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A lot has been written about the Republican descent into madness over the past few years Spoiler alert: party members have few common ideals and are beholden to billionaires puppet masters Is the GOP still a legitimate political party? The answer should be self-evident Republicans' only unifying agenda is hate, fear and groveling to billionaires. They want to rule, but not govern … Neoliberalism was their uniting philosophy in 1980 and Reagan cemented that system into place with his presidency: It still controls most of the American political and economic system and dictates most modern Supreme Court decisions as well. But while most people don't generally recognize the word "neoliberalism," that system which includes offshoring jobs, massive tax cuts for the rich ("trickle-down"), privatization of government functions and gutting the social safety net has fallen out of favor among most voters. (See "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America.") This has left the GOP rudderless. Their persistent shout-outs to racists and homophobes — including efforts to ban books and the teaching of American history — have helped Republican politicians win primary elections, but have hurt Republicans electorally with their better-educated and higher income voters. Similarly, their embrace of Catholic anti-abortion doctrine has pushed away many formerly Republican female voters while failing to further energize or increase the numbers of the fringe that holds this issue with fanatic zeal. As a result, other than Sen. Rick Scott's proposals for ending Social Security and Medicare within five years and more calls for tax cuts, Republican politicians in state and federal office have been reduced to simply opposing everything Democrats do or want to do. …, This lack of a clear ideological foundation across the GOP has opened the door to: Predatory grifters (Mehmet Oz, Matt Gaetz, Rick Scott), Wannabe stars and fame-seekers (Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Ted Cruz) and Putin-style autocrats (Blake Masters, Doug Mastriano, Ron DeSantis). Donald Trump, filling all three categories simultaneously, predictably became the "King of the Thieves" in the GOP. ….. https://www.salon.com/2022/10/21/is-the-still-a-legitimate-political-party-the-answer-should-be-self-evident_partner/

I don't know all I know is what matters to me and for me, Vimy Ridge is religion the unknown soldier, 8E7, is a sacred individual, a messianic figure the story of my people

Back to the topic... I went to a massive Halloween light show in suburban Toronto last night. No diversity quotient required... Turbans, headscarves, and people of all cultures simply enjoying themselves. Pretty sweet to head out and have cheap fun with your family, and leave the drama of obsessive online fear-farming behind.

just to know who he is he was Plot 8, Row E, Grave 7 at Caberet-Rouge in Souchez which means he was Canadian Corps killed upon Vimy Ridge

Don't be silly. The competitive handgun shooting will continue as usual on the streets of Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal and other cities.

Russia’s supporters and suppliers in or out of the UN have been Iran, North Korea, China, Syria and Saudi Arabia @taxme, @Nationalist, @WestCanMan, @DogOnPorch must think those countries are the world’s real good guys and the rest of us are just evil. Some “patriots”.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/u-s-appeals-court-grants-injunction-temporary-blocking-bidens-student-loan-handout US appeals court temporarily blocks Biden's student loan handout The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with several Republican-led states For those here who do not understand this process... 1. Either private lenders or the Federal Government provides Student Loan (which personally, I would do away with in a New York minute, since all they do is make price gouging colleges rich and bid up the cost of tuition.) 2. The student has to pay that money back, maybe at graduation, certainly when the bill is due, even if the kid does not graduate. 3. Cancelling the loan means telling the lenders they will not be getting their money back. (And along those lines, the money lenders start using more aggressive underwriting techniques to limit loans to students who are honest enough to pay them back.) 4. Unelected Joe did NOT cancel those loans. He decided to use TAXPAYER MONEY (which has been borrowed so much that the taxpayers who will be funding this thing haven't been born yet) to pay those lenders back. He did this to buy votes from more idiots. 5. The 8th US Circuit Court Of Appeals has decided to block this egregious attempt to buy votes. Government paying off student loans is welfare to the rich.

Disagree. Traditional conservatives are also for smaller (but big enough to do what's needed) government, as well as a strong national defense and national security. Unfortunately, we haven't had much work towards any of that lately out of conservative leadership - and that includes Harper, once the war was done. But there is a difference between making a careful assessment of the rising dangers of the world (and I accept they were not nearly as obvious in Harper's time) and buying nonsensical conspiracies. Traditional conservatives also see Russia as the enemy while too many on the "republican" side admire Putin for his 'strength'. I'm not going to accept putting temporary pandemic isolation and vaccination into the same category as national security or national defense. Therein lies the difference between conservatism and trumpist republicanism.

Those who live downtown likely work downtown, so it's not as if they really need transportation to get around. At the time of the protests, downtown Ottawa was pretty much a ghost town anyway. Small businesses affected by the protest were able to claim up to $10000 from the federal gov't for losses. Less than 1/2 of the $20 million set aside by the government has been paid out. Protests as a rule do inconvenience a lot of people, but that's the price we all pay for living in a free and democratic nation. The question is .... where do you draw the line between the rights of protesters and those affected by the protests? If you can't bear the noise and inconvenience of protests maybe you should rethink about living so close to the parliament buildings.

Joe Biden was elected, so my conclusion is that everything else you’re saying must also be a bunch of nonsense.

The "rest of us" aren't evil, but the Dems and their idiot supporters certainly are. There's no other good reason for supporting riots and other violent crime, attacking the energy sector, and the creeping fascism that's rolling into NA. You can support your Nazis in Ukraine all you want, I really don't care what people like you do Beave.

The political leaders responsible for this mess are tone deaf to what is going on. As I said before, the ignorance of voters is widespread and is corrupt from bottom to top. I would add in my view the Supreme Court, and other courts and many politicians are immoral and place the rights of a convicted criminals and accused ahead of the safety of citizens or society.

Brigadier General A.G. Young at the podium there for my generation our 48th Highlanders Officer Commanding our 48th Highlanders Commanding Officer worked his way up through the ranks, from Private Soldier to Sergeant Major then took his Commission, from Captain to Brigadier General he is a heroic figure to all of us, he leads us all still, even in his retirement yet he is so down to earth we of course all address him as "General, sir" but he says he's just one of the boys now : "call me Greg"

This is about pistols and automatic weapons. Must you lie in every post?

And you can prove this right? No? The Ukrainian military...filled with neo-nazis...attacked the eastern provinces. That happens to be a well established fact. Your denial of this only further solidifies your already comical reputation.

Bari Weiss is a good Jewish girl she understands the threat that this totalitarianism is the path to a Holocaust be they Communist Socialists or National Socialists these totalitarians will ultimately seek to annihilate the State of Israel and the Jewish people in the wake

You continue to misquote me. Why don't you post the whole statement? Or...would that defeat your purpose... Sonny-Boy...the English language is full of words to aptly describe you...but I've promised the site mods to not engage in said descriptive words. You continue to discredit yourself and further prove one of my major points. You progs are bloody dangerous. You will say anything to further your insanity and simply don't care how many people suffer as a result. You wanted the coming bloodbath...so sit back and wallow in it. I will continue to advocate for a diplomatic solution.

It's official. If you STILL support Biden and the Democrats, you're stupid.

Actually Beave I have "denounced" Russia's invasion. I've also "denounced" Ukraine's military answer to the original referendum. But hey...you only see what you want to see. Fact is...Ukraine did attack the ethnic Russians in the Eastern provinces and Russia did respond by invading Ukraine. Neither actions have been desirable. Today, however, the problem is, how can this be ended? I would like to see a diplomatic end. You would like to see an all out war. Tell me again... Who's the bloodthirsty puppet?

What is fascism is the objections to democracy which bought Trump undone. It was him and his redneck nuts cases who orchestrated the j6 riots attempting to I stall a fascist regime with him at the head. You can't deny that. The democrats have stayed at arm's length from enquiries and Biden has not been consulted by the DOJ since it happened. It is their job to hold enquiries and subpoena people etc. Why shouldn't the first attempt of a coup in America history not be investigated? Where are these so-called patriots who busily hold their flags with their hands on the chests whilst belated about democracy. But Lord Trump gets upset about just that and the disease spreads like a virus amongst the blockheads and they don't like it. The investigation should continue until the bitter end and those responsible for any of it should be jailed, including democrats. It must never happen again under any circumstance regardless of who it is. If anyone reading this disagrees, you can move to North Korea if you like.

typical of the pathological knee jerk Canadian nanny police state ban first, ask questions later

So they are extremists now, like the Taliban or ISIS or other terrorists' groups. Or have we redefined that word as well. Maybe you could come up with a far more descriptive word to describe these people... I was going to describe you as a liberal, but it lacked the dramatic flair you seem to have. maybe someone else can give it a go.

if I was the unknown soldier and some young Canadian girl stood upon my grave & shouted "freedom !" I would salute them, from the next world to come and be waiting for them there, to greet them warmly, when they crossed over

Yup, a lot of evidence has been submitted, most of it was to point the finger at someone or some other department, over the last couple of days it is the Ottawa police department. Yes, Nazi flags where there, the question was who owned it? it has been said it was a local person. A women stood on the tomb for a few seconds, and then got down, seems like it is only a problem when they ( the government) want to make it one, that same tomb has been urinated on dozens of times, including someone taking a shit on it. But here is the rub, it did not make a big media hit like the women did. And really do you really think the majority of Canadians give a fiddlers f*** about the unknown soldier's tomb, no they don't, except when it can be used in their narrative. I know what the commission mandate is, but those references were put in there to prove that the liberal government has lied and has been deceitful before so what is different with this commission. Nothing really. It is nothing more than a media trap, to hold our attention for a couple of months, then we will be on to the next liberal screw up. And it does not make any difference to liberal voters, what he or the liberal government does they will always vote liberal...becasue we Canadians don't give a rat's ass about what these political parties do to Canada as long as they get their free stuff.

It's a VP's job, they have no authority to overturn an election. It astounds me that clowns who bleat about democracy would approve of such a thing.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I have spent a fair bit of time there and have very close friends. Also have very good Iranian friends and certainly agree with what you have to say about the situation in Iran.

While the people who were intimidated by the protestors, those who couldn't get to work because their way was blocked by trucks and protesters, those businesses who had to shut down - they don't have rights that should be protected by the government? Oh wait - you deny they exist because it's convenient to your narrative. Carry on.

Hey MH, why don't we see some of our lefty liberal western media hacks go into Russian held territory in the Ukraine and speak to the Russian soldiers and generals for a change? At least that way we could get both sides of the story and not just the one side of the story that you like to push and promote here. Your Zelensky is a corrupt Nazi himself. Live with it. I know that you like to knock and call some members here "know nothing Putin fans" as knowing nothing. But what makes Zelensky fans like you think that you are experts about what is really going on in the Ukraine? Are you on the ground there every day watching the fighting going on? I think that you know as much as I know MH about what is going on in Ukraine which is sweet phuk all. I sure would like to get Putin's side of the story, and not just the Zelensky side of the story at the time. To know one side of any story, is to know nothing at all. ?

And all the while, Skippy as usual contracted 'convenient Covid' and hid behind Mommy's couch sniping his gutless mysogynistic, racial, inflammatory, stupid quips, then acts like a big shot by calling out the troops. A real leader would have met with the Freedom Convoy and at least tried to work out a plan to get them to pull back. But, Oh No! . . . not gutless Skippy. What disgrace to Canada.

Did not the communist Bolsheviks do the same thing when they were allowed to take over Eastern Europe after the 2nd WW? The Russian communists annexed many countries into their sphere. A terrible end of life and liberty for the people of those countries. The Ukraine army just maybe full of Nazi's itself. The Ukraine has a battalion of neo Nazi's called Azov's. And what makes you believe that the Ukraine army is a professional army? How would you know this? Well?

These pro Zelensky globalist troll members here are not interested in getting the other side of the story. They much prefer to be constantly fed their daily bread bullshit by the lefty liberal lying media. They have a problem with trying to believe that there can be another side to any story. Lefty liberals are like that, don't you know. LOL.

"Fascist governments" Trump is no longer in power cause his insurrection FAILED. LMAO

I already posted this in another thread where you basically said the same stupid things: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/biden-suspends-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-series-of.html FYI in a democracy when the president goes to war against a sector of the economy, people don't want to invest money there. Without investment, obviously less gets done.

This is another great video from True North: The testimony of longtime Ottawa councillor Mathieu Fleury is pathetic!

Hopefully, the Republican Congress can overturn the Biden war on domestic energy development, (a little after it impeaches and removes Biden from office.)

No, I've been a Conservative activist all my adult life. I am a retired Peace Officer. I believe in law and order. Does that make me a communist? What did you see in my post that could lead you to think I was a communist? Did I advocate the leaders of the occupation be taken out into the forest and shot? That is what a communist would do. Did I advocate the rest of the participants be shipped to a labour camp (gulag) in northern Saskatchewan, never to be heard from again? That's what a communist would do. Maybe you need to read some books by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Then get back to us about communism.

Rupa Subramanya: Justin Trudeau's case against the Freedom Convoy falls on its face How are our elected officials who purvey what can only be called misinformation be held to account? It’s striking how many public officials, including outgoing Ottawa mayor Jim Watson, outgoing city councillor Mathieu Fleury, and would be mayor Catherine McKenney, made strong claims that the protesters were violent and destructive. For example, Watson claimed that protesters were ripping masks off local residents, but when challenged under cross examination, he admitted he didn’t see this himself but heard about it in media reports. This was a refrain from many of the public officials making these assertions about the protesters, and when challenged referred to hearing about it in the media. This was a classic case of the tail wagging the dog, as some media reports were largely parroting the narrative of the public officials without providing much if any documentary evidence. Without doubt, the most important witness to date has been Pat Morris, who is intelligence chief of the Ontario Provincial Police. If anyone would know if the protesters were dangerous, it would have to be Morris. However, in his testimony, he was very clear that the OPP had produced no intelligence that the protesters would be armed, describing much of the rhetoric around the protests as “hyperbole” and “sensationalized.” In its totality, his testimony shredded the idea that the Ottawa protesters were anything like the insurrectionists who stormed Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Morris’s testimony also put paid to the notion that the protesters were an irrational and crazy fringe who had no good reason to be in Ottawa. On the contrary, he acknowledged the “multitude of grievances” of the protesters, whom he described as comprising of regular citizens with a “large degree of support” across the country. He saw them as group that was “organic” and “grassroots.” So much for Trudeau’s fringe minority of crazies. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rupa-subramanya-justin-trudeaus-case-against-the-freedom-convoy-falls-on-its-face

As predicted ? They still don't have to report it. If they operated the way you've deluded yourself into believing, the story you cited in your link would have never been published on their website! ?

TreeBeard, in what province do you vote? ==== Advance polls exist in Canada. Proxy voting too. Increasingly, I prefer the idea of voting in person, check the ID and check the ballot. If someone can't do that, then they are not a civilised citizen. ======= In Quebec, to vote, you must show at least a Health Card (Carte soleil). It has a photo.

143 countries voted to condemn Russia's invasion, only five supported Russia and one of them was Russia. There has never been such a lopsided vote in the UN and if Russia didn't have veto power on the Security Council, there would be UN troops in Ukraine today. The biggest buffoon lives in your mirror.

So if an intruder forces his way into your home and declares that it belongs to him now, and you try to fight back, then by your idiotic logic, the intruder is the homeowner with a right to defend himself and his newfound home from you? The annexed regions do not “belong” to Russia any more than stolen property belongs to a thief. And Russia is losing more amd more of their stolen land every week.

And let’s not forget that Russia is preparing to blow up the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, causing massive flooding. You know that if/when it happens, the Putin puppets will try to say Zelensky did it, so just putting it out there now.