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But all of those were to contain Russia not to support it. And none ever supported Russian aggression against another country especially a European one while simultaneously waging economic warfare against those western countries. Sure you can. Incompetent dictator. History is full of examples.

Not to change the subject but actions not true. Most democrats opposed. The Iraq invasion was the partisan divisive issue if its day. The claim that most democrats supported it is Republican revisionism because they can never admit it when they’re wrong and they were not only wrong on this major issue but deliberately deceitful

Zelensky Walked Into a Trap Donald Trump and J. D. Vanceappear to have entered today’s Oval Office meeting with the goal of generating a pretext for a diplomatic break with Ukraine. By Jonathan Chait Of the many bizarre and uncomfortable moments during today’s Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky—during which Trump finally shattered the American alliance with Ukraine—one was particularly revealing: What, a reporter asked, would happen if the cease-fire Trump is trying to negotiate were to be violated by Russia? “What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now?” Trump spat back, as if Russia violating a neighbor’s sovereignty were the wildest and most unlikely possibility, rather than a frequently recurring event. ….He was not explaining why a deal with Russia would advance America’s interests, or why honoring it would advance Russia’s. He was defending Russia’s integrity by vouching for Putin’s character. … Trump and Vance appear to have entered the meeting with the intention of berating Zelensky and drawing him into an argument as a pretext for the diplomatic break. Why should anyone have expected anything different? Trump has been regurgitating Russian propaganda, not only regarding Ukraine, since before Zelensky even assumed office. He defended Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2018 (the year preceding Zelensky’s election), has repeatedly refused to acknowledge Russian guilt for various murders, and has even stuck to Russian talking points on such idiosyncratic topics as the Soviets’ supposedly defensive rationale for invading Afghanistan in 1979 and their fear that an “aggressive” Montenegro would attack Russia, dragging NATO into war. In the past few weeks, Trump has made very little effort to conceal his pro-Russian tilt. He called Zelensky a dictator, and when asked if he would say the same about Putin, refused, insisting, “I don’t use those words lightly.” (No president in American history has used words more lightly than Trump.) He said Ukraine “may be Russian someday” and blamed Ukraine for starting the war. The U.S. even joined Russia, North Korea, and a tiny bloc of Russian allies to vote against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. …Even today, Trump’s bullying commenced well before Zelensky had opened his mouth. Trump greeted his counterpart on the White House driveway with condescending mockery, pointing at him and tellingonlookers, “He’s all dressed up today,” like Bill Batts in Goodfellas belittling Joe Pesci’s character. (“Hey, Tommy, all dressed up!”) Zelensky’s attire—the Ukrainian president wears military attire, not a suit, to remind the world that his country is at war—has been a fixation on the right, and conservatives have seized upon it as a pretext to blame him for Trump’s anger. Oddly, they did not seem to mind that Elon Musk showed up at the White House this week in a T-shirt and baseball cap. …. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/zelensky-trump-putin-ukraine/681883/

Because the populist right is mostly low-education know-nothing dumbasses who have never read so much as read a book cover to cover and therefore lack even a basic understanding or knowledge with which to judge the lies of people like Putin, Trump, and their armies of online trolls, influencers and fake news propagandists.

He sided with Russia at the UN in 2 separate votes this past week, dummy.

So did Churchill during WW2. Five times. But as a typical MAGA dumbass I bet you didn’t know that either.

You’re parroting Russian lies now too? When did that start?

There’s nothing woke and progressive about defending Europe from invading dictator. Are you proclaiming WW2 a woke project also?

The head coach of Canada’s national soccer team is an American. Here’s what he said at the Concacaf Nations League Finals event in California when reporters asked about Trump’s 51st state comments

I will start with this statement of yours first. Trudeau took office on November 4 of that year. Surely you understand the foolishness of trying to blame an entire year’s worth of crime statistics on the final 57 days of that year when he was newly in office and wouldn’t have enacted a single policy As for the rest of your claims 1)The reforms you mentioned too place years after crime rates started rising therefore can’t possibly be the case 2)The bail and mandatory minimum reforms didn’t FORCE judges or prosecutors to treat violent offenders more leniently. They allowed the officials who are involved in the case to exercise their judgment as they saw fit for the circumstances of the specific case instead of having to apply a blanket rule from Ottawa in every situation whether it’s appropriate or not. That includes harsh treatment if that is what they feel is warranted 3) You have yet to prove that the increased crimes are due to accused who are on bail or who are out of jail early 4) Cops are not impartial and are not experts on crime rates. Naturally they want the harshest possible penalties for all law breakers (except when the law breaker is a police officer in which case they want nothing more severe than temporary suspension with full pay and verbal reprimands) Absolutely false lie Judges shouldn’t legislate from the bench but similarly politicians shouldn’t adjudicate from the legislature. There is a reason that the judiciary is a separate branch of government. Mandatory minimums have virtually no impact on a criminal’s decision to commit a crime. To the extent Criminals give any thought to it at all, it is mostly based upon whether they will get caught not how many years in jail they will face IF they get caught. Look at the Republican red states, with their high crime AND yet the harshest punishments, with police officers having essentially complete immunity from the law. Poverty, inequality and demographics are bigger drivers of crime rates than punishment At least you mention that cops aren’t doing their job but it’s ridiculous you would claim that is the PMs fault

Just in case the Trump supporting moro0ns need any more evidence of what clueless disorganized id1ot Trump is, this is the same president who is saying USA doesn’t need Canadian oil and wants to tariff it….so he wants to build a multibillion dollar pipeline that nobody wants to move oil he claims nobody needs and he will charge Americans extra for using? What more evidence does anyone need that Dictator On Day One doesn’t have a clue about what he’s doing.

Trump Wants Canada’s Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Built ‘Now’ The conduit was meant to carry oil sands crude to Nebraska Pipeline developer says it has ‘moved on’ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-25/trump-wants-canada-to-us-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-built-now?embedded-checkout=true

What specific “soft on crime” policies are you referring to and what proof do you have that they are the cause? In the USA they have harsh punishment and yet still have high crime.

It doesn’t sound like there’s any basis to revoke his citizenship under existing laws. But even if there was, we’re not there yet IMO. If Trump were to make a clear attempt to annex Canada then I think anyone in his regime would be an enemy of the state and then I would support a special act of parliament to strip citizenship from such people under certain circumstances.

White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trumpincreases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st U.S. state. Peter Navarro, one of the U.S. president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the U.S. to remove Canada from the Five Eyes — which also includes the U.K., Australia and New Zealand — according to people familiar with his efforts inside the administration. Trump has said he wants to annex Canada and has vowed to press ahead with 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the country when a one-month reprieve elapses on March 4. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who will step down from office on March 9, was recently caught on an open mic warning that Trump’s ambition to absorb the U.S.’s northern neighbour was a “real thing”. Navarro did not respond to requests for comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Trudeau’s office declined to comment. Trump stunned U.S. allies when he made Canada his first big target for tariffs, alongside Mexico, claiming Ottawa was not doing enough to stop migrants and drugs from entering the U.S. The people familiar with the situation said Navarro, who has easy access to the Oval Office due to his close relationship with Trump, is arguing that the U.S. should increase pressure on Canada by evicting the country from the Five Eyes. It is unclear whether the idea has gained traction with Trump but it is being discussed among his officials. The Five Eyes has for decades been the most important intelligence-sharing network in the world. The U.S. and its allies share extremely sensitive signals and human intelligence in addition to co-ordinating on operations. The CIA-led Pine Gap satellite station in central Australia, which is the most important site for collecting intelligence about China, is just one example of the intimate intelligence relationship Dennis Wilder, a former CIA official who was the top editor of the U.S. president’s daily intelligence briefing, said the Five Eyes was “by far the most successful intelligence-sharing arrangement in world history.” He noted that the partnership emerged when American and British code breakers worked together to break German secret communications during the Second World War, and was expanded to include the other allies in 1956. “Any disruption in these decade-old understandings would be met with cheers from our adversaries in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang,” said Wilder. While Canada and New Zealand provide the least amount of intelligence in the group, expelling any member would spark criticism from the other allies and also from intelligence officials in Washington and beyond. One Five Eyes intelligence official said evicting Canada from the decades-old network would be very dangerous. “Sitting where I’m sitting and looking at the array of threats that are coming at us we need all the partners we can get,” the intelligence official said. Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist who helped Trump win in 2016, said Canada needed to realize that Trump was not trolling Trudeau but was serious about wanting to annex the country. He said Canada lacked the resources to defend itself particularly as China attempts to become an Arctic power. But he said any move to evict Canada from the Five Eyes would be a counter-productive move that would just end up hurting America. “Canada punches way above their weight. If you look at military history, they’ve been the best ally we’ve had,” Bannon said. Navarro served as a White House trade adviser in the first Trump administration. Last year, he served several months in prison for refusing to testify before the congressional commission investigating the Jan. 6 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. His views on trade have long been in sync with Trump, who sometimes calls him “my Peter” and named him in December as a senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service was approached for comment. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/u-s-official-pushes-cut-canada-five-eyes-intelligence-group

The US did not instigate the Euromaidan uprising Crimea did not “wish to rejoin Russia”. Russia orchestrated the 2014 civil war in the Donbas and the separatist fighters were in fact armed equipped and trained by Russia, many of them were de-badged Russian army regulars or Wagner mercenaries sent by Russia. I can’t wait to find out what you think “the Ukrainian military had begun to attack” before Russia but I bet it’s more Putin Propaganda fake news

Paying for every meal in packed Canadian restaurant, U.S. couple apologizes for Trump politics Applause, cheers as American couple picks up the tab for entire Windsor, Ont., restaurant The lunch rush at local restaurant Toast took an unexpected turn after a couple of visiting diners from nearby Ann Arbor, Mich., paid for the meals of every table in the packed restaurant. Behind the gesture of kindness? Their love for Canada, supporting local and sadness about the current state of the U.S.-Canada relationship. Diners in a Windsor, Ont., restaurant were stunned and elated over the weekend when an American couple picked up the bill for the packed establishment — citing U.S. President Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric and their love of Canada. … Hermiz said the woman told patrons "she hates what the United States is doing to us and she doesn't support it. And she's so happy we won the hockey game and it's a little token of appreciation for Canadians and how much she loves us and how much she loves supporting local." "Everyone cheered them on again," Hermiz said. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/american-apology-meal-pays-canada-diner-1.7467020

LMAO Putin’s not a socialist AT ALL! There is literally nothing socialist about him. He is a fascist dictator and is admired by the global far right But anyway the conversation is about whether PP will stand up to Trump not Putin. But you’re right to subconsciously equate the two.

I check out this transit vlog on YouTube once in a while he did a bit on the HSR project a few months ago. Worth a watch.

Boy you just keep hammering the same dumb arguments over and over The very fact people disagree about who can or can’t call themselves a woman proves it’s subjective. I didn’t try to define the term I tried to explain to you that it has no definition but just so goddam dense you don’t get it. Biological sex is not an identity. Identities are perceptions based upon social constructs and self-image. A guy can call himself a woman all he wants Some will also consider him a woman while others will not This is just a fact of existence. You probably don’t see yourself the same way as others see you and different people see you differently. Identity is subjective and relative. You CLEARLY don’t understand the meaning of “identity”. Countless volumes have been written about the topic over the ages going back to ancient times. Why don’t you try looking something up for once instead of spouting your grossly uninformed BS?

I literally just explained that: identities don’t have objective definitions, they are inherently subjective. Biological sex is not an identity and can be defined: “two X chromosomes, no tallywhacker” to quote a now defunct failed Republican congressman.

He will not go after Trump the way he goes after Canadians he doesn’t like. My bet is he will stand up on tariffs and lie down on something else and he will town down his language kissing republican ass wherever he can.

Well now that USA has switched sides we will need to step up but if you knew anything about the Canadian military you would know we don’t have equipment to spare. We don’t even have enough equipment for our own military. We have also massively spun up munitions production and factories We have donated $20Billion since 2022 The allies can’t donate more than Ukraine can absorb We give what we can the Canadian government still has obligations to Canadians and countless domestic issues to deal with. You keep making all these really stupid arguments it’s like when conservatives try to claim anyone who is opposed to pollution is hypocrite if they use electricity. Still sticking with the stupid eh? How much of YOUR personal income do you donate to your moral causes? Or do you not have morals? Like your argument is dumb: if Im not personally supporting a global issue then the worlds greatest superpower shouldn’t either? How much did you donate to fight al Qaeda? Must mean you don’t think the US should have either? Canada didn’t pause its aid to Ukraine, only the Putin loving republicans did Canada declared war against Hitler in 1939, more than 2 years before Nazi-admiring Republicans got on board and USA finally joined the war. And before that Canadian leftist groups were fighting Hitler’s forces in the Spanish civil war as early as 1936 only 3 years after Republican Nazi admirers had plotted a coup attempt against FDR Canada and Europe will do more. And Trump doesn’t want peace, he wants a beneficial outcome for Russia. If he wanted peace he would negotiate a Russian withdrawal not a Ukrainian surrender.

US joins North Korea, Russia and Belarus at UN in refusing to blame Putin for Ukraine war US president Donald Trump also refused to call Russian president Vladimir Putin a dictator https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/us-north-korea-russia-belarus-un-vote-b2703910.html

I am not defining a term with a term. Identities are different from biology. Identities can be assigned or claimed, they are not empirical facts “Female” is biological sex, empirically proven “Woman” is an identity Hedonistic vulgar MAGA Trump supporters identify as conservatives. So do pious religious right bible thumpers, so do Never-Trumpers. They all assign the conservative identity to themselves despite being very different. Half-black people who look black are told they are black and are treated as if they are black no matter how much they try to convince people they are half white and how much they may assign a white or half-white identity to themselves. Why is that so hard to understand? And I can’t believe you’re still beating that ridiculous Al Gore hobby horse no matter how many times it’s been debunked. AL Gore exercised his explicit legal right to request a hand recount as specifically stated in Florida election law and the Florida court agreed with him when Jeb Bush refused to follow the law. And you hayet to explain how asking for the count to he confirmed changes an election result. Trump meanwhile tried extra-legal means to change the election result including pressuring election officials to falsify their vote counts, filing 60+ frivolous lawsuits that had no basis in legal concepts or in facts, and contained on fabricated claims, forging false elector certificates, pressuring state and federal lawmakers to not certify the legitimate election results, and a deliberate public disinformation campaign to mislead the general public and weaponize his base of mindless followers who threatened and intimidated officials. In summary 1)Gore exercised explicitly described rights within the law and followed established rules norms and procedures, while Trump did the exact opposite 2)Gore exercised a right to CONFIRM election results while Trump attempted to undermine rights and ALTER the election results.