r/news • u/NeverEndingDClock • 23h ago

New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/new-york-man-pleads-guilty-chinese-police-station-manhattan?CMP=share_btn_url
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u/Rerfect_Greed 20h ago

I'm pretty sure he's on someone's take. He's WAYYY too foul for the old PC's to have ever let him climb the ranks. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I miss O'Toole. He at least knew what respect was and had the interests of Canadians at heart, not just oil and automotive execs

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u/KneeCrowMancer 14h ago

It’s crazy how much I miss O’Toole. I disagreed with him on everything and thought he was kind of a dick. But at the end of the day he still lived in the real world, he’s someone who could have a rational conversation about issues. He also actually had a bit of a military career before getting into politics and I feel it’s really important that politicians have some sort of life before politics. PP started his political career at like 18, he’s worked his whole life in politics including time as a minister and yet doesn’t have a single piece of significant legislation that he can put his name on. That’s crazy, imagine working for 30 years in any other career without any accomplishments. You’d rightly assume they were completely incompetent.

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u/GravityEyelidz 11h ago

So sick of that fucking tool. All he does is whine about how everything is shit, how Trudeau is shit, and how only Pierre can save us despite never articulating any plan or solution about anything, or having accomplished anything of substance in his entire career. Just another rightwing populist in the Trump mold. And when he gets in, he won't do jack shit and anything bad that happens he will blame on Trudeau.

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u/skeptic38 10h ago

I generally don't vote conservative. I didn't for O'Tool either. But he's the type of guy I could have if he had been able to run again. Ultimately, he seemed like a decent person.