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it's not a question of forgiveness per se the problem in Canada is that the political elites are never held responsible for anything for example the Somalia Affair where the government illegally administered a drug to the Airborne Regiment which incited the unit to suffer from psychosis en masse, resulting in catastrophe the government then launched an "inquiry" which was simply used as a mechanism to cover up the crimes and protect senior officials from a reckoning when I was young and naive. I honestly trusted the government I trusted that public officials were trying to do the right thing but after Somalia, I could never trust the government again so I can certainly forgive anybody who asserts that Canada is not to be trusted when it comes to enforced medical procedures

He's a drunk criminal with no honour who lied about his achievements and has lost the respect of his peers again and again. Yeah - looking at you i can see it.

And they've been sued for it. More than once. they and NBC have deliberately altered footage and presented "facts" they know to be untrue in order to create stories. Not just 'got a story wrong' or the like. Or came to a different conclusion over the evidence. But actually made up a story AND CREATED SUPPORTING "EVIDENCE". We saw it with the christian school kids and with treyvon etc etc.

I think he is trans-political. He identifies as a conservative.

Oh look. The self-proclaimed "Conservative" is siding with the Libbies...again. Mike...come out of the closet.

As per usual. There is almost zero political value to publicly discussing or debating actual economics. Might as well be Greek to most voters. Nobody wants to end up like poor Ross Perot with his charts. So we'll get a lot of campaign nonsense--a lot of it cynical nonsense for 100 more days and then economic advisors will try to quietly move actual levers with things like CHIPS and the poorly named (but long term great) Inflation Reduction Act.

You guys can't decide whether the virus is dangerous or innocuous. I guess it depends which meme you saw last.

There is benefit in isolated industries like agriculture, and perhaps fish processing. Also for the odd highly skilled individuals. There is none for unskilled labour unless your own citizenry are all involved in much better-paying jobs. You get that the situation is way different in just the last five to ten years, right?

I would surmise that somebody in the government got paid to dose the Airborne on behalf of Roche but I doubt there is any evidence of that now, 30 years later, so it's only speculation that being said, why else would anybody do it ? in terms of a conspiracy to incite mayhem for its own sake, I doubt that since these senior officials did not know that they would be able to dodge accountability because that was more of a process as the Somalia Inquiry went along these senior officials probably counted themselves lucky to dodge the bullet, since that was never ensured when the Courts Martial is brought to bear, nobody is guaranteed a get out of jail free card but in terms of the murder of Shidane Arone, that was not a planned nor controlled situation I mean, Matchee was apparently out of his head before he laid the beating down swinging his baton around the bunker, at "f*cking Camel Spiders !" that weren't even there there's only one witness who was there that I have heard testimony from but he describes Matchee as actually hallucinating at the time

Yeah, in some places it is. I pay about $1300 a month to insure a family of 4 on a high deductible plan with another $500 a month into a pre-tax health savings account that can be used to cover any out -of-pocket costs. And same situation for wait times. General care is really available, but if you need a specialist or non-urgent surgery you're looking at wait times in months. It's a broken system. Insurance companies as nothing to the quality of health care but take tens of billions in profits (more?) out of the system.

bear in mind, I have direct experience with the effects of this drug because my buddy came back on leave from Op Deliverance and he was completely out of his mind hyper paranoid, hyper aggressive we could tell right away there was something seriously wrong with him but after a few days, he returned to normal because he didn't take the Mefloquine that week but then he starts telling us about it, that shit had gone crazy at Camp Pegasus it was a mad house, troops were going psycho left and right he said it was spooky, but he himself was hyper paranoid and hyper aggressive, so the madness had become routine like the prisoners being tortured in the bunker, they were all screaming, begging for their lives and everybody in the camp, lying in their bunks, could hear them screaming "Canada no, please, Canada, no !" he said it was "Canadian Apocalypse Now"

There were no facts. There was no issues with the Dominion Voting Machines. FOX hosts spread lies about the company, knowing full well that they were false.

100% the drug had failed the human trials because it was shown to induce psychosis in the form of hyper paranoia and hyper aggression but someone at DND made a deal with the French pharmaceutical company Roche, the manufacturer to use the Airborne Regiment as lab rats in a totally illegal by Canadian law unsupervised secret drug trial then the Airborne Regiment chain of command went crazy ordering the troops to commit war crimes to include direct orders to torture prisoners orders which the troops obeyed, in their psychotic drugged up state

People have been saying "there is a growing cultural change" since the Beatles touched down on American soil 60 years go.

This is why you have zero credibility of the internet. In spite of a court of law ruling there was enough evidence that FOX News allowed a false narrative that was unsubstantiated to proceed, and FOX getting scared, and giving Dominion Voting nearly a billion dollars, and firing Tucker Carlson, you still stubbornly cling to a false narrative that has been proven to have no merit. You are in your own little world, favouring some YouTube videos, or conspiracy theorists, rather than a court of law. You need to get out of your basement, and get some fresh air, kiddo. It's not healthy for you. If you do this, I promise not to take a dump in your mouth for an entire week.

well take for example Clayton Matchee I didn't know him well, but I knew he wasn't a homicidal lunatic he was a typical regular force married guy everybody in the infantry is eccentric and everybody is aggressive but the guy was an Airborne Regiment Master Corporal, which requires you to seriously have your shit together and his wife, Marj, says Matchee was having psychotic hallucinations in Canada, in Petawawa, back on leave so he, along with many other troops in the Regiment, were being driven psychotic on the ground in Somalia it's like 2 Commando was forced to take its Mefloquine on Tuesdays and the troops were so messed up on this stuff, they started calling it "Psycho Tuesdays" they were having nightmares, hallucinations, the drug can cause hyper paranoia & hyper aggression hence why it wasn't approved for use on humans, at the time when the Airborne was being dosed with it, unlawfully

A plausible case can be made for policies playing a role in stabilizing things so far. But the reality is complicated and global and no one really knows why the whole thing hasn't tanked. Economists will certainly be analyzing and theorizing about this for the next century. Maybe we're in our own oblivious roaring 20s while lower down financing strains are building. I agree, and the doom and gloom rhetoric on the right is transparently self-serving. This is a great point. I lost a lot of value in my own savings but my home price has nearly doubled (no mortgage). Of course if i ever sell this place I'll probably then get taxed for all the inflation-based increase in value. For that matter a lot of the inflation is probably psychological. Econ 101: a shift in the demand curve can be caused by the mere expectation of future price increases. And if your customers are primed to a widespread spike in prices the suppliers take advantage of that.

FOX News created a fake story. That is why they had to pay out nearly one billion to Dominion. If the story had been legit, and it failed to get updated, the case would have never made it to court. lol....I know who not to take legal advice from... Actually, CNN has never had to settle for hundreds of millions due to fabricating stories, like FOX News did. Who are you trying to fool anyway?

Well you're a bit of a better person than many we see here or publically on the dem side who insist that all republicans and conservatives are monsters who want to see people (especially children) die violently. As just expressed by one of our resident nutbars. ANy discussion has to start off with the premise that neither dems nor republicans want people to suffer. That's a given. If either side could wave a magic wand and everyone had good health all the time both sides would waive it with equal vigour. The question is how best to get there. And it's complex SUre - you pay about 1500 a month and get healthcare coverage. In canada we mostly pay a small amount on top of our employer and the rest is covered by the gov't. I mean like maybe 50 bucks a month But. the average us family pays about 18,000 dollars in taxes in a year - all levels. Canada - who has almost the same average income incidentally but in canadian dollars, pays about 28,500 in taxes. AND we have worse wait times, etc etc. It's not all that cut and dry. And the us system produces more in the way of medical advances etc. It's a long discussion

And in a follow up, Joe Biden arrives at the convention to speak to delegates.

So clearly you don't understand the difference between a legit story not getting updated promptly, and just creating a fake story to tell people. That's why you don't understand how low CNN's credibility rating is. For an example, if CNN hears about Jussie's lynching story and then reports on it, that's normal. Fox too. CNN and Fox might start reporting it as a hoax on different timelines, whatever, and it would be news fake for CNN to pretend that its still kinda likely when they know it's not, or to pretend that maybe Jussie felt like it was real when they knew he was a faker, but that's nothing compared to the level of deception if we found out that CNN was part of the scam from the very start. Get it? It's "fabrication" vs "timeline for updating an ongoing story". CNN fabricates. That's why they're considered the biggest liars on TV. Fabricating is the most extreme form of lying. It involves intent from even before the lie is told. It's not the same as omitting or exaggerating, which is still bad.

Bullshit.

Sunny ways.

Some crazy stuff happened all right. FOX News lied about Dominion Voting Systems, a Canadian company, and spread lies about the company. Dominion sued FOX for $1.6 billion, and a judge ruled the case could proceed. Hours before the case was going to court, FOX settled with Dominion, giving the company $767 million to drop the suit, essentially admitting that they had lied about Dominion (innocent parties don't settle for US record amounts). Now Smartmatic, another voting system, is suing FOX News, and it is still in litigation. Tucker Carlson was fired from FOX as a result, and now has been exiled to Twitter. The moral of the story is, that FOX News lies, and cannot be trusted. Notice how we never hear about negative stories about Dominion Voting systems in the news? That is because they were false, and no company wants to be sued into oblivion.

Well there are two "things" that every dictator and despot everywhere seems to run on. The first is Hope/Joy and the other is fear/hate. When hitler was running he had himself photo'd with children who all surrounded him adoringly while he gazed hopefully into their future and that was his posters. Then he'd give speeches about how horrible the jews/commies/redheads were. (I added in the redheads bit but am i wrong? am i???) Chairman mao was the same. He had his people say that voting for him would bring you joy and then he'd have posters of him leading the charge against the enemies etc. Every single 'enviornmental' or animal rights group or activist group does the same - talk in terms of hatred and then in terms of the joy people will feel if they join to beat the evil (with only a 19.l95 per month donation!) So right now her campaign is very much a "laugh along with Kamala" and "feel the joy" campaign and then she'll try to focus it on "hate trump - he wants to buy your puppies to make a coat".

Nobody can claim exclusive credit, for sure. But the Trump Stimulus, the Biden Stimulus and the tough medicine from the Fed are all massive factors. As well as some artful follow-on actions. There have been maybe two "soft landings" in history, and this one isn't accidental. A huge cast of players involved, but it's not just good luck. The Biden admin didn't just not fark it up.. They've earned considerable credit. I don't dismiss inflation. It's no fun for anyone, and definitely some people have been hurt, but there are two points to make--maybe three. The first is that there is a huge difference between saying, "The post pandemic economy has been tough for me," and saying, "The economy is in shambles!" I'm sympathetic to individual pain, but it doesn't erase the overall success. While this has been a tough period, the US had fared really well compared to most of the world. We experienced a global pandemic. It was a massive shock. There were many kinds of pain inflicted, including economic. There's some irony in the fact that the "conservative-ish" crowd who decries the nanny state is irate that the state didn't protect them from all types of pain resulting from a black swan event of biological origin. Yes there was damage. Yes, good government made it better. No, good government didn't erase all effects, nor is that a reasonable expectation. Second, our measures of inflation and wage growth are based on averages. There are definitely things and people on the up and down side of those averages. Some employers will scale wages more effectively than others. People with a lot of cash savings got burned by inflation, yep. But a sort of inverse of that is that everyone with a mortgage (or any other loan) got "boosted" by inflation as the relative burden of those notes decreased. Workers will fare better than non-workers. Etc. Etc. Third is that while inflation can cause some real pain, a lot of the pain is psychological. It's really easy to see a higher price tag at the grocery store and a lot harder to notice a few extra offsetting dollars in your paycheck. And indeed, employees locked into long-term contracts might not be getting the same adjustments as employees without long-term contracts. Sometimes those contracts help and sometimes they hurt. Mobile employees (job jumpers) are going to fare better than loyalists. But even considering all of it, hourly and salaried real wages (CPI adjusted) have climbed. You can see that easiest in the 10-year view here. The point isn't to dismiss the pain of real people. It's to say that if the state of the economy is an election issue, it should be viewed as a strength rather than a weakness. It's a good economy in any context, but coming out of the pandemic, it feels downright remarkable. And the average American is better off.

@Hodad It's true that the economy has hummed among suprisingly well for the last 4 years considering everyone was predicting a big post- pandemic recession. I don't think anyone can take credit for causing the period of post-pandemic inflation nor preventing a recession. But I guess Biden can at least say he didn't do anything to create sudden shocks or added uncertainty to the system. But going through a period of inflation was traumatic for a lot people and they are still feeling the impact of it, so I don't see the point in dismissing it as an issue. Maybe hourly wage labor has kept up, but lot of people on a salary schedule have essentially lost 25% of their income. People with money in savings saw the value of that evaporate dramatically for a while. And the CPI does not include finance costs. The cost of borrowing is still very high. The housing shortage and the huge increase in home prices has caused a lot of people to be locked into a lower tier of housing than what they had been planning a decade ago.

There is no way in the universe you read the bill. You think people will believe absolutely anything just because you're willing to do that yourself.

the battlefields are in play. The aggregates don't agree with the OP's somewhat bias poll But they do all agree that the candidates are within the margin of error of each other with nobody having a clear advantage. The problem for Kammy is that this is probably as good as it gets. She's had almost an entire month of not having to answer one single media question (other than once when they asked her when she'd answer media questions) and the media has been rooting for her as hard as possible moving forward she'll have the debates, trump will start to advertize hard, she'll have to start to answer some questions most likely and she sucks at it (and not in a good way like her former boss benefitted from ). She needs the convention to be a major success akin to a halftime show at the superbowl, and she needs desperately to do fairly well in the debates. If she can get enough height above trump she can afford to play a 'basement' game in the second half and coast to victory which was biden's tactic last time (or ford's tactic on the ontario election etc) and that can really be a winning strategy. But if she can't get that big bump early on then it's going to be very hard for her.

Of course you would! Look at how badly you JUST reacted to facts! You can't watch anything that actually has facts in it or you'll lose your mind

If I had to choose between FOX and CNN, I would take my news from CNN every single time. At least they were not almost sued to oblivion, for airing false claims in regards to election interference.

still waiting for a link, or any type of source to validate your claim.....

You are full of it. You cannot provide a link, since you are LYING.

Posted a billion times already, look it up youself sealion. it's common knowledge and easy to find

We need to ask why more people are dying now in spite of mass vaxxing, AND when the variants have weakened considerably. The answer is in all the medical papers I've linked here.

Lol. We've long since established that you're economically illiterate, but I appreciate that you never miss an opportunity to demonstrate it. 1. Yes, stimulus can contribute to inflation, but it was not the primary driver here. And if you were even marginally honest you'd acknowledge that both the Trump stimulus and the Trump deficit were larger than those under Biden. If you want to claim that stimulus and deficit are the primary drivers then apportion blame appropriately. --For the record, stimulus was absolutely the right move to stave off disaster. Regarding timing, there is almost nothing a POTUS could do to cause an immediate inflationary reaction in the first month in office. The lag alone is longer than that. That should be your first--and most obvious clue--that the inflation train was already in motion as Biden was being sworn in. Again, because it's being driven primarily by external economic realities. Which, again, is why it's a worldwide phenomenon, you thick twit. 2. "Biden's war on domestic energy" is an absurd fiction. You're taking about a period of record domestic oil production--literally more oil extracted than at any point in history. If you can grasp a concept as basic as supply and demand (and I'm skeptical) then you would understand that record supply is NOT driving up costs. As you've been told many times, oil is a global market with global prices. Even at record production, the US isn't going to fill global demand. Production sites around the world were shuttered when demand dropped during the pandemic and global production wasn't coming back online until prices increased to justify restart costs. 3. Calling it "Biden's war in Ukraine" is just asinine. A non-starter for any thinking person. Yes, Putin invading Ukraine did exacerbate the disruption of the energy market, but it had nothing to do with Biden, your fantasies to the contrary notwithstanding. 4. OPEC had just finished cutting production, partially at Trump's urging (raising gas prices). They're not our servants. They're not going to jump every time we ask, especially against their own interests. We are dependent nations. If you don't want to be beholden to OPEC buy a goddamn EV and break the cycle.

Oof! In fairness to my insurance overlords, birthing expenses on my plan are their own sepatate category and i did not have to do the massive $5k deductible. I probably paid a couple hundred in misc expenses and the quality of the services we received were top notch. To be clear, i pay $1500 per month directly out of my paycheck. Insurance companies sell group negotiated discount deals to employers and the government makes it so you can pay for your insurance on a pre-tax basis. Each region of the US have different insurance companies that dominate and have their own negotiated pricing agreements with healthcare provders in that region. So via my insurance im allowed to use doctors within a certain network, but not some competing. It's basically like high tech feudalism. 😄

Back in the 1990s a friend visited from LA. She was a nurse practioner at a major hospital and told us how she had 'the best' medical coverage and it only cost about $5000 out of pocket to have her baby (minor complications). We just had my daughter the year before. Born by C-section and they tied the wifes tubes at the same time. She had an optional private room, we paid for a TV and a phone for the 3 day stay. We paid $81 for those non-covered options. We elected a horrible, evil socialist NDP govt in 2014 and it eliminated the $125.00 a month family medical premium with no deductibles that we had to pay as I retired and she was on medical unemployment insurance. and the employer didn't anymore. So if your employer must pay that $1500 a month for you, it seems a bit of an advantage here when employers had to pay only $150 a month. MOF this came up in the 1990s as an 'unfiair advantage' during the original NAFTA talks. BTW the same evil socialists also eliminated a bridge toll on the TransCanada highway that was costing my brother in law's company over $3000 a month. The toll was placed by the previous 'free enterprise' BC govt and the wimps in Harper's Tory national govt said not a peep about the Province imposing a toll on our main national highway. At the time they removed the MSP premium, it was the last province to charge one, so that is not unique. So it appears to every Canadian (and the rest of the civilized world) that Americans tightly hold onto your freedom to choose who can rip you off for the most over a sensible single payer plan like Bernie has talked about for ages simply because someone brainwashed you into believing that it is socialist, which it can't possibly be if every other country does it. Kind of like clinging to the Imperial measuring system, as something that must define the USA as unique.

You have just proven that you intellectually disabled. Congratulations! Wow.

Jeez he retired instead of deserted. What a sane choice.

Really? How so? Pointing out the policy positions of candidates that want to run the country is a waste of time?

Do you have a reputable link that shows that to be true? No. Because you made it up and just want it to be true. And you definitely don't want to talk about all the facts about what happens with price controls. ABC: "It's economics 101 that if you stimulate demand while simultaneously deterring supply, your equilibrium will be significantly higher prices," Michael Faulkender, a professor of finance at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, told ABC News. In turn, Faulkender dismissed any potential benefit from a federal price-gouging ban. "It just sounds to me that we're creating even more burdensome regulations that will actually raise prices for consumers," Faulkender said.

This question is the first thing that popped into my head, and now I can't stop thinking about possible names.

We all know what vaccines are DUI. They confer priceless protection against virulent pathogens with high mortality rates. Diseases like smallpox, TB and polio were a death sentence 120 years ago, now no one in Canada fears them. No one on this site has ever questioned the effectiveness, safety, or necessity any of those vaccines. If there was a Royal Family of Medicines, vaccines would be in it, along with penicillin. But calling the covid jab a vaccine is like calling Napoleon Dynamite an emperor.