What are the weirdest political scandals to have happened in your country?
What are the weirdest political scandals to have happened in your country?
Austin Jones
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Josiah Hill
what makes a scamdal weird?
we had that time some sd politicians threatened an iranian immigrant comedian with iron pipes
And that time when the minister of housing was at a dinner where the chairman of the swedish part of the turkish nationalist organisation grey wolves was.
Adam Cooper
Don't forget about that time we fired the chief of the FBI because he knew too much
Parker Foster
Those aren't really weird. Weird is like scandals involving the king.
Elijah Mitchell
Not the weirdest, but the most recent one about Penelope Fillon had a massive impact.
Zachary Bennett
Why would he openly tweet this,
Is he retarded?
Levi Lopez
There was that time Karl XII forced his pet bear to drink so much booze that it fell out the window and died
Grayson James
Yes, drumpf is a russian agent. He will be exposed and impeached any day now
Isaac Gutierrez
Peter I had a pet bear that carried vodka in a bowl and mauled people that refused to drink if Tolstoy is to be believed.
Cold region people are weird.
Liam Smith
>baka.com.au
should be s m h
Sebastian Kelly
Probably the time Trump fired the FBI director during an active investigation of his campaign for collusion with a hostile foreign power, and then made a bunch of dumb tweets about it.
Grayson Flores
Oh please, in south america they have leaders who do shit like kidnap children from citizens to raise as their own personal guard. Like 40 years ago.
Isaiah Ramirez
All our political scandals are weird
Colton Jones
Mason Anderson
Well yeah, but they didnt pick them by size to create an army of giants.
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Logan Campbell
Mike Huckabee's autistic son murdered a stray dog by hanging it from a tree at scout camp, and then he tried to cover it up. Mike Huckabee is the former Governor of Arkansas btw:
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Luke Campbell
What are the chances that kid ends up being a senator if not the future president of the USA?
Ryan Nguyen
typical alt-right measure. they dismiss everything that could possibly trouble them to cop out even though its their friend.
Andrew Hill
>huffington post
Also when I tried looking this up the news site that came up was Jezebel
Zachary Watson
Why would the head of the FBI be recording his meetings with important political figures? Where would he even find that sort of equipment?
Sebastian Clark
Poopald Splumpf is FINISHED
IT'S OVER
Gabriel Brown
Noah Parker
Fine, here's a snopes article reviewing all the claims and publications surrounding the incident, faggot:
Joshua Bailey
personal favourite
>The Australian yesterday reported allegations from an eye-witness at the budget night party that Mr Brown had become drunk, danced in his underpants to loud music and performed a simulated sex act on Wollongong MP Noreen Hay, while calling outto her adult daughter: "Lookat this, I'm titty-f..king your mother!"
Kevin Sanchez
>Snopes
Henry Davis
Real answer: Huckabee is a fringe figure with hardly any influence or power
Joke answer: Huckabee's son will be appointed as the new surgeon general in Trump's second term
Brandon Mitchell
Even here they say it's all speculative, seems like something the far left media of jezebel and huffington post spun out of control because of "muh evil conservatives"
Josiah Foster
Dude, you better take a chair...
Dominic Thomas
>fringe figure
>former governor
>three time Presidential candidate
>literally has a TV show on cable
return when you are eighteen
Connor Barnes
>implying conservatives aren't evil
>implying Americans in general aren't evil
Adam Gomez
>As to why the dog was killed, different people have offered different reasons. Governor Huckabee said in 2007 interview conducted by Larry King that “It was mangy. It looked like it was going to attack.” The father of the other young man fired over the dog’s slaying said in a 1998 news article his son had come upon one or more Scouts who had the dog “hung over a limb and choking,” so his son helped “put it out of its misery.” Scout executive Young said in another 1998 news article the two young men had told him the dog appeared to be ill.
You didn't even read it did you?
John Ward
>Even here they say it's all speculative, seems like something the far left media of jezebel and huffington post spun out of control because of "muh evil conservatives"
No they don't; they just admit that there's some ambiguity and room for interpretation because not all the facts are known, probably because there was never an investigation. However, they also cite FBI and Arkansas State Police sources who testified to Newsweek of a coverup:
>John Bailey, then director of Arkansas’s state police, told Newsweek that personnel in Governor Huckabee’s employ (his chief of staff and personal lawyer) leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor’s request for an investigation: “Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee’s Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer’s intervention as improper and terminated the conversation.” Bailey was fired by Huckabee seven months later, with (according to Bailey) one of the reasons given by Huckabee being that “I couldn’t get you to help me with my son when I had that problem.” Newsweek quoted I.C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, as saying “Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son.”
Jordan Ward
He hasn't held office since his governorship which ended a decade ago. He's about as powerful or influential as Newt Gingrich: he's a D lister and a has-been.
Lincoln Jones
Current white house deputy press secretary is Mike Huckabee's daughter.
Adam Watson
Yup. Wonder how many lost pets she's killed 2bh
Adam Stewart
The 2004-2009 era was the golden era of scandals for Greece.
There was this one New Democracy politician who was caught having sex with his secretary and committed suicide shortly afterwards
There were these priests from some monasteries who evaded taxes forever, and just recently got away with it.
And who could forget that one time a golden dawn MP slapped a communist MP right across the face
Elijah Morris
Haven't seen any recent pictures of Barron Trump
Ryan Scott
The Duckhouse
Charles Russell
Innocent until proven guilty...unless of course the person is an evil rethuglican. This postbasically personifies your hysteria. You're no better than the writers at Jezebel if you perpetuate this.
Joseph Barnes
genuine autism
James Murphy
That's not really the worst. Here's a list but I don't agree with the order.
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Jonathan Bailey
>if a person was never convicted of a particular wrongdoing we shouldn't take their likely crimes into our moral consideration of them
Hm yes, I suppose this is why everyone had such a high opinion of OJ after his acquittal, and Clinton after it was determined she would not be indicted. Truly an airtight defense of this violent freak's character.
Isaiah Diaz
Jack Sanchez
There was an article recently that he was spotted playing soccer at the Whitehouse in an Arsenal shirt, including pictures.
Daniel Hall
Our PM have secreat love with on of his secreatry. She falsificated orders so the secreat service start spying on our PM wife
Juan Gomez
Our old premier was full of them
>got drunk and threw change at a bum telling them to get a job
>telling a farmer he should have shot his cow and shut up instead of reporting BSE
>drinking with Hells Angels
Lots more funny stories but nothing scandalous
Jack Sullivan
>>telling a farmer he should have shot his cow and shut up instead of reporting BSE
lmao what the fuck. Does he understand how serious of a public health issue BSE and variant CJD are?
Mason Thompson
>I've got more than enough to eat at home
Luke Perry
what is this poor people food?
Caleb Flores
It also destroyed the cattle industry for a decade. Ralph klein didn't give a fuck and Albertans adored him. My personal favourite.
>During a charity roast on November 9, 2006 Klein made a lewd joke at the expense of former Conservative Member of Parliament Belinda Stronach: "Belinda roasted me as a Conservative, but of course now she's a Liberal.. and I wasn't surprised that she crossed over; I don't think she ever did have a Conservative bone in her body.. well, except for one." (Referring to Peter MacKay, her former boyfriend, who is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.) Klein refused to apologize for the remark stating that "a roast is a roast is a roast is a roast", while his spokesman pointed out that "Ms. Stronach roasted the premier two years ago and made remarks about his weight, his clothing and even his flatulence".
Andrew Gutierrez
this
Jayden Butler
I don't even believe it's the actual guy behind the account.
Matthew Carter
People got outraged because a politician refused to answer an English question at a press conference, arguing that we speak German in Germany and not English.
Aiden Davis
Not gonna lie, former Trump voter here. It's fucking hilarious watching Trump crash and burn like this. But in all seriousness, we can't let this guy near the nuclear codes
Liam Davis
A Syrian "toysmuggler" joined in our democratic party and was almost instantly found out to have connection to the ISIS and also probably having been smuggling something quite also a lot more illegal stuff than toys.
Benjamin Ramirez
How can you be a "former" trump voter? There's hasn't been a vote since
Kevin Bailey
smelly dumb newfag scum
Austin Flores
Well there was this time where a politician tried to kill another "fellow politician" in the congress with a gun
he somehow managed miss his target and kill another politician
he was arrested and after a while released
the real kicker? his son would become president of Brazil
Liam Gomez
One of our congressman nearly beat a senator to death in congress once:
en.wikipedia.org
>Sumner was knocked down and trapped under the heavy desk, which was bolted to the floor. His chair, which was pulled up to his desk, moved back and forth on a track; Sumner either could not or did not think to slide his chair back to escape, so it pinned him under his desk. Brooks continued to strike Sumner until Sumner rose to his feet and ripped the desk from the floor in an effort to get away from Brooks.[10] By this time, Sumner was blinded by his own blood. He staggered up the aisle and, arms outstretched, vainly attempted to defend himself. But then he was an even larger and easier target for Brooks, who continued to beat him across the head, face, and shoulders "to the full extent of [my] power." Brooks didn't stop when his cane snapped; he continued thrashing Sumner with the piece which held the gold head. Sumner stumbled and reeled convulsively, "Oh Lord," he gasped "Oh! Oh!" Near the end of the attack, Sumner collapsed unconscious, although shortly before he succumbed he "bellowed like a calf" according to Brooks.
Thomas Phillips
Our current prime minister very nearly killed a woman in parliament:
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Josiah Cook
obviously
Kevin Wood
pretty alpha desu
James Morgan
Why did he manhandle her? I thought Trudeau was supposed to be nice feminist ;_;
Joseph Adams
There was a national scandal when the chief government whip called a police officer a pleb for not letting him through a security gate
The media called it plebgate or gategate
Parker Russell
>gategate
kek
Luke White
I remember that. It seemed like a weird scandal.
Caleb Turner
>gategate
you guys are always so funny
Ryder Sullivan
that was an advertisement for stuffed crust pizza, I love it when I was a kid
Aiden Hill
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Ethan Jones
Not really a scandal but one of our presidents died while sexing his mistress
en.wikipedia.org
Parker Carter
A true patriot.
Jose Stewart
it's not a scandal but it's France, though
imagine if this happened in the USA
Thomas Hughes
DRUNK TO CERTAIN DEATH AND PAIN
SWEDISH BEARS HAVE MET THEIR BANE
SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN VAIN
STOCKHOLM
Ethan Ramirez
I did 2 seconds of googling and the fat fucker literally admitted to it.
They are an inbred ugly family anyways I'm not surprised.
Hunter Lewis
Lmfao a few of my friends have pictures of finding and meeting rob ford when he woke up drunk in a park on a sunday.
Luke Jones
...
Leo Perry
Berlusconi is a goldmine of such things
pic related is one of the most recent ones
I think Trump has a real chance to surpass Berlusconi himself at his own game (try to say the most inane shit and laugh it off)
Jordan Clark
British politics are a blessing upon this earth.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Literally indistinguishable from the Thick of It, desu
Christian Myers
Turks use to do that with balkans way back in the day.
Clever.
Robert Thompson
This fat fucks other accomplishments include getting four cops killed in my state.
Asher Taylor
Berlusconi was Trump before Trump
Liam Long
...
Christopher Kelly
Almost all 3rd Republic president were clowns. People were used to stuff like that.