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My beef is that I don't think that 'least worst option' is anywhere near acceptable to most working Americans during these times....which were already getting bad in the US before Covid-19 struck! They were already heading into a recession....so they would have taken us with them, but along came a global pandemic to distract everyone from money and economics for a little while, but after a year of this with no end in sight, nobody here or in the US is willing to accept the usual bullshit claptrap from politicians! As for Bernie....he started as a radical, who tried in the 70's to start a real leftwing party .... but then gave up! His "independent socialist" label has been a fraud for decades because it's been predicated on the unspoken contract he has with the Democratic Party: he refrains from criticizing the Party, while they refrain from selecting primary opponents to run against him for his senate seat. Every so often he proposes leftwing legislation....which almost immediately get shot down or watered down so much that it's unrecognizable. I even think there was collusion with his 2016 presidential run! The Dems' experts informed them that preselected candidate - Hillary, had huge...almost Trump level negative ratings and just did not appeal to most typical voters. The Dems often want a pseudo-left progressive to run on the left of the main candidate to prevent left third parties from rising up and taking away votes....and that was Bernie's job in 2016. BUT, he became too popular, because Clinton was so goddawful horrible and had no real reasons for running for president...other than feeling "it's my turn." By convention time, Bernie endorsed the hag who stole the nomination from him (revealing this is why Wikileaks and Assange became the targets of liberal persecution), and still keeps his mouth shut, even though the Bitch rags on about him ruining her chance to sit in the Oval Office in that slimy documentary they did for her a year ago. And oh yeah, AOC! I don't know what to make of her now, but when she burst on to the scene in New York, she was a definite outsider who knocked off one of the Party oligarchs, and the rest of the kleptocracy will never forgive her for that, so I don't know why she is even bothering. They have tried and will continue to try to take away her seat in every congressional election and refuse to give her any committee appointments....which her fans have told us is why she supported Octogenarian Nancy...so, someone else will have to figure it out!

This is a recurring theme...Canada has experienced the same lesson again and again but is not likely to get wiser with the present government and like minded coalition parties. It is difficult to even get full transparency in the policy process and decision making, and the opposition's only recourse is to make a stink in the press/media. Trudeau had been naive (and weak) for a long time before COVID, but he remains as a wounded placeholder PM because the CPC opposition has not mounted a viable federal alternative. Trudeau has been able to limp along no matter what, and it remains to be seen if the spending spree debt and limits on Charter Rights will be enough to topple his minority government. Not even another AdScam would work today (see "WE scandal").

Trudeau benefited from the huge Canadian backlash against Trump, repeatedly getting passes for multiple transgressions, and doubling down on the virtue signaling, even as the economy faltered. Trump taught the Canadian government a valuable lesson that may or may not translate into more independent policy and actions. The problem now is that they can no longer point at Trump for their troubles and moral superiority, and the new American president kicked Canada in the teeth on his first day in office. In engineering, we use environmental stress testing to improve designs, parts, and manufacturing processes...governments are being challenged now with severe social, economic, and political stressors that should (but doesn't always) separate the contenders from the pretenders. Equality of opportunity does not means equality of outcomes, but it can translate into campaign rhetoric and votes. "Canada First" is too much hardcore American style, but the right leader could succeed with a tempered Canadian version to push back against the U.S., China, Russia, and EU policies. The word "allies" only applies in specific, narrow contexts...it is not a excuse or substitute for competition and national interests.

As I said he’s the least worst option in a system that can only produce bad options. Bernie and the true left will never be viable contenders for the throne. The only viable candidates for most important offices are corporate puppets in the corrupt US political system. Characters like Bernie and AOC are just for show but don’t ever stand a chance

Seems like something to consider all right. One also might consider something like this one from last year: Big Pharma Backs Joe Biden, But People Don't Think He'll Fix Drug Pricing

two more Proud boys going to jail. MTA worker, second NY man with bomb-making files identified as Proud Boys, face new Capitol conspiracy charges two more Trump supporters... wining. not.

All true. Trudeau's government is built on woke rhetoric and identity politics that's inauthentic upon close scrutiny because Trudeau couldn't contend with the forces his government unleashed. We saw this when train supply lines ground to a halt and natural gas pipeline construction stopped due to radical left protests before the pandemic. Harper knew that inquiries would trudge up the same findings as police investigations, but more importantly, they would be hijacked by a slew of dubious causes from Marxism to the dismantling of Canada itself. There is only so much time and energy available to governments to draft policy. Rather than creating opportunities for Indigenous by facilitating resource development and building the health, transportation, food, and military infrastructure that would increase the wealth, health, and security of all Canadians, we have divisive race and gender-based policies that make employee relations and relationships in general about race over other considerations such as poverty. It's a retrograde return to segregation and social tension at a time when very real socio-economic class tensions must be addressed to ensure that the privileged don't have greater health protections in a pandemic. Race comes into the equation only inasmuch as it negatively impacts economic opportunity, yet we know that privilege exists across all racial/ethnic groups. As always, it's about opportunity. The leaders of BLM understand this, but they are Marxists. The important question government should be asking is what mixture of government intervention and free market capitalism creates the most economic opportunity for the most people across all racial/ethnic/economic groups and genders? Niche policies that create winners and losers are divisive. Trudeau stokes those fires. Trudeau has also used climate change action rhetoric to justify choking off economic opportunity in a marketplace where the resource and manufacturing sectors were already struggling and energy was already becoming unaffordable. Only sell as much of the farm as you need to. Trudeau hasn't figured that out and the debts with which future generations of Canadians will be saddled are mounting at a staggering rate.

Oh if only the tender-hearted Republicans were in charge, that sort of thing would never happen! A Texas appeals court on Thursday upheld a five-year prison sentence for a woman who was convicted of illegally voting even though she didn’t know she was ineligible when she went to the polls in 2016. The punishment for the Fort Worth woman, Crystal Mason, stirred national outrage because of its severity, prompting accusations that prosecutors were trying to intimidate Texans from voting. Four years ago, Mason was on supervised release, similar to probation, for a federal felony conviction related to tax fraud. She didn’t know that Texas prohibits felons from voting until they finish their sentence entirely. Mason voted in the last presidential election at the urging of her mother and cast a provisional ballot when poll workers couldn’t find her name on the voter registration rolls. The ballot was never counted because Mason was not an eligible voter. So a woman who mistakenly tries to vote gets five years. And you think this guy who deliberately committed voter fraud involving hundreds of people should get what? A slap on the wrist?

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This is not very credible... lacking supporting data...from the link:

Yup. I find it strange that when Canada was a much smaller country, its leaders were more intent on ensuring relative independence in key areas. We should be building Energy East at least as far as refineries in Ontario and diversifying our trade, especially as the border hardens, China reneged on her vaccine partnership, Trump tried to hoard PPE (after imposing steel and aluminum tariffs), and Keystone XL is again on the chopping block under the Dems. The Meng affair again exposed Canada's vulnerability as expendable collateral damage in trade/military competitions between superpowers. Canada must have complete energy, food, military, and health capacity for her population in order to truly chart her own course, or else Canada will always be choosing between bedfellows who won't hesitate to push her out of the bed in times of crisis. We're approaching the economy of scale of a 1950's Britain or France. Relying on progressive rhetoric and the kindness of others doesn't cut it. We've done better in the past. Trudeau is naive.

You might have Coronavirus? You must stay in our "Government Hotel".

You were duped by the infotainment system for the past 4 years, and only now is the realization dawning in your mind. Therefore no need for me to invoke any gotchas. You people got yourselves quite nicely, sans my assistance. You have defeated yourselves.

I never watch such filgercarb so wouldn't know. He's a Candian.

Canada's government chose to partner with China for a vaccine at first (CanSino), only to lose that bet and get in late on contracts from other sources. Canadians in country were not even part of large scale Phase 3 vaccine testing until recently.

The US has more than twice the death rate of Canada. However, the US is vaccinating at a faster rate, despite all the Canadian preorders. Trudeau was foolish not to push for and fund domestic vaccine manufacturing. Once again, relying on outside sources has made Canadians vulnerable.

Lockdowns varied by country and even within countries. There was no uniform response even in the face of rising numbers. U.S. mortality is actually lower than in some other nations based on confirmed testing cases.

"The plans that were being made were being made with the assumption that more information would be available and be revealed once they got into the White House.” its not surprising that the whole federal gov is shit show mess after the Trump administration vacated without even giving the new government the time of day is it? and again, Biden has delayed all changes to Trumps last minute regulations. and the Rs and supporting systems are obviously being fed stuff by the prior administration that the Biden admin doesn't even know about yet to try and raise shit. don't worry, they'll get it figured out. and i would expect nothing less from an administration coming in. oh yeah, i didn't like Obama either... but he ran a proper hand off to Trump. Trump is such an asshole. by the way... Biden has a 68% approval rating! hahaha! Trump never dreamed of such a number his whole term. Biden enters White House with slight rise in poll numbers

And the next governor general will be... Jessica Yaniv! Because it's 2021.

Quebec will support him because he's one of theirs. The English media adore him because they're all progressives - and it's 2021, don't you know? They will sugar coat anything he does wrong and focus on how dangerous the conservatives - excuse me, I meant to say the racist, white supremacist, trump loving conservatives are. Added to that people are intellectually lazy and pay little attention to politics. Trudeau is sending them money and they like that. The Conservatives maybe wouldn't be as 'generous' because they have this weird, whiny fixation on not spending too much money - probably because all they care about are big business and rich people. Don't even try to suggest it's the Liberals who have close associations with the Irvings and the Desmarais and Bronfrmans and others because I'm not listening! My mind is made up! And anyway, I never read newspapers. I get my news when clips and stories are shared on facebook by my friends. I think that makes me very well-informed!

As long as the base loves Trump the political whores in the Republican Party will continue to bow before him. Greene is not the only nutjob in that party, either. There is a ton of money available for anyone who wants to primary sitting Republican leaders by promising to be further right than they are and cut taxes more. The moneymen don't care how nutty these people are as long as they promise to cut their taxes. Most Republican congressional seats are completely safe, either because of gerrymandering or because they're in deep red states. What they really fear is being primaried. That's the real election. The general election is an assumed win. Witness the aforementioned nut job Greene, and her soul sister Lauren Boebert. Along with other greasy types like Tommy Tuberville or Devin Nunes.

I like how you cult members accept any unproven allegation against those you dislike as absolute, proven guilt but then laugh away dozens and dozens of similar allegations against your orange god. I guess this is the sort of mental self-deception you need to engage in to be in a cult.

Yes and you do both.....and so did that “American hero” McCarthy you admire so much

personal attacks are not necessary WCM. why not create a new thread comparing presidents then? maybe we can put a nail in this thread as it would appear there is no evidence provided that the election was somehow stolen.

more whataboutism! can you post once without bringing up past political figures and dead people? you keep assuming that people who call trump out are obama supporters. or clinton supporters. obama sucks. clinton sucks. your logic is that trump sucks but not as much as the clintons? so that means people have to accept trump even though he sucks. or even worse, worship him as a god?

why do you keep bringing up Obama!? i don't give a shit about Obama or Clinton or Bush or Ford... they're gone. TWO tweets! ONE video! we're told that thats a lot! hahahahah!

Really? This is a guy who has demonstrated virtually every character flaw known to man. Without even trying to insult him, but simply describing him, he's dumb, greedy, narcissistic, arrogant, lazy, disloyal, dishonest, vindictive, immature, and mean-spirited. Let's hear what's good about him as a person.

From Fox News Least corrupt nations worldwide produce best COVID-19 response, says anti-graft watchdog study "This year’s index showed the United States hitting a new low amid a steady decline under the presidency of Donald Trump, with a score of 67 on a scale where 0 is "highly corrupt" and 100 is "very clean." That still put the U.S. 25th on the list in a tie with Chile, but behind many other Western democracies. It dropped from scores of 69 in 2019, 71 in 2018 and 75 in 2017, and was down to the lowest level since figures for comparison have been available."