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Far cheaper to use the Canadian playbook....just become a NATO deadbeat and beg somebody else to carry the load.

So the Liberals have introduced a new jobs program. It's supposedly about infrastructure, but not really. Infrastructure is something that helps the economy, like roads, bridges, highways, railroads, ports and airports, sewers, water systems, sewage systems, power systems. The Liberals will spend $10 billion in hopes of creating 60,000 jobs. I'll spare you the math. That works out to about $166,000 per job. Not everything they're spending money on is wasteful. Even for them that would be difficult. Money for irrigation projects out west sounds like it's liable to be profitable, especially if we see more climate change warming. Energy retrofits could be, too. Billions to connect rural homes to broadband is not going to result in any new jobs or improve the economy, though. And billions for clean energy can, as we've seen in Ontario, be easily flushed down the toilet and produce almost nothing. Some of this is useful, but I don't see many permanent jobs coming from it. Nor do I see much that's going to improve the economy. https://financialpost.com/news/economy/canada-launches-c10-billion-infrastructure-plan-to-aid-post-coronavirus-recovery

Ann Coulter got a good one off. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/01/ann-coulter-is-chris-wallace-a-white-supremacist/

Actually the proposal/question "Are you willing to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in these cities as we've seen in Kenosha and Portland" is an example of a rhetorical fallacy called "Begging the Question." (Lately most people use the phrase incorrectly. Begging the question, sometimes known by its Latin name petitio principii (meaning assuming the initial point), is a logical fallacy in which the writer or speaker assumes the statement under examination to be true. In other words, begging the question involves using a premise to support itself. If the premise is questionable, then the argument is bad. I'm hoping this is not news to you, Argus because you're such a master of it. Almost every statement you make is an example of it. You and Chris Wallace. The assumption in the proposal under examination here is the suggestion that white supremacists or militia groups are contributing significantly to the violence we've seen across America. That, of course, is false even though it's necessary to be true to validate the proposal that trump reject it. It's not even true of the 2 cities the second on the Biden debate team, Chris Wallace, mentions.

Ann Coulter has a good piece on the "racist" Proud Boys. https://anncoulter.com/2020/09/30/is-chris-wallace-a-white-supremacistxx/

That's 100% wrong. The Canadian playbook says.... "just become a NATO deadbeat and bitch about the way someone else carries the load". Eg: "I hate the way Trump kills father-figure type terrorist leaders, stops genocides, and gets all these peace accords signed. He clearly has no discernible policy in the middle east, he's just reactionary. IT'S SO F---ING RACIST!!!!!! I'M SO TRIGGERED RIGHT NOW I JUST WANNA BURN, LOOT AND ATTACK SOME COPS!!!!!!" Dang b_c, you should know this by now.

Ref blows whistle...separates players.

He needs a second term in order to surpass Obama's US debt.

None of that...of course not. I can't help but think the dudes left standing around MLK's corpse took this 'content of one's character' jazz in quite another direction altogether.

Did Joe Biden "denounce" Black Lives Matter ? Maybe I missed that...seems like he wants their "Black" vote instead.

Even the ACLU will defend the rights of "white supremacists" from people who would deny them their 1st and 2nd Amendment rights. The Trump haters would gladly extinguish such enumerated rights, and others would follow.

While we don't have such things in Canada outside some militias connected to the Canadian military (Rocky Mountain Rangers, etc), in the USA, armed militias are perfectly legal under most conditions. As long as no laws are broken...2nd Amendment rules. This is just another check on the government. A good one I can see...

It is far easier to denounce Justin Trudeau....so he did.

I'd have to ask the same question of you that Trump asked Biden's co-debater, Chris Wallace. "What white supremacists?"

As far as "courting other Racist POSs" I've yet to see any verifiable evidence of Trump doing that. Biden has though. He backed segregation and proudly thought of a grand Poopa of the KKK (Byrd) as his mentor.

My wife asks if you've been to St Peter. Still there after all this? Gustavus Adolphus is pretty Liberal Artsy....lol.

You are wrong...U.S. constitutional rights are to be protected, and that includes waycists POSs. You might want to brush up on some American history too to get a better understanding of what "Murikans" support now and in the past.

A small war has broken out on Iran’s border between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey is openly supporting Azerbaijan whereas Armenia’s allies are more discreet. Russia may be arming both sides, small Soviet republics in the good old days, but has closer ties with Armenia historically. The other ally may come as a surprise to some. Iran supported Armenia in the original N-G war of 1988-1994 and is now denying, i.e. confirming, that trucks passing into Armenia are bringing arms. Azerbaijan has developed a close relationship with Israel. Quite the pickle.

...well they'd better HOPE the military is on their side on this. "You guys are okay with us cheating so we can send you back to Syria. Right??"

I love how after 6 months of rioting and looting from the far-left, the question that comes up is denouncing the Proud Boys. What a complete joke.

Government can and does indeed control the economy. You have already pointed out one component: taxation (THE most powerful influence to human financial decisions), but far beyond that are interest rates and above all rules, regulations and enforcement. These are all and SHOULD be the realm of what government does - but not to try to BE the economy. That is where our model fails miserably. Simply put: the business of government should be to GOVERN (i.e. legislate, regulate and enforce) to provide a level playing field for capital to be employed. Where governments around the world have failed their citizens is allowing business to actually control things such as interest rates, policy and enforcement. We have all seen to total failure not of capitalism, but of what I prefer to call "Casino Capitalism" whereby Wall Street and Bay Street influence complete control over government to allow capital to be employed not for the creation of wealth (which IS capitalism) but for the re-distribution of wealth while adding no value (i.e. Casino Capitalism - trading equities, commodities and worst of all "synthetic instrumest" i.e. derivatives and the like). By allowing finance to control government we get the worst of both. This is why capitalism needs government - REPRESENTATIVE government - to protect its citizens and its economy. Instead, we have "Rule-by-special-interest" that rewards its free hand by staying hands off of the highly interventionist activities of government attempting to do social engineering, pick winners and losers in the economy and even participate directly in the economy.

The question itself is absurd and illegitimate. "Mr. Trump, do you condemn violence and looting? Yes or no???" How can you answer other than yes? An incredibly stupid question that sets up the moment for inflammatory accusations.

You don't have to "admire the guy" to notice he's doing a good job you just have to get past your media induced bigotry to observe what's happening in the real world. Trump's doing everything he said he'd do. Everything he was elected to do.

Oddly enough, the Proud Boys leader is a Cuban-American. Not 'white' at all. But then, Candace Owens and Kim Klacik are deemed white supremacists by the Left.

Yeah, well, compared to Trump I'M a learned scholar.

I didn't say they controlled the world. I said they controlled Trump. I also agreed China was a big threat. You know I've posted many times about it. But what has Trump done about China? He's attacked them on trade issues, and that's pretty much it. And even that is only because Trump wants to be seen as a winner, forcing China to bow to his demands so he can strut on the stage. But China doesn't play that game. You aren't ever going to force them to bow down in public. A long while ago I made a post from a foreign diplomat talking about how at every international meeting China sends a full team of a dozen or so people empowered to offer deals and make agreements to schmooze the place. The Americans generally send one junior staffer with no authority at all. That's how you spread influence. Meanwhile, Trump has spent his time attacking and insulting all America's allies and sucking up to dictators because he admires them for their power. The Chinese are hacking their way through every important US computer system because the US government won't spend the money to secure its own computers, and won't set up a coordinated, well-funded effort at protecting the computers of private sector companies, even those doing top secret research for them. Their spies on the ground are everywhere, and they're funnel ling money into the pockets of politicians, not just in the US but throughout the world. None of the American efforts, weak as they are, at confronting them have come from Trump. As one intelligence guy said of him, he responds to every suggestion of doing something with "What's in it for me?" If there really was a deep state it would have killed him three and a half years ago so Pence could make the decisions.

Trump is Putin's bitch, and everyone even reasonably unbiased knows it. As to China, he's done virtually nothing to check China's continued rise as a world power or its influence in the US. His sole focus has been on trade. "Show me the money" is all he knows.

Trump has plenty of important achievements that he can call upon in a debate. Instead he approached the debate more as a reality-politics style, going low. Biden could then go high. Trump would do well to distance himself from the likes of Rudy Guiliani as his coach. He shouldn't have him in his corner. I agree, Trump MUST win, for the sake of the future of the free world. Else we shall all quickly become face-mask wearing virus slaves, who must kneel before China.

Trump was not on his game...for certain. Which was too bad as this was his chance to be the reasonable one to a bunch of new people. Nobody was reasonable last night...moderator included. That it has come to this...me supporting Trump...it shows how far they've gone left on the Democrat side. I can not and will not endorse Communism in America...even if it is disguised as an old fool with Mao's Red Guard behind him pulling the strings. It doesn't sell well to this cowboy. Unlike the kids all riled-up on the streets, I can recall WHY my neighbors are Hungarian and Czech.

The biggest failure of the night was the moderator, IMO. He should have anticipated this. You don't open the debate the way he did, with these guys. You lay out the law right at the beginning, and then you enforce it.

Racism does now exist in Canada and the rest of the white world today. But it is now happening against the white people in Canada and the Western white countries of today. Our white history and culture and traditions are under attack and being dismantled day by day by, believe it or not, their own white people. Those white people seem to have a white guilt ridden leftist liberal I hate my white skin color complex. Why are there so many white people today refusing to stand up for their white race and culture like so many non-white races and cultures seem to do? No one ever calls them racist for doing so. White people will all pay one day for this because of those white fools who must truly hate their own white skin. Just my opinion of course.

Merit has no place on the Left. It's ALL identity politics....a fancy phrase for racism.

Overblown emotional poppycock with no basis. The good things they did for many of those children should be disregarded entirely, especially the part about how the children were taken from broken homes in communities devastated by drugs and alcohol and facing a life of abject poverty with an early death.

Measures need to be taken but they need to go both ways. I'm sick of 'racial bias training' that always assumes that white people are the one, the only, the big bad racists of all time. Nothing could be further from the truth. Eg, in Surrey there's a thing called the APNA pages (in Punjabi apna means "one of our own") where only indo-Canadians can advertise the services of their businesses. How is that even a thing? That's as racist as it gets. We all know that a registry that was exclusively for white-owned businesses would be shouted down instantly, but no one in power ever brings up the existence of the APNA pages or similar bigoted entities. Just an observation, the people who scream the loudest about racism are usually either racists themselves, or their ideas are completely idiotic. This whole issue has been seized by malcontents and virue-signallers, and not decent, intelligent, fair people with a positive plan that is designed to actually eliminate racism from our society.