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I don't know much about the early Obama years. I was happy that they elected an African American, I thought it would be good for the country. All I really ever cared about before was that they didn't start any crazy wars. Obama put the USA in the toilet. He couldn't have done more damage if he tried. Wrong about Russia, weak against them, wrong about Islamic State, weak against them, wrong about domestic terrorism, weak against them, wrong about police shootings and ran his mouth, started the country on fire and never did anything about it, and you could basically blame his big mouth and big ego for the rise of Donald Trump. The Mueller investigation is a huge farce. The FBI has lost every shred of integrity they ever had in the last few years with their "bungling" of the Clinton investigation and now their sham of a "Russian collusion investigation". The pressure tactics that they are using on Cohen and Manafort are a disgrace to democracy. The DNC primary was a disgrace, the rigged debates were a disgrace, Hillary destroying evidence and getting away with it was a disgrace, Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch's "coincidental" tarmac meeting was a disgrace, ad the top 5 members of the FBI and Brennan are a huge disgrace. There actually is a swamp in DC. I don't know how far it pre-dates Obama but it's disgusting. The Republicans have a bunch of misogynist/cheaters. So do the Dems. Let's be honest, probably a handful of people in Congress and the Senate combined could live up to the scrutiny that's on Trump. People like Maxine Waters are even openly crass and disgusting on national tv. Whether you're a Dem or Libertarian you're still buying into the hypocrisy of defending Bill Clinton, the actual rapist.

Of course, one has to assume the Trudeau government is only interested in hearing polarized, predetermined positions that are unaffected by reason, evidence, facts or rational thought, provided they bolster the government's predetermined positions and its identity politics approach to campaigning and policy. It looks like this "consultation" will be conducted within an echo chamber, a fact utterly consistent with the government's general approach to such issues. One side of the debate only, please!

I don't know which I'm more tired of hearing about. Trump or weed.

My dismal experience with the Canadian (well, Ontario's) health care system has transformed me into a critic. This has nothing to do with the "free market" or "slavery". Rather it has to do with realizing that I'd been defrauded, having dutifully paid taxes for decades only to find the health care system, when I really needed it, utterly inadequate and dehumanizing. Nothing will more effectively change one's mind about our health care system than having to spend days on a gurney in an emergency department as an "admitted" patient while sharing a bathroom with dozens of other patients and their visitors and trying to brush your teeth at a sink blocked with other peoples' hair and vomit. And that's for starters. Don't lecture me on the benefits of Canadian health care without acknowledging its clear shortcomings. To do so simply suggests that you are blindly ignoring glaring realities for ideological reasons.

I'm gonna go to our election/referendum and tell them that I have no ID....just to see what happens.

Stormy Daniels' lawsuit dismissed...must pay Trump's fees.

It's sad to see how many people can be influenced to believe such a serious accusation based on such a flimsy case with so many obvious flaws. If anything, this just proves how important it is to get people on the bench with the ability to impartially consider evidence and testimony.

I'm 100% up to speed on the level of evidence required. I'd even put the required standard miles lower than a preponderance of the evidence for Kavaanugh. Any actual evidence, or corroboration of her specific story, would have been enough to sink Kavanaugh's boat. But her case got weaker and weaker under every level of scrutiny applied to it: FBI investigation, the careful consideration of her own details, testimony from people who knew Dr Ford, character witnesses for BK.... All roads point away from the appearance of guilt. The most compelling evidence backing her claim is that BK might have been really drunk a few times while he was in University. No one who applies for a SCJ position will ever pass that test but even if it's true, you can always find some people to claim the opposite. The actual evidence is zero point zero zero. 0.00%. Zip. Zilch. Nada. There's just no evidence aside from 1 woman who lied about several material facts in her case and another woman that had a totally farcical story to begin with. If you want to abandon presumption of innocence that's just your opinion, but literally no one can ever be appointed to the SC if their political opponents can stop their nomination just by finding two people who are willing to tell lies that are so vague that they can never even be turned into a perjury case. Eventually there will be no more SCJs.

I don't know what social circles you move in within Canada. I don't know any Canadians who've permanently moved to the U.S., highly skilled or otherwise. Correction, I know one from university days. I don't know anyone who said they have to leave Canada for lack of opportunity. In many ways, Canada is where the growth is in the developed world today. Europe is quite built-out and has an entrenched class system. The U.S. is fragmenting under political polarization and an abandoned underclass. Our challenge is trying to be all things to all people with a small population across a vast expanse, as always.

This is what happens to them when they leave the Democrat plantation.