Canadian Politician: "God bless" wife for shoveling driveway after her 12-hr hospital nightshift.

[Demovictory9]

Canadian politician blasted for sharing photo of wife shoveling snow after her 12-hour hospital shift

Jon Reyes, a Manitoba Cabinet minister, faced the wrath of Twitter followers for standing inside in the warmth and taking the photo while his wife, Cynthia Reyes, shoveled snow in below-freezing temperatures.

"Even after a 12 hour night shift at the hospital last night, my wife still has the energy to shovel the driveway," Reyes tweeted Saturday morning. "God bless her and all our frontliners. Time to make her some breakfast."



The tweet went viral, but not for the reasons Reyes would have hoped. Twitter users berated the Cabinet minister for not helping his wife and for not having the driveway already shoveled before she returned home.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canadian-politician-blasted-for-sharing-photo-of-wife-shoveling-snow-after-her-12-hour-hospital-shift/ar-AASCsIj

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[ZenDem]

1. By "make her breakfast"...

...I'm guessing he means after she drives her happy ass to the store to buy eggs and bacon.

[Demovictory9]

3. drive her? She will drive herself to store

[lpbk2713]

2. He sounds like the type of guy ...

who buys his wife a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.

[11 Bravo]

4. Knowing nothing about the guy's personal health, I'll reserve judgement.

[whathehell]

7. Well, aren't you special?

[Disaffected]

9. Why the snark??

It's a perfectly reasonable observation - to spell it out, maybe the guy is not physically capable of heavy physical labour, including shoveling snow.

[whathehell]

11. Not sure it is "reasonable"..

Whatever his physical condition, he could have at least hired someone to shovel the snow.

Sorry. but he sounds like an inconsiderate dolt
suffering from a case of Male Entitlement.

[Disaffected]

16. More unfounded judging.

Maybe he tried to hire someone and no-one was available in time?

"Inconsiderate dolt", "Male Entitlement"?

The point is you don't know any of those things - you have no evidence on which to base such aspersions.

Good grief, is there not enough already out there to be indignant about without dredging up something like this??

[whathehell]

22. Sorry, but I don't think it's "unfounded"

and neither it seems, did the twitterverse.

Sorry if my "judgement" offends you, but I think you're

taking all of this much too seriously..The man's not

facing jail time, or anything, so you might want to

lighten up a bit. Have a good one.

[JanMichael]

5. He is a Progressive Conservative whatever that means.

I think they are native to Manitoba:

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
Active provincial party
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Logo.svg
Leader Heather Stefanson
President Tom Wiebe
Founded 1882; 140 years ago
Headquarters 23 Kennedy Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C 1S5
Ideology Conservatism
Fiscal conservatism
Economic liberalism
Political position Centre-right
Colours Blue
Seats in Legislature
35 / 57
Website
www.pcmanitoba.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Manitoba

I can't find much in the way of policies. They say they are fiscally conservative economic liberals. Whatever the fuck that means.

I just found this:

"The Progressive Conservatives (PC) were, until 2006, the only party other than the Liberals that ever governed Canada. It traced its origins to the “Tories” of the 19th century, a group of Canadians in the colonial era who defined themselves through their staunch loyalty to British rule, Protestant Christianity, and English culture (“Tory” is still used as a nickname for Canadian conservatives to this day). During the 20th century, the party was mostly a broad alliance of people who were not Liberals, but was still considered primarily a party for English Canadian interests. The PCs underwent a significant ideological shift under the leadership of Brian Mulroney (b. 1939), a Quebec-born corporate CEO who became PC leader and then prime minister from 1984 to 1993. Mulroney’s rise represented the triumph of a new flavor of conservative thought, based mostly around free-market economics, that swept much of the western world during the 1980s. Mulroney’s second term in office proved deeply unpopular, however, and in the 1993 election the PC party was all but wiped out, plummeting from 169 seats in Parliament to only two."

Definitely not liberal. Kind of like National Socialists (NAZI's) aren't Socialists, wink wink, nudge nudge...

[rurallib]

6. had to be some variety of conservative

[whathehell]

8. Yes, the "entitled male" variety, I'd guess.

At very least, you would think he would have hired someone to shovel the snow..Perhaps the Twitter
response will, um, "broaden his perspective".

[milestogo]

10. This week a coworker told me that his whole family was sick with Covid so he had to make his lunch.

My heart just ached for him.

[whathehell]

12. Oh the horror!

However did he bear it?

[milestogo]

15. He probably called for delivery.

Making a sandwich is so hard.

[whathehell]

23. Bwahaha!

You're probably right.

[ms liberty]

13. My husband says Drake handed him his ass and called him out

For sitting up all night tweeting about tennis.

[nolabear]

14. Okay, I'm going to judge the judgmental.

We know nothing other than what he told us. We don't know whether she's the kind of person who can't be still until something no one else thinks has to be done right then is done. He could be in the middle of important business but took the time to feel she deserved some admiration. He may have waked up to look out the window and seen her, not knowing she was home and have said "Honey, I'll get that!" and she may have replied "I've got it. How about you fix me breakfast?"

Having the angry eyes of the world on us all the time is poisonous. I'm not pointing at any individual; I think it's everyone, acting as though their words are private, harmlessly snarky conversations, when in fact they do things like this, go viral and grow until the reality of the situation is immaterial, just the performance made of it. But real people are then treated as if this performed reality is real. and it causes all kinds of trouble.

[Demovictory9]

18. Politician should have considered appearances before tweeting that photo

[Hortensis]

25. So SHOULD everyone posting on social media. Right?

Maybe we SHOULD be required to post under our own names, or at least act as if we were.

[Hortensis]

24. That poor nurse now gets to add defending her admiring husband

on top of her 12-hour hospital shifts.

Meanness and malice are epidemic.

[applegrove]

17. And the tweet reply goes:

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[dalton99a]

19. +1

[smirkymonkey]

21. Hilarious!

Primo snark!

[applegrove]

20. Another:

Link to tweet

[Wavelight]

26. I thought Canada was for folks

… who wanted to get OUT of Gilead.

[Torchlight]

27. At best, he's an idiot for putting that tweet out there as is.

At worst, well...

And, as there's zero mention of any health related problems if his in his bios, news stories or tweets, I'd think that a very speculative and weak hook to hang any argument on.