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What are you talking about? During his first administration so many of his top people he selected quit or got fired it was a joke. He couldn’t keep anyone in office. No US administration has had so many people come and go in a single term That sure doesn’t sound like he’s amazing at hiring too talent And Most of the senior people Trump selected for his first administration absolutely despise him and say he is a disaster No president has had so many of his own staff hate him on every level A 2-term president might be at polite odds with 2 or 3 former staffers. But Trump is unique in having dozens who just loathe him and personally attest to hi incompetence: “unfit to be president” “ a despicable human being” a “fascist to the core” “prefers the dictator approach to government” “hasn’t got the brains” “pretty undisciplined – doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports” “His understanding of global events [and] his understanding of US history was really limited.” “should never be president again.” Those are just a small sample of direct quotes from those advisors you say he chose “very well”

Cmon don’t be so naive. When you’re that rich you have an entire entourage of lawyers, accountants, consultants, advisors, assistants and various lackeys to tell you everything you need to know and who do all the leg work for you. The skill you mention is mostly if not entirely theirs. You don’t so much make decisions as you choose from a shortlist of options that have been narrowed down, summarized and pre-digested for you. Also there’s an entire industry where people get rich by intentionally bankrupting businesses Step 1: transfer business assets to yourself Step 2: transfer your debts that you no longer feel like paying to the business Step 3: declare business bankrupt Step 4: laugh all the way to the bank You can also do i in reverse where you transfer your assets to a business you control or have unlimited access to and declare yourself bankrupt while you continue to live in luxury For the ultra rich, bankruptcy is just another game that they play The new investors he attracted were Putin oligarchs and how exactly did he attract them? And I’m not saying Trump is an evil genius. He’s an incompetent businessman who got into bed with Russian money to bail out his failing businesses, undoubtedly his consultants, lawyers, lackeys etc shepherded him through the process and took care of all the details

Annnnd the massively unqualified pervert Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s AG. Good riddance! Who will be the next despicable human being to enter or exit the Trump Deplorable clown car?

No you do which is why you voted for Trump the fascist in chief Supreme Court decision was not woke, had nothing to do with woke ideology, and did jot at all say anything about what members of the public can or can’t legally do. As you usual you have no clue. Don’t you get tired of being such an uneducated dumbass?

No once you have the level of wealth he inherited from his father you’re always rich for life even if on paper you’re bankrupt.. It’s just a big paper game. It’s not like Trump was living in a motel or something and then rebuilt his fortune from scratch. Even when he was at his most insolvent he was still living in mansions and flying around in his private jet with his decades-long good buddy Jeffrey Epstein and living the life of a billionaire elite His business ventures were simply bankrupt until they got juiced by Kremlin cronies and became a Putin puppet.

It’s like not only is picking unqualified people he’s purposely choosing the least qualified people possible. Just to troll the libs. He wants total control and obedience from his appointees so he doesn’t even want people with ties to the Republican Party. And by choosing unqualified people who would otherwise have absolutely no hope of ever holding such a position of authority without his favour means they will be obedient and servile. Or so he hopes.

I didn’t lie and your ridiculous diatribe proves me right. You think the most powerful jobs in the country require no formal skills or qualifications and so any old boob off the street can do it as ling as they “measure results” like they’re a scorekeeper at a beer league hockey game? Your ignorance is astounding. These people will be responsible for running massive departments that are larger than most corporations and setting policies that affect millions of people’s everyday lives. LOL Trump supporters will never hold Trump accountable for anything. No matter how bad he does you’ll make excuses for him and claim that its not something a president can control, or that the Dems did it worse, or that somehow its a delayed reaction to something Biden dis before he left office and so on. No that’s what Trump did in 2016 when Obama was president, falsely claiming that the very positive numbers on economy and crime were bad when in fact they were quite good then as soon as he took office he took credit for the very same numbers. And let’s be clear the US economic figures right now are pretty good even though Trump says otherwise. Unemployment is low, inflation is within the target range,US economy has seen strong growth, significantly outpacing all peer nations. As soon as Trump takes office he will start crowing about those exact same numbers he inherited from Biden and he will claim that he caused them.

He promised publicly many times and the reasons why candidates have released their returns has been provided If you can’t understand why someone wanting to be the most powerful man in the world shouldn’t have to demonstrate that he’s not a tax cheat or a crook or deeply in debt then that says more about you than anything. Hell there are corporations that require CEOs and senior executives to provide their tax returns and other financial documents to the Board And yet he demanded Obama’s birth certificate even though no president has ever had to provide it to the public. In September 2016, Donald J. Trump stood on the debate stage as a presidential candidate and addressed a question that had dogged him on the campaign trail: When would he release his tax return? “I’m under a routine audit, and it’ll be released,” Mr. Trump said. “And as soon as the audit is finished, it will be released.” Nearly four years later, the White House says the I.R.S. is still at it. “His taxes are under audit, and when they’re no longer under audit he will release them,” Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Thursday. In fact, every sitting president’s returns are audited as a matter of routine, and the I.R.S. has long said that nothing prevents an individual from making tax returns public while an audit is underway. Every president since Jimmy Carter has voluntarily released his returns. So at this point, no one is expecting to see the president’s tax returns anytime soon, even though the Supreme Court issued a major rulingon Thursday that cleared the way for New York prosecutors to seek them. But there will be further skirmishing in the lower courts, and there is little chance of a final decision before the next election. The Early Promises Mr. Trump has promised to release his tax returns under varying conditions for nearly a decade. In 2011, he began appearing on television to question whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States — spreading a lie that he has never fully apologized for — and suggesting that he would release his returns when Mr. Obama released his birth certificate. “Maybe I’m going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate,” he said in an interview with ABC in April 2011. “I’d love to give my tax returns. I may tie my tax returns into Obama’s birth certificate.” Days after that interview, Mr. Obama released his long-form birth certificate. Mr. Trump did not keep his end of the deal. In 2014, an Irish journalist pointed out that he had never released his tax returns, even though he had coerced Mr. Obama into releasing his birth certificate. In that interview, Mr. Trump then added a new qualifier: He would release them if he ran for president. “If I decide to run for office, I’ll produce my tax returns, absolutely,” he said during a visit to Ireland, where he promoted his golf club in Doonbeg. “And I would love to do that.” The Audit By the time Mr. Trump was running for president in 2016, he had adopted the audit as the reason he could not release his taxes. That spring, his lawyer Sheri A. Dillon released a letter that claimed Mr. Trump’s tax returns had been under “continuous examination” by the I.R.S. since 2002, and that the audit for his tax returns since 2009 was ongoing. Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said in an interview that it could be normal for an audit for a taxpayer like Mr. Trump to take anywhere from six to eight years for each year filed. He called Ms. Dillon’s letter “on the mark” and said that presidents were automatically audited each year while in office. But he said there was no legal reason for Mr. Trump to hold back his tax returns. “The excuse that he’s under audit is a non-excuse,” Mr. Rosenthal said. “He’s always under audit.” After Mr. Trump won the election, he added another reason beyond the audit for why he was withholding his returns. In May 2017, he told The Economist that only journalists cared about his tax returns, and that he might not release them until he left office. “Maybe I’ll release them after I’m finished because I’m very proud of them actually,” Mr. Trump said. “I did a good job.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/politics/trump-taxes.html

Let me just answer the question about whether right wingers actually believe Trump’s absurd quack appointments are qualified. It’s like asking if they believe all the fake and outrageous claims they make like Obama birtherism or immigrants eating people’s pets. The answer is they don’t care if they’re qualified. Just like they don’t CARE if the things Trump and Tucker Carlson tell them to believe are true. It’s not even something they stop to think about, truth and facts and qualifications are 100% irrelevant to them Its not like they ever moderate their view or stop repeating lies when they learn they’ve untrue, nor would they change their opinion of a trump appointee if they learned his qualifications were insufficient. Hell, so many Trump supporters have never achieved any qualifications of their own why would they care about someone else’s? Undying loyalty to Trump is literally all that matters to these people. Like cult follower worshipping their cult leader or faithful slaves grovelling before their master, praising Trump no matter what and agreeing with anything he says or does is 100% of their cognitive process if you can even call it that

As Canada leads a beefed-up NATO force near Russia's border, the alliance prepares for Trump Officials say Canada is leading its largest international military exercise since the 1980s Briar Stewart · CBC News · Posted: Nov 15, 2024 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: November 15 Cpl. Guillaume Lavoie and Cpl. Matthew Bowler from Quebec show a defensive position in a trench during Resolute Warrior military exercises in Latvia. (Corrinne Seminoff/CBC) At the sprawling forested Ādaži military base, north east of Riga, Latvia, Capt. Harrison Burrows is one of more than 3,000 troops who has spent the past two weeks participating in a Canadian-led NATO military exercise designed to simulate an attack on the Baltic nation coming from beyond its nearly 300 km-long border with Russia. It's the first exercise held in Latvia since the military forces in the country were scaled up to a multinational brigade, also led by Canada, that is made up of troops and equipment from more than 13 nations. "I would say 50 per cent if not more things that you see here today weren't actually here earlier this summer," Burrows said to CBC News during a press tour to the base on Wednesday, where combat vehicles, weaponry and a radar system were on display. During the past six months of his deployment, Burrows, who is normally based at CFB Valcartier, witnessed how the various military units, and different pieces of equipment were integrated into a larger force as part of an effort to bolster NATO's eastern flank. Capt. Harrison Burrows gives a tour to media during a two-week military exercise led by Canada at Ādaži military base, north east of Riga, Latvia. (Jean-Francois Bisson/CBC) Asked about the U.S. presidential election, Burrows admitted that there was talk among troops around what would change after president-elect Donald Trump is sworn in in January. "There's been low-level discussions, but at the end of the day, our our mandate is for NATO," said Burrows. The Nov. 5 election of Donald Trump could potentially create friction in the 32 member alliance, given his past warnings that the U.S. will leave NATO nations to their own defences if they don't spend more on defence. WATCH | Canadian-led military brigade practises in Latvia: Canadian troops practise taking back territory in NATO war games Canadian forces and other NATO troops practise taking back territory from enemy forces in the Resolute Warrior military exercise near Riga, Latvia. The Canadian-led exercise involved 13 NATO countries and over 3,500 troops, of which 2,200 were Canadian. Pressure expected from Trump In February on the campaign trail Trump even said he would encourage Russia to do "whatever" it wants to allies that don't pay up. While at the time the White House called those comments "appalling and unhinged," NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte, who previously served as the prime minister of the Netherlands and frequently met with Trump during his first term as president, describes Trump as someone who tries to invigorate the debate about defence spending. Smoke bombs go off during the military exercises. Canada expanded its deployment in Latvia in 2023, and is committed until at least 2026. (Corinne Seminoff/CBC) "No doubt he will push [NATO countries] again to do more, to take a bigger share of the burden, which is only fair," Rutte said in an interview with CBC News while attending the final day of the military exercises at Camp Ādaži. "The U.S. is about 50 per cent of NATO's economy, but they are doing more than 50 per cent of defence spending at the moment." WATCH | NATO expecting pressure from Trump for more spending from members: NATO chief expects Trump to renew push on defence spending in 2nd term NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who was in Latvia this week for NATO exercises, says in his first term as U.S. president Donald Trump 'really invigorated' the debate about defence spending — something Rutte expects to hear more about when Trump takes office again. In 2023, the U.S. spent more than $900 billion US on defence, which accounts for more than 65 per cent of NATO's overall military spending. While NATO allies are expected to spend two per cent of their gross domestic product [GDP] on defence, a quarter of members don't, including Canada, which is expected to spend under 1.4 per cent this year. While Rutte says all NATO members need to spend "considerably more" than two per cent on defence, he pointed to Canada's leadership of the multinational brigade as evidence of its commitment to supporting the security priorities of the alliance. Cpl. Youssef Zitouni and Cpl. Oliver Hutpays demonstrate how they would observe enemy movements from a trench during the exercises. (Corinne Seminoff/CBC) Canada deployed until 2026 Canada's deployment to Latvia began in 2017 when hundreds of soldiers were stationed there as a part of a battlegroup. In 2023, Canada committed $2. 6 billion to expand and continue the deployment until 2026. Gen. Jennie Carignan, Canada's chief of the defence staff told CBC News that she anticipates Canada's largest international deployment to continue well beyond that. "I think considering the actions of Russia and what's going on in terms of threats, we can expect Canada to be here for a long time." Most of the Canadian troops deployed to Latvia are on six-month rotations, and in January, for the first time, Sweden will be sending 600 troops as part of its first deployment as a new NATO member, having joined the alliance in March 2024. Latvia, which was part of the Soviet Union until 1991 and has a large Russian population, fears that the Kremlin could try to take some of its territory. WATCH | Defence chief says military-to-military relationship with U.S. 'very durable': Military-to-military relationship between Canada and U.S. 'very durable,' defence chief says Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan, speaking from Latvia where Canadian troops were participating in NATO exercises, says questions about incoming U.S. president Donald Trump are in the 'high policy domain' — but she stressed the relationship between the two militaries is stable and 'not going to change.' Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs expressed gratitude for Canada's commitment and hopes to see more investment, particularly in air defence. Canada says two additional air defence systems will be put in place in Latvia in 2026, and 2027. "We all know what we need," said Rinkēvičs who added that NATO countries could learn from Russia, which ramped up military production and is planning to spend over six per cent of its GDP on defence in 2025. "We still are all living in a kind of land of hope. Unfortunately, we must face reality." WATCH | The mission could last beyond 2026, Canada's top soldier says: Beefed up Canadian-led NATO mission in Latvia preps for the long haul Canada is leading a beefed up multinational NATO training mission in Latvia, which shares a 300-kilometre-long border with Russia, at an uncertain time for the military alliance. Canada's top soldier says the mission could last beyond 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nato-latvia-canada-exercises-1.7383391

Yeah this older article here suggests they showcased the 10x10 but I guess in typical fashion CAF went for something cheaper. Nonetheless the materials all state that the 8x8 can handle the LAV 6 and the entire wheeled fleet in fact thats is stated as the reason for the purchase

I honestly thought the Bombers would take it with Argos playing with their backup QB but the Toronto D did their job and the Argos ran away with it in the second half. Congratulations to Toronto. Tough break for Collaros as they lose their 3rd straight GC

Its not otherwise the same as the commercial model, its just based on the same chassis.

Recovery Vehicles, AKA “Wreckers” are different from tow trucks even in the civilian world. Tow trucks simply pull a vehicle behind them but Wreckers have the power and special equipment like booms for lifting up vehicles for example if they’ve flipped over or become stuck where they can’t be towed such as in a ditch or body of water. Also these particular vehicles will also have cargo handling and other capabilities

An ideological rant about City of Toronto’s protocol for public events that in fact has nothing to do with Trudeau despite the article’s subtitle. Trudeau Derangement Syndrome is alive and well. Let’s try to keep this thread about news and discussion not politically-motivated rants like every other thread

1) So you admit that deficit spending during economic downturn is good for the economy? Whatever happened to your nonsense about “ FDR’s deficit spending prolonged the Great Depression” amd your criticism of liberal/ democrat deficit spending during economic downturns? You suddenly seem to reverse your opinion when it’s politically convenient 2) Harper ran 7 straight deficits , the recession didn’t last 7 years, it lasted less than 1 year. 3) Don’t take your eyes off the ball : I’m not criticizing his deficit but challenging your assertion that he massively cut spending without cutting services He cut cut services and still ran deficits Harper might be the closest thing to any Republican or conservative ever cutting federal budgets without absolutely gutting core services, all other cases they either ran huge deficits or destroyed public services Sure it is, he changed it from a guarantee of 6% to a guarantee of only 3% with the rest being variable. His formula also didn’t allow for adjustments due to inflation or demographic changes meaning that funding it declined on a per capita basis That’s an opinion piece written by a Republican think tank the Heartland Institute What the author of that article is trying to give Trump credit for is child tax credit, which was also part of that tax reform bill but most republicans opposed it but it was pushed through in congress as a compromise. The amount that middle class taxpayers received as a result of Trump’s reduced tax rates was minimal Jobs come from employers, which are companies with various ownership structures not necessarily from “rich people “ directly. Most companies are not owned by some plutocrat who rules by decree. Furthermore those companies already have tax breaks and loopholes and offshore accounts up ying-yang anyway. When a “rich person” “creates jobs” they do it via a business the taxes are paid by the company at the corporate tax rate. You’re a complete ****** of you think jobs are created because some “rich person” got a reduction to his personal tax return and pays employees out of his personal finances . It’s not dishonest but of course you’re including Biden’s covid spending and Biden had to deal with covid-related issues longer than Trump did. Also AFAIK Biden’s isn’t yet confirmed to he higher if you have proof, link it. Huh? Allowing polluters to poison drinking water and the air we breathe isn’t fixing problems. Allowing financial institutions to treat financial markets like a casino and gamble with citizens’ money isn’t fixing problems. When Trump killed an Obama era law prohibiting financial advisors from misleading clients isn’t fixing problems. Those create problems. And it’s hilarious that you would even utter the word “truth” because Trump is the last human being on earth to know or care about the truth, the Republican party and its ecosystem of fake news propagandists across traditional and social media have followed him into an entire alternate reality universe of fake news. LOL that’s never been true and you’re just bullshitting again as you often do . That’s why you can’t even muster a link or more than one sentence to support your claim. I know you like to b1txh and moan it when I bury your bullshit zero-evidence made up claims with a mountain of reality so Ill keep it to just 3 links this time Billionaires lean towards republicans at every level of government but they lean away from Trump specifically. For example in the 2024 election, 83 billionaires openly supported Biden/Harris vs 52 for Trump, because of Republican billionaires who just have problems with Trump specifically due to his chaotic and incoherent platform and the clown car of random kooks and grifters in his orbit. And that’s been true of all Trump’s elections since 2016 but it doesn’t translate to congress or state level elections where billionaires continue to lean right as they did at every level prior to 2016 For example Musk supported mostly republicans in 2020 but supported Biden for president Ken Griffin is another prominent billionaire who supported mostly republicans but Biden and Harris for presidential races Of the total $1.9 billion spent by America’s richest families on all federal campaigns, $1.36 billion (72%) went to support Republicans while Democrats were buoyed by about $413 million (22%). (The remaining 6% backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid and other causes). https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaire-clans-spend-nearly-2-billion-2024-elections/?doing_wp_cron=1731767504.2176749706268310546875 A recent Gallup poll shows that 28% of Americans identify as Republicans, 27% identify as Democrats and 42% identify as independents. Our billionaire cohort skewed farther right: 43% Republicans, 24% Democrats and 33% independents https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2020/10/20/even-americas-billionaires-are-tilting-toward-biden-in-the-2020-presidential-race/ American billionaires’ political spending overwhelmingly leans Republican https://qz.com/american-billionaires-political-spending-overwhelmingl-1849751449 The wealthy can’t control the outcome of elections (yet) but they have ENORMOUS influence over whoever wins the election and the people making the day-to-day decisions at all levels of government. They also control who gets on the ballot in the first place In the USA where everyone down to the proverbial town dogcatcher is elected that also includes countless judges, prosecutors, sheriffs, public utilities officials, and so on of every sort and at every level. That’s your alternative reality where you and your select live memory purposely ignore inconvenient facts The culture war started ling before Obama, more than a decade before actually. Right around the time Fox News came on the air. Fox News propagandist and sexual predator Bill O’Reilly even came out with a book back then called “Culture Warrior”. Back then it was all this nonsense about “the war on Christmas” and gay marriage and evil marijuana and praying in schools Back in the Bill Clinton era of the late 90s there was a general sense of prosperity and optimism and the economy was doing well so Republicans had nothing else to go on except culture war garbage and of course climate denialism After 9/11 Republicans made the culture war about evil Muslims and claiming democrats support terrorism, then there was Obama Birtherism lies of which Trump became a promoter, as well as lies about Obamacare being a secret plot to set up “government death panels” and then of course you have Alex Jones. And Im just talking about when Republican hate became mainstream in the party. As Ive told you repeatedly, Republicans have a long history hate-mongers like Rush Limbaugh, John Birch Society, Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts, and the Nazi-admiring republicans who conspired to stage a coup against FDR. Obama and Dems rightly denouncing overt acts of racism isn’t hateful, and its not hateful when the justice system enforces the laws without giving special treatment to republican crooks. You didn’t prove anything false you just spewed more your bullshit without providing any support. You’re the one easily proven false when you state massive lies like Bush delivered balanced budgets. The pattern with you is: you make up some bullshit amd don’t even try to offer any evidence to support it, I prove you false with evidence, then you don’t even acknowledge it and pretend it didn’t happen, then you falsely claim that you proved me false. That’s typical for how republicans operate these days. .

Rheinmetall to Supply Canada with 85 MAN HX 8x8 Trucks Providing Enhanced Recovery Capability Released on Thursday, November 14, 2024 Rheinmetall wins Canada’s Enhanced Recovery Capability (ERC) project - 85 HX 8x8 tactical trucks will be delivered to the Canadian Armed Forces - The contract is worth $325 million CAD (around €215 million) and will last 5 years - Additional service agreement worth $28.9 million CAD (around €20 million) - First truck to be delivered in 2027 The Canadian government has awarded Rheinmetall a major order for the production of 85 heavy recovery vehicles to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as part of the Enhanced Recovery Capability (ERC) project. The five-year purchase agreement, worth $325 million CAD (around €215 million), includes vehicles, recovery equipment and other modifications. The first deliveries are scheduled for 2027. A supplementary $28.9 million CAD (around €20 million) multi-year in-service support contract has also been awarded to Rheinmetall. Serving as prime contractor, Rheinmetall Canada will replace the CAF’s heavy logistic vehicle wheeled recovery fleet with 85 HX 8x8 trucks, each equipped with a heavy towing and recovery module. This will provide the CAF with enhanced capabilities to effectively recover and tow their latest generation of heavier armoured and logistical vehicles. The new HX heavy recovery vehicles also provide additional capabilities, such as an integrated rotary crane that can be used for container handling and for other crane work. Rheinmetall HX: a best-in-class, combat-proven flagship Purpose-built for military end users and characterized by high mobility, reliability, and durability, the HX represents a long-term solution for Canada. It will provide logistic support to combat forces anywhere on the battlefield, even in the most stringent conditions. The HX recovery truck will also offer a high level of protection, significantly increasing soldiers’ survivability and mission success. In terms of maturity, Rheinmetall’s flagship has been reliably serving military customers in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Slovenia, Singapore, and Japan in a variety of operational scenarios, from domestic disaster relief and humanitarian support, to combat operations in harsh operating battlefield environments encountered in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Mali. This international distribution of HX trucks brings major advantages when it comes to interoperability and logistics among NATO partners The ERC team: world-leading partners offering a unique solution The ERC project team will be led by Rheinmetall Canada, a leading system integrator in the defence and security industry. Rheinmetall Canada will be supported by Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles, a German-Austrian world-leading logistic vehicle manufacturer; Miller Industries Towing Equipment, a premier supplier of towing and recovery equipment located in the United States; and Rotzler Holding, a leading manufacturer of hydraulic winches and winch systems based in Germany with operations in Canada. “Together, this strong team will provide a sophisticated best-in-class recovery solution that will enable the CAF to fulfil its tasks in support of Canadian national interests. This vehicle is an extraordinary system which will meet Canada’s needs for decades to come. Moreover, Canada is now joining an elite group of operators of the HX recovery platform and will benefit from other nations’ experience with the system.” stated Pietro Mazzei, President and CEO of Rheinmetall Canada. “We are very grateful to be able to welcome Canada as a new member of the HX user group,” stated Michael Wittlinger, CEO of Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles. “With the heavy recovery vehicle, the HX fleet is now prominently represented on the North American continent for the first time. Our mission-proven vehicle family is increasingly becoming the backbone of the logistics forces of NATO and allied nations.” Significant industrial and economic benefits for Canada The benefits of the ERC project will be felt across Canada: it will create high-tech career opportunities at both Rheinmetall Canada and its Canadian suppliers, in addition to generating a number of valuable investments throughout the country. With over 1,5 billion Canadian Dollars in Industrial Technological Benefits (ITB) and Industrial and Regional Benefits (IRB) credited since the company was founded just over 35 years ago, Rheinmetall Canada is one of the leading companies for delivering ITBs, IRBs, job creation, and economic growth to Canada. Source: Rheinmetall to deliver Canada’s Enhanced Recovery Capability project worth over $300 million CAD

Why would they purposely buy open vehicles for assaulting enemy positions when they already have LAVs? Not every vehicle in the fleet is for direct assault

Gaetz Resigns From House Before Ethics Report Can Be Released Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Wednesday “effective immediately,” according to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., just hours after President-elect Donald Trump tapped him as the next attorney general—and reportedly days before the House Ethics Committee was preparing to release a report on sexual misconduct and drug allegations against him. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/11/14/gaetz-resigns-from-house-before-ethics-report-could-be-released/ The Attorney General, ladies and gentlemen.

RKD Je as health secretary. LOL Yet another preposterously unqualified hack out of the Konservative Klown Kar. Up next: Alex Jones as Secretary of School Safety Hey Speaking of the sleazy conservative AJ, the Onion bought up his Infowars business at a bankruptcy auction today with the support of the Sandy Hook Parents That was unexpected

Harper ran deficits for almost hi entire time in office and gutted environmental and pollution control programs. Cutting programs you personally disagree with for ideological reasons like isn’t “efficiency”. Efficiency is when you run the same programs with less waste is pretty hard to do at scale. Regarding health and social transfers to provinces he actually REDUCED the amount of budgeted year-over year increases. It’s like when the Trudeau government cut $1Bn from the military budget and then claimed they were increasing military spending it’s like yeah but now you’re increasing it by $1Bn per year LESS than what was already in the last budget. Anyway Harper’s government was more similar to Chretien-Martin Liberals than it was different, he’s not the worst of the bunch. Examples of disastrous slash and burn tax and budget cuts are Mike Harris, Sam Brownback, Liz Truss, George W Bush (more on him below) Where has that been debunked? 80% of Trump’s 2017 tax cut went to the wealthiest 10%. https://equitablegrowth.org/six-years-later-more-evidence-shows-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-benefits-u-s-business-owners-and-executives-not-average-workers/ In October 2017, the Council of Economic Advisers estimated that the corporate tax cut contained within the TCJA would increase real median household income by $3,000 to $7,000 annually.[128]However, during the first year following enactment of the TCJA, real median household income increased by $553; the Census Bureau characterized this increase as statistically insignificant.[12 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act More trickle-down nonsense that’s been debunked over and over. You think the reason Elon Musk isn’t hiring more people or starting more businesses is because he’s too broke from paying too much taxes? When rich people want to invest they don’t empty their piggybanks or only invest what they have to spare from their current income. When they want to invest they borrow the funds using their almost unlimited credit . Borrowing is economic growth, economic growth is borrowing. You can’t have one without the other. New wealth is only created when one party lends money to another and receives a greater amount in return over time. Secondly rich people and investors don’t always create jobs. Sometimes they buy up companies just to fire everyone and liquidate its assets. Look at Sears as but one example, a storied successful company sucked dry by a predatory hedge fund that just funnelled all corporate profits and assets to itself for years until there was nothing of value left and the business was no longer visible. Or they buy up a company with a reputation for making a quality product then they transform it into a company that makes cheap low quality products and/or outsource production to some overseas contractors in someplace like China. Because if you understand how averages work you’ll understand how USA also has one of the highest levels of wealth inequality and also one of the highest poverty rates in the G7. Imagine 2 desert islands: on one desert island, all ten inhabitants have between $50,000 and $250,000 with an average wealth of $100,000 per capita. On the second island the average wealth is higher at $150,000 per capita but on closer inspection 1 man has $1.5 million and the other 9 have nothing. You’re celebrating island 2 because it has a millionaire and higher average wealth per capita but in reality unless you’re that one millionaire your life is probably pretty miserable and you have nothing, that millionaire probably rules your life. Thats how it’s a bad thing. LMAO FALSE. Have we started the second Trump era false history gaslighting already? Sorry your statement above is so opposite-of-reality false I can’t help but roast you for it, it’s like saying “nobody hires more black leaders than the KKK” that’s how false it is Not only wee there no surpluses inder Bush there were MASSIVE deficits due to his tax cuts, his disastrous and criminally fraudulent unjustified invasion of Iraq and the unprecedented economic collapse that occurred under his regime. The Gross national debt almost doubled under George W Bush from $5.7 trillion to nearly $11 trillion and there were deficits in Every. Single. Year. No republican has run a balanced budget since 1960, and it wasn’t even consecutive balanced budgets back then, bucko. Clinton’s 4 back to back balanced budgets have been among the few in the post-war era, Eisenhower had 2 in ‘56 and ‘60 and Johnson had 1 in ‘69. So to recap: that’s 5 under 2 different Democrats (including 4 in a row) and 2 non-consecutive under the last honourable Republican president, who left office almost 65 years ago. Trump accumulated more debt in a single term than any president in US history, adding $7.8 trillion during his first term. So far Biden has not surpassed his record (although some think he might once the final numbers are in). No not taxes. When the federal government decides to give handouts to the free-riding red states that’s their spending decision. If your definition of efficiency is cutting wasteful programs then the Red state subsidy program should be ended. What are the feds getting for it anyway? Red staters hat the federal government You’re right it does large have to do with the fact that Democrat states are more prosperous where the standard of living is higher there are more successful businesses and people are generally wealthier but that just disproves everything you believe about conservatives being good for business and the economy and liberals being bad. It also disproves nonsense about we need to coddle the rich or they’ll all move to shithole countries like Somalia Haiti where there are no laws or Taxes. Hell they won’t even move to shithole states like Mississippi or Oklahoma or Alabama! Your also right in that you did have a swing and a miss. Conservatives use that an excuse to deregulate everything that stands in the way of their crony capitalists making money at other people’s expense. I call BS, the numbers slightly favour Republicans. Case in point: billionaire Trump and his 2 billionaire appointees. In every society the right has always been the party of the wealthiest elite because political conservatism by definition means “preserving the existing social order” whatever that may be, so naturally those who benefit most from the existing social order are more likely to want it preserved They can’t control election results but they have enormous influence over whoever is in power at every level of government no matter what party they belong to and they play both sides. They can make any politician dance on a string. Sorry the only hate mongering have been republicans. They don’t even have a single policy or vision foe the country that doesn’t involve going after the people they hate. They can’t complete a single sentence or convey am single idea that doesn’t involve ranting about immigrants and liberals and gays and trans and so on. All the different groups of people they’re going go after and get their “retribution” on. That’s all they talk about. Always calling everyone a communist and a Marxist. Even when they tey to talk about something else they can’t finish their thought without adding in a rant about the evil radical leftists. Happy prosperous people don’t get some venomous over abstract concepts like intersectional identities etc, they only get upset when more practical problems like economic insecurity -their own or the country in general- have them on edge

Edmonton likely location for western base for the RCAF CC-330 Husky The Department of National Defence (DND) is in negotiations with the Edmonton International Airport (YEG) to formalize an agreement for the location of the new Main Operating Base-West (MOB-West) for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) CC-330 Husky fleet. In March 2024, the DND confirmed 8 Wing Trenton, Ont., as its MOB-East location for the Strategic Tanker Transport Capability fleet and provided $850 million to design a two-bay hangar and upgrade the apron, runway, taxiways and other supporting infrastructure. The department has yet to name a primary forward operating location in the North. Under a $3.6 billion contract with Airbus Defence and Space, announced in July 2023, the RCAF is acquiring four new A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft and will also convert four of five recently acquired used A330-200 aircraft to the MRTT configuration. The nine aircraft, designated the CC-330 Husky, are replacing the RCAF fleet of five CP-150 Polaris aircraft, two of which are configured for tanking. The Air Force has begun receiving the CC-330s in their commercial configuration for transport missions. The first MRTT configured aircraft is expected to begin operations in 2027, and the RCAF is anticipating reaching initial operational capability for the fleet in 2028-2029. The nine Huskies will be split between the two MOB locations. The new MOB-West location is expected to include a hangar, operations, maintenance, logistics/warehousing, and training and administrative spaces to support RCAF operations for the CC-330 Husky aircraft. The MRTT investment is part of Canada’s $38.6 billion North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Modernization Plan, announced in June 2022, which represents the most significant upgrade to Canada’s NORAD capabilities in almost four decades. The DND said it will be completing further due diligence activities, environmental reviews, site studies, and land value assessment activities in the coming months for the MOB-West location before taking the final step of formalizing an agreement with the Edmonton International Airport. The related project scope and cost estimates will also be finalized once negotiations conclude. “The Main Operating Base – West for Canada’s CC-330 Husky fleet enables the RCAF to better support its commitments to NORAD and will be key to enabling the RCAF to secure our Arctic airspace,” stated RCAF Commander LGen Eric Kenny. “The CC-330 Husky will provide the RCAF with increased flexibility to fulfill a variety of air mobility missions in support of operations and training activities within Canada, as part of NORAD, its Arctic region, and around the world. The CC-330 Husky provides the Canadian Armed Forces with a modern air-to-air refuelling, passenger transport, aeromedical evacuation, and strategic transport of Government of Canada officials, that is reflective of a fifth-generation air and space force.” https://skiesmag.com/news/edmonton-likely-location-western-base-rcaf-cc-330-husky/ Why a commercial airport in Edmonton instead of CFB Cold Lake where the fighters they’ll be refuelling are? I guess it’s more about transporting army than supporting the fighters

It’s been said many times now that this vehicle is not for assaulting enemy defences it is for is for transport activities they currently do on foot, snowmobile or ATV

You’re so emotionally invested in Trumpism and republicans you identify with them and see the world through their eyes.