly brief summary of his career. Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Mar 1, 2024 17:31
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you cant have a dude on the money who famously did backroom bribery deals and then hold another dude accountable for doing the same thing 90 years later its just not canadian
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Mar 1, 2024 17:49
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Precambrian Video Games posted:CBC spent 30ish minutes covering his legacy last night and didn't even mention that he loving sued the country for libel and won a $2.1M payout by lying his rear end off. He didn't even have the decency to slink off into the darkness after it was revealed he accepted a briefcase with hundreds of thousands of dollars in it from a guy he claimed to barely know. All he did was apologize (extremely unconvincingly) for accepting the bribe, but never actuslly gave any of the money back. I don't remember why his corrupt rear end didn't rot in jail before he died but every two-bit journalist who memory holed that incident is pathetic. quote:Although there is no evidence that Mulroney accepted kickbacks while prime minister, he acknowledged in 2003 that shortly after stepping down in 1993 that he accepted $225,000 over 18 months from Schreiber, in three cash payments of $75,000 each. Mulroney was still a member of the House of Commons of Canada when one of the payments was made. Mulroney claims that this money was paid to him for consulting services he rendered to help promote a fresh pasta business, and to develop international contacts for Schreiber. Mulroney had previously not admitted accepting any commissions from Schreiber during his lawsuit against the Canadian government, and later under oath specifically denied any business dealings with him. Mulroney has not yet provided evidence of any work he performed for that money, and declared it as income to Revenue Canada only years later, when Schreiber had come under criminal investigation in Germany. Schreiber ridiculed their dealings in pasta-macaroni as nothing more than being sent a single flyer, and has stated that the three separate payments were actually $100,000 each in $1000 bills, a total of $300,000.
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Mar 1, 2024 17:57
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At Issue might be a fun watch this week because I feel like Coyne and Herbert both seem to dislike Mulroney and jokingly bring up the briefcase etc whenever they can (and there really should be no opportunities to do so in the year 2024, and yet they still do this lol).
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Mar 1, 2024 18:13
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Tbh I can’t blame the guy I would also love being given a briefcase of cash right now. 1000$ bills would be cool, but I would rather fresh 100$’s so that when I open the briefcase I get a beautiful whiff of maple syrup.
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Mar 1, 2024 18:20
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Duly corrected for accuracy, but lol at anyone hanging on to the "not while prime minister" part (surely nobody not named Mulroney thinks that waiting three whole weeks after resigning to accept the payment is in any way exculpatory).
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Mar 1, 2024 18:34
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Precambrian Video Games posted:Duly corrected for accuracy, but lol at anyone hanging on to the "not while prime minister" part (surely nobody not named Mulroney thinks that waiting three whole weeks after resigning to accept the payment is in any way exculpatory).
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Mar 1, 2024 18:46
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I don't understand why this sort of thing isn't heavily punished. Like, minimum 40 years in prison kind of thing. They're doing a cost-benefit analysis and choosing criminality because the costs are basically nil (there were actually just more benefits in this case, lmao).
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Mar 1, 2024 20:26
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The cowards are going to throw that motherfucker a state funeral https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-mulroney-dead-reaction-1.7131263
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Mar 1, 2024 22:01
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Once he’s buried in the ground let’s build a golf course over his grave and then give the rights to the Mohawk.
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Mar 1, 2024 22:20
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Hello please pay me 75,000 grand in cash every month for my project. do no ask what the project is
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Mar 1, 2024 22:38
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PittTheElder posted:The cowards are going to throw that motherfucker a state funeral Ben and justin are like best friends dude. What's he gonna do, poo poo talk his best friends dad?
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Mar 1, 2024 22:39
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Fidelitious posted:Mulroney was out a decade before I was even slightly politically aware so I know next to nothing about him except that people seem to dislike him generally. Grown ups loving hated him when I was young Learning about him in history class, they were right! He's sucking on Thatcher+Reagan in hell now
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Mar 1, 2024 22:45
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Mr. Apollo posted:The CBC changed the wording in the title of their article from “…one of Canada’s most divisive Prime Ministers” to “…one of Canada’s most consequential Prime Ministers”. I'm surprised they didn't just take the easiest route and change it to "…one of Canada’s Prime Ministers". Let us all take a moment to honor the memory of Brian Mulroney, a Canadian prime Minister that existed."
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Mar 1, 2024 22:46
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Its kind of amusing that so few news outlets are actually getting regular people's opinions on Mulroney. Because they know people hated him and that would ruin the narrative.
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Mar 1, 2024 22:48
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Weird BIAS posted:Once he’s buried in the ground let’s build a golf course over his grave and then give the rights to the Mohawk. Bury him in the capital and build a Memorial to the Victims of Capitalism on top. Furnaceface posted:Its kind of amusing that so few news outlets are actually getting regular people's opinions on Mulroney. That would require paying reporters.
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Mar 1, 2024 23:02
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PittTheElder posted:The cowards are going to throw that motherfucker a state funeral Don't all our heads of state get a state funeral? Even if they were lovely? Not a conservative, don't see the problem
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Mar 1, 2024 23:17
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They do (except R.B. Bennet who was elevated to the peerage and buried in the UK), but we could have set a good precedent that if you're implicated in a bribery scandal and then sue the government about it, you don't get one.
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Mar 1, 2024 23:53
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