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I feel like the kid on the left in every single conversation with the left. Calm, cool, factual. And the kid on the right is emotional, illogical and persistent.

Oh grow the Phuck up! WW1, The Great Depression, Spanish flu, WW11....? Have you ever read a book? Did you even graduate Junior High? Darkest times? Because Poilievre blew an election? Stupidest thing anybody has said on this forum, and there's been a lot of stupidity...

All of the anti-Trump cultists and hate-fomenting losers on the Left beware - your words can lead you to jail. Leftist extremism and violence from this horrible segment of society is the largest threat to democracy in Canada and the USA right now.

It is the same two faced deceptive obfuscating double speak we get on almost any subject from these guys. Deny it is happening Defelct from it Wonder why we even think it Then in the end, they go back to asserting it Occasionally throw in the why are you even talking about it or making it a big deal comments...

Yup. I have always known I was wise in not marrying any of the Canadian girls I dated. Instead I waited for a pretty foreign girl...who actually likes being a woman and is not bat-shit crazy.

Funny how you guys on the left always react with anger when you read something you don't like.🙂

And...DHS is still defunded by the Demoncrats.

Only by a Cassandra like you. Who was in power in 2008-2009? "The 2008–2009 recession in Canada was a severe but relatively short economic downturn driven by a 3.3% GDP decline, primarily caused by collapsing exports and investment. While Canada did enter a recession, its financial system remained stable with no bank failures. The economy recovered, aided by a 20%+ depreciation of the Canadian dollar and recovering oil prices. The Canadian Encyclopedia +4 Key Aspects of the Recession: Duration & Impact: The recession lasted from the third quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2009. It was less severe than the US recession but still caused significant job losses and a 33% drop in corporate profits in 2009. Causes: The main drivers were a steep, abrupt drop in exports (falling 22% in 2009) and a 14% plunge in business investment, particularly in manufacturing and mining."

Okay. Provide the science to back all that up. Show us how much of a factor climate change was in the five mass extinction events you're talking about, and the scientific studies you're relying on to say that 1.5 billion humans will move north by 2050 Let me guess. You don't have any evidence for either of those statements

In general, people who need emotional support goats are mentally unhealthy. Or 12 doses of a pseudovax. Do they have a mental illness because they are demonrats, or are they demonrats because they have a mental illness? Good question. Or because they just have to lie and weasel their way through life and they feel rotten because of it Or it's depression from living in their moms' basements Or they exercise the same poor judgment in rest of their life decisions as they do with politics Or he fact that they're liars and weasels means that they can never develop healthy, long-term relationships Or some combination of all the above. There's a lot to that. They were COMPLETELY controlled by a disease with a 0.001% CFR. They were COMPLETELY controlled by global warming fear. They all believed that the US gov't was "almost overthrown" by 200 unarmed boomers.

You should go outside some day. Even down there in MAGAland. Maybe eat a Tesla for the recommended dose of lithium

Listen dude. If you sit around talking like a duck, quaking like a duck but constantly saying you are not a duck... at some point you are a duck You and other leftists support the open borders madness where known criminal illegal immigrants are released back into the population, where they rape and abuse children, because you would rather let these criminals go, even when their arrests are for rape or child abuse, rather than coordinate with ICE to see them deported. YOU support those policies. You and other leftists, when confronted with the victims, their families, cheer on the Democrats refusing to stand for them, ignoring them, and not caring. Then... when you are told that ICE is arresting illegal immigrants who have a record with rape or child abuse, you don't care. You still cheer on the protests that are interfering with those officers' arrests. Even when they tell the protestors they are there to arrest a known rapists or child abuser, they still stay and interfere. They don't care. So yeah, you can sit here and say you don't support and defend these rapists and pedophiles... but you do. Actions speak louder than words.

A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race. Everton Javaun Downey, 35, stabbed his girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie, 15 times in a stairwell at the Metrotown Shopping Centre in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021. Downey fled the scene with the murder weapon before later turning himself in to police. Downey was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced last month to life in prison. The Crown was seeking no chance for parole for at least 15 years, but B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes went with 12 years after reviewing Downey’s Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA). “As I have indicated, Mr. Downey has a substantial criminal record involving violence and firearms. I recognize, however, that the aggravating effect of his criminal record is offset in part by the mitigating circumstances of his background, as detailed in the IRCA,” Holmes said in her Feb. 13 decision. Similar in function to Gladue reports for Indigenous offenders, IRCAs are designed to “help criminal justice professionals better understand the effects of poverty, marginalization, racism, and social exclusion on Black and racialized offenders and their experiences,” according to the Department of Justice. IRCAs were first developed by a Nova Scotia sociologist in 2014 and are now increasingly used in Canadian courts. The IRCA in Downey’s case, authored by University of Calgary social work professor Patrina Duhaney, describes Downey as a “Black man of African Nova Scotian, African American and Jamaican ancestry.” However, it notes that he did not experience “overt racism” in his early life. “He grew up in Toronto in predominantly Black and racially diverse neighbourhoods and attended racially diverse schools, and felt that he did not experience overt racism,” according to Holmes’ decision. “Mr. Downey explained to Dr. Duhaney that his experience living in communities which normalized racial diversity shaped his early sense of identity and belonging.” In 2016, Downey moved to British Columbia, where he felt adrift. “Here, he found a much smaller Black population, and the cultural norms among Black communities felt unfamiliar to him, and contributed to feelings of disconnection and isolation. He also experienced racism in ways he had not previously encountered, both in the community and in the institutional setting,” Holmes writes. While Downey had “a significant criminal record that includes serious offences of violence,” which predated his time in British Columbia, in Holmes’s view, the IRCA submission made “clear that broader systemic, structural, and community factors relating to Mr. Downey’s experience as a Black person have played a part in his life experience, bringing various types of trauma, negative peer influences, and mental health challenges.” Downey experienced poverty, the absence of his father in his early years, domestic violence at home and shootings in his neighbourhood. The justice cites the IRCA in her judgment to refer to Downey’s “lasting sense of danger and mistrust,” the lingering mental health effects stemming from previous incarcerations and the stress of being away from his community in Ontario. Holmes specifically cites the IRCA under “Mitigating Circumstances,” writing that the submission demonstrated “early exposure to violence, chronic instability, poverty, systemic anti-Black racism, and untreated mental health symptoms, such as hypervigilance, that may be trauma related.” Other mitigating factors include Downey’s admission that he killed Blimkie and his expression of remorse in a personal statement to the court. The devastating pain to Blimkie’s friends and family, however, still lingers. “The victims have suffered an almost unbearable loss that affects them all profoundly, and, for some, in almost every aspect of their lives,” Holmes wrote. “The family members feel the loss all the more deeply because they had no opportunity to say goodbye to Ms. Blimkie or to give her comfort in her final moments. They also feel betrayed by Mr. Downey who they welcomed into their home.” https://nationalpost.com/news/man-who-murdered-girlfriend-gets-reduced-sentence-partly-due-to-his-race --- Our judges don't have any judgment!

Leftists are increasingly more and more against the US Gov't, against police, against ICE, against funding the DHS, against the current war, parroting Iranian propaganda, calling the war "illegal", and robo is even calling the US Gov't terrorists now. Robo's not even a fringe leftie - he's basically a mainstream guy from that side - so he's a fairly accurate barometer of the modern left4rd zeitgeist. Now, it's hard to tell if the robo-cult are taking the ayatollah's side because they hate Trump, or if they just don't see the ayatollah's regime as bad people. One thing's for certain though, the assertion that "Iran didn't pose an imminent threat to the US" is false because: they attacked hundreds of US bases in the ME while Biden was behind the Recumbent Desk they were amassing an enormous stockpile of better and better drones and missiles all the time we've seen even their current tech-lvl missiles break through US and Israeli defences now the cost between "Iran making cheap flying bombs" and "the US/Israel making detection and interception systems" capable take them out mid-flight puts Iran ahead by millions of dollars per interception. How far are they from making their missiles harder to detect, after the rockets are done? And from making missiles with enough range to hit the US using technology that they got from NoKo? And from building nukes? Can anyone really guarantee that they're not able to make them, or that NoKo or Pakistan wouldn't just give them nukes? Fact: Iranian proxies attacked US bases in the ME hundreds of times while Biden was president, and Biden didn't do anything in retaliation. So, from Trump's POV, if he did nothing now, and the friend of the ayatollah in the DNC won the next election or two, Iran could have been growing the nuclear program, upgrading their missile technology, and building drones until 2033 or 2037 without any interruptions. Just think about the capability that Iran has now, and what they could amass between now and 2033 or 2037, after one or two ayatollah-friendly Dem presidencies... Trump's decision to attack Iran was perfect. It is one of the smartest things that Trump ever did as president, and he has had a LOT of success as president. Anyways, my questions for lefties are: are you favouring the US or Iran right now? Is it like 100-0, 40-60, etc...? do you agree with robo, that the Americans are the terrorists now? for the ones that favour Iran: are you cheering for substantial American casualties, or just economic hardship and an overall loss, where the ayatollah's regime carries on and the US loses face? for the ones that favour America: are you hoping to see regime change, or just squeaking out a bare-bones win, where the ayatollah's regime carries on and Iranian citizens continue to live in a modern-day dark age? We are really at a time where we don't know which side most leftists are on, and clearly some are on the other side now. Can you tell us what "the best-case scenario" looks like, after this military phase has ended? I will answer for myself right now, but I don't speak for all conservatives: I want a total win for the US and for the Iranian people. Regime change, the whole works.

A synagogue in Bloomfield Michigan was attacked and bombed by a Muslim man from Dearborn Heights MI. The same Dearborn Heights MI where Muslims said christians, Americans and Jews are not welcome and prayed for the deaths of that triad. And an ISIS supporter that the Trump DOJ sentenced to 11 years in 2017.was released.in 2024 as Joe was on his way out. He should still be in jail. Just more proof that the right is not the solution to all your problems, but the left is definitely the cause.

If Biden was the one handling this war, it would be a forever war. He wouldn't even be done his initial round of drone strikes against children yet and half of America's air force would already be gone.

Microsoft is, not Bill Gates, You have this common thread concept that people formerly involved with, or shareholders even at arm's length continue to be the company itself and not separate entities. Gates himself is not and has not been for a while involved in MSoft's corporate decision making. He doesn't need to be.

That's why it is/was so obvious...no need to explain why Israel and the U.S. attacked Iran again. If it was good the first time, it's even better now.

Lol...ok. I mean...it would be entertaining to watch.

Because he's bat-shit crazy too?

Why? it is what it is... Why do you think the data is that though....impact of tariffs and trade with the US, Carney hasn't built a couple pipelines yet, or it's Trudeau's fault? It has to be one of the three...

But according to this guy, the IPCC isn't radical enough for the left's taste: https://www.aei.org/articles/how-democrats-left-the-ipcc-behind/

You're just upset because they're tomatoes and not zucchini's.

So the US is a terrorist regime now, robo? Is that your final answer? What level of terrorism from Iran do you support? Did you like Oct 7th, or was it basically fair, from a Democrat POV?

He should've been executed in 2017. It's time to let foreigners know that if they come here to f*ck around like that guy, they're going to get deported immediately or executed depending on the severity of the crime. Thailand can give the death sentence for drug trafficking, so we should easily do the same for terrorism.

Darkest time in Canadian history .............. Residential school – cultural genocide Forced sterilization of indigenous women Chinese head tax Japanese – Canadian internment WWII The Duplessis Orphans – 20K children sold and experimented on – Catholic church complicit

For the past 60 years or so, missionaries and do-gooders (ACDI/CIDA), various charities have tried to help Haiti. All for nought. Haiti is now utterly dysfunctional. I fear that do-gooders (Trudeau Jnr) will do the same for Indigenous people. ===== Individual Haitians? Different story.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. We have a free trade agreement with US and EU. Any tariffs that existed prior to Trump’s trade war were mutually agreed upon tariffs that were specified in those trade agreements including the one Trump negotiated with us in his first term and called “the greatest deal ever” And we don’t have blanket tariffs on any country much less the entire world because everyone with an IQ higher than 10 understands that is completely stupid. It’s so stupid you might get a FIFA Prize for it.

Well, big picture, we have a system of government designed as checks and balances on each other: Legislative - Writes the laws Executive - Executes the laws Judicial - Interprets the law What we call Congress comprises the legislative branch. It was originally designed to represent the states (senators) and people (house representatives). This changed to senators also being elected by the people, but still allocated based on states, 2 each. This was meant to empower the federal system, in which both the people and the states had representation. So, for something to pass, it must pass both the Senate and the House. Each chamber makes their own rules based on majority vote or how they operate... and the Senate created a loophole back in the early days that kind of allowed for unlimited debate, which was taken advantage of to filibuster by people holding the floor. The filibuster historically was a stalling tactic, it was that a member could hold the floor for as long as they could hold the floor to stop progress. It was agreed to change the rules to a "cloture" to stop debate, which basically meant that you needed 60 out of 100 to do so. Today, it is not as much a filibuster in the traditional sense it is simply that those 41 Senators of the minority party can oppose cloture and not advance any legislation. It stops a simple majority. It is like MAD now, mutally assured destruction, with nuclear weapons, because both parties know the Senate flip flops back and forth every few years and neither party wants to stop cloture because then they have no leverage when they are out of power. So the argument lately seems to be a push to say the other party is going to do it anyway when they get power, so lets do it first!

You have repeatedly claimed it was just a hypothetical and that you have never seen it impact your family. I have never seen a murder nor had one impact my family... so I guess murders do not happen and no big deal! Just a hypothetical. Well, you should care because a lot of folks on your side push that this is a crisis. I am glad to see you agree it is not one. Yet again you play this dumb game that you have not seen it... when just about every major government get together in the last decade talking about climate change used Greta Thunberg as their prop who does push the crisis narrative. No, I simply don't ignore reality, and I am not ignorant of the things happening. Then why spend so much time on here acting like none of this is happening, saying it is a hypothetical you have never seen?

Fox aired the video when they got it. You seem to conveniently forget that fact. How many times did the propaganda arm of the DNC omit Biden faux pas? Like the watch checking incident.

So your saying Obama is one of those fools who spends millions knowing that the money will be wasted. Well okay, he is a democrat. Dodge.

Notice how you can’t actually read the story because it’s behind a paywall on a known right wing propagandist website and NOWHERE ELSE? There’s just the clickbait headline that you conservative suckers are sharing around social media although I guarantee 99% of can’t read the actual article, not that you like to read things anyway. The facts behind the clickbait headline is that IN EVERY COUNTRY the maintenance and upkeep of military bases is a valid and legitimate defence expenditure, whether that’s fixing the plumbing, cleaning the toilets or landscaping. You people and your fake news are exhausting

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And from Monday Canada commits nearly $1B to drone and airborne defence research Government says research aims to benefit both military and civilian operations Canada's National Research Council (NRC) is pouring over $900 million into a long-term plan to establish a drone research facility and purchase a Canadian-built Bombardier Global 6500 to support defence research. The funding is coming from the recently established Defence Industrial Strategy. "Canada's security depends on our ability to innovate at home," said Industry Minister Mélanie Joly at the announcement on Monday in Ottawa. "We are strengthening our sovereign capabilities and supporting Canadian companies in the development of next-generation aerospace, drone, quantum and biomedical technologies." Accompanying Joly at the announcement was Defence Minister David McGuinty and Stephen Fuhr, the secretary of state for defence procurement. "We remain committed to advancing sovereign defence technologies that enhance security, create prosperity and reinforce Canada's strategic economic position as we chart our course in an increasingly complex world," said Fuhr, who noted the NRC has been doing world-class research for more than a century. The intention of the new centre is to conduct cutting-edge research into drones with both military and civilian applications. McGuinty said the investment and research will help strengthen Canada's industrial foundations and get new capabilities into the hands of the military faster. The plane will be assembled at Bombardier's Pearson facility in Mississauga, Ont., and the interiors will be completed in Dorval, Que., with more than 65 Canadian suppliers contributing parts. At the end of last year, the federal government agreed to purchase six Global 6500 jetsfrom the Montreal-based company to replace the air force's aging fleet of Challenger jets. That contract was worth over $753 million and included production, training for crews, maintenance and any military modifications needed. Built in Canada, the replacement fleet is expected to be delivered by summer 2027. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/drones-defence-research-bombardier-9.7121356

I bet even Steven Tyler would throw his panties into the mix.

More major defence spending announced today Sorry pal your thread doesn’t hold up to facts Canada spending nearly $35-billion to fortify North, assert sovereignty Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks, as members of the Canadian Armed Forces stand behind him, during his visit to 440 Transport Squadron, in Yellowknife, NWT, on Thursday.Carlos Osorio/Reuters The federal government will spend nearly $35-billion to prepare the North for more extensive military operations aimed at defending against incoming threats to North America and asserting territorial sovereignty in the Arctic, Prime Minister Mark Carneyannounced in Yellowknife Thursday. The bulk of the money, $32-billion, will be used to upgrade military Forward Operating Locations in Yellowknife, Inuvik and Iqaluit as well as the Deployed Operating Base at 5 Wing Goose Bay. These provide hangars, fuel and accommodations to support fighter squadrons deployed in service of the Canada-U.S. North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). Funds will pay for upgraded airfields, new or repurposed hangars, ammunition and fuel storage as well as upgraded accommodations, warehouses and information technology equipment. Mr. Carney also announced four Northern infrastructure projects would be referred to Ottawa’s Major Projects Office, which streamlines regulatory approvals and financing for “nation-building” projects of national interest. These include the 800-kilometre Mackenzie Valley Highway, the Grays Bay Road and Port, the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor, and Taltson Hydro Expansion Project. ….. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-spending-nearly-35-billion-to-fortify-north-assert-sovereignty/ Pretty sure that’s more of that fake news you love to recite

I mean...yeah. The whole thing reads as a big WTF.

Actually it could be argued that this is one of the worst. The others you mentioned weren't great of course but most were short, and the impact was relatively temporary. But this is a lot more permanent and i don't think you understand how bad it is. Already we're seeing a fair number of people die due to a lack of medical capacity that just wasn't a problem in 2000 or even 2015. People's buying power and quality of life has already taken a drastic hit and something like 25 percent of canadians used a food bank last year. That's pretty bad. The youngest generation feels more hopeless than ever before. Usually the young people are the most hopeful generation, for the first time they're the least hopeful youngest generation canada feels more hopeless - Google Search People are living in fear of what comes next, our economy is bleeding investment and bleeding good jobs, crime is high to the point where people are generally fearful for their safety, and on TOP of it all more and more people especially the young are feeling disenfranchised and without a voice, and they watch politicians play games to steal power. And there is NO hope of this recovering in less than a decade, and frankly every day that becomes less likely as carney fails to address any of the issues. These are right up there with all the other things you mentioned and threaten to be much worse with the pain spread over generations, not just a half decade or so 6 months before an election, rather than 6 months after. She had to immediately run and face her constituents. Little bit different

The only thing that the judge should have read was: "a significant criminal record that includes serious offences of violence". This is a perversion of justice IMO.

🤣 Nice try, Einstoned. He's a hypocrite because he's not railing against the racist system that's forcing people to show ID to shovel snow, but the fact that they can't vote without ID is somehow a crime to him. Mamdani and the Dems: "Only poor white people can get ID, Black people are too dumb to get it, so poor blacks can't vote. But somehow they can get ID to shovel snow if they want to. Or maybe they're too lazy to shovel snow anyways, so it doesn't matter?" What's the deal, Hodad? Why is there a crusade to allow people to vote with no ID but not to allow people to work with no ID? Make it make sense... Isn't the right to work arguably far more important than being allowed to vote? If you can't work tomorrow, you can't eat next week. If you can't vote tomorrow, it doesn't matter yet, because you don't need to be able to vote until November.

Ya know...its pretty revealing that Libbies are putting up such a fight over something as obvious as presenting ID when voting.

LOL i guess that's your way of admitting you're a hate filled irrational bigoted violent nutbar We kind of knew that but thanks for taking the time to confirm

A coup reinstated Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as an absolute monarch and significantly increased the level of influence of the U.S. over Iran - he was a sock puppet. Trump's recent comments notwithstanding, Pahlavi's son (lives in Washington), would be the perfect leader for U.S. economic and geo political interests. Israel could live with a sock-puppet ........... yeah, perfect choice.

Good God these pigeon-brains can't can't see any trees cuz a forest is in the way. Just start a new thread with a pronouncement, no reason behind it.

Now that's off your chest, pick up your socks from under the bed, your Mom's doing the laundry today.