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Exactly, which is one of the main reasons he lost in Bush v. Gore. The court held that just three recounts in Democrat counties amounted to a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Al Gore wanted to violate the constitution just so he could win. Trump haters can't/won't admit that.

Because I want to be the "Ugly American" that you love to hate, and have a jolly good time doing it. I want to present glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one means, to be used as evidence against you.

Interesting thought. Just as Lebanon was a nation utterly divided, so too is the US becoming. It's people are separating into different groups, moving away from each other both physically and emotionally. Half or almost half of younger Republicans and Democrats say they wouldn't even be willing to date someone from the other side. Lebanonization is a term used to describe a country when politics, tribalism, national divisions, ethnic and sectarian tensions, ideological and cultural wars, and foreign meddling become so unmanageable they leave a country ungovernable. Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times brilliantly put it this way.”The United States is becoming like Lebanon and other Middle East countries in two respects. First, our political differences are becoming so deep that our two parties now resemble religious sects in a zero-sum contest for power. They call theirs ‘Shiites and Sunnis and Maronites’ or ‘Israelis and Palestinians.’ We call ours ‘Democrats and Republicans,’ but ours now behave just like rival tribes who believe they must rule or die. Second, as in the Middle East, so increasingly in America: Everything is now politics – even the climate, even energy, even face masks in a pandemic.” https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/nasrallah-the-lebanonization-of-america-is-well-underway

Ferguson...for example.

Don't count on it...they did it when Obama was president too, but the media (and Canada) loved him too much to bitch about it.

I believe it is true that the leftists and "progressives" have already exhibited more violent protests, rioting, and looting. I know I am not wrong about that. Did they do it because Trump told them too ?

That's not true....Biden has already indirectly encouraged protests, rioting, and looting by not backing law enforcement after flip-flopping on "crime". Trump supporters can invoke the same disruptive and violent methods if they choose to do so.

The risk of violence (oh my) and rioting is much higher from the leftists if Trump wins again. They are not prepared to take another beat down at the polls and EC, so they have to beat down others and destroy property.

Prog nonsense ^^^ The truth will become obvious soon. They'll still deny it but those open to recognition of blatant reality will know. Eventually those lies will fade but they'll just invent new ones.

And Al Gore only wanted a recount with a new standard in the 3 most populous Democrat counties in Florida. He didn’t care at all if similar votes in republican countries were counted. As usual Bogies’ American political history begins in 2016.

Why are you on this forum then? Because going on a forum in a Muslim country would risk getting you arrested?

It is! So you should LEAVE! Go live in one of those Muslim shitholes around the world. There are certainly enough of of them. Over fifty Muslim majority states and every one a shithole of ignorance, poverty, backwardness and violence. Even the ones which have money - due to oil found by westerners, developed by westerners, and produced by westerners, are still brutal tyranical shitholes. Because that seems all your cult seems capable of creating.

Oh yeah, it's all the Jews' fault, right? This is the same clown who wants to kill atheists. The same clown who said wishing someone merry Christmas was worse than murder. Why do we let vermin like this stay in our country? “If a person were to commit every major sin — committing adultery, dealing with interest, lying, murder … If a person were to do all of those major sins, they are nothing compared to the sin of congratulating and greeting the non-Muslims on their false festivals,” the man says. Clearly he's YOUR kind of Muslim. https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/video-calling-christmas-a-false-festival-viewed-globally-1.23578412 https://www.bnaibrith.ca/b_c_imam_calls_for_elimination_of_atheists_victory_for_jihad

What? Who said this is what I do? You get angry when I correct you and then you go and make shit up. You are so toxic. Almost all of our employees are Canadian citizens. The two foreign workers that work for our company are making more than $20k over the median salary in Canada. Are they making more than you? Does it matter? No. You can't do what they do. If you can, send over your resume. We're desperate to find skilled tech workers! Are you not reading what is being shared here? Because of free market and the demand for skilled workers, the salaries ARE going up in Canada. Why are so resistant to reality? You are toxic. Your toxic mind is spewing anger and incoherent ramblings. A recent graduate in engineering or tech in Canada, at one point, went down south, because there were many jobs in Silicon Valley that paid over $100K. Same thing with Indian graduates in tech. They went to the U.S., because of better opportunities. More recently, especially in the past few years, there are fewer people doing that. Why? Because Canada has become more desirable. Part of it is due to the increase in number of jobs, which has resulted in an increase in salary. But there are other factors as well. Who said Canadians are not being employed? Why do you make shit up? It's not going to happen, due to supply and demand. Why are you so against the free market? Are you asking for regulations on who companies can hire? Do you want Canada to implement a no brown people policy, because Argus doesn't like non-white people? You don't seem to get it. Canada and the U.S. do not have enough workers to fill jobs in the technology sector, so they have to look outside of the country for these skilled workers. Why is this so difficult for you to grasp? Are you reading this? Is your hate for brown people and your toxic mindset preventing you from understanding reality? What are you talking about? The difference between the salaries for a software engineer, between U.S. and Canada is $140,000 vs $100,000. Brown people will continue to move to Canada, and they will continue to improve Canada, and there is nothing you can do to stop that.

So this is the kind of guy who gets to come live in Canada when you don't do any screening.

Touché.

You realize that this actually discredits your argument that he's senile, right? Because this is from years ago and he's always acted like this.

You seem to be against how the free market works. Supply and demand. You also seem to be clueless as to what is happening in the tech industry in Canada and around the world. Life doesn't stand still. Your idea of how things work are outdated and misinformed. There was a time when we didn't have a diverse market. We had the subsidized manufacturing industry in Ontario and Quebec and the subsidized energy industry in Alberta and BC. Time brings change and transition. The appetite to run a tech company in Canada is no longer scary. Our corporate taxes are actually very inviting. This is why we are seeing so many successful Canadian tech companies starting in Canada and not moving to Silicon Valley. We're also seeing American companies moving up to Canada, because of the highly educated workforce and a better immigration system, where it's easier for skilled workers to move here. We also have a change in the mindset of skilled workers around the world. The higher salaries in the U.S. are no longer enough to attract talent. The millenials and GenZ care a lot more about quality of life. All of this is a recipe for Canada's booming tech industry. With more employers and jobs in Canada, there will be more competition for workers. Much more than before. The competition for workers will drive the salaries higher. I don't understand what you want here. Do you want to regulate Canadian companies in what they are paying employees? Do you want Canadian employers to set up shop outside of Canada, because Bobby Smith doesn't like brown tech workers entering Canada? Stop with the "Leftist", "Rightist" comments. I refuse to play your childish games. I refuse to be pigeon-holed. Just because you're anti-immigration, does that mean that you're pro Trump? No. Just because I'm pro responsible immigration, it doesn't mean that I support the NDP. As an insider, I am teaching you about the industries and immigration and instead of being grateful, you're being rude about it. Here is more information about the tech industry and the value of skilled workers, Canada's fight for them and how things work. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-canada-expansion-analysis-1.5455122 https://www.randstad.ca/employers/workplace-insights/job-market-in-canada/canadas-tech-industry-is-growing-up-where-were-headed-next/ https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799402801/canada-wins-u-s-loses-in-global-fight-for-high-tech-workers https://www.mentorworks.ca/blog/market-trends/canadian-technology-industry/

That's only necessary if you're sponsoring to bring people over. Not applicable for those who are already here. These companies are not just ripping off foreigners, they're ripping off everybody else too. Report yourself.

I do not see many threads with thousands of posts about China, Chinese politics, or culture in this Canadian forum. Canadians worry about a lot of things that they have no control over. No, Canada is far more dependent on the U.S. economy than China's....for a very long time. Donald Trump is seen as an "existential threat" to Canada because of his trade and foreign policy, far more than China, which only exported $45 billion to Canada in 2019. I am just one American enjoying the Canadian circus, but millions of Canadians watch ours. America will elect a president tomorrow, and Canadian media will be all over it...again. That's what Canada does....the least I can do is return the "favour".

Joe Biden wasn't the sensible choice two times in the past, and he cannot escape from a much longer record in the "swamp" than Trump's brief stint as a politician. That the race is even close in swing states speaks volumes about Joe Biden.

Shhhh...I wanted to see how strong the Force is with this one.

First of all, governors command the state level guard, not Trump. And it takes a while to mobilize them. Pragmatically, a certain number of ballots are spoiled, lost, undercounted, overcounted, and otherwise disenfranchised by normal circumstances, so just add violent rednecks to the mix. Most guardsmen would respond to the call and react/behave depending on how the threat presents itself. More violence has been associated with leftists and anarchists to date. There will also be far fewer people at the polls this time because of absentee/mailed ballots. It was members of the New Black Panther party in 2008 backing Democrats that made the news:

My slave ancestors worked tobacco in Virginia, not cotton.

How many did your family own?

That's right....you are beginning to figure this game out....but taking much longer than others. American content....American forum engine....American hosting.....Americans. Ignore America and I go away forever....but you (Canada)...can't.

My socks stem from the cotton (Allotetraploid) genome...millions of years old.

But you have the right to neither. I have socks that are older than Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Some Canadians spend a lot of time worrying about the rights of Americans, from abortions to guns. They say it's because it "affects us".....then vassal state.

Canada has neither....can't handle either.

But they do...begging for mention in American media. Trump gave Canada lots of attention....so Canada flipped out. It is more comical that your foreign minister (at the time) would beg Trump and the Americans to continue paying the most in blood and treasure to protect the "post WW2 order" while Canada is one of the worst NATO deadbeats. Sure...Canada has paid the bills with lopsided dependence on the U.S. export market, capital investment, corporate ownership, and defence. Even now, Canada has one of the highest unemployment rates in the G7.

Unlawful protests, looting, and rioting will get a lot more than just tear gas....long before Trump. Same goes for G20 meetings in Toronto, Ontario. More than 1,000 arrested ! Morally superior.....LOL !!

Being "morally superior" does not pay the bills or "protect the post WW2 order", so that is why Canada's government(s) and economy are so dependent and worried about the U.S., with or without Trump. Canadian media is already tied up in knots trying to figure out this election and "what it means for Canada". Most Americans don't give a damn about your elections.

You said it was about the money...so...wrong ! But I am not the one crying croc tears...that's Canada's schtick. Canadian exports are involved in numerous conflicts around the world...just good business !

See Jean Chretien and the canceled rotary wing aircraft contract that cost Canada $500 million. No...it is far worse when your government pretends to cry tears over "human rights" and peace but continues to export the war machines anyway.

Doesn't matter....Canada's government stands by the deal to export billions worth of offensive weapons systems to the Saudis, and voters want the jobs in Ontario.

True....a President Biden would face the same policy backlash as President Trump...defiance...resistance....and hostile criticism from nearly half of the population. Plus Biden needs the Senate and courts to get anything done. Biden is a centrist and political animal first and foremost, so his campaign rhetoric would be tempered by political and economic reality. Obama continued many of the Bush era policies, including tax cuts, TARP, and doubled down on foreign policy with military force. I don't expect the "progressive" agenda to win the day if Biden becomes prez.

Martial law doesn't really go well with democracy in my opinion. And clearly Trump supporters aren't the one's that have a problem accepting democracy. The 2016 election was won fairly by the Republican side but to this day it's the Democrats that refuse to accept the results. They are planning to go much further and will likely rig the system to favor their side in future elections. I don't know how Joe Biden personally feels about instituting martial law ,that question should be asked to his puppet masters. Scroll it up on the teleprompter!

I'm curious about your opinion of the sizable BLM/ANTIFA riots . Large gatherings of people where the only purpose is to destroy things and cause havoc. Most on the political left are perfectly fine with these riots caused by anarchists in close proximity. Why are the Burn Loot Murder riots just fine but peaceful political rallies inherently dangerous?

I logged in with Chrome, got a chance to read it. I still stand by what I said at the beginning, it's a good idea for an article. Sadly though, it's filled with the typical leftist tripe that you'd find on Globe & Mail. It boils down to "I love Trump 'cause I'm afraid of black people" vs "I love Biden because I hate lying" lol. Ok ijjits, "Biden is the first member of his family in 1,000 generations to go to college, and he finished at the top of his class there" lol. Plus he didn't have any idea that his only son was working for a company in Ukraine. Biden's lying is legendary. His rapidly-declining mental health is visible from space. The actual election issues are "Trump was elected on a long set of promises which he fulfilled to the best of his ability and his ME foreign policy was extremely successful" versus "we still believe that Russian collusion was 100% legit even though no actual evidence has ever been found and we don't believe that Biden's blatantly-shady dealings are actually anything worth investigating".

No, not at all. Calling the 2020 protests "mostly peaceful" isn't slanting. It's a lie. Almost 20 people were killed. Most protests were peaceful til 10 pm, but then most of them were violent riots. Where the riots weren't violent is where there was a sufficient police presence to deter it - IE in Republican controlled cities. There was also a lot of violence related to BLM outside of the protest areas. Protests were actually "widespread with an atrocious level of violence, destruction and theft". The policy of letting rioters out of jail to contribute to the rioting the next night was also a complete disaster which the MSM intentionally ignored. That's not a slant, that's the MSM contributing to the destruction of lives and property and it's lying by ommission. Allowing people to say things like "police are committing genocide against blacks" isn't slanted. It's a destructive and dangerous lie. The hyperbole around Russian collusion wasn't just slanted, it was a lie. All tolled probably 10,000 lies. No one has ever been convicted of a crime that has anything to do with "colluding with Russians to affect the outcome of the election" but the claim is often made that they were. Millions of people are still quite confused, that's because of thoroughly dishonest reporting. An example of that is people saying that Manafort is in jail for collusion. He is actually in jail solely because off tax fraud from the mid '90s. There's literally a 0.00% chance that his conviction for tax fraud has anything to do with Russian collusion in 2016. Calling Michael Brown a "Gentle Giant" for 6 months during rioting wasn't a slant. It was a lie. He was violent towards two different people who didn't physically provoke him, in the last few minutes before he was killed. The MSM has told several atrocious lies about Trump over the last 4 years such as: "Trump referred to immigrants as animals". That's not slanted. It's a lie. Saying "Trump put kids in cages" and showing pictures of kids that Obama put in cages wasn't a slant, it was a lie. To this day we still haven't even seen if kids still get put in those types of cages. There are liars, damned liars, and CNN. If you watch that station you will miss a lot of relevant news and see mostly lies.

The real reason America is so divided is because of the grinding policies of the corporatist/wealthy elite establishment that has ruled America under both Democrats and Republicans for the past 40 years starting with “Reaganomics”. For decades, left and labour groups correctly predicted that massive inequality, social instability and deep cultural divisions and would result from the establishment’s incessant attacks on the social safety net, minimum wage, unions, worker protections, consumer protections, pollution laws and countless other forms of pandering to corporations and the uber-wealthy at the expense of the working class. America was not unique in terms of these reforms which were also introduced in the UK and are more broadly referred to as “Reagan-Thatcher” economics or their counterintuitive academic name “neoliberal” economics They have since formed the basic economic principle for all advanced western countries including Canada and have done considerable damage to the working and middle classes everywhere. But the harshest outcomes have always been in the US for a variety of reasons. Let’s not forget it was the supposedly liberal media that handes Trump thw election in 2016: The supposedly liberal media breathlessly covered the “Hillary’s emails” non-scandal around the clock, including when the supposedly pro-Hillary Director of the FBI (who is actually Republican) announced just days before the election that he was reopening the investigation into Hillary (and ultimately still found nothing) The supposedly biased media also provided extensive coverage of the REAL Democratic scandal, which was the party’s internal maneuvering to isolate Bernie Sanders and the progressive wing of the Dem party. As a result many progressives and undecideds chose to stay home on election day rather than vote for Hillary, the Status-Quo Establishment’s Cardboard Candidate Clinton who has the genuine personality of a parking meter. As a result Trump one by the smallest of margins in a few key districts of a few key states states and took the electoral college despite being despised by most Americans and his popularity has never improved significantly. Biden-Harris are also establishment status-quo candidates who will uphold the Reagan-Thatcher consensus. That’s the only choice Americans get: far-right (GOP) or Centrist/center-right (Dem). The true left/progressives like AOC or Sanders are just there for appearances. But Trump is so widely despised I suspect many who stayed home last time will hold their nose and vote for a return to the lawful evil of the Reagan-Thatcher status quo establishment under Biden, rather than continue with the chaotic evil of the utterly amoral, unqualified, incompetent and emotionally unstable Trump.

If T Friedman was so brilliant then he'd recognize that the actual problem at the heart of this is complete dishonesty in the mass media. They're nt just dishonest, it's to the point where they are liars and fabricators. CNN has been caught lying so many times in the last 6 years that it's utterly pathetic that they're still allowed to have the middle N in their name. You can talk about Fox's partisan bias, and I agree that it's there 100% and it shouldn't be, but they aren't outright liars like CNN. Fox at least covered the Russian collusion fiasco, they showed all of Schiff's comments and weighed the merits of their talking points, CNN and NBC won't even say the name "Bobolinski" and they barely mentioned the names of high-ranking FBI officials who were either fired or criminally charged for their misconduct in the Russian Witch Hunt. That's extreme, communist-style journalism.

"A few blocks...." where there was billions in damages, nearly 20people were killed, etc. Hmmmmm...... And that's not a huge deal? Like, massive?

The same cultural and identity conflicts afflicting the US are afflicting Canada and much of the rest of the Western world. There's a strange, deep sense of weariness, and a shrill insistence that the western world is uniquely guilty of terrible crimes and beliefs and must be drastically altered.

I was watching a discussion between Douglas Murray and Dennis Prager. I think Murray made a really relevant point when he talked about the failure of education. Most people, especially younger people, have almost no knowledge of history. They've barely heard of the Holocaust, know little or nothing about Communist abuses and murders, and nothing going beyond that. They have almost no understanding that the West has been living in the world's golden age for the last fifty or sixty years, a time unparalleled in human history. They have never experienced fear or want or violent societal upheaval and can't imagine doing so. They seem to think this is the normal way the world works, a blank canvas to which you can add other things. Yet the history of humanity is one of brutality, starvation, mass death from epidemics and poverty. If you looked at all of humanity through all the ages of history probably 99.999% lived out their short lives in utter poverty by our present standards. They had no human rights, to speak of, and no real way of improving their (short) lives. People don't seem aware of that, don't seem aware of how fragile the civilization in which they live is and how easily it can be shattered. They also don't seem to be aware of how lucky they are to be living in the West, how few places on Earth share the freedom they take for granted. And we're not just talking about ignorant young rabble here. The universities are absolutely teeming with left wingers who sneer at and look down on western civilization. They denounce it for its minor flaws and demand massive, poorly thought-out changes based on an absurd affection for socialism, Marxism and some collectivist utopia which is always just beyond the horizon. And they utterly ignore that everyone who ever reached for it sent their society into a downward spiral which led to massive death, poverty and misery.

I think the problem is exaggerated by the media. Riots were contained to a few city blocks. Everyone knows that democrat-backed mayors purposely stood in the way of law enforcement in order to exacerbate the situation as much as possible. The left-controlled deep state media then made damn sure that every black person who had a confrontation with police made headlines. Given the high ratio of crime committed by blacks in depressed areas, all they had to do was wait a few days. Easy pickins. But, is it really a nationwide problem? Or does the TV go out of its way to make it look like that. Most people are pretty normal. Not if they're a straight male, I'll wager.

One party wants to burn down "faith in liberal ideas", while another party wants to just burn things down. If that is what you people call progress then yeah, I want to burn down those ideas.

America is a write-off no matter who wins the next election. Time to circle the wagons and figure out how to save Canada as USA gradually devolves into a failed state filled with massive amounts of military hardware and nuclear weapons.

Texas and Iowa are in play too. Trump loses Texas or Florida he's pretty much done.