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And it's the question nobody is asking. And it's such an obvious one that it makes me feel like it's being asked behind closed doors and probably the people that are putting their money on the table right now are being lied to. Trudeau is pushing Kearney hard inside the party, but loyalty to Trudeau is falling fast. I suspect he will be used as a sacrificial lamb, and shot appropriately, and eaten at the next Leaders victory celebration. There's no way to guarantee that the party will let you have more than one chance. If you lose it's an automatic leadership review regardless and the Liberals are Cutthroat internally. I suspect we will be seeing a book in Carney's future and I expect that the end of it will be heavily tear stained.

He's not even remotely close to one of the best economists in the world. But he has been a successful banker. He did well when he was in Canada working under harper. He had a lot less luck in England unfortunately. But that's the way it bounces sometimes and bankers are bankers not gods and it's not like they can control everything. But as a politician he's horrible. He's got ties to the wrong people including Epstein, he's very much been a tax and spend advocate and a huge massive advocate for carbon taxes, and he has zero political experience fighting campaigns or rebuilding a party that was recently decimated. The liberals are going to select him as the leader, they will use him hoping that they can translate his record and reputation into saving the furniture and losing fewer seats than they would have under Trudeau, they will lose the election, and then they will hold a leadership review and kick his sorry ass to the curb. Then all of the potential leaders who are strong who are backing out right now and not spending their 350k will jump into a real leadership race and the party will look to select someone who is the ideal choice to rebuild and refocus the party in their mind. And if he had a little more political experience he would see that coming but he doesn't And indeed it looks like 'for most canadians' if the polls are to be believed.

As many Americans are doing nothing but casting blame, I take solace in the fact that Canadians are doing their part to help out.

In the fullness of time I think all aspects of this tragedy will come under pretty close scrutiny. Here's a piece from CNN that touches on budget cuts and recruiting FWIW. I'm sure there will be lots more to come... the Chiefs personal priorities and the impact of them on departmental priorities will certainly be part of that process IMO: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/us/fire-department-los-angeles-wildfires/index.html The "focus on inclusion" portion of the article's content is extracted below: The LAFD has historically had mostly White, male firefighters, Hudley-Hayes said. Crowley is the LAFD’s first woman and LGBTQ person to serve as chief, according to her bio. In her bio, Crowley lists her priorities as “creating, supporting, and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equity while striving to meet and exceed the expectations of the communities.” Hudley-Hayes credits Crowley with establishing the department’s Office of Equity and Human Resources last year. Since she became chief in 2022, there are more Black, Latino, Asian and female firefighters in each recruitment class, Hudley-Hayes said. Hawkins, however, said the department still struggles with diversity and how it treats Black firefighters. The LAFD is roughly 11% Black, he said. Black firefighters continue to face low levels of promotions and often don’t receive adequate training for their positions, leading to low retention rates, Hawkins said. “The treatment of African Americans in the fire department has been horrible,” Hawkins said Actor James Woods suggested that Crowley prioritized DEI over ensuring fire hydrants had enough water. “She took over and she put on her bio that her priority … is inclusion, diversity and equity …,” Woods said on Fox News.“And somebody forgot to fill all the reservoirs, I guess, with water because when I was getting smoke alarms there was a fire truck parked in front of my house, but they couldn’t pump any water because there was none.” On Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that a nearby reservoir was undergoing repairs and was empty at the time of the fires, further hampering firefighting efforts. Hours later, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an independent investigation into the problems with the water supply for firefighters battling the blazes. “The ongoing reports of the loss of water pressure to some local fire hydrants during the fires and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir are deeply troubling to me and to the community,” Newsom wrote in a letter, which he posted on X. Scott Jennings, a CNN political commentator, also condemned the efforts to diversify the fire department. “We have DEI, we have budget cuts and yet I’m wondering now, if your house was burning down, how much do you care what color the firefighters are?” Jennings said on CNN’s Abby Phillip’s News Night. Johnny Gray, president of the Los Angeles County Stentorians, which strives to promote diversity in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said DEI is important to ensure there is fair representation of firefighters of all ethnicities, genders and backgrounds. It also helps build trust with the community when they know there are firefighters who look like them and understand them, he said. “It’s very important that we do reflect the community that we serve,” Gray said. “We are going inside these folks’ homes. There are different cultures, different ways of handling different situations and if you’re not diverse in your fire department you might not know how to handle it or how to talk to someone.”

May or may not? WTF? Are you pretending that you didn't read the quote you posted and applauded as "a solution"? The strategy he PROPOSES to achieve the aim of dictatorship is a farking footnote to the goal of ending a democratic America. Jeebus.

He brought a devastating wildfire that has destroyed a massive amount of homes, killed people, and continues to engulf more, with firefighters working even as we speak to fight, trying to contain it all bravely... upon himself? I swear, do you even stop to think about the stupid garbage you type before you do?

It's called reality kid, and while it's true that logic and reason are not dreams the only one woke here is you Of course it is. AI doesn't actually think for itself, it's a product of what it's fed. If 10,000 lefties like yourself go on the web and post articles about how terrible for democracy income inequality is then that's what the AI is going to spit out. There are people at Google right now feeding articles into the AI for it to learn, they are notoriously left-wing. This is why the big companies have just backed away from their fact-checking organizations who all turned out to be left wing and acting deliberately to minimize right wing ad revenue. As I said before we just had an election that proved every single thing you are saying is wrong

Sorry kiddo, they're wrong or they're not talking about what you think they are, depending on the article. You can post what is essentially the same argument 100000 times but it still has the same flaws. First off Every single one of them is making the democracy argument. So obviously you don't have a problem with wealth inequality other than democracy They all have exactly the same premise, that democracy requires that we all have equal standing and then it suggests that you can't possibly have equal standing if you don't have equal wealth. The problem is this is blatantly false. This last election proved that Beyond any sane doubt. Harris had vastly more money. She also had far more influential people and stars backing her. All of the supposed advantages of wealth were hers and at her fingertips. And she still got her ass handed to her by a reasonably broke convicted felon whom she outspent by something stupid like 10 to 1 or something. In fact every citizen has the same standing and while they may use different methods the most effective method is always organizing and a single person with next to no money is quite capable of standing up and starting an organization and organizing people and we have seen that many many times. So the inequity is not a democratic inequity. Money doesn't win elections. Fame and power doesn't win elections. Sorry I didn't see this one earlier respond to it but there's so many. Anyway do you got anything left? Kind of feels like we've been through everything

Every single leftie on this board. "i'm losing, i should make a random but specific homosexual reference." Every. Single. One.

James Woods brought this upon himself. Have you bothered to follow him on social media? He has been spreading venom for the past decade, nearly every single day. He is also a borderline pedophile. When I see him blubbering like a 10 year old girl on national TV about his property burning down, I can't feel any empathy for him. In times of crisis, people tend to show their true colours. We should strive to be like Harry and Meghan Merkel, who until recognised were at the forefront of helping people that have become homeless, by volunteering at soup kitchens and shelters. James Woods has not done anything helpful, and continues his venomous rhetoric. It has only intensified. One would think nearly losing your home may be a good time for self-reflection, or to come together with the community to support each other.

You're the one who continually DEFENDS Trump's FRAUDS and CRIMES. 🤮

The evidence has been posted, but you are a coward and hide from me.

Thanks for admitting you know the standard while ALWAYS FAILING to to meet it. Thanks for proving how dumb you are again with your failure to understand. You're the EXPERT on ^that.

Interesting. We see this playing out today. The stupid can be manipulated to believe anything, and usually lack the critical thinking skills to be objective. We see it on this forum.

There's nothing hilarious about it. I am not going to indulge your lazy game.

Carney has no parliamentary experience. He hasn’t earned the right to run for this post. Politics is a fiendishly difficult line of work. Nobody should be walking into the job.

Until you post the EVIDENCE, there is NOTHING to deny cause you have to PROVE your ALLEGATIONS FIRST.

Just cause you live in denial doesn't make it lies

Yes, an easy decision. Pierre Poilievre.

let me know when you wake from your dream state. you're so deep in it. "Income inequality can be detrimental to a country's wellbeing, leading to financial instability, poorer economic growth, and lower government investment in services like healthcare and education. Countries with higher Gini indexes also tend to have higher household debt." even Google AI is a "leftist" plot! ahahaha!

These fùcking surrender monkeys know damn well carbon pricing that is 90% revenue neutral is the least harmful answer. It works, it's the least costly, and doesn't hurt the economy anywhere near as much as the unrealistic ineffective options they're hinting at.

fill me in? you're claiming that the Trump tax cuts took until the Biden administration to start returns? nothing to do with Biden administration policy? figures...

LOL i've literally shot down every one of your cites so far, don't get mad at me just because your cites don't say what you want them to You've made zero case that the wealth gap is a hugely negative thing in the slightest. The majority of people who want the wealth gap to be a problem fall into one or both of two catagories. Those who are jealous as hell that other people have more than them without considering what they had to do to get it and the fact their own lives are pretty good, and those who want to steal what those others have earned and are looking to justify it. Wealth inequity is not a problem, other than it can technically be a sign of other flaws in a system such as the feudal one. You earn what you earn and you can afford what you can afford regardless of what elon musk earns. Sorry.

yeah, i could cite all day long about how wealth inequality is bad for democracy and society but you're not going to read any of it. its something your confirmation bias is never going to get past.

As we went over the evidence you provided does not support that. And you're flip flopping between claiming you're talking about the past and then that you're talking about the future. You can't use incomplete evidence from the past that leaves out critical information and then claim that's proof of a future that contains dozens of variables you can't account for. And in fact look at this, federal revenues went UP between 2017 and 2019. The changes trump made did not result in a reduction of revenues as you claim. Over all revenues were higher. And corporate taxes were a big hunk of that jump Government Revenue | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data You've just got no where left to go with this. Trump didn't cost anyone any money, never mind 10 trillion or the like. He lowered taxes and expenses for all, grew gov't revenue by improving the economy and reducing gov't costs as a percent of gdp, and not a single person is poorer just because the rich are rich, in fact they're better off because of the rich's success. you fought hard and made at least somewhat reasonable arguments which is why I'm not laughing at you or calling you names but there's no where left to go with this. By every metric and by every way of interpretation your original premise was entirely wrong and no premise that you brought up since then is doing any better