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Borrowing from the playbook of yet another successful dictator, Trump is attempting to purge history, art and science of ideas he doesn't like. We've seen it at NIH, we've seen it at the Kennedy center, and now it's coming for the Smithsonian. Politico (and everywhere else) Vice President JD Vance has a new job: erasing what the White House considers “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian, a task that allows him to cast aside the progressive ideas he has decried since long before he was elected to public office. The vice president, who sits on the museum network’s board, has been tasked with slashing funding for exhibits or programs that promote “ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy,” including those that recognize trans people, “degrade shared American values,” or “divide Americans based on race,” according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed behind closed doors on Thursday. I have no doubt that this aggressive, ham-handed attempt to use political office to dictate culture will be celebrated by so-called conservatives (who clearly aren't), but it should be recognized for the sinister, cynical scheme that it is.

Meanwhile... Canadians have better health outcomes than Americans, with longer life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates and of course lower costs.

Sinister? Who let men into women's bathrooms and sports? Pfft...Sinister...

Once again... this is the stupidity I already pointed out. It is eliminating coal power in Canada... just to ship coal to China to be burned there instead. If the point is to help global CO2 emissions and combat climate change, you have done nothing. A consumer carbon tax doesn't do anything except price your own country out of manufacturing or other important things like fertilizer production to grow your crops. Instead of making it in Canada, you clowns will just import it from China. You still need to grow food, you still need fertilizer, making it so costly that you drive the business overseas has accomplished nothing.

Unconfirmed, but I suspect they started putting crystal meth in our water supply around 2020.

The people who called the Afghanistan withdrawal "the most successful military withdrawal ever" started a thread to complain about the WH's war effort all of a sudden... Weird

Little known fact: "eyeball" is the ancient Algonquin word for "retarded crap that they said on CBC."

And thank God for that. Of course, America hating psychopaths like robomarx and the rest of that cult are losing their shit, but nobody really cares what they think.

Stuff is getting real now folks. The left thought they were cute with their banana republic b.s. Now that table is turned and they are in the cross hairs. Good luck.

I think he's more like a team owner who knows he invested in a lemon but he still has to try and sell it.

I said it when he took control of the Conservatives, but Poilievre was pretty much the only guy who could lose the next election for the Conservatives. If they win the election, it'll be in spite of him and because of the Liberals' shitty record. If the Liberals win, it'll because of Carney, and in spite of the Liberal's shitty record. Weird contrast.

It's the Can'tservative mentality of you can't do two things at the same time. Either ship all trades offshore OR boost jobs here. More Candians building more products to ship somewhere else is unimaginable....

So a 4% carbon tax will stop climate change sometime in the amorphous future Why not have a 100% tax and stop the climate by next Tuesday?

"akin to norms" does not mean legal. That much is overstand.

Wishing you a very speedy recovery!

Git ridda dem Judges that rule by law instedda whut they're told! Yeehaww! Go git 'em boys!

No shit. You can apply all you like, doesn't mean you get a free pass to come in and then abscond from your hearing like these open borders leftists support.

IN MEXICO.

Well robo...right now I'm having hot boneless goat roti so...I survive just fine. But thanks for caring.

Which part of "not" did you "not" understand

and?

Still not legally binding. Which means squat, consideration does not mean legal

the way to do that is to invest more in 3D printers and robots, the problem with Canadian companies is that they refuse to invest in technology, so again, forcing them out of that comfort zone is creative destruction

No, there's just the desire for human decency. You can still be as indecent as you like.

This gave me a laugh. I know it’s not the same but he should have taken that money out a while ago. Now the attack lines write themselves. https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal-elections/pierre-poilievre-holds-investments-in-brookfield-the-same-company-he-attacks-mark-carney-over/article_14b82bad-29da-487f-a4f0-a54571e489c5.html

And you’re basing that on what an avowed enemy of our country says? Dear me. Are you the kind of fan who can’t criticize his own team when they are screwing up? Do you really think PP has run a fantastic campaign so far? What mark out of ten do you think his team deserves? He’s a career politician with a devoted, uncritical base who has been preparing for this moment all his life up against an elderly, inexperienced candidate of an unpopular incumbent party. All he has to do is convince a handful of centrists that he’s trustworthy on Trump and he’s in majority territory. The contest is still his to lose if he can listen to what people on his side of the fence are saying and modify his pitch.

The amount of fentanyl heading south is virtually zero, period. The amount is trivial

Well there are 2 sides to the story so it just comes down to who is more credible. Spoiler alert: it’s not the MAGAs

There's nothing wrong with purging regressivism from the country's institutions. Nobody who's worth a damn believes for one second that there's anything progressive about your f*cked up belief system.

Why not post some of this climate science then? You certainly talk about it enough but you've never actually responded to a single request from anyone (and there have been many) to cite what you're claiming with actual science. Of all the lefty concepts, climate change is the most passionately argued and least cited.

Exactly.

Trumps have discovered social engineering. Openness and acceptance of LGBTQ is regarded by them as social engineering, not a common value. Did liberals make a mistake on that one ? Objectively, how much does the government get to decide what is a 'common value' ? Or, furthermore, to interpret recognized value-words like 'Freedom' ? Freedom seems to mean you can buy a message and broadcast it whether or not it is true. Nobody would argue that. But it doesn't mean freedom of equal access to education or health. Postmodern Republicanism truly is a wonder to behold. It will lead back to a kind of 19th century pastoralism, I suspect. Maybe with a monarchy though.

well Donald Trump is obviously the wrong man to get it done, but again, if you think of it as a long term project, with the Democrats being the emissaries ; making offers instead of threats, then I can see Toronto & Co starting to come around

I agree but I think there are reasons for our complacency. Canada has always fought other countries’ wars. We’ve deferred the biggest decisions about what path to take to France then Britain then the U.S. When we tried to chart our own course we were naive about what is needed for true independence. We can’t have true domestic and foreign policy without the ability to defend ourselves and back our talk about world affairs with hard power. We can’t decouple our society from the American way of life while being dependent on the U.S. market and consuming so much American media that our major cities and cultural identity are more American than anything else, and they are. Moreover, the American way of life and living standards are pretty great. Why would we want to decouple from it? How far away do we want to be? Canada gets more distinct in the far north, in the Maritimes and Newfoundland, and most of all in Quebec, but even these places are distinctly North American. None of those unique qualities have to disappear within an American Union, but they will disappear in a society that relies too heavily on government and foreign powers and refuses to pay the price of defence. Trump has served Canada in this one very important way, which is to remind Canadians that real independence and assertion of authority requires honesty about the compromises a country must make, which means you don’t grandstand about your virtues if you’re not prepared to defend them, and you must never betray your own country by emphasizing its mistakes over its good achievements, especially in a great country like Canada. What happened to Canada’s stature under Trudeau is simply terrible and Trump is right to call it out and question whether our leadership should be taken seriously. Unless our federal government gets serious about what it takes to run the country responsibly and make the sacrifices to pay our way on defence and economic development, this kind of annexation talk will continue. I wouldn’t assume it will end with Trump and Trudeau. We can’t afford to have another showy PM who doesn’t understand economics and nationalism.

And if i was mad at that person i would NOT BURN DOWN A COMPUTER STORE. I would not grab someone's notebook computer and smash it because it was running windows. I would not steal someoen's parcel or light it on fire becuase i didn't like bezos. You are literally supporting domestic terrorism. You're saying that if someone doesn't like the politics of a person who is associated with a company then it's ok to attack the customers of that company or it's facitilites. that is disgusting. You're a sorry excuse for a person if you think violence towards other people like that is ok. I hope someone does burn down your house. maybe it'll shift your views on things.

You do know in order for something to be classified it actually has to be marked classified a reporter can not just deem it classified. So until you can show me the classified markings stfu.

here is something funny, take a look at the name of the bus....and it was by a one of carneys new members...

They're drowned out by your Liberal media-funded screeching on every channel - "We can tax Canadians into oblivion to save the planet!" And ding-dongs like you believe every word of it.

That's not what Polievre has said. He's actually explained how the Conservatives plan to cut GLOBAL emissions in multiple interviews. That's the difference. Libs claim that taxing Canadians will cut Canada's emissions - it hasn't. But they don't talk about how Canada can cut GLOBAL emissions. Is this a GLOBAL problem or is it a Canada problem? Conservatives are thinking bigger than Libs on this one.

Rule #1

Maybe Carney simply told him to shut his stupid mouth and listen for a change. Bullies usually do get polite when they know they've been beaten.

I already made the relevant point... lets go back to the beginning: Oh, looks like you have a short memory. Here you go:

Folks on this forum regularly progress through these stages in any given thread--and some just live on 5. They really don't care a bit about America as a concept. It's just a geographic designation at this point.

99.9% headed north. As are the refugees. Stop gobbling up Trump's bullshit and look at the facts.

@TreeBeard 1) Polls are always fake, and the polls in NA are all designed to make the Dems/Libs look good. Whatever they say, it's pretty standard that you flip them by 5% in favour of the conservatives. 2) https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/ That's Feb 23. With any luck, the Bloc will shut the LPOC out of Quebec, and the NDP will sap enough votes away from them to keep their overall numbers in the low single-digits. I think the NDP will win a few seats in BC and Ontario, that's it. If this country is going to survive, we need a strong majority for Poilievre.