WestCanMan

This is one of your more salient points. Trump does need to be held to a higher standard than pretty much everyone (only the royal family, with fake hereditary jobs are held to a higher standard), but the Secretary of State and VPOTUS aren't much lower on the totem pole. Not much less is expected of them.

Sweet platitude dude. You're really bringin' it.

The point that was made is that Trump is less guilty than people like Biden and Clinton who are absolutely known to have committed serious crimes, or even bragged about them, and yet remain completely immune to prosecution. I'll talk about Trump's issues with clarity and perspective all day, it's the partisan hyperbole that needs to be held in check. As long as you want to stand there and act like Trump is worse than other people, when there's no shortage of evidence that you are lying, this is going nowhere. Why didn't you reply to my comparison of Hunter Biden and the Trump kids Rue? Because your taking point was completely obliterated. So you just move on and make more accusations elsewhere. Step up. Raise the level of your game Rue.

LOL. That's either a straight-up, unflinching lie or you're a complete idiot. Pick your poison.

OMG Rue, you've gone down a dark path of "mental health crisis" proportions. That article is easily more applicable to people who wake up every day and write that "More bombshell evidence of Russian collusion has just been unearthed - we're on the threshold of impeachment!" when they already knew that to be false over a year ago. If half of what they said was true, and awesome new evidence was found every other day for 2.5 years, Trump would surely be in jail. That was 2.5 years of straight-up lying.

Every politician lies (none as much as Clinton and Schiff). They all gain massive wealth while they're doing jobs that pay them just a small fraction of what they accumulate. Stop acting like Trump is any different from Obama or Sanders. "I wrote a book and I became an instant multi-multi-multi-millionaire! Now I own a bunch of houses and I fly on private jets while I pontificate to the idiotic masses about global warming!" Trudeau and his fiends will all get wealthier too. The difference is that Americans are getting ahead by leaps and bounds while Trump is President, Canadians are looking at a huge dumpster fire.

True charity is anonymous. Advertising your own charity or charity work is nothing more than shameless self-promotion. I know where you think this kind of thing comes from but you're wrong. The best thing that you can do for people who are down is open up opportunities for them. Create a strong economy where people can see a future for themselves as independent workers who are not completely reliant on the public teat. The only people I know who are truly happy do not live in a welfare condition. Politicians who just look to expand the welfare state are really just looking to create more leftist voters. The worst thing that you can do to people with no money or power is give them an Obama-esque speech to the tune of "That little Trayvon kid looked just like me. Cops killed him just because he was black and now they're not facing punishment because of systemic racism". That's the kind of thing that sounds to a gr 3 student like "Don't bother going to school. Get a gun and sell some drugs. Fear the cops. Hate 'the man'. Your skin makes you a target." And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you assume that cops or a whole race of people hate you then you look for that hatred in their faces, they're looking back at an angry little you and their face reflects what they are seeing - so you are guaranteed to see what you expect to see. When people do genuinely rude things to you, which will certainly happen, it's assumed to be racism and it's more justification of what you feel. Racists don't rationalize things like that and say "people of my own race do that to me all the time" because they get no emotional reward from that. Fuelling your own hate feels good to people who are raised to hate. School is a pipe dream to people who believe what Obama said, so they don't try as hard at math as they do at basketball, or being a rapper. Those are dead-end paths. Basically just a waste of energy that would have best been used elsewhere. That leads to hopelessness and bad decisions. That leads to the next Trayvon Martin incident, where a routine run-in with an authority figure turns deadly. It's a vicious cycle.

CBC, CTV, National Post, Globe and Mail, etc all consider "should Scheer step down" to be a legitimate hot topic, but it's just one of their own making. The very day after the election, right out of the blue, the CBC was already insinuating that Scheer stepping down was a serious consideration: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-leader-andrew-scheer-falls-shot-1.5329809 The irony, the hypocrisy of this sentiment, stems from the fact that the CBC and CTV all acted like Trudeau was doing great. They acted like his scandals were no big deal. They constantly showed polling and interviewed "undecided voters" who said that "this seems like divisive party politics" or "it's not really a matter of importance to me". If Trudeau was a legit PM, doing a good job, then why would they take the position that losing to Trudeau is a damning indictment of Scheer's ability to lead the CPC? Scheer won the popular vote. He soundly throttled Traitor Max's PPC upstarts soundly. His party gained 22% more seats. And he did it all against a media that was solidly biased against him. Now that Trudeau has his shiny new election win in the bag the most serious political topic by far right now is whether or not the country is breaking apart. Trudeau is out surfing while several more major corporations are deserting Alberta for good. It's like losing an SNC every other day. Trudeau's re-election was a death blow to the Alberta economy but he still has no statement. This is not an actual country. It's a massive farce. It's time to break it into workable pieces.

If you were trying to smear Trump's character you should have actually just quoted the article. It was a damning indictment of his use of false charity. Your own childish insults pale in comparison to the seriousness of those charges. All in all, it puts him in the same boat as the Clintons, and to a lesser extent Oprah. The Clintons have known how to run their "foundation" like a second income for decades. It's basically a net for collecting the cash from all of their influence peddling, international and domestic. Trump just screwed up and his trail of cookie crumbs was too obvious. The $2M fine is basically a joke though, so what he did was basically legal. It's like fighting in hockey. If you got banned for life then you could say for certain that fighting isn't allowed. If you got banned for a season fighting would still almost completely be banned. Banned for a game, it's sorta banned. 5 minute penalty = have at 'er boys. A $2m fine for pretending the money is for one thing and then using it for something else is like saying "don't get caught". I hate all forms of "shameless self-promotion disguised as charity". Oprah and her guests are the worst. "Oh my gosh, look at me, I just gave a goat to every family in a village in Africa. I literally gave .0000001% of my income from today's show to charity! But let's not have a conversation about how great I am. Seriously, stop it."

1) Other NATO nations should 2) That's a crap reply. What investigations did he show "no interest" in which should have been investigated? He already knew that he didn't collude with Russia, so he knew that investigation was a wste of time. Ditto for obstruction. The Kavanaugh investigation was a joke. So what did he miss? There's a video of Biden bragging that he did a quid pro qou to get the Ukraine's top prosecutor fired, and then he, the all important VPOTUS, put the new guy in place. How is that even a thing? It worked though, Burisma is now in the clear. Anyone who says that Biden doesn't need to be investigated and Trump does here is just a huge idiot. I have no time for such preposterous, hyper-partisan drivel.

The evidence against Trump falls well short of being a quid pro quo. He just asked the Ukrainians to look into a crime that Biden bragged about on tv. The second shipment of Javelins was on hold for more than one reason. Obama gave the Ukrainians nothing. Trump had already given them some. FYI Boges this isn't like the Russian collusion thing, where Hillary paid foreigners to make things up and then got the FBI to use it for a FISA warrant. IE, Trump didn't pay the Ukrainians to fabricate false evidence to create the appearance of a crime to start an investigation. He saw a video of Joe Biden bragging about a crime, he asked the Ukrainians to check it out. If everything that Joe Biden said and everything that we know he did is all true then he committed an easily provable crime. If everything that people are insinuating about Trump is true he still didn't commit a crime.

The impeachment process started on his first day in office, brought about by fake intel that Hillary got from foreign agents, which was subsequently used by the FBI used to obtain FISA warrants to spy on people connected to the Trump campaign. Manafort was indicted for tax evasion from the mid '90's, which the FBI was already aware of, and he was offered reduced sentencing for testimony against Trump. Senior FBI officials were proven to have an extreme bias against Trump, some were fired and/or demoted for their obvious malfeasance. After over two years of investigations, which included coercing testimony from people who were jailed for charges that were completely unrelated to Russian collusion, the FBI had not found any evidence that Trump accepted the offers for help which came (mysteriously) from Russia. As soon as that fiasco was over Trump was then accused of obstructing justice, which turned out to be another farce: Then Trump pointed out Biden's obvious quid pro quo & his family's scams in Ukraine and China and the Dems went nuts again, trying to say that Trump's one request for Ukraine to check into Biden's obvious dirty dealings was an impeachable offence. The obvious facts of that whole debacle are that Biden and his family clearly made off like bandits in the countries where Biden was busy acting in his official capacity as VPOTUS, and Trump made a request for an investigation into those actual crimes. I've already pointed all this out in different threads here, I'm not going to go into detail for you, but you should look into this latest round of garbage for yourself to gain a greater understanding of these issues. A much better question for you to ask godzilla, is when will Dems and their MSM start to acknowledge that the US is in far better shape under Trump than they were under Obama. The Dow is 50% higher right now than it was when Trump got elected. Unemployment is at record lows all across the board. The US has stood up to China on trade in a big way and yet they're still exporting goods at a higher rate than ever. The Americans haven't started any new wars. Islamic state is no longer a landholder and their two senior officials were killed by US troops. There's been a record low number of US troops coming home in body bags under Trump's presidency. If you include the tax breaks ($1,000 approx) the avg American is taking home $6,000 more per year since Trump was elected three years ago. That bump was just $400 after 8 years of G. W. Bush, and $1,000 after 8 years of Obama. Iran and NoKo are in the penalty box and it's costing the US nothing. The Israeli embassy was moved to Jerusalem. The three full years of rioting, looting, arson and cop-hating that were prevalent all across America in Obama's last years (2014, 2015, and 2016) are a distant memory. The US military is spending money on research and new hardware instead of participating in the endless battles in the shithole countries of the ME. Trump has gotten NATO members to step up their contributions. How is the US worse off now than they were under Obama? Can you point to something specific godzilla or do you just want to post V 2.0 of that dumpster fire of baseless allegations & idiotic, partisan drivel that was the OP?

People who don't watch at least some Fox News when they are checking in on America are just mindless drones imo. They're just blindly following their handlers who say "Don't look over there. Don't even expose yourself to the lies! When things make more sense you know they're false!" The quality of the dialogue at Fox News and the accuracy of the reporting is head and shoulders above what's considered normal at CNN, etc. Jesse made a great point about the fact that ABC literally pushed crap about Kavanaugh etc that had no reliable basis in fact and they quashed a story with videos, photos and several witnesses. Any witness with actual evidence is a good witness. The Kavanaugh case had NONE of that. ABC News just goes on the scrapheap with CNN, NYT and WashPo imo. Once your credibility is riddled with more holes than Swiss cheese there's no coming back.

The thing with Trump is that the 45 or 49% that support him, really support him. Voter apathy for Trump isn't going to be a big thing unless something changes drastically. On the flipside, how many people are actually going to get off their asses and go wait in line at a polling booth to vote for whatever socialist the Dems belch out as a candidate? Demmie voters will be thinking "I don't like Trump, but I can still bitch about him in public if I don't actually vote for him, and do I really want to cast a vote for a socialist that will eliminate my tax deduction and ring up $40 trillion of unmanageable debt, while simultaneously gutting the economy"? Trump just has to throw a bone to the stupid global warming crowd if he wants to win. That will take some resolve away from the folks who would vote for a widespread famine just to get carbon emissions down by 1%.

Everyone knew it was going to be a close election. If more than 21% of eligible voters wanted Trudeau elected then they would have voted for him. He got 21% and the rest of Canada didn't want him, so they didn't vote for him. There's no lack of reason or logic there. I never said that everyone who didn't vote wanted to vote for someone else, that would be illogical.

They dragged her in and left her there for 20 minutes. Jail is a really good place for him. If that was one of our family members that they dragged in and left to die we'd hope he was convicted too.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6127133/alberta-saskatechewan-ipsos-poll-separatism/?fbclid=IwAR1xVWMcoRBvnHR9FaPFBQDebrsoxpareKPwBA5h4p-cQMJUTnaZHA0tgQ4 and The news since Nov 1 hasn't been good for Alberta, I could see that 79% being a bit higher today. 78% for AB and SK, it seems like a 50% separation vote is well within reach.

Only 66% of Canadians voted and the Liberals got the second-highest vote totals, at about 33%. So only about 22% of our eligible voters actively supported him. Ridings in the Maritimes are relatively small, only about 75K voters each. Their votes are worth 150% of what Alberta votes are worth.

He's going to jail because she was there for 20 minutes? Was she already having a heart attack at that time? Did he have to carry her into the station?

I'm always awake by 6am, but I never do anything at 6am that requires daylight. It literally makes no difference to me if the sun is up when I'm stumbling around grumpy anyways. Plus, I actually prefer to not have daylight on my windows if I get a chance to sleep in on Sunday. There are lots of things to do with an extra hour of sunshine in the evening.

Maybe they should just staff the jails with a paramedic (if they are qualified to do that), especially during peak times.

It was because the cop reported her as "medically cleared" but a paramedic had just looked in through the window. It was on the previous day that she had refused medical aid. I'm sure that there must be video evidence of what condition she was in when she was brought in. That would be the key to understanding this case imo. If she was angry and uncooperative I would side with the officer, if she was unresponsive then there's not much doubt that he's a murderer. Chances are that it's somewhere in the grey area. If there was a lot of evidence that he wasn't guilty I'm sure we'd hear about it.

Topic - Trudeau divisiveness. Constantly using divisive language. Western alienation. Discuss.

That's a huge loser comment marcus. Grow up.

It might be a big part of their culture to teach them that themselves. It's a big part of my culture to not have my son indoctrinated by the Greta Thunberg crowd. Sometimes there's no wiggle room.