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Paul Collier wrote a book called Exodus some years ago which described the pitfalls of large scale immigration to the West from the third world. He pointed out that the degree to which immigrants assimilate is a function of the similarity of their native culture to that of the land they journey to. Thus European immigrants can immigrate into Canadian society relatively smoothly. However, the further away the culture and its values, the less likely immigrants are to adopt the ways of the new land and integrate. Instead they form diaspora communities to retain their old ways. And these diaspora communities can last generations without external pressure (of which there is currently very little in Canada). Bluntly speaking, the Middle Eastern Muslim communities are not going to integrate. Some individuals within might, but communities with such vastly different values, beliefs, and cultural histories are simply not going to integrate with a culture they regard as not just immoral but inferior. Especially when the cultural representatives of that (our) culture spend most of their time running their own culture down, self-accusing themselves of all manner of terrible things, and constantly apologizing to the newcomers for their shortcomings. We should never have taken this many Muslims in. And we should never have taken ANY Muslims in without careful screening for attitudes and beliefs. No screening is how we got the Khadrs, and how we get all these people in the streets screaming death to Jews. Of course, the irony is so many Jews were among the biggest supporters of immigration, and of multiculturalism and making allowances for the cultural issues involving newcomers. I guess they thought if they showed Muslims a welcoming embrace and helped them this might diffuse thousands of years of hatred. It didn't.

post one example of anyone saying that they're both bad therefore they must both be lefties. You defend trudeau because he's on the left and you support the left over the right. You have never once made an intelligent defense of him that i've seen, you just rabidly blather at anyone who points out anything negative that he does And this is the problem. You're constantly dishonest in your posts. We see that for many of the left-wing posters. It was very hard to believe you when you say something like the current liberals are a right-wing party. The only way that's true is if you define anybody right of Castro as being right wing.

Trump Was Incredibly Bad At Presidenting He's not a manager, he just played (a bad) one on TV. Q: How can you tell a manager is bad? A: He believes firing is always the solution to a problem.

You can’t even compare the two. Trump never formally conceded. He continues to push his stolen election lies to this day and is already setting the stage for 2024 election lies in case he loses. In hoth 2016 and 2020 he said out loud he would only accept the election results if he won. He launched a number of schools to steal the 2020 election amd Jan 6 wasn’t peaceful. Clinton and Gore both officially conceded and didn’t push conspiracies and lies and try to steal the election. Hillary’s one-time offhand remark on a talk show THE VIEW doesn’t compare with Trump’s constant lies about the 2020 election that ha brainwashed millions of his mindless followers. Gore also never called Bush an illegitimate president. .No, you don’t understand the recount issue. Both sides disagreed on exactly which districts and polling stations should be recounted with Jeb Bush and republicans only wanting to recount districts that would likely be favourable to Bush and Gore wanting those favourable to Dems. In the end the Court ruled that Jeb as governor can count any way he pleases. What a STATE-WIDE review revealed afterwards was that Gore likely would NOT have won if the districts he requested had been recounted HOWEVER if the entire state had been recounted (which he didn’t request) he would have won.

You think being a Homemaker is just being knocked up folding laundry? Look at you insulting all those women out there who invest time into their family to raise their children by reducing it to being knocked up and folding laundry. That it is below other ambitions that you say are "beyond" it. That this would not be part of her dreams. Shame on you.

As i've mentioned but the left likes to gloss over, in countries like denmark where women have arguably the HIGHEST amount of choice and access to every kind of profession or vocation and where society pushes them to explore options , "wife and homemaker' is still the number one choice. When women have a choice, they most often (not always but most often) choose to bring children into the world and care for them and nurture them. There is NOTHING wrong with that. But the left would have us believe that any woman who thinks that way is straight out of the handmaidens tale and should be punished for allowing herself to be repressed like that.

Sorry man - i generally respect your comments but that was complete leftist bullshit. He does not 'hedge' anything. He doesn't even say that they SHOULD feel one way or another. That is a lie that you and others are pushing because you're so heterophobic these days that any suggestion that a married couple with children is a good thing is taken as a person affront. He very clearly said that without a doubt some women will choose to have carrers but that he GUESSES that most of the ones WHO WERE PRESENT AT THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL EVENT would likely be most interested in being a wife and mother. Not even all women everywhere - he is talking to and refers directly to the women present. He also notes that a lot of women find that life very fulfilling and rewarding. Like his wife. You absolutely lie in the worst way by adding in all kinds of bullshit "round about way of saying" and "what he REALLY means is". He stated very clearly EXACTLY what he means. the sexist here is you. you cannot imagine that women might want to be mothers and wives. You look down on women who choose to be a home maker like it's some sort of undesirable thing to do or a form of slavery. You should be deeply ashamed of your reaction. It is sexist and bigoted and beneath you

Trudeau isn’t as intelligent as Trump. Trudeau keeps saying things that make him look ridiculous. His latest attack on the NB Premier is another example. We get it that Trudeau, a fake Catholic who supports unlimited abortion up to the day of birth, would try to go after anyone who isn’t a leftist lunatic. Does he actually think the majority of the country doesn’t want parents of kids under 16 to know if their kids are being called another gender and name at school? How stupid is this man? The worst PM in the history of PMs anywhere. I wouldn’t let PM blackface near my kids. We need more leaders like Higgs and less creepers like Trudeau.

Wow, you've been really busy on this forum. Did you lose your job or something?

Yes, exactly. It's NOT a coded message. There is nothing to decipher. Every woman sitting in the audience heard him loud and clear.

He still has not conceded and still claims he is the legitimate president. All he did in that piece was acknowledge that it wasn’t going to happen. Trump organized the rally, tild them to march to the Capitol, continued to tweet incendiary remarks even after he knew what was happening and refused to tell them to stop Dems had nothing to do with BLM riots Not the same at all. Clinton said the vote was legitimate but voters acted based on fake news and Comey’s election night announcement of investigation that revealed nothing. Gore and Bush legitimately went to court because the Florida recount was required BY LAW but didn’t specify how the recount should be conducted. Gore conceded as soon as the court ruled that Bush’s brother Jeb can recount it anyway he pleases, which naturally favoured Bush. It is also a fact that if all ballots in the state had been recounted Gore would have won. And yet still Gore conceded and accepted the result even though he didn’t agree with it. That’s a big difference from Trump’s CONTINUED baseless 2020 election lies and his attempts to steal the election.

Thats not how that works...sorry...Israelis soldiers have to be in uniform or performing a military function to be targeted ...if your dressed in civvies cloths and do not have some sort of indentation that marks you as a combatant and take part in military activities, that is a war crime "see hamas"......... But Hamas has not got the guts to attack a Israelis soldier performing their duties... they prefer to attack unarmed civilians, old men and women and children they move much slower, these are known as terrorist attacks, terrorist are not afforded any protection under the Geneva convention...... No once again that is not how that works, take the hospitals that are under special protection, meaning NO military operations allowed near or in the hospital, however if you use the hospital to store weapons, munitions, military supplies, then it voids those special protection laws, and the are now can be targets for military operations...If you launch rockets next to a school it losses it's protection values, and can be targeted...if you set up a military hq's or barracks that building can be attacked...Have you read the Geneva conventions ? The answer to your question can a hamas terrorist be targeted becasue of where he lives...Not unless he is a high valued target...if he is not then he is still subject to arrest, if he resists then force will be used, very unlikely they would waste a bomb on one person, unless he was a high value target...

Kick them out. Demonstration in support of murderous Islamic Republic by terrorist lover immigrants who have their loyalty to Hamas and Islamic Republic carrying their flags on Canadian soil supporting the terrorists. I personally don't believe that multiculturalism is not working as an immigrant myself, Canada and its interests is first and foremost in my mind however, it is the Liberal approach to multiculturalism which is not working. That is opening the door to everyone and not deporting those who have their loyalties to foreign terrorist organizations. KICK THE TRAITORS OUT.

You don't get it, and most Canadians are also having the same problem....you don't understand the issues, you don't understand what it takes to defend your nation from terrorist...this will never end because of the hate that is breed everyday on both sides. This will stop one side is pushed into the sea.... Peace will never be forced upon them...ever...one side will have to be destroyed for this to end, in the next couple generations...and people like you will rejoice in the streets...

Anyone else notice that all the allegations of subverting the law were all how Trump would use the legal avenues to achieve desired goals?

Yes, it should be obvious that women who have families and their own careers are doing more. How is this math difficult for you? The same is true for men. Perpetuating the species is a baseline activity. Contributing something to the species beyond a successive generation is is doing more. Marie Curie changed the world, won a Nobel prize and had two daughters who also went on to make notable contributions to humanity. Acknowledging that some accomplish more than others shouldn't be controversial. Sorry that hurts your feelings.

All ? No. Support ? It depends. You're working on a mass model here - ie. political polling ie. "How do you FEEL about the changes the government is making to healthcare ? 1- Strongly Agree 2- Agree 3- Neutral 4- Disagree 5- Strongly Disagree" That means that the communication is managed as always. But that also means that you still have the opportunity in there to make things better and educate the public and make the engagement model stronger. The biggest problem, imo, is that we don't know how to run services. Mostly public, but basically service delivery is terrible in Canada almost across the board. Top-down management is the order of the day, and customer response, innovation, improvement ... all of these things suffer.

No, I don't think we can survive the meteor on a starship with current technologies. My best advice is to dig into a mountain side deep enough and fortify your position there with enough provisions to live out the rest of your natural life.

Really? LMAO Thanks for demonstrating how completely unserious and TROLL you are.

Don't be too hard of the poor tyke User. Its eclectic to promote ideas that discourage families. So is jumping off a cliff...

The 'diabolical lie" was that you CAN"T find fulfillment raising a family and that you shoulnd't try. That it was wrong to think that wanting to be a home maker was a worth while goal It's a lie you perpetrate right here But how kind of you that you're 'fine' with a woman being able to make her own choice about that. That's quite a concession on your part.

FOIA'ed info that has come up in the Subcommittee testimony by Lawrence Tabak: From the emails: "I learned from our FOIA (freedom of information act, the legislation that allows citizens to demand to see the work of the government) lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA'd but before the search starts so I think we are all safe. plus, I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail." “we’re all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns and if we did, we wouldn’t put them in emails and if we found them, we would delete them.” This is destruction of evidence in the face of investigation. It’s also the use of untracked unofficial emails for official business which is supposed to be a NO NO. And, obviously, this all pales in comparison to the underlying actions it was intended to conceal. It was a bad day all in for NIH, Ecohealth, and Teflon Tony at congress. Rep. James Comer: "Finally, emails show that Dr. Moranz would share internal discussions regarding upcoming FOIA releases with Dr. Daszak. He would then help Dr. Daszak craft responses to documents being released in these FOIAs. Are those actions consistent with NIH policies?" Then they lied. It was relentless. And they viscously attacked those who asked questions because they knew they were guilty but needed to play the victim. An awful lot of good people got horrendously maligned and canceled trying to drag this into public view and belief. If this gets swept under the rug and Fauci and Collins and Morens and Daszak and Baric and that hobbit Hotez skate, we’re in real trouble. If they can walk away from this, literally anything can happen. If there is no accountability for this, it’s just plain over. The last congresscritter out, please turn off the lights. The emails are pretty damning and all their names are on them.

But but but but ..... where in the hell is he supposed to get his cheap vegetables THEN?!?! You monster! The zucchini!!! Won't someone PLEASE think of the zucchini!!! (no zucchini were hurt in this reenactment of leftard moral outrage.)

No, why they have the policy is exactly why we have a federal system. It is their job and their responsibility to act to the benefit of their constituency. Local policies for local governance. For local police, that means NOT alienating a population that exists in their community. They didn't cause the population to exist, but it is their responsibility to deal with it in the manner that works best for the community. That's not a subversion of the law. Again, it's literally why our constitution was conceived as it is. And, as expected, you're projecting. The politics of spite may be the primary driver of MAGA politics, but the rest of us are just interested in meeting challenges and build a better future.

So, in your mind, giving birth is the same thing as being a homemaker? You claim to have a daughter. Does she have ambitions in life beyond being a homemaker? Do you want her to achieve her dreams? Would you rather she were just knocked up folding laundry?

I mean - none of those examples are wrong at all of course but trudeau IS just as dumb in other ways. Trump didn't get up and claim that over 1/3 of the population he represents were bigots or misogynists just because they didn't want a vaccine. Trump didn't claim that budgets balance themselves (before borrowing more money than all previous prime ministers combined) or publically admire china's dictatorship as being a great thing. Trump didn't demand it was his right to exclude an entire newspaper franchise from asking questions of the gov't because one of their people insulted his mother. Trump didn't stand up in the house and call other ministers a 'peice of shit". Trump's office didn't personally ok a guy coming to the house for awards and snacks who turned out to be a nazi I could go on. Trump definitely does some very stupid stuff. But justin isn't much better on the stupid front. I don't think either of them are likely to win any nobel's for science anytime soon

No? So your boobs make milk? You can squeeze puppies out the end of your dick? Be serious... Butker did not say "uppidy women" as far as I know. He's pointing out that our very beings are designed for certain purposes, which we deny, and that this is causing all sorts of issues.

This is the stupidest question the media loves to ask Republicans and not Democrats. Lets be honest here, if it is super close everyone will try to take whatever legal action they can to dispute the election and saying they will commit to honoring the election results no matter what is pointless because no one can see the future. Honestly the question is pointless because any who says they will commit is lying. They just want them on record for saying it so they can hammer them on it if its close and they fight it. That is probably why they don't ask Democrats.

but the debt based economy is like a Ponzi scheme, in that you need constant growth to prop it up so that's going be approaching a million immigrants a year thus any solution which is based on constraining resources is going to backfire at the end of the day, you need the profit motive to generate the needed expansion Canada's misguided archaic socialism is the barrier which is causing the choke points in the system

🤪I can't prove that you're being dishonest. You may, in fact, be just too abysmally stupid to understand plain language. I don't think that's the case, but it's the only other option to dishonest here. You can choose.

You are being patently dishonest in THIS THREAD. There is no need to look for evidence. Any person fluent in English knows exactly what Butker plainly said and what he plainly meant. You should be embarrassed to pretend that you don't understand it. Anything for "the team" I guess. And your laughably misplaced sense of "winning" is a Dunning Kruger case study waiting to happen.

The lie about inflation is that it’s additive; we haven’t had deflation for a very long time. If your rent is $1,000 a month, and inflation makes it $1,100… then inflation will make it $1,200 after that. Prices just go up and up. If you buy a house, you manage to flatten the biggest monthly expense you have, and if interest rates go down, you can actually reduce your monthly expenses, and if you put solar panels on your roof, your electric bill becomes near-zero after you’ve amortized the panels, which takes about seven years. Learn how to fix and maintain your car, and keep it fifteen years instead of three, and you’ll vastly reduce your second biggest expense. Cook your food at home instead of eating out, and you’ll slash your third biggest expense. These are the paths to financial success and it’s how you’ll beat inflation, whether the rate is 3% or 10%.

Yeah Trump never says anything that makes himself look ridiculous...nope...never. 🙄

I understand what you're saying and tend to agree, the madness (I referred to above) even supports that view until you begin to associate what's happening with other examples of agenda driven insanity (I'm thinking religious zealots here). Given the LSD fuelled policy initiatives that spawned the outcomes on display now, I'm left asking "what did you think was going to happen?" The fact that delusional governments aren't solving this doesn't make the system bad (necessarily) even though it speaks to the "voter mentality vs quality politician" dilemma we seem to be choking on now. Nothing wrong with parallel private and government systems in IMO but switching horses during a serious emergency (that's where we are IMO) never, (n my experience anyway) yields the desired outcome, it only sets it back. Training times are just too long to get this wrong by throwing gas on something we can make work in the interim. Making it work may require something like setting up BATs (big tents) on university property and running courses in 3 shifts 24/7 until we catch up. I'm not recommending that BTW simply saying that after watching the house burn for decades we are only now thinking about the water required to put it out. If something is 60% effective you don't set fire to it during the course of an emergency, you grab it by the throat and make it perform.... then when dust clears you give it the spanking it deserves because you now have the means to do so without shooting your own foot off. Right now we don't even have a belt holding our collective pants up.... it makes spanking this dog of a system difficult at best. Anyway, it always seems to circle back to voters electing the foolish and then getting the policies they voted for... maybe elections are a good time to pay attention, maybe even discuss policy initiatives eh? Think back to defunding police departments, if ever there was a textbook case of voter madness and getting exactly what you asked for wouldn't that qualify? Imagine a world where people voted on policy as opposed to narrative and the sort of political dogma that rivals the best on offer from religious zealots.

It's cute that you think he had a job.

Yes there is in both inter national law and the conventions they state it very clearly who can be targeted and who can not... The difference is one is a soldier, when a soldier does there duty they can be freely targeted, they must be in uniform and carrying out military operations of some sort. unless they have done something criminal then they are subject to arrest.....unless they are wounded or surrendering then treated as per the conventions. ... A terrorist is not afforded any protections under the conventions or inter national law, except once taken prisoner they must be afforded protection. clothed and feed...terrorist are criminals and can be arrested , detained, at anytime...

Oh, Fark off. You've been dishonest in many threads in your short tenure here, but this one takes the "gay cake." Butker is a piece of crap, but at least he has the courage to plainly say the shitty things he thinks, instead of pretending his message is anything other than it is.

No i don't know the back story, and i don't have to, your over reaction to every post you post to says it all....what i do know , the black dog i once knew would not get involved in post like you have in the recently. And you now sound no better than the people your conversing with...one of the reasons you left this forum was for those very reasons, and now you have become one of them. Bravo zulu. I thought your being here would elevate the conversation, spark some meaningful debates, instead i was wrong...your just another guy with a chip on his shoulder and access to the internet ...

Why Big Oil Executives Are Already Salivating Over a Second Trump Term Voters used to punish politicians for selling policies to private interests instead of making them compete with newer and better ideas. 🤮

I don't think they'd grant it to me. I, after all, have a fully operational brain. Yours seems to have been dead and rotted for some time now. So I return the suggestion to you.

"For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I'm on the stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation." While not explicitly.. anyone with basic reading comprehension can see through it. Your bias precludes you from intrepreting this, I know. I know that you can't own up to this.

2016 Democrats losing their shit because Trump won: I mean, it goes on and on and on. ‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump’s Election And some of those protests got violent. But that doesn't matter because they are on your side, right? Its only when the right does it that it becomes reprehensible.

This is the same old dumb game played every election cycle. No politician trying to win a race wants to talk about defeat before they even have the election and no one wants to commit to "accepting the results" when they don't know what the results are. There could be a difference of a hundred votes, issues, or legitimate reasons to contest the election. They say they are going to accept the results, then the same disingenuous people asking the question will come back and demand they concede immediately, or they run pieces on how they are already prepared to lose the race...

Where's the evidence for any of this. Can you point to any specific examples of Israel or Hamas buckling to international pressure? It's absurd. Truth hurts. Calling for our government to do the thing it's already doing and that won't actually influence any events at all ios the very definition of virtue signalling, loser.

This was my seventh. You drink your Kool-Aid and I’ll drink mine.

Just had a booster today.

legit one of the dumbest things you've ever said and that's an extremely competitive category. The problem with this is when you're dealing with a state that is already an international pariah there's not very many levers you can work to influence them. Sanctions? The U.S. has had Iran under sanctions for almost 50 years. Military action? You think anyone wants to start a full blown regional war over a few dozen kibbutzim? The protesters aren't trying to pressure the government, they're pressuring their institutions. Again, you obviously have no idea what these protests are about.

You're basing your belief that a "high volume" of protesters don't know what they're protesting based on a small cherrypicked sample of ones you've seen interviewed? You don't see the problem here? In other words, you want more empty virtue signalling. Israel has shown it does not care about international pressure. The only thing that would actually make them stop is if the US turned off the tap, but that won't happen. Israel has shown it does not care about international laws. The efficacy of the protests wasn't the question.

It would be more accurate to say Hamas doesn't want peace. For the same reason Netanyahu's political coalition doesn't want peace. Peace would make them both redundant.