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It was a 14-month old puppy and the behaviour sounds like typical untrained puppy behaviour. If she wasn’t up for keeping the dog she could have given it away which is what most people do. I’ll say it a third time: Millions of people own or have grown up with dogs and know that a 14-month old puppy can be trained or simply given away. You can’t gaslight us into thinking shooting puppies is normal. And that’s why she’s getting backlash even from fellow conservatives.

Baloney there’s no liability. People give away dogs all the time, especially vicious ones. But what she describes sounds like simply typical puppy behaviour. As I said, Millions of people own or have grown up with dogs and know that a 14-month old puppy can be trained or simply given away. You can’t gaslight us into thinking shooting puppies is normal. That’s why she’s getting backlash even from fellow conservatives and has just tanked her VP hopes.

LMAO cats too,eh? it wouldn’t surprise me if Republicans and hateful folks like you also shoot your cats! Millions of people own or have grown up with dogs and know that a14-month old puppy can be trained or simply given away. You can’t gaslight us into thinking shooting puppies is normal.

It’s long been an expression and joke that Conservatives are so cruel and mean spirited they would shoot a puppy in the face. Recently South Dakota Governor and Trump VP pick hopeful Kriti Noem proved there’s an element of truth to the expression. In her new autobiography which she must have mistakenly thought would endear her to people as being tough and decisive, she recounted how she took her young, healthy, wire-haired pointer puppy Cricket to a gravel pit and shot her after she hadn’t done well in hunting training.and then misbehaved on a hunting trip “having the time of her life” instead of hunting. “I hated that dog” she wrote. “It had to he done”. Contrary to Noem’s expectations, public reaction has been overwhelmingly negative over the absurdity of “hating” and “having to” shoot a puppy because it’s exuberant and not a good hunter. Even Republicans are distancing themselves from her. The story goes on to describe how she then went back and shot a goat the same way Noem continues to spin out in damage control mode but she might have also just shot dead her career as well Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book ..,Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”. At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children. “Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?” …. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

That is patently ridiculous. While i'm sure there is some weird fake scenario a person could concoct where somehow the value of a growing practice DECREASES over time, that's not a reasonable thing to say. Who says its a growing practice? How can a doctor know if his practice will grow if at all in the future? Some practices are capped in size due to the provincial billing model. The population is aging and elderly patients die. How can a doctor possibly know what he’s going to get for his practice decades in the future or what appetite other doctors will have to buy it? My argument is that doctors don’t know how much they’ll get for their practice decades in the future when they decide to sell. At most they’re guessing in a range with a high end and low end and they could be way off. And it’s questionable how much this tax change moves them out of that range. The first $125k of gains is still tax free (50% of $250k), the inclusion for the rest is 16% higher than the 1999 rate. So the total tax payable isn’t going up by 16%, the amount of taxable money in excess of $250k is going up the amount of money the dr is actually out is then a percentage of the added 16%, it may not be a materially different amount depending on whatever write offs and deductions he has. So assuming the doc doesn’t have any tax deductions right offs, loopholes etc (and they have many) if they sold their practice for a million dollar capital gain the extra tax payable under the new rules is about $75k. That sounds like a lot of money but out of a million dollar capital gains it’s less than 8% and probably well within the margin of error for someone planning to sell decades from now. And that’s on a million dollars. How many practices sell for a million dollars? Probably none. A quick look online shows the biggest ones selling at or below $600k some for as little as $200k range. Sigh…no. Are you for real? Let’s not pretend and not move on because you clearly don’t understand. First of all, all sellers will be in the same boat so decreasing net profit from sales puts upward pressure on prices get it? If docs aren’t getting the price they want they’ll begin holding out until they do that’s how markets work. For someone who constantly chirps about how the carbon tax on industry is eventually passed on to consumers through higher prices I’m surprised you can’t apply the same concept here. Secondly they might choose to invest more in their business now to increase its sale value later Who makes $40k or less? Most earners make more than that. Besides your example is apples to oranges. Every penny of wages they earn is counted towards their tax bracket including using up the basic exemption unlike Capital gains So if you have $40k of wages you have $40k of taxable income, some of which is taxed at 0% but if you have $40k of capital gains you have only $20k of taxable income some of which will also be taxed at 0% That’s why doctors make high salaries. Most people who have capital gains aren’t doctors and the capital gains tax break wasn’t invented in 1999 as a tuition rebate for doctors. Fair enough but the rest of us are building up investments in RRSPS etc and when we withdraw 100% of it is taxable. They get increases often. They also get to do “income sprinkling” to lower their taxable income and they get to make traditional stock and other investments through their businesses and extract the income at a lower rate. Not at all the same thing as a pension plan and it’s not being “cut in half” And doctors can participate in an actual pension plan if they want I don’t think that’s an accurate description at all. “They” didn’t tell doctors “they could rely on selling their business for their retirement” it’s just what some doctors decided to do amongst themselves. And not because they didn’t have any other options to save for retirement, they have more options than most of society. Doctors were selling their practices long before the 1999 tax break and will be doing so long after. The past 25 years it was a nice cushy little perk but they’re not going to retire in poverty.

There’s negative coverage of Trudeau just about every single day in just about every single MSM outlet including CBC. If Trudeau kicks a puppy in the face as a PR stunt its not “slanted coverage” to write an article criticizing that one specific thing and nobody else.

A columnist is still an opinion and it is certainly valid to discuss the new vulgarity in in modern politics and the Prime Minister to be stadium under “F Trudeau” flags given expletive-laden speeches. And make no mistake about it, PP didn’t accidentally let a F word slip out or accidentally stand under a F Trudeau flag, it was all a deliberate decision to present himself to the public this way. When Diagolon mused about raping PP’s wife, PP complained to police and publicly called them “odious losers”. Now he’s buddy buddy with them again? PP’s performance is new to Canadian politics and it is worthy of comment, period. I don’t know why you conservatives think the job of the media is only to flatter you and only mention the things you want to hear but you should get over it. Also lets get real you and the other conservatives don’t believe in reaching across the aisle. You believe the “left” should reach out to you bit you believe reaching out to the left is treason. In the US even moderate conservative are labeled left wing communists these days and from what I can see Canada isn’t too far behind. PP in particular has built a 20+ year career out being a snarky combative politician who adds insults and name calling into nearly everything he says. You think his majority government is going to “reach across the divide”? To whom? You think standing under F Trudeau flags and swearing about Trudeau is “reaching across the divide”? what a joke.

They don’t know how much they will sell it for in the future or if they will have any gain at all. Maybe they will factor the higher tax into their valuation and find a way to sell their practice at a higher price than they would have otherwise and so end up with the same net profit. They might even have a loss. Therefore the amount of future tax “loss” is hypothetical. That describes a huge section of society who don’t also get the privilege of having 50% of their income being exempt from taxes. Look once again I will remind you that the 50% CG inclusion you seem to cherish so much was only introduced in 1999 by a previous Liberal government and had been tinkered with up and down in decades prior. It is not some red line we’ve never crossed before. And yet we had doctors before 1999. didn’t we? Arguably the quality of healthcare was even better back then (it’s almost as if decades of slashing taxes and defunding programs makes them worse 💡) Doctors have many investment and tax strategies and business opportunities available to them and there is an entire cottage industry of consultants specializing in advising them. To the extent that these new rules even materially affect their plans, they are better positioned than most to adapt and they will change their strategies and expectations accordingly. The feared mass exodus to the US has been threatened many time over decades but never happened. Families are actually not as interalionally mobile as some suggest.

1) An opinion piece is not evidence of media bias 2) The same very same news outlets publish opinion pieces criticizing Trudeau pretty much every single day 3) Pierre Poillievre himself once complained about Diagolon after its leader suggested during a podcast that they should rape his wife. It’s fair to ask why PP decided to hook up with these folks in a diagolon -marked trailer and make deliberate a show of swearing and vulgarity. If he wants to hang out with vulgar extremists he deserves to be judged accordingly He’s trying to have it both ways.

I honestly don’t think anyone is going to pack up their family and relocate to foreign country because of a hypothetical additional tax they might incur decades in the future And unless they do so before June when the CG increases, they’re only to end up incurring the tax now instead of decades from now Besides doctors make a lot of money it’s not like selling their business is their only retirement option they have more opportunities to save and invest than the vast majority of society. They can invest in stocks and bonds and mutual funds like the rest of us plebes. Not to mention that in addition to their day job many also dabble in all these private healthcare rackets doing corporate and executive wellness programs and side-gig consulting for insurance companies etc. They’re not going to be retiring in poverty.

They are not going to flee Canada over capital gains in excess of $250k per year, they don’t get paid for their services stock or real estate. Sure, “many” plan to someday sell their practice upon retirement and get a once-in-a lifetime capital gain and they’ll MAYBE pay a little more tax than otherwise (but many probably have no idea how much the “otherwise” was going to be in the first place). And that’s assuming they can’t find some other tax loophole. Wah. There are plenty of ways to invest your wealth AND to dodge taxes when you pull in the six and seven figure incomes many of these doctors do. And where would they go? Most countries fully tax capital gains. Here in Canada the gains inclusion rate has gone up and doen a lot just in recent decades it’s not some timeless sacred cow that nobody has dared to touch. Its only been at its current inclusion level since 1999 since it was lowered under a previous Liberal government. The last time it was increased it was by a conservative government. And many measures like productivity haven’t gotten any better since the CG inclusion was cut. The preferential treatment of Capital Gains perversely incentivizes many business owners to sell instead of invest. Why grow your business and earn fully taxable income when you can sell it for partially taxable income? The Canadian economy has a real problem with foreign ownership, owners and founders selling off businesses prematurely and low productivity, and the Captive Gains special treatment contributes to that.

From conservative Murdoch-owned New York Post by conservative blowhard Piers Morgan Moscow Marjorie’ Taylor Greene is Putin’s useful idi*t and the real betrayer of America Piers Morgan Every time mad-eyed blond blunderbuss Marjorie Taylor Greene opens her big, loud, expletive-fueled mouth, I feel like some of my brain cells spontaneously die. Since she first appeared on the Washington scene after the 2016 election, “MTG” has proven herself to be a trash-talking, cerebrally challenged, shockingly shameless, attention-grabbing political Barbie for whom no conspiracy theory is ever bonkers enough to reject. She claimed mass shootings like those at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were “false flag” operations. She suggested the 9/11 attacks were part of a government conspiracy and that no plane hit the Pentagon. She said California wildfires might have been ignited by a space laser controlled by a Jewish cabal that included the Rothschild banking firm. She claimed Bill and Hillary Clinton murdered political rivals — including JFK Jr. in a plane crash. She has supported insane QAnon rabbit hole BS that top Democrats are involved in child sex-trafficking, Satan worship and cannibalism. And so — crazily — on. In fact, the full list of Taylor Greene’s stupefyingly cretinous comments and beliefs is so long, there literally isn’t enough room in this column to cite them all. Yet staggeringly, none of this has stopped her rise to one of the most influential voices in the Republican Party — and one of the most dangerous. This weekend saw the nadir of her nefarious antics as she led a campaign to stop America offering support to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, in urgent need of security assistance to defend themselves from the ruthless totalitarian regimes of Russia, Iran and China. It shouldn’t have been a difficult bill for Republicans to support. When three of America’s historical enemies are threatening freedom and democracy, the world’s No. 1 superpower has a moral duty, and obvious self-interest, to flex its financial and military might to help the targets defend themselves. If not, frankly, why claim to be the leader of the free world? And don’t give me all this disingenuous guff about how the US should forgo this duty to focus on the domestic chaos at the southern border. As many conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro have said, the nation can, and should, be perfectly capable of doing both things at the same time. Yet Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) seems intent on making America abrogate all responsibility for protecting freedom and democracy, and on doing the dictators’ dirty work for them. Especially with regard to the Ukraine war, during which Moscow Marjorie has become Vladimir Putin’s chief “useful idi*t.” The phrase is apt because it was another Vladimir, Soviet Union founder Lenin, who is thought to have first deployed the scornful phrase to describe naïve, easily manipulated Communist sympathizers in the West who spewed pro-Russian propaganda without comprehending the USSR’s malevolent intent. Lenin loved what these idi*ts did on his behalf but despised them at the same time for their treacherous stupidity. The current Vladimir will feel exactly the same way about the likes of Taylor Greene, whose Kremlin-pleasing rhetoric has made her the darling of Russian state media. Three weeks ago, she appeared on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and parroted Putin’s nonsense that Ukraine was waging a “war against Christianity” and Russia is “protecting the religion.” She even falsely claimed the Ukrainian government was executing priests. In fact, it’s Russia that’s been torturing, kidnapping and killing scores of Ukrainian religious leaders. And in a House Oversight Committee hearing last week, Taylor Greene repeated more Putin claptrap that Ukraine is overrun by Nazis — only to be corrected by eminent historian Timothy Snyder, who pointed out that no far-right party has ever won more than 3% support in Ukrainian elections, whereas the Russian army “includes openly Nazi formations” and “the government itself is fascist in character, and it is carrying out a war which includes deportation of children by the tens of thousands, the open intention of destroying a state, as well as mass torture.” Snyder concluded: “So if there is anyone who is sincerely concerned about halting fascism or racism, you would wish to halt Russia.” Taylor Greene is sadly too dumb or delusional to understand this, but fortunately, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) isn’t, and got the $95 billion foreign aid bill passed on Saturday in a bipartisan deal with Democrats. He explained before allowing the crucial vote: “I believe that [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil. I think they are in coordination on this. I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe. I am going to allow an opportunity for every single member of the House to vote their conscience and their will. I’m willing to take a personal risk for that, because we have to do the right thing. And history will judge us.” He’s right, and history will judge him so. But Taylor Greene’s predictable response was to demand he be fired. “Mike Johnson’s speakership is over,” she declared on Fox News on Sunday. “He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated.” And what was his crime, in her eyes? “He has betrayed America. He has betrayed Republican voters.” Hmmm. A recent survey by the American Action Network, the advocacy arm of the Congressional Leadership Forum, found that 56% of “traditional Republicans” favor aid to Ukraine. So Johnson has not betrayed Republican voters. And as for betraying America, he’s not the one being cheered on by Russian state media and Vladimir Putin. That’s Moscow Marjorie, the useful idi*t .

You should buy more truth social stock to fund your revolution. How’s that investment going by the way?

Summary: - In 2021, an innocent law-abiding accountant is getting into his car with his pregnant wife and toddler, in the middle of the night in underground parking garage at City Hall. They’re suddenly and aggressively confronted by plain clothes Toronto cops investigating a nearby stabbing, who don’t identify themselves as cops. Thinking they’re about to be robbed or worse, the family attempts to speed away in their car, accidentally running over and killing one of the cops in what is now confirmed to be nothing more than a tragic accIdent. - The police implausibly alleged that the accountant knew they were police and deliberately hit the man with his car (automatic first degree murder charge for cops) for no real reason as they admit he is a law abiding citizen with no criminal connection or obvious mental illness - Legal experts were surprised by the decision to prosecute, openly saying it is a political prosecution that never would have happened if deceased had not been a cop - 3 Cops caught lying on the stand, and are now under investigation by Ontario Provincial Police. All 3 told the same false version of events that is clearly inconsistent with the video footage and scene evidence, the judge observing while it is possible for one individual to have a false memory of something that didn’t happen, the jury should note that all 3 officers recounted the exact same false memory of very specific things that clearly did not happen. - After the judge expressed repeated frustration with the prosecution’s refusal to suggest any motive for a deliberate killing and the prosecution’s failure to present a theory of what might have actually happened given the actual evidence, the prosecution advised mid-trial it was switching to a “second theory” of what happened, now claiming that the officer was actually run over backwards not forwards and in a different location, which was less contradictory to the actual evidence. But then they couldn’t explain how the cops body ended up where it did it was run over somewhere else. Then the prosecution said it was abandoning the “second theory” and going back to the first theory, and will proceed based solely on the cops’ bogus testimony. THEY WERE MAKING UP THEIR STORY AS THEY GO WHILE THE MURDER TRIAL IS ALREADY WELL UNDERWAY. That’s how trials might work in Putin’s Russia or North Korea but not in democracies. - Despite the clearly unwarranted prosecution, Doug Ford, former Mayor John Tory and Mayor Patrick Brown tweeted incendiary tweets about the falsely accused during the Trump, expressing outrage at his bail, etc. causing him and his lawyers to e inundated with death threats and hate messages In an extremely rare gesture, after the innocent verdict, the judge apologized to the falsely accused man. “You have my … deepest apologies for what you have been through”

Actually Jesus was a socialist. Satan was a far-right populist.

The actual number? Maybe it 65%, maybe it’s 55%, it’s a slim but decisive majority. 60% “feels right” to describe GOP Putin supporters, Putin-curious, and Ukraine-skeptics, which are the main different flavours of Putin stooge.

LOL yeah right you’re just fooled by the same fake news she is Nonsense there’s zero truth to any of that. The real truth is that Russia and China are allies. By being Russian stooges, the Republicans are also China stooges and Iran stooges .

Yeah Riiight🤣 Brainwashed sucker. Thanks for proving the title of this thread is 100% accurate

It’s a small but decisive majority Nobody tells anyone to think that least of all me. It’s easily observed.

Putin is an active enemy of the west, I know the fifth columnist sympathizers of America’s enemies like yourself would rather nobody notice. Republicans bad, Putin worse.

Certainly the West was sleeping when Putin made his move in 2014. But when Trump became President, Putin expected Trump would allow him to take all of Ukraine without an invasion. The Trump 2016 campaign team and former Putin Oligarch employee Paul Manafort specifically had discussed this with Russian officials including Russian intelligence asset Konstantin Kilimnik. They specifically discussed how a Trump administration would end US support for Ukraine and end US opposition to Russian aggression, Only when Biden was elected did Russia realize they would have to try and take by force what Trump would have handed on a silver platter. Trump continues to be Putin supporter to this day.

The only anti-American slime is the Putin supporting traitors in the GOP like Moscow Marjorie and friends who are green with envy that they can’t have a similar dictatorship in the US….yet.

Right…Putin is not a threat, the Dems are a threat. Putin Puppet. No you’re trying to change the subject from the fact that more than half of the current Republican Party is actively aiding and abetting Putin.

OMG I cannot stand this guy, he’s always popping up in my YouTube feed. Not that I have a problem with what he says but something about the way he looks and talks just drives me nuts

Appeals court upholds conviction of GOP operative who steered Russian money to Trump camp Jesse Benton played leading roles in the presidential campaigns of Ron and Rand Paul and worked briefly as Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager. conviction of veteran Republican campaign operative Jesse Benton for steering an illegal Russian contribution to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Benton, who played leading roles in the presidential campaigns of Ron and Rand Paul and worked briefly as Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager, helped facilitate an improper $25,000 payment to the Trump camp and the Republican National Committee on behalf of Roman Vasilenko, a Russian national who had approached another GOP operative, Doug Wead, about his interest in meeting an American celebrity. When he was unable to get an audience with Oprah Winfrey, Steven Seagal or Jimmy Carter, the operative suggested Trump. Benton then arranged for Vasilenko to attend a join Trump-RNC fundraiser in Philadelphia, where the Russian took a picture with the soon-to-be president. Vasilenko used the photos to burnish his reputation in Russia “including speaking on Russian TV about President-elect Trump and his attitudes toward Russia.” Benton — who was pardoned by Trump in 2020for other campaign finance crimes in the final weeks of Trump’s term — was convicted by a jury in late 2022 of six felonies related to the contribution and falsified campaign finance records. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, sentenced Benton to 18 months in prison, and records indicate he is due for release in June. Both Ron and Rand Paul — the former Texas representative and current Kentucky senator, respectively — wrote letters on Benton’s behalf at sentencing, decrying the impact that a jail sentence would have on his family. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/trump-russian-money-appeals-court-00153339