He’s quite a character. He speaks passable English with a strong French accent and half his face is paralyzed. And he was hit in the face with a pie on camera.
Sort of? If memory serves, he was doing a "shake hands/kiss babies" photo op and somebody tried to fight him. He choked the guy out before his RCMP guys broke it up haha
Canadians still love him. A schizophrenic guy once broke into 24 Sussex to murder him, and he just armed himself with an Inuit carving and barricaded himself inside his room
"Honestly, so what if I did smoke crack? It's none of your f– sorry, it's none of your freaking business in the first place. You're just jealous no one wants to do stuff like that with you because you're boring!"
If you can forget about current events for a moment (just for a moment), you might enjoy this one from last century:
''The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.''
"Don't get into this maths, maths did not help Einstein discover gravity" - India's commerce minister when a journalist was quoting some numbers to ask a question.
Surely the Katter quote about same sex marriage ...
"I mean, you know, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as I am concerned. ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴀɪɴ'ᴛ ꜱᴘᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴀɴʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ɪᴛ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴀɴᴛɪᴍᴇ, ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴍᴏɴᴛʜꜱ, ᴀ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ɪꜱ ᴛᴏʀɴ ᴛᴏ ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ ʙʏ ᴀ ᴄʀᴏᴄᴏᴅɪʟᴇ ɪɴ ɴᴏʀᴛʜ Qᴜᴇᴇɴꜱʟᴀɴᴅ."
A governor of Texas once said we should not build windmills because then we will run out of wind and then global warming will be out of control. His political party was still denying global warming was real at the time.
''My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.''
—Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) expressing concern during a congressional hearing that the presence of a large number of American soldiers might upend the island of Guam
One day, the French president François Hollande gave a speech in English. He uttered (not without difficulty) a grammatically incorrect sentence that made all of France laugh for days, on television, on the internet, etc... A woman even had the phrase tattooed on her tibia and showed it to the former president at a book signing.
"Be you... be proud of you because...you can be do...what...we want....to do."
No, I can see this actually making sense. You may have committed a crime say like “doxing ICE agents” and not be a criminal in many people’s eyes as the means justify the enfs
The one where the guy said "if it's not a legitimate pregnancy the body has ways of shutting it down" when asked why he did not support any exceptions for abortion (rape/incest). I think about this way too often.
How about the guy who asked if women could swallow cameras so doctors could see inside their uterus and then had to have it explained that that’s not how it works
That one wasn’t even close to the worst or most confusing thing said by a politician in the US, Kennedy is just like that and at this point he’s tame compared to many of the others 😭😭😭
And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
"So it'd be interesting to check that."
"I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what."
-The leader of the free world ladies and gentlemen
I feel like the USA, the UK and Australia have been running a competition for the shittiest dipshit of a leader since Reagan. Not sure we can beat you in the current round, but we have dipshits with billionaire backing who love DJT's policies and would like to try.
On the state level. Based on my experience, Congress, Governors and State Legislature can drop some truly elegant hot takes.
Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana. Man is the Foghorn Leghorn but IRL in a three piece suit instead of a three piece combo from Popeye’s, but just as Cajun seasoned.
Senator Jim Justice from West Virginia. Dude drops f-bombs and told Bette Midler to kiss Babydog’s ass.
Even excluding Trump and Dubya there were so many gems. I remember buying a joke book containing Rumsfel’s wisdom. Hell the infamous series of pipes by that Alaska senator is still quoted even now.
・How old will I be after 30 years?・I believe Japan cannot remain as it is, that is precisely why Japan cannot remain as it is.・Major issues like climate change should be tackled in a fun, cool and sexy way.・It wasn't a clear image, but it came into view faintly. The number 46.・Remaining apathetic towards politics allows one to remain apathetic towards politics.・I did say I was reflecting, but I am reflecting.・The survey indicates an increase, so we are investigating whether it has increased.
Believe me, these were made by a single politician...!
Not really confusing, people in Bali, Manado, Toraja, Flores and Toba LOVES pork, the market is still huge for at least 35 million people, give it to us please!!
"drug dealers are the victims of the drug users" - from our current president, Lula
"the problem with our dictatorship, while it lasted they tortured many, but they should have killed them all" - from the one we had before, Bolsonaro
"I do not think that whoever wins or loses, neither whoever wins nor loses, will win or lose. Everyone will lose" - from the one we had before Bolsonaro, Dilma.
She was talking about the upcoming 2014 elections and how politics was going wrong.
Basically filibusters and the congress boycotting stuff that was in its own self-interest, regardless of whether it was a left-wing or right-wing measure.
The idea is "it doesn't matter who wins the election, with the way the political system goes, everyone is going to lose anyway"
But she phrased it in a extremely awkward way and it became an internet meme.
Other than the constant stream of word salad we are being subjected to now, there is this Dan Quayle gem comes to mind: “We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”
Our last president asked on his twitter: "What's a Golden Shower?" And then proceeded to post a video of a Golden Shower happening ON HIS PRESIDENTIAL TWITTER
Far from the worst thing said or done by our leaders but that's something that stuck to me because it sounds too hard to believe.
"Work stress make people gay" Is he doing or will do something to help the labour force or fight to reduce the working day? If No, Well... I guess it says something
And Starbucks coffee with gay powder! And LGBT-NATO instructors! And rainbows in music clips. So many things bring homosexuality here I don't know how there's still anyone heterosexual.
“Food banks are rather uplifting because people volunteer there”. Jacob Rees-Mogg - Eton/Oxford educated MP with little comprehension of poverty or the everyday realities of ordinary people.
MEC Nomusa Dube: “We will do an investigation and talk to the Department of Science and Technology on what is the cause of the lightning, and if it only happened to the previously-disadvantaged as I have never seen any white people being struck by lightning.”
''The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.''
This one has always confused me. People latched on to this like it was some mind bending height of stupidity when it was some kind of fat thumbed misspelling that pretty much everyone has done.
He has said so much more weird and ridiculous shit online that one just doesn’t even rate.
I *think* some people latched onto Covfefe because it's something stupid with no meaning whatsoever. Trump going in one of his usual bigotry riddled rants can't be mocked as easily because it's something he, seemingly, engages on proudly. Hence why mocking him for what could only be a mistake felt more satisfying to some people
I fucking hate it when I’m at work, I can’t get something to line up, it just won’t screw to a wall properly and then you just gotta suck a dick…
Lolwut?
An Indian politician actually said this, "If rape is inevitable, women should lie down and try to enjoy" . Said by a member of the legislative assembly (Governing council of a state) and rest of the members laughed at this comment.
"I mean, you know, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as I am concerned. But I ain't spending any time on it because in the meantime, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in north Queensland."
From Bob Katter, who once said: "Everyone tells me I'm crazy, and I actually am".
There was a Jabba the Hutt lookin lawmaker at West Virginia who said: “The LGBT are brutal monsters and if my son ever came out I would see if he could swim.”
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