Originally Posted by
Endus
Just for starters, Pete used to work for McKinsey, doing number-crunching and such that was fundamentally about manipulating customers through price changes. McKinsey, if you're don't know them, is a consulting firm that does PR and policy consulting for really, really questionable clients and reasons; they worked for Enron, for instance, before that all blew up (before Pete's time, admittedly), and Pete himself worked with Loblaws during the time they got exposed for collaborating with wholesalers to fix bread prices here in Canada. He'll get angry and lash out if you call him on this, but he doesn't actually have a defense, and in his own words, his job at the time was working out how to manipulate customer opinions/spending by manipulating pricing throughout the stores, which seems so directly related I can't take his defense as anything but bullshit.
Also, likely due to his time at McKinsey, he's very clearly well-trained in how to say a lot of words that mean absolutely fucking nothing, but seem like they mean something. Listen to him explain a policy stance; he doesn't actually explain it, and everything he says is either emotionally manipulative or weasel words. The moment you start digging through it for the details, they don't seem to exist. He's very good at saying nothing, but it's all empty promises and emotional phrasing when you try and dig beneath the surface.
Is he as bad as Trump? Nah. Definitely vote for him if he's the candidate. But there's no real reason to promote him to be that candidate. He's an empty manipulative suit, and "I'm gay!" shouldn't be enough to offset that.