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One of the things the US election highlighted for me was the tyrannical control the CRTC here in Canada has on free speech. Independent media in Canada is virtually non existent. What few podcasts exist are inevitably tied to a political party or mainstream media. Canadian content on Youtube is similarly hamstrung. Am I wrong?

It’s definitely in danger. Trump’s relationship with Prime Minister Orbán of Hungary holds a clue. Orbán has replaced Hungarian democracy with an authoritarian regime. It began by militarizing the border to keep out migrants and asylum seekers – installing an “immense security apparatus” – and led to using laws as weapons, as well as controlling all media. In the “election” the opposition never had a fair chance. Nonsensical regulations hamper pro-democracy organizations. Corporations are controlled by Orbán’s cronies. And, in the “unending drumbeat of propaganda” – Sound familiar? Is Trump importing Orbán’s strategy of subtle repression? Why did Orbán visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/13/17823488/hungary-democracy-authoritarianism-trump

I don't have a problem with a buy nothing day. Putting reins on our rampant consumerism isn't being ant capitalist.

How dare anyone make fun of you and your fawning subservience to the un-clothed Emperor . . . 😎

It started as far back as Goldwater: How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power Axelrod Stays Classy With Romney/Hitler Comparison Reductio ad Hitlerum: 60 years of Democrats falsely calling the Republican nominee a fascist I could go on but this bores me. They lie when they are easily proven wrong. See this @Black Dog? His alternate reality, my actual reality.

But it is what I do best. In fact it's all you do. I can only presume that you're here for the single purpose of making people feel like the transgender community is represented by completely Retarded people who can only Have a discussion by redefining with everyone else means to fit their narrative.

Even in Canada there have been restaurants and such that have tried to refuse service to people wearing Maga hats Perhaps not surprisingly I haven't heard anyone who is a republican refused service to a democrat even if they are wearing harris paraphernalia based on their politics The left has just gone into evil mode in the last few years

Let's see what else Trump has done for Russia. Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset He sent Covid-19 testing equipment to Putin at the height of the pandemic. He denounced U.S. efforts to combat Russian misinformation campaigns, going so far as to characterize Russia as a victim. He refused to say whether he wants our Ukrainian allies to prevail in the war against Russia. He talked of the possibility of lifting U.S. sanctions against Russia. He publicly congratulated Russia over a historic prisoner swap. He pointed to Putin for validation to justify his position on Ukraine. He celebrated the fact that Putin was echoing his talking points about the 2024 election and Trump’s multiple criminal indictments. He told a Mar-a-Lago audience how “smart” Putin was for invading a neighboring country. He described Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and part of a “wonderful” strategy. Which came on the heels of years’ worth of Trump kowtowing, genuflecting and repeatedly showing abject weakness toward his Russian ally. And of course the big one: Trump blames Zelenskyy and U.S. for Putin’s war in Ukraine

With humans. WTF happened over the last 50 years? When did so many intentionally stop learning anything at all, forget most of what they did learn already thinking that's 'for their own convenience' ? I've been dealing with computers, phones. tv and Internet since Bill Gates was still thinking of starting a company. Here's a few thing that people have paid me to do for them. - Figure out how to connect the antenna cable to their TV. Explain why that little flat panel down in the basement didn't get very many TV stations that were right out there on that mountain. It says digital right on it! - tore a landline phone jack off the kitchen wall and literally just glued the plastic jack on the wall in another room and it doesn't work! - two people who were told their cell phones wouldn't work unless they had Internet at home. Neither of their phones were even connected to wifi, nor did they own a tablet or computer, yet they'd been paying for Internet for ages. One $150+ a month for Starlink. - Today I was paid to set up a f*cking Amazon Fire Stick. A 6 year old can do that. She managed to take it out of the box all by herself, read the instructions and I should've been impressed she managed to put the battery in the remote before I got there. Husband bought the one step up version, it has buttons on the remote that are already on her SmartTV remote. It cost $20 so it must be better. What is and where is and which funny (HDMI) plug does it go into. What is my wifi password, where can I find it? What's the router? Oh! your phone has a flashlght! Oh! You can take a picture with your phone and then enlarge it to read the little type on the router tag? That's my password where it says 'password'? Go to amazon.ca/code how? Oh, you can use Chrome on a phone to do Internet? Enter what code? The one on the TV? No don't enter your gmail password to sign up for every app! F^ck it just make a new password and only us it on every app you sign up to... (bad advice but look who I'm dealing with) Tack on 15 minutes explaining and showing her how to switch from HDMI to TV five or six times/ Do i always have to? I'm not trying to claim I'm some Brainac, these are all things a middle age person in 2024 should know. Things I taught my children when they were in Elementary school. Like buying a model car, looking at the plans and putting it together. Shit I learned long before High School was done, the difference between a phone cable, a power cable and an antenna cable. That a clear line of sight meant you could SEE something, not 'knew' it was behind the barn or that mountain. To look up what was A and what was B without having pictures of each and 6" text saying plug A into B and still can't figure it out. That's just tech stuff. there's so many levels of this intentional refusal to learn. From the 3 significant others that kept the cooking oil in the pantry and cake sprinkles beside the stove to the 25 yr old that didn't know if the Macs came before the Mcs in the files so she hid all their customer papers behind the filing cabinet, to a buddy who was just in a rollover and got whiplash and is glad he doesn't wear a seat belt because no govt is gonna tell him what to do.

This Sky News page is the bees knees. https://news.sky.com/topic/ukraine-6556 They have minute by minute updates with all the facts and the quotes from foreign leaders, and not much else, and they're all stacked in chronological order. Most other sites have one carefully cultivated article which is mainly just their own narrative, but this has all the US quotes, Zelenski quotes, Putin quotes, and the quotes of other foreign leaders, all in chrono order. There's a flurry of activity since Trump was elected, and it was initially peaceful, but now these countries are all in a rush to meet their current objectives before the Sheriff comes to town. Trump really needs to make a statement soon, to pump the brakes on these warhawk id10ts.

You weren't here when Argus was the leading conservative voice on this board, and when he left because a new host of Trump supporters arrived believing themselves to be conservative. "Limited Government" Does not mean: A NON independent Federal Reserve Bank Executive Orders for sweeping tarrifs Reduction in seniors benefits for people who paid in to the program their whole lives Mass deportations Creating new agencies with broad and undefined powers Denying broadcast licenses to opposing views And (Argus' biggest objection to Trump) massive deficit spending ------- Trump is not conservative. He uses the inflammatory language of radicals to mobilize the uninformed. If you think he's conservative, you're wrong.

The problem is that Stalin was playing both sides. He was negotiating with the British, and secretly negotiating with Germany, as he did not trust either. He found the German offer more pragmatic I guess, considering Hitler was hell bent on going to war with an Eastern European country... FOS has proven to be a legitimate neo-Nazi, who know absolutely nothing about history or politics.

You are insane.

So you don't care about Laken Riley?

Meanwhile 400 miles inland the doggie door kept blowing open last night despite the lid on it and a pillow overtop. And I woke up to a plastic greenhouse blown over my fence and against the other from the house 3 doors down. No, the world didn't f*cking end, nobody expected it to. So therefore the meteorologists that coined the term 'bomb cyclone' back in the 1940s must have been part of a massive hidden govt/weatherman/media conspiracy to invoke fear in the public. Or maybe some total mush-brains think warned beforehand people take precautions only do so out of fear.

But, but it must! Heretic! Blasphemy! Burn, witch!

If only you right wingers cared as much about EVERY SCHOOL child killed by your beloved AR-15 style rifles, as you claim to care about one victim of an immigrant escaping drug gangs in Latin America. 🤮 Got news for you perverts, a lot more young women are killed by citizen gun nuts than a rapist from Latin America.

Not sure what you are complaining about. A two minute Google search brought up these: Independent media list https://www.unfettered.ca/ Canadian political podcasts list https://player.fm/podcasts/Canadian-Politics Youtube is by authors and you need to know who you want to see or listen to to find them. https://hypeauditor.com/top-youtube-news-politics-canada/ So yes, you are wrong...just read these forums tooLOL

Anti capitalism does not imply marxism

This is a very tight race, with @Michael Hardner and @CdnFox both tied at 4 votes each. The voting ends in the first week of December, so for those who have yet to vote, you have plenty of time.

My cup runneth over with leftist tears.

They equating his desire to use recess appointments to get his people in faster to what Hitler did. I guess that means Obama followed the path of Hitler too, he made 32 recess appointments

Like obama bin laden when he became president?

Please do not quote Five of Swords. Ignore him, and he will go away. Hopefully...

Look around you genius, there are cars every where....a market already built and ready for business for good jobs....Do you see anyone eating crickets in your neighborhood...., do you know of a cricket market here in Canada other than feeding your pets..... do you think if i set up a food cart in the mall i would sell any....your a m0ron if you think this was a good idea....and a waste of money.... So it does not matter what the government does with our tax dollars as long as it creates a few jobs...nor does it matter that this proposal failed even before construction was finished....i mean why did this group not go to the bank...most likely the bank laughed them out of the room....now all you have to do is apply for tax dollars and poof...everything makes sense...is there any one checking the business cases here doing any research....not really, i mean other than a liberal who would think growing crickets in Canada is a good idea....shit thats going to catch on, we will all be billionaires...it's going to be bigger than smarties...

NATO member appears to oppose Ukrainian use of US missiles against Russia By Deborah Haynes, security and defence editor The president of Turkey - a NATO member - has signalled he does not support the US decision to allow Ukraine to fire American ballistic missiles into Russia. With Russia raising new nuclear threats, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also cautioned against any war involving nuclear weapons. He was speaking at a news conference at the end of a two-day G20 summit in Brazil. Asked by Sky News whether he supported the US move or whether he thought it may risk direct confrontation with Moscow, even a nuclear war, the president said: "We can never say that a war where nuclear weapons are used can result in anything positive." Speaking through a translator, Erdogan continued: "Recently the missiles used by Ukraine are also an indication of the potential or possible consequences. These are not positive developments." Basically everything I post is from Sky News unless i post otherwise lol.

If Tulsi was running against Trump instead of Kamala I would have been far more comfortable with a Trump loss. Tulsi actually competed against Kamala for the Dem nomination in 2020, it's amazing how far their paths diverged in just 4 years.

Agreed on the hope that Trump can brake this momentum into madness. I'm generally not a fan of Trump, but when it comes to Ukraine, he's always seemed to be far wiser than his democrat opponents. I -am- a fan of RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, hopefully he can get them in his cabinet. I'm not sure about Gaetz, but I think he may be good, I just don't know enough about him yet.

That's way too hard to figure out... [/s] Adn that's where Putin's sending the N Koreans, to 'liberate' Russian lands. I hope Biden sends the 10,000 extra missiles and tells Ukraine to blast those Norks to ratshit first.

Actually, it is just Trump. I don't recall anyone calling Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Bob Dole a "Nazi". Very few people compared George W Bush to one. Trump is different than any leader of a major political party in America, in the past 50 years. He definitely has autocratic tendencies similar to Hitler, Mussolini, and most Third World dictators.

Elon Musk’s refusal to provide Starlink support for Ukraine attack in Crimea raises questions for Pentagon Economy Sep 11, 2023 9:05 PM EST NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch a surprise attack on Russian forces in Crimea last September has raised questions as to whether the U.S. military needs to be more explicit in future contracts that services or products it purchases could be used in war, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/elon-musks-refusal-to-provide-starlink-support-for-ukraine-attack-in-crimea-raises-questions-for-pentagon --- Wake up and smell the coffee, User. Musk takes orders from Putin in this conflict. Just because you are in love with Elon, does not make what you say true.

Not to trample on others... Oh you must have missed how they are stealing medals and opportunities from girls and women in sports? Like how they and their supporters want to compel others to use their pronouns? Like how they and their supporters want to force this into schools and onto parents?

Pantheism is just another false religion or false god. This is a fatal belief. The nature of the Bible, fulfilled prophecies, and eye witness accounts of miracles and the supernatural all recorded in the Bible point to it being true and supernaturally inspired by God. Many make the same conclusion as you without having studied it. Such judgments are based on zero knowledge of the Bible.

Gosh, I feel like we have entered an Orwellian universe, where knowledge engineering has blurred the lines between truth and lies. Propaganda rules. If it comes down to a choice between believing Trump and his sycophants, or a wide variety of media that has no gain in lying, I'll take the media.

Exaggerations? No, lies. Consider the issue of immigration. Trump has falsely claimed: Harris was appointed “border czar” – No, she was never in charge of border security. That Harris let in “more than 13,000 convicted illegal aliens" – No, this number represents people who entered over decades, including during Trump’s presidency. That 32,000 illegal aliens were “dropped” into Springfield, Ohio. No, they are here legally, and the number is closer to 12,000. And they weren’t “dropped” but got there on their own. That a gang from Venezuela had literally “taken over the town.” No, although some gang members had been arrested. That Harris had let “21 million aliens pour across into our country.” No, even the Republicans estimate those who evaded detection at closer to 2 million during the Biden administration. That foreign countries were “emptying their jails” to allow the criminals to migrate to the US. No, there is no evidence of this. That FEMA was diverting funds to illegal immigrants. No, not even close to the truth. These are facts. Why do you suppose Trump lied?

This is what race hustling psychopaths do.

Trump hired traitors during his first term. He's fixing that this time around. ldiot Harris lost because she was banking on 14 million democrats that don't exist.

Is that the best that you can say here, our little brainless comrade troll? Who's your daddy? Is it Diddy by chance? LOL.

There's lots of stories of Trump losing his s*** throwing things and having tantrums. I'm sure the people fretting about Harris didn't care about Trump. Some of the best presidents acted this way so..

Politics is politics, but nothing comes close to Trump's lies. He even lied about the weather during his inauguration. It rained during his address, but later he’s telling people that the rain “never came.” Lying is instinct for him – a matter of course. He claimed the crowd at his inauguration was bigger than at Obama’s (it wasn’t’), he claimed Covid was “under control” (it wasn’t), he claimed “they’re eating the cats and the dogs” (they weren’t). Remember back in 2017, Trump, following a bizarre address he gave at the Scouts’ National Jamboree, claimed that “the head of the boys scouts” called and said that it was “the greatest speech that was ever made to them.” Later, it was confirmed that no such call was ever made. And then there is the Big Lie – about the stolen 2020 election. I’ve read Jack Smith’s 165-page immunity filing in the case of The United States of America v. Donald J. Trump, and I recommend it in order to gauge the full depth and extent of Trump’s lies.

And then throw them into heavy labor prison camps.

JK I was standing up for the 4th quarter and probably most of the third.

Why do you think Trump never released his taxes? Trump and his organization have been playing fast and loose with laws for decades. He even admitted it in his book (ghostwritten for him) about how he'd dealt with the mob. He cheated his suppliers, cheated his customers and sued anyone and everyone who said anything he didn't like. And that was while he was still a Democrat. His charity was a hoax. His so-called university was a ripoff. He was an incompetent businessman and again sued anyone who pointed out his incompetency - when he was still a Democrat. Why was he the subject of so many investigations? Because guys like him count on their activities being largely ignored. The US is, after all, a pretty corrupt society. But the more prominent you get and the more enemies you make the more likely it is that stuff will come out. That's not lawfare.

You don't think what Trump has been going through is lawfare? New York Times columnist David Brooks said the quiet part out loud recently while on left-of-center “PBS Newshour”: “if you look at democracies in decline, then it is a pattern that people in office use their power to indict and criminalize and throw in jail the people who were in office before them of the opposing party. And so we are a nation, democracy in decline.” While he may have been trying to project such unethical and illegal behavior onto Trump and the Republicans, it perfectly defines what the Democrats are now trying to do to Trump.

Ukrainians are researching DEFENSES against Russian BIO WEAPONS. Duh The 46 US labs in Ukraine and the $200 Pentagon program that sparked a propaganda war: How ex-Soviet facilities housing pathogens prompted Kremlin claims America is building bioweapons in Putin's back yard

There is nothing fictional about joint US-Ukraine Biolabs. There is nothing fictional about the claim that the US and Ukraine were doing research on known biological warfare agents in those biolabs. It is true. That is absolutely, positively, undeniably true and not even a matter for debate. It is uncontested by the US gov't, they even admit to spending $200M on it. If you look for a fact-check, the first thing that you will see is the debunked claim that "The US and Ukraine are developing bioweapons in bioweapons labs in Ukraine", but that's a red herring. There may be some people of accusing them of that, but it's not the claim that serious people are making about the US/Ukraine biolabs. Put these exact words into a Google search: "The US and Ukraine worked on cures for biological warfare agents in biolabs in Ukraine", and the first thing that comes up will be links debunking the claim that they were "developing" biological warfare agents, which is a completely different accusation. This is not false, it's not inaccurate, it's not even disputed: The 46 US labs in Ukraine and the $200 Pentagon program that sparked a propaganda war: How ex-Soviet facilities housing pathogens prompted Kremlin claims America is building bioweapons in Putin's back yard Pentagon provides funds for research across 46 Ukraine labs as part of a program meant to 'dismantle weapons of mass destruction' Funds through Biological Threat Reduction Program are meant to study pathogens and prevent outbreaks Russia has repeatedly referenced the research – as part of what the administration calls a disinformation campaign There was a spike in online commentary on the labs just before and after Russia invaded Ukraine The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories Tulsi Gabbard, former congresswoman for Hawaii, on Sunday asked whether the biolabs in Ukraine were safe amid the invasion The Pentagon and UN have insisted there are no bioweapons in any of the facilities and the labs have been known about for years Now don't get this wrong Groot. There are two COMPLETELY different accusations: The US and Ukraine were developing biological warfare agents, and The US and Ukraine were doing research on existing biological warfare agents to "reduce the threat". Their words are in the quotation marks. Regarding number 1, that is a straw man argument, thrown out there to be debunked and then lay the issue to rest. Now, it's probably true, just like Russia, China, NoKo, Iran, France, Germany, etc are probably doing it, but no one is making that accusation as a statement of fact because no one 'knows', or at least has proof. It is purely a matter of speculation for you and I debate whether they all are, some are, or they all aren't. Regarding number 2, Funds through Biological Threat Reduction Program are meant to study pathogens and prevent outbreaks, that's actually a thing, 100%. What do they have there? Well, there absolutely were Russian biological warfare agents there, which the US gained control of along with their Ukrainian counterparts, but they were supposed to be disposed of, but the US and Ukrainians were studying them. Interpret this for yourself: Russia already illegally took possession of two such labs in 2014 and 'continues to deny Ukrainian access to these facilities,' according to the Defense Department. 'After Russia launched its unlawful invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health responsibly ordered the safe and secure disposal of samples,' according to the fact sheet. 'These actions limit the danger of an accidental release of pathogens should Russia's military attack laboratories, a real concern since they have attacked Ukraine's nuclear power plants and research facilities.' That's from the US DoD. So what samples was the Ukrainian Ministry of Health disposing of? That's smut, Groot. Obama himself said in no uncertain terms that America's goal was regime change: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-34385354 Obama tells UN: Syria's Assad must go US President Barack Obama says the United States is willing to work with Russia and Iran to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power. The US has organized regime change uprisings all over the world. They did it in Cuba, Iran, all over the ME and South America, Ukraine, etc. There will always be a segment of the population of every country that wants regime change, and if the US doesn't like the gov't in charge of that place, the US gov't will support them, fund them, arm them, run their propaganda, etc. Was the uprising against Bashar Al Assad American led? I don't know. We have a Jordanian friend who says that Assad was always protecting Christians. I trust her, I think that she actually believes it, and it's not hard to find stuff like this: https://www.christianitytoday.com/2011/07/syria-christians-assad/ Nothing in the ME is easy. There are millions of people there who all believe completely different things, just like there are millions of people in North America who believe all sorts of batshit crazy things about Trump. I can tell you for certain that there would be millions of people who'd swear that what Tulsi said about "regime change" is 100% true, and I don't have any reason to disbelieve it. Maybe regime change was necessary. I doubt that a person could ever find the truth right now. But I have absolute faith that regime change would have ended in disaster, just like American-led regime changes always have. Whatever.

Good grief...Libbies are still trying to convince anyone who won't laugh in their faces, that the Brandon economy is anything but horrible. Libbies...the key to US economic success is in fossil fuels. That you planks haven't come to grips with that yet, only further exemplifies you complete detachment from reality.