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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.

Looks like they are on the way to a deal. The left will decry peace.

Hi yes, you're usual admission of defeat when you can't make a reasoned argument But hey, keep going the way you've been going. I'm sure the republicans will love getting another 12 years in office

Let's see. President Trump took a GANG of illegal aliens WHO WERE COMMITTING CRIMES IN THIS COUNTRY. He ordered them DEPORTED, which by law they are SUPPOSED TO BE. And the plane was outside of US airspace, headed to the El Salvador prison that those animals deserved. A judge tries to inferfere with US Foreign Policy, which is what Trump's actions amounted to. I agree there is a dictatorship on the horizon. It's coming from judges.

As opposed to how you just run away and put people on ignore?

Well there are two things when it comes to the money world, monetary policy and fiscal policy. When you work for a central bank you're worried about monetary policy. When you work as an economist you worry about fiscal policy. So working for a bank is not the same as being an economist. And the Bank of Canada has commented on this about a trillion times in the last few years. Monetary policy is not fiscal policy. Basically he knows how to lower and raise interest rates. Why am i always the one who has to educate you? Technically a kid flying a kite is a pilot under canadian law (seriously, look it up ) but i wouldn't call him a professional pilot or a commercial pilot. In fact thats why you have to have a certain number of hours actually flying after you graduate before you can get your commercial license I would call him a pilot. Piloting is what he did not banking. Carney worked for a bank, and never as an economist. I would call him a banker because that's what he did, never as an economist LOLOL Thanks for making my point for me but honestly it would have been faster if you'd just realized i was right early on

Too late. Already laughing.

We understand just fine. You hide behind "due process" here but it comes across as anything but honest because you guys also support Biden letting all these people in and the sanctuary city policies that keep them here and oppose efforts to remove them even with due process.

LOL awww muffin, chasing me around trying to score points again are we? You STILL feel like a failure after all this time do you? Well.... if you need to come here and while like a biatch to make yourself feel better about how many times i've made you look stupid then you go right ahead LOL What a broken little man you are

The rest of the NYT story was behind a paywall. Here it is again, even though you will dismiss it as FAKE NEWS etc etc https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/us/coronavirus-migrants-testing.html

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.

If I didn't know better, I'd think this was some really clever self-parody on your part. Then I remembered that actually requires self-awareness, and cringed for you.

He has already told him there won’t be talks until the 51st state idiocy ends. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/carney-calls-trumps-51-state-remarks-disrespectful-as-international-media-takes-notice Annexation comments 'need to stop before any conversation about our broader partnership with the U.S.,' Mark Carney said

Wrong again: "Twelve individuals appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title22/chapter56&edition=prelim What is your point here? LOL, run away like you always do coward.

That's not what's happening here at all. What's happening to Ukraine now was predicted around 10 years ago by Professor John Mearsheimer: To use your school analogy, it's kind of like this Biden kid encouraged the Ukrainian student to pick a fight with that Russian fellow and that he'd back up the Ukrainian. After doing so, and helping the Ukrainian a bit, the Biden kid had to go, but he was replaced by this Trump fellow. The Trump fellow, much smarter than this Biden kid, realized that continuing to help the Ukrainian kid could get not just the Ukrainian out for the count (he was already looking pretty bad), but stood a very good chance of wrecking Trump as well. Trump, to his credit, decided to try to work out a deal with the Russian fellow. Now, Trump had a lot of friends that wanted to see the Russian fellow come to harm, so he couldn't make things -too- easy for the Russian to make a deal. I think Simplicius may be on to something with the following theory that he voiced in a recent article he wrote. Quoting: ** For now, the above clearly fruitless call infact gives opportunity for Trump to re-characterize it as a ‘success’, which allows him to sell the ongoing negotiations as positive and friendly, which keeps the hyenas and hawks off his back, allowing him to put off being forced to ‘act tough’ and tighten the proverbial vise on Russia. This could be what the secret backdoor ‘plan’ with Russia is all about: keep stringing these useless “negotiations” along while pretending they are “making headway”, all while giving Ukraine a symbolic amount of “aid”, while in effect waiting for Russia to slowly finish Ukraine off until such time that Kiev becomes “amenable” to real war-ending concessions. ** Full article: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/historic-putin-trump-call-is-small?publication_id=1351274&post_id=159353837&isFreemail=true&r=z34xz&triedRedirect=true

The British and Dutch East India Companies are gone too. Sears failed, Target failed here almost in an instant. As I pointed out, land values preclude a good return from a huge department store, even with small space renters like Radio Shack, the Source, Atmosphers, Rickis failing over high rents even with the Bay owning the whole mall the ROI on the property was worth more. How many highrise rental units guaranteeing >$2000 a month each could be built on that same space? HBC made a bad decision to invest more in department stores rather than oil & gas. That would've been a 'natural progression' for a fur trader.

Really? Companies come and go all the time. In 400 years are people in Canada going to be upset about Home Hardware going away because the yard-bots have built-in tools and people no longer dig their own gardens or fix their own roof leaks? You seem very emotional about this.

Transition all you want as an adult. Just stop pushing your trans the kids madness onto the children and forcing men into women's sports and private spaces.

You fell easily for the “reverse psychology” trick that Trump just learned.

Yeah, you still don't get it. You're missing the forest for the trees. Trump has created an enemy for you. He has made you believe that illegal immigrants are a threat to the nation. But they aren't. The real threat to the nation is Trump, as he attacks the rule of law, and your systems and institutions, in order to gain more power for himself. And as he dismantles your democracy, he keeps you occupied, screaming, "But the immigrants!" No, it was the words from the Act. of another nation or government

That is a wartime act that can only be used in times of war with other nations or governments It has only ever been used in the War of 1812, WW1 and WW2 From the act: That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, Your understanding is faulty

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.

Either MAGA's have their heads up their ass or they want a dictatorship.

They bought a pipeline to ship more oil. You were wrong. Making it illegal to offend Jesus is controlling speech. It is antithetical to freedom of expression.

Yup, these are pretty much the things that truly matter to me alright and don't forgot transparency and accountability too. Where on Earth did you get this notion? I certainly believe government is a necessary institution but all this saviour blind trust stuff you're talking about is something that's rattling around your brain not mine.

You're trying to deny you were a Trump supporter now that it's unpopular? How brave you are! The Liberals literally built them a pipeline, liar.

Not a real federal judge, a federal ACTIVIST. ALL democrat judges need their licenses pulled for being left-wing activists. Trump enacted the alien enemies act of 1798. That means the activist judges can chew on that while Trump gets his legal team ready to stomp on the activist judges. Remember, democrats want war (civil and international), criminal behavior, and sex change operations. Republicans just want the good stuff.

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!

Great article from Joe Lauria, who I've come to greatly respect as a journalist. Quoting some of his article below: ** March 16, 2025 By Joe Lauria Nothing could have been clearer than Russia’s repeated conditions for a permanent end of the war, rather than a temporary ceasefire: Ukraine’s neutrality, its demilitarization and denazification, the inclusion of four Russian-speaking oblasts into the Russian Federation and treaties establishing a new security architecture in Europe. Equally clear was Ukraine’s utter rejection of these conditions, demanding instead the return of every inch of its territory, including Crimea, and Ukraine’s membership in NATO. It is the reason the two sides are still fighting a war. It is a war, however, that Ukraine is badly losing. Obscuring that fact is an important aim of Ukraine and its European allies to keep their publics onside. But it isn’t only their publics that they needs convincing to continue supporting Ukraine, but the president of the United States too. After the Oval Office dustup, in which Donald Trump and J.D. Vance laid it on the line to Zelensky in public, the Europeans held two summits. At both they made loud noises about continuing to support Zelensky, but also made clear they couldn’t do it without the United States. Much as they loathe him, Zelensky and the European leaders need Donald Trump. So they set Zelensky up to writing a letter sucking up to Trump, a man clearly susceptible to flattery. Very likely also influenced by his Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, both of whom had previously expressed neocon support for Ukraine and condemnation of Russia, Trump was apparently turned around, convinced to propose the 30-day ceasefire. Trump then somehow got the notion that Vladimir Putin, despite his oft repeated conditions for ending the war, would yield to pressure. It could be Trump thinks he is a neutral mediator who needs to bully both sides to force them to do a deal. So after the ceasefire was floated, Trump resumed arms and intelligence flows to Ukraine, new sanctions on Russia were threatened and Ukraine fired 350 drones at residential areas of Moscow just as Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was arriving in Moscow to discuss the ceasefire. Like Casting a Lone Veto All this was designed to push Putin to accept it or appear like a man guilty of rejecting peace. If U.S. arms, intelligence and sanctions had not deterred Putin before, why would it now? Putin saw this as the public relations exercise that it is and treated it as such. He responded with public relations of his own. Instead of firmly saying the expected, “No,” he said, “Yes,” followed by “nuances,” such as who would monitor such a ceasefire along a 2,000-kilometer front? He said such a ceasefire could not begin as occupying Ukrainian troops were encircled on Russian territory; and, crucially, that a 30-day ceasefire — with no Ukrainian rearmament — could only mark the start of talks for a permanent settlement. Putin exposed the motive to give Ukrainian troops on the run a chance to regroup. Just as designed, Zelensky and European leaders blasted Putin for being a man who loves war, and hates peace. At the U.N. Security Council, which I covered as a correspondent for a quarter of a century, I often saw countries introduce resolutions for a vote even though they were certain one of the five permanent members would veto it. Diplomats explained that this was done on purpose to force the arm of that nation’s ambassador to be the lone one raised in opposition to the measure for all the world to see, causing it maximum public embarrassment. That is precisely the exercise we have seen with this phony ceasefire proposal. The Europeans and the Ukrainians are trying to milk it for all it’s worth. Zelensky did a selfie video to call Putin a “manipulator” of world leaders. [snip] In the end, the “ceasefire” gambit may create more public sympathy for Ukraine. But the big question is whether it will harden Trump against Russia by continuing arms shipments and intelligence and perhaps levelling new sanctions against Moscow. All that would do, however, is prolong the death and destruction. Without NATO’s direct participation in the war against Russia, which would risk nuclear annihilation, the outcome of the war is certain. Because of that, Trump could resume pressure on Zelensky to essentially give up instead. The ball is now in Trump’s court. The course of this three-year conflict since Russia’s intervention makes clear that the longer Ukraine tries to fight, the worse deal it will get, no matter how many public relations points it might win along the way. ** Full article: https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/16/the-phony-ceasefire/

The bottom line: actions have consequences. F-k around, find out. If the thinking stopped working, that is.

Turkey orders 40 Eurofighter Typhoons over F-35.

So are you suggesting that potential recruits dreaming of a military career are saying “if the military is allowing gays and facial hair Im going to instead work a boring job in the civilian world where nobody is gay or has facial hair”? No matter the woke policies there are probably always going to be a lot more gays weirdos and woke workplace policies in the civilian world than the military one at least for large employers and white collar workplaces The numbers suggest that recruiting hasn’t declined and in fact had massively increased in the past year (probably because of attention and media coverage over Ukraine and recent procurement not because of wokeness) I suspect the applications are mostly from the usual demographic who apply to the military and not pacifist transgender wiccans with purple hair