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The vast majority of people in power positions who happen to be female, black, Hispanic, etc. got to where they were by merit. However, when people see appointees like Ketanji Jackson, who CLEARLY got her position because of identity boxes she checked, it perpetuates the stereotype that DEI is the reason for all their success. Therefore, they need to work even harder to prove they deserve to be the position they’re in. We may set a record for 8-1 Supreme Court decisions. 🙄

I spent this past weekend walking the National Mall. Standing in the Rotunda of the National Archives, looking at the faded ink of the Declaration and the Constitution, you feel the weight of a specific kind of intellectual ambition. These weren't just laws; they were a tour de force of Enlightenment philosophy. Then you move to the Lincoln Memorial, where the prose is so lean and haunting it feels as if it was inevitable that it should be carved in stone. Collectively, they represent a massive legacy, a vision of "exceptionalism" that, while imperfectly realized, aimed for something transcendent, far greater than what had come before. And then, there’s the current reality. Leaving the presence of those great men and their momentous words, only to be met with the ubiquitous and self-aggrandizement of the Trump era, feels like falling off a cliff into a vat of toxic kitsch. Like a spoiled child dressed up in his father's suit, hopelessly trying to make it fit. The founders (flawed as they were) spoke of a "Sacred Honor." Today, the highest virtue seems to be the ability to dominate a news cycle through sheer noise. How did we go from the quiet, terrifying dignity of the Bill of Rights to a political landscape that feels like a sweeps week stunt for bad reality TV? Is this just the natural entropy of a Republic, or have we fundamentally lost the ability to distinguish between "greatness" and "fame"? This is the latest nauseating reminder today of just how far we've fallen. This bloated vulgarian isn't fit to polish the marble likenesses of his predecessors. How did we get here? It seems impossible to have fallen so far so fast from dignity to disgrace.

Another day, another supposedly pious godly conservative exposed as the very kind sexual deviant they claim to protecting the world from Noem was already a shitshow at DHS. Let’s just do a quick recap before we get to the latest: She’s been having a years-long affair with longtime Trump minion Corey Lewandowski (who is also married to someone else) and had him appointed as her “special advisor” at DHS. Despite having no official title authority Lewandowski effectively made himself the #2 in the department ordering people around and firing them with impunity. The 2 of them created a toxic workplace with a culture of abuse, verbally abusing and degrading staff in public, forcing them to take lie detector tests when they didn’t like what they were being told, misappropriating department resources for themselves, living together in Coast Guard executive housing (despite both already having their own homes and being married to other people) and flying around in Coast Guard 737s for their personal use Lewandowski fired a coast guard 737 pilot because Noem forgot a blanket on the plane and somehow that was the pilots fault but then they rehired him ehen they realized there was nobody to fly them home. Not to mention questionable contracts issued to friends and donors Just total incompetence and greed and malevolence on full display. What else donyou expect from a woman who literally shoots puppies in the face? Now we know hilariously that Noem’s holier than thou cuckold husband is in to a fetish called “bimbofication” where he dresses up as a “bimbo” complete with fake boobs and gets verbally degraded by a dominatrix

If you stand by a Pyramid and look East you can see denial.

Is that when you used to have what free people called free speech?

Your bullshit claims are made even more hilarious by the clown car of massively unqualified (not just “less qualified”) hacks and charlatans appointed in the Trump administration, where the lack of qualifications was a feature not a bug because they said qualified people were part of the “establishment elite” and devotion to Trump is the only identity box that needs to be checked. Also as further proof of your ignorant BS, there have been exactly zero 8-1 decisions especially with Brown being the lone dissenter

Typical User trying to make distorting and irrelevant arguments because you can’t admit you don’t know wtf you are talking about anfd have no point Everyone with at least a basic level of intelligence understands that Saddam didn’t have WMD and that decades-old expired shells that had been disposed of and buried for years don’t count. If all you have is an empty peanut butter jar in your garbage can everyone understands that you don’t have peanut butter, NOBODY is dumb enough to think that means you have a peanut butter stockpile. The whole reason this is relevant is Bush Jr told Americans he had to invade invaded Iraq it had an active WMD program that could strike US soil within 45 minutes of launch and Saddam was plotting with al Qaeda to do just that. He even showed the public what he claimed were satellite photos of these mobile launch vehicles and called the intel a “slam dunk”. He didn’t say we have to invade Iraq because they might have some old discarded inert shells that might make you sick if you dig them up and lick them. You are hilarious. Just like Trump is off randomly bombing stuff in Iran with no clear plan, objective or strategy you just barge in to every conversation trying to argue with people just for the sake of being disagreeable without having any point. Reminds me of when you tried to barge into a conversation in the thread on energy grid to try and claim that storing extra fuel at those gas power plants will produce more power during peak demand because the pipe doesn’t provide enough energy. It was just dumb nonsensical gibberish you posted because you wanted to he part of the argument even though you had no actual point to make and knew nothing about the topic. Saddam didn’t have WMD after Desert Storm, period. Everyone understands that and that old discarded of shells don’t count. You are just desperate to pursue pointless wand winless internet arguments at all costs because you have no other life amd just like you blundering president in Iran you don’t know how to extract yourself when you’re in over your head so you just continue to repeat and double down endlessly because you know nothing else.

Congrats on the rescue - well done to U.S. SAR / military. Worst part is listening to Trump .....? Would someone please tell that bombastic, ignorant fool that there is no "I' in TEAM?

You were the kid who cried that your dad was a liar because he promised to come to your little league game but he got stuck in traffic due to no fault of his own. 30 years later you still call him a liar.

You're just LYING your ass off ^here Canuck, which is WHY you have NO EVIDENCE.

You're an id1ot. Kristi's husband did not dress up in front of his classes. You cant get anything right, huh halfwit.

I don't believe any of that is true. I'm entirely open to being proven wrong but just saying those things doesn't make them accurate and I don't see any numbers or any studies or any even logical argument that strongly supports that In fact the most optimistic number I've seen, and it is optimistic, is that it might produce 36 billion in new gDP. But it's going to cost us 90. And we both know it they say it's costing 90 it's actually going to cost closer to $120 to 180. That's not good math for us And to top if off, it will ONLY benefit that very small region. A TINY number of people will benefit directly from this. So why am I paying for it? If it's such a great idea why aren't ontario and quebrec doing it themselves? Why do I have to buy them a fast rail system out of my own pocket as a taxpayer federally but ALSO have to buy the ferries my province needs?!? To me this just looks like more "liberals ripping off the west to buy votes in the east' again.

I'm also for getting major projects done, but we have to consider priorities. Our economy demands the building of new infrastructure for getting our resources to market. It also demands we double our electrical generating capacity by the year 2050. Convince me that if money is going to be spent, that building high speed rail to replace an existing line is a better choice than the other two.

That is fake news. Syria has produced its own chemical weapons domestically for decades, which is not difficult for governments to do if their country has basic industrial capabilities Stip propagating misinformation.

We're a country rich in resources that are in demand by our friends and allies that are willing to pay a premium because they consider us to be reliable in a world that's becoming increasingly unreliable. But we can't because the infrastructure to move all of our resources timely and efficiently doesn't exist while we're forced to export most of our oil to the U.S. at a steep discount. This is a problem of our own making because we're stupid. Sorry, but there's no other word for it. So this plan to spend $90B on high speed rail (which will likely double by the time it's completed) to replace an already existing rail line doesn't really surprise me.

They are gullible enough to believe them media and lazy enough not to verify the stories they want to believe.

It is amazing how they never give us the full statistics. There are tons of promotions going on for women and black people... did Hegseth stop them all? No. Of course not. Yet, he is a racist or sexist because he intervened in whatever small percentage he did? Was he a racist or sexist for firing the white member of the Joint Chiefs this last week?! OOPS, guess not, he was white! There goes the narrative.

Reality: Pete Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers He is targeting people that were Biden era policy defenders as well. Over 12 (12 is a dozen) and because 3 might be in a class you want to cry about does not make his actions racist or sexist. It just makes you a dumbasṣ for not checking for the whole story and believing the liberal lies that the legacy media give you.

I guess the moral of their story is that "If you do kinky shit in private but act normal in public then you're a deviant, but if you do that same kinky shit in public, especially around children, then you're mentally healthy and other adults have to play along..." IOW, if Mr Noem just wore a short shirt with those boobs, and read books to elementary school children, that would make it ok 👍 By that same logic, my wife has to start wearing her nurse outfit to our son's baseball games, or I have to take her to a shrink.

Actually, several nations have re-established U.S. bases on foreign soil because it is better for the host nations. This includes The Philippines, Australia, Ecuador, and Panama. So about 750 foreign bases in all...so much suffering for a "person". How many nations host permanent Canadian military bases ?

Not a her. A man with a mental illness. A man strapping fake boobs on that are absurd on their face and parading around in front of children. I don't say this is OK, you do. You are the one defending it.

Absolutely false. The vast majority of time throughout our history ontario has been the one who takes Most of our federal money is spent in Ontario, the west is deliberately shut out of things to benefit Ontario. During covid one of the world's more promising medical labs prove that they could produce a covid vaccine extremely quickly and all they asked for was 10 million to set up shop from mass production and the liberals wouldn't even talk to them. Other experts around the world commented on how ridiculous this was because they were well known as being a top of the line lab. But,,,, they were in Edmonton. And Ontario and Quebec did not want to see the growth of a strong pharmaceutical industry in the west For ages it cost more money to ship things on rail to the east than it did to ship them west just to protect Ontario Industries Petrocan stole massive amounts of money from Alberta to win votes in Ontario and Trudeau's own people admitted that later. Dion referred to Alberta saying that "they didn't want to KILL the cash cow...." Ontario occasionally gives to Quebec but that's about it. Otherwise everything is geared towards making sure that Ontario has the resources and the money at the expense of everyone else Have you never thought that it was weird how blow the population is in the west compared to Ontario? There's a reason for that The rail line will not be paid off by users. That will never happen. Certainly not in our lifetime The Olympics were specifically designed to improve our standing on the world stage and increase the amount of business done with Canada regardless of province. And most of the money was paid for by the province that it occurred in which covered the cost of the infrastructure This will be 100% paid for by taxpayers who will never get a benefit and it will never benefit them internationally or anything of the like It's this kind of thing that fuels western separation and Alberta's desire to break away. This is nothing but theft from canadians to buy votes in Ontario and it's disgusting and you should not be supporting it. If the province is want to do it then they can

If conservatives told a story about "rocks and trees talking to manly men to help them find gays to kill, even when the poor buggers were just trying to hide so that they wouldn't be killed", would you say that it was just a parable? You have no room to talk about other people's alleged bigotry when you're the worst kind of bigot yourself.

This is why reasonable people hate left4rds so much: Adults SHOULD be allowed to do what they want to do in their own bedrooms with other consenting adults. Whether that's LGBTQ adults are cisgender adults doing oral and anal, I don't make it my business and neither should you Adults should not be allowed to force the rest of the world to pretend that they are something that they are clearly not. If Mr Noem wants to come out in public tomorrow that's his business, but he can't just say "I'm a woman now, I can go into the girls' bathroom and compete in women's sports, and you can't say "mom" anymore". That's nt realistic. I can't even wrap my head around what twisted form of logic leads you to believe that 1) a man is a deviant if he has a secret sexual identity, but 2) if he chooses to call himself a woman then he's is a complete woman and everyone has to pretend along with him, and he is no longer considered a deviant Kamala Harris just called. She was wondering if she can go down on Kristi to get some political appointments. Kamala had an official title, that didn't make her any less of a useless tw4t. Surely you must have some examples of the public shaming... Are you accusing them of being liberals? Where's the proof? "Marriage" is a relative term. Everyone has a different definition of what it means. Ask Bill Clinton what it means, or Hillary. Sometimes people keep their fake "marriage" on the books and in public long after they are no longer a real couple. Proof, left4rd. Again, that's standard practice for liberals, and I've never heard you complain about Trudeau, Pelosi, teh Clintons, etc. Millions of pigs, cows and chickens are killed every day. To kill pigs they put them all into a tight corral with hydraulically powered, metal gates that just quickly compress them together to crush them. Is killing one dog that kills chickens so bad? Farmers also kill coyotes that kill their chickens. What's the difference? Again, it's the peak of hypocrisy for you to say that there's something wrong with that. I'm pretty sure there's a letter for that within your LGBTQ++ community.

I think a High Speed Rail to Dog River would be a good thing. I could get a Ruby Club Sandwich and be back to Lake of the Woods in time for dinner.

You don’t need the campaign, he was President once before and said this: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-iran/ Also, he doesn’t need Congress to do what he is doing.

After she asks questions they need to play this.

Oh, and we can't forget open borders. Juan Juanston luuuuuuvs they/them some open borders!

No this is the anti Trumper narrative. Attacking Iran was 40+ years in the making since 1979. Now is a good time since America’s energy independence. And it’s not just Iran, America is ridding the world of many other Chinese Proxy, from Nepal to Cuba. No wars are decided overnight, it takes years of preparation, training and war planning to work up.

Most of the time Ontario is on the giving end to the rest of Canada, and it’s a significant amount. The reality is that only one or two of those pipeline proposals will get built anytime soon due to EA’s, state regulations, legal challenges, etc., and that’s with the revised fast tracked approach. Look, build as many pipelines and other resource infrastructure as you can, but what’s it all for if you can’t get anywhere fast in our major cities because we’re using 80 year old train technology. Toronto has doubled in population since I was a kid. Cities like Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, and Markham have tripled or quadrupled size in my lifetime- literally Brampton went from 150,000 to 800.000 people. Kitchener-Waterloo has doubled in size. All of these cities and others like Burlington, Hamilton, Peterborough, Tois-Rivierres, Ottawa, Laval, Montreal, Gatineau, Quebec City, and more would benefit. Ontario and Quebec are being hammered most by tariffs and we could literally lose our steel, aluminum, and auto industries. If these major centres can’t get something out of this infrastructure program, we in central Canada should ask what’s in it for us, because Ontario has been the giving tree for a lot longer than Alberta. This latest deal with China hurts Ontario but benefits Saskatchewan and rural parts of Canada. Eventually that rail line will be paid off by users, just like the St. Laurence Seaway, the Confederation Bridge, and the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Some projects will be paid off faster than others, but let’s not forget that I can’t use a pipeline to get to my destination faster. It’s a good investment, but the infrastructure itself doesn’t improve quality of life. Being able to travel easily and quickly across central Canada is a tangible quality of life improvement that makes Canada a more attractive destination internationally for citizens, businesses, and tourists. You could argue that all of our Olympics — Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary—should never have happened due to cost, but we received major sports infrastructure, subway/highway infrastructure, housing. These events also raised our international profile and athleticism. Expo 67 created subway systems and whole islands which became permanent parks enjoyed today. Toronto’s SkyDime was very expensive, but it certainly inspired success and the Jays won back to back World Series just after its completion. Not everything we build has to be a factory or mine. What benefits major cities isn’t the same thing as what benefits residents of rural areas. HSR is expensive, but it keeps our cities in the running for a variety of reasons for attracting talent and making these highly populated areas functional. There are also environmental benefits that offset some of the damage from our resource development.

Try and keep up... the question wasn't about Trump, it was about your position on transgender teachers:

Great news about the second pilot for sure! I have little doubt the dems are upset that they "Missed" an opportunity to cry fake tears and attack the president, but i suspect even many of their supporters are happy about this ending. IT's a war. Sometimes the bad guys are going to have a good day too. I doubt we've seen the last casualty, but hopefully we'll see more stories like this than bad ones.

Yes, I know the LOGIC and psychology of homophobes. It's really quite SIMPLE. Too bad you couldn't figure it out.

Until you POST EVIDENCE, ^this is just YOUR misinformation. Sarin gas is NOT that difficult to make.

What?

The vast majority of what you people call anti-Semitism is simply anger at Israel. Albert Einstein predicted that a "real and final catastrophe" would be the result of Zionist terrorism in 1948. FYI. Einstein was a pretty smart guy.

Maybe the imbeciles are making progress then. Are you suggesting that having transgender teachers in schools is a bad thing and that you're opposed to it?

That's always the risk you take when you put yourself out there, but trust me it can't be worse than you're making yourself look now.

All you buffoons are so gullible. Bryon Noem, the husband of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, was accused of engaging in a secret online cross-dressing and fetish lifestyle, not engaging in such activities in front of a class of children. Y'all are imbeciles.

Money that could be better spent on new pipelines, which would be an actual cash cow. But we both know there won't be any new pipelines. New home construction? Not much of that going on now. This rail line won't generate remotely as much as pipelines would, and it will likely depend on continued subsidies to exist, much as Via rail depends on subsidies. Every major high-speed rail project in history has exceeded its initial budget. Here’s what the international evidence says — and what it means for Alto’s $60–120 billion estimate. Key Finding Based on a database of more than 16,000 megaprojects, nine out of ten run over budget. Rail projects average a 44.7% cost overrun. EU high-speed rail specifically averaged a 78% overrun across the lines audited in 2018. Applied to Alto’s $60–90 billion estimate, historical averages suggest a realistic final cost of $87–130 billion or more — before a single track has been laid. This is not pessimism. It is the consistent, documented, peer-reviewed pattern from comparable projects on every continent where high-speed rail has been built. https://citizenresearch.ca/economics-costs/ How many Canadian megaprojects can you name that didn't go way over budget? You can't be including oil in that claim.

They may not change a vote but may impact voter turnout

Yeah, there's no way that "73%" transfers directly into 73% at election time, but that's a swing that will translate into at least a couple percent. Honestly, aside from "hating Trump because maybe he will do something really wrong one day", which really isn't panning out for the Dems, they have nothing. Maybe they love terrorists more than other American presidents, but I don't think that's an election-winning strategy. And Trump has been president for 5 plus years now, and was just better than Biden by light years. He's on pace to finish 8 years with several huge wins and no real losses to speak of. The Dems are cheering for the ayatollahs because that's their last hope.

You posted a picture? And you think I've seen every id1otic thing you've posted? Post it again, with an explanation and supporting citation. Can you handle that b1tch boy?

Something tells me if this thread were titled: Is it morally acceptable to worry about the future of transgender people? You would not have this hard a time simply saying: Yes! Meanwhile, you are comparing us to animals when it suits your argument...

The wimpy fat kid who likes to talk like he's the schoolyard bully.... My little dog that snarls and growls at other dogs, so long as the car window's rolled up.

My sense of it (based on nothing more scientific than gym talk BTW) is that although they may disapprove, and even voice that disapproval in a poll, it's still not enough for them to change their vote. I think only pain (in large doses) will sway them. By way of example, some NDP voters I know were really unhappy with the TV equity card debacle and the move towards being more progressive, even the choice of leader put them off but it still didn't change their commitment to the party one bit. Their answer to a polling question isn't a reflection of their voting intentions and the puzzle for conservatives is how to go about changing that. Granted, some switched to voting liberal last time but that was distinctly a Trump thing IMO. Some of them had to hold their nose while doing it too. By the same token, a couple of Liberal voters I know deliberately make a point of not watching the news (and seem proud of it). They don't follow current events at all and say it's because it stresses and angers them. They still vote liberal though, always have and probably always will. When pressed it will come down to the fact that PP is a racist or white supremacist or some such; I don't pursue it further at that point. Human nature being what it is, I'm guessing it's exactly the same in the US and JJ (above) has it right. At the extreme end of this you have the Robo's of the world who would happily burn it all to the ground before voting Republican. As to causation, I defer to those knowledgeable about such things but, what I've observed anecdotally is that most of these folks don't dig for details, they don't do the math and media sound bites in the form of IO nudges work well on them. I say that because I often hear them parrot the talking points. There's no better example than that of a liberal non gun owner commenting on what gun regulation they would enact by OIC if they ever became PM for a day followed by their surprise in finding out that there's amore draconian version of it already in existence. Sometime I throw in an overlapping hunting regulation for good measure and that's when the conversation usually ends. That may have been a Canadian centric observation but I think it's equally valid in the US for exactly the same reasons.

Infectious diseases have disproportionately affected Indigenous people since the beginning of colonisation. For most people in Kanada, the risk of getting TB is very low. The rates of active TB among Indigenous is disproportionately higher - direct result of relocation, loss of lands, Reserve system, residential school system TB (disease) is treated with antibiotics. Left untreated the disease spreads, is deadly without treatment (prayer beads aren't too effective). The World is a sewer .......... getting more so .......science is the only salvation .........

High speed link between a city full of ass=holes to another city full of French speaking ass-holes, oh dear.