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He did screw up in their withdrawl from Afghanistan. The terrorists love Biden. Meanwhile Americas enemies hate the idea of Don Trump becoming president and will do anything they can to undermine them. As we see around here, now. We know who the Chinese and Russian BOTS are.

If you crap in your own bed, willfully, don't expect much sympathy from me now that you don't like it. Or like my pappy used to say, "A lack of planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency response on my part."

And how did they end up like that? It's called living under the shadow of US hegemony, and having their jackboots upon your neck. Which is why you NEED those people. "Give us your poor, that they may do our laundry".

Aw, poor boobylein is all out of anything useful to say. Oh wait, nevermind. Has NEVER said anything like that. Hope I didn't to upset you. Come give us a kiss...

You need to get past the idea that there actually are "good guys". It's like saying there are friends in the realm of global international trade and politics. There are no good guys, only the one who serves people's best interests and needs for a particular time. Once they no longer serve that need they should be discarded. That which was venerated, upon becoming useless must be trampled on and burned, like straw dogs. And by that I mean, modern Liberalism...

Reminds me of the day I walked in to my first job after graduating in electrical. I was in a biomedical engineering department. There was an old guy sitting at his desk in the corner, reading his paper. He looked like he'd seen it all. Above his desk there was a sign: "Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency response on my part." - Education

I know. I hate the auto merge feature. Auto-merging posts? wtf Who the heck programmed this thing anyway.

Haha. Wrong person quoted there.

I read that violence in Toronto is through the roof. The premier's suggestion? Sleep with a baseball bat...

I know. In your case it went well. Same as me but it's fact that many people's cancer treatment and heart surgery were delayed, and not just for a few weeks, in favour of keeping the already healthy safe. Liquor store stayed open though. Figure that one out. Then there's those who needed to see their counselor, psychological services cancelled. Access to booze, pot and illegal drugs of course still available. The odd few, the oddball, the misfit, they suffered while the majority who didn't need that condoned it for the sake of their own personal safety and fears. Overwhelming the health care system argument does not move me at all. It was already in a state of complete disaster in most places, big cities especially. Covid just kicked the already rotten door in. And look, health care system even in a worse shambles now. In my town, as in many places in Canada apparently, there is a critical shortage of family doctors. They even shut down two of the three walk-in clinics, due to cost presumably. Not due to demand that's for sure. Result- you want health care, you can't access the system unless you go to the ER. My mom was hit by a car a few months ago. She was not badly injured luckily, she had some bruises and a sore leg but I took her to the ER. She might have had internal injuries or a concussion. We got there at 8 pm, place was jam packed. They told her it's a minimum eight hour wait. That's 4 AM. Keyword, minimum. And look, no action plan from our leaders, not even a plan for the next, inevitable outbreak. So don't you people come and tell ME about "protecting our health care system".

2. The stepd we took by enforcing with mandates for such a controversial technology without the normal safety standards was very risky. It could have been devestating. I do not trust politicians with my health. Only my personal physician should advise me, and do follow-ups when taking this new substance. We will never know the extent of the hrm it did, or the other secondary harms created by our actions as the government will cover it up. They shut down all diagnostic services. People's medical procedures were delayed. Now we hear about a 'tsunami of cancer'. I remember, I have a memory. Yep. Oh and may I mention, "Astrazenica". I remember, I have a memory.

Well as I recall in Canada we had something like 85% compliance to take the clot-shot voluntarily before the do-gooders that run things decided that's not good enough and put their garrish mandates in place. Already high enough that it should give herd immunity assuming the psudeo-vax worked. It did not, not very anyway. Those of us familiar with these type of stats could do nothing but shake our heads. The final absurdity being told you need a booster every two months. Is amazing how the partisans forget what the government did to us. .... At work, my coworkers all younger than I in a state of panic and fear. I could see it in their eyes. The one guy double-masking with a big beard. The other guy completely isolating himself. I tried to explain it one time, but it didn't help. They thought I was a mad loon. After all was said and done and we returned to 'normal', as in the normal insanity. Mr. Isolation got sick three times in a row. And I mean badly, not just a little. Laid up in bed for a week sick. Mr. Beard told me his fiance got very ill from the vax and was disabled from working for several weeks. She had kind of like a fibromyalgia, no one knew why but happened within a few days of getting a booster. I can only feel sorry. Me, I had no problem. During covid I had to work every day. I went about my things as best I could, only wearing the mask when I was forced to. I believe in the natural immune system, not man-made pharma. Get a little bit of it (virus) every day. Just a bit, not enough to overwhelm but to get a reaction. Then you'll be truly healthy, immune. Without fear and no regrets, walking on the bones of the dead.

Of course not doh. It references the notion of LEGAL entry vesus ILLEGAL entry. Just build a statue of liberty in every town, right? You are truly a sad little, tow-headed moppet.

Trump was elected, like it or not and he may well be again. Back then after his first win, before he had done much of anything, I recall hearing people on your side screaming "Not my president!!" Trump is not even the problem, he's a symptom. And he is not sick. But actually, you people are. The next guy, were he the same kind of a-hole like Trump but wearing your colours, you will totally lap it up. Therefore 'Trumpism' is within yourselves. Pass the popcorn, Edna...

I concur.. Sunny wayz is a cult. So was Obummer. For every political action, an equal and opposite reaction. Or worse, usually. Canada needs level-headed leadership. No cult, no celebrities. Bring on Poilievre. As for US, the lying never stops. Just look at them. Even right here. Keep that shit south of the border.

You are confused and getting things mixed up in attempt to judge them by comparison. The way I see it, Trump chooses to say whatever he wants and people are going to react in kind. The same goes for anyone else. No one gets a pass just because they're a woman. If Swift wants to enter the political arena, her ass becomes fair game. Live by the sword... etc.

I'm inclined to be flexible on these matters. The mind of man cannot fathom even this reality that we are in, let alone understand a creator. That's why, it isn't just in your mind or in something written in a book. It is unknown, unseen, like a thief in the night. For all we know, we may have the whole thing bass ackwards. Anyway, it hardly matters if the thing is real or not. What matters is the transformative effect it has on the person, on their soul. That transformation is what leads to good works. But can good works also transform people and lead them to become better persons? Certainly seems reasonable. Good works can bring hope and inspiration to the downtrodden, leading their way to goodness themselves by example. ===== And with that I leave you people this gift, one of my favourite quotes from a book called the Acts of Peter. A non-canonical book you say? Well well well. There must be a good reason for it. Peter allowed himself to be captured so that he could be crucified, perhaps after the shame he felt for denying Jesus. But interestingly he asked that he be crucified upside down. He explained why. And when they had hanged him up after the manner he desired, he began again to say: "Ye men unto whom it belongeth to hear, hearken to that which I shall declare unto you at this especial time as I hang here. Learn ye the mystery of all nature, and the beginning of all things, what it was. For the first man, whose race I bear in mine appearance, fell head downwards, and showed forth a manner of birth such as was not heretofore: for it was dead, having no motion. He, then, being pulled down -who also cast his first state down upon the earth- established this whole disposition of all things, being hanged up an image of the creation wherein he made the things of the right hand into left hand and the left hand into right hand, and changed about all the marks of their nature, so that he thought those things that were not fair to be fair, and those that were in truth evil, to be good. Concerning which the Lord saith in a mystery: Unless ye make the things of the right hand as those of the left, and those of the left as those of the right, and those that are above as those below, and those that are behind as those that are before, ye shall not have knowedge of the kingdom. This thought, therefore, have I declared unto you; and the figure wherein ye now see me hanging is the representation of that man that first came unto birth. Ye therefore, my beloved, and ye that hear me and that shall hear, ought to cease from your former error and return back again. For it is right to mount upon the cross of Christ, who is the word stretched out, the one and only, of whom the spirit saith: For what else is Christ, but the word, the sound of God? So that the word is the upright beam whereon I am crucified. And the sound is that which crosseth it, the nature of man. And the nail which holdeth the cross-tree unto the upright in the midst thereof is the conversion and repentance of man. Now whereas thou hast made known and revealed these things unto me, O word of life, called now by me wood, I give thee thanks, not with these lips that are nailed unto the cross, nor with this tongue by which truth and falsehood issue forth, nor with this word which cometh forth by means of art whose nature is material, but with that voice do I give thee thanks, O King, which is perceived in silence, which is not heard openly, which proceedeth not forth by organs of the body, which goeth not into ears of flesh, which is not heard of corruptible substance, which existeth not in the world, neither is sent forth upon earth, nor written in books, which is owned by one and not by another: but with this, O Jesu Christ, do I give thee thanks, with the silence of a voice, wherewith the spirit that is in me loveth thee, speaketh unto thee, seeth thee, and beseecheth thee. Thou art perceived of the spirit only, thou art unto me father, thou my mother, thou my brother, thou my friend, thou my bondsman, thou my steward: thou art the All and the All is in thee: and thou Art, and there is nought else that is save thee only. Unto him therefore do ye also, brethren, flee, and if ye learn that in him alone ye exist, ye shall obtain those things whereof he saith unto you: 'which neither eye hath seen nor ear heard, neither have they entered into the heart of man.' We ask, therefore, for that which thou hast promised to give unto us, O thou undefiled Jesu. We praise thee, we give thee thanks, and confess to thee, glorifying thee, even we men that are yet without strength, for thou art God alone, and none other: to whom be glory now and unto all ages. Amen." And when the multitude that stood by pronounced the Amen with a great sound, together with the Amen Peter gave up his spirit unto the Lord.

Uh oh. Jebus fight...

Sure, by entering via a proper port, which in that case was Ellis Island I believe.

Has not to do with her being a woman, but some people try to use these remarks to paint conservatives as misogynist. It's a cheap tactic. Conservatives love their daughters too. I doubt anyone would have said much of a bad word had she not chosen to use her celebrity to air political views against Don Trump. Once you do that you have entered the fracas, and are fair game I would say. Whatever is or isn't dangling between your legs, 'irregardless'.

That has not been proven. It MAY be so. It may also be the opposite. And even by your argument, trading the death rate of 90 year olds with twenty year olds is hardly a good deal. In any case such uncertainty won't convince me that the government mandated experimental vaccine was a wise choice. That's the crux of it. Those of us who worked in health care know about the risks of respiratory, flu-like viruses per age demographic, we know who it kills and who it generally doesn't. We cannot trust the liars these days, so anecdotal evidence is all I have. For that matter I know several women who were harmed by the vaccine, and one who died. It's incredible to me that in such a small sample as the number of people I know, these statistics stand out. Long term effects remain to be seen. Your road to good intentions is my road to hell.

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If you are saying he's blameless for our worsening financial situation, that is liberal apologetics. IE rubbish. "During Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's tenure, federal per-person debt increased by 35.3 percent between 2015 and 2022." Another link shows- "With the election of Justin Trudeau in 2015, the federal bureaucracy started to grow rapidly. By 2022 it had grown 27 percentage points, which put it nine percentage points ahead of population growth. Note that this rapid growth of bureaucracy started well before COVID struck. Anyone who has lived through the last three decades should know about the important role reductions in government employment have played in eliminating the deficits of governments of Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper, not to mention Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. The credibility and likely the success of Trudeau’s own policies suffer by the absence of such reductions." https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/one-big-growth-industry-of-the-trudeau-years-the-bureaucracy Instead of good governance what we have is wasteful, ineffective sloth, run by a useless pretty boy. It is not status quo, not just another Canadian government.

It's always good to remind people about the facts and history, although these days it can become a full-time job. It's like they can't hear you. You have shout down the rabbit hole... One can only suspect it's because he truly respects and admires her... politics.

Yes exactly. You fingered it out. It just takes some people longer, I guess. 🤷‍♂️ Watch out now. Don't be too vocal about that, you might be called a Trump supporter...