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Hopefully the terrorist Islamic Republic of Iran is next. This would free the entire Middle East from terrorism, save Israel from possible mass destruction and does a lot of good for world economy by bringing an mineral/oil rich nation of Iran into civilized markets.

The official position of the US government is that Tren de Aragua is a terrorist organization. Maduro was not viewed as legitimate by most western countries. Venezuela was run by a terrorist state who were funding terrorism in the US. Therefore Trump lawfully acted. Duh

Oops...extreme TDS alert.

And give one to Obama for his war against Libya. Oh wait, he did get one! 😂

Naturally the Democrats cry because a dictator gets locked up. Should be getting rid of the communist trash in America first. Like Harris

The only thing I would add then is that given the massive increase in the levels, more than tenfold in the last ten years, and given that if global warming has any actual effect to the south, these numbers will certainly continue to grow, we have to put a stop to it. Because yes, we take them in for humanitarian purposes, but the cost to our systems is enormous now and continues to grow. Like the spending on climate change (Did Trudeau ever tell you he'd spent $200 billion on it, or did that number surprise you when Carney said it?), nobody really puts together the cost of refugees. That cost is not just the cost of their initial entry, legal and bureaucratic processing, and paying their room and board during this period. The cost continues during their lifetimes, and each year, another large number of people is added to that burden. It is the cost of supporting poor people and paying for their services and benefits in a progressive state. And according to economists, we are no richer than we were in a previous generation. In some ways, given stagnating wages, stagnating productivity, and rising prices, we are worse off. So I would dispute that would can afford them at a higher level than a generation ago.

Give Trump his Nobel. And one for Putin, and Netenyahoo, Kim Jong Un... Institute a new calendar. It's 1984. WAR IS PEACE! Praise our Big Brothers!

US conducted strike on Venezuela, captured Maduro, Trump says https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/03/trump-strike-venezuela-maduro/88004393007/ Now what?

Who’s we? Lol, Obama killed Gaddafi. At least Maduro gets due process right? Plenty of oil in Libya, probably just a coincidence that they interjected in that civil war as opposed to other civil wars.

I just did, but you are a cowardly clown who hides.

No No, he's deranged about everything. More like EDS

Spam with a website that was removed. @robosmith is really upping his game.

Narcoterrorist Lives Matter!

No. I did not say that. He is a scum bag like Putin. But Trump does not care about Maduro or the welfare of the Venezuelan people. He just wants what they have. I was saying this is a warning that Trump will try to take over Canada as he has repeatedly said. The question is, why is Mr. Poilievre posting congratulations to the man who intends to destroy us. Why would he say that? Trump has 150 weeks to do to us what he has done to Venezuela. He has given us every indication that he intends to do just that. Rather than kissing his ring, we need to prepare.

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.

Perhaps, but not in the context you initially claimed or tried to assert was an "invasion." The oil industry can likely do what it needs to do with private contractors backed by American air power.

Well, I have to admit, I never imagined Trump would actually do this. I give you partial credit, though, as this was not an "invasion" like you were characterizing, but is still more of an "invasion" than I said was not going to happen.

Maybe Obama should not have mocked Mitt Romney about his foreign policy after all...

Mr. Poilievre's sycophantic post praising the American administration's imperial invasion of a sovereign country last night sends a signal that, having given up his ambition to be Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre has set his sights on being appointed the first governor of the American state of Canada. The word that comes to mind is "Quisling." Venezuela is just the first step. If anyone in Canada is thinking Trump doesn't mean it when he repeatedly says he will take over Canada is deluding themselves. Trump will try to take over Canada within the next 150 weeks.

The Biden administration did not recognize Maduro and hes been wanted for NARCO TERRORISM for five years. Its telling who's likely apart of Maduros crime ring, some in the US government, by those who are crying about his arrest

Sure they do, according to widespread conventional right wing wisdom the left is destroying the economy. You don't believe it? You're either backpeddling or not paying attention, and you're one of this forums premier catastrophists.

The Hippocratic Oath is not Zoological based.

.......... sincerely hope this works out - u break it, u own it. Regime change hasn't been much of a success story the past 30 years.

I watched a bit of AOC's hateful screed today, her hell and brimstone invective is reminiscent of a Hitler speech. She makes it sound like Mamdani is bringing NYC out of the dark ages and into freedom and democracy for the first time ever, while replacing several generations of Nazis, but he's replacing: a long line of Demonrat mayors in a state that has been run by Demonrat governors for decades in a country that had a Demonrat president for 4 of the last 4.9 years. There's nothing bad about NYC that wasn't done to them by her own party. The crime is their fault, the inflation is their fault, the unaffordability is 100% the Demonrats' own fault. But mostly, the reason why working people can't get ahead there is because working people don't actually come first there. That has never been Demonrat/leftist policy. Demonrat policy is tax, spend, tax, spend, tax, spend, rinse and repeat. Her prattling about completely flies in the face of Demonrat policy. They are not a small gov't/big paycheque organization. They're the party of "your money is actually our money, and we will take it from you and distribute it as we see fit" Honestly, the MSM in Canada considers Poilievre too negative, I wonder what they have to say about her nationally televised hate-fest.

LAzy spambot strikes again!

Yes he can! He's been practicing very hard

Well, at least this time you actually added a comment. Not much of one, but baby steps. Still a lazy spambot in the end.

By everyone else I assume you mean all of the other voices in your head

Yes, you are. You still are. You only quoted one part of my sentence as I already explained we were not talking about ICE "This particular obfuscation of yours is current centered around deportation of illegal immigrants, not a particular security group." And yet you still respond about ICE. No, you said you supported a nation's right to do so... and I have been pressing you for a specific response about what you believe. You finally answer. Finally. Why you had to make it this difficult to begin with is beyond me.

I don't think that he said somalis were eating cats and dogs. I think that was the Haitians I know, i know. All foreigners look alike to people like you

That's probably just the neighborhood kids laughing at you. You're so dramatic.

Let's drive out 55 Chevys to Vegas and watch the atom bomb tests. Them wuz great times. Make the minimum legal wage $50 hr, maybe there'd be a housewife revival.

You sound just like Trump: "I will protect women whether they like it or not." AKA, you're an lDIOT.

Which isn't helping us. In fact, it's hurting our birthrate. There are lots of bright economists. The current head of the Bank of Canada has one similar to Carney. Don Wright, whose blog is one of those I cited, has a PHD in economics and has spent the last twenty years in government, the last ten or so running the public service in BC. The problem isn't finding educated guys. The problem is finding guys motivated to do it. And Carney seems to be a corporatist through and through. The fact that the first people he added to his council of advisors were two of the founders of the Century Initiative, and that he's resisted all efforts to cut immigration in any meaningful way, gives me no confidence that he is interested in changing anything.

The main difference between them being that Mamdani, by virtue of his religion and his own comments, supports genocide against Jews and Musk doesn't.

I have been harping on this for awhile now. Thanks to a few analysts like Peter Zeihan it's getting some attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate According to the UN, 65 out of 237 countries have greater than 2.7 fertility rate.

I just don't know what you mean by "support"? I try to answer as best I can. Am I happy about it? Would I donate money to ICE? Do I approve of everything they do? It could be any of these questions or more. What do you think it means to support a government function or department? Asking honestly...

is this thread some kind of joke? A parody, or what? There is no hate in AOC's message. How do her words compare to Trump posting that the Democrats are "the party of evil, hate, and Satan."

What hateful rhetoric of the Demonrats to speak of hope and positivity.

The RCMP said that they asked the gov't and they weren't sure, that apperently it's not a crime when it's a liberal prime minister. Not even kidding, posted all those stories for you before. A PM can accept bribes according to the cops So nope, not a crime And then you voted for him again anyway so with a new mandate nobody could really say anything

This charade has gone on long enough. Rick Steves is no expert on fascism. How do I know? Aside from just being a TV personality and travel writer, he lists no qualifications. And then he says this: If you take each of these points separately, you can see the nonsensical nature of his argument. The first being "goos[ing] the economy". What form of government does not try to have a good economy? If goosing the economy is fascist, doesn't that make every single government on the planet fascist? Of course, having a good economy does NOT make you a fascist government, so his use of the phrase is likely one that he felt bolstered his weak argument. The second, "abolish[ing] unions" is something that was done by Mousilini. However, it was the first step in acquiring and liberating corporations from the owners. Which makes the third "privatiz[ing] what was public" completely fabricated. Fascism takes deep control over business, like all left wing forms of government. Abolishing unions was just another way of suppressing the people. As for the final supposed step or characteristic of fascism "win[ning] support of tycoons" is the same as the first point, an attack on all governments as all governments want the support of the rich. He might as well have said all fascists drink water and breath air. To sum it all up, Rick Steves knows less about fascism than the average leftist.

1. I offered a truce on the other thread. 2. No I don't.

I have a passing familiarity with assault riffles... By definition they have detachable, high capacity magazines and selective fire. Perhaps you could define "assault style" for us though... the Canadian government would probably appreciate your help. Calling a semi automatic rifle with a five round magazine an "assault style rifle" is a bit like calling an F150 with racing stripes a "racing style pickup truck" and then banning it because it causes the owners of "racing trucks" to speed through residential areas. What if I were to suggest that the F in F150 actually stood for formula 1?

The documents like 1500 pages long, there's no universe where trump read it. And no, none of what he has done indicates he knew anything about what was in it. And the rest of your post is just the usual Orange man bad, me hate trump stuff. Again, it's okay to dislike trump, it's okay to think that his methods and his plan for the united states are not good or that his strategies will not be effective. But it would be wrong to say that he's charlatans are at con man unless you actually got some species of argument that supports that and so far you haven't presented one. He has done what he said he was going to do and none of what he's doing is in contrast to what he said he would do. Somebody who does what they say they're going to do is not a con man. A con man is when you don't do what you said you were going to do substantially and that just isn't trump. If anything the fact that he does do what he says he's going to do is pissing a lot of people off

See what I'm talking about? The supposed Christian who's beliefs separated youth and adult punishments now wants to KILL children. Yet another example of the American perversion of Christianity.

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