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This is a regular pattern in such processes: a period of hidden, slow decay is followed by a precipitous collapse of the entire structure. And it's here, live and in real time. Why would one need dark prophesies and exaggerations? In three steps: Step 1: a president of the etc cannot be charged criminally because blah Step 2: the Congress, the only body that can check the president is corrupted and dysfunctional. It will not uphold and execute its direct constitutional duty. Step 3: the supreme leader can violate any law and order with complete and total impunity. How can one see and read it in any other way? From the head of the executive branch in an imperfect democracy to the supreme leader in some North American Iran. In three easy steps. Now, why is everybody so smug about it? This is the real, big question.

Can someone find the Soviet Union on a map today?

He's probably still planning missions to kill CEOs.

What creates the cartels? Who pays for them? People who use illegal drugs do. Our neighbours do. Maybe some of us do. And does anybody here seriously believe that gangs in Canada have had a bigger role in creating the US opioid crisis than the US pharmaceutical industry, especially the makers of opioids like OxyContin who lied for years about its highly addictive nature despite being told of it by many doctors. Why isn’t Trump talking about that every day if he cares about addiction in his country? Why isn’t he questioning the fact that the major beneficiaries of OxyContin never went to jail. At least a few of the hoodlums involved in peddling SUBSYS did. Eventually. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/authorities-drugmaker-paid-off-doctors-lied-insurance-companies/story?id=61488372

When trans people and folks like you demand we pretend they are something they are not... we can say no and give a shit. When trans people and folks like you demand we let men pretending to be women into their private spaces.... we can say no and give a shit. When trans people and folks like you demand we let men pretending to be women beat up women in physical sports competitions and steal their medals... we can say no and give a shit. When trans people and folks like you demand we let them lie to and push this madness onto children in schools, wanting to hide it from their parents... we can say no and give a shit. When trans people and folks like you want to butcher and mutilate children, drug them up, so they can appear to be something they are not... we can say no and give a shit.

I do feel bad for the average Ukrainian who is simply trying to live and get by. Nothing that they can do to stop this war. My guess is if they try to leave, they face serious challenges especially if they travel east or south. Second, war tends to deplete your resources so probably can't afford much and it takes money to travel.

It's unbelievable that Trump thinks that God saved his life to make Americans a richer people when Jesus teaches that it's impossible for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. A more righteous people is more in line with what Jesus taught.

Price of a Virgina class Nuclear sub is 11.3 billion for two, or 5.65 per boat....things just got cheaper...

Normally I'd call that fake news, but when it comes to war I expect them to lie. Not that lying is always the right thing to do, as we saw in the second Iraq war, but it's just normal. That being said, the propaganda should at least make sense, which it never did. At the beginning they were saying something like "15,000 dead Russian soldiers, less than 1,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers, less than 1,000 dead civilians... IT'S A GENOCIDE!" 🤔 All the usual suspects repeated it, as if they were somehow making a really poignant statement of fact, but imo that's some kind of weird reverse-genocide if it was true. For me, the most tragic thing is that this war between Russia and Ukraine could have been avoided. I imagine you remember my post #102, wherein I brought up the fact that many experienced American statesmen warned the West that continuing on the path of expanding NATO into Ukraine would lead to tragic results. I think the best line in that post was one from American Professor John Mearsheimer, way back in 2015: ** “the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path, and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked.” ** Source: https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-primrose-path-to-catastrophe/ Now, if the only thing happening in Ukraine was its desire to join NATO, I don't think the war would have started. After all, Ukraine had been pining to join NATO since the Euromaidan coup in 2014. I think it's pretty clear that the final straw was western Ukraine's renewed attack on the Donbass Republics. I got into a lot of the details in post #72, which was a response to a post from DUI.

American teacher Marc Fogel freed from Russia, White House says Trump wins again.

You are not Jesus. Dear lord... that you would even try to compare yourself to him only shows how absurdly stupid you are.

Well, it worked: Abdullah also agreed to help rebuild parts of Gaza. How many of you think any Dem or Rep would have gotten that? This is just step 1. But it's moving.

Yet another example of how woke kills folk. We stuck with safe supply because it was wokethe death rate shot through the roof. We ate the rich so that the poor would benefit because it was woke and now the poor are starving even more and there's a lot more of them. We take in terrorists and violent extremists because it's woke and guess what? This is why everyone is done with the woke

For the wokeness points that goes along with it, obviously. Didn't our woketard PM already ask for 10,000 of them?

Not just hate it but also distrusted. Israel will retaliate against any violence directed at Israel, regardless of the source. So if you move a bunch of these people into Egypt, how long before they decide to build rockets and shoot them at Israel from Egypt? And now Israel will bomb Egypt in retaliation. These people clearly have no problem crapping in their own living room and don't mind the smell. They cause trouble wherever they are, as we have found out. Why would anyone want to take them?

We often see this with regards to this issue from the left. They both in equal amounts demand That they are acting in the interests of the children safety but also don't want any regulation that protects children safety. At the same time they want to pretend they are including the families wow simultaneously insisting that families should have no say. And meanwhile they insist that sex and gender are the same thing, except that sex and gender are also not the same thing depending on what we're discussing and then sex and gender are not actually a thing at all followed by male and female are the same thing but we shouldn't call a female male a male because it's not the same thing. It's like they live in a weird world where everything can be two things at once. Basically they're Schrodinger's twat.

Vancouver has that too. It's actually worse on Hasting street: more crowded.

This dumb f*ck has never been to West Virginia, Kentucky or rural PA.

There you go again... "anti trans" So... this is all proving to be very one way with you. You claim to not support the idea of a kid being trans... and oppose everything that is being done from the right to protect kids and parents rights here from this stuff being pushed onto their kids... but you don't seem to have any of this sentiment towards the left pushing it. Yet again, no they are not. The medical industry is highly regulated with many laws and restrictions on what they can do and how they can do it. Here you are again, using leftist language saying they are targeting a disliked population. You betray yourself yet again. How is it you sit here saying "While I don't think transgender identity is a real thing beyond individuals imagination" but now you refer to them as a "disliked population" This is all just an illogical attack on motives either way. Except... you do care. Only, your care only goes one way here, in opposing anything that is opposed to the various trans the kids efforts while you don't care that those things are being pushed from the left onto the kids and parents. Then, you don't agree, if your position is to just let people pee where they feel comfortable. In the meantime, you want to wait around for an entire civilization to redesign all their bathrooms to accommodate the less than 1% of people you claim are just imagining things. What kind of dishonest person claims to mostly agree with someone and then proceeds to make arguments and comments that clearly show they don't? What kind of dishonest person tries to claim they don't care or that it is about taxes, or about liberty and freedom, but then they don't really hold those positions consistently beyond pushing transgenderism onto kids? You claimed this was all just people imagining things... so why is it the "simple and normal" thing to pretend with them? To change language for them? If you really believe this, why did you ignore my request? It isn't even a matter of it being a promise they can or can't make. These are things parents should know and be informed of. Teachers are employees of the state there to educate children. The public bargain being made is that parents hand of their kids to receive that education. Teachers are not priests, they are not there to have the trust of students beyond their role in educating them. There is no "higher responsibility" there. What do you base this on?

What's your rule about not reading your own source? So Biden complied with the Supreme Court to find a different way to enact his policy that was legal, he didn't ignore a court ruling and plow ahead with his original plan. Now that we've dispensed with that pathetic false equivalency, do you have an actual defence of Trump's intention to defy a court order?

The Transmountain expansion wasn't scrapped, it started operation last year. The only thing more pathetic than a US MAGA is a Canadian MAGA.

That was a little incoherent. So you’re blaming women for the rapes you committed before you were a shut-in?

These are trying times. Mind you people have been saying that for thousands of years. O tempora, o mores! But short term thinking (by either side) will only create short term solutions. And while trump implodes the US, China surges in renewables, AI, EVs, fusion,... Course they got their own problems. And Canada needs a much larger population. (Largest country in the world with a population about the size of Tokyo) Needs to be done in a sustainable way, of course, but would create better internal markets. I don't presume to have solutions. But I know blaming everything on one side is lazy thinking. Canada is still a pretty good place to live and Poilevre's "everything is broken" routine is wearing thin.

USAID is a foreign policy superpower of US global influence despised by dictators. Russia is obviously a big winner here and China will swoop in as replace the US in many corners of the world. Also Trump has seemingly changed his tune on Taiwan compared to his first term, opening the door for their annexation of that island. And remember the 60% tarrif on China candidate trump promised, now just at 10%. Plus a lot of major US imports from China come through Mexico anyway. Plans to cede renewable energy tech market to China etc It would hardly be possible to more aggressively benefit China's long term path towards becoming the global hegemon.

How was he assured? You notice how you frequently snip everything I quote? A lot of the time, the material I quote backs up what I say. This time is no exception. The very title of the article you snipped out makes this rather clear. Perhaps you can actually read what I quoted this time around. Once more, from the top: ** Documents show Gorbachev was assured US wouldn't expand NATO into Central and Eastern Europe U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu). The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels. The documents reinforce former CIA Director Robert Gates’s criticism of “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward [in the 1990s], when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen.”[1] The key phrase, buttressed by the documents, is “led to believe.” President George H.W. Bush had assured Gorbachev during the Malta summit in December 1989 that the U.S. would not take advantage (“I have not jumped up and down on the Berlin Wall”) of the revolutions in Eastern Europe to harm Soviet interests; but neither Bush nor Gorbachev at that point (or for that matter, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl) expected so soon the collapse of East Germany or the speed of German unification.[2] The first concrete assurances by Western leaders on NATO began on January 31, 1990, when West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher opened the bidding with a major public speech at Tutzing, in Bavaria, on German unification. The U.S. Embassy in Bonn (see Document 1) informed Washington that Genscher made clear “that the changes in Eastern Europe and the German unification process must not lead to an ‘impairment of Soviet security interests.’ Therefore, NATO should rule out an ‘expansion of its territory towards the east, i.e. moving it closer to the Soviet borders.’” The Bonn cable also noted Genscher’s proposal to leave the East German territory out of NATO military structures even in a unified Germany in NATO.[3] ... Read entire article at National Security Archive ** Source: https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/documents-show-gorbachev-was-assured-us-wouldnt-ex

One has to admire the way Scott stands by his convictions, no matter how incorrect they may be..

"Possibly" is the best you got. For any audience members that may not be sure as to what robosmith is referring to, I imagine it's a word in the title of an article from the mainstream media publication The Daily Mail that I quoted. The full title is "Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked phone call discussing how Kiev snipers who shot protesters were possibly hired by Ukraine's new leaders". My response is that that title is just the tip of the iceberg. Even the Daily Mail article itself suggests that far from just a possibility, it is in fact probably the truth. Once again quoting from said article: ** Leaked phone call suggests anti-government protesters hired the snipers Call between EU's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonia's foreign affairs minister Urmas Paet Paet appears to claim opposition leaders hired the snipers that killed 94 By JOHN HALL Published: 13:14 EST, 5 March 2014 | Updated: 04:28 EST, 6 March 2014 Estonia has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked telephone call between its foreign minister and an EU chief which suggested the sniper killings in Ukraine last month were ordered by the new coalition. The 11-minute call between the EU's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and her Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet was made on February 25 in the aftermath of the massacre. During the call, Paet claims a doctor told him both protesters and police were shot by snipers during clashes in Kiev allegedly on the orders of the opposition. ** I also notice that robosmith never answered the question I asked him, nor said a word about the -other- article I linked to. Once more, the question and the other article: ** So, as I asked you before, why do think the EU and the Ukrainian government were so disintereted in investigating this evidence? As I also wrote in the past, this UK Daily Mail article wasn't the only article that strongly suggested that Yanukovych's government wasn't behind the killings. An article from Global Research also did that, citing an Italian documentary that interviewed 3 snipers of Georgian nationality who claimed to have participated in the massacre. That article can be seen here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-hidden-truth-about-ukraine-italian-documentary-bombshell-evidence-kiev-euromaidan-snipers-kill-demonstrators/5619684 **

You are wrong and your are just as stubborn and/or blind to see and accept it as any maga-person. No difference, in essence just different color that's all. Before a growing human comes to terms, gets a grasp of what gender and sexuality mean to them how can they grasp a much more complex idea that sexuality can be mutable, change with time? It's no time and no reason to preach these things to young kids. You would be doing more harm than good, real tangible harm and you wouldn't care. Why? Because just like the other side, you have transitioned, converted from being with the people on the way to better life for everyone, to imposing your vision, idea and ideology onto them, without regard for reality, whether it makes sense or would they accept it. This is how you get the blowback and reflux. Very predictable and logical too.

If only they could learn from such a shrewd businessman as yourself, who tripled the value of his home with a credit card

Do you think they get to those reports that fast? You were crossing a line and I have zero regrets. When you start advocating that people that run companies be killed, you absolutely should be investigated.

We had a recreational property in the US for nearly 30 years and after we sold it we used to go to SoCal for 3 months in the winter. I worked in the US for five years contracted to a Japanese company. I used to laugh at people who said the US is the only country we really had to fear. I'm not laughing now, I'm one of them.

Trump just announced that his most loyal supporters, are now shoving carrots up their asses. I think you may want to go to the grocery store, and buy some.

The dinosaur is Canadian tire installing 10 charging stations that don't work when it's -10 and only half work when it's warm. Today they were all cordoned of ready for removal, They're adding more gas pumps in the same space. When you can carry $5 of electrons in a can get back to those of us that have evolved.

I work with Canadians every day. I go there for business regularly. Perhaps you live in Montreal surrounded by liberals, I work with regular working folks. They do not share your opinion at all.

A lot more nationalist than I was a few weeks ago.

He's never seen a word of CNN propaganda that he didn't instantly incorporate incraporate into his daily drivel.

That’s about where I’m at. If Canadians have become so soft and dependent on big government that they aren’t willing to assert Canadian culture and make the sacrifices to defend it, let the Yanks run it. It might be better than the current arrangement. We can’t even win at men’s hockey anymore. WTF?!

You howled bloody blue murder at the thought of a guaranteed basic income of $24000 per Canadian. Don't forget we're talking about $24.5 billion a year to just scan containers. How much more will you spend on law enforcement, trials, incarceration, treatment, housing, food etc etc per addict? So no limit? How much do you think we could save by simply putting a bullet in every addicts head and dumping them in a landfill? How much does a bullet cost? A buck? So 350000 times a buck...I bet half you people would leap at the opportunity if it was presented to you. What if it meant we could spend the $24.49 billion we'd save on the military? $24.49 billion every year after year after year?

ROFLMAO!!! These people are certifiably nuts.

lol. Now THIS is funny:

Some people are too simpleminded to distinguish between American people and their govt policies. Posted in both sides of the border threads. Meanwhile, I suggest a new NHL policy for Canadians. Cheer loudly rather than sing the Canadian anthem. Sit in dead silence with middle fingers extended for the US anthem.

Well, I will take this as half a victory as you are not conceding how bad of a point you made, rather just saying you are not interested in trying to defend it.

OK so why are we complaining about taking these now terrorists out of play, investing more into our own safety.... Why are you trying to downplay the amount of drugs being produced right here in Canada...45,000 Canadians have died from this one drug alone since 2016...Thats 22 persons a day, the other source i posted from the RCMP says cartel gangs are well established in Canada and producing enough fentanyl for canada and it is exporting it to the US, and european markets as well as Australia.... https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2024/06/statement-from-the-minister-of-mental-health-and-addictions-and-associate-minister-of-health-on-the-overdose-crisis.html Well harper did nothing as well ....this excuse is getting old for a few reasons, Liberals have had 8 years to make any changes they wanted to....8 plus years they did nothing...and it was not becasue harper did nothing it was becasue they made that choice...next Fentanyl was not a major problem back then... Well since CBSA has already said they can only check or scan 1 % of all truck and containers coming into Canada if we invested more than the 1.38 we said we would we could stop all of these precursors' from coming into the country....we could make a huge dent in that problem....but it is only 45,000 Canadians, that have died, only 22 per day....what is the number we need to get to before our government and citizens demand we take some action That's the question we need to ask...If we can't spend money on defending ourselves or protecting citizens from organized crime What is the point of paying taxes?....what is the point of this union when it can't provide basic services?

Trump is the major factor. He can seriously damage Poilievre’s chances if he goes all out against us. In that case, there’ll be support for the Libs right across the political spectrum including from many who haven’t voted in a while and disillusioned Liberal voters who might have sat this one out. Plus Danielle Smith might be a little preoccupied with events closer to home to play at Trump whisperer again. Best case for PP is that this round of tariffs is the last, the whole disgraceful story peters out and he glides in on what’s left of his lead. Has anybody asked Trump about the political effect he is having up here?

Unburdened by what has been 🤣 I LOVE it!

This thread is like a TDS anonymous meeting. Get it all out. LOL

No Canadian should visit the US unless they absolutely have to until this is sorted out.

Surprised by what? That you've had to retreat to inane, nonsensical quipping as soon as your clownworld reality gets challenged? Don't be. There's 61 pages of you doing that here. 🤡🤡🤡

Climate change isn't BS. It's happening regardless of political policy.