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Boris Johnson and other national leaders have also been infected despite any security efforts or COVID screening. Plus Trump has made it much more difficult by insisting on being out there for the campaign and other duties. Trump will make the best of the situation: 1) Lots of media attention...his favourite thing...and tweets until death 2) Less media bandwidth for Biden/Harris 3) Defacto recognition and consideration for the presidency and line of succession (your point above) 4) Street cred for walking his COVID talk, as in economy over shutdowns 5) Tacit nod to therapeutics like Remdesivir and better care protocols reducing mortality FDR died shortly after his fourth term started from congestive heart failure, Eisenhower had a heart attack in 1956 (recovered), Reagan and Bush #41 both had down time due to various circumstances. The lesson learned was not to hide the information from the public, and so far Trump's team has been forthcoming about his status. The U.S. Constitution and Amendments anticipated such circumstances and the line of succession is very clear. Several presidents have been assassinated or otherwise died in office without skipping a beat. Next man (or woman) up !

January 8, 2020....DUH !

It would be great if he was a nice guy through and through, but it is not important to being the president. Obama portrayed himself as such, yet we learned that he was not entirely like what he showed us. He did a lot of the bad things too, just the media never said much about it. They kept it quiet, for Obama.

President Trump is not the first POTUS to get infected during a pandemic.....

Doesn't matter what Trudeau thinks, but responses from around the world serve to acknowledge and confirm Trump's position and status as POTUS, even for his haters in Canada.

Argus is normally against freeloaders. But apparently American taxpayers subsidizing European taxpayers for their own defence is just fine with him. This is another example of how Trump Derangement Syndrome rots people’s brains, and leads them to take stances opposite to what they would normally take. The EU paying more, strengthens NATO. What Argus means by traditional role of leader, he really means traditional financier, at the expense of the American taxpayer. That shit should’ve changed long ago.

Live Update: Doc says Trump doing well, no oxygen today, no fever for 24 hours. Critical time is 7 to 10 days, but today he's improving from yesterday. Won't give specifics as to how sick he was, or specifics on tests. Will continue with Remesdivir for five days. Everybody except the doc speaking wearing a mask. Trump might have been on oxygen while at the White House, reading between the lines of what doc said.

Mars looms large...god of war.

You realize that is going on NOW, right? Trump has done nothing to stop it. The Republican Party has controlled the majority of states for quite a while, and states are responsible for funding education. The social engineering you're talking about is going on all over America in schools in Republican states, in universities in Republican states. And they've done nothing about it. See, I'm not really worrying much about that. If crime continues to rise and people don't like it then they'll vote out idiotic progressive mayors and prosecutors. If not, then they can just deal with the crime. Not my problem. Not a fan of immigration, but hey, same thing goes. I'm fine with that. I have no doubt whatsoever that if the Democrats get into power I'll be mocking and deriding a lot of the stuff they're doing. But ultimately little of it affects me as compared to Trump bowing out of NATO and abandoning the US' traditional role as leader of the free world. Not to mention his continual attacks on Canada. But then, that's just my view as a Canadian. If you're not a Canadian then you can no-doubt think otherwise.

As it turns out, Trump Haters are everything they said about Trump supporters.

This election may turn out to be a similar farce like the one 20 years ago. Or even worse. The Supreme Court will end up deciding who won the election.

This may be a good outcome for Trump, but we’ll see. Generally anything thats unexpected, is bad. If it hasnt been said yet, hello October Surprise. Just sayin, POTUS is different. I dont know if its true about scrambling the jets, but why not. If its their protocol, they will. I would think the FBI has also started an investigation, by their protocol.

Because mathematics does not exist, except for in the minds in man. Or else, where is mathematics? Where is One? Two?

Getting infected by COVID-19 will help to humanize him in addition to walking the talk. President Reagan got a huge boost after surviving an assassination attempt (shooting) by John Hinckley...like the Canadian nut job who just tried to poison Trump with ricin. Trump is all over Canadian news media...again....just can't get enough Trump !

Trump is getting lots of love from around the world....he doesn't need yours.

The one with U.S. national and global media extending best wishes to President Donald J. Trump. The Canadian haters can keep working on their castor bean poison.

Indeed....President Trump is not a "nice guy"...he is a marvelous bastard ! So two things can happen: 1) Trump recovers from the invisible Chinese virus and lives on to fight the 2020 campaign with a COVID badge of courage, like many other Americans. Or, 2) Trump succumbs to the invisible Chinese virus and is buried at Arlington next to JFK as a national hero !

I’ve got bad news for those with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Covid is going to give Trump an election win. Americans will rally around the old guy and the timing is pretty much perfect. Thanks China!

Nonsense.....Joe Biden's campaign made the tactical decision to pull the negative campaign ads because it may cost him votes in swing states. ...and a Canadian national tried to murder the U.S. president with ricin....so classy !

CNN: Crow! Crow! Crow! Trump hospitalized! Caw! Caw! Caw!

Democrats are enjoying the President and his first lady getting infected by the Wu flu so much one is tempted to suspect they had something to do with it.

If the government is going to hire people based on race, and discriminate against white people, it should be based on research that non-white government employees are not being hired because of their race into senior positions, and not because of other variables. I'd be ok with that. But that's not what i've seen from our government. Where is the research to back the need for this racial inventory, and the need to discriminate against white people? What I see George Floyd getting killed etc, lots of protests, and now the government saying "there's racism out there, let's help by hiring more POC". Sorry, that's not good enough. I also heard today that because COVID affects women disproportionately, Trudeau will give some financial support to women. If that's true that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. Having a vagina does not make you more targeted, it's what these women are doing that does (teaching, nursing, caregiving, contact with eldery/children, working retail & waitressing etc). So target those vulnerable people, not their gender. Virtue signalling BS. Male teachers, nurses, single parents, retail workers etc will get nothing, while single women with no kids working from home may get a handout. Some people are intent on using one variable like gender and race to diagnose social problems when there's more than one variable involved, which is just bad social science.

You're free to paint Islam with any brush you'd like. Describe for me if you can the things you admire most about this particular religion. Or can you? I think you can NOT.

I see we've been giving Islam a pass...must have become peaceful while the Presidential race is on. Well...not really. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/france-muslims-purposefully-hit-23-yeaqr-old-woman-with-car-drag-her-800-meters-to-her-death https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/09/france-muslim-migrants-kill-man-try-to-slit-his-throat-local-media-explains-that-alcohol-can-drive-you-crazy Their excuses? Ignorance that one has a woman stuck in one's wheel-well after running her and her dog over...and too much booze. Well then, nothing to see here...

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

1) Wrong again. Most of the kids who died, died from TB, and they weren't safe from it in their homes either. TB was killing everyone, but res schools were a ripe target for that kind of disease. 2) You're lying again. The difference between "their culture and our culture" wasn't "What name do we give our god and how do we pray" so this was nothing like what happens in the middle east. Do you understand that? This was the difference between a culture that was landing on the moon and one that wasn't smelting bronze yet. They didn't even have the fucking wheel. First nations children aren't apes. It wouldn't be ok to leave them in the stone age while the rest of the world moved into the space age. I'm not slighting them.... Just surviving 25,000 years on the frozen prairies was a cray achievement, surviving in the NWT is mind-boggling. But they just had to move on. No one ever said that being a luddite was man's highest calling. It's unfortunate that religion was involved in the way that it was, but FYI, from the early 1600s to the early 1900s religious schools were basically the only schools in the country. Go learn something dialamah. I'm not your tutor. Your blatant ignorance is only matched by your hideous racism.

No one will accept your sympathies as being sincere when they come hand-in-hand with your ignorant and idiotic assignment of evil intent. Bad things happened in res schools because when people are put in positions of absolute power, like they were in Res Schools, bad things are GOING to happen, always. (1) Not every residential school was run by rapists fwiw, but the impression given is that they all were (2) google "Stanford Prison Experiment" for a brief education on how bad things can go, and how quickly, when people are completely unsupervised in a position of power. Dialamah, if we were having this debate in 1955 would you honestly be arguing in favour of children growing up in igloos and teepees/longhouses, with no understanding of the english language? If you went to visit some first nations people living in the NWT on Jan 12th 1955 and saw how little children were living would that not melt your heart? Wouldn't you want to tell that child "there's a better life for you, with clean clothes and the possibility of being more than just a hunter/gatherer"? I bet you talk about 'the empowerment of women' a lot, and yet you're trying to act as though you'd let little girls be forced by their parents to live in the stone age in the NWT in 2020.... Come on dialamah, you just want to preach, you don't want to make sense. If you really gave a shit about first nations people you'd want to be involved in a healing process, not in a blaming process, and not in a contest to score political points for.... basically no one? Whose side do you think you are helping by casting a fake shadow on the people who set up the residential schools anyways? Are you just helping the people who are racist against whites? Honestly if that's not the case I don't even have a good guess at what side you're on. Obviously you're not just engaging in this debate out of a sense of altruism or you'd have a better understanding of why Res Schools were started, and you'd be focused more on healing than hate-mongering.

You have a childish way of looking at things Marcus: "White people did this to the first nations and it was obviously because they're evil!!!!" Go try living in Alberta from Oct 1 to March 31 in a home with no insulation or central heating and then revisit this topic. I've used an outhouse in the prairie winter many times and I can tell you that you don't read magazines or scroll through FB there. Raise some kids in Canada, with no knowledge of the english language, and obviously no reading and writing skills, and tell them that they have no option to be a part of the modern economy, they'll be hunter gatherers for all their future generations - it's their only option. Would that be fair to your kids Marcus? Shouldn't they get the chance to be accountants, cab drivers, doctors, firemen, plumbers, etc, if they so choose? FYI native children weren't 'targeted' at all. What you think of as 'woke' terminology is actually just 'racist'. Residential schools were not devised as a form of torture. It was supposed to be for their own good. Do you know what the wealthiest people in Britain do? They put their kids in boarding schools, where a large percentage of them gain admission to Ox-'bridge. They don't put them there to be abused, or because they don't love them, they do it because it's what's best for them. Side note: it's also extremely expensive. I'll admit that residential schools were rife with serious problems, but they weren't built on bad intentions, they were just hounded by the failings of individual humans who were put into a position of having too much power over children. That's not a 'white' thing, it's all over the planet.

Seems to me the biggest trauma was the Holocaust. Yet the Jews who survived it and came to Canada and the US thrived and prospered. No one made any special allowances for them, and nobody gave them preferential treatment in hiring or promotion or anything else. Are you saying natives are inferior to Jews?

Your statistics are meaningless. Most Black people are immigrants. That Black girl is born to an immigrant family. The problems with the indigenous people are because the Left insists on keeping them out in the bush like dime store indians, where there are no jobs. So they can 'preserve their culture'.

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.

1) Wrong. 2) First nations girls start off with actual, quantifiable monetary advantages over everyone else. 3) Children born with two married parents start off with a head start. That's an actual fact that far outweighs any other factor by a huge margin. 4) There are cultural differences which give people of certain cultures advantages over others. For example indo-Canadians are often comfortable living with large extended families. There are literally no white or black adults who live in the same house with multiple other adults from their extended family when they have a choice. I've been on this earth 52 years now and I have never seen it. That's almost normal for indo-Canadians. Sharing expenses like that is a huge advantage over other cultures where it's not even uncommon for a single mom to live on their own. There are several cultures in this country in which a large percentage of the parents consider a 'passing grade' for their children in school to be over 95%. Not even 5% of "white Canadian families" hold their children to that standard. There are actual reasons why black women or first nations women start off at a disadvantage compared to girls of other cultures, but the notion that 'police/white people are against them' is the cause is just pure, racist bullshit. The African American Family, from Wiki: This 'headstart' that you're talking about isn't the fault of white people Marcus. It's completely racist of you to blame the disadvantages of black girls on some imaginary thing that white people are doing to them. That's completely false.

I never said that the media weren't covering this story anywhere, or that they wouldn't carry a story like this. This is the exact kind of Trudeau story that will get more coverage than it deserves, because it portrays him as the wokest of wokes. An example of something that CBC or CTV will never say is that "before Trudeau went to work for SNC, SNC was caught bribing another Liberal politician with $2.3M for help winning a bridge contract." CBC covered the SNC bribery story back when it happened, so they're keenly aware of it, but now that Trudeau is also implicated in an SNC scandal mum's the word. In other words, CBC is covering Trudeau's six. There are stories that the CBC will never touch and by watching their 'news' coverage you're condoning and accepting their corruption.

Lol, I don't ONLY look at FB memes, but I don't watch CBC or CTV at all. I skim through Global only to see what they're taking about in my community because I have to find out what they're talking about. Not to be rude, but it's actually this debate. I think that there are lots of people that could use government help, but I also think that there was a point in time when they could have helped themselves but didn't. The whole Liberal/Democratic shtick of 'black people need to be babied' isn't true. Black people are no weaker than any other group of people. Instead of focusing on the bogeyman, they need to do what the asians and the white people do, and that's put the time and money into their children so that they have a real chance at a good life. Make sure that they get good grades, and that they are polite, hard-working, and that's it. It's just that easy. Failing that, it's a roll of the dice. It's not a question of 'who will pony up the dough for the kids that I was to lazy or too stupid to raise properly. That's $93M too much, and it's literally just pandering. The problems that black people here think they face are the same problems that grade 8 kids think that they face: COPS ARE BAD! It's grown up time.

That's a bunch of bullshit. No one is underserved. Some people get far more out of the system than they put in, some get approximately equal, some get far less out of the system than they put in. But everyone gets the basic services and that's all that's guaranteed. People who want more need to earn it, and everyone has a chance to earn it. People with good attitudes and a strong work ethic can always make a good living here. Dr Lewis is a perfect example of that. She's very visibly black (not someone who has to show you pictures of their paternal grandmother to prove that they're 'black'), she's a child of immigrant parents, and she is one of the most highly-educated and well-respected people in the country. In fact she almost won the leadership of the federal Conservative party. If she can accomplish all that as a woman, and a 'black' person, there's no excuse for anyone else who can't at the very least just graduate high school and get a decent job. It all comes down to the individual kid and their parents. The kids who don't have a chance are the ones who allow themselves to be convinced at a young age that "because they look like Trayvon Martin, some white-supremacist Mexican almost-cop is gonna gun them down for fun". By acting like black people need more help from the system than everyone else you're just re-enforcing the bullshit narrative that the world is against them. Only the Libs and Dems are against them.

If people are having a problem getting a loan for whatever it's more likely that they don't qualify for various other reasons, other than discrimination. Not everything is discrimination, it's just doing business. My kids wouldn't get a loan, I'd guarantee that, even though they are working. Should a financial institution be forced to loan money to anyone who asks?

The insults directed at Tam come from her poor performance on the job. Had she ensured our PPE stock was kept up, had she warned about this disease, advised ways to combat it, then I doubt anyone would be insulting her or demanding she be fired. But she did the opposite, failing in almost every way. Singh has spent much of his life obsessing over politics in India, working for Punjabi independence as a Sikh state, and representing Sikhs who have been accused of violence there. Accusing him of having duel loyalties, especially given his hesitation to offer up much if any condemnation of Sikh terrorists, is merited. But of course both he and Sajjan, who is an idiot who should have resigned when he got caught lying about his wartime experiences to Indian government officials, also suffer under their cultural need to wear turbans, which is a very visible sign of religious devotion not native to Canada, which has become almost entirely secular. Those who wear visible signs of their religion make many secular Canadians uncomfortable. Born from experience. And I know of many outfits run by ethnic people who only hire their own kind. My last car dealership was one of those. Toronto and Vancouver especially are filled with such businesses. The Australians did a huge study on their immigration system a few years back, and one of the things they realized was that the success of immigrants was deeply impacted by the level of English they possessed. After this they focused their priority for immigrants on source countries which speak English. Canada's immigration department did a small scale study which came to roughly the same conclusions, and which said immigrants from the middle east and north africa perform especially poorly. But since Muslims vote Liberal the government decided to increase their numbers. No, it's acknowledging reality given two thirds of racial minorities are immigrants. There's no evidence the 'playing field' isn't level. None. That will never happen. People always prefer to be around their own kind, everywhere in the world.

If people are judged on merit then you don't need to hire on colour. And as I pointed out, there virtually were no racial minorities in Canada prior to the liberalization in the late 1970s. Those people who came in often had and have poor English skills and often had education and job skills which don't apply here. The Americans engage in this sort of racial hiring as a means of making up for historical racism. But that didn't exist here, except for natives, and as the article points out, the percentage of natives in high positions is the same as in society at large. What is the point in hiring someone for a job based on race? Just because no one of that particular race or ethnicity has held the job before? That seems ridiculous.

Not at all, I was agreeing with you, then expressing my opinion on why it isn't that way at all. Why did you take what I said so personally? But I've fixed it to reduce confusion.

I agree.

Targeted = rude things being said in 95% of the cases. Compared to what? No one really saw this as anything but the act of a lunatic, one who called the police on HIMSELF and surrendered after getting away! Of course it did! Most of Canada's mainstream news have almost no reporters to speak of any more. That's especially so for TV networks. They prefer to get cheap news feeds from American networks. You might recall I've complained about this before. So they had cheap American video aplenty, and live pictures of the event in broad daylight as well as interviews with survivors. Plus the ongoing search for and shootout with the terrorists!What did they have in Quebec? After the fact video of flashing police lights, and survivors who mostly spoke no English. And no drama because the guilty party was already in custody. What the news covers is mostly based on what kind of video is available, not how important the event is.

People already care. Canadians are appalled at violence against anyone, regardless of whether they're a member of a 'targeted' group. If they're like me, they want a severe crackdown on violent people, and not the molly-coddling we see from the courts now.

Further to the above, and as a demonstration of the fury which is used to attack those who do not support the narative of transgender choice in all things. On the day of its publication, pressure from activists prompted Brown University to remove a press release about the study, despite support for Dr. Littman from the academic community, including the former Dean of Harvard Medical school. Since that date, any mention of ROGD or calls for further study on the matter have been systematically attacked by activists. Within one hour of airing my post, Psychology Today editors had already received complaints from activist groups. Soon thereafter, a wave of posts, tweets, and petitions seeking to defame my article and my character were spreading on the internet. My attempt to call for compassion for all sides of this debate in a further Psychology Today piece earned widespread support from parents and clinicians, but only made matters worse with activists. As my inbox was flooding with hate mail, blog posts that grossly misquoted my work were now painting me as a transphobe and misogynist. One commenter in Psychology Today suggested I should “go to prison” for “harming so many children,” while countless others accused Dr. Littman and me of promoting ideologically-driven pseudoscience. Yet, the sources cited by activists to discredit studies of ROGD invariably take one back to a self-referential loop of other blog posts and opinion pieces by activists. It is a strange world indeed when unscientific ideologues accuse scientists of being pseudoscientific ideologues.

Don't project your fantasies onto me Argus. Hannity, maybe.