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the highest corporate tax rate of 39% was cut to 21%. there is no way around the fact that it removed $10T from the US budget. and will again this time. if you can't pay for it then you are borrowing money. it the GOP were able to (they won't) be able to cut $5.6T and DOGE are able to cut $2T (they won't) then that still doesn't pay for the first Trump tax cut. so more Trump BORROWING.

Unfortunately, you are wrong about that and there’s no room for debate any more. The scientific evidence is overwhelming. Man-made climate change is a grim reality and it’s only going to get much worse. Anybody living in the likes of LA or Southern Florida would be well advised to get out now if they can.

Even IF we accept the climate change alarmism from the left... OK, so what? Is your plan that we have to wait 100 years for the climate change plans to slowly curb the increase in global warming to work? How about we acknowledge that these areas in California are dry, they are prone to high winds and fire risk, and oh... I don't know, maybe have some better fire prevention and fighting plans in place to deal with these when they do happen. Those are things we can change right now. Having water in fire hydrants is something that can be changed right now. Having a better quick reaction force, air craft, and firefighters to get in fast to stop these from growing is something we can do now. Increasing budgets for firefighters, focusing on the mission of putting out fires instead of diversity hires, is something we can do now.

You're right. It would be a story of "African American valor".

And not wanting floods of immigrants hostile to us to come to Canada isn't racist. It's what the majority of the country wants. You probably don't realize that, as detached from reality as you are in your little liberal bubble. You don't know anything about our history. And I love how you're saying people who are patriotic and care about this country should be mocked while in the same thread talking about people who want to join the US being traitors. You've been spewing vitriol about this country for years and now you're acting like you give a damn about it? You're such a bloody brainless twat

and now the circus clowns begin their reign of economic terror! haaha! House GOP puts Medicaid, ACA, climate measures on chopping block the "felon in chief" and GOP's MO is to renew the Trump tax cuts that will add another $10T to the national debt. that $10T going directly into the pockets of the richest Americans. but that pesky debt ceiling! so they are going to attempt to rifle through seniors benefits, health care for the poor and infrastructure spending to find that money for the billionaire boys club! of course, you can't bleed a stone so they have only been able to identify $5.6T in cuts that even they can stomach. mind you, Trump is not a "fiscal conservative"... they never are. he has repeatedly suggested that the US get rid of the debt ceiling so that his ilk can just shovel cash into their own pockets. the "felon in chief" will claim that he inherited such a mess (the economy being stronger than its been in US history) that billionaires need more money. Greenland, Greenland, Greenland... look over here!

No Gov has been this shady, corrupt and incompetent. And once we get them out of there, what we will really find out how bad they really were. It's going to be ugly what we will find out.

Tragically, you don't have the true facts at all. Before Trudeau, Canada was much better off. Far more people could afford to buy a home and afford groceries. Now several million people are depending on food banks. There are thousands of people living in tent cities. Things are totally changed now. The average working person in Canada can not afford to buy a home. It would require almost a whole working person's working years to just save up the down payment. This means if would be very difficult or impossible for the average middle class person to own a home and raise a family in the major cities. The least expensive homes are typically over a million dollars. That means one would need at least $50,000 to make the down payment. Working people don't have that kind of money. In fact they have the reverse. Many have massive credit card debt and can't even make ends meet. This is all under the Trudeau government and getting far worse in the past few years. "Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political career is coming to an end, some of his fans are romanticizing his economic track record. Yet it is indisputable that, under his leadership, the economy sputtered and Canadians, robbed of a decade of growth, were left relatively poorer than their global peers." Adam Zivo: No, Trudeau did not make Canada richer

That's because Humanity has basically existed in an ice age. Now, look at how quickly we transitioned from ice age to gas house. Plus, looking at such a minute data set when the transitions are measured in hundredss of thousands of years is asinine. This 1880 to today dataset is taking the valley and the peak and calling that data normalization. That isn't how it's done.

Trump is an insulting bully without the decency of a rat, but most of all he is a performer. His whole schtick is performance. He’s a conman all about keeping the base entertained. And distracted. He has to keep them distracted from just how incompetent he is and how there really is no substance to him. It’s the old “fascinate the fools.” With all this talk of taking over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada, he’s trying to shift their attention from the fact he will never fulfill the promises he made - like ending the Ukrainian-Russian war in one day, or carrying out the largest mass deportations ever. Just won’t happen. Just like he never built the wall or replaced the ACA.

For wildfires in that part of the world there are immediate causes like downed power lines, lightning strikes and arson, and underlying ones like abundant dried vegetation and unusually strong Santa Ana winds. Obviously, it’s hard to exclude the role climate change is playing here which makes for more vegetation, drier vegetation and stronger winds.

Trump tried to get more water into California, but woke head politicians & pseudo-scientists rejected that attempt to protect some species? Does anyone else feel like leftoids everywhere should be thrown in the slammer?

Crap....it was Democrats. My bad.

Oh brother! That is total nonsense. The Jews came from and were descendants of Abraham in the area of Israel 3,800 years ago. That is where the twelve tribes of Israel began, which are the Jewish people. The Romans took over Israel over 2,000 years ago and destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and scattered the Jews to the rest of the world. They continued to maintain their Judaism in various other countries of the world after the dispersions. They are the only people in the world that maintained their original common community with each other over such a long period of time even though they were scattered around the world. Various attempts have been made to destroy them as a Jewish people through persecution, genocide, expulsion, and conversion over the centuries. Read the book of Genesis and other books in the Bible which give the history of the Jews. I can't give it all here. It is up to you do a little reading and research. The Jew stems from Judaism, a religion. In the beginning of Judaism, God called Abram to be the father of the Jewish nation. That is when it began. From Abraham's descendants came the twelve tribes of Israel. God gave them the promised land of Israel. The first five books of the Bible are an account of how that all began and how they came to the promised land. This began over three thousand years ago. Here is an account I just randomly searched and found. I cannot vouch for it's accuracy. But it is one place to start. The King James Bible would be an accurate account. But this website gives a rough account in a summary. " Question: How did Judaism start? Answer: The following is a brief overview of the history of Judaism: ABRAHAM: FATHER OF MONOTHEISM: Abraham was born in 1812 BCE in the city of Ur in Ancient Mesopotamia. According to Jewish tradition, he spent the first 40 years of his life questioning the polytheistic ideas of the surrounding culture, eventually coming to the conclusion that all of existence comes from a single source – a primal infinite Being that we call God. Once he was confident in the truth of his theory, he began to publicize his ideas through writing, teaching and public debates, and eventually built a movement of tens of thousands of people committed to a belief in one Creator and the philosophical principles which are an outgrowth of that belief. G-d then appears to Abraham for the first time and tells him that his biological descendants will eventually grow into a nation which will live by the philosophical principles that he had developed and will be given the Land of Canaan as a national homeland (Genesis 12:1). FROM FAMILY TO NATION: 500 years: THE WOMB OF EGYPT AND THE COVENANT AT MOUNT SINAI Abraham passes on his philosophical system to his son, Isaac, who in turn passes it on to his son Jacob (also called Israel – see Genesis 35:10), who then hands it over to his twelve sons (the families founded by these twelve individuals eventually grew into the twelve tribes of Israel). A famine occurs in the Land of Canaan in 1522 BCE, forcing Israel and his 70 member family down to Egypt (Genesis 46:8), where after 210 years (94 of them as slaves), they grow into a People of approximately 3 million, retaining their separate philosophical, cultural and linguistic identity as Hebrews. They are led out of Egypt by Moses the Prophet in 1312 BCE, and about 50 days later, find themselves awestruck at the foot of Mt Sinai, where God reveals Himself to the Nation as a whole, and proclaims the 10 Commandments. God seals a covenant with the Israelites, whereby they commit themselves (and their descendants) to follow the path of life which God will reveal for them (a path that would incorporate the philosophical system developed by Abraham). Moses then ascends Mt Sinai alone, and God teaches him all the details of that path. The enormous body of legal and moral principles revealed to Moses form the content of what is called “TORAH” – the term incorporating the Five Books of Moses as well as the Oral tradition found in the Mishna and Talmud (36 volumes). A NATIONAL HOMELAND: 1200 YEARS In 1272 BCE, after 40 years of traveling in the Sinai Desert, the Israelite Army, led by Joshua, conquers the Land of Canaan and inaugurates a period of over 1200 years of National experience in the Land of Israel, focused around the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem which existed for approximately 800 of those years (combining the 1st and 2nd Temple periods). EXILE AND RETURN: In 70 CE the Roman army destroys the Second Temple (the first was destroyed by the Babylonians about 500 years earlier) and from this point onwards, the majority of Jews live in various communities outside the Land of Israel. For the next 1900 years, the Jews in exile pray 3 times daily to be able to return to their homeland and in 1948 the dream is realized with a majority vote in the United Nations to allow the re-establishment of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel." Brief Summary of Jewish History • Torah.org

The "Trump" tax cuts were rate cuts that impacted almost all working Americans who pay income tax. Spending adds money to the debt, we have increased spending year over year over year since long before these tax cuts and that is what continues to add to the debt. Also, taking less money from the public is not ripping them off.

"clearly"? feel free to cite your studies. otherwise its just pontification. and actually its kind of disgusting to be honest. unprecedented fire conditions. severe drought, wind and heat. millions of people living in the steep Hollywood hills where the tops of all of these hills are covered in fire material. its a bomb ready to go off. a state that is under severe pressure to repress taxation because the millionaires who made their money from the largest economy in the US are able to just pick up and move to Texas. and you blame the fire department. all if this i can cite. let me know if you need it.

Yes. The same team that's so preoccupied and obsessed with the left it can't think straight about anything, least of all anything a lefty is concerned about. Do you have any idea how expensive adaptation and mitigation is? I managed 25 man crews mitigating ecosystems damaged by poor logging practices. You can burn through half a million dollars pretty quickly, especially if you need helicopters. It's hard physical sometimes dangerous work that requires a lot of people who need to be paid, fed and housed. The vast VAST majority of scientists and experts long ago concluded our current contribution to anthropogenic global warming is huge and becoming increasingly dangerous. Damn right the climate will continue changing, and increasingly faster than adaptive measures can keep up with never mind afford. LOL. The world will not be destroyed until our sun becomes a red giant but there's lots we can do to make it less habitable in the meantime, doing that is so cheap it's virtually free. Until the bill comes due then it's back to denying, discrediting and ignoring the science, blaming others and focusing on how woke and dumb the left is for giving a shit. The time for prevention went out the window decades ago. The time to adapt or mitigate is running out and the cost to do so is probably comparable to our national debt. Speaking for myself my plan is to try and survive the plunge over the cliff. What about the smelts and poor farmers? They need the water too.

Enough of this dumb game you are playing. The leftists have been pushing DEI and "equity" and changing their hiring practices to focus on this. https://lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph2121/files/2021-04/mayorgarcettiexecutivedirective27.pdf

Dude you literally look horrible every time you two go at it. And because you have everybody else on ignore you can't see how many of the people are laughing at you. And yeah, when he makes a mistake he's got the balls to admit it and stand up. Whereas when you make a mistake you just double down on the stupid.

Oh look. A leftie losing an argument decided to play the 'why are we even talking about this' card. Shock!

Really? Hey how's that war on carbon going for ya?

OK...I've done some digging and it appears the guy (Harrington) was allowing the ponds to run off back to the stream but...in all fairness I'll have to concede this one to ya. No...I won't STFU at all. More often than not, I'm correct and you're a mushy basket case. This time however...

Get woke, go up in smoke.

They came up short in that they take away from the primary focus of what we have firefighters for. Fire departments exist to fight fires, not promote DEI. When everyone is spending $$$, time, and resources on DEI and putting that in their bio as what they are focused on, that is all the less $$$, time, and resources... and focus, that is not on fighting fire.

I love how you completely ignore the point. You were trying to say that tranny was a bad word on social media platforms while cis-gender was not. I point out you are wrong and you pivot to complaining about power. I don't care if you want to call yourself a pink unicorn, just don't expect me to play along with your delusions.

Americans rejected the disgraceful lawfare by the woke elites. Just 10 days until accountability comes for the Democrats abusing the legal system for political gain.

Cmon herbie, you wouldn't like it if someone sacrificed your lover.

How does that article make Mr Fox a liar. Your projector needs a new spring.

This would be so much easier if you people would stop beating around the bush and simply say you don't give a shit one way or another when we're taking about climate change. Then we could talk about how little or how much of a shit we give. But even that seems as obvious as climate change.

It's great that you're passionate about mitigating conditions that exacerbate risk, but once again it's irrelevant to the exchange into which you've inserted yourself. I don't mind people jumping into a conversation (it's an open forum) but you clearly want to talk about something other than climate change. And I'm real sorry some dummy broke your plane.🤷‍♂️

A. Some goofball looking at a chart is not "called science." B. Especially when said goofball badly misreads it. 100 years ago is NOT a "valley. And we aren't up 1.5 degrees from the "valley." We're up 1.5 degrees from the historical average--and in a remarkably short period of time while the sun is relatively cool, BTW. Even an innumerate child could look at this and see the aberrant spike in the post-industrial years. You sourced that chart (directly or indirectly) from https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/ Why don't you go read some actual science from the scientists who made the goddamn chart. Climate Is Changing, and Scientists Understand Why It is unequivocal that human activities have increased atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. It is also unequivocal that global average temperature has risen in response. Observed warming over the continental United States and Alaska is higher than the global average (virtually certain, very high confidence). Long-term changes have been observed in many other aspects of the climate system (very high confidence). The Earth system is complex and interconnected, which means changes in faraway regions are virtually certain to affect the United States (very high confidence). Extreme Events Are Becoming More Frequent and Severe Observations show an increase in the severity, extent, and/or frequency of multiple types of extreme events. Heatwaves have become more common and severe in the West since the 1980s (high confidence). Drought risk has been increasing in the Southwest over the past century (very high confidence), while at the same time rainfall has become more extreme in recent decades, especially east of the Rockies (very high confidence). Hurricanes have been intensifying more rapidly since the 1980s (high confidence) and causing heavier rainfall and higher storm surges (high confidence). More frequent and larger wildfires have been burning in the West in the past few decades due to a combination of climate factors, societal changes, and policies (very high confidence).

Oh you mean despite your whining i was right. Imagine that. Yawn. You can't seem to stop yourself from insulting people at every turn, can you? Pointing out the truth isn't insulting to normal people it's just you Setting aside the fact that I disagree that you pointed out the "truth", insulting people is -not- a good way to win arguments. Doing it when someone -agrees- with you is even worse. From what I can tell, anyone who disagrees with you on the subject of this thread "invites derision and insult". It's not a healthy way of living.

Sure it does. How people see themselves is greatly influenced by how others see them or label them. If you're trying to claim that if we seal someone in a room with zero contact with the outside world it woudln't affect them then maybe... but that doesn't happen in the real world does it. No, but people don't always have to voice how they categorize people either. The bottom line is as follows: For people who define male and female human beings as anyone who identifies as male or female, there needs to be a way of differentiating between people who are of cisgender and people who are transgender. We have words for this, which I've just mentioned, and people who define male and female in this way tends to use them. The problem, ofcourse, lies with people like you who -don't- define male and female this way. But to me, the issue is essentially like people who speak different dialects of the same language. You may not use the words my group uses, but you certainly understand their meaning and so long as we're not talking on Twitter, it's generally not considered offensive to use the term cisgender. This clearly includes this space, as I don't have to put a dollar sign in the word.

Very often see this whenever a party gets itself walloped, half of it will say that it has to move closer to the other side, half will say that they're already too close and the problem is we didn't move far enough away. The CPC in Canada was like that after harper was defeated, there was a very long conversation about whether or not we should be moving towards the middle or stay where we are. And of course Max's wing of the party that said we didn't go far enough and we should be far more to the right on certain issues. I have no doubt that the democrats are going to tear themselves up for a little while over this I'm that the debate will rage I would agree that if they don't return to their more moderate selves that chances are they'll lose at least one more election. And considering that election will be a new candidate with trump: And also considering that in most cases winning candidates get at least two terms in the US they could find themselves walking in the snow for the next 12 years.

So you're saying they tested your brain and didn't find anything? Pfffft ... we could have saved you the trouble of a test.

https://www.ktla.com/news/local-news/arson-suspect-arrested-in-woodland-hills-near-kenneth-fire/amp/ Looks like it was a whacko arsonist, not climate change, responsible for the fire

Well their offer of one f*cking state that's bigger than the whole USA is a real "Trump/Musk negotiation", right? Take the penny or you're fired! Or maybe we should reopen talks with Denmark about a political association. Get our foot in the door of the EU trade, and split the tolls on any ship entering the Strait between Baffin & Greenland. Turn Hans Island into a joint fortress.

Obviously. Hard to tell the friendlies from the enemies. Imagine if they looked, talked and acted just like you. Never know who spit in your soup or put ground glass in that Big Mac. You're talking with a guy who thinks we march into battle in red coats, waving flags and blowing bagpipes.

Even now... this is not true. Instead of returning to the arguments, where I soundly responded to and refuted your positions, we get this vague assertion that you think you have won.

You have been presented with ample evidence refuting your position, which has been bigoted, hateful and ignorant. When a person refuses to accept evidence that shows them they are wrong, that is called delusion. Some people prefer to meet others as one human soul meeting another human soul.

Drunk again little man?

Trump in his latest "rant" about Canada.

That's not an achievement, that's just sexism. Didja love it when he punched jodi in the face? or all the other women he did, with freeland being the last? The guy thinks women should be silent and do what their told or he fires them. THAT'S your 'feminist idol'? well you did bring up how much he did in the first term. Sooooo. As to he conservatives if you have "fears" over it that's a mental health issue. The conservatives have been in power before and there was no 'religious take over' or anything Probably not. The only things that'll get cut back is useless programs like the 23 billion we spend in consultants that happened to be friends of the liberals right now each year. The conservatives have always supported in kept up core services like medicine transfers and the like. The CBC is getting cut, but honestly it had it coming So you are honestly of the opinion that the conservatives are going to get into power and then cancel Canada Post so that there's no more postal service. That's your big fear here. You're making crap up at random. When have the conservatives ever called for the end of mail? They've never done that. Nor are they calling for it now. So again where is this coming from? You're making shit up Well that's a blatant lie. It weren't planning on doing any of that with the exception of raising the retirement age to 67. Harper increased healthcare funding and trudeau kept the exact same formula harper had for example. Meanwhile, The liberals have doubled our debt. They have divided the country so badly that now again we're hearing about separatist talk. Our medical systems are in complete disarray and cannot handle the number of people we have in and are far worse than they were under harbor. Pretty poor and has hit the elderly and the poor the most. Many of them can no longer afford food or housing. Our quality of life is nose diving because of the GDP per capita plummeting, which will affect gov't services moving forward. And everyone has commented how poor gov't services are today vs in the past And people are forced to go longer before retiring Canadians are working past retirement, but not because they want to | CBC Radio Oh and canada post says because of mismanagement they're looking at going to weekly service because they're losing so much. So every single thing you said you were worried about under the CPC HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED under the liberals. So how do you justify your claims that the cpc will do these things when they didn't when they were in power and the liberals are?

A map for the MAGA hyenas...

What you just posted is the usual childish, ignorant response that 'you must be the liar' as you can't counter a single point I just made. No wonder it was so easy to dupe you.

The Jewish people are called "Zionists" because it refers to Jews who want their homeland (Israel) back. The claim that the Jews want to take over the world is just anti-Semitic propaganda. There is nothing wrong with the Jews wanting their homeland back after 1,900 years of persecution, murder and the Holocaust. They are not trying to take over the world and never were. Sorry I will fix that. Thanks.

I would argue the American Empire has been in decline for decades. The wealth gap between rich and poor was relatively narrow in the 70s. The civil rights movement, workers rights, post-war boom, and improved quality of life made the US the richest and most powerful country in the World. It can be argued that beginning in the 80s, the powers that be, paved the way for greed and individualism. Tax cuts to the wealthy, deregulation, and eliminating the fairness doctrine, allowed the mindset that Americans have in regards to "get rich whatever means necessary" regardless if it's damaging to the community. A turning point could be 9/11. Americans were bloodthirsty, invaded nations that had nothing to do with 9/11, and curtailed freedoms through the Patriot Act. Not regulating the internet has proven to be disastrous. Most Americans, and a significant amount of Canadians now have no idea what to believe, whether it be vaccines, race relations, science, climate change, or anything else. Donald Trump is more of a symptom of the illness. I mean can you envision the founding fathers proceeding with the Second Amendment, if they had the knowledge that guns were going to be used for thousands of school shootings, gang warfare, and crime?

There would be more than a few obstacles to overcome. But if the EU could do it with the number of members it has, why couldn't Canada and the U.S.? It's worth looking into. Of course under the terms of any agreement some sovereignty would have to be given up.