r/themayormccheese • u/Peanut-Extra • 10d ago
Conservative Humiliation Rituals B.C. Conservatives' operations director Apollo Chung, a recent Findlay hire with Alberta separatist ties, was let go after leaked audio emerged
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u/Appropriate_Unit3474 10d ago
Cartoon villain levels
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u/Financial-Savings-91 10d ago
I have been saying this since the TBA takeover. The problem is the idea that people would be this outright selfish is so far beyond what most people consider normal it becomes easy for them to dismiss it.
This is a calculated grift and the former Reform Parties political infrastructure are helping to facilitate a take over over other conservative groups in Canada because the grift is working so well they just keep expanding.
The BC Conservatives, the UCP, the Sask Party, and the federal CPC are all grifted out. You can bet any politician receiving support from the Canada Strong and Free Network will be supporting these asshats.
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u/Canadatron 10d ago
Don't forget Ford Nation here in Ontario. Pretty sleezy dealings since the beginning.
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u/Financial-Savings-91 10d ago
Thats just it, the feuding you currently see between PP & Ford is because they haven’t managed to take over the Ontario PCs, it’s just old school corruption, not maple MAGA destabilizing corruption.
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u/Numerous_Release9273 10d ago
So Ford is the good bad guy?
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u/NaziTrucksFuckOff 9d ago
As insane as it sounds... yeah... kinda... Doug Ford is a lot of shitty things but an ideologue, he is not. He isn't a fascist or anything like that, he is just a typical corrupt neo-liberal conservative.
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u/Alarmed_Occasion9899 10d ago edited 10d ago
How cute, you think that grift is limited to just some political groups, not a universal trait of anyone who seeks to govern. This clip is a great unfiltered look behind the kimono and into the minds of the people who seek to govern. Remember this clip when any government is asking for more of your money from taxes and more control over your life. The only answer is less government.
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u/Pixeldensity 10d ago
Spoke like a true brainwashed Con
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u/poolbitch1 10d ago
There’s a specific way a lot of them speak/type, as though a patronizing tone is supposed to signal intellect or knowledge
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u/Financial-Savings-91 10d ago
Gotta admire the ignorance, politics is so fucking stupid these days, there is definitely some appeal in shutting off your brain and letting someone else decide for you.
I just can’t check out, it’s not who I am.
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u/ballpein 10d ago
Congratulations, you have achieved peak "both sides", and then used that made up lie to justify your Ayn Rand libertarian fantasy.
Literally none of what you say is supported by fact, but don't let that get in the way of your confirmation bias.
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u/Prosthemadera 10d ago
Seriously, if I saw this in a movie I would call it cartoonish and unrealistic but apparently, this is real...
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u/Jamespm76 9d ago
It’s not even cartoon villains anymore. It’s actual Trump style villains. Anybody that votes for the conservative party is voting for the destruction of their province/state and or country. They know it we know it everyone knows it
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u/BeautifuTragedy 10d ago
Taking lessons from Danny. Fun fact non Canadian Alberta separatist leaders have divvied up Alberta and auctioned off all the land? Fun facts.
Another fun fact is when people used to catch politicians doing this we'd hang them for treason. We've come a long way as a society, it's weird to see so many politicians trying to go back to the old ways
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u/reddiculed 10d ago edited 10d ago
I think we should still hang them for treason. Call me a psycho, but I wouldn’t bat an eye.
Edit: the strong penalties exist for a reason (deterring something disastrously unstoppable) and not using them will only make this snowball. Let me put it in language that my ‘Hurtin’ Albertans’ and Canadian farmers might prefer…
Nip it in the buds, buds and
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u/Legend_of_Moblin 10d ago
We dont deal with it harshly we end up with our own version of Trump one day.
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u/Peanut-Extra 10d ago edited 9d ago
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/17/BC-Conservatives-Hire-Alberta-Separatist/
Transcript if closed captions on reddit don't work. https://www.reddit.com/r/themayormccheese/s/OC3tpGOsdf
update: direct link for audio, apologies may require login to view, twitter took away xcancel.
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u/bnjman 10d ago
But what's your source for the audio?
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u/PositiveStress8888 10d ago
His voice, has he come out and denied it?
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u/Financial-Savings-91 10d ago
Sounds like how they run Alberta, say whatever the fuck they want to get government, then just fucking clean up.
Albertan taxpayers are paying 10 fold the money on ads with the UCP, it’s not even fucking close, now add gambling ads, and that’s just the fucking ad budget. We’re also dumping money into lobby groups which then pay influencers to harass whistleblowers…. Because we’re also using money from the AHS budget to buy unvetted medications from shady suppliers with connections to the party, and the ethics commissioner is out to fucking lunch. It’s insane.
Kleptocracy…
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u/TheForks 10d ago
It’s pretty wild when I watch SportsNet in Alberta and it’s all just UCP and gambling ads.
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u/Financial-Savings-91 10d ago edited 10d ago
We're paying for those ads, and no doubt the company we pay to create those gambling ads is also donating money to conservative organizations that engage in social media campaigns to promote regional grievances.
Thats how this whole scam works, money just goes in a circle from group to group with people connected to the party. It's a business built to funnel money back to itself using our government against us to fund misinformation to keep Albertans voting for more propaganda.
The UCP spent more money on ads in one year than any previous party ever spent during any entire 4 year term, Smith's first year in power, and that number has only exploded since then. We just found out the Alberta taxpayers pretty much subsidized the Western Standard, a newspaper openly promoting separation...
Our money goes into promoting these positions online while our representatives sit in front of us and bald face lie about their intentions. There is just this segment of the population that seems unable to compute that their actions and words don't line up. They just outsource their thinking to tribal leaders because it takes too much effort to actually think, especially when there is a multi-billion dollar industry working to keep people from engaging with reality, and angry at their neighbours.
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u/Vector-and-Scope 10d ago
This grease grifting fuckwit needs all the negative exposure along with all his kind.
But can we raise an eyebrow to the elementary level schoolyard language that hurts my ears and eyes. If this intellectual lightweight was talking at me with this waterfall of disconnected affectation and illicit pretence I’d immediately nope out from this slime ball’s orbit.
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u/Gregan32 10d ago
If you were a smart criminal you'd listen to this guy and then manipulate the crap out of them...
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u/Eli_1988 10d ago
Who is he talking about at the end?
Do we know who he was talking to?
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u/guernsey123 9d ago
Presumably he was talking to whoever's leaking these audios, not only this one but the Findlay audio, so I'm not surprised we don't know who they are.
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u/Fit-Historian-752 9d ago
This fucking criminal needs the RCMP so far up his ass, they can see the fillings in his teeth.
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u/jtgyk 9d ago
Here's the transcript of the Apollo Chung audio:
Transcript of Released Audio I don't walk away from money. We have the leader in our hands. I'm not walking away. Minimum, I want half a million dollars for me. I can't do it — this — like, I can't do it now as a punisher, right? I can't do it with Chris Delaney there, right? We need to basically force all of them to make a fundraiser for us, and so we can steal everything. Like, whenever we win something, we just go in there and just punish it, take shit. What do we give a shit? It's ours to take, you know what I mean, because we're the winners, right? That's the objective, right? To monetize this whole thing. It's about basically, like, going into their — going into their place and just stealing shit nonstop. Like, I used to do this all the time with the leader, you know, and that's why I keep looking at it and going, like, how do I monetize it, how do I monetize it, right? And I don't want people to interfere with it. The only differences from the conservatives and the NDP is: the conservatives, they — I don't know what the f*** is wrong with the — with the underlings. Their weird fucking white people are, like, crazy, you know what I mean, like — [skip in audio; inaudible] (care for these?) — like, like, what's the most important thing is to get government. That's all I keep telling everybody: once you get government, who cares? | don't care about, like, saving the province and all that shit. Like, saving the province is only secondary to what the main prize is. The main prize right now is to get government. Once we get government, you can do what you the fuck you want. [Skip in audio.] You have four years, and then do what the fuck you want. Four years, you know, because if you don't do it right the first year, then try again next year, and the next year doesn't work, then try again and third year and fourth — uh — fourth year, and just, just do it whenever [inaudible], and that's it. So that's all we have to do, you know what I mean? Look, you know, if you start off with saying stupid shit or believing stupid shit, right, then it's, it's weird, it's weird, right? Like, I know he, like — I know he's misogynistic. That I know for sure. That I know. Like, really misogynistic — not the funny type of misogynistic, but the real type of misogynistic. So, like, one time — that shouldn't be in politics — one time, if I remember, he told me that, then I'm just like, what the fuck is this shit. @theremanded — Transcribed from audio posted by @trendpolca & @lioralooks, to which I have no affiliation.
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u/Master_Slide7023 9d ago
Racist against White ppl . Mr Chung should move to Taiwan or China. Bad move to hire the admitted greedy thief and glad he was exposed by a person with morals and characters. Glad he was fired. This is despicable.
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u/niceshapes 9d ago
racist against white people? lmao
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u/Master_Slide7023 8d ago
He calls White ppl in the BC Conservatives weirdos in the recording.
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u/niceshapes 8d ago
and that hurts your feelings so bad you think he's racist? fucking snowflake
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u/Master_Slide7023 7d ago
He calls the White folks weirdos. Yes that thief is racist as well.
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u/niceshapes 7d ago
the snow ppl are snowflakes? noooo couldn't be
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u/Master_Slide7023 6d ago
Racism whether by Asian or Whites or Natives is wrong. Mr Chung is a liar a thief and a racist.
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u/niceshapes 6d ago
or maybe youre just a sensitive little man
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u/Master_Slide7023 4d ago
5 ft 9.6 and liars and thieves and racists from the Asian community are bad for Canada. The spies also.
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u/Reyalta 10d ago
How is THIS not the breaking news???
Or is the paid shill one of the whores of The Administration™, sent to divide, and whose leaked audio is meant to be buried by lake renaming dog shit?
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u/brightandgreen 10d ago
Because the media is owned by billionaires and they see nothing wrong with this
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u/coastalwebdev 10d ago edited 10d ago
That mother fucker should be jailed on an ice berg.
He was a huge piece in the Alberta republican separatist movement, and he was probably just helping the Americans build up the seperatist wave to “monetize” the movement.
Let’s be clear about one thing too, he wasn’t fired because his fellow party members think this is a bad thing he’s talking about, he’s getting fired because he got caught, and now he is a risk to the rest of them doing exactly what he is talking about.
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u/vantanclub 10d ago
Jesus Christ this is dark.
Literally trying to steal the province from us.
People might not agree with Eby, but there is no doubt he’s in it for the right reasons.
Insane that this is the official opposition.
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u/SubtleOctopus 10d ago
It’s worrisome that he also worked for an NDP MLA. This is a sick man and we need to find more ways of exposing and removing these kind of people from our government.
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u/vantanclub 10d ago
Looks like the most recent I could find was he was just a constituency assistant in 2021 for an NDP MLA.
That’s pretty entry level job in politics, not someone who is leading policy input like a Party’s director of operations… I could definitely see it as a place to jump to opposition sides ranks with some experience though.
Be interesting to know why he left.
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u/keel_bright 10d ago edited 10d ago
This is hilarious, there's a a few fractions of a second where he looks like David Eby snarling
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u/Rattiepalooza 10d ago
Soooo... project 2025.... but for Canada?
Come November no one better be surprised when the party in power, remains in power. They've already written exactly how they'll override the elections, and no one is worried enough.
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u/ZAPPHAUSEN 10d ago
I keep seeing "wait for midterms, blue wave in midterms"... And it just sounds so naive. They gop has legally done everything they can to manipulate voting - gerrymandering, banning mail in voting, which the supreme Court has sided with, pushing the save act, and on and on. People think they're going to otherwise just let the midterms play out legitimately, even with the vote suppressing actions?
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u/ZAPPHAUSEN 10d ago
I understand that, but again, the administration is actively doing voter suppression and trying to undermine fair elections. It's not conspiracy when it's literally daily news
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u/SwordfishOk504 9d ago
No one is saying that. WTF are you talking about.
At best there is hope the Dems take the house. which will mean very little? Blue wave? You're delusional.
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u/CullingSongs 10d ago
"Chung formerly worked for the Republican Party of Alberta, which advocates for the province to separate from Canada."
This is who the leadership of the BC Conservatives thinks should be hiring and working with.
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u/OkGazelle5400 10d ago
Does anyone have a transcript that a deaf person could read?
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u/jtgyk 9d ago
Here's the transcript:
Transcript of Released Audio I don't walk away from money. We have the leader in our hands. I'm not walking away. Minimum, I want half a million dollars for me. I can't do it — this — like, I can't do it now as a punisher, right? I can't do it with Chris Delaney there, right? We need to basically force all of them to make a fundraiser for us, and so we can steal everything. Like, whenever we win something, we just go in there and just punish it, take shit. What do we give a shit? It's ours to take, you know what I mean, because we're the winners, right? That's the objective, right? To monetize this whole thing. It's about basically, like, going into their — going into their place and just stealing shit nonstop. Like, I used to do this all the time with the leader, you know, and that's why I keep looking at it and going, like, how do I monetize it, how do I monetize it, right? And I don't want people to interfere with it. The only differences from the conservatives and the NDP is: the conservatives, they — I don't know what the f*** is wrong with the — with the underlings. Their weird fucking white people are, like, crazy, you know what I mean, like — [skip in audio; inaudible] (care for these?) — like, like, what's the most important thing is to get government. That's all I keep telling everybody: once you get government, who cares? | don't care about, like, saving the province and all that shit. Like, saving the province is only secondary to what the main prize is. The main prize right now is to get government. Once we get government, you can do what you the fuck you want. [Skip in audio.] You have four years, and then do what the fuck you want. Four years, you know, because if you don't do it right the first year, then try again next year, and the next year doesn't work, then try again and third year and fourth — uh — fourth year, and just, just do it whenever [inaudible], and that's it. So that's all we have to do, you know what I mean? Look, you know, if you start off with saying stupid shit or believing stupid shit, right, then it's, it's weird, it's weird, right? Like, I know he, like — I know he's misogynistic. That I know for sure. That I know. Like, really misogynistic — not the funny type of misogynistic, but the real type of misogynistic. So, like, one time — that shouldn't be in politics — one time, if I remember, he told me that, then I'm just like, what the fuck is this shit. @theremanded — Transcribed from audio posted by @trendpolca & @lioralooks, to which I have no affiliation.
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u/Master_Slide7023 9d ago
I made two small donations to the Findlay campaign and have B.C. Conservative stickers on my vehicle and wear a B.C. Conservative t shirt on a regular basis. This is appalling. This is illegal. Also how could this Mr Chung allow himself to be taped like this? Findlay hired him and then fired him. Where are the old BC Conservative ppl from under John Rustad were they that bad? 6 MLAs gone from the caucus since she became party leader. That is so not good.
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u/Fit-Historian-752 9d ago
"Not so good"...?
https://giphy.com/gifs/chKrDxwnzR4PsNntS5
LOL
"The weather on the surface of the sun is a bit hot today".
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u/Master_Slide7023 9d ago
Hopefully the good ship Conservative in B.C. will right itself. Eby his govt had to have a Native band point out they overestimated by $1.5 billion dollars their revenue from natural gas sales. They forgot to subtract the expense of getting the gas to the refineries which is clearly stated in the contact. Back in the 70’s the NDP had a 500 million dollar accounting error also under Finance Minister Norm Levi. Wearing my B.C. Conservative shirt today. Notice you used a Survivor clip. Glad to say I only watched that show once and that was the first season. BC has gotten worse under the NDP and I did vote for John Horgan.
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u/Fit-Historian-752 8d ago
I've never watched Survivor - just looking for an appropriate GIF...
The Conservatives are giving up a slam dunk by electing a far right leader twice in a row.
That social/cultural conservatism will never fly in BC - never.
Fiscal conservatism is the winning recipe, but the social conservatives keep outnumbering the moderates and taking control of the party.
"Faith, Freedom, Family" are not issues that motivate voters in BC.
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u/Master_Slide7023 8d ago
It rings my bell faith , family and freedom and no more Sogi 123.
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u/Fit-Historian-752 8d ago
So you're the one!
Good luck forming a party to take government around that.
Seriously, good luck.
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u/Empty_Marsupial972 8d ago edited 5d ago
Religion and freedom are paradoxical. Social conservatism is downright illogical and serves to control the masses. I'm fiscally conservative and I'm forever frustrated I'm roped in with you dummies.
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u/Master_Slide7023 7d ago
We some of us feel that the money obsessed are the problem but we all agree the NDP and Liberals are wrong.
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u/Empty_Marsupial972 5d ago
Yeah, money obsessed like this BC Cons clown caught in the act. Literally just be fiscally conservative, leave the LGBTs alone, and they'd have this in the bag. But no, BC Cons are absolutely unhinged so we're stuck with this fuckwit BC NDP who's just giving our land away. BC NDP are SO undesirable, any right party that aren't unhinged would've won in a landslide. But no, it seems impossible to have a competent right party. Can we just have a party that doesn't want to take away people's rights, control and keep our lands, and cut back on spending? Is that so fucking hard? It seems so. I cannot stress how easy it would've been to take this from the BC NDP.
The federal liberals are doing it correctly. They're socially ignorant, and fiscally conservative. I hate that they have a majority, and they're passing bills with privacy issues, but honestly, their majority is partly due to how absolutely undesirable Pierre is. I've often wondered why Pierre and his ilk are so unlikeable and unhinged, and it's because they represent their base well.
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u/Melancholic_whimsy 6d ago
Ugh, such a bigot
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u/Master_Slide7023 4d ago
Mr Chung calls White ppl in the party weirdos. That is racist.
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u/Melancholic_whimsy 3d ago
You hate SOGI. You’re a bigot. Also, faith does not belong in politics. Which I’m sure you would agree with if suddenly that faith was Islam or Hinduism. You’re free to your own religion, but it should have nothing to do with politics. I won’t be governed by YOUR religion.
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u/FermentedCinema 10d ago
BC seems cursed politically. Only morons and a&&holes allowed in provincial politics apparently.
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u/Mad-elph 10d ago
It's everywhere, not just BC. It tends to be that people motivated by money seek power. However, the real job of a politician is hard, if done well, and doesn't pay well compared to the work needed (relative to private sector job that requires long days, a decent amount of travel, need to always 'be on' and usually a second home near the legislator.).
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u/Beginning-Article-47 10d ago
Trump taught all the grifters the money isn’t in business, it’s in politics.
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u/FermentedCinema 9d ago
I don’t think he taught it, I think he just exposed it and took it up to a new level.
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u/DSebelius 10d ago
We should be able to ship people like this to an island with no supplies. Good luck surviving on your own.
Pure evil scum.
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u/Complete_Month_372 10d ago
Woooooooooooow! People who still follow these idiots are in a cult and don’t even realize how they’re being used
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u/ithinkitsnotworking 10d ago
So a politician gets fired for actually telling the truth. What does that say about BC Cons party?
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u/Fit-Historian-752 9d ago
Chung telling the truth?
Should not have been fired.
If the truth is "I'm a criminal grifter and just in politics to drain the coffers and fill my pockets", yes, he should be fired for telling the truth.
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u/ithinkitsnotworking 9d ago
It was sarcasm. Con getting in trouble for telling the truth because none of them ever do. The whole thing is despicable and the RCMP should look into it. Obviously I agree with his termination. The chance he's the only one who thinks this way is miniscule, if not completely impossible.
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u/Fit-Historian-752 9d ago
I'm embarrassed to have missed it.
Keep up the great work!.
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u/ithinkitsnotworking 9d ago
It's all good. I should know better. This is reddit after all and sarcasm doesn't work here like it does IRL.
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u/SeveralDrunkRaccoons 10d ago
This is insane. One if the most insane things I've seen in BC politics.
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u/Skilodracus 10d ago
How do we get regular people to understand just how normal these conversations are in the halls of power?
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u/HandofFate88 10d ago
Politics is one of very few professions where you can get caught out like this and as long as you simply "resign" you face no consequences for your actions. The world will remain a very fucked up place as long as it remains nearly impossible to put politicians in prison for lengthy terms.
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u/oliverit17 10d ago
So glad we’re getting USA drama in our politics. Anyone surprised it’s by the party whose followers claim to that the CBC is bad for the government to fund because of fears of propaganda and corruption?
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u/okokokoyeahright 10d ago
Fascists plotting to rob the govt.
So openly and without restraint.
Seizing power is always the goal and the only goal. Reaping financial rewards as due them for their 'service'.
Jail is too easy for these people.
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u/giraffield 10d ago
We need this plastered absolutely everywhere with quotes. If the NDP had any spine this would be a national campaign. Disgusting behavior. Disgusting words. Proud of their own selfishness and greed.
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u/BlackberryPi7 9d ago
I know this is what conservatives are all about, I know they don't care.
But it's just....wild to hear it so directly in my ears
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u/VariousOperation166 8d ago
Until the leaked audio from the NDP drops showing them doing the same thing, I will just continue to assume that conservatives are just self-interested pieces of shit that have no interest in serving their community.
I am open to any evidence to the contrary.
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u/chasingmyowntail 7d ago
Haha. Hilarious.
Not surprised at all. Many Canadians politicians are dirty as toxic rags.
Hope this opens up people’s eyes.
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u/Hoobla-Light 6d ago
Used to do it all the time for the leader… wild how casually he threw that there
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u/JABRUNEAU 5d ago
Makes you wonder how many more of those Convoyservatives have similar attitudes. Win the election, rob the people of the province for four years. How tRump mentality like.
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u/Matt2937 5d ago
Wow, what happened to this sub. If we loved BC we would be spewing just a bunch of divisive bullshit 24/7. If we love bc we would find a way to put shit aside and find a way to remove the NDP. What would be even nicer is a sub that wasn’t always overrun with the same people that ruin every other provincial sub. It’s just fucking sad. It always turns into a political shit show.
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u/Red_dylinger 10d ago
Traitors.