Derek 2.0

Mad Max is who I will likely vote for at my local riding level, but like Trump in the States, brash retail politics is what will be needed to take down Trudeau.........as I said last summer when the O'Leary rumors started to swirl: The Tory race, like the GOP primaries, has too many voices drowning each other out, allowing an O'Leary with an established media presence to come up the middle.......though I hope Bernier wins, and the continued mini Trudeau scandals and piss poor economy could make it plausible for him to win, I still think Kevin O'Leary will win the Tory leadership, and could very well win the election in 2019.........Trudeau will have a record to defend and O'Leary will hammer him on the economy. I don't expect it to be pretty. Trudeau is either going to reverse himself on so many promises or let the economy sink even faster........Budgets don't balance themselves, and Trump is the Godzilla to the Trudeau Bambi........O'Leary is somewhere in between.

So the Prime Minster has now admitted to breaking the law..........He had no choice but to fly in the private helicopter, to the private Island, of a man who's foundation receives money from the GoC and is registered to lobby not only the government, but the PM.

Tribal "genocide" has been happening for centuries, its hardly new........white South Africans have been seen as but another "tribe" since they landed in Cape Town. What this professor has called for is no different then what man has been doing since we first started benefiting from our opposable thumbs

Megyn who? Carlson has moved into her timeslot seamlessly, and Macallum will be moving into Carlson's old spot.........Interesting article on Kelly's ordeal from Newsweek:

Major shuffle, ending the political careers of two Party stalwarts...........though Dion was a hapless party leader, he did yeoman's work on Quebec and the Clarity Act.....I think Dion deserved better...........I'm surprised Monsef stays in cabinet....and is replaced by an even younger model, from a traditionally Tory riding (Smells like that one is reverting back to blue)........ -------------- It looks like Trudeau is now on letter number 2 of 3 written by former Prime Minister Harper........

Because its finite........a "winner" in the third world factory is not a sense of relief for the out of work factory worker in the West. It curbs it, and contributed to the American entrance of the Second World War. Its a myth because its reliant upon all participants to have faith in it........loose the faith, there goes the economy. The house of cards and those within the middle, living in said cities, are in said house atop a bubble ready to burst......

Amusing to some, but should be a confirmation of decline (see your other thread)..........many see a Putin as less a threat to their lives then the political establishments and power brokers of their own country....Putin wants to make Russia "great again", just like Trump....."bearing arms", an enshrined right, is but a form of individual insurance, far more reliable then a policy from a broker.

There are economic levers and dials between every country, but at best, they will delay the eventual collapse of the house of cards. I don't think Trump (or anyone) can "bring America back" (or any country)......he may grant it a reprieve with varying levels of protectionism, that in turn will result in more countries looking to their own leaders to make things "Great Again".......there lies the end game, circling the watering hole. The "Big picture" resulted in Trump.....Brexit....Putin......we'll see the upcoming French and German results. Economic "winners" can become "losers" in minutes due to loss of faith in our economic myth..........said "winners" are but only upon the top of the house of cards.

Unneeded conflict isn't a conservative principle.......the further "right" you go and you will find isolationists. Conflict, with a country with nukes to boot, is a future unknown, conservatives favor incremental knowns.......

Economic theorist John Maynard Keynes gave his answer long ago: I think we're at the end of the beginning of the end of our collective system of what is the global economy.......its harder to distribute the "wealth" of a Mexican autoworker making $5 an hour to a out of work autoworker in Ontario or Michigan. In a historic sense sure, but apply it to a dwindling middle class voter in North America versus a worker in China..........Trump may be able to get the North American worker his job back in some sense, but then that Chinese worker will pine for someone to "Make China Great Again".......... The modern global economy is a myth reliant upon faith based belief and confidence........tell the out of work oil worker in Alberta or auto worker in Michigan that their economy is getting bigger. Ahh but its not a bygone era if a Trump, a Putin, a Farage, etc promise to make it "Great Again".......

Adapt or die.........or vote in their own Donald J Trump. And to what will happen when even more people in the West find their skills worthless, be it due to outsourcing or the continued advancements in A.I./robotics? This generation in the West will be the first worse off economically then the ones it preceded.........That will result in more Trumps, resulting in more scapegoats for their problems. Perhaps first world tribes, but the World is never without conflict..........the change will be when more and more tribes are forced to "adapt or die", and they elect to blame someone else through the nationalistic words or a perceived strongman (or women). Eventually there will be too many strongmen blaming each other and that will result in yet another global conflict. The waterhole is only so big. Hitler didn't come to power so much as through force, but due to Germans needing a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread........Trump has come to power by the votes of unemployed and underemployed rust belt workers that refuse to "adapt or die", but pine for the return of "greatness" that the feel they once knew........both men, like others before and after them, we able to sell a return of greatness to a public that didn't want to "adapt or die".

Western concepts and prosperity have led many in the West to feel left out........"Prosperity" has become a shrinking waterhole, a zero sum game......look no further then a factory worker in the West that had lost his job to the third world.............Western concepts have now resulted in the rise of Nationalism around the globe, a modern term that is clearly a revision of tribalism........differing tribes circling the same waterhole will lead to bloody conflict.

Hah, didn't see your post before I replied to the one above.......the waterhole is very apt.

Its not just previous religious groups predicting the end is nigh, but established scientists worried about a nuclear World War III........today the Doomsday clock is closer to midnight then what its been through most of the Cold War. The thing about it, with our global economy, remove a couple of cards and the entire thing will collapse.........It could very well collapse from within, but in my opinion, a third World War would be the far more likely outcome. Of course said war could very well be caused by the very economic woes this author is suggesting, without a doubt, the aftermath of a third world war would change the economic landscape of the planet for generations. As member Eyeball has said countless times, the animals are circling the dwindling waterhole.......

Include iodine with your daily vitamins...........

Exactly........

The end of the World prediction market has been around for sometime, with that said, this one could have merit. Combine this prediction with the Federal governments recent economic forecast out to the middle of the century (or any other countries) and it does look bleak for the next generation.

Just look at the last 100 years.........the "left" has started more wars then the "right".........unstable emotion versus cold calculated pragmatism......

You can play your snippet game of only quoting partial statements all (in this case quoting part of sentence of mine) day, but I can't be bothered. Where did I claim that? quote it.......Again, what I actually said: Sure reads different when you quote the entire passage for context

Right......your opinion, not supported by the intelligence report.

Sure, but you claimed involvement by Trump himself, said report clearly doesn't indicate that.

What involvement......on Trump's part? The public report did no such thing.

Is he? Or could it be (he was) given the entire classified report, not the one given to the public, and his statement reflects that..........but by all means, highlight the portion of the report that suggested Trump is Putin's stooge..........

No need, I've read it.......perhaps you should reread my post that you quoted a snippet from.......ain't context a bitch.

Huh?