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New Multi-Terrain CADPAT Enters Service According to the latest Canadian Army Today magazine, the new camouflage pattern which had been in trials with a few units for some time, finally started rolling out Army-wide in February and will be fully implemented over a 24-month period. I assume at some point RCAF and RCN will also adopt it for those personnel who currently wear the original CADPAT but I don’t see any mention of it New camo on the left, original on the right Story found at link (PDF) https://publications.canadianarmytoday.com/v8i1/#p=12

Lie. Not murdered in colt blood, shooting was justified. Republicans routinely justify much more questionable police shootings. If she had been Antifa you would be dancing on her grave and you know it.

LMAO so it’s racist criticize Trump supporters because a very small proportion of them are non- white, is that correct? Meanwhile still a-ok to criticize Dems who have a very large percentage of non-whites right? Also it’s ok to criticize Black and Hispanic communities generally, as long as they don’t support Trump right? That’s Trump “logic”for you Yeah when Trump was a just a harmless dumb celebrity he got treated like one, that’s showbiz. Many people who worked on the Apprentice and otherwise participated on pre-political show business promotion have expressed regret in hindsight and said they never would have done so if they new he would weaponize his reality show flavour of the month celebrity to become the next fascist dictator.

Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation. The former US president stands to gain billions of dollars – his stake is currently valued at about $4bn – from the merger between Trump Media and Technology Group and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which took the parent company of Truth Social public. … The situation led Trump Media to take emergency loans, including from an entity called ES Family Trust, which opened an account with Paxum Bank, a small bank registered on the Caribbean island of Dominica that is best known for providing financial services to the porn industry. Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named Anton Postolnikov, who co-owns Paxum Bank and has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the Trump Media merger. The existence of the trust has previously been reported by the Guardian and the Washington Post. However, who controlled the account, how the trust was connected to Paxum Bank, and how the money had been funneled through the trust to Trump Media was unknown. The new details about the trust are drawn from documents including: Paxum Bank records showing Postolnikov having access to the trust’s account, the papers that created the trust showing as its settlor a lawyer in St Petersburg, Russia, and three years of the trust’s financial transactions. The concern surrounding the loans to Trump Media is that ES Family Trust may have been used to complete a transaction that Paxum itself could not. Paxum Bank does not offer loans in the US as it lacks a US banking license and is not regulated by the FDIC. Postolnikov appears to have used the trust to loan money to help save Trump Media – and the Truth Social platform – because his bank itself could not furnish the loan. Postolnikov, the nephew of Aleksandr Smirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has not been charged with a crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing Paxum Bank warned of legal action for reporting the contents of the leaked documents. … Part of the problem was that Trump Media struggled to get financing because traditional banks were reluctant to lend millions to Trump’s social media company in the wake of the January 6 Capitol attack, Wilkerson said. Trump Media eventually found some lenders, including ES Family Trust, but the sequence of events was curious. ES Family Trust was established on 18 May 2021, its creation papers show. Postolnikov’s “user” access to the account was “verified” on 30 November 2021 by a Paxum Bank manager in Dominica. The trust was funded for the first time on 2 December 2021. Trump Media then received the loans from ES Family Trust: $2m on 23 December 2021, and $6m on 17 February 2022. The loans came in the form of convertible promissory notes, meaning ES Family Trust would gain a major stake in Trump Media because it was offering the money in exchange for Trump Media agreeing to convert the loan principal into “shares of Company Stock”. Oddly, the notes were never signed. But the investment in Trump Media proved to be huge: while precise figures can only be known by Trump Media, ES Family Trust’s stake in Trump Media is worth between $20m and $40m even after the sharp decline of the company’s share price in the wake of a poor earnings report. The ES Family Trust account also appears to have benefited Postolnikov personally. As the criminal investigation into the Trump Media deal intensified towards the end of last year, the trust recorded several transfers to Postolnikov with the subject line “Partial Loan Return”. … The reason for the trust’s creation remains unknown. Aside from the money that went to Trump Media, the trust’s statements show the trust has directly invested money with only two other companies: $10.8m to Eleven Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm, and $1m to Wedbush Securities, a wealth management firm. The current status of ES Family Trust is also unknown. The trust’s address is listed as a residential home in Hollywood, Florida. But, according to the property website Redfin, the six-bedroom home appears to have been sold in December 2023. The creation papers also contained something notable: a declaration that, if the original trustee – a Paxum employee named Angel Pacheco – stepped down from the role, his successor would be a certain individual named Michael Shvartsman. Sprawling money-laundering investigation Last month, federal prosecutors charged Michael Shvartsman, a close associate of Postolnikov, with money laundering in a superseding indictment after previously charging him and two others in July with insider-trading Digital World shares. Shvartsman and his co-defendants pleaded not guilty. At least part of the evidence against Shvartsman came from a confidential informant for the DHS, court filings show: in one March 2023 meeting with the informant and an associate, Shvartsman mentioned a friend who owned a bank in Dominica and made bridge loans to Trump Media. “[Shvartsman] stated that a friend of his owns a bank in the island of Dominica and would be able to provide banking services to Russian and Ukraine Nationals if the [confidential informant] had other clients in need of that service,” the DHS report said. ..,, https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans

I don’t know how many people watch Cuomo but that’s irrelevant because the point is RFK is disavowing what you claim he said.

“Headed towards”? It has been an all-out personality cult for almost a decade now.

Meet some of the violent Jan. 6 rioters Donald Trump keeps calling 'hostages' EDIT [BeaverFever]: images in article didn’t render properly on this forum, visit original article at the following liknk link to view originals https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-republicans-jan-6-hostages-violence-capitol-police-rcna143888 Trump has made his defense of those incarcerated in Capitol attack cases a central piece of his 2024 campaign. Many are accused of assaulting police. Some others fled. .., Daniel Ball: Charged with assaulting law enforcement and throwing an explosive device Daniel Ball, was previously convicted of two counts of battery on law enforcement officers in a case unrelated to his conduct at the Capitol. His Florida probation officer in that case identified him when the FBI showed the officer photos of Ball at the Capitol. The FBI says that after breaching the building, Ball went around to the lower west tunnel, where some of the worst violence of the day took place, and shoved officers fighting to keep the mob out of the building. Ball then moved back, “hunched over, and looked down at something in front of his torso” before hurling an object — an explosive device, authorities say — into the lower west tunnel packed with officers fending off the mob. Daniel Ball on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI “The device flashed and exploded multiple times on the officers in the tunnel. One of these explosions included a loud boom that caused all the officers and some rioters/protesters in the crowd to flinch in unison,” according to an FBI affidavit issued in support of Ball’s 2023 arrest. One officer described a hearing impairment that lasted months. Another officer described the pain in their ears as 10 out of 10. A third officer said they temporarily lost hearing, a fourth said their ears rang for three hours, and a fifth said there was a continued ringing in their ears for days. “For many other officers that were interviewed, it was the most memorable event that day,” the FBI said in an affidavit. Some officers who were defending the tunnel at the time of the explosion reported feeling the pressure of the blast, according to the bureau. Some thought it was a fragmentation grenade and anticipated pain or significant injury. Some thought they were going to die. Some officers suffered psychological trauma from the explosion. The explosion allegedly set off by Daniel Ball at the Capitol.FBI Ball allegedly returned to the battle after the explosion, throwing a wooden furniture leg, the FBI said. Ball was allegedly aiming for an officer but struck a rioter instead. He is now charged with using the explosive device to commit a felony and with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Why he’s in jail: Ball has a criminal history and is accused of using an explosive device at the Capitol. John Banuelos: Accused of firing a gun during the Capitol attack John Banuelos was identified to the FBI in February 2021. The government took no action at that time as the bureau was being flooded by hundreds of thousands of tips from the public. Months later, in July 2021, Banuelos fatally stabbed a 19-year-old in a public park in Utah but was not charged after he claimed self-defense, police said. But he did tell police in Utah that he’d been at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and that he’d had a gun on him, police records show. John Banuelos in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia NBC News reported on Banuelos’ identity in early 2022, and the FBI spoke with him after that report, but it wasn’t until this February that footage emerged that appeared to show Banuelos firing the gun outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Banuelos was arrested in early March, and he was ordered detained. He has not yet been arraigned but suggested in an interview with the FBI that the multiple, contemporaneous videos that appear to show him firing off the gun could have been created by artificial intelligence. Why he’s in jail: Banuelos has an extensive criminal history, including five convictions, according to prosecutors. He also allegedly threatened Americans who identified him to the FBI and is charged with firing off a gun at the Capitol. Tim Boughner: Allegedly bragged he 'f---ed those cops up' Online sleuths helped identify Tim Boughner, a Michigan man they called #BlackPufferWhiteScarf, using a prior mugshot from a 2017 arrest. He was arrested on Jan. 6 charges in December 2021 and faces three felony charges, with federal authorities alleging he assaulted officers with chemical spray. Tim Boughner on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI “I grabbed a can from them and started spraying. I got it on video lol,” Boughner wrote in a post on Facebook on Jan. 6 cited by the FBI. “F---ed those cops up.” The government moved for pretrial detention, citing his “prior probation violations and attempt to evade law enforcement in this case.” Boughner quit his job after Jan. 6, and authorities said he “did not have a stable living arrangement” and had “an extensive and varied criminal history and contacts with law enforcement beginning at the age of 17.” In November 2023, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan found reasonable cause that Boughner was “suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him incompetent” and ordered him to undergo psychiatric evaluation. This February, Chutkan found Boughner incompetent and a recent joint status update indicated that he suffered from “delusional thoughts” but “expressed unwillingness to voluntarily take medication.” Why he’s in jail: On top of his extensive criminal history and risk of flight, a judge ruled that he needs psychiatric treatment before he’s competent to stand trial. Dominic Box: Arrested on DUI charge while out on pretrial release in his Jan. 6 case Dominic Box on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI Box, who was interviewed in the HBO documentary “Four Hours at the Capitol,” wasarrested in Georgia in December 2022 and facesfelony charges of obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder. While out on release pretrial, he was arrested in Florida on a DUI charge, which led to his lawyer in the Jan. 6 case not being able to reach him, according to court documents. Box had been expected to enter a plea to a felony charge in December 2023 but indicated he was not ready to enter a plea after meeting with his attorney in Washington, according to court documents. Hetold the court he did not want to proceed with the plea deal in January because of a pending Supreme Court case that could affect his obstruction charge, but he may proceed to a stipulated trial — one where the facts themselves are uncontested — in June. He has claimed in a recent fundraising campaign that he is a journalist and claimed he was a “citizen journalist” in an interview with the Savannah Morning News, which noted that Box had worked as a salesman at a Nissan dealership but was fired after Jan. 6. Why he’s in jail: Box was arrested on a DUI charge while he was on pretrial release on his Jan. 6 charges. Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III, Jonathan Pollock, and Olivia Pollock: Went on the run in Florida Jonathan Daniel Pollock, Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III and Olivia Michele Pollock on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI Earlier this year, on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, FBI special agents descended on a ranch in Florida. They took three fugitives into custody: Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III, Jonathan Pollock and Olivia Pollock. The three were originally arrested in 2021, charged alongside Joshua Doolin and Michael Perkins, who were found guilty on several Jan. 6-related charges in 2023. Jonathan Pollock had been a fugitive for 2.5 years, since his initial indictment in the summer of 2021. Olivia Pollock and Hutchinson had been fugitives since the summer of 2023, when they failed to show up to their trial. All three defendants wore tactical gear on Jan. 6 and are charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers as well as theft of government property. Jonathan Pollock is accused of the worst violence of the bunch, with the government saying he grabbed an officer by the waist and pulled the officer down a set of stairs, punched another officer in the face and stole another officer’s police shield. Hutchinson, authorities said, charged the police line and began throwing punches, while Olivia Pollock attempted to strip an officer of their baton and elbowed the officer in the chest. Why they’re in jail: They were fugitives before their capture and have been ordered detained until trial. Edward Kelley: Charged with plotting to murder FBI employees after his release in Jan. 6 case Anti-abortion activist Edward Kelley of Tennessee was initially arrested in May 2022 after the FBI identified him as the fourth rioter to breach the Capitol. In addition to assaulting a law enforcement officer outside the Capitol, the government alleges Kelley used a piece of wood to break a window, jumped through the window and then forced open a fire door, allowing the first mass of rioters to flood inside the building and chase Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up the stairs, toward the Senate chamber. Edward Kelley was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.FBI Months after his initial release, in December 2022, Kelley was arrested again and charged in a plot to murder FBI employees involved in investigating him about Jan. 6. In November 2023, Kelley’s friend and co-defendant Austin Carter, a member of the Army Reserves,admitted that he and Kelley had conspired to “murder employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” admitting that he received a list of FBI employees from Kelley and that the two had “discussed plans to attack the FBI Field Office in Knoxville, Tennessee.” In a recent joint filing, prosecutors and Kelley’s attorneys said they were engaged in “good faith efforts” to reach a plea deal in both of Kelley’s criminal cases. If a deal is not reached by early April, Kelley’s trial in the alleged murder plot is set to begin in Knoxville on May 7, but the case may be delayed after a recent joint filingindicated the parties were at “an impasse.” Why he’s in jail: He was initially released on his Jan. 6 charges but then allegedly plotted to murder the FBI employees who were investigating him. Jacob Lang: Unapologetic rioter charged with repeatedly assaulting law enforcement Jacob Lang on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI Jacob Lang — who can be seen on video hitting law enforcement officers with a baseball bat and riot shield — faces multiple charges of assaulting law enforcement officers, as well as felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. He was arrested in January 2021. “I was the leader of Liberty today,” Lang wrote on Facebook after the riot, wrongly tagging himself at the White House. “Arrest me. You are on the wrong side of history.” He said the day after the attack that it was “war” at the Capitol, not a mere protest. Lang, the government notes, hosts a weekly podcast for a conservative conspiracy website from behind bars and paints himself as a “political prisoner.” Lang has cycled through lawyers and recently hired Anthony Frank Sabatini, a Republican and former Florida state representative who is running for Congress. “I don’t play the watered-down version of Jan. 6, the ‘there was mistakes made that day.’ No, no, I think that was well within our rights and constitutional duty to overthrow the chains of tyranny,” he said in one podcast. Jacob Lang allegedly clashing with police on Jan. 6, 2021.Brent Stirton / Getty Images file Lang was being held in the jail in Washington but was transferred to a facility in Brooklyn, New York. “Lang not only remains willing to engage in additional acts of violence whenever he deems such violence necessary, but continues to believe that such violence is justified,” prosecutors recently wrote. “For Lang, little has changed since January 6, 2021 or the days that followed when according to Lang, the next step was ‘guns’ and he tried to form and armed militia,” they wrote. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said last year that the argument for Lang’s continued detention was “strong,” noting that Lang was at the forefront of the mob and that his “overt expressions of willingness to use violence in the future, along with the violent nature of Lang’s offenses on January 6th, convinced this Court that Lang could not be released with adequate assurances of community safety.” Why he’s in jail: A judge cited overwhelming evidence that he repeatedly assaulted officers and a continued willingness to engage in violence. Christopher Maurer: Charged with swinging a pipe at officers Christopher Maurer was featured as No. 150 on the FBI’s Capitol Violence website. The government says that Maurer was part of the lower west tunnel assault and tried to pull a police shield and strike officers who were helping another rioter who was experiencing a medical emergency. Maurer exited the tunnel but later returned swinging a long metal pipe at officers, according to the FBI. He is charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers with a deadly and dangerous weapon, among other charges. Christopher Maurer on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI “F--- YOU A--HOLES!” Maurer allegedly yelledafter the attack, holding up both of his middle fingers. Law enforcement observed Maurer near Falmouth, Maine, with a 1999 gold Ford Expedition that he appeared to be living out of in early 2023, shortly before his arrest. Why he’s in jail: Maurer, who was living in a van, conceded to detention in March 2023. Jeffrey McKellop: Former Special Forces soldier accused of attacking police Jeffrey McKellop, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier and military contractor, is accused of repeatedly attacking law enforcement officers, including with a flagpole. He was arrested in March 2021, and the government argued that the gas mask-wearing rioter “weaponized his extensive military training and experience” during the Capitol attack. The government provided a photo that, it says, shows the officer McKellop “stabbed in the face” with the flagpole. Jeffrey McKellop on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI McKellop, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui wrote in 2021, “represents a threat to the safety of the community as video footage shows him assaulting police offers, including with weapons.” McKellop was later ordered committed for a competency evaluation. McKellop has cycledthrough eight attorneys over the course of his detention, which has caused delays in the proceedings. On March 29, his current attorneys wrote in a motion that McKellop had orderedthem to withdraw and asked the court to appoint new counsel. A jury trial is set for May 13 before Judge Carl J. Nichols. Why he’s in jail: Was ordered held by a judge to undergo competency evaluations before trial. Christina Legros: Found by a judge to lack the mental capacity to care for herself Christina Legros was arrested in January 2023 alongside her boyfriend, Isaac Thomas, who prosecutors said was one of the first individuals to enter the restricted grounds of the U.S. Capitol. A mental health clinician was present during the initial interview Legros and Thomas had with the FBI in January 2021. Legros and Thomas were both indicted together, but Legros only faces misdemeanor charges, while Thomas faces multiple felony counts for allegedly assaulting officers. Christina Legros on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.Amy Harris / Shutterstock “I will smack you upside your head with this pole!” Thomas allegedly yelled on a video recorded by Legros, before Thomas assaulted officers, according to DOJ. In addition to allegedly repeatedly assaulting officers with the flagpole before an officer was able to grab it away from him, authorities say video shows Thomas throwing a Gatorade bottle at an officer. Legros was hospitalized shortly after her initial arrest. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that Legros lacked the “mental capacity to care for herself.” In March, the judge ordered the Bureau of Prisons “to maintain custody of Defendant Legros until her competency hearing on April 9, 2024.” Legros has not yet been arraigned so she has not entered a plea; Judge Kollar-Kotelly has said she won’t arraign Legros “until the parties have a clearer picture as to her mental competency.” Why she’s in custody: A judge found that Legros lacked the mental capacity to care for herself, and she has a pending competency hearing. Edward Richmond Jr.: Previously killed an Iraqi civilian, yet had an AR-15 in his home Edward Richmond Jr., known to online sleuths as “Buff Lightyear” due to the outfit he wore — “black helmet, goggles, shoulder pads, an orange two-way radio, and a Louisiana State Flag patch,” per the government — during the Capitol attack, faces a host of charges for his actions that day. Edward Richmond Jr. on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI The 40-year-old was arrested in January in Louisiana, and a federal magistrate judge initially ordered him released. The government appealed to a federal judge in Washington, arguing that Richmond showed up to the Capitol “dressed in full tactical gear, carrying a baton” on Jan. 6 and “stayed at the front of the mob fighting against police for almost two hours,” carrying a police riot shield, helping take furniture out of broken windows and carrying a large wooden plank to use against officers. The government noted Richmond was previously “convicted of manslaughter after shooting a handcuffed Iraqi cow herder in the head with his rifle” and was sentenced to three years of confinement and dishonorably discharged from the military. Richmond was also banned from owning weapons due to his conviction, but the FBI said it found “an AR-15 rifle in Richmond’s home — complete with three fully loaded magazines, approximately 73 rounds of ammunition.” Prosecutors noted that Richmond “served multiple years in jail for shooting a man and was undoubtedly aware that any future possession of firearms could send him back to jail.” They also noted that Richmond changed his telephone number shortly after the FBI posted photos of him on their website in an attempt to identify him. Chief U.S. Judge James Boasberg orderedRichmond held, citing, in part, evidence of his unlawful possession of that weapon. Richmond has not yet been arraigned so has not entered a plea; but in arguing for pretrial release, his attorney noted that he contacted a lawyer when he learned the FBI was looking for him back in 2022. Why he’s in jail: He was banned from owning weapons after being convicted of killing a handcuffed Iraqi civilian, but authorities say an AR-15 was found in his home. Taylor Taranto: Showed up at Obama’s house with guns and ammo after Trump posted the address Taylor Taranto on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.Metropolitan Police Department Online sleuths first identified Taylor Taranto to the FBI in August 2021 but he wasn’t arrested until last year. Taranto, the “sedition hunters” said, was the Jan. 6 participant who wore a “Make Space Great Again” hat and carried a cane with a sharpened metal tip that day. That rioter was involved in a brawl between pro-Trump rioters and law enforcement officers trying to force them out of the Capitol, including Jeffrey Smith, a Metropolitan Police Department officer who died by suicide just days after the Capitol attack. Smith’s death was found, by DOJ, to have occurred as a direct result of the injuries he sustained that day, including during that brawl and a separate incident outside the Capitol after nightfall, when Smith was struck by a metal rod. Erin Smith, the late officer’s widow, filed a civil lawsuit against Taranto as well as D.C. chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, who was arrested in June 2022. Taranto and Walls-Kaufman deny playing any role in Smith’s death. When Walls-Kaufman was sentenced in June 2023, ultimately receiving 60 days of incarceration after admitting he “scuffled” with officers, Taranto showed up to the sentencing hearing. Taranto had been living out of his van and often showed up to the city jail, where supporters of Jan. 6 defendants hold regular, livestreamed vigils. Days after Walls-Kaufman’s sentencing, Taranto showed up outside the home of former President Barack Obama in the nation’s capital after Trump posted a screenshot that included the address on his social media website. (Trump has not commented publicly on the case.) Federal authorities arrested Taranto and said he illegally had weapons and more than 400 rounds of ammunition in his van. He is now facing charges related to Jan. 6 as well as for the illegal weapons he is accused of having near Obama’s home. Taranto has not yet entered a plea; but during his detention proceedings, his attorneys argued that his mental health needs would be better addressed at home with his family. Why he’s in jail: A judge ordered Taranto held after he showed up outside Obama’s home with weapons in his van. Gregory Yetman: National guardsman charged with attacking officers who fled from the FBI Gregory Yetman on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol.FBI Gregory Yetman, a former New Jersey National Guard police sergeant, was arrested after a 48-hour FBI manhunt in New Jersey in November 2023. Online sleuths had referred to Yetman as #GreenHeavySprayer, because he was seen on video cited by the FBI using a large chemical sprayer to assault a line of police officers. Yetman faces several charges, including felony charges of assaulting officers and obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, as well as misdemeanors. Yetman, according to authorities, fled into a wooded area when the FBI showed up at his home and later turned himself into a police station dirty and unkempt. A federal magistrate judge found that Yetman “poses a danger to the community and presents a risk of flight.” Yetman was arraigned in Washington in February, pleading not guilty to a six-count indictment. Yetman is currently scheduled to take a plea deal on April 25. The FBI searching Yetman's home in New Jersey, on Nov 8, 2023.Kyle Mazza / SOPA Images / Sipa USA via AP Why he’s in jail: He was ordered held after he fled the FBI, is accused of assaulting law enforcement with chemical spray and is set to take a plea deal. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-republicans-jan-6-hostages-violence-capitol-police-rcna143888

Do they? Which experts? Poilievre says we “we “common people” can’t trust experts and must rely on our “common sense”. So why are you now invoking experts? I did…did you? Look it up anywhere- fisheries collapsed in the 90s due to overfishing which is clearly to blame. Cod stocks are only now beginning to recover Oh those tricky liberals so much smarter than the public! 🙄 Nobody was manipulated. For someone who CLAIMS to be knowledgeable about politics you sure don’t seem to know how it works. Various members of the public demand the government address various perceived problems. The political parties then propose their solutions to SOME of those problems, the voters then choose. The collapsing fisheries was a problem and out of work fishermen was a problem. Limiting certain fishing activity so the stock could recover while supporting the fishermen was the public’s preferred solution and they made an informed choice. It was not a dastardly plot. Totally incorrect the PBO said the exact opposite of that, he said 80% get more than they pay. PP and conservatives are trying to cite a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT statement the PBO made about the potential negative impacts of carbon tax but that statement was NOT that “almost everyone pays more than they get”. I will explain what the actual other statement is below and then we can dissect it and how you and PP are misrepresenting it. So after confirming “most households will see a net gain” from the carbon tax, PBO went on to discuss other points. He stated that BY THE YEAR 2030-2031, the PBO ESTIMATES that the carbon tax will have a negative economic impact which will result lower wages than would otherwise occur BY THAT TIME. And that FUTURE wage loss, combined with carbon taxes paid up until that point, will mean ON AVERAGE Canadians as a whole will have “paid” more than they have received in rebates Now let’s dissect, first let’s acknowledge that this is a completely different and more complex statement than “almost every pays more than they get”. - It’s an ESTIMATE of the future and not a description of the present -“on average” is not the same as “almost everyone” - Nobody can predict with any accuracy what the future economy and future wages will be at any specific point in time, much less predict with and without the carbon tax. This is because the economy at any specific point is dependent on many complicated factors. - In addition the economy is rapidly evolving in response to climate change and climate incentives, other countries’ carbon taxes (of which there are many and there will be more ) new tech, etc. This makes current predictions of the carbon tax’s impact on future economy even more dubious. - Lastly, the PBO’s projections don’t fully include the cost of doing nothing as unmitigated climate change will have its own negative economic impact and costs which the PBO did not consider. Your singing a verse from the same song that conservatives sing about “nanny states” and the masses needing “tough love” Providing basic services so that people can contribute to the economy and don’t have to live every day on the edge of razor blade one false step away from irreversible disaster is not “providing their every need”. Maybe you don’t know what the word “every” means? Only in the very recent moment mostly due to global events beyond any one governments control and it’s already showing signs of improvement in many key areas. Capitalism has never excluded government spending or social programs and you highlight your lack of knowledge by not know the period you mention That was also the era where we had the most expansive government, liberal and conservative governments alike engaging in “social engineering” to build a new affluent middle class with new social programs, universities, planned communities and infrastructure etc. Capitalism has been around for a few centuries, it didn’t just wake up one morning in the 20th century and decide to build a utopian society. Government did that. With government debt and tax revenue. Again that was also a global phenomena that every western nation faced its absurd that you lay that at the feet of just Trudeau but it’s true to your form. What happened in the 70s is that Capitalism ran out of gas (literally and figuratively) snd western nations around the world were in economic doldrums. The post-war economic boom had simply tun its course, many of the previously booming post-war industries and had grown to the maximum size for their market (there was no globalization back then and expanding beyond national borders was much more difficult). In addition tou had the OPEx oil embargo, Vietnam war, and then stagflation. The old economic levers that had worked in recent decades since ww2 no longer produced the same results. We never went back to where we were. We abandoned the Keynesian economic model outright and chose a completely different economic model called neoliberalism. From the 80s to the early 2000s we endured repeated boom-bust cycles of recession and market bubble every 5-7 years, embraced globalization, offshoring, outsourcing, union-busting, pension-busting, we absolutely butchered the working classes, creating a new class of working poor that didn’t exist before in such large numbers ….all while allowing the ultra-rich and corporations a free ride to become far wealthier and far more politically powerful than any time in human history. You now have the richest 1% possessing more wealth than half the world combined, and several corporations that richer than some G20 countries. That is not paradise and not what we had at any time in our past, it is a perversion of capitalism. All of the vice and division and bitterness you see i. The world today is backlash coming from the victims of neoliberalism. As Ive said many times before Canada is experiencing a global phenomenon, no different than you will find in any western country. Justin didn’t push is anywhere.

They’re essential services now and have badly needed for years or in tue case of childcare, a generation. Look once upon a time paved roads and electricity were not considered essential services gasoline weren’t considered essentials and undoubtedly some conservative of the day was calling them frivolous luxuries. In the modern world where the average household requires two full-time earners to make ends meet, affordable and accessible childcare is a a necessity that also allows both parents contribute to the economy….why is that so hard to understand? In the 70s and 80s women stayed home and a single male earner could afford to pay for everything. As much as the conservative troglodytes want to force women’s from the workforce and back into the home that isn’t going to happen amd even ifnit did, the modern economy wouldn’t allow a single earner to support a family.

That’s no how economies work. The economy and the population always grows over the long term especially if proper investments are made. In addition Governments are immortal institutions so in a sense they are borrowing over an infinite timeline, it’s not like any particular generation will be required to pay off the entire national debt in full within 30 days of getting a bill. The children and grandchildren won’t be any more short of cash then previous generations.

RFK Jr. walks back saying he can "make the argument" that Biden is a much worse threat to democracy than Trump. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday walked back saying he “can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy" than Donald Trump. On NewsNation’s “Cuomo" on Tuesday night, Kennedy said his statement, which he made during a Monday interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, was reported inaccurately. “Do you want people to believe that you think that President Biden has done more objectionable things vis-à-vis our democracy than former President Trump did in the aftermath of the last election?” NewsNation host Chris Cuomo asked Kennedy. “No. As you heard, Chris, I — what I said was that I can make this argument and I didn't say definitively whether I believed one or the other was more dangerous than democracy. I did say that I don't believe either of them are going to destroy democracy,” Kennedy said. “Both sides are telling us the other guy is the end of the republic. But, you know, they're both lame-duck presidents,” Kennedy said. https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-walks-back-saying-120344283.html Anyways RFK is a known anti-vax alternative medicine kook which is why he’s running as an independent.

Well if you’re going to cherry/pick sound bytes

Well we know for sure you’re not anti-fascist or anti-racist! They also claim to be mammals. I guess all mammals are Antifa then, too. You and your fake news crap LMAO, you are so gullible. Neither link you posted is evidence of anything, your video is about something that happened in 2022 and not evidence that 2020 was stopped. If only you weren’t so uneducated. Your Jan 6 seditious insurrectionists were violent offenders who assaulted law enforcement desecrated the Capitol. Footage of the violence was broadcast all over the world and is easily viewable how can you he so friggin blind?

Trump Sues Truth Social Co-Founders The former President's media company is accusing the co-founders of the social media platform of bungling its business operations. https://gizmodo.com/trump-sues-truth-social-co-founders-1851383091 😂 Also note that before Trump filed this lawsuit in Florida, these same partners filed Suit against Trump in Delaware where the company is headquartered, alleging ‘wrongful 11th hour … maneuvering’ in an effort to dilute their shares in the company.” A shitshow of lawsuits all over some shit stock

Not true “borrowed money” means bonds sold on the bond market and they are “paid back” every time bond yields are issued or when the bonds mature Government spending and debt is what allowed the western world to pull away from surpass the Ottoman Empire and Asia and later what allowed USA to pull away and surpass the rest of the west. The USA and most western nations have NEVER been debt-free in recent history and have rarely if ever balanced a budget. There are obvious limits and THIS DOES NOT MEAN GOVERNMENTS CAN HAVE UNLIMITED LEVELS OF DEBT but it doesn’t mean wee must have zero debt. Future geese would probably rather inherit some debt than a failed state with an infrastructure backlog that is too large to address Do YOU wish governments before you were born had never incurred debt and we still lived in the Dickensian third world country that existed here prior to the 20th century?

LOL you trumptards and your absurd fictions are the ultimate example of gaslighted people Although most definitions of gaslighting imply that a person had some other belief before they were manipulated into believing the exact opposite and in most cases people like you had zero political knowledge or beliefs before joining the Trump cult You don’t know sh-t about me or antifa and youway too stupid to understand the differences. You are a simple man living in a world you can’t understand and know nothing about and haven’t succeeded in. You have a child-like simplistic understanding of the world and the people in it and therefore you seek to serve a magical strongman with supernatural powers to protect you It’s hilarious in a sad way. The Jan6 insurrectionists were convicted of various crimes befitting of each individual’s actions and intentions. There have been no “shreds” of evidence supporting Trump’s bogus 2020 election fraud lies. Those are facts.

Highly debatable False. First the fisheries collapsed due to generations of irresponsible fishing. Unless the “bad policy” you’re referring to was Libs and Conservatives alike allowing the irresponsible fishing and not stepping in with tougher regulations earlier. That’s a dishonest way of portraying the fact they were offered badly needed services that the conservatives supposedly would have cancelled. And don’t forget conservatives subsidies for the seal hunt for example, hilariously including the recent suggestion by a conservative senator that Taylor Swift be recruited to convince the world to eat seal meat in order to manufacture demand for a product nobody wants. More conservative reverse logic nonsense: when government appears to be hurting you it’s actually helping you, when government appears to be helping you it’s actually hurting you. Conservatives love persecuting vulnerable people with ultra-agressive policing, mass incarceration, school-to-prison pipelines, contaminated drinking water, lax employment and safety standards, lax consumer protection, lax pollution laws etc etx well that may seem bad but actually that’s helping you by “building character” and “providing you incentives” to improve yourself all on your own! You just don’t realize it! Meanwhile living in a first world country with policies that have lifted thousands of families out of poverty and allowed stay at home parents to join the workforce and/or improve skills and earn higher income, well that’s all just an elaborate trick to make you a “slave”. According to conservative logical, if government does things you approve of,, then you’re more likely to vote for them therefore doing things you like is evil! 🙄 He most obvious way of disproving this fallacy is to take a look at the most catered spoiled and indulged class of society: the ultra-rich. The multimillionaires a billionaires whose wealth has only exploded after 40 years of pandering by right wing economic policies enacted by both sides of the aisle. Would anyone claim they have been “enslaved”? If anything it is they who have enslaved government and the public.

Sure, Ive certainly heard the arguments and the counter-arguments amd the theories about government spending and it’s impact on inflation. I don’t dismiss them entirely but I take them with a grain of salt. It’s not that these theories are untrue so much as they’re a bit like predicting the weather except even less accurate. They’re more effective at explaining the past than predicting the future due to all the minute and/or unforeseen factors that come into play. Inflation has already been reducing for some time. But anyways my point was more to challenge the assertion that public services are an evil plot to “bribe citizens with their own money”

You have no idea what I stand for or what Antifa stands for either. You’re just another uneducated know-nothing who thinks all the people and groups he hates are all identical and interchangeable. Yeah Jan 6 is fading in the distance your insurrectionists have been caught but we all know that if Trump loses this year you MAGAs will commit some deplorable act that will make Jan 6 forgettable…probably something more like Oklahoma City bombing which was also carried out by a right wing nutjob. I guess it’s better to have the MAGAs as a terrorist organization than as the dictator’s one-party state. The fact that you still believe in the 2020 election lies despite 4 years of ABSOLUTE FAILURE to produce even a single shred of evidence just showcases your stunning ignorance and gullibility. It really is shocking

A celebrity who also maximizes his use of other social and traditional media platforms each of which have exponentially larger audiences. Therefore Truth Social has no unique offering for its tiny limited audience and limited appeal to advertisers and other sources of profit.

Since the public decided it’s in their best interest for the government to do so, e.g. when those services are no longer affordable or accessible in the private market. That doesn’t make Canada Cuba, all governments even right wing ones provide services to their citizens, it’s why they exist. Lack of essential services like housing and childcare hurts future generations more. Nobody believes we shouldn’t have public healthcare, and it’s shortcomings are often tied to a lack of funding.

No you’re wrong. It’s not “bad behaviour”. Somebody on his staff only sent one tweet this weekend instead of 2 this ONE TIME. Its not a big deal and I doubt it was a deliberate slight. The right does it on PURPOSE to put groups in their place…..Your alleged “bad behaviour” is that he only tweeted ONE goodwill message during in the same holiday weekend. Gimme a break ! He didn’t exclude. There was an easter message. Ramadan lasts 30 days they only got one message too, not one for each day. Nice try. That’s not what I said at all I did not say it was “ok to exclude Christians” I was just disagreeing with your prediction that Canadian voters would cause some major political backlash if they didn’t get their 2 Easter tweets Maybe you should actually read the posts I write because I said nothing of the sort. Also: the right is the party of “Islam is not a race therefore Islamophobia isn’t racist and is perfectly okay”. But now you’re complaining that only 1 Easter well-wish message is “racist” against Christians? Oh the hypocrisy.

Providing the public with services they value and demand but can’t individually afford isn’t “bribing people with their own money” any more than providing them with water and sewer and police and public sanitation.

Neither. I admitted Trump won in 2016, I admit PP will probably win here in the next election. I admit that Trudeau and Biden are humans who can make mistakes and bad decisions. Trumptard MAGAS have zero ability to make any sort of admission or concession, they’re like juvenile children.

Antifa’s not my brethren, loser. Your revisionist lie is pathetic the people who stormed the Capitol said they were there to prevent Biden from becoming president. it’s been 4 years and you deluded chumps haven’t been able to produce a single shred of evidence to support your election lie and you failed over 60 times, laughed out of every courtroom and venue with your absurd and baseless claims which were not only untrue but absolutely implausible only those with absolute ignorance could believe it. Trump also tried to steal the 2020 election with his fake electors plot and his attempts to bully election officials into falsifying their results to just say he won. Mark my words if he loses again you Trumptards will be at it again with more lies and more attempts to end democracy. Admit it no matter how clean the election is, if Trump loses you will never admit he lost fairly. You are mentally and psychologically incapable of accepting reality that is inconvenient to your ignorant uneducated beliefs.