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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.

The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree The Constitution grants sweeping pardon powers to the president, which means that public opinion has historically been the only check on that power. The risk of a backlash is the reason that presidents have waited until their last days in office to issue many pardons and commutations, especially dubious ones to family members (like Hunter Biden) or political allies (like Caspar W. Weinberger, whom George H.W. Bush pardoned). The potential for a backlash also made presidents cautious about the number of pardons they issued. They understood that there could be an outcry if somebody who received a pardon later committed a new crime. The pardon system has also relied on the decency of American presidents. President Trump has abandoned this approach. His self-serving pardons are so numerous that public attention cannot keep up with them. It is a version of the strategy that his former adviser Steve Bannon has described as “flood the zone”: Do so much so fast that people cannot follow the consequences. He has created a veritable pardon industry, in which people with White House connections accept payments from wealthy convicts. Among those on whom he has bestowed freedom are dozens of people convicted of fraud. He has also pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras, who helped traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States, and Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for running Silk Road, a sprawling criminal enterprise that sold drugs. There seems to be no crime too ugly for a Trump pardon. Worst of all, Mr. Trump granted clemency on the first day of his second term to everyone who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He did not distinguish between rioters who were relatively peaceful and those who attacked police officers, as Vice President JD Vance said should be the case. About 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters received a clean slate, regardless of their actions. The results have been disastrous. At least 12 of the pardoned rioters have since been charged with other serious crimes, including child molestation, assault, harassment, murder plots and charges related to a vicious dog attack. The outcome was predictable. Critics, including this board, had warned that Mr. Trump’s pardons would embolden the rioters by signaling that crime has no consequences. One does not have to be a criminologist to predict that people who commit a violent act and are absolved of any punishment might become repeat offenders. The American public deserves to understand the mayhem that the Jan. 6 pardons have unleashed. Among the 12 serious recidivists whom we are aware of, four were in jail or prison at the time of the pardon, and they quickly went on to commit more crimes: On March 5, a court in Florida sentenced Andrew Paul Johnsonto life in prison for molesting a 12-year-old boy and a girl of the same age. To keep the children quiet, Mr. Johnson is said to have promised to bequeath to them part of a Jan. 6 restitution payment from the federal government that he claimed he would receive. He used the online gaming platforms Discord and Roblox to reach out to the children after Mr. Trump freed him from prison. On Jan. 6, Mr. Johnson entered the Capitol through a broken window and accosted police officers. In the past two months, Jake Lang destroyed an ice sculpture outside the Minnesota State Capitol, leading to a felony vandalism charge, and helped organize an anti-Muslim rally in New York City that turned violent. On Jan. 6, he was caught on camera storming the Capitol with a baseball bat and a riot shield, which prosecutors said he used to attack police officers. In May, Zachary Alam was arrested for breaking into a house in Virginia and stealing a tablet computer and a diamond necklace. On Jan. 6, he was among the first to enter the Capitol building from its west lawn and hurled items at police officers from a balcony. At his sentencing hearing, he was unrepentant: “Sometimes you have to break the rules to do what’s right.” He had previous convictions for auto theft and driving under the influence. Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, scuffled with protesters at a news conference and was briefly detained on assault charges, a month after Mr. Trump freed him from a 22-year prison sentence. Mr. Tarrio was one of the leaders behind the Jan. 6 attack, but he was not in Washington on the day of the riot. He had been kicked out of the city after vandalizing a Black church after an earlier pro-Trump rally. An additional eight Jan. 6 rioters were out of prison when Mr. Trump pardoned them and have since been charged with new crimes: On March 25, a judge sentenced Daniel Tocci to four years in prison for possession of more than 110,000 child pornography images. During the Jan. 6 riot, he joined the mob as it broke into the Capitol and destroyed and took government property. On March 1, Bryan Betancurgrabbed a woman’s hair on the Washington Metro, leading to a charge of assault and battery. At least two women have also accused him of stalking. He was already on probation for a burglary conviction when he stormed the Capitol and helped rioters circulate furniture that most likely was used as weapons. In October, Christopher Moynihan threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, and pleaded guilty to a harassment charge over the incident. On Jan. 6, he was among the first rioters to breach police barricades and eventually broke into the Senate chamber. Robert Packer was arrested in September after his dogs attacked people, putting four in the hospital. He previously had a long criminal record that included theft and drunken driving, and during the Jan. 6 riot, he wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt. John Andries violated a legal order requested by the mother of his child by repeatedly following and confronting her, leading to a sentence in June of 60 days in jail and three years of unsupervised probation. On Jan. 6, he entered the Capitol through a broken window and pushed police officers once inside. Brent Holdridge was arrested in May for stealing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of industrial copper wire. On Jan. 6, he was scheduled to be in jail on separate drug-related charges, but he skipped his booking and joined the mob as it breached the Capitol. Jonathan Munafo was rearrested last year after he allegedly fled federal supervision imposed for dozens of menacing phone calls, including one in which he threatened to “cut the throat” of a 911 dispatcher. During the riots, he punched a police officer twice, stole his riot shield and used a wooden flagpole to try to break a window. Days after he was pardoned, Matthew Huttle is said to have resisted arrest during a traffic stop, and a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him. The police said he had a gun. On Jan. 6, he helped take over the Capitol and joined rioters in chanting, “Whose house? Our house.” This list does not include at least 27 rioters who committed other crimes before they received their pardons. That group includes one woman who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing someone while driving drunk and a manwho livestreamed a bomb threat while driving around Barack Obama’s neighborhood in Washington. …. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/opinion/trump-jan-6-pardons-crimes-recidivism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share MOST. CORRUPT. PRESIDENT. EVER

You are the one who tried to compare humans to animals in their sexual activity to say it was "natural." Lots of shit is "natural," and that doesn't make it OK. Again, you keep ignoring: This continues to be the stupidity of your whole schtick here. You are conflating human morals and reasoning of right and wrong with what animals instinctively do. Which is why you keep running like a coward when I keep pointing this out and making the point about how animals also do a lot of other violent nasty things to each other.

President Jimmy Carter saved some of you Canuck ASSES. ^DELUSIONS of DENIAL.

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.

Via Rail Canada has lines that run from Halifax, through Toronto/Windsor, to Prince Rupert B.C. at speeds up to 160 km/h. Why is it so important for us or our economy that we have trains that run twice as fast? Why is it important for business when we have such basic things as video conferencing? Most people would kill if they were allowed to work from home. And what about AI? Ontario to its credit is on track with its planning for major future nuclear development to ensure we have enough energy to always meet our needs. (you see, somebody gets it) It also plans to develop the ring of fire region in northern Ontario to mine the metals and minerals that are in such world wide demand. (again, another hi 5) For most of us, transportation is more of less restricted to about a 10 or 20 km radius from where we live.

The imaginary kind.

Sorry but others don't see flames, just the normal issues which are solveable. And delaying things that should've been done 40-50 years ago is no solution at all.

Fortune Cookie, Some like it hot, couple great comedies.

And that's something at which Trump ALWAYS FAILS. That's how his CASINOS were bankrupted. AKA, all the time.

ONLY ^lDIOTS advocate war as the first resort. Or are "forced" into it by a strategic "opportunity." 🤮

That only exist for a span of time. It’s never an indefinite period. As soon as the enemy resupply, the danger zone returns. That said, for the type of munition that can endanger high flyer, it requires a long logistic tail, rail, ship or truck to get to where it needs to go. The question becomes, where are the supply routes and can they get enough of it to matter. Quantity is a quality in of itself. A few jets downed isn’t going to stop America.

I don't care why Kruse was fired...or SecWar if that happens. It is the prerogative of the president to decide who he/she wants in such positions along with confirmation process. But because it was Trump, people throw a conniption fit.

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.

Right....Democrats celebrated when Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by Marines after being shot down in 1995 (Clinton - Bosnian War). Happened again in 1999 (Clinton - Kosovo War). Let's see how they play this turn of events without wishing more harm to U.S. and allied military just to get at Trump.

Iran is going out with a wimper

Repetatively posting the same thing to someone you're 'crushing' on or obsessed with is the kind of thing we see children do but normally by the time you get to be an adult you grow out of it. Sadly it seems like you've still have a little emotional growing up to do

When people pray, they are in effect talking to themselves. Some people have a good conversation with themselves; others don't.

Yeah, you need to see someone about that too.

Safe and sound. Dems can put down the pom poms and noise makers. They lose again

Of course it is when they're still behaving the same way.

The usual, threatening more War Crimes if they don't get their pilot back. And then in the middle of the night he will say the exact opposite, and on it goes goes. Trump and Hegseth are like a couple of six year olds playing with their little green army men. Lol. It's not funny, but I mean seriously. You could make this shit up!

It was known that Hussein used chemical weapons on citizens in Iraq. Those were not the WMD which were used as an excuse to invade Iraq. AKA you're LYING.

In reality you ARE HOMOPHOBIC because you fear normalization will abolish your inhibitions and your inner homo will take over and emerge. LMAO

No, you are beyond stupid. I never said it was Kristi's husband. If you are too dumb, too lazy, or too incompetent to get into this discussion, just don't.

I noticed that too... I call it the concept of POOF. There's an interesting back story here (or so the story goes). Apparently he was a shop teacher and had been reprimanded by the school board for "toxic masculinity" immediately prior to his (POOF) "transition." I enjoyed watching this prank as it played out, totally over the top by any measure and it tied a progressive school board in knots for the entire duration of the charade. Fun to watch.

Marine communications are the most important communications for vessels, including naval vessels. Navigation is part of that: buoy, markers, etc. I think what ExFlyer is referring to is communications around the detection and use of weapons systems and military operations. There’s some overlap for sure though, as the Coast Guard does have radar, sonar, and satellite navigation and detection systems. They may not be involved in combat directly, but they certainly monitor traffic and alert the military where necessary. Let’s not forget too that in times of conflict even privately owned vessels can be commissioned by the military.

Being as there's now blood on the mats I moved the experiment forward in an effort to ease the trauma some posters are clearly experiencing with this. First I established a working base line: - I bought a magnum can of 7% German beer and pored it into a beer glass... it remained beer; and - I poured rum from a rum bottle into a shot glass... it remained rum. Then I mixed it up to observe the presence and extent of any observed change of state: - I pored rum into the beer can and emptied the contents into a beer glass... it remained rum; and - I pored beer into the empty rum bottle and the contents of that into a shot glass... it remained beer. After tabulating the results, I observed that the cost and flavour of both beverages remained the same regardless of labeling and the only "new spending" was for the taxi ride home.

Biden's campaign had to be the most flagrant attempt (conspiracy?) to punk the U.S. ............ I do believe the plan was for him, if elected, to resign - leaving the Presidency open to Harris. Arguably Biden was the reason for the other dotage grasping the gold ring. ...........

Remember when BC Ferries built those three aluminum-hulled PacifiClass High Speed(Fast Cat) ferries that were supposed to bring transportation into the new age? Proposed budget was $210M. Actual budget was $450M and 3 years late. Then became a colossal failure by being overweight, slower than projected, paint peeling off, too expensive to operate and couldn't operate in most terminals. They refused to listen to their expert engineers who worked on their vessels when they said it wouldn't work. They ended up being decommissioned a few years later and sold for $20M. This is the largest example of provincial mismanagement and cost overruns in BC history. Now imagine a $90BILLION dollar train system when Toronto can't even keep the Go Train running.

The bottom line for investors is still: The Canadian gov't is, at times, extremely hostile towards the energy sector there is an enormous amount of red tape and hurdles to get through for any project, so the timeline for recouping money spent during the planning, permission and securing land/leases, etc is extensive compared to other places energy projects often face violence from Canadian protesters, so insurance is expensive these projects all rely on 100% support from every single FN's chief within a 50-mile radius (both elected and hereditary), and if at any time during the whole decade-long planning and consulting procedure, one of them changes their mind or is replaced by someone who is against them, their entire project is instantly shit-canned the mood of the Canadian gov't is subject to change several times during the lengthy process, with new PM's and Premiers being elected, and all of them want to have absolute say over energy projects, so legal hurdles could potentially occur at any one of several different gov't changes over the course of project approval Just imagine yourself on the outside looking in, EF. If you have $50B to invest, would you invest in Canada, with the Trudeaus, Carney and Ebys of the world always being against you, or do you wanna invest in a place like Texas where Trump and Abbot will roll out the red carpet for you? Canada is a really shitty business partner, and I don't blame anyone for keeping their $50B instead of tying 10% of it up here for a decade as they struggle through the weeds to get their first shovel into the ground. I doubt there's another country that's so allergic to money and investment, and I can't imagine how you could be unaware of that by now.

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