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To left-learning types: France is pretty socialist, or at least was when I lived there. 2-tier healthcare provides for better care for those who can't pay. The key to making this work, though, is a mindset of solving problems, making things more efficient and cheaper. And, yes, it's very possible to do this without lowering wages or making the system worse.

It is a sour place, makes you feel dirty, like you've stepped in dog poo.

Shoooo fly, shooo ! 😎

Politics1990, herbie, and eyeball . . . . three flies on the Liberal sh!tpile. Stay the course, keep buzzing!

Politico Dick Cheney, who spent eight years as perhaps the most influential vice president in history and surely one of the most polarizing, has died. He was 84. “His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed. The former Vice President died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease,” his family said in a statement released Tuesday morning. ********** Please keep it respectful.

Didn't want to cross the floor, resigning is a slap in the face to PP without losing face himself. Long after the Budget gets passed. Poor poor Lib haters, They wrecked their own party, doubled down on it and ask us to sympathize for their tears.

It's a looney bin. I have both Black Dog and Luigi/Coolio/Charlie openly cyber stalking me. It's insane! And the ironic part of it is Luigi/Coolio/Charlie started a topic complaining about being cyber stalked! You can't make this up!

Yeah, for sure. But in fairness he's going to get a cabinet position or a committee chair position or the light and his income is going to go up 150 to $200,000 between actual pay and expense vouchers and all of that fun stuff. And he was very angry he didn't get the deputy speaker position. I think a lot of people would be tempted for that kind of money and you can bet that carney has been aggressively approaching every single conservative if you can since the election looking to try and sweet talk a few into switching sides. And at the end of the day there are going to be a percentage of people who are focused on the money they make as a priority It's shitty, but there's going to be a percentage of this

This is a joke. If you are happy to have folks like Dog around, then we should take anything you say about anyone else like this as garbage.

Round and Round and it's not even May. Try a different brand of mushroom.

Yeah. I hate to say it but the maritimers are a welfare state. The majority have a welfare mentality, and that's why they vote liberal.

A good thing. Short term growing pain.

You know it was gerrymandering: it was done to turn red counties into blue counties by adding hi-density areas that vote demonrat to low-density areas that vote conservative. The end result is that the entire rural population of California will be completely unrepresented by their governments: millions of people in farms and smaller communities will have representation that exclusively works for people in high-density urban areas. FYI the whole point of separating states into counties was so that different regions would have representation suited to them, and their particular concerns. By adding a huge voting block from a high-density urban area (blue area) to a larger but more rural county (red county), all that you're doing is forcing the people in the urban area to be represented by people who serve the urban community. That is gerrymandering - changing electoral boundaries to ensure that one party wins a larger percentage of the elected politicians instead of changing them to better represent the different regions in the state.

and I said, tip of the iceberg. Don't forget this spending idiocy has been or bean going on for over 10 years. I wonder how the graduates of the Transgender Whale Lesbian Rugby Renaissance Painting classes are doing. The champagne guy should know.

"AAAHHH! TRUMP! AAAHHH! WE ALL GONNA DIIIEEE!" PFFT...what a plank.

Lol...not so fast BlubberBoy. I'll pop in occasionally just to offer some rational thought and...ya...to make fun of your mascot Pup and the rest of you social media rejects. Eventually one of you will step over the line again. Then you m0rons will have to start another site...again... The educated left...an angry bunch of twits who self-destruct on a regular basis. Pfft...

Boy you sure are poisonous. You excuse an elected official who's hatred drove him to want to kill his political rival, and completely ignore the mobs attacking government law enforcement. People like you will stop at nothing to feed your rage. You are the "AIDS" of social and psychological well being. A virus of a human.

Canada has been converted from a nice place to raise a family, to a dumpster fire of scared little beavers who collectively are currently allowing the POTUS to dictate our politics...and society. Our immigration used to be rational. Now we have a massive tax burden supporting hundreds of thousands of "refugees" and "students". Several of our industries have been completely taken over by Indians. We waste our vast natural resources on notions of saving the world from carbon, while we impose huge taxes and regulations that stifle our national and personal wealth. Hell we chased one of our most brilliant minds, Jordan Peterson, to Florida because of some insane idea about pronouns and gender. Indeed, Canada is now a self-destructive mob of irrational twits. All more concerned with virtue-signalling and willing to shoot ourselves to show just how much we can hate Trump.

Maybe just me but I see a few potential issues with some of the "let's just do this" thinking here. There's computer knowledge and then there's the sort of computer knowledge that comes with trusted agent status; the sort of thing that's delegated to the "anyone crowd" who happens to have the need to know... meaning things like CPIC as a for instance, there are others and we already have that spades. Outside of that category (and IMO of course), the real experts (meaning other than the anyone crowd) usually need a reason, some sort of ulterior motive that makes the effort worthwhile (and I'll include the government in that assessment too)... It's why things like online gun club membership information concern me. In one fell swoop a talented bad actor could get the name and address of every member and sell that information for profit. Knowing the name and address of everyone in the area who owns a restricted weapon would likely be worth a few bucks. And here's the rub... you could see this coming from a mile away and NO ONE BELIEVED IT. You were a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist for even suggesting the possibility. But consider... by regulation you must be a member of a gun club if you own a restricted weapon and because of that regulation, POOF, the ranks of members in a given area swell to the point that online / computer based membership management becomes a practical necessity. One data base hack could yield up to 1,200 names in a local area... it's a potential vulnerability that almost qualifies as a gift to criminal types. Now consider the same information tied (in the form of an APP) to yet another ID profile. Then there's the embarrassment factor motivation, or just the challenge of doing it, sort of a "look at the havoc I can unleash" thing... the Ashley Madison release comes instantly to mind. Throw in a hacked digital ID and even I can entertain you at length with the possibilities for abuse. Finally, and worst of all IMO because of what they stand to gain here, there's the government itself. The sales job they're likely to use probably won't even make a lot of sense given the acknowledged digital fingerprint that already exists but... they're going to say things like "we need this national digital ID (in the form of an APP BTW) to track illegal immigrants" (or such like argument). There will be more and better arguments too and they'll all be safety and security related. That's how I'd do it anyway... In response though, I'd say how about checking the nominal roll at the hotels you're housing them in? That might work. In truth, I haven't followed this issue much but if / when you see it being sold as a safety and security measure, a bit like the mandatory gun club membership, consider that it may come with a host of unintended consequences that the "if you have nothing to hide" folks never thought about. Right off the top of my head.... If it were me, and I were a climate warrior, I'd start with something like a green tax on movements outside a 50 km radius of your primary residence. Digital ID coupled with facial recognition and meta data tag makes it dead easy to do that. Then I'd put a tax on "time off in leu of overtime" at your hourly overtime rate and tax that too. I can think of a bunch more but won't bore ya'll further... the point is that's about 30 seconds worth of thought on the part of a dumb grunt with virtually no financial savvy at all. Imagine what smart, tax hungry, deficit ridden governments could come up with. I would say look at the reason(s) governments say "THEY NEED THIS FOR," look at what they already have access to and see if the argument for it rings true. People here have rightly pointed out that we (you me and us) are already in a bunch of data bases... instead of that being used as the justification for a more invasive one, maybe we should be considering the unintended consequences... maybe even the deliberate ones they forgot to mention.

It is much less about loyalty...more about U.S. history and the much broader context. Trump is only a relative blip in time, books will be written long after he is gone, just like other presidents...the country will move on. His media skill is not in great oratory or statesmanship, but expert emotional manipulation that rattles his critics. Might does not make right....it just makes.

Disagree. You are a zero-sum thinker, like Ford. === Donald Trump has many faults. But Trump is a positive-sum thinker.

America asked him to do so....did Canada ask Carney to clean up Trudeau's dump ?

Pointing out the defaulters just underscores the point that lenders are nuts lining up for more of the same.

So far is delivering. Second and third quarter results show the economy is moving upwards faster than inflation. While in Canada Most Canadians see inflation eating away at income gains: StatCan

You’d like that to be true. Trump is in fact your leader, apparently somewhat unaccountable to the people and Constitution. Well, we’ll see. Canada for all its problems doesn’t have this particular problem. Trudeau tried but was finally run out of town.

Yes, we all live on the same continent. 🙄 I'm more amused...bemused as well, that so many people still refuse to think of themselves as Earthlings that live on the same planet. They get all 'oohhhh but that's way to WEF' or some such stupid thing.

Why, when lenders are willing to keep lending us as much as we want to borrow? They should be able to see the same writing on the same wall you can but they don't seem the least bit concerned. How do you explain that? Do they know something the rest of us don't know or are they just nuts?

I still find it amusing Canadians think they’re somehow not already American. America see you all as another state.

By the time it's the rights turn in Canada America will have been taken over in its entirety by radical Marxist commies. Then what? How about we make the US our beloved 4th territory?

Your posting on this forum is certainly in the dumpster.

I am not playing your stupid games. You never contribute anything useful. fùck, you are part of the "they". The violent left that has taken over the D party. As far as I am concerned, everyone on the left is a bunch of violent a-holes. I don't either. But it is how I feel. I don't see any way to talk to these people any more. They've lost it. What else can we do?

See what you don’t realize is that Trump’s approval is relatively flatline regardless of what he does. This gives him more leverage than any other politician to enact his policy.

That forum really turned into a piece of garbage filled with the mentally ill. Glad it's gone.

Nobody was pretending prices didn’t go up during the pandemic and supply chain crisis (which was mostly out of biden’s control btw). But it’s also completely irrelevant to the fact that they were going DOWN before Trump came into office and are going back up now solely because of Trump’s tariffs, not to mention the fact that Trump said prices would go down “on day one” of his term and still occasionally lies that they’re going down.

You quoted Brady originally. Those other outlets got it wrong. It doesnt matter if they are conservative. Here is what was in Miller that proves my point: "Most if not all of the States have adopted provisions touching the right to keep and bear arms. Differences in the language employed in these have naturally led to somewhat variant conclusions concerning the scope of the right guaranteed. But none of them seems to afford any material support for the challenged ruling of the court below." Justia As the ruling in Miller states, the right exists and the only debate was the scope. This ruling guaranteed the individual right, with limits. We can all agree that there are limits. Miller backed that notion. Heller changed the scope. Heller, in fact, restated previous rulings and expressly conveyed that: "(e) Interpretation of the Second Amendment by scholars, courts and legislators, from immediately after its ratification through the late 19th century also supports the Court’s conclusion. Pp. 32–47." Justia So, not only did Miller state that individuals have a right (with some limits), but Heller made the same argument while expanding the right to exclude the limits placed by D.C. and expressly stating that they DID NOT differ from previous rulings.

I have similar misgivings about our current politicians. Ever since the greatest generation rode off into the sunset there’s been a succession of clowns in government.

I've been willing to sit back and watch Trump tariff away at every other country because I read quite a bit of what his strategy is and was hoping it would work out, albeit with some growing pains. But I'm kind of getting to the point of wondering how bankrupting other countries benefits US in the long run? It's like Trump is sitting at a Monopoly board with other countries and just sweeps all the properties, hotels and homes to himself and says "This all belongs to me now." It's a nice thought for the American citizens to get the biggest end of the stick every single time, but at some point, all the other players at the Monopoly board and going to say "F%#@K this guy" and start another game themselves. Like I say, bankrupting and short-shrifting every other country in favour of the US......who is going to buy your USA sh!t when we're all broke?

Proof @robosmithis a lazy spammer.

It has been more than a couple of years. ********** PIX 11 Data shows New York City lost 352,100 residents, however, many of them did not move too far. More Local News “Half of outgoing New Yorkers didn’t move very far: Data showed that approximately 161,400 of those 352,100 moved elsewhere within the state or out to New Jersey,” the study read. ********* Isn't that a bìtch.

Bold move, but we both know that Canada will not come anywhere near to 5% of GDP for defence spending, not even with accounting tricks. However, I agree that catch up spending to meet NATO (not Trump) targets is necessary. U.S. spending is down since leaving Afghanistan...about 3.5% last year (2024).

Couple mistakes in one sentence. A. It is not the 'left' who's concern is over bathreooms B. The 'left' has never been in power in Canada Both are imaginations of the political wrong, not the right.

Big mistake by me. I thought I’d try posting in the other forum. A couple of days in and Black Dog is threatening to post screen shots of me, and contact people I know on social media. Guy is legit insane.

Give it up with your Americanized vocabulary. It is Public Health care, if every country in the world uses it except the USA then let them continue to fool their citizens by portraying it as a socialist horror. It isn't, can't be classified as such and sure as hell shouldn't be handed over to the free market. What's next that's socialist? Fire Dept? Police? Pensions? Not denying some fixes are needed, but giving in to the populist concept that smashing things = fixing things is beyond stupidity.

The problem with our health care system is that we have way too many simple minded people always running to see a doctor when they cut their finger or have an headache. Why do the doctors see a patient who has a small problem and wants that patient to come back and see him in a week. The patient may not need to go see the doctor but many fools will. The doctors make money every time they see a patient even if it means that the patient does not need not see the doctor again if all is well. And one of the biggest problems with our health care system is that we are taking in way too many new immigrants by the hundreds of thousands just about every year that will now and are using the health care system and not paying for their health care service or into our health care system. I blame a lot of our health problems on our politicians with all of the unneeded and unwanted legal and illegal new immigrants coming to Canada by the hundreds of thousands every year. Our health care will not get any better if we keep dumping thousands of people from around the world who do get help from our health care system when needed. It is massive immigration that is killing everything in Canada today. It needs to end if we want to be able to try and get things back to normal. It is time for a moratorium on immigration. Just my opinion of course.

laughable to think Justin was aiming for 500K immigrants/year? OMG, what a fool.

It certainly sounds to me like a forum where a conservative like me would not last for very long. Those leftwing lunatic commies would be calling me a racist and Nazi and ban me right away. Lieberal commie cowards like them have no shame nor guts to have to deal with a true and real conservative like me. What was the name of the forum? Thanks.