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It's one thing to be an lying, spiteful, a-hole I'm the political arena, but another level entirely for powerful people to attack and destroy the lives of innocent, regular citizens. The scumbag deserves this judgment richly. I wish he weren't already broke so that these poor women could get some actual compensation.

“Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, wrongfully accused by Rudolph W. Giuliani of having tried to steal votes from Donald J. Trump in Georgia, were awarded the damages by a federal court in Washington. Over hours of emotional testimony, Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss described how their lives had been completely upended after Dec. 3, 2020, when Mr. Giuliani first suggested that they had engaged in election fraud to tilt the result against Mr. Trump in Georgia, a critical swing state. The women, who are Black and are mother and daughter, were soon flooded with expletive-laden phone calls and messages, threats and racist attacks, they testified. People said they should be hanged for treason or lynched; others told them they fantasized about hearing the sound of their necks snapping.“

As Trump's stooge Rudy Giuliani is hit with a record penalty of $148 million for lies about election workers, the essence of this point and contraposition in the American history becomes very clear: the cult claims nothing less than the right to make the reality itself with their words, free of any checks, facts, principles duties and obligations. Says Giuliani: “So I am quite confident when this case gets before a fair tribunal it will be reversed so quickly that it will make your head spin and the absurd number that just came in will help that, actually.” The more they are shown and held to account for their lies, the stronger they will peddle and insist on them, with the only hope that the tired and disillusioned populace would not care. If not checked now, this path will lead, directly and surely, to authoritarianism. Between this position, if and when the society accepts and adopts it, and the worst forms of authoritarianism there's no stops. From the polls it appears that a large part of the American population moved beyond comprehending that. For it, it's some sort political entertainment game, whichever button you push, fun is guaranteed. Scary. And dangerous. This is exactly how Roman democracy perished, and every democracy will degrade and fade unless supported by the reason and will of free citizens. Are there still enough reasonable and responsible citizens who understand what's at stake here, these days?

Now you are just being a fool. I am placing you on ignore, since you cannot debate like a reasonable adult.

Hilarious opposite of reality nonsense from a supporter of the party that wants to make Trump dictator and already tried and failed to do it once. You are outraged that in the US system a Republican president must obtain congressional approval for certain issues and cannot simply rule by decree.

We always thought you army boys were a buncha puss-ies anyway. Now we know

Eyeball is old school from BC he uses birch bark and pine cones...

What's the difference? Progressives want to change the world - no problem. Some now use the word "transition". I reckon that Reagan and Thatcher won. We transition.

It was awarded by a jury, not a judge.

It comes to less than a quarter per individual lie per plaintiff. Could it go any cheaper than that?

Perhaps you don't really understand how the Proportional System (PR) works. Each political party chooses its own candidates. The votes for a party are added up from all ridings and that determines how many candidates can be chosen by the party to be MPs. The electorate do not elect the MPs that are chosen this way. The party decides who their MP will be. So a certain number of MPs are chosen by the parties, not the electorate in each riding. The only indirect voice a citizen would have is if he is a member of a particular party, he might be able to participate in choosing a candidate for that party, but that is not the electorate making the choice. The whole system is a convoluted process and means the end of simple basic elections or the end of democracy. The theory is if a fringe party gets 5% of the votes nationally, then they can appoint 5% of the MPs. That is just a basic idea how the PR system works. Fringe parties might not elect any MP in the FPTP system because they only have 5% of the vote across the country and would lose in any particular riding under the FPTP system, but they are allowed to still appoint 5% of the MPs in the Parliament. That's how it works in a very rudimentary way. So none of their MPs are actually chosen by any particular riding. The MPs chosen by the party are unaccountable to any particular riding and only accountable to the party that chose them.

We love it when you hit 'em with facts. Factum. You really factum

Thanks but...as usual, @Moonbox is counting his chickens before they hatch.

Trump had a whole assortment of individuals committing crimes against people and of course trying to steal the 2020 election, only a smaller number have been punished to date.

It's like you picked up a megaphone here and started shouting about your ignorance. If you don't know what Trump has been charged with--as detailed in some remarkably through indictments--then you are part of an extreme minority in the English speaking world. Everybody knows. There's no mystery about what Trump has done or the charges made against him. The only question is whether the juries will hold him accountable.

Your orange Messiah tried to stage a coup and you're shouting about how a bi-partisan bill represents Democrats approaching the Rubicon? Lol. Pipe down, lunatic. The grown ups are just trying to make sure they if Trump wins up in the white house instead of prison that he won't set the stage for WWII during a late nite poop-and-tweet. He's that petty and reckless.

Sure they do. That happens all the time. It's often called punishment by process. That's why a lot of the current action is causing people to say the US is like a banana republic. And 'm sorry but it's demonstrably true. That attempt in new york to claim he committed a felony by compressing a whole bunch of misdemeanors together like making a bar of soap out of leftover little slivers? Never been done before. Only reason the did it was trump. The civil fraud stuff? When was the last time ANYONE was charged with that with zero complaints from any other participant or source that many years later after the loans had been paid off? never. It's a technical violation with no actual crime. Etc etc etc. There are only one or two legit serious charges. The rest are witchhunts. And if he wins, then maybe the dems will be subject to a few witch hunts, and a few fake dossiers and a few investigations looking for the slightest possible technical infraction and we'll see at that point what you have to say about how it's 'not weaponizing the courts' to prosecute people.

The Canada Health Act establishes minimum standards, provinces are free to add if they want.

Oh no, the poor daft fool if telling us about his magic TV that shows the future again. Facts: Brown was killed on August 9. The video of his alleged robbery was released for the first time ever on August 15. It was covered as breaking news by FOX and CNN the same day. There is zero possibility that you saw that video on day 1. I've told you this many times. I've showed you the time-stamped screenshots. Either your conspiracy brain has rotted to the point at which it can no longer accept new information, or you're actively and deliberately lying again. I suspect the latter. CNN didn't lie about Michael Brown. They reported. As a FOX bobblehead you're probably unfamiliar with how that works, but the gist of it is that they hire reporters who talk to people with knowledge of the people and events being covered and then relay the gathered perspectives to the audience. CNN, reported that one of Michael Brown's family members described him as a gentle giant. They also reported the robbery as soon as the police released that information. Yes, they covered both stories and perspectives. It's called journalism, you dolt.

These lawsuits are just another sad reminder of how much of a banana republic the US has become. The FBI committed crimes to make Carter Page look like a Russian asset, put him in a position where Page had to publicly reveal that he spied on Russia for the US to defend his own reputation - which obviously places him in danger of retribution from Russia - and yet his lawsuit was thrown out. If Trump and the GOP had the FBI committing crimes against people, you know damned well that everyone involved would be crucified.

1. Government (federal/state) debt becomes a Ponzi scheme. 2. Racial/woke people and normal people get into a stupid argument. 3. Poor people want more from rich people. ===== I reckon that the US will manage all these current complaints.

In Quebec, like Norway, we have this bizarre paper claim on future real wealth. In Norway, it is called the https://www.nbim.no/ In Quebec, it is the Caisse - bas de laine. ==== You Americans correctly have a different idea of a sustainable society.

Where has Trump got this new popularity from? After all half of the voters fiercely hate him when as a lot of those who supported him in 2016 were disappointed with him as President. He talked the talk but didn't walk the walk. With him the old adage seems apt; fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Which textbook states that standing on someone’s neck for 13 minutes is the correct protocol?

He should ask the Biden's, they have perfected the art on extorsion.

by a jury of his peers.

When the balance of power is held by a small number of MPs, they have far more power than they deserve. We see that in Canada with the NDP able to force the government to do what it wants even if it is against the will of the majority of voters. We see the NDP forcing the Liberals into big spending programs when we are already billions of dollars in debt. More expensive programs will just add to the debt and mean more taxpayer money must be allocated to pay the interest on the debt. But the NDP could care less about debt and interest. It is beyond their ability to understand.

Well for starters, COVID is real and vaccines work, in spite of the misinformation YouTube videos that tell you otherwise. There was definitely Russian collusion in the 2016 election. The FBI has even stated this. No idea what you are talking about with the rest, as if you can provide me with any mistakes the MSM made, I would love to hear about it. You see, that is the difference between you and I. IN college, I took media communication courses, and I choose sources that are for the most part impartial (CBC, NY Times, Globe & Mail, etc). You choose YouTube videos and FOX News to base your political positions on.

Do you not see the irony of using a link to CNN to claim CNN is lying to you? Instead you still believe Tucker Carlson and FOS LIES after it was proven they lied extensively and had to pay an $800M penalty for LYING. I already posted dozens of reports from Scientific American. Shoot holes in those IF YOU CAN. But you cannot.

You really shouldn't feed the trolls folks. If you're bored, come up with a new interesting topic for people on here who argue in good faith. And use the IGNORE feature.

Excellent question! Tell us what costs the most: A gallon of gas A gust of wind A ray of sunshine A burst of volcanic steam So, yes, you must build a plant. Whether that plant is gas, coal, solar or wind, you have a large capital cost to build it, and you must maintain it. But the fuel costs of geothermal, solar and wind are zero. Further, solar and wind can be added in much smaller increments than any other form. One panel or one windmill at a time. That’s a far less capital intensive method that building massive new coal or gas turbines.

Australia uses proportional representation and we're often reminded they're leaving us in the dust on multiple levels.

jeez... people willing to give up their security to international terrorists who are killing hundreds of thousands because they don't like the concept of everybody trying to be nice to each other. Putin just needs to state that he is murdering hundreds of thousands in order save Ukrainians from pronouns! he's really got to bring up his messaging game.

You proportion things at a higher level than a riding. This is disingenuous and it seems typical of critics that seek to give the impression things haven't been thought through. In the meantime the 'hurdle' you put up is. There are plenty of ways to skin this cat. Mixed Member Proportional systems that strive to keep the geographical integrity of single seat ridings by creating top-up seats at the regional level. Weighted Voting systems that weight, or scale, the parliamentary votes of MPs, thereby balancing each party’s parliamentary seats with their electoral votes. https://www.ourcommons.ca/content/Committee/421/ERRE/Brief/BR8474581/br-external/ReidMarilyn-e.pdf These days I pretty much just focus and vote on local regional district elections/issues - everything else is a waste of time and effort and IMO would best be left to collapse. Participating is only a vote for a status quo that I detest.

Woke? If Dwight Eisenhower was Woke, count me in! “WE DO NOT KEEP SECURITY ESTABLISHMENTS MERELY TO DEFEND PROPERTY OR TERRITORY OR RIGHTS ABROAD OR AT SEA. WE KEEP THE SECURITY FORCES TO DEFEND A WAY OF LIFE.” General Dwight Eisenhower

? Jeebus, dude, are you trying to break everyone's irony detector? The guy literally got fired (and cost his company $800M) for selling you a "big lie." Not something wrong. Not a mistake. Not a different perspective. But a massive lie with massive implications that he knew all along was a lie. And, amazingly, even after the liars have admitted to lying to you, you STILL believe and repeat the lies. It's not just stupid. It's pitiful. Like, honestly deserving of pity. I want to give you a cookie and a stuffed animal.

No, he said that Turkey actually left NATO, so he was wrong, once. Don't you wish you were just wrong once? That would mean that you were right 7,800 more times. Look at yourself, getting your 'news' from CNN and CBC and you're here making fun of other people ? You're drinking from the toilet and making fun of what other people drink.

What a stupid scary tale.. who peddles it I wonder? Ever heard of a "coalition government"? Yes you don't get to rule singlehandedly no matter what you do and how screw up.. that's such a bad thing (in a democracy") right?

We've been through it. Yes it works in dozens of democracies, including those with diverse local populations. Yes it works. Ignorance is not an explanation neither a virtue. Nonsense, continuation of it, sheer and unadorned cannot be explained rationally. You have only one choice here: either to do away with it; or reject your sanity. Because it just isn't sane, in this time and century.

Whatever you say, Vladimir.

It's unfortunate that dental care wasn't rolled in with healthcare right from the get go. Internationally, health policy analysts are often surprised that Canada’s national system of health insurance (Medicare) does not include dental care. http://www.ncohr-rcrsb.ca/knowledge-sharing/working-paper-series/content/quinonez.pdf

One can illustrate the problem with a not purely imaginary situation. The society is uncertain and split between the main parties, around 48-52 margin. "The best of the bad ones", heard that? Proportional system: the two get similar share of representation, and the other parties more votes and higher share. So the main ones have to explain, convince find compromises, bargain for support. Such novel ideas. In the FPTP its starkly different: one gets all the representation, all 100% in the pure theory example. Just this one case shows that not only it doesn't make any sense, it's just not sane. The only reason it exists now is that two, three centuries back folks thought that two is better than one (or, Canada style: just copied the other folks' stuff blissfully), and in ten or so generations no one bothered to notice that the time moved. Then they'll dance and cry about the fake "landslide" mandate and then, shove it down your throat want it or not, what, you "voted". One thing you can't do now though is to keep wondering and complaining why they are doing that and why it cannot be fixed. Here, explained.

Interesting how people who hardly ever watch CNN are "sucked in" but those who live on a diet of FOX are exclusive owners of the truth. As far as MSNBC goes, it is the left's version of FOX.

FYI there are now over 40 refurbished laptops out there that will identify themselves to Microsoft as "Hunter Biden's Laptop". The GOP is welcome to try to extradite me for Obstruction of Justice.

My “frothy mouthed support” for any “CNN narrative” is another figment of your imagination. Amd from what I can tell most of the “CNN narratives” you allege are also made up by you.

No you had a whole series of posts not too long ago attempting to claim that opinions are facts. Have you forgotten already?

Elon Musk demands Bob Iger ‘be fired’ after Disney pulled ads from X That'll get the advertisers back. NOT.

How do you figure that? Right wing Christianity is praying for Armageddon and violence, brutality and invasion. This would include the mass murder of all LGBTQ+. Left wing Christianity are going the better and more moral way of loving their children even if LGBTQ+. Which system is better?

Enough of that nonsense, already. In this age, and century a government cannot be democratic unless it is supported by the majority of voters. No mambo jumbo voodoo moodoo fancy counting. Votes. Every one of them is counted and counts. Simple. The right and the one way, only. Hand tricks, don't count. Fake "landslides", not a bit. Prerogatives and privileges assigned upon themselves (aga grabbed) based on non-existent, phantom, faked "majorities" count for nothing in a real, responsible citizens democracy of today. Easy. We, citizens can see it, and decide it. No more nonsense.

We KNOW you don't watch CNN 24/7 so ^this is hyperbole at best and cognitive dissonance or LYING at worst. You've been shown the Russian collusion evidence here many times, so we can only assume that you're in denial or BLIND to what you've seen.