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   Message 161,946 of 162,586   
   Rhino to Ubiquitous   
   Re: Justin Trudeau Celebrates Drag Queen   
   10 Nov 22 11:55:33   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.transgendered   
   From: no_offline_contact@example.com   
      
   On 2022-11-09 3:13 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, displaying his wokeness in a manner   
   > to which many critics took umbrage, will appear on a television show devoted   
   > to contestants competing to be the "next global drag superstar."   
   >   
   > Trudeau appeared in a trailer for the show "Canada's Drag Race" which has an   
   > episode titled "Canada vs. The World" premiering November 18. The show   
   > features a grand prize of $100,000 and the title of "Canada's Next Drag   
   > Superstar."   
   >   
   > "We're making herstory," a picture from the show boasted as it showed a   
   > smiling Trudeau next to a drag queen.   
   >   
   >          We're making herstory! ???? We're honoured to welcome the Prime   
   >          Minister of Canada @JustinTrudeau to #CanadasDragRace, becoming   
   >          the first world leader to appear on the Drag Race franchise!   
   >          #CanadasDragRace Canada vs the World premieres November 18 at 9E   
   >          on @CraveCanada. pic.twitter.com/wlDXSrMGEz   
   >   
   >          -- Canada's Drag Race (@canadasdragrace) November 8, 2022   
   >   
   > Trudeau was harshly criticized and mocked by some on social media:   
   >   
   >          More Canadians than ever are resorting to food banks and skipping   
   >          meals to afford necessities but this is what our prime minister   
   >          thinks is important ?? https://t.co/ywemycTYHI   
   >          -- Cosmin Dzsurdzsa ???? (@cosminDZS) November 8, 2022   
   >   
   >          Heard he got confused and thought the show was Canada's Black Face.   
   >          https://t.co/9apB1eAcFh   
   >          -- Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) November 8, 2022   
   >   
   >          So did he lose https://t.co/9hiFTqfFr8   
   >          -- Jack Posobiec ???? (@JackPosobiec) November 8, 2022   
      
   I don't think we've gone even one year without seeing him prancing in   
   one of the big Gay Pride parades. He can't seem to get enough of them!   
   The MSM never seems to tire of filming him at those parades.   
   >   
   > Trudeau, who has been documented wearing blackface and brownface, was mocked   
   > in August after celebrating Emancipation Day, posting a message acknowledging   
   > the "painful history of slavery in Canada" and celebrating "the strength of   
   > Black communities."   
   >   
   >          Today, we acknowledge the painful history of slavery in Canada. We   
   >          also celebrate the strength of Black communities, who fought - and   
   >          continue to fight - for justice and equality. Together, let's keep   
   >          building a more inclusive Canada. #EmancipationDay   
   >          https://t.co/j74xyImflw   
   >   
   >          -- Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 1, 2022   
   >   
   Nobody virtue-signals like our Trudeau!   
      
   > When Trudeau was 29, he dressed as Aladdin at a an Arabian-Nights-themed   
   > annual dinner at an expensive Vancouver private school, wearing brownface   
   > makeup. The photo was displayed in the 2000-01 yearbook for West Point Grey   
   > Academy. When he was in high school, he wore blackface to apparently pose as   
   > famed singer Harry Belafonte.   
   >   
   > When the photo of Trudeau was revealed in 2019, Andrew Scheer, the   
   > Conservative party leader, reacted, "I was extremely shocked and disappointed   
   > when I learned of Justin Trudeau's actions. Wearing brownface is an act of   
   > open mockery. It was just as racist in 2001 as it is in 2019. What Canadians   
   > saw this evening was someone with a complete lack of judgment and someone who   
   > is not fit to govern this country," the National Post reported.   
   >   
   > Social media reacted to Trudeau's celebratory tweet:   
   >   
   > "Gaslighting racist! You dress in blackface. You grope women. You fire   
   > indigenous women. You implement racist vaccine policies. YOU ARE THE RACIST,"   
   > one user tweeted.   
   >   
   And that's the reality of who he is as a person! Just another privileged   
   guy with a big trust fund whose only jobs before entering politics had   
   been snowboarding instructor and part-time drama teacher.   
      
   > The tweet about firing indigenous women referenced Jody Wilson-Raybould,   
   > Canada's first indigenous attorney general and minister of justice. It had   
   > been reported that Trudeau's office had attempted to force her to help a   
   > construction company avoid a corruption trial.   
   >   
   > In her book, "'Indian' in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power," Wilson-   
   > Raybould wrote of a meeting with Trudeau three days after the front-page   
   > story in The Globe and Mail broke.   
   >   
   >          As soon as the story broke, the Prime Minister said that "the   
   >          allegations in The Globe story this morning are false. Neither   
   >          the current nor the previous attorney-general was ever directed   
   >          by me or by anyone in my office to take a decision in this matter."   
   >   
   > At a second meeting, she recalled, "He asked if I trusted him. He also asked   
   > if I trusted his judgment to build a team. ... 'I want to believe in you and   
   > trust in you,' I replied. 'But it is hard to separate the two questions. I do   
   > not trust the people around you any longer.'"   
   >   
   > "I could see the agitation visibly building in the Prime Minister," she   
   > continued. "His mood was shifting. I remember seeing it. I remember feeling   
   > it. I had seen and felt this before on a few occasions, when he would get   
   > frustrated and angry. But this was different. He became strident and disputed   
   > everything I had said. He made it clear that everyone in his office was   
   > telling the truth and that I, and by extension Jessica Prince, my chief of   
   > staff, and others, were not. He told me I had not experienced what I said I   
   > did. He used the line that would later become public, that I had 'experienced   
   > things differently.'"   
   >   
   > "I knew what he was really asking," she wrote. "What he was saying. In that   
   > moment, I knew he wanted me to lie - to attest that what had occurred had not   
   > occurred."   
   >   
   > --   
   > Let's go Brandon!   
   >   
   >   
      
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