WestCanMan

I cast my vote in the manner that best serves my country. Whether Scheer wins or Bernier I'd be ok with that, but Bernier already had his chance to lead a party and he failed. Now he's dumb/petulant enough to split the conservative vote and I don't see how that's ok with voters. The only thing that really stands out about the upcoming election is that if Trudeau wins we are going to keep digging ourselves deeper into this hole, and we're already well past the point where we can expect a recovery within the next 20 years. This country might be permanently screwed if he gets in again. Would you honestly rather screw the country than do the sensible thing, just based on a principle that only you really believe in? IMO your vote should be used to help move the country in the right direction when you get the chance, not as a protest vote. Voting to keep the worst one out is the smart thing to do sometimes.

If you're in support of splitting the conservative vote I guess I can't sway you. But, a week ago the path to removing Trudeau from office was obvious, and now it's getting more and more unlikely by the day. If no one was supporting Bernie's folly then it would fizzle out. Now we're playing into Trudeau's hand.

It has nothing to do with loyalty, but everything to do with responsibility. And she wasn't just a d-cup, she was previously a biker. That conjures up even more racist notions to back up the "racism" in the tweets and feed the division machine. In my opinion, Trudeau's ONLY election strategy consists of "I'm cute and cuddly, they're racists!" His only chance to win an election is to keep on repeating that. He gets absolutely massacred on policy and the abysmal failures of his first term in a debate vs Scheer. A debate vs Bernier will be all about racism and it's hard to defend yourself from those kinds of accusations in public. Bernier's favourite talking point is a political minefield.

He is going to end up like Judge Roy Moore in the States. The Libs will let him drag the PC party down for a while, and then right before the election they'll bring up his history which will be enough to put him out of te race too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bernier-quits-cabinet-post-over-security-breach-1.723124 Now he has a series of tweets out there that the Liberal media will churn into the headline "Maxime Bernier is the second coming of Adolf Hitler", plus he has a Hillary-esque history with protecting classified information, and a former biker girlfriend (another reason for the CBC to link him to racism) who should probably sign a non-disclosure agreement but is too fond of the spotlight to be bound by it anyways. And we all know what NDAs are worth now lol. Honestly the Conservatives can't even attack Bernier in the election because they welcomed him back and almost made him their leader last time round. Bernier will no doubt continue to run the PC into the ground all day and he's considered to have insider knowledge, so it has a lot of credibility with voters (helping Trudeau, again). On the other hand, the Libs and NDP can have a field day raking Bernier's reputation over the coals, and Trudeau gets to lock down that SJW vote, which he would have had a harder time doing if it was just Trudeau vs Scheer. Up until Bernier started his party I was pretty certain that Trudeau had no chance. Now he's the big odds-on favourite to win. Bernier is nothing but a back-stabber and he's either the dumbest man on earth or he secretly supports Trudeau.

Is supply chain management a big enough issue that it's worth splitting the conservative vote, and gving Trudeau another majority government? Who the hell is Maxime Bernier working for, the Saudis? If Trudeau gets in again this country is ROYALLY SCREWED! At every chance we get we need to tell Maxime Bernier and his followers to do the right thing - stick with the Conservative party for the 2019 election. Otherwise you're basically casting a vote for Trudeau.

Couple his deficit spending & long-term economic drain with his ability to drive away investment & kill off major sectors of the economy and you have a recipe for north Venezuela.

Trudeau discussed economic policy before the last election. He promised a $30 Billion dollar deficit and he managed to hit that target in only 7 minutes. He's a drastic overachiever in some respects.

The article doesn't mention what happened with her blackberries, iphones and ipads either. Hannity often throws "smashed cel phones with a hammer" in with his rant about post-subpoena evidence destruction, but from what I've read the only things that she was known to have smashed were smashed before the subpoena. I think that she may have said that she lost some devices, or removed the sim cards from them, after they were subpoenaed but I'm not sure.

1) Agree 100% 2) Agree 100% 3) True, but to a far lesser extent for Scheer than for Bernier now. I don't think that Bernier can win this fight in Lib-crazy Canada, anymore than Trump could win it in Dembass California. 4) That should be true, but the media will not stop at just asking it once, they'll ask it from top to bottom, left to right, over and over again. He can answer it perfectly 1,000 times in a row but if he gives them 1 sound-byte that comes out wrong that will become his official stance on CBC and they'll play that answer ad nauseam until the day after election day. It would become Bernier/Sheer's version of "the budget will balance itself". Another thing: some people in business/sports psychology say that the sub-conscious brain never fully understands the negative in a sentence, so for example when you say "Trudeau is not a racist" he automatically becomes associated with the word racist in the listeners mind, rightly or wrongly. When the media asks the question over and over, whoever answers it will just have their name re-associated with racism every time. One thing that you need to know about Libs is that they are the most programmable, least critical thinkers among us. If you say something or show them something that provokes a strong emotion within them you can associate it with whatever you want and they'll never think to doubt it. Show them a dead dog with tire-tracks on it on the side of the road and tell them that it's the result of global warming and they'll go protest at an Esso station, it's really that simple. Just like when a guy went through Pulse Nightclub yelling Allah Akbar killing gay people, CNN blamed guns and the NRA, and at the pride parade in NY 1 week later 50,00 people walked behind a rainbow banner that said "REPUBLICAN HATE KILLS" lol. It's a despicable crime against the dead to switch the cause of their murderer to suit your own political cause but It's what CNN does best. 5) The lefty media already has their gold-mine of a tweet from Bernier. I personally think twitter is a terrible format for getting out a message anyways. When a topic is really important/sensitive, you need more than 200 characters to express it clearly.

Maybe Scheer isn’t the exact leader you want - it’s impossible for any candidate to share all of the exact same opinions you do - but don’t you think he’s 1,000 times better than the Justinian plague? Could he possibly give away as much money as Trudeau? Embarass us on the world stage like Trudeau? Start a trade war with the US? Give tens of millions to terrorists? Denigrate Canadians and our culture as often? Do you think he would kill our energy sector and drive away $100B in investment? Tax Canadian oil and not foreign oil? Would he just open up our border and drain our economy with unsustainable numbers of immigrants getting food, housing, medical, dental, etc, even after he said that we don’t have money for suicidal first nations kids or veterans? The only worse alternative than Trudeau is being conquered by Attila the Hun and that choice is off the board.

She says that she requested them to be deleted before the subpoena, but we all know that Hillary Clinton's word is not actually proof of anything because of all the lies that she told throughout this entire story. The emails were there on the server when the FBI sent an subpoena instructing her to preserve her them under penalty of law. Her employee also received an email saying that the FBI ordered them to save the emails, and Hillary was responsible for providing them at that point. When the employeee were aware of that they deleted the emails AND used BleachBit on them, which she never even asked them to do according to their own garbage story. Hillary IS responsible for those emails, and they were intentionally deleted after everyone knew about the subpoena. End of story. There are thousands of people in jail for doing far less than Hillary is known to have gotten away with. It's ridiculous for the FBI to allow a precedent to be set where their subpoenas become utterly meaningless. If I received a subpoena from the FBI right now and then my cousin destroyed all the evidence they asked for a week from now do you think that I'd get away with it? Well, I should, because that right there is the new definition of how to legally destroy subpoenaed evidence.

That's exactly what I say about people who sympathize with our supportive policies towards dictatorships. I think we both agree on what we want our next leader to be like here, but we disagree on what it will take to defeat Trudeau in an election. Trudeau would like nothing more than to run against a “scary Trump clone” because his fear mongering won’t work against smiling Andrew Scheer. Trudeau will have to stick to policy to beat Scheer and even the CBC can’t defend Trudeau’s idiotic domestic policies, his foreign affairs fiascos, his disdain for our culture, the massive debt load he just piled on, the destruction of our energy sector, his penchant for driving away trade and investment, and his ethics breeches. If Trudeau ran against Bernier this is what it would look like: Bernier: “Why are you so intent on killing the enrgy sector?” Trudeau: “Why are you such a racist?” etc, etc, etc Bernier could run circles around Trudeau in a debate, then the CBC would lead their newscasts with “Trudeau faces down Bernier over his racist, dictatorial policies” and that’s all that most people would see, because not a lot of people actually watch the debates. I would rather win with Scheer at the helm than lose a close election with Bernier. If we get stuck with another Trudeau government we are royally screwed. Almost nobody admits to being a Trudeau fanboy anymore but they’re still out there, just below the surface, like maggots in a rotting fish.

Trudeau is a faux humanitarian (protects islam tooth and nail but doesn’t care when hate rallies against Jews call for genocide) who doesn’t care about “Canada”, he cares about “getting elected”. Somehow fake virtue signalling seems to have replaced policy as the number one election issue, and opening our border & our vast welfare vault to anyone and everyone seems like a great idea to his mindless followers. So does calling Canadians racist and pandering to Hollywood elites who fly in on personal jets to lecture us about how bad oil is for the environment Trudeau’s first term will be remembered for unsustainable amounts of debt and the killing off of our energy sector. He couldn’t have done more damage to this country if he tried. Trump is a faux law and order president (loves cops, hates rules) who, like Bill Clinton, couldn’t keep it in his pants. He puts America first though, and he is far more pragmatic than politically correct. He also realizes that America has lots of willing, legal immigrants to choose from and that it’s better to give many, many people aid where they are then bring in far fewer people and provide them with food, medicine, shelter, health care, and dental care indefinitely. People who talk about how bad Trump’s wall is are some of the dumbest people on earth: they say they don’t need a wall because it is too expensive and they think that it’s cheaper to just hire more people to patrol the border. That saves money over the course if a year or two, but over the course of ten, twenty or fifty years the savings of a wall are massive. The wall is also more effective. Those same people who talk about hiring more ICE agents also want to abolish ICE lol.

Lol. I’m pretty sure that would be tax evasion or it would basically amount to legalized prostitution, and pave the way for writing off all kinds of sex paraphernalia. “If Trump can write off a playboy bunny I can write off a blow-up doll and my subscription to Biguns.” Then again, Hillary just made it legal to destroy evidence that the FBI subpoenaed. I guess anything can happen now.

So full of crap and hideous ideology. But I guess that’s what one should expect from a terrorist sympathizer.

Riiiiight. So you think that the probably of "legitimate" targets at an Ariana Grande concert is high, and you "understand" why terrorists would attack there. Just like mortars shot at Israel is perfectly fine. The Israelis should just allow terrorist attacks, right eyeball? Or they should have just went Pakistani on everyone within their border back in '49 and then everything would be cool, they wouldn't have these problems and everyone would be happy, right eyeball? I personally doubt that many 12 year olds deserve to be targeted to die from bombs or shrapnel but if you think it's "understandable" then that says all that I need to know about you. You're deeply sick in the head eyeball. Truly evil. I don't really feel the need to oblige you with any more reasonable replies after this. My pat answer for you when you reply to any of my posts from now on is just going to be "I don't converse with terrorist sympathizers" ok?

Rather, your attempt to distance "understanding" from "support" is pathetic. Are you trying to say that "You understand why someone would blow up kids at an Ariana Grande concert" is different from "You support someone blowing up kids at an Ariana Grande concert"? I'd like you the explain why you could possibly understand something like that?

2) It supports a theory that the economy was on the upswing when Trump came in, but not at the rate that it is now. 3) Did you feel like BLM strife was a problem for Obama? I got the feeling that he was supporting it because he never had a bad word to say about them. He did, however, blame the murder of 5 police officers on "centuries of slavery, racism and Jim Crowe laws" which basically made a martyr of their murderer. Obama was a pice of crap. 5) https://themarketswork.com/2018/02/18/resignations-demotions-some-details-complicity-at-the-fbi-doj/ 6) I agree that Trump is a shitty businessman, he's just a really good PR guy for himself when he isn't saying things that are utterly classless. He still never did anything illegal with Russians though, and his campaign finance violations are the same things that Bill Clinton and Tom Edwards did, and they were ruled to be innocent of campaign finance violations. 7) Trump won't be disgraced by any of this unless he's found guilty of something, which doesn't seem likely to happen now. If the FBI doesn't find at least some evidence of Russian collusion then they are going to have to run some of their own members up on criminal charges though, because there were too many improprieties during the FISA application process. The FBI can't be seen to be misrepresenting laughable evidence to the courts in order to obtain a warrant against any citizen who was actually innocent, especially a sitting president. 8) Trump is the most crass, but his trucker mouth doesn't make him a criminal. Brennan is the poster boy for slimesters, sitting in front of a camera and saying that Trump is known to be a criminal and to have committed treason, just for the purpose of influencing the mid-term elections in favour of the Demmies, when Brennan knows better than anyone that there's still no evidence of a Trump crime and there likely won't be. Comey and Strzok are slime: lying to Congress, leaking information, exonerating Hillary when they are 100% aware that she committed crimes... McCabe altered official FBI investigation statements. Hillary is known to have colluded with foreign nationals (british and russian) to get this whole investigation started, for the sole purpose of influencing an election. Everyone on earth knows that Bill Clinton had a clandestine tarmac meeting with AG Lynch right before they exonerated her. Do we know why they both just happened to be on that tarmac at the exact same time? What were their itineraries? Why is the FBI trying to find out who leaked the fact that they met up instead of trying to find out if Bill was improperly influencing the outcome of a serious FBI investigation? Adam Schiff has stood in front of cameras and made dozens of declarative statements re: collusion, almost all of which he knew to be incorrect at the time that he made them. CNN never called him on any of it, they just peddle the lies and never issue retractions or clarifications. The list goes on and on. You're calling trump slimy when you can't point to a single thing he did in Washington that's a crime, and ignoring enough subject matter to write a series of novels. When the dust eventually settles on this, the FBI will look like the Democrat party's own personal KGB and Hillary will still be the exact person that I knew she was 20 years ago when she smiled her smug little smile after Bill admitted to his affair. You might ate Trump but the best thing that ever happened to America was when Hillary lost that election. Unfortunately it was Trump that won.

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/the-fbi-files-on-clintons-emails/ From the same article: Basically the dog ate her homework.

2) haha, but you posted it yourself thinking that it supported your position. 3) CNN is pro-Democrat, and huge on spinning the news in favour of Democrat talking points. Fox is certainly pro-Republican, but also far more accurate. Hillary did destroy subpoenaed evidence, you can check it on snopes, politifact, etc. That should matter to CNN but it doesn't. When Bill met with AG Loretta Lynch at the most crucial time in Hillary's "investigation" by some huge coincidence CNN didn't care, they agreed it was probably a mere discussion about their grandchildren (Bill doesn't have any). CNN doesn't care that at the highest level, FBI members are getting fired and demoted for things like tampering with FBI investigation documents, extreme bias, failure to make important disclosures, etc. It's a pretty big deal, this is the most tumultuous time in the history of the FBI. I also mentioned other specific CNN stories including actual lies. You haven't got anything specific about Fox except for when you mistakenly said that they didn't report on the sentencing stories. 4) Fun stuff doesn't justify two years worth of (a witch hunt) investigating something that they now know didn't exist. 5) I don't doubt that Manafort is guilty, or that Cohen is guilty of non-Trump related charges, and so I agree with anyone who thinks that they should do their time. But I also think that given all the FBI corruption that was involved in the process leading up to their arrests most people would get out of those charges. Just remember that Mark Fuhrman's comments, unrelated to the Simpson case, were largely responsible for his acquittal. I also think that it was ridiculous that the FBI did a pre-dawn raid, including 17 officers with full body armour and automatic weapons drawn, on a white-collar criminal. The whole process smacks of politicization and malfeasance. The swamp is chock-full of slime, everyone knows it. Can you blame Trump for using the same campaign finance guy that the Bushes and Reagan used? Get real.

2) That's your own graph, and if you do the math you can see that the growth from 2017 ($766B) is substantially higher than any of the 8 years before it, and it was already plateauing when it hit just $504B in 2016. The first quarter of 2018 was over 4%, that's even higher than any quarter of 2017. 2018 will be even better than Trump's first year and far higher than any of the Obama years. So by your graph, Trump's first year was better than any of Obama's 8 years and Trump's second year is even better than his first. 3) CNN gets rich by spinning the news. Any news. They spun all the police killings in the last few years of the Obama presidency as well. When the Ferguson story first came out "Michael Brown was a gentle, well-loved, unarmed teen who was killed by a police officer that just shot him from his car". Even I thought there should be riots. Then when video came out showing what "the gentle giant" was doing just minutes before the police showed up, CNN argued that "video evidence of that crime shouldn't be shown because it makes the victim of the shooting look bad" lol. So funny that video evidence is supposed to carry less weight than CNN's opinion. Then when the dust cleared and we all had a much clearer idea of what happened, CNN was still covering the story as if the original version was accurate. They never apologized, or talked about how different the real story was from their original version. They were making gobs of money covering the riots and every time a fire started in another city CNN made another $50M. It was just pathetic. That's how CNN covers every single story - from the angle that makes them the most money. "Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents" is another perfect example of an outright lie that they told on CNN and even the CBC. Obama did the exact same thing (there was even an instance when children were put back in the custody of human traffickers while Obama was Potus), so if it's "Trump's policy" to separate families then is it fair to say that "holding an election every 4 years" is Trump's policy too? Just another outright lie that CNN belched out and their stupid viewers gobbled up. Hillary losing the election because she never bothered to hold rallies in several states wasn't a big story. The Russians helped Trump win was a much more lucrative story. FB ads posted by Russians were found to just post negative things about both sides to sow discord across America, but CNN doesn't talk about that. They are ok with sowing discord themselves as long as they profit from it. 4) The collusion narrative is already long past dead. There wasn't enough evidence to get it started in the first place, but FBI officials falsely claimed that it was independently corroborated, it was verified, they never bothered to mention how much of it was known to be untrue, they failed to disclose who paid to put it together, and all the connections between the FBI officials and Fusion GPS members who brought it to light in order to get the ball rolling. So...... Russian collusion is a bullshit answer. Von Jones even admitted it was a nothingburger a year ago but on CNN their official story is still "ooh yeah it's the real deal, impeachment is nigh". 5) Dude all you are doing is parroting BS CNN talking points. I've said many times that it's an embarrassment to democracy in general that the American election came down to Trump/Hillary, but Hillary was a far worse person. I knew she was rotten back when she smiled off her husband's admission that he slept with his intern. That was about 2 decades ago. The dumbest storyline I ever saw in my life was "Trump is a misogynist", because Hillary was just as bad if not worse if you consider how she treated all the women her husband raped/abused, etc. Trump slept with a pornstar and a playboy bunny while he was married. I'll admit that makes him a douchebag, but you should admit that 90% of the people you know would make that exact mistake. Give married women the chance to sleep with a Chippendale dancer or Gerard Butler while they're 3,000 miles from their spouse and how many will pass? Let's keep all these "crimes" in perspective.

So you're openly supporting terrorism. That's good to know.

Mo? Sounds so cute. Sure let's just forget about that teensy weensy little part of the equation because it doesn't fit your narrative right? What did muslims do for the 400 years that they had the more powerful armies? 400 years is a long time. That's like when your grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa was alive. It was attacks and slavery going back for more generations than anyone could remember. They raided, took slaves, committed forced conversions, over and over again. They didn't stop until the Crusades started, but all we ever hear about is how bad the Crusades were. In short, they did worse than what is "happening to them" now. Because what is happening to Saudi Arabia is so bad right? When America was first formed the muslim countries raided their ships and took slaves, they even demanded/received tribute and still kept on killing/taking slaves. Stop giving terrorists a victim card.

Terrorism is part of islam, just like prayer or jihad. That's not to say that every single muslim is a terrorist, but if you support islam then you 100% support terrorism whether you know it or not. The only reason that mohammed ever walked back into mecca after he was exiled (for religious bigotry) was because everyone was scared shitless of him after the way his army (paid with slaves and war booty, so you know they were decent men) brutally committed genocide against the Banu Qurayza tribe. Within Afghanistan, the Taliban maintain control over the population with the liberal use of terrorism. The killing of school girls, raping women who dare to walk outside without their heads covered (is the burqa therefor a hate symbol?), killing apostates, etc. If you know anyone from Afghanistan they'll tell you that when the Taliban took control, their lives became scary. If this version of "the Taliban" was unprecedented then your commentary re: the 20th and 21st centuries would stand, but groups like the taliban are the norm over the past 1,400 years, not the exception. They come and go. Civilizations range from "mildly tolerant of other religions as long as they pay tribute" to "openly hostile" but even now in modernized, wealthy arab countries it's not really a crime to rape a woman who isn't wearing a burqa. Do you think the Americans had anything to do with what happened in Bangladesh in 1971? Could anger at the US cause people to commit systemic rape and genocide against 100,000 women? You can't shift the blame for things like that. Only religious bigotry ever brings out that kind of evil. Did the 20th and 21st centuries have anything to do with the muslims killing 10's of millions of hindus for religious reasons? C'mon eyeball. If you could go back in time and eradicate the notion of religion from the human psyche you would save the world from the worst suffering it has ever known.

1) Sessions' complete uselessness is what's unprecedented. He has far less reason to recuse himself than Mueller or Rosenstein yet there he is on the sidelines sucking his thumb. 2) What graph shows you that manufacturing jobs were steadily going down under Obama, and that he even said they were gone forever unless someone had a magic wand? Stop looking at the graphs CNN posts because they don't even pretend to tell the truth. Did you see the graph of the Dow Jones avg? It was tanking when Hillary was about to win the election and when Trump won it went meteoric. 25% higher than it has ever been. That's a measure of confidence in the economy, and the reduction of business-crippling regulations. Honestly your head is stuck in the sand if you believe that Trump's economy isn't demolishing the Obama economy. 3) Honestly when he stepped into the ring as a political newcomer no one was expecting him to run circles around Putin, or to get as far as he did in the Korean Peninsula. He got China to put actual sanctions on NoKo. He eviscerated Islamic State so quickly that it makes you wonder what the hell Obama was really up to. Obama didn't gain any headway at all in any front, Trump has already rocketed past him in only 2 years. You'll hear nary a word on CNN though, they're still talking about Russian collusion, even though their own Von Jones was caught on hidden camera a year ago admitting that it was "just a big nothingburger". Honestly dude you get your news from a source that YOU KNOW is blatanlty lying to you day after day. If you can't spot a CNN lie every two minutes you have to be a complete imbecile. 4) How it "usually works" is that you have to tell the truth to a judge and make all the proper disclosures to the judge to get a FISA warrant, and self-corroboration was considered impossible by definition until now. A "reduced sentence" for ratting out the big kahuna is normal, but no one has even said what "the big kahuna" is being investigated for yet. Russian Collusion is a dispelled myth. Getting mistresses to sign NDAs is normal. So can you tell me what crime the FBI is investigating Trump for? They're not actually allowed to investigate someone for the purpose of finding out if he has ever committed a crime. They're supposed to be fully aware of a crime that someone committed and then gather evidence of it. Once again: what crime is Trump known to have committed to warrant this investigation? 5) Obama had over $2M in illegal campaign contributions. Trump's $280K in contributions aren't actually the crime that CNN would have you believe. It has been tried against others and didn't hold up in court. 6) Who is parroting lies here MH? Do you think that it's normal for 25 people in the FBI to get fired, demoted, or resign within a 2 year period? Do you and CNN ever even acknowledge that there is something underhanded going on? You have to have your head 3 feet under the sand to not notice. The useful idiot comment still stands, 100%, until you can make some sense of the FISA warrant fiasco and the unprecedented level of bias and corruption in the FBI related to this investigation.