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And how often is anyone actually punished? Virtually never. There's an article on corruption in The Hub on Canada's growing corruption. It doesn't seem to be possible to read it all without a free subscription but here it is: https://thehub.ca/2025/12/06/canadians-must-open-their-eyes-to-our-growing-culture-of-corruption/ One of the main points of the story is how governments have offloaded duties and jobs to an army of consultants and private corporations whose greatest skills are in figuring out how to navigate the corridors of power to gain influence and get contracts. The government gives a fat, multi-million dollar contract to some guy who represents himself as a corporation. He skims off half and then subcontracts to three companies. Happens all the time in Ottawa, and probably in Toronto, Vancouver, and Quebec City. Billions went to shell companies that are 'native' who then simply pass the work along to non-native companies after taking a big cut. And when that came out? Who went to jail? Nobody. Some highlights: Canada used to know how to do difficult things well. We strung rail across a continent in about six years. We carved hydro stations out of the wilderness. We founded universities that produced engineers, city planners, and public servants who could deliver complex work with competence and restraint. We were not perfect, nothing human is, but we were serious. And out of that seriousness came the most famous line in our constitutional tradition: peace, order and good government. It was an ethic grounded in the idea that the state should act where it adds value, but step back where it does not. Our institutions knew their limits, and we were proud of them for it. That ethic has eroded. Today the state is too often a hollow shell of its former competence, a client of its own consultants and an issuer of contracts to intermediaries who manage the process of decline. ... The NGO world mirrors this. Canada now spends tens of billions of dollars each year on grants and contribution agreements, both domestic and international. Many of the organizations receiving this money exist largely because the government funds them, and they have learned the vocabulary that unlocks support. These words sound virtuous but often replace measurable outcomes. Worse, the system rarely checks whether the work actually generates good value for the price we pay. ... The true cost of this ecosystem is hard to pin down because it is scattered across governments, but the scale is unmistakable. Federal and provincial tax expenditures now exceed 200 billion dollars a year. Some of this reflects broad measures that few dispute, but buried within that total are tens of billions in narrow credits, carve-outs, and incentives that function as benefits secured by organized groups even when the public value is questionable, especially when you consider how they distort markets.

Minnesota taxpayer dollars funneled to Al-Shabaab terror group, report alleges This is a long article with a lot of details. For brevity: A program designed to help kids with autism was used by Somali groups to funnel tax payer money to Somali families and then send it to Somalia were a terror group took a cut. Effectively making so MN tax payers were funding the terror group. DJT, in response, ended protective status for all Somalis. This is why we need a department like DOGE. The US budget did not explode from $800B a year to $2T+ because of need. It did that because there is a tremendous amount of fraud, waste and abuse in our budget and every level. This can not be fixed in one term. It will take time.

Trump is sick of the woke infection that's been festering beneath the umbrella.

Since the 60's progressives have undermined the family unit and the institution of marriage (divorce rates etc), and convinced women that careers are more important than having children or looking after them. Now we have a society that isn't reproducing nearly enough to sustain itself, has an epidemic of poverty-trapped single parent households for those that do have kids, which sends their kids to daycare for strangers to raise them, sends mom and dad to the retirement home for strangers to look after them... Seeing the results decades later, were the Christian conservatives who were against all of these things right or wrong? What we have is a society that's become a lot more selfish and filled with people who care more about their hedonistic pleasures, material comforts, and "their rights", and less about things like duty, sacrifice, and family. Our society, our culture is seriously ill. Maybe even terminally ill. We can blame conservatives for a bunch of things but not this. We should have listened to them more...

LMAO!

Trump was never a brilliant business manager, but he did play one on TV and mastered the CON.

We live in an age in which spectacle replaces reality. MAGA is goo-goo-ga-ga for the shows Trump puts on. He keeps the base occupied while he goes about his dishonest, corrupted way and turns the country upside-down. That Americans are susceptible to spectacle is well established – Consider the “American saves the day” literary trope. The MAGA movement is hypnotized by spectacle more than anyone else. (Must be that lack of critical thinking skills) Get them narco-terrorists! Trump is the president of spectacle – images meant to capture attention – like blowing up of boats in the ocean and the cruelty dealt on the city streets by masked ICE – all meant to divert attention away from the decimation of programs that help American people and the Epstein files and Trump’s corruption. And Trump continues to make a spectacle of himself – posting himself as the pope, or a superhero, or a movie star. It seems like so much of the Trump administration’s spectacle is a nonstop, never-ending monologue of self-praise. In his 1967 book, The Society of Spectacle, Guy Debord makes the case that spectacle – propaganda – is one of the most important tools of the authoritarian. The book begins with this quote from the Preface to the Second Edition of The Essence of Christianity But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence, ... truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness. MAGA is held captive by the illusions Trump has created for them.

I don’t think you understand what a private citizen means. It means they’re not government employed. Like the Democrats are who made that absurd video. As public officials they have a much better bigger responsibility than a private person giving an opinion.

Only a pathetic loser would ever mention that.

Joe Biden did the exact same thing: Last week the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) announced a welcome raft of further measures to address the threat of domestic violent extremism in the United States. The new measures, including the creation of a new Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) and establishing a new domestic terrorism branch within the DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis, represent the latest and most significant practical actions taken by the new administration to make good on the election promise to “heal” a deeply divided America. Well, not exactly. He targeted churches that openly opposed abortions, families that spoke out at school board meetings, Chick-fil-a for donating to a group that helps troubled young men and TP USA because they were convincing young people that trans was a problem and not a solution. These were not extremist organizations. Bondi is after people that kill: "Political violence has no place in this country, and this Department of Justice will investigate, identify, and root out any individual or violent extremist group attempting to commit or promote this heinous activity," the DOJ spokesperson said in the email confirming the authenticity of the memo.

He has been pushing this lie for weeks now and never explains himself.

That's literally a private citizen.

Stealing??? What type of elastic did you use to perform that stretch.

You talking about the armchair non-entities?

This is where the rubber hits the road alright. There's never a Batman around when you need one.

That's many words to say when I say I'm not a Liberal which means I am but you peoples are making false accusations.

It’s worse than that. the context was this was during the election, he wasn’t undermining Trump as the commander, it was also in regards to the stupid phony outrage at the time by the left that Trump was suggesting he would use the military in an illegal way, and Hegseth was asked about this in an interview and simply answered the question saying the military doesn’t follow unlawful orders.

And he was a private citizen, unlike the Democrats that produced that absurd video.

Who said steal? Capitalism denotes purchasing. Financial exchange. Where the Hell were you educated?

If you just go back and weigh the merits of those two replies, you'll see that your word isn't worth shit here. FYI what I said wasn't propaganda. You know that the US put Zelensky on the throne, that's an established fact, and you know that he was putting NATO on 3,000 km of Russia's doorstep. It was simply too much. Also, you know that the "not one inch past Germany" was a US/NATO promise, and the fact that it was just people like James Bakes saying it, and they didn't get it signed in blood, doesn't mean that those promises don't matter. The US needs to get rid of their Sec of State if his words are meaningless. I have no need to go further, your dishonest comments aren't worthy of a reply.

Daddy's home is a gaming meme. My son loves to say it every time he spawns in Forte Night. That card is going to play well with 20 something males.

Putin has said many times that Russia and Ukraine are "one people" and "one nation" - and repeated it at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (June 20) - in the video below around the 5 minute mark - as well as stating that "All of Ukraine is ours."

So what? It means they are consuming large amounts of welfare. The US is trillions in debt. Why are we letting people into the country to put them on welfare?

Why would you think we shouldn’t buy American bombs?

Oh, OK. So you have no point here, you actually agree with me. No mental issues here!

Nope, it's all Justin's fault. LOLOL Yup, that's me all right... transparent to a tee - take it to the bank! 😉 LMAO!

How. The only permanent measures we have they can't be taken away or changed is the right to vote. And as we all know you wish that was taken away as well

So you decided to defend it instead??? Interesting logic Maybe try not voting for it first

I don't even watch TV. ever. You went off on some sort of alternative universe tangent there. Do you have any other tricks beside whataboutism? Like, a reasonable response that follows from what was posted I think CNN lives in your head way way more than mine. Giving other examples of boondogglery (not that I have ever been boondoggled) does not provide any meaningful rebuttal to what I posted.

Do you really think that what you're saying works, when it's just coming from a CNN cultist? You watched Russian collusion with bated breath, you watched the covid-death ticker and parroted all of CNN's "Bad Twumpie" narratives, you pretended that Biden adding 4 SCJ's was a normal consideration, you pretended that Floyd and Brown were gentle giants and then cheered on years worth of rioting and murders because of their stupidity, you cried manly tears of justice-rage for Jussie, you pretended to see a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" when the vaxed were dropping like flies, and you pretended that Biden was mentally healthy for years when he was clearly not... And now you wanna call other people credulous 🤣 Buddy, I've taken sh1ts with more intelligence than your whole family. And I don't just mean your immediate family, I'm including your cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, plus the ones who identify as dragons and kittens.

The people who need to see something like that are the virtuous white knights who see our immigration system as a kind of world charity to raise poor people up out of poverty and give them a better life here. But they're also the sort of self-satisfied people who won't bother themselves listening to or watching anything that contradicts their worldview.

Do you know what a double-tap is? They sent a second strike to kill the survivors. This is most definitely murder (which, by the way, so was the first strike since the US is not at war with the boat operators). Besides, it has been established that the boat was not even heading to the US. It was going to Suriname. When Trump said, “The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.” – he was lying.

Conservatives hate all those things anyway. You should be creaming your jeans right now. Or are you just upset that the exemptions are only temporary and to be granted in exceptional circumstances??

LOL, it was only as "hostile" as the crybaby rejects made it, who tried to stay inside.

That's not what you said when Carney was promising to get houses built.

To make them better... for our alliances to continue and be stronger, for them to do more to embrace freedom... So what?

So… *any* national crisis that could delay an election here would apply to *any* President, not just Trump. Trump doesn’t rule the courts. The nonsense with a former President being the VP has been extensively debated before now and is not constitutional. You have no argument, just vague generalizations to irrationally fear monger.

Here’s where extreme religion leads – in a sermon entitled “Pray the Gay Away” – a pastor of a Baptist Church calls for the execution of members of the LGBTQ+ community. When asked for a statement to explain his sermon, the response was this: “… only calling for the death penalty and suicide for the actual sodomites (homosexuals). The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government.”

Nope, it's no worse than obama and biden. You just THINK it's worse because you liked it when they did it but you don't like it when trump does. Sorry kiddo, you're hypocrisy won't save you now.

For sure not going anywhere now!

You say this as if Europe was something drawn on paper and Trump could just erase them. It makes no sense. None. Also, stop being a lazy spambot.

Nothing intelligent to add as usual. A couple of snide remarks and that's it. This is why you always have to pretend to be a pseudo intellectual Mike. Instead of a real one

LOL, like I said before, you have nothing, and you ran away last time I kept asking you for it, too. He means, folks like you pushed this sillyness into the military based on the trans madness ideology you are pushing. The military does not exist for "medical treatment" The military exists to fight and win wars.

The discussion was not about whether they were subjectively deemed ridiculous or not; it was your and others' absurd insistence that this is evidence of some mental issue. Nope, try again. You are too stupid or dishonest to comprehend the difference between rejecting the absurd notion that this is not evidence of a mental problem and thinking the behavior is stupid.

Sitting here trying to argue this is some kind of proof of mental illness is making up crap.

No he didn't and that just proved out. He gathered a gaggle of louts, extremists and whiners under a name and that's about it. The latest lunatic wants to celebrate the Convoy with a stat holiday. How can a mouse in a room full of cats be a leader?

Why are we still hearing raging leftists bleating about the 'genocide' in Gaza? More people in Sudan were murdered in the last month than in all the Gaza war and nobody gives a damn about it. Because there's no Jews involved. It's just the Left's favorite 'victims' slaughtering people again. And the media doesn't want to cover that. The media wants to show you stories that push their narrative, and disarray in leftist political groups doesn't do that. I haven't seen much about the shitshow of the NDP leadership contest, either, or anything much about the Greens and their alcoholic leader.

It's pure ignorance to think that immigration doesn't help drive our economy and keep it sustainable. Most of us are too young to remember, but we did have a conservative government once upon a time. Even back in the old days of Stephen Harper that government was allowing 236K in his first year and gradually increasing to 271K by 2015. It's not a liberal or conservative thing....it's necessary thing to sustain our population and economy. End of story....