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I could be wrong, but in my lifetime, I don't recall the government telling us to shun friends and family who didn't have the MMR shots. I don't recall ever having have to show my MMR vax record to buy groceries.

So, once you've gotten your wish and vax passports have gotten rid of unvaccinated people in society, and covid STILL is circulating (because we know it will).......what's your next move, maniacs? Get rid of those who don't want jab #3? And down the inevitable line, what will you do with those who finally say "Enough!" around jabs #5 or 6? Get rid of them, too? Do you not understand that this is not about health, it's about obedience?

seriously, in fifty years, I have never encountered such hatred for the federal government objectively, Justin Trudeau and his degenerate cronies are the most hated government in Canadian history it's not even close, everybody I meet curses Justin Trudeau and the scum who are cronies to him I don't even hate Justin Trudeau, I wouldn't allow myself to succumb to that but every single person I meet on the street despises him and his government with a passion there is no conversation I have with anybody, where the rage against the federal government is not palpable

No, being stupid is indeed an accident of birth for which you can't be blamed. But ignorance is a choice and you've elected to wallow in it. Instead of shouting to the rafters that white privilege doesn't exist, you could spend some time learning what it is and why it persists. Listen to the experiences of people of different backgrounds. You might learn something.

For someone who claims to be well educated, one wonders what passes for education in Florida because it seems to turn out people who can't have a discussion without name calling and abuse. You really do come across as a mo- ron who has no other tools.

And just look at the obstinate callus foul-mouthed cultists POS they produced. I've been on a lot of forums... I've never come across anyone as disconnected from reality as you. Congrats...

Exactly, you started with a conclusion and call anyone who disagrees with you names. That is not a discussion is just being an ahole. But hey, that's all you ever do.

Here's the definition of white privilege for the troglodyte Jethro miscreant racist foul-mouthed cultists here: "inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice." I'm guessing youve never been the only white person in a vehicle full of your black friends driving through Hollywood on a Friday night, when it gets pulled over by LAPD. I, (the white one), was pushed aside while all my friends were frisked, verbally demeaned and prodded, harassed... Their only crime... Being out on the street while being black. As usual, reason10 is spewing his particular brand of racist, insulting garbage banter. Vomiting out crap that he has absolutely no idea about. Call the nurse, reason10 is coughing up more garbage.

Yes we all saw where the policy was heading. People claim it's "offensive" to compare the vaxx pass to nazi Germany but we all saw the rhetoric and knew it would eventually get there. Trudeau is a very sick man

They don't care. The "message" isn't going to actually make anyone do anything. 50% of people vote now, they don't care. Elect someone you like or run for office and start your own party. These are the choices. Not voting is giving your power to other people.

It's mostly over my head too. That was my education as well, and I've spent the last decade or so in the industry. I do, however, know enough about it to understand that Justinflation, or Bidinflation is goofy nonsense, and I do speak to the experts who do understand what's going on. It's multiple textbooks and courses to get even a foundational level of knowledge. We're talking PhD-level education and/or work experience to be able to usefully contribute to these topics.

Oh yeah you did. You've said 100 times on this forum that people needed to stop talking about the PM's misdeeds against the Freedom Convoy because it was history. Why don't you just ignore the topic if it causes you so much heartache?

There is a thread title. And then a post that has absolutely nothing to do with white privilege. I have to assume OP doesn't know what white privilege is. It doesn't have to do with money or other circumstances of birth. It refers to the general "benefit of the doubt" that white folks like myself enjoy every day in a society that is built from the ground up to treat us as a special class. OP, did you forget that you already posted a stupid thread about white privilege?

I've been saying this on this forum for awhile now that monetary policy and central banking is overwhelmingly complex beyond the average perception. Explaining it is hard because unless you also have the foundational economic knowledge to understand the terminology and relationships, it's going to seem hopelessly esoteric and complex. The number of people who are actually going to read (or listen to) an essay on it to get even a basic grasp are few, so as a popular media/discussion topic you end up with little but oversimplified and/or grossly inaccurate summaries/narratives that mostly confuse people. This has made for fertile ground for negativity, with central bankers around the world under mountains of criticism from folk who (at best) have no idea what they're talking about, but also those that do understand but see it as a useful political whipping boy. The reason I made this thread was a timely article in the CBC (I know - reee MSM fake news), where the author points out the challenges explaining this to the average layfolk and references the Deputy BoC Governor's attempts to make policy decisions more accessible. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/inflation-interest-rates-column-don-pittis-1.6660112 The CD Howe Institute also had some interesting takes on how silly the politicization of monetary policy has become, but my favorite quote from the article was the comparison to "Doing Your Own Brain Surgery". Most people would defer to the medical experts on this and can understand the obvious implications of mucking around as noobs, but because it's not so obvious or visible, they have trouble doing the same for monetary policy despite relatively similar levels of complexity. I've done some crypto investing over the last couple years and made a lot of money off it, but it's been very much a Greater Fools game where I ride a delusional hype train and bail long before whatever sh*tcoin I'm buying inevitably steams off a cliff. Central to the delusions of crypto bros and moonbois has been the theory that central banks were steering us towards hyperinflation and the imminent collapse of sovereign fiat currencies (pushed heavily in 2021). These theories have predictably played out as false and crypto market caps have been devastated since Nov 2021, but the narrative that central banks are just printing piles of cash out on their money machines and using it to prop up their governments persists anyways. Many of these folk sit at their computers reading charts that don't tell them what they think they do, and sharing tweets and blogs that reinforce their narrative, but all they're doing is reinforcing their poor decision making. The TLDR of this post, I think, is that people often don't know what they don't know. Convincing yourself that you're capable of proficiency in deeply complex subjects that usually require years of formal education and/or practical experience is unwise. I'm guilty of it sometimes and try as much as I can to recognize when it happens, but that's unfortunately sometimes long after the fact. We don't have to blindly defer to authority, but at the same time we should be acknowledging that on many subjects, we're not really capable of commenting fairly or intelligently. That's not because we're stupid. It's because we have no idea what we're talking about and because spending our after-hours prowling the interweb is not going to solve that. Sometimes, we have to let the experts be the experts.

Here are the facts. http://www.realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/True_Negros/Assorted/The_History_of_Slavery.htm Yes, Virginia. The United States of America did not go into African jungles in search of slaves. The trans Atlantic slave trade predates the creation of the United States. Africans sold Africans into slavery. https://www.thoughtco.com/african-slave-traders-44538 https://sovereignnations.com/2018/04/30/history-arab-slave-trade-africa/ And the Islamic states were among the first to initiate the trade. You have the sources, libs. Quit being so stupid.

You are the biggest ID IOT on this board. Too stupid to even understand how you F'up ALL the time.

You are a tool who thinks the most insults wins.

Like everywhere else on Earth Africans routinely took slaves long, long before the coming of either Arabic or European slavers. And even at the heigh of the Atlantic slave trade the majority of African slaves were in - Africa.

Current events have a tremendous political, diplomatic, social, and economic impact on affected nations and citizens that results in increased geopolitical competition, which is what we discuss. The group isn’t USA-centric, we touch on what’s happening the world over and have several international members. But TBH, the group is tilting slightly to the left and I would love for some strong, well-informed conservative voices that can keep their cool to join to prevent it from becoming an echo chamber. However, folks from all political ideologies are welcome. The MeWe app has great features/functionality. You can ask a specific question you’d like to discuss or share relevant information on Posts, create a Poll or engage in a fluid conversation with no restrictions on Chat. Also, there’s a wide array of emojis to convey your thoughts without words! You’ll have the opportunity to exchange ideas and make acquaintances with some well-informed and high-quality people. You’ll find me there as LuxLuz, love to see you there! https://mewe.com/group/629ba8857e82a64167c5245c

I'm not saying you and yours can't get you little army of social scientists and the journals they control to flame anybody in anyway, peer reviewed or other. I'm saying that pathetic bunch of faux experts weren't concerned with the term "narcissist" until after Obama was getting identified as one.

All I've done here is present RELIABLE sources to back up my claims. My only problem is you people read at a third grade level, so the facts go over your melon heads. Trump supporters work so you don't have to. I am not retired. I still work so you can enjoy those food stamps. I just SOUND older because I'm smarter than you. Most of America is smarter than you.

Jeez! Boys and girls. Some knucklehead does a Google Search using the words "Trump" and "Narcissist" and somehow it becomes a doctoral thesis? Seriously? I'll bet this HO has a whole shelf full of participation trophies.

You can continue to support segregating society via covid jabs and vax passports. I will continue to oppose them.

The liberals here (besides being some of the dumbest people I've ever encountered in a long time) are indeed the worst kind of RACISTS in the galaxy. They are the legacy of the Democrat authored JIM CROW laws.

I'm still waiting for someone to hold the prescribing doctors accountable. They are the equivalent of the street pushers.

Very true. Stupid uneducated low information liberals existing all over the world does not mean they have to exist in America.

White abuse of blacks ended in the 1960s? Explain this.

this is how Trudeau is not a cause, but rather a result it is the majority of Canadians who want any dissent against the government to be crushed the population of the country has become majority illiberal Trudeau simply panders to their totalitarian desires Rex Murphy: Trudeau's national 'emergency' was a pure concoction of political convenience The Emergencies Act came, like a meteor, flashing out of nowhere, to kill a legitimate protest Anyone remember the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Not so long ago, the Charter — as the shorthand for it goes — was looked upon as Canada’s most important, close to sacred, document — something like how the British think of the Magna Carta, or the Americans of their Declaration of Independence. It was the heart and soul of the Canadian political experience. The shield of all our more precious liberties, or, to vary the phrase, a steel wall protecting the most basic rights of individual Canadian citizens against any overreach or invasion from their governments. COVID showed us many things about the charter. And what it mainly showed was how quickly (and with how little objection) its steel guarantees became, in reality, but a film, a tissue, to be overridden by pure decree and the varying whims of municipal and provincial leaders. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/trudeaus-national-emergency-was-pure-concoction-of-political-convenience

Newfoundland, with some 500,000 people nowadays, has existed for some 500 years. ==== To survive and be civilsed, Quebec doesn't have to have more people. Canada doesn't need more people. People like Trudeau Jnr think of progress as getting bigger, growing, having more. === Very soon, the world's population will start to fall. We are seeing it now already. Places like Iceland and Bulgaria are sustainable for centuries.

Every place on Earth has racism and social inequality today. And for most of the world it's far worse than in North America or Europe. Do you blame all of it on the trans-Atlantic slave trade?

Higher gas prices are not due to just Carbon taxes, in fact global events have risen the cost of of fossil fuels light years farther than any scheduled carbon tax will ever put the. So suggesting Carbon prices are doing its job is false. had we been global events free people would still be driving like it was 1999. With Fossil fuels at todays prices it is causing some to pause and think about where to drive and where, but i think for the majority of people to be really thoughtful of driving we have a ways to go yet. I have started to hear from people taking jobs closer to home as they could not afford the commute, but they are basically minimum wage workers, part time moms.

Back to my OP, it seems to me the level of enthusiasm for guns borders on a cultural fetish.

don't forget, the Bank of Canada is a privately owned cartel the Bank of Canada governor doesn't actually work for Canada he is employed by the five big banks funny how these Millennial's trust this guy, as if he was a public servant, when actually he is not

It's weird that you're using an appeal to authority argument when the authority that you're appealing is to is yourself, and you've been proven the fool here many times. I never quoted you out of context at all, your quote is just as dumb as it looks. The number of deaths do matter, in fact, they matter more than anything else by a long margin. It's not even close. Do you think that Canadians would have approved of the massive expense of a vaccination campaign, propaganda campaign, forcing young people who didn't need the experimental drug to take it or lose their jobs, vaccinate children, all to just end up with the exact same number of deaths? You're really trying to pretend that "It took more cases to generate the exact same number of deaths that we expected had we not vaxed anyone" is a valid defence of vax success? Same number of deaths year over year. Covid deaths at the exact same rate/100,000 people during the exact same span of time. A success because.... Hodad says that case mortality rate was lower ? Dude, we test more people than ever. Do you realize that the gov't had to change the way they record infections during the last flu season to tone it down? Read the top line on the photo below, and look how high case counts are artificially LOW due to changes in testing policies despite the fact that the number of cases is still so high. More tests = more cases. Like I said, we're not counting deadly snake bites, where basically everyone goes to the Dr, we're taking about covid, where lots of people go back to work now. Counting extra cases means dick all. There could be 100,000 people infected right now or 3,000, it makes no difference because the symptoms are so mild. If there are 1,000 deaths in each of the above time periods, that's a big deal. If there are 3x as many in one period, that's a big deal. We count toe tags, not sniffles. I don't distrust the data. They actually had the balls to put data out there that's extremely unflattering. I also understand the math done on those charts implicitly. That's why I'm always having to explain to you exactly what it means. The math is just done in a way that is intentionally misleading. If you're really mathematically challenged enough that you don't understand that, that's your problem. FYI: a chart making a direct comparison between the # or % of covid deaths among 4xers and unvaxed between Dec 14 2020 and Sept 25th 2022 should not exist, period. The number of days of exposure by 4xers is about 1/20th that of the unvaxed, and the unvaxed went through 2 flu seasons, 4xers zero. They just went through one summer, and you can ask Beave what covid deaths do in the summertime because I just rubbed his nose in it in another thread. The only reason to make a chart like the one you keep posting is to be intentionally misleading. Your seatbelt analogy was useless, and yes, mine was perfect. Do you need me to dig them up? And the number of cars on the road has gone up every year. It's a stupid analogy. The population of Canada didn't go up in order to result in the slight increase in covid deaths. Did you see the paltry number of "cases" that resulted in all those covid deaths in early 2020? Do I have to tell you why the "case count" seems really low compared to all the deaths? I probably do need to tell you, but I won't, because I don't care what you think. You're just gonna keep lying about the stats anyways. You keep thinking that an increase in the number of reported cases is a big deal, but FYI we test people now for no reason. If no one was dying, we'd stop testing almost completely. Seatbelts do save lives. So does the polio vaccine. They're not good comps for the vax.

This is a very good post. The machinations of the central bank are extraordinarily sophisticated. I have extensive economics education (as a student, it's not my profession) and have no problem admitting that it's way over my head. I don't mean to say that it's unlearnable, but one would need both a good foundation and a lot of specialized training on top of it--and a good bit of practice. We're talking multiple textbooks. Nobody's going to do it in a blog post

Okay. You're not very good at it. Keep trying I guess. ?

It's not, and you repeating that thought makes you look sillier every time. and that's everything there is to it, huh? ? Thanks for coming out Dougie. You've been a wonderful example of what I was talking about in the OP.

No but his Nazi handlers told him the concept is 'woke' so it must be leftist, therefore he must hate it so much he's obligated to speak out even if it proves he is clueless about the subject.

Central Banks have always been able to influence long term bond rates. The Fed Chair could tweet a picture of Pug and that would probably affect long term bond rates. Japan's problems are more fundamental in nature than just central banking. Wild speculation, poor capital controls/regulation and rapid global/liberalization blew the whole thing up by the 90's. The beginning of that mess coincided with the beginning of a demographic crisis which has only worsened since, with the working population shrinking from over 70% in the early 90's to less than 60% by the time COVID hit. That Japan's problems are markedly different than here should be evident simply by the fact that they've spent the last 25-30 years struggling to reverse deflation, rather than inflation.

Yes, but I tried to pick one that wasn't pure poison. Well we sort of do, in that we have specialized administrations looking after specific things. We have physicists and engineers etc looking after our nuclear reactors. We have doctors running health files, generals running the military, highly economists running the BoC etc. They're not always perfect and sometimes they lose sight that they're working for the people, rather than the other way around, but in that case the government can turn to outside consultants and experts to help unravel what's going on.

What makes your left wing opinion rag any more reliable than the actual source. As far as a reasonable debate, you haven't had one yet in your life. Maybe when you reach your 20s and grow a brain...

You people claimed Americans invaded Africa and captured the slaves ourselves. One of you goose steppers called me a racist for pointing that out. From Hoodad. Seriously, are you high on meth all the time?

The first time I saw the term "narcissist" used in a political context it was used to describe Obama. It was used often. I'm all the time noticing one of the key MO's identifying the Progressive Socialist (especially the type indoctrinated in university) is a need to re-use burns that were used to identify them but redirected towards the ones that hit them dead on with it. The thing is though, it never really fits when the Prog uses it. The definition as we know it doesn't really apply, so they simply behave as if it does and another term gets corrupted.

That could be the case, but then this was one midterm season, the reality you describe was mostly localized (especially in places like Florida) and not yet indicative of a trend. The shift of the Hispanic vote could be explained by how unpopular Joe Biden is and how worried people were about inflation and the economy. They're not as expensive as ours ? I agree on all points, except I think you understate the effect that Roe vs Wade had. He won the first election because people were tired of the Liberals. He won the subsequent ones because he was cynical, pragmatic and willing to compromise. Maybe, but these things are all about narratives. Harper understood that the electorate (outside of a minority) considers abortion a fundamental right and that they weren't going to tolerate challenges to it. I can make up a bunch of silly examples of doofus private member bills I think even you'd agree would be problematic for the party. Trudeau's ascension was pre-ordained. I said on this forum back in 2009-2010 it was going to happen. I could probably find that post. The brand was too strong, and people were tired of Harper, who wasn't nearly as fiscally conservative as people expected him to be, though he was certainly better than Trudeau. Because the Conservative Party would be considered guilty by association. For the many Canadian, abortion rights are fundamental. That needs to be part of the platform and the brand, and if it's not, and you have rogue MP's publicly attacking things like this, the average voter has reason to doubt.

What are you contesting? There was undoubtedly a crowd that gave a standing ovation, but it wasn't the whole crowd and plenty have voiced their displeasure about both the speech and the ovation. They didn't list who applauded it either, so I don't really see what's strange about this. Are we supposed to tally up the yays and the nays to determine who's right? ? I don't think the Minister's opinion is remarkable. She's going to parrot Trudeau, so we can ignore her, but Jennie Carignan's voice matters and she undoubtedly has the support of Eyre and others in the upper leadership, else she'd have said nothing. It's not just the brass either. I can't remember the guy's name but I'm sure I could find it, but some colonel working with NATO in Europe was tweeting the speech was disgraceful or something to that effect. Of course it was his opinion, just like you're giving your opinion and I'm giving mine. What I thought was interesting was how closely Scott's feelings matched my own.

This thread has gone exactly to where it proves the concern I tried to express in my video. It's now all name calling and accusation and principles and issues are long forgotten. "In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." Joseph de Maistre We deserve no better.

Fair criticism of Trudeau, but then the alternative on-offer is Pierre Poilievre, who was first elected without any post-secondary degree and who's never held a real job in his whole life. The guy only earned his "Bachelor of Arts" degree when he was close to 30, and is a pure career politician.

Nope, sorry. Bible-thumpers are a very different breed than everyday Christians. You'd be considered one - the tasteless type prone to preaching and proselytizing to people uninterested in your religious messages.

It's always humourous when Conservatives claim election fraud whilst producing not one iota of evidence ( of said fraud) viable enough to be substantiated in a court of law. And it's not just election fraud claims.... It's Conservative claims in general.... Wild claims are repeated over and over sans any viable supporting documentation. That's how low the bar has been set here, in America.

Republicans win in landslides when (a) the population is well educated and (b) when election laws are enforced.