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What he should have said is: the culture wars are divisive and pointless. Let's move on.

That's all government over many years. This story is, unsurprisingly, just fiction. "Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data—and the resource used by Becker in his post—Politico received $8.2 million in total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025. However, only $44,000 of this total came from USAID. In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—purchased a subscription to E&E for $20,000. According to E&E, prices for its professional subscription packages typically start in the upper four-figure range and vary based on how many users have access to a subscription. Another subscription to E&E was purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security. Funds received by Politico LLC from other government agencies also came mostly from subscriptions to E&E, or for the company’s policy intelligence platform, Politico Pro. The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE). In July 2020, for example, HSS paid $73,857 for a Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185. The DOI similarly purchased a subscription to E&E in September 2021 for $200,000, which it has been extending since. The DOE has also been extending a Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000."

Here's some facts: You are willing to put other people's children at risk of diseases you won't expose your own kids to. You lied when you said RFK Jr did not say "“there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective." You seem ignorant of the concept of herd immunity and what it entails. Anything else, shithead? Zero self awareness.

How come no one can ever define woke? If you use a term, you’d think you would know what it means.

as discussed in other posts... the Trumps admins furry to attack government spending is a failing attempt to somehow offset the hole his extended tax cuts for corporations is going to blow in the debt ceiling. its not going to work. if he can't cut military spending or non-discretionary spending then its just going to be another borrowing fiasco. Republicans stare down massive deficits to extend Trump tax cuts

what are you missing? they were neutral for most of their independence. they have suggested they continue to be independent and not seek NATO membership to negotiate the end of the war. Putin doesn't care. he wants to rebuild the old Soviet Union. he's said so! don't you get that?

you mean posts about Trumps "crap for brains". as many as Trump gives me reason to... they're coming in hard every day now. the volume of shit for brains executive actions is truly staggering.

We all know it doesn't matter what actually happens, you're so senile and deranged you'll spin every failure as a success. You worthless old turd.

I'm not denying anything. The initial claim was all ATC's were hired under Biden, the counter was "many" ATCs have been around for a long time, and your counterargument to that showed a 1/3 or a minority of ATCs have been there for 5 years or less. I would consider 2/3s of anything to be "many" and not "all" but your mileage may vary. Furthermore, the number of "new" ATCs (one year or less experience) is even less, around 10% of the total. To circle back to the main point: DumbFux's claim that all ATCs were hired under Biden is laughably false as your own figures show. QED.

Anecdotal? If it were, then would my vocabulary be so excellent goat Barber Mambo dogfoody ? 🙃

Yes. That's it. Go further even. Show the voting public just how hate-filled and unhinged y'all really are.

What a dumb statement.

I don't know what the limit should be but I don't have a problem with this, fentanyl traffickers are mass murderers.

If they were having trouble recruiting controllers before, how are they going to find intelligent, competent people who want work for a mean spirited mob who hate civil servants and who's primary job requirement is loyalty to Trump? DEI will be mice nuts compared to the chaos this bunch is going to cause. Not only will they make it far more difficult to find good people, they will destroy the moral of the ones who are already there.

hahahahahahaha! it that it? the Trump administration has access to the entire DOJ portfolio and thats all they could pull off? that James O'Keefe (who has a criminal record associated with his "journalism") got hold of stolen writings of a private individual and was about to conspire to illegally publish it... was being watched? and then not watched after he decided not the break the law?

This has to do with protection of children...screw your "controlling." If a child has not been vaccinated, they should not be allowed in public schools.

Of course he never said any such thing. He said that while Americans engage in a war on woke, Canadians will continue to value the truth. Anyone got a problem with that?

My fuzzy understanding of this conflict is that it is rooted to the Donbas region (East Ukraine) that is supposedly ethnically Russian. They were trying to become independent or merge with Russia. Ukraine and Zelensky did not exactly like this move. One thing that eludes me is why Ukraine has been relatively poor for as long as has been recorded. No, they are sub-saharan africa poor but relative to the US, Canada, and Western Europe.. they are pretty poor. Any ideas as to why?

Yeah. Eating cereal with Butylated Hydroxytoluene and Maltodextrin is your right! And you don't need to know what vaccines are doing for you. You have no right to know if it is more harm than good or more good than harm. That's just crazy talk.

This would not have to be a forced removal of people from the Gaza. The west would in effect be purchasing the Gaza. This would go a long way to ending the conflict in that area. I don't see any other way to stop the fighting originating in the Gaza strip. 1. It could be done by offering financial incentives. Every Palestinian who moves could be paid a certain amount of money. The money could come from the U.S., Canada, other countries, and the U.N. 2. The money could also involve spending billions of dollars to build apartments, and create jobs in the countries they settle in. 3. It seems Hamas cannot be eliminated in the present situation. However, moving them by offering financial incentive may provide a solution. This would mean it would not be compulsory but would be in effect purchasing the Gaza strip. So far nobody in the news media has mentioned the idea of paying billions of dollars to the Palestinians to make it feasible. Part of the payments would have to be used to build apartments and create jobs. All of the money would not be given to the Palestinians directly. Some money could be paid directly to the ones who actually move. Part of the money would have to be retained and only used for the purpose of building new apartments, infrastructure, creating jobs, and communities in the destination countries. At present Jordan and Egypt oppose moving them to their countries. But the financial benefits have not been negotiated. That is the missing key to this. Perhaps if there was billions of dollars on the table, they would be willing to take in the Palestinians. But there would need to be a way to ensure the money was used only for the relocation and building of the homes, infrastructure, and jobs for the Palestinians. Also, the payments to the ones who relocated would have to be ensured somehow. The money could not be just handed over to the countries they moved into.

Nothing lasts forever. Proclamations and wishful thinking will not stand the grinding touch of time and the entropy. Now not only a trivial observation but a factual reality in the pocket. The time for these changes is long overdue. There's no time or space for delays and procrastination. Canadian political system has to be updated and brought to the current best standard of responsible and functional democracy of the 21st century. 1. Proportional representation 2. Full transparency and accountability of governments 3. Effectiveness and efficiency standards in the public service 4. Ending the practice, tradition and system of bureaucratic entitlements and privileges. Without thoughtful, intelligent and resourceful ability to respond to the challenges of time, the writing is on the wall. There's nothing more to prove here: it's playing out right before our eyes.

The NDP and the liberals are the dictators and supporters

LOL...what a plank.

Musk waltzing in and ignorantly cutting things "that were not needed" has left Twitter a shadow of itself, losing 80% of its value. Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to let him do the same to the US government can't afford to lose 80% of their brain capacity.

Hilarious. Wha's a matter Pup? Cat got ur tongue?

Dubul' ibhunu.

Interesting. Please...do go on. No need for any proof. Just go deeper.

I kinda agree. No where does it say that the US (or Canada) should keep supporting/funding other nations and their issues. I kinda agree that all external support and funding should be reviewed and with a fine tooth comb. There are certainly lots of waste and corruption going on especially when the money gets in country. Proof of where the funds go should be demanded and given r they get cut off. I feel the exact same about our constant funding of first nations here. If you get government funds, you need to prove where it goes and how it is spent and the boks need to be open and up for audit.

Where in the Constitution does it state its America's job to fund other countries for no return?

1. Where is it not proportionally represented?? The 2 biggest provinces already have the most representation already. What is your suggestion?? 2. Where is there lack of transparency. Some things are not divulged for very legal and security reasons. I am not sure why you think you are entitled to know everything LOL 3. What is ineffective and inefficient in the public service. The public servants only do what they can within the rules and regulations and those rules and regulations are only there because you, the public , what them. No public servant makes the rules and regulations, they are imposed by your members of parliament. If there is ineffectiveness and inefficiencies, it is you that demanded it thorough your MP's. 3. Exactly who is getting bureaucratic privilege? Making vague and unsubstantiated claims and accusations is typical of the uninformed. So, modernize what? And how? With what?

My take is that the populists ists have a better understanding of politics, and can capitalize on that, Politically, by breaking conventions and exploiting New Media in a way that the old guard cannot. The problem is that politics is more than winning elections. Big problems need deep thinking, and collaboration with the public as well as experts. Slogans don't solve big problems.

Proportional models do not add transparency or accountability of government in fact they obscure it. Every province that is taken a good solid look at changing to a proportional or similar model has voted against it. The only people that truly believe in it are losers on the fringe who feel their fringe party would have more power if we ruled the government by committee instead of majority. First pass the post is by no means perfect but it is the best model available to us at this time by a fair amount. It's like the old saying goes, democracy is a terrible way to govern a people, it's so redeeming value being that it's better than all the other ways we've ever tried

If there is that would actually be Biden's fault. All of the air traffic people would have been hired under his term. You would literally be proving trump and musk right. You'll have to wait a couple years for it to be trump's fault

Says the guy who fully supported biden's attempts to pay off student debt by the hundreds of billions And no, it's a pension benefit essentially. It's quite common. Anyway if they're not needed why keep them?

Yes, yours. You say something stupid, we comment on it, you pretend you never said it and then try and change the subject. Very consistent with you. You know, if you actually say things that make sense or that you can get behind or explain to begin with you won't have to spend so much time pretending you never said it at all

Oh look who's pretending he doesn't know what he said before again. How shocking. 🙄

Not to be a downer but just so you're aware, the constitution says that we don't have to have an election until fall of 2026. Not 2025. We have election laws in place that are passed by parliament that say it will be in 2025 but those laws can easily be undone for dozens of reasons. If Trudeau, or Carney after he takes over, were to declare that dealing with The threat of the US tariffs was a crisis and it wasn't the right time for an election they could easily carry on to fall 2026 with the support of the NDP. Just food for thought

Lol...I here political can't meet it's payroll today.

Right? I've never really understood that, they go on and on about how trans people and gays should be treated with respect and dignity and have all kinds of rights but the moment they get angry they rapidly start accusing people of homosexual acts or being gay or trans as if it is the most insulting thing in the world. It's actually rare to see anyone on the right on this board disrespecting trans and gays that way, but the left does it all day every day to the point where it's become a running joke and then tries to sell the idea that somehow it's the Right wing that is bigoted against the gays.

Wow. Totally left wing state propaganda run from the desk akin to Joseph Goebbels. Crazy

Ya, MAGA's are like an easily distracted cat. As soon as they start to get bored, Trump gives them something new to be outraged about.

What makes you think that Zelenski is any better? Why does he have a Nazi unit that commits war crimes in his army? Why are elected members of the opposition not allowed to participate in their "democracy"? Why did Zelensky seize 100% control of all the media outlets in the country? I don't "love" Putin any more than I "love" people who joined the Iranian army to protect Iran. I just respect their right to defend their countries.

pretty sure they're getting the message now ; Diversity is not a strength the role of the federal government is not social programs Canada is a British Empire unto itself, to navigate & defend a Northwest Passage and all the riches therein the role of the Crown is to maximize state power, military, economic & diplomatic to defend you, defend your rights, defend your property because the World Police are not coming to save you the Neoliberal Globalists said that democracies never go to war against each other yet the British Parliament & the American Congress were both democracies in 1812 and America has always disputed Canada's claims to the Northwest Passage the American position is that the Northwest Passage is International waters beyond the 12 mile limit like Saudi Arabia, Canada needs to become so resource rich ; that Canada can Wag the Dog too and the RCN needs to be capable of defending your interests on the high seas as necessary if AUKUS won't sell Canada nuclear submarines ; buy them from the French only the Russians have Polar Class 1 nuclear icebreakers Canada should break out as the first NATO country to build them COVID cost $600 billion, a trade war with America would cost the same total cost ; $1.2 trillion nuclear warships would cost only a tiny fraction of that printing money and handing it out only incites inflation if you're going to spend money without inflation, it needs to be spent on increased production build the pipelines, build the refineries, but also build a fleet to secure the lines of communication what price do you put on sovereignty ? go big or go home

Oh look, the loser lefty knows he is losing so he breaks out the gay sexual fantasies Every. Single. Time. And no, trudeau didn't do that. He didn't recall parliament, he didn't even consult with the other leaders. He met with the premieres and even then he's lost control of that with three or four of them refusing to go with his plan and a couple of them either meeting with or looking to meet with trump and his entourage separately. So he can't control the people he is talking to and he isn't talking to the people he should be talking to And this is just a warm up, the real game hasn't even started yet

That's a plan? Do what Trudeau already did and offer to suck even harder on Donnie's dick? And call Parliament back right now so they can all work in unity.... yeah that's the PP ticket... unity... right... yeah we're as stupid as MAGAs and are gonna believe that.

This is a really weird look for you betsy. Trudeau is a clown and he's already resigning, but you seem to be reveling in the Orange Baboon's useless grandstanding. Trump doesn't even know what he wants to achieve with these Canada tariffs. He just walked into the room and took a shit in on the table in front of everyone, just to show everyone he could.

I think we know why the amount of fentanyl crossing from Canada into the U.S. is so small, betsy is hoovering it all up.

'The most dangerous clown in history' lol Americans have already experienced this 'dangerous clown for a four year period. Now they want another four. Due in part to the incompetence of the Biden/Harris administration. The rhetoric from the left is just so over the top.