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Maybe you could explain what an economist is, if an Oxford University economics doctorate doesn't qualify you as one. 🤣

https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-oleary-blasts-bozo-tim-walz-for-cheering-tesla-stock-drop-beyond-stupidTime “There’s this thing on my phone, I know some of you know this, on the iPhone. They’ve got that little stock app,” Walz said at an event Tuesday evening in a clip he posted on X. “I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day,” Walz said as the crowd erupted in laughter. “225 and dropping!” he exclaimed. One little problem with that. Walz, the former vice presidential candidate, neglected to mention that as recently as last summer, Minnesota had 1.6 million shares of Tesla in its retirement fund and 211,000 shares of Tesla in its non-retirement fund. During a debate, Tampon Tim actually called himself a knucklehead. He was right.

Excuse me? Tim Walz called for tampon machines in boys bathrooms on public schools. The Trump campaign found out and TAMPON TIM because Walz's new nick. Oh, and by the way I PROVIDED EFFING LINKS. That means Tampax Max actually celebrates Tesla stock losing value, while the Minnesota employee retirement fund is heavily invested in Tesla stock. Are you just plain effing STUPID?

Sorry, I can't take seriously anyone who refers to a former candidate for the office of VP as "Tampon Tim." Your credibility is shot.

In the 20+ years PP has been in parliament as a MP and several of those years as a cabinet minister, can anyone tell me what legislation or even proposed legislation that PP has brought forward for Canada... or for anything? He has even voted against affordable housing when he was housing minister LOL https://cupe.ca/pierre-poilievre-it-banks-billionaires-and-big-polluters-not-you

What's upsetting you? You said it was made up. Now you admit he wrote it, and there's no statute of limitations on hypocrisy. So are you mad because he wrote it or just want to shoot the messenger who brought it to your attention? So it seems not that many people actually liked PeePee or what he was saying. They just didn't want Trudeau anymore. And the more people see PeePee the less they like him. Probably why he won't let journalists on the plane. I'm sorry the last 2 weeks have been so upsetting for you but don't be glum. In political time it's a long way to the election. Maybe PeePee can pull it off. You know, come up with a new slogan or something.

Ah, I see. Perhaps you could then explain what it means to have done what "economist" does, if leading multiple central banks doesn't qualify him? 🙄 Wouldn't you just call them a pilot? What if a pilot worked for a bank, flying the top leadership around in their helicopters and planes? Would you call him a banker, because he works for a bank, or would he still be a pilot? 🙃

The problem with stupid people is they don't know they're stupid. And as I so often point out on this forum, so damn stupid they'll post something even stupider than their previous comment thinking it will help their argument, as in the example above. The people jailed in this case are charged with no crime whatsoever in El Salvador, and the USA is paying a foreign govt to do just that. They were deported as 'suspected' gang members, against a court order by the wishes of one person, your leader. Your acceptance of that, and your claim that basic rights such as habeus corpus only apples to people you like and of a President's right to act against the rule of law shows you are undeniable a fascist yourself. IE: an extreme right winger, believing in authoritarianism, the power of state over the individual, scapegoating, suppression of dissent and worship of a leader of that cause. On top of winning the Ultimate Bonehead Award away from Reason10

You very obviously have no idea how America works. Not the faintest clue. The entire farking purpose of a constitutional system (rather than a pure democracy or autocracy) is to create laws more durable than the whims of one election. That the whole point of this "nation of laws" business. The POTUS can set whatever goals they want, but they have to follow the law to pursue them. This is what the laws and courts are for, to prevent the tyranny of a tyrant or the tyranny of the majority.

Not always. Often he says things that he knows to be false The defining characteristic of Trump isn’t whether he is liar or is too unfiltered to lie. The defining characteristic of Teump and the MAGA/right wing populist movement generally is that it is post-truth. This means that truth and beliefs simply don’t matter one way or the other and are not a factor in anything they say. In fact you’ll find that often they don’t have many well-formed beliefs at all. They mostly only have wants. They will say whatever they think it takes in the moment to satisfy their wants whether it’s based in truth or an absurd outlandish lie doesn’t matter. It could be a big want like annexing Canada and Greenland or a small impulsive want like deflecting a reporter’s embarrassing question. This is why they’re immune to embarrassment when their false claims are fact checked, debunked or exposed as illogical or hypocritical, it simply doesn’t matter to them or their supporters. We know Trump was doing more of his bullshitting because practically in the same breath he said that he said Trudeau was the worst and “nastiest” he had ever dealt with and also that he has said publicly that he doesn’t know anything about PP except that he’s stupid for not being MAGA. And IIRC not too long ago Trump once spoke positively about the then-expected conservative landslide victory in Canada. That sounds like the exact opposite of preferring liberals to conservatives. And of course there has never been a conservative government since Trump entered politics so what would he base any assessment of them on anyways? Trump’s comments is just another example of the world’s dumbest politician making the world’s most obvious attempt of reverse psychology possibly because he prefers conservatives and definitely because he’s trying to cover up for the damage he’s done to conservative parties across the western world Trump’s political incompetence has done more to boost the failing left and centre-left parties across Europe and Canada than anything else. Honestly it’s the Liberals who ought to be saying that they prefer Trump to Democrats.

So much for the idle threat of ignore... Libbies...

That is what I have been trying to explain to you all along you silly little dweeb. That's why people told the democrats not to throw the law out the window when they were doing so during their term. And that's why trump feels free to get away with it now. How does almost impossible to put that Genie back in the bottle once it's out, the democrats open that door and trump is walking through it. I doubt it'll get better during the next administration regardless of who it is

PP is not another Trump and certainly not the same kind of pathological liar, but using a similar rhetoric and campaign style turned out to be a big mistake. Trump's post election lunacy is the only reason he isn't cruising to a majority.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/domestic-terrorism-hits-tesla-drivers-dealers-former-fbi-field-boss-warns-could-get-worse Suspected Tesla arsonists hit with federal charges in acts of 'domestic terrorism': AG Three individuals were charged in federal cases after they used Molotov cocktails to violently attack Tesla properties around the country in acts of "domestic terrorism," Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced Thursday. "The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended," Bondi said. "Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars." All three face charges carrying a minimum penalty of five years and up to 20 years in prison, the department said. Adam Matthew Lansky, 41, on Jan. 20, threw approximately eight Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership located in Salem, Oregon, federal prosecutors said. One vehicle was completely destroyed, and several others were damaged. Lansky also threw a "large heavy object through the dealership window," they said. At the time of the attack, he was armed with a suppressed AR-15 rifle. Lucy Grace Nelson, also known as Justin Thomas Nelson, 42, was arrested in Loveland, Colorado, on Jan. 29 after attempting to light Teslas on fire with Molotov cocktails, prosecutors said. Nelson was later found in possession of materials used to produce additional incendiary weapons, including a container of gasoline, bottles, and wick materials, on Feb. 24, prosecutors said. This is no different from this. It's called DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

Remember, this is about upholding immigration law, not bending it to the woke agenda. "The White House blasted "activist" federal judges and called on the U.S. Supreme Court to rein them in on Wednesday as President Donald Trump and his allies escalated their attacks against judges who have ruled against his administration. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters it was incumbent upon the Supreme Court to take action against judges who "are acting erroneously." "We have judges who are acting as partisan activists from the bench. They are trying to dictate policy from the president of the United States. They are trying to clearly slow walk this administration's agenda, and it's unacceptable," she said." https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-administration-supreme-court-donald-trump/2025/03/19/id/1203563/

They don't have to be convicted, numbnuts, they just have to be deported. Since you have a problem with deporting illegal aliens, I suggest you pack your shit and get to El Salvador. Maybe you can offer support and comfort down there.

ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS are on the table for deportation. If you're stupid enough to get caught with a gangbanger when you're apprehended, then tough shit. See you in El Salvador.

Sitting in El Salvador will give them time to think. Perhaps the next time those scumbags are tempted to break our immigration laws they'll come to learn that Biden and the rest of you burned out degenerates are not in power anymore. Maybe you can help get the word out. What do you think, pervert?

Oh goody, does it come with a 1 years subscription?

PP policies is actually what trump wants. PP will fix the border, the drug issues, rebuild the military and Trump will have little to whine shout. Carney is to arrogant to try and work with Trump.

Just read a furniture company is moving to the states. 170 jobs gone.

They could cause headaches since alot of European planes have American hardware, and may not be allowed to sell to us.

The cry is that it is always a Constitutional Crisis the moment Trump criticizes having to follow a court order... but never when these left wing activist judges are clearly overstepping their power and jurisdiction.

The credibility of the GrayZone pales in comparison to the Washington Post: Coverage of The Grayzone has focused on its misleading[25][26][27] reporting, its criticism of American foreign policy,[1][2] and its sympathetic coverage of the Russian, Chinese and former Syrian governments.[32] The Grayzone has been accused of downplaying and defending the persecution of Uyghurs in China,[33][37] of publishing conspiracy theories about Xinjiang, Syria and other regions,[38][39][40][1] and of publishing pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

LOL... Trump obviously believes that election was fraudulent. Apparently, the SCOTUS (IE the law) says his actions were perfectly legal. Now Pumpkin...I know Twumpy-Wumpy has you freaked right out. But the fact is, you silly little farts begged for this reaction...from Twumpy-Wumpy AND the American people. My advise would be... Go hug as many convict illegals as you can because...Twumpy-Wumpy and the American people are gonna deport all their a55es and soon, all your loved murderers and rapists will be gone and you'll have to satisfy your warped sense of pity, by hugging real American citizens.

About that ICC warrant: ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself | The Grayzone How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor’s Putin arrest warrant | The Grayzone From the second article: ** As The Grayzone has reported, the ICC’s warrant was inspired by a State Department-funded report that contained no field reporting, no concrete evidence of war crimes, and no proof that Russia was actually targeting Ukrainian youth with a massive deportation campaign. In fact, the investigators acknowledged finding “no documentation of child mistreatment, including sexual or physical violence, among the camps referenced in this report.” What’s more, the inquiry’s lead author told The Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo that “a large amount” of the Russian youth camps his team researched were “primarily cultural education – like, I would say, teddy bear.” Though Khan pledged his absolute independence in his hunt for Putin, he is closely aligned with the same Western governments that are currently engaged in a proxy battle with Russia on the Ukrainian battlefield. Meanwhile, he has stalled the ICC’s case against Israel, frustrating human rights lawyers who represent the victims of grisly violence in the besieged Gaza Strip. Additionally, Khan formally dropped the international court’s case against the US military for its actions in Afghanistan. Through his focus on Ukraine, Khan has presided over a massive surge in Western financial support for his office, with much of the money earmarked for his investigation into Russian officials. The ICC’s issuance of Putin’s arrest warrant happened to coincide with a major donor’s conference for the court in London, England. The ICC prosecutor’s political entanglements do not stop there. Celebrity lawyer Amal Clooney has worked as a special advisor to Khan’s office while simultaneously counseling the Ukrainian government on its initiative to target Russian officials with prosecution, either by the ICC or another international body. Clooney has also served as a special liaison to the British Foreign Secretary. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that after two decades of unremitting hostile relations with the ICC, official Washington is suddenly warming up to the court, and is endeared by its top prosecutor. **

The threat to the rule of law. Trump has repeatably claimed he is above the law. There was that little matter of trying to steal an election through false means, and now with the deportations. Did you read his post? This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President - He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! He is going to attempt to do as much as he can get away with. Here's the problem: If he posits that he is not bound by the law, and the courts, those connected with him take their cue. He will be courted by executives and varying organizations, and corruption results. If one is not bound by the law, then no-one is.

Putin's motivation for starting the war is revanchism. Utter nonsense. For almost 2 decades, Russia has made it clear that it would not tolerate Ukraine becoming a part of NATO. Professor John Mearsheimer predicted that Ukraine would get wrecked due to western policies way back in 2015. Business Insider actually wrote an article pointing this out 2 weeks ago. It can be seen here: https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/ukraine-going-to-be-wrecked-after-zelenskyy-trump-spat-john-mearsheimers-2015-prediction-goes-viral-466448-2025-03-03 As to the final straw for Russia, I'm pretty sure that it was Ukraine's renewed assault on the Donbass Republics. To date, I know of only a single writer who lays out the evidence for this in a clear and concise manner, former Swiss Intelligence Officer Jacques Baud. The article where he does so can be seen here: https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/09/former-nato-military-analyst-blows-the-whistle-on-wests-ukraine-invasion-narrative/

It was clearly a case of wrong link and right headline and I provided the right link, but @robosmith is a coward. This is the game he always plays. He disputes the source to avoid having to deal with the facts and then runs away.

The first headline was in fact from the New York Times.

Look around this forum. Which one's? And what about the near universal narrative you apparently subscribe to that anyone who isn't a conservative is a Marxist commie globalist? It's PP's supporters that tie him to Trump. Sure there's lots of back peddling these days but not enough to make an appreciable dent in his hard core base. PP hasn't distanced himself enough from the Freaker's Ball going on under the Big Conservative Tent and he's going to have to pander to it lest it keep moving in search of something more right wing. It used to be more right wing Conservative parties only had to worry about the odd Randy White from beaking off about something stupid. It's ten times as bad now. A good third of his supporters are anti-vaxxers, people who subscribe to COVID authoritarianism and MSM paranoia conspiracies and of course MAGA.

Trump and Putin apologists sure have a lot in common.

Where do you think the government gets its money? That sentence right there is everything that's wrong with the left today

The judge ordered the plane turned around. Trump openly defied the order, thus breaking the law. There is something called "checks and balances". The judicial branch is a check on power grabs by the president. The president was acting outside of his powers when he deported all those people for no other reason than his say-so that "they are bad people." A president should not have that power. It is dictatorial. If the deportees had been given due process, we would have found out that some were not gang members at all. When the president overpowers the law, that is dictatorial.

And when the federal judge ruled that Trump couldn't use that law for deportation, this is how Trump responded in a post on Truth Social: This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President - He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! It's so clear that Trump has gone mad with power. Trump's response drew a rare rebuke from the Supreme Court Chief Justice: In response to media requests for comment about Trump’s online remarks, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued a rare public statement. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” he wrote. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

Careful…. Lying is a sin. What should be done to the people who insult the Christians at the coffee shop? Criminal charges? A ticket? What?

For a while there, I thought I would vote for Poilievre. We needed some sanity following Trudeau. But then I heard Poilievre railing against the "Woke." Imported cultural war. It stuck me as a manipulative action, just like Trump uses "the Woke" to manipulate his base. Creating an enemy where none exists. I don't want an elected leader to manipulate me into outrage. Just govern with wisdom and fairness. I like what I see with Carney.

So you aren’t for personal freedom at all. Blasphemy laws take away personal freedom and create a bigger, more intrusive government. Did you just lie when you said you were for personal freedom? Trudeau bought a pipeline. https://globalnews.ca/news/10019634/trans-mountain-pipeline-cost-analysis/

Because your bible tells you so or some right wing politician? Did you ever consider they might be wrong or do you subscribe to blind trust?

Holy shit, you are just an unhinged mess. When you get stumped by information which does not fit your preconceptions you just vomit up a Gish gallop of insanity. Which frankly is not a surprise at this point, but I'm still shocked sometimes by the top-to-bottom crazy. It's not that you misread the numbers, it's that everybody lies all the time to cover up the grand conspiracy for nefarious (but unknowable) purposes!

We should have learned something from the huge cost of maintaining, repairing, overhauling and/or buying parts etc from the experience of the CH149 Cormorant from England/Italy (Agusta/Westland) and the soon to be in service CC-295 Kingfisher from CASA in Spain. No one in Canada want so be (or can afford to set up for such small fleets)a service centre for the components of these aircraft. So, we have to continually ship them to Europe and back. While the anti American sentiment is rampant, the F35 is a far superior aircraft than the others and it's proximity to us as well as us having certain capability in Mirabel and Pratt &. Whitney in the Montreal area only makes sense. Oh and the already $19 billion spent on development makes the F35 the only real option.

Do we need to review our entire defence policy including equipment in view of the new world political situation? I hope this is the conversation that is going on. Is the F-35 still our best choice for a new NATO that can't count on the US? The possibility the US might decide its interests are different or even antagonistic to the rest of NATO? Like now? The price of all these aircraft is negotiable. Member countries of the Typhoon project pay around half the export price. It will be interesting to know what Turkey is paying for them. Hungary and Czech Republic lease their Gripens.

Trump said in a press conference that he would use economic pressure to make Canada the 51st state. It was very clear. He doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with hurting families and populations in order to subjugate them to American control against the will of the people. His statements are undemocratic and promote oppression. You don’t need a political science degree to see the obvious. That Trump is willing to try this with America’s closest ally and biggest buyer of American goods illustrates what he’s about as a person and president. The world is watching. The U.S. under Trump is not trustworthy or supportive of a world that’s safe for democracy. Smaller countries are most at risk, because Trump’s foreign and domestic policy appears to be, More power to the powerful at the expense of those with less power. Russia is taking Trump at his word and seeing how far inside Ukraine they can push without the supposed “leader of the free world” caring. It appears that they can push very far without regard to the will of Ukrainians. Is that Trump’s vision for how the world should work? No thanks. Unfortunately Trump acts based on how he feels in the moment, and the people around him won’t question or keep him in check. The Congress and courts are not reeling him in enough, which raises questions about how well the U.S. government system works. I don’t respect warmongering and undermining democratically elected foreign governments. No doubt that was done to Ukraine and Biden contributed to that. Nevertheless, the answer isn’t to give green lights to undemocratic invasion. If Trump has an argument to make for why Canada becoming the 51st state is beneficial to Canadians and Americans, he should make it to the peoples of both countries and let the people decide through their respective governments. Disregarding trade agreements and threatening economic coercion won’t win Canadians over. If anything it will make them distrust the US. It also makes the possibility of brokering a better economic partnership for both countries harder. Why get further enmeshed with a partner who can renege on agreements and crush you without concern for your wellbeing? It sucks because Trump has disappointed many people who wanted to believe in him. He has essentially revived the Liberals in Canada because of their association with US opposition to Trump, damaging conservatism in the West at a time when countries like Canada desperately needed to pivot from radical left ideology.