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cm0002@lemmy.world to CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca · 5 months ago

Canadian general who advised giving Trump what he wanted joins right wing think tank

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cm0002@lemmy.world to CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca · 5 months ago
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Canadian general who advised giving Trump what he wanted joins right wing think tank — espritdecorps
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By Tim Ryan Retired Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie has a new gig….he joins the stable of “senior fellows” at the right-wing think tank, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute . Leslie, the former Canadian Army commander, has had quite a journey over the last decade plus. In 2013 he was a staunch Liberal and
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      ah the same rhetoric that trump is using, straight from putin’s to trump and leslies mouth.

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        The Human Centipede of our time!

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    Canada needs to steer clear of its right wing.

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    When conservatives talk about a brain trust they assume it works like their trust fund — no access until some date later.

    Why do conservatives have so many think tanks? Because that’s the only place to keep the liquified mass that leaked out of their head that they call a brain.

    Why are conservatives so obsessed with going further right? They don’t understand that being right is different than being correct.

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      Joke aside, the think tanks have a very real and important role in sustaining and expanding their ideology in Canadian society.

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    In other news, the Pope is Catholic and bears shit in the woods.

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      Why would the Pope bear witness to shit in the woods?? Thank god for atheism, this religion stuff gets weirder by the day.

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    Shit, this came out of nowhere!

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    Shameful

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    =O

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    That was his job application.

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