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My question is "Was there a laptop involved ?"

Fact: Once the rioting began, that piece of dog sh!t sat in the White House and refused to do anything to stop it. He didn't Tweet to his fans. He didn't call the Army. He didn't call the National Guard. It's very obvious: Trump was hoping the riot would succeed and he had no intention of stopping it. And, he did nothing until it was obvious that it had failed.

Is it? Down south it is social conservatism which is drawing people to the Republicans, because people see the Democrats as abandoning basic morals and values in favor of identity politics and woke nonsense like gender fluidity and teaching little kids that white people are oppressors and everyone else a victim. More Blacks and Hispanics are turning to the Republicans in search of decent schools and safe streets. I think the only thing which is supporting the Liberals here is largely supine media and sky-high immigration. They are importing new Liberal supporters much as Mulroney did in the 1980s. And the ones who are here want to see more of their friends and relatives coming in. Trudeau presents to them as a happy fool who will pay for all kinds of parties and festivals and ethic community halls and the like. But eventually those immigrants who have established themselves and start to care more about the shape of the country vs bringing over their relatives and friends are going to turn on him. At least, those who intend to stay. A lot of them are here to make money and use it to set themselves up back 'home'. We saw that in the last Lebanese mess, where we suddenly had to extricate tens of thousands of 'Canadians of convenience' who had gone 'home' to live. Of course, it helps that they haven't been presented with a strong, confident conservative voice since Harper. And even he was far too much the compromiser and had too few communication skills to really present the case for conservatism. Because it's a lot more difficult to make a complicated explanation for why people are better off in the long run with more conservative fiscal policy over a ten second sound byte (if you're lucky to get that long) than it is to just send people cheques. How much money is the government sending out now to individuals everywhere, becoming everyone's generous daddy? That's easy to see when you paid, and easy to see that if you want that to continue you better keep on voting for the happy, spendthrift fool. But eventually we're going to run out of money and it's going to become obvious to everyone that this path he's paved is going over a financial cliff.

Wow.... So you believe that Hunter Biden's laptop is more consequential than inflation, petrol prices and homelessness. I can see what a logical, conscientious, ethically and morally sound cultist you are.

That's true, but if you wanna criticize Trudeau for his fluff degree you hold PP's in the same regard.

I don’t care. They can investigate Hunter Biden as much as they want, and if he broke laws, he can go to prison. Why should that matter to me? But you won’t say the same thing. If Jared broke the law, you want the investigation stopped. You at the Supreme Court to intervene. You want him pardoned. It’s bizarre. Jared Kushner never did anything for you. Ginny Thomas directly sold government influence; the only influence she has is with her husband, obviously. But you don’t care about that either. It’s bizarre. You want to support criminals if they’re on “your side,” which makes your side the “criminal side.”

Not at all. We have an Emergencies Act Commission, so obviously you were 100% wrong, as usual, when you were saying "Well that happened 3 weeks ago and it's done now so there's no sense ever talking about it again." You want it to just be a skeleton in the closet forever and you don't get your way. Grow up. Yes I do actually. You approve of covid mandates, of forcing young people who don't need the jab to get the jab, you approve of frozen bank accounts, you approve of hatemongering from the PM, you approve of covid disinformation from our government, you approve of police violence against peaceful protesters and you approve of fascism in general when it suits your fancy. You voiced your approval for all of those things and you even pretend not to see police brutality when it's there on video, right in front of your eyes.

It's important for everybody that the extent of the Biden family's corruption become know...that's why.

With all that's happening in America.... Inflation.... Petrol prices..... Homelessness.... What do you suppose the first issue the new GOP lead Congress decided to tackle? Why, Hunter Biden's laptop, of course.... Which proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Republicans are more interested in revenge than the country

Hillary's been gaining weight recently, a forklift will be needed.

Sooo... LOL...

I'd say we're seeing the opposite, and the fact that more moderate, non-Trumpian candidates fared better in the mid-terms would signal this. There are of course exceptions like Ron DeSantis, or people like Boebart in extremely safe republican districts succeeding, but by and large the culture-warriors and the election deniers were the ones who fared worse. When you have a lame-duck president like Biden presiding over poor economic conditions and general anxiety, we can probably both agree that the midterms should have gone better for the Republicans? Harper was a pragmatist. He won because he muzzled the social conservatives in the base. I miss Harper and the leadership he offered, regardless of how he managed to look like Darth Vader in a sweater. The fiscal conservative message he offered (but didn't always deliver) resonated with the swing voters in Canada that the Conservatives need, despite their wishes that it were otherwise. Which should serve as an indication on how unpalatable the CPC bases' social conservatism is to the RoC outside of the Prairies and rural Ontario. My vote for Trudeau in the last election was my first Federal Liberal vote since Paul Martin in like...2004 or something (I can't remember the year), and it was only because I had zero patience for O'Toole playing footsie with vaccine deniers and Bible Thumpers until right before the election. Cut that crap out and urban Ontario will fall in line. After 15 years of crappy Ontario Liberal governments blowing holes in our pockets, we're not keen on seeing it happen Federally.

It wasn't meant to be demeaning. Monetary policy and inflation economics are esoteric to probably 99% of the population. It's not simple theory with simple problems and simple answers, and even the average 4 year econ grad only has a baseline understanding. I'm not what would be considered an expert either, but I do speak to and listen the people who are. Today's unusual inflation is still almost all supply-driven. The COVID lockdowns were disastrous on supply chains and many of these issues have still not been sorted. Russia and Ukraine have made that problem a whole lot worse. The supply chain is healing gradually, but we're seeing a cocktail of inflation drivers still pushing prices. Now it's mostly labour/service driven, since the cost of goods has stabilized to an extent. Demand for everything is high still after 2 years of lockdown, so we have a booming labor market and workers who are demanding higher wages not only because they have more options but also because they need more to cover the increased of goods (a trickle-down effect). As I said, inflation isn't a purely Canadian or North American problem. It's a global problem with global inflation almost doubling the average compared to the last 10 years. This by itself should prove Justinflation and Liberal spending aren't to blame, but that's the narrative that opposition leaders around the world are peddling and voters aren't generally inclined to listen to detailed technical explanations when they can opt for a one-liner instead.

Things are a bit sketchy with Ilhan Omar and her family. Remember the husband/brother controversy? Who knows how many relatives are working for her and in what capacity? Rep. Ilhan Omar slammed yet again for ‘anti-Semitic’ tweets (nypost.com) It's not a secret that she hates Israel among other things.

That's not really true though. Higher gas prices have demonstrable impact on consumer behavior. Though it's true that there's a floor for a lot of people who still have to commute to work or job sites, an expensive tank of gas or flight fuel costs have obvious impact on discretionary choices. It's not that simple at all though. QE can be problematic, or it can be very helpful as a policy tool when properly managed. This is a topic that's poorly understood, with even 4th year bus/econ grads having limited grasps. The average person understands it only on a conceptual level, making it an easy target for scapegoating and strawman. Every opposition government in the world right now is blaming the sitting government for inflation they didn't cause, and that's because this is an easy narrative to push that requires too much technical knowledge to debunk.

As soon as I caught wind that Russian news services were to be banned/restricted in the West, I knew the lies were going to be around 100% in NATO's favor. Non-stop victory in Ukraine....have you heard anything else? Even the fact that Russia is simply crushing the Ukrainian energy sector in detail is treated like some sort of great victory by the MSM and their NATO masters Uh...yes it is. Russians never throw anything away if it could have use in the future. Scud launchers are kept in their garages. But if it makes you feel better to think that they're all rusting in a field like an old Fargo truck, have at it.

I think there are some fundamental misconceptions presented in this video that are problematic. First, Big C Conservatism is precisely why the Liberals keep getting elected. You are talking primarily about fiscal conservatism, which is something a lot of people in the middle or middle-right can get behind (this is an important small-c issue), but the social conservatism is what has turned all of these folks away for years, as dialamah explains. For climate change, you are talking about focusing on consumption but then criticize the carbon tax, which focuses on consumption. That's an odd take, but maybe I missed something. Your argument about central banking is overly simplistic and not really a specifically Canadian issue. Everything our central bank does is in the context of what the US Fed is doing, and it's really not just a matter of the money machines printing off cash to bail the government out of their spending. This is the narrative that conservatives and crypto-bros are pushing everywhere, but it's pretty detached from actual economics or monetary theory. Transitory inflation, for example, was the argument that supply chains were causing most of it and that this would ease over time. The economists at the time were not counting on China shutting down and promoting zero-COVID, nor did they anticipate another massive supply shock from the Russian invasion in Ukraine. In hindsight it's easy to say they got it wrong (and they did) but this is a horseshoe and hand-grenade sort of "science" that's never precise. The average voter (and the media at large) aren't exactly interested in an economists' Monte Carlo simulations.

Traditional Conservative parties don't have a plan for becoming the Government with current Canadian voter preferences. They've tried Liberal-light approaches but those don't work. Do they need to go back to traditional Conservative values and either win or lose on principles and integrity? I've put together a YouTube video with some suggestions. I hope you find it interesting. Thanks in advance for looking at it and I look forward to comments. There's an error at 4:53 where I say "lower cost of living". I meant to say "lower standard of living".

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kevin-mccarthy-says-will-remove-ilhan-omar-committee-assignment-antisemitism-speaker Kevin McCarthy says he will remove Ilhan Omar from committee assignment over 'antisemitism' when speaker House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on Saturday that when he is speaker of the House next year he plans to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her "antisemitic" comments. "We watch antisemitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow In the halls of Congress," he said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2022 leadership meeting in Las Vegas. "I promised you last year that as speaker she will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise," he said to cheers from the audience. Ever wonder why they called her Nazi Pelosi? One of the many reasons probably is for allowing this GOOSE STEPPER anywhere near a committee assignment. At least the adults will be in charge in the House.

sarc/on Is that all you mean. Personally I'm looking forward to the day when un-vaccinated people have a big UV sewn to their clothing and maybe even a tatoo on their foreheads. sarc/off Seriously though, so what, I still carry my vax papers with me from when I was in kindergarten. It's no big deal. sarc/off again.

Bad news for Agent Orange. Drumpf loses SCOTUS challenge to keep tax records from Congress.

Admit? Of course there are too many cooks involved. I'd even add the EU and the US independently. Everyone wants their moment in the spotlight over this chickenshit war. And as it all pans out...a few things that a few of us have been harping about, have come to be true. 1. The "cause" of this war is...complicated. 2. The news of the execution of this war has been...a bit warped. 3. NEITHER Zelinsky nor Putin are "good guys" in this. 4. This is NOT our war. It is NOT a good idea to get involved. 5. The reactions via sanctions and such...are inflicting undue real suffering on pretty much everyone globally. THUS...One must ask...'Is this worth it?'

Not at all. The Democrats don’t worship at the feet of Joe Biden. Like I keep saying, when laws are broken, there should be prosecution, and the outcome should be the same for the poorest and wealthiest people.

I doubt any squirming that you do around here is going to prevent the Biden family's corruption from seeing proper daylight.

Well, okay, but this is just a sort of statistical solipsism. If the numbers from PHAC can be misused to criticize vaccine effectiveness they should be equally trusted to validate it, right? And can the auditors be trusted? -- In any case I don't think there will be any independent audits conducted. There's no profit in it. FWIW, here is data from the US CDC. You can compare by age groups. We don't have the benefit of Canada's high participation rate, but you can see in this data again that vaccinating and boosting confers a significant survival advantage. The unvaccinated are significantly more likely to be infected and dramatically more likely to die. And you'll find that is pretty consistent in other countries as well, those that share robust datasets.

Of course we do. And now the Republicans have an opportunity to drag the truth out for all to witness.

We all know Hillary paid for Russia Russia Russia.

Gee...I guess you missed the whole Muller thing...and the failed impeachment number 1.

Zero Interest in listening/watching to this link to a YouTube Op. It is a talking-head. If you only show me your face, talking - it is a talking head. Talking heads.... ego

? If he was talking purely about the military, I'd maybe listen carefully to what he has to say. Because he's ranting vaguely about whatever was grinding his gears at his time, and about society in general, I take his comments for what they were - ranting.

What would you say this was about then: “can you imagine a military leader labelling half of his command as deplorables, fringe radicals and less-thans and then expect them to fight as one?” Are you going to honestly say that wasn't a Hilary reference? ? I've no problem with the baby boom generation at large. I just have little regard or attention to spare to tedious old grumps who feel the need to talk down to younger generations and pontificate on how they're so much worse than the generations that came before. ? a threat? I'm not sure how many times I have to repeat it, but this speech was irrelevant. He talks about recruitment crisis but then whines about collective apologies (implied: towards Natives) and statues coming down (of figures that Native Canadians find troubling for their history), knowing full-well that Natives make up a disproportionate number of soldiers in the military. In the same speech he rails against cancel-culture while the CF's leadership is mired in sexual harassment scandals with an increasingly large female makeup. He complains about uniform and hair color/facial hair standards being changed to reflect a more diverse membership, and then tops it all off with a condescending rant about young people and their culture of entitlement, knowing full-well (once again) that this is the demographic the CF needs most. Michel Maisonneuve couldn't have done a much worse job making the case for young people to join than he did here, and to have so many officers present cheer his tone-deaf rambling just made the optics worse.

Nooooope. Not even close. Not based on educational attainment, IQ, literacy, numeracy or any other metric. But you can help them improve those poor marks: move to another state.

Floridians are more intelligent than any other Americans. If you don't like it, you shouldn't have dropped out of the third grade, IMBECILE Put down the crack pipe.

Okay. Let's establish shared reality. The unvaccinated population skews significantly toward young, low-risk demo. The multi-vaxxed population skews decidedly toward the oldest and highest risk population. It's simply a function of the fact that those most at risk have the highest motivation to get vaxxed and boosted. PHAC So, again, the unvaccinated population has a significant built-in advantage in terms of baseline risk. They're younger. They have an expected survival advantage over the closest peer group: those who have completed a primary vaccine series (but maybe weren't recommended or prioritized for boosting or weren't feeling threatened enough to get boosted). Yet despite this inbuilt advantage for the unvaxxed population, we see a dramatic difference in outcomes in favor of those who have completed the primary series. PHAC If the vaccines were not effective, these groups would all have equal representation, negative outcomes would align with cases. However, you can see that the unvaccinated are overrepresented in both hospitalizations and deaths. The closest group in terms of comparing like to like or control vs test (though still disadvantaged) is the primary vax group, which is dramatically underrepresented in terms of hospitalization and death. Switch from distribution to numbers and put it another way. A little over 1% of the COVID cases among the unvaccinated resulted in death. Whereas, just .48% of COVID cases among the primary vaccine group resulted in death. Again, if the vaccines were not effective these numbers would be the same. But they're not. Even overcoming the youth advantage the vaccinated crowd is at a significant survival advantage. It's an inescapable mathematical fact that the vaccines are saving lives. A lot of lives. What of the high death rate among the multi vaxxed? Again, I'd point you to the age stratification. The highest risk groups are the ones getting boosted. The vaccine can still confer a significant survival advantage within this risk strata and still a lot of them will die--fewer than if they were unvaccinated, but still a lot. And it's not a subtle age skew, it's dramatic. Compare this to the primary series chart. Or, again, if you want to flip it to numbers instead of distribution, Just over 1% of cases among the single boosted resulted in death (comparable to the unvaxxed despite a HUGE age disadvantage) and just over 2% of the 4x+ vaxxed cases resulted in death, even among the highest risk by age. The point is that yes, there is ample statistical evidence that the vaccines are effective. If anyone has the outcome comparison for stratified age ranges to compare vaxxed vs unvaxxed 40-50, 50-60, 60-70 and so on,I 'd love to see it, and am confident that it would show advantage for every age range. But even without that cleaner view of the data the statistics here are very clear. The vaccines are saving lives.

Moonbox, The quote at the end of your post is quite demeaning, but I'll ignore it. You seem to want to take the esoteric intellectual high ground. So OK, in simple terms why do we have inflation?

Yup. Spot on.

This is crap. Big question for you: If they have these people coming to the ballot boxes over and over again, where is the video of these people coming to the ballot boxes over and over again? They claim to have 4 million minutes of video footage, but can't actually string together clips of the same "mules" re-visiting ballot boxes? GTFO. Boy, wouldn't that be interesting, if not damning. The editors must have just thought it wasn't interesting. This is a very dumb conspiracy theory. The technology doesn't support the claims they want to make from it. They data doesn't show activity or intent, it simply tracks vicinity. And it didn't identify mules, it identified patterns from an enormous dataset, and then claimed, without a shred of support, that people with those patterns are mules. There's a reason the book was recalled by the publisher and re-edited to stay out of legal trouble. You can legally make lame theories and implications, but if you go too far you have to face the music in court.

You'd save me some time if you read the links you were given. To much to hope for, I guess. Here ya go then...from the previous cite: " Engelbrecht noted that the criteria they used to identify a person as a ballot trafficker was intended to rule out individuals who might merely have been passing by. The person not only had to have made multiple trips to multiple drop boxes, he or she also had to have made at least five visits to one or more of the non-profit, left-wing organizations that turned out to be a nexus of ballot traffic. In Atlanta, the researchers identified 242 people who went to an average of 24 drop boxes and eight organizations during a two-week period. "We want to absolutely ensure that we don't have false positives, meaning including people that should not have been included," said Phillips. "We're not in any way saying that this is all there is."

A British deep state think tank that's all-in with the military industrial complex and the forever war is going to teach us all about those dastardly Russians and their remarkable ability to change the basic function of a SAM to that of a ballistic missile...all while Russia has THOUSANDS of older ballistic missiles in storage....waiting to go. You follow them...

So you're against free speech. Good to know.

Says the guy who constantly anticipates a future in which leftists are shut down, destroyed, eliminated.

A History of the Persecution of the Unvaccinated in Covid Era Canada | by Koen Swinkels | Medium

Because you are, howling over a man's thoughts on maybe what is wrong with DND or the country, in his opinions, and that of many others that were at the awards show, and millions that were not. You've taken it personally like it was an attack on you, instead of listening to what is being said. It has nothing to do with MAGA or being a boomer. 1. climate change, you're joking right now right, what are you doing about it, what is your government doing about it? what are you doing about your governments lack of action or are you content with their action? 2. collective apologies, you mean the well 5 dozen of groups of people that this government have had apologies given out to. From first nation to black construction Bn from WWI, so many that do they really mean anything accept we as a nation are good at saying I'm sorry. have you seen any meaningful reparations made, that are still not in the courts, you know the ones our liberal government is fighting. 3. what do you call it when you tear down a statue because if offends someone in this century, remove it from school education platform, it is call changing history, like it or not it is our history, and it should be taught in schools, so we don't forget it or make those same mistakes. 4. this is your problem, if you think this is not a reality then ya your problem, not all young journalists are woke but their seems to be a high concentration. 5. Cancel culture does not exist it is all in my head...I can list you 3 Generals off the top of my head that have been forced out on an accusation not even proven in a court of law. Their careers are done...but it goes on it does not have to be about sexual assault or misconduct, it could be anything, any perception of doing something wrong gets you canceled. 6. this just slaps everyone in the face, the problem is only boomers can see it. Fuc*ing boomers they made the whole thing up. your generation has no more patriotism for this nation than i do now. 7. special interest groups run this country, or highly influence it 8. divisive leadership comments all true, and no where did i see Hilary clintons name, he is referring to DND's and our government, but sorry not hilliary, i could be wrong nor does he mention trump either, very strange. what does good leadership mean to you? 9. Give me a break, make Canada great again triggers you? Thats why your triggered, becasue your a Millennials and you don't take critism well, you can give it out but recieving not so much. What you see as a long-winded speech, i see a person who is speaking out, against some of things he has seen in his career. i should explain a career, but more of a way of life, the military was his life, his mission, his total dedication, it controlled his entire being. it was not a job...but his life... With that many years of service he has been beaten by this nation over and over again and you were expecting him to be surrounded by puppies, and flowers shooting out of his a$$...instead he vented a few minutes on his final award ceremony. It happens a lot in the military, but you have not experienced it...and why should you have , not many Canadians really care what happens in our military... this has been happening for decades, did you think we are mindless drones that just follow orders, and not aware of what was happening in the outside world. If you're to sensitive to see those things as things to improve on, then disregard step away, i have not heard anyone sticking a gun to you head saying listen up mother trucker...it is not about your generation, our any generations it is where our country is today, and how it effects the Military good or bad..

No, you asked me why I was "howling at the moon" over the speech. I was joking that the only MAGA talking point he didn't mention was the stolen elections. Here are your MAGA grievances/talking points: 1. Climate extremism ? 2. Collective apologies (in the context of 4000 dead/missing residential school students, or sexual harassment problems within military leadership in Canada) 3. "Erasing history" (an absurd idea, but no doubt pointing to statues being taken down etc) 4. The untrustworthy MSM and the young, woke journalists 5. Cancel-culture - according to him as soon as you're merely accused of something you're DONE! 6. Socialism (those darned entitled kids getting their endless handouts). 7. "Special interest groups" 8. Comments about divisive leaders, pointedly implicating Hilary Clinton and her "deplorables" comments while curiously not saying anything about Donald Trump, who's been by far the most divisive leader in US history. 9. Canada can be Great again I told you already. The man's speech reads like an old Trumpy boomer complaining about millennials. Some of these comments in isolation would probably be unremarkable, but to go on a long, winding diatribe about all of the above in an acceptance speech for a military service award was not only pretty bizarre, it also followed a pretty clear agenda. He went out on soap box he was provided to rant his politics at people, and they were all following a boringly predictable template.

What time do they put you to bed there? Because I see a definite cut off of your posts around 4pm est. I guess at your age you pass out as soon as they take the dinner feed bag off. God bless your heart.

DeSantis tells you therefore it must be true. Yet you call yourself an educated critical person. DeSantis has a BA from Yale. Fetterman who you call stupid has three degrees including two master's, one of them from Harvard. Last I heard, neither Yale nor Harvard were in Florida.

Cite the law that quotes that. Here's the link: https://www.govinfo.gov/help/uscode#:~:text=The United States Code%2C is the codification by,The U.S. Code was first published in 1926. The US Code is the statutes of the United States. FIND the statute saying Florida's governor does NOT have the authority to ship those animals elsewhere (especially after an unelected senile racist pedophile illegally shipped them from Texas to Florida. Or admit you are lying . A or B, boy

When it comes to "standards" in an article, you and your fake news rags have ZERO room to talk. You have lost the argument. Biden DID send those animals to Florida and DeSantis sent them to a luxury resort island, where the RACISTS there kicked them out.

FYI parrots regurgitate propaganda, not facts. Would you like a cracker to go with your platitudes, Polly?

What's the difference between Ron sending people around the US on private jets and Joe sending people around the US on private jets? Why is it worse for Ron to foist illegal immigrants on the people of Martha's Vineyard than it is for Biden to foist 2 million illegal immigrants a year on Texas and Arizona? Do you understand what sending illegals to the Vineyard symbolizes? Wealthy Dems love cheap labour, and the illegals that come across the border don't compete with Nancy and Chuck for housing, they work in their their lush gardens and slaughterhouses. The Fentanyl that illegals bring across the border doesn't end up in Hunter's pristine narcotics, it ends up in tha projex. The people most affected by illegal immigrants swarming across the border are the people in affordable housing, working for minimum wage, etc. Ironically, the people that were dumb enough to vote for them. Everything that the Dems do hurts poor people disproportionately. When gas and food go up in price it doesn't slow Justin Trudeau or Anderson "Vanderbilt" Cooper down a bit, but people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder suddenly have to make do with less. "Here's your $15/hr peons, sorry it buys less than last year's $12/hr ?"