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The only cost that is somewhat accurate is the cost to build, all other costs are best guesses, and are political to induce sticker shock to Civilians/ taxpayers. Please tell me the reason why we need to cost something out to 65 years? Then tell me what major naval ship have we kept for 65 years or more? Besides the cheapest bid is never the winner, it is the bid that has the most offsets, that is the winner, offsets that have nothing to do with the ship itself, but rather what the bidder company can offer Canada has whole.

Did you see Crowder earlier? He could only stream on Rumble as YouTube is looking to give him a third strike. EXCLUSIVE: UNDERTAKER EXPLAINS "MYSTERIOUS" CLOTTING PHENOMENON! | Louder with Crowder https://rumble.com/v1r2ts2--live-daily-show-louder-with-crowder.html

I was going to ask which headline you got that info from, but then I realized I don't care. I have a whole thread of data and studies that show otherwise.

Peer review is nothing much, really. Some of the other things you're talking about are part of the Bradford Hill criteria for causation. There are 10 criteria. You only have to have 5 to prove causation. I was just going to make a post about it. Because I'm tired of hearing you anti-science people beak off about everything being "coincidences" and "That doesn't prove causation." without knowing WTF you're talking about.

Walensky just tested positive for covid again - for the second time in less than a month. Yes, really effective. ?

Except that only exists in your fever dreams. In reality the ones who want an American dictator are the same as those who admire the current Russian dictator and actively trying to get an American Putin in White House

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Saudi-Arabia-Reiterates-Commitment-To-China-Regardless-Of-US-Concerns.amp.html Back in March last year it was made clear enough at the annual China Development Forum hosted in Beijing, when Aramco chief executive officer, Amin Nasser said: “Ensuring the continuing security of China’s energy needs remains our highest priority - not just for the next five years but for the next 50 and beyond.” And yet, the U.S. is surprised by the apparent finalisation of the transition of Saudi Arabia away from Washington and towards China, which effectively marks the end of the 1945 core agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia that defined their relationship up until extremely recently. This transition has been seen most recently in the refusal of MbS to take a telephone call from President Joe Biden in which he was to ask for his help in bringing down economy-crimping high energy prices and then in the huge cut in collective OPEC oil production that has only added to energy-driven inflationary fears for global economies. This article suggests that the US no longer has a special relationship with Saudi Arabia. This also suggests that Saudi Arabia will sell oil in currencies other than the US dollar. Does that mean that the US dollar is no longer a petro dollar?

The Wreckage of Neoliberalism The postwar neoliberal economic project is nearing its end. The question is who will write the last chapter, the Democrats or the totalitarians? By Chris Murphy … Broadly speaking, neoliberalism argues that barrier-free international markets, rapidly advancing communications technology and automation, decreased regulation, and empowered citizen-consumers are the keys to prosperity, happiness, and strong democracy. … But then, about 30 years ago, the project started to fray at the edges. The newly global economy moved America’s well-paying jobs—the ones that had created the U.S.’s early- and mid-20th-century blue-collar aristocracy—overseas, but the jobs that replaced them offered lower pay, fewer benefits, and less opportunity for advancement. Technology, which had promised to make our lives easier and more connected, started to get so complicated, and advance at a pace so dizzying, that it no longer felt within our control. Social media joined us, but also bred resentment and societal fragmentation. Automation and online commerce erased our local economies, our local meeting places, and our local news sources. And the consumerism that was supposed to fill our lives with the material rewards necessary for happiness instead left many feeling empty as our cultures and identities got swallowed up by the shapeless, antiseptic, profit-obsessed international economy. Read: When people were proud to call themselves ‘neoliberal’ The result, today, is a very real epidemic of American unhappiness. Surveys taken during the past decade suggest that Americans have never been so pessimistic. Despite the nonstop information flow, more Americans report greater feelings of intense loneliness today than at any time before. People know they have more access to things—shiny things, fancy things, complicated things—but they grope for meaning and sense a depressing, decreasing personal control over their own future. Although Trump’s anti-neoliberal messaging has been successful, his policies have never matched his rhetoric. By the time he left office, there were fewer, not more, well-paying manufacturing jobs in America. Trump did nothing to curb corporate excess or restore power to families and workers—his primary domestic legislative accomplishment was a tax cut in which 83 percent of the benefits would go to the same 1 percent of the population he attacked in his speeches. And he championed no legislation to rein in the corrosive influence of social media or unchecked automation. Indeed, his promises to undo economic neoliberalism was all empty rhetoric; instead, his entire term was an unending parade of gifts to the very status quo forces he condemned in his rise to power. …. Trump and his followers are frauds—mouthing critical platitudes about the neoliberal order while ultimately serving its biggest beneficiaries—and Democrats should expose them as such. No matter their rhetorical attacks on elites, Republicans’ agenda still begins and ends with using government as a crude means to deliver favors to their billionaire and corporate friends. …. And it isn’t hyperbole to suggest that the future of our democracy rests on the question of which party offers the most credible alternative to the neoliberal order. Republicans’ fake populism is just a way to secure total power. This is the era of the post-democracy Republican Party, and if their critique of neoliberalism brings their party complete power after the 2024 election, they are likely to change the rules of democracy in order to make sure Democrats never win again. Trump’s Republican Party believes that Democrats present an existential threat to America, and therefore any means—even the end of democracy—is justified to defeat the left. Whether it be a purge of thousands of professional civil servants, continued crackdowns on voting rights, or a rigging of elections, if Trump and his allies win control of Congress and the White House again, our 250-year experiment may be over. This does not have to be our nation’s fate. It is possible to reverse the damaging impacts of the neoliberal world order while saving democracy…. … https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/democrats-should-reject-neoliberalism/671850/

The kidnapping of Gretchen Whitmer, which is known to have been planned by the FBI: So, as I said, The FBI's PLAN. The KGB planned this kidnapping to occur before the election, and no one in America even had a clue that the whole thing was an FBI operation until long after the election. The FBI timed that kidnaping to almost the exact same time as this kidnapping was executed. How long before we find out that a KGB agent got this guy stoned and pointed out the way to the Pelosi's home? What are the chances? 50/50? I created this duplicate thread because people were confused by the title of the old one. Somehow they didn't know it was about Whitmer's case.

NY Times headline from 2025 "America's emerging dictatorship has liberals on edge. But for some, the stability and absence of hard choices is a welcome change." Dante Atkins, a progressive communicator, and strategist, and principal at Atkins Strategies, laid out a plausible scenario for an American dictatorship. He wrote it as a New York Times story from 2025. It appeared originally on Twitter, and we are running it here with his kind permission. June 19, 2025 It happened imperceptibly, and then all at once. After a hotly contested 2024 election in which incumbent President Joe Biden carried the national popular vote by 9 million votes and appeared to carry the vote in states representing more than the 270 electoral votes necessary, it appeared that Mr. Biden was on his way to serving a second term. Instead, an unpredictable series of events has led to a dramatic change in the American form of government. …First, Republican Secretaries of State and legislatures in states carried by Joe Biden refused to certify Mr. Biden's apparent wins in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, throwing the electoral count into doubt. In the ensuing landmark case before the Supreme Court, "Biden v. Wisconsin," Justice Thomas, writing for the 5-4 majority, held that under the newly adopted Independent Legislature Theory, neither federal nor state courts had the authority to challenge actions decided by state legislatures, who were then free to submit slates of electors chosen by legislatures themselves, rather than by voters. ….In practice, this has led to a situation that was once unthinkable: an acting President of the United States serving an indefinite term of office whose successor is chosen exclusively by activists and delegates from the ruling political party. …While the political battle rages between elected leaders and committees of both parties, the response from the average voter is more muted. At a truck stop diner outside of Columbus, Ohio, Jeremy Williams, 55, said that these changes could make things easier. "I liked Trump before and I like Trump now, so I trust him to run the country and make the best decisions," said Williams. And when asked about America's cherished tradition of quadrennial democratic elections. Mr. Williams demurred. "Voting for president is hard because you don't really know the people you're choosing. But I know Trump and I like him, so that's one less thing to think about," said Williams. Democrats are less convinced.…. https://boingboing.net/2022/10/30/ny-times-headline-from-2025-americas-emerging-dictatorship-has-liberals-on-edge-but-for-some-the-stability-and-absence-of-hard-choices-is-a-welcome-change.html

Alberta pastor who spent 3 weeks in jail over draconian Covid policies has won his court case. https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/fairview-baptist-church-pastor-cleared-of-charges-he-violated-covid-19-public-health-measures/wcm/205eeef7-ba6e-4449-92f7-a440049aa219?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1667357389 Hopefully the man gets paid for disgusting government overreach.

There's essentially zero chance that Ford was going to lock out the public school support workers. Pointing to Doug Ford for the healthcare mess is a lot like pointing at Trudeau for inflation. This is not an isolated or provincial problem. Healthcare cost increases are unsustainable and this is a global systemic problem combining with very nasty demographic trends being further stressed by COVID in most of the western world. I have a lot of sympathy for Canada's health care workers (particularly the nurses), who work under extremely difficult conditions, all year, through terrible hours in sometimes dangerous situations. This sympathy does not extend to Ontario teachers, who remain nearly the best paid in the world despite close to 10 years of essentially frozen wages and generally work less than 200 days a year. Agreed, but both sides are being unreasonable and neither are respecting the other. This is not how bargaining should be done, but it is how our public sector unions have been handling it in Ontario for as long as I've been alive. The only time we haven't had public sector unrest, from what I can see, was when the Davies and McGuinty governments were shelling out huge increases. I was too young to understand at the time, but freaking Bob Rae and Ontario's NDP were the ones who finally started reigning in the wild expansion of this spending, and the Teacher's Union has never forgiven them for it. Completely irrelevant. They get paid their annual and that's the only number that matters.

Much like you do with your Biden Cult.

You will defend anything the Trump Cult does.

Crimes aristedes. Known, proven, confessed-to crimes. By the KGB. They blatantly lied to America about the laptop, right at the national level. They didn't lie to one dude, they lied to the whole country. A FISA court judge even said that the FBI's investigation was so dodgy that it cast a shroud of doubt over everything they did prior. Is that conspiratorial, or is that appalling? You're whacked, dude. It's weird that you're defending crimes at the highest level of the FBI.

Anything that holds the Trump Cult responsible for their actions is a conspiracy to you guys. You use it to justify anything.

No, there would not be. What you're saying is pure speculation without even a weak attempt at science or stats. 86% pseudovaxed, 86% of covid deaths are from multi-pseudovaxed.

More bad news, this time in the US food industry. https://www.iowapublicradio.org/agriculture/2022-10-31/1-1-million-hens-being-culled-bird-flu-wright-county?_amp=true “The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship said Monday that a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was found in a commercial layer flock in Wright County. A spokesman said the flock has approximately 1.1 million birds. As of Monday afternoon, depopulation, which means all birds in the flock are being destroyed to prevent the virus from spreading, is ongoing, the spokesman said.” And: “As of Oct. 31, more than 14.4 million commercial and backyard birds in Iowa this year have died from the virus or been killed to contain it. 47.86 million backyard and commercial birds have been impacted nationwide.” That means that 47.86 million birds have been destroyed, not including the 1.1 million on the latest cull. Those would be meat and egg producing birds, and means that prices are going up for these staple products. They have no idea how it’s spreading despite their bio-security efforts.

China may have a long way to go, but they are only part of a group of nations involved in this effort. India and Russia, along with China, seem to all be allied together in this effort. Either way, I’m sure there will be many developments springing up from this.

In the private sector, presumably you can go and find a higher-paying job in an inflationary environment. Some people have, but these are weird times overall. There's a lot of nuance to these arguments. Typically yes, across all industries and sectors.

They certainly picked the timing of the strike. The contract expiring doesn't mean they stop getting paid or their jobs just end (like what happened to a huge portion of working class during COVID). Yes. That's not a lot, and paying them a bit more isn't outlandish. They are not exactly high-skill and short-supply professions with a lot of bargaining power, however. If they want any public support, yes. I don't know about a few years, but I'd argue 8-12 months would be wise. You're a lot better off asking for a raise when everyone isn't an unhappy combination of exhausted and anxious about what they've already gone through and what's likely coming. If these workers are squeezed to the brink with their current income, then they're not in much of a position to endure a long strike. The Ontario government and the Teacher's Union have played a very zero-sum bargaining game for the last 40 years. I'd argue that CUPE is just caught in the middle, and that the current negotiating/posturing is very much meant to be a signal for the Teachers Union (whose CBA IIRC has also expired or is expiring soon). The message: You'll get little/nothing. You'd have to explain that math to me. The overall effect of inflation since 2019 hasn't been anywhere close to 25% thus far, even counting for today's high rates. I'm guessing that's somehow forward-projected.

Bad look by ford tbh not a fan of things that ban workers from the right to strike .however the teachers get paid lots the lower staff need there fair share also shame the teachers will use it for there next raise also though

He's not Fairview Baptist Church. He spent three weeks in jail for a crime he didn't commit. And I never said anything about a current lawsuit though I hope he sues the province of Alberta for as much as he can get

Not really the part I was referring to. ?

It is inappropriate to prejudge the findings of the Commission. Regardless of their findings, we need to come up with legislation more appropriate to this type of crisis. Freedom is important but so is law and order. The way to respond to government policy you disagree with is to take part in politics, not threatening to shoot the Minister of Finance in the head. We are better at politics than any other country in the world. Use that skill, not threats or violence. There is no such thing as a "pseudo" majority. A Minority is a minority is a minority. The House can bring down the government at any time. In the words of Premier W.A.C. Bennett, "Every vote is a free vote, but if we lose, there will be an election." If you want to bring down the government, donate to the NDP. They are supporting the government because the NDP doesn't have enough money to fight an election. You have to make it worth the NDP's while. However, now that they have propped up the Grits, history indicates the NDP will get hammered in the next election.

You literally could not provide a better example of oblivious projection than you did here. ?

Why? It's evident by the large number of fully v'd getting covid that it's really not an effective vaxx at stopping the spread. Best case argument so far as I can tell is hospitalizations... which takes me back to my original point that a diabetic could stuff their face with donuts to the point of hospitalization with no restrictions... and also I have virtually a zero percent chance of being hospitalized based on current health status so they really don't have to be worried about me taking up a coveted hospital bed with covid

Yup any other minority group and discrimination policy wouldn't be tolerated

Either it's effective and the mandates were dumb or it's not effective and the mandates were unnecessary

Hmmm so you shouldn't have much to worry about then.

How do we prove evidence of causality? In science, we use the Bradford Hill criteria for causation. There are 10 criteria (although Sir Austin Bradford Hill proposed ony 9 back in 1965) and you only need 5 to prove causation, according to the WHO. There are 6 possible outcomes for the WHO's criteria - one of them is that the vaccine is causing injury. So these are the 10 Bradford Hill criteria: strength, consistency, specificity, temporality, biological gradient, plausibility, coherence, experiment, analogy, and reversibility. Strength of association can be measured using Chi-square test, which is a categorical test. Looking at the Moderna data that they (reluctantly) released, the important parts were hidden in the appendix. Not the efficacy data, but the safety data. It was an interesting read. SAE stands for severe adverse event and when you compare the number of severe adverse events in the drug arm, the mRNA 1, 2 7, 3 arm versus placebo, you find a statistically significant difference between the two groups. You can see that the number of severe adverse event reports was actually higher in the drug arm. This is borne out by the data in VAERS. Bell's Palsy came in at 2.7 times higher in the drug arm. The P-value was very, very low - which indicates a very strong association. The R-value is very, very high - nearly 1 at 0.99, which indicates strong correlation. You can pick just about any adverse event from VAERS and see this trend. As a negative control, you can take smallpox data from 2018 against the Covid- 19 adverse events, and lose the significance. So it actually worked out to be a good negative control. This is across the board. The lowest R-value found in the standalone adverse events that I looked at was death. And it’s still a 0.94 for the R-value. So it’s reproducible. The next Bradford Hill criteria is consistency. And the question you can ask pertaining to this point is: Do all the existing data indicate that A causes B, A being the drugs and B being the adverse events? There’s VAERS, the Yellow Card in the UK, and the EudraVigilance System for the EU. And each of these systems has over a million reports in them, which is consistent for all three. And also it’s consistent based on the fact that this has never happened before in any of these systems. Never have we seen, within a year, a million reports for a single product. Another Bradford Hill criteria is specificity. Is A causing B in specific populations? Now, what you have to do here is look at subpopulations of people who are having something happen to them. So, let’s look at healthy young people. I chose two groups here. I chose the athletes. And everyone’s heard the stories of perfectly healthy fit, young athletes just dropping dead on the field. You see the number here. It’s 108. And the background rate, according to ones who have culled the data and done research on this is about 5 per year. So we’re way above background for this. There is an NFL player in there and he died at 37, shortly after his second dose. Another example of this can be found in the children's data. Myocarditis is becoming a thing in children. They’re calling it "rare" and "mild", but it’s neither of those things. And this is their own bloody data. You can see that there is reported a number of cases that they observed – and it’s off the charts. So the specificity for the subgroup of athletes, healthy, dropping dead from heart attacks and the young people who are young and healthy and fit, is there. Succumbing to myocarditis and heart problems. You can answer the question is A causing B in specific populations? Temporality. This one is easy. Does A come before B? That’s really the only question you have to answer. The data shows that over 50% of reported SAEs are within the first 48 hours. The shorter the timeframe between those two points - injection and SAE - makes an even stronger case for this point and causality itself. 92% of anaphylactic shock events happened within 48 hours, 87% occurred within 24 hours. I want to remind everyone, this is done by day. So within 24 hours could literally mean 10 minutes after the shot. And within 48 hours could be, 25 hours. Plausibility. I’m going into this from two points of view, first one is biological plausibility. And there are two mechanisms of action that I can think of that would answer this question. First of all, the spike proteins have been pronounced to be cytotoxic. The myocarditis reports seem to have a cumulative effect. The more you give them and the shorter duration between the two, is giving like a double punch to whatever organ system you’re having the injury in. So this is indicative of a dose response, the cumulative effect is showing up on the second dose. So does more of A result in B? It appears so. And second - the LNP are also toxic. The lipid nanoparticles, the fat bubble, that encases the mRNA as a protective thing, and is used to administer the payload of the mRNA into the body. These are manufactured out of four different fats in the Pfizer products. Some of these fats are for evasion of immune components, (macrophages, for example), but all of them come in a certain concentration and they’re mixed together in a certain way to enhance the deliverability of the payload, which is the mRNA. One of these fats is called a Cationic lipid. These are highly, highly toxic to cells. The second point of plausibility - These two companies that are producing the mRNA based gene therapies, they don’t have a good track record. Pfizer has had to pay out the most money in fines for injuries and medical fraud and malfeasance. Not a good track record. Some people would say, the only real way to determine causation is to do a double blinded randomized control trial. And yeah, that’s a good way, which makes one wonder why they're not doing it. But we’re definitely in an experiment. This is very general here. But there are many papers showing weird gene profiles in the context of TNF alpha, interferons, and CD eight positive T cells. These papers that are coming out are giving strong, strong indicators. I’m not saying they’re proof, but they’re indicators that these things are causing immune deficiencies, not just hyper inflammation, immune deficiencies in at least subpopulations of the people. And we need to figure out which people those are. Lastly - Has this happened before in history? YES. There is the very famous one of intussusception following the rotavirus injections, in which it was actually VAERS that they used to detect the safety signal in children. And thanks to VAERS, the rotavirus vaccine was pulled. So, why the causation denial? It's not science that’s backing up these ferocious defenders of the narrative. It’s really weird. It's not scientific to deny even the possibility that there could be a causal effect in the context of any vaccine. Of course, sometimes it’s going to happen. And the responsibility is on the manufacturers and the regulators to find out when it’s happening and if it’s happening.

This has nothing to do with health. It's all politics, money and power.

Your arrow was pointing the wrong way. Shocker. It looks better now though.

I'll help you with this one: An actual plausible scenario for an American dictatorship is where the Dems can enact all of their voter-fraud-friendly election reforms, and they have Vanderbilts and members of the American political nobility, like the Cuomos, in prominent positions in the media, demanding which election results the electorate should and shouldn't trust. I guess an unhealthy amount of control over the FBI would help too. Kinda like what happened in 2020. Funny how that article touched all the buttons of the leftards who still believe in Wushin Cowushin and the Jan 6th holocaust though. "Biden led by a hunnerd fity millionty votes but he lost cuz sum trukers didint lyke him an a white supremmissist black judj got bulgy iyes an sed "democercy iz ovur!" - Dante "" - Beave

I thought the vaxx protects them?

You don't seem to understand. You will spread it to other people. You also seem to be pretty cavalier with the lives of people with co-mobidities and the elderly.

Well neither do the "experts".. just made up nonsense based on public perception

So did all the Americans who fought and died do it so the US could degenerate into a single party state like the Soviet Union? Is that what Republicans stand for?

I agree... Trudeau stacked the deck. Worked to his advantage to grab more and more power. The next fake crisis is the environment. WEF is already going after the auto industry and you'll see further attacks on mining. All the good paying jobs.. more reliance on government. Easier to control

Again, it’s not really about left v right or con v lib anymore because that traditional binary assumed that certain fundamentals were unshakable, namely free market capitalism, constitutional rights, and representative democracy. What happens when the people in power aren’t what they pretend to be and the reality of elitist self-preservation is exposed? I’m talking about a system where the government has become so detached from what most people have to deal with each day that they no longer can really claim to represent the public interest. Don’t get me wrong, this has always been possible, but the pandemic exposed just how inane and out of touch these institutions have become. I don’t even blame the Liberals particularly for this creep, but it’s the result of years of consorting with other privileged and out of touch theorists at various conferences and high level forums. It’s the result of an ensconced self-referential political class. We saw many instances of MP’s simply ignoring constituents during the pandemic. Instead of discussing concerns with people, some MP’s, including our PM, vilified people with opposing views. It wouldn’t be so bad if the discussions didn’t impact people’s constitutional rights: freedom of movement, the right to earn a livelihood, medical discretion, etc. Government failed to recognize the importance and necessity of such rights to a free society. What’s more, the old world political binary struggles to account for the totalitarian impacts of data-driven government that uses algorithms and metrics to determine how much freedom or social engineering is necessary to “protect our healthcare system.” Basically our democratic rights are sacrificed to uphold a failed healthcare system. We learned that our reliance on an unsatisfactory government healthcare system has far wider implications for our social conditions and democracy than we thought. With regard to your whole Trump-Fox-American freedom thing, which you set up as an unCanadian evil, that’s also a very problematic aspect of your argument I had issues with Trump and I never watched Fox very much or at all, but Trump tapped into a very real frustration with politics as usual, particularly the kind of detached professional political class that it’s very arguable runs our federal government. If you value economic and political freedom, it’s very hard to argue in favour of our current Liberal government. I don’t think you appreciate just how tentative our democracy has become and just how important it is to affirm our rights within it. Canada and much of the Weat has veered too close to China and too dependent on the state to tell us what we deserve and how we should live. When a sizeable chunk of the country starts to see this unfolding in our government, that’s a real problem that isn’t just about “conspiracy clowns”. Certainly ignoring such concerns just proves how far we’ve drifted as a society from important values that used to be considered fundamental. The safety argument used to justify all sorts of controls starts to look pretty shabby. So I understand your views as a kind of cognitive dissonance, a difficulty with absorbing how much the forces at play have changed. Poilievre is popular because he does seem to understand the forces and talks about people wanting control of their lives back. His rejection of government that’s beholden to unelected international think tanks is also important, because both the left and right parties got too cozy with this out of touch jet set. As for your unquestioned “reality” of “climate change”, I certainly don’t think most people understand the data on this or just how theoretical and hard it is to discern causes and the human impacts of climate change. I certainly think it’s stupid to throw billions of tax dollars at “fighting” it I also think it’s incredibly irresponsible to our energy needs and security to regulate and tax our energy producers into the ground. It makes life more expensive and less secure for Canadians. My politics were always slightly left of centre, but the left used to be about workers. I’ve tried turning to the Conservatives because I think that they now care more about rights and cost of living. Yet I think the Conservatives can easily lapse into the same out of touch, virtue signalling, self-serving phoney woke-green nut jobs as the Liberals have clearly become. Time will tell, but if you don’t think that the government funding of print and other legacy media has helped insert government narratives in our press, I can’t help you.

The Globe is mostly left wing pablum now. I’d like to know more about what you consider “conspiracy clown” because your views seem mostly left wing, so I think anything right would fall into the clown category in your eyes. I’ll venture to assume that you’re referring to people who question having decisions made for them by unelected think tanks overseas in places like Davos. There’s no conspiracy there. The attempt of such bodies to make life altering decisions for millions of people is blatant and open. The pushback against this is real and well understood by many Canadians, especially young people. I think you may just be stuck in an old paradigm of roughly B Clinton versus G Bush type liberal versus conservative. Legacy media has somewhat lost the plot understanding the new forces at play, which are more about the elites versus the workers and fading middle class. It’s important to understand this dynamic, because people who are already struggling to pay their bills are being squeezed further by somewhat nebulous abstract causes like “fighting climate change” and “equity” identity politics that are adding costs (e.g. carbon taxes) and creating new forms of discrimination. These causes are elite causes. They come from liberal arts colleges, corporate training, and political leadership forums. They’re removed from the everyday challenges most people face. I’m interested in news that hasn’t been editorialized by self-interested ideologues or editors who are so petrified of losing government funding or being canceled that they won’t make waves when necessary. If I’m reading opinions, I want them to be deeply critical and honest about the ways in which authorities self-aggrandize and distract from real injustice. It’s not even about how conservative a journalist is for me. My favourite journalist Beri Weiss is left wing, but she’s merciless to the left and right when it comes to giving an honest and fair account. If you think that the general MSM consensus Liberal perspective is where journalism should continue to be in Canada, I’m not interested in more government cheerleading fluff.

So Russia invades a sovereign country, but you blame Biden for the war? The mental gymnastics there are amazing. Cirque du Soleil has nothing on you folks!

I’m seeing interesting comments out and about in Alberta. The Smith crowd is very loyal but are they the majority? I wonder if we have another Notley government coming in the near future.

A good article on how the Liberals have eroded pride in Canada’s achievements and lost the fiscal prudence of the Chrétien era. Great quote: “ There are two kinds of identity politics, as the American political theorist Francis Fukuyama explains in his recent book, Liberalism and Its Discontents. He writes: “One version sees the drive for identity as the completion of liberal politics. … The goal of this form of identity politics is to win acceptance and equal treatment for marginalized groups as individuals, under the liberal presumption of a shared underlying humanity. … The other version of identity politics sees the lived experience of different groups as fundamentally incommensurate; it denies the possibility of universally valid modes of cognition; and it elevates the value of group experience over what diverse individuals have in common.” Mr. Trudeau has chosen the second definition, and in so doing unmoored his party from its classic position as exponent of broad-tent Canadian patriotism.” Full article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-liberal-party-decline-justin-trudeau/

You outnumber us 6 to 1 now, 6 times as many of you die now. 6 times as many vaxed people died since May, and there were 6 times as many vaxed people for that whole time. This is really simple eyeball. Stop trying to out-idjit yourself, and stop referring to the part of the timeline when there were 38 million unvaxed people and not even one person who had gotten through the 14-day waiting period. It's just attached to the stats to fool the very stupidest people among us.

Hey, at work today, I've seen some women cutting half an inch of their hair and sharing it to our group chat in our Teams chats. It was so moving, and it sure will help liberate Iranian women from blood thirsty islamists. It sure showed them, right?

Banana republic stuff was the FBI committing crimes to keep the collusion show trial going, and then arresting other people for things that had nothing to do with collusion so that they could offer them reduced sentences for false testimony. Then the FBI tried to influence the 2020 election by lying about the legitimacy of Hunter's laptop. They said that it was "Russian disinformation" when they knew that it was all 100% true - they had the laptop for 11 months before they made that claim. They absolutely knew that they were lying.