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Translation: she doesn’t worship my cult leader that means she’s a hateful low class ho! There was nothing hateful or low class about it MAGA is a cult built on hateful rhetoric and a celebration of low class behaviour. A lifetime of Michelle Obama’s apt criticism of Trump wouldn’t amount to 2 minutes of low class hate that any and every MAGA dishes out daily. And your racist insult of calling her a ho from the streets is a perfect example. And yet in reality YOU are a low class ho from the streets as evidenced by your conduct and the fact you are a high school dropout.

Ok well now something definitely doesn’t add up because dental work is fully private up here just as it is in the USA and not part of public healthcare. People pay for dental with private plans from their employer, which will almost never cover dental expenses incurred in another country. Dental offices are everywhere and there are no wait times. There is literally ZERO incentive or reason for anyone to cross the border for dental care. AND as an added advantage it costs less than the states because the price controls for drugs and other factors that contain costs in the medical system also contain costs on the dental system I actually know quite a bit about the US system. My dad was a doctor who practiced on both sides of the border, I went to university in the US and lived there for 5 years, and my career has involved working with both US and Canadian employer benefit plans.

It’s one thing to complain about the build quality of a vehicle it’s another to complain about the role and concept The complaints seem to be mostly about the role and concept of a light infantry/paratroop vehicle that can be transported by helicopter and dropped by parachute. But the Army has been working on the light infantry vehicle concept since 2017, its not something that was suddenly foisted upon them by the political leadership. Same in the USA. Which is why Canada and US have been using M-RZRS and SPEC Ops have been using Dagors. The primary reason is that near-peer adversaries have advanced in long-range air defence so airmobile/airborne troops must be dropped further and further away from their objective, up to 100km away apparently. Without a vehicle they are covering that distance on foot. Note this doesn’t mean they’re taking the vehicle all the way to the enemy, they’re going part of the way then stashing the vehicle and finishing the route on foot Here’s another scenario: Light infantry is deployed to an urban environment to take up defensive positions inside the town’s buildings and structures. On short notice, a platoon is ordered to reposition from one side of town to the other, or to another nearby town The LI vehicle allows them to do so much more rapidly so they can be in place before the enemy arrives Note that the LI procurement project is still open and ongoing. This is a limited interim purchase that was fast/tracked for Latvia and will be used to refine the requirements for the actual purchase. As the article I posted earlier states, quick delivery in 2024 was a requirement for the interim vehicle purchase. It would be interesting to know what other options there were. Interesting to note that mounted weapons are a requirement for the final vehicle to be chosen, but there’s no mention of them for this vehicle and I think that’s because it’s an interim vehicle and they’re still learning and refining requirements, tactics doctrine etc so have no intention of getting this vehicle anywhere near the enemy for now. However the future vehicle still to be selected I believe could be used for “light reconnaissance”, ie scouting so would theoretically employ weapons under some circumstances. The US Marines have had all sorts of light and ultralight vehicles with heavy weapons mounted they even have a VSHORAD Polaris MRZR ATV BTW I am no fan of TAPV especially for the reconnaissance role they’ve pushed it into while the develop the coyote replacement. MAYBE it has usefulness as a MRAP but MRAPs are so GWOT/COIN that’s why the US military dumped so many on law enforcement about a decade ago.

Americans don’t necessarily have more control. Their employer decides what insurance they can have and their insurance company decides what treatment they can have. This means many people who live with illness or conditions are also permanently tied to their employer because changing jobs could interfere with their coverage and treatment. Before Obamacare, “pre-existing conditions” clauses in most insurance policies made it almost completely impossible for someone with a diagnosed illness to change employers because the they would be excluded from coverage under the new employer’s plan. Obamacare outlawed this and Trump tried and failed to repeal that provision The main thing Canadians can’t control are wait times although they can ask for referral to providers with shorter wait times and a lot of workplaces offer mediation opinion seras a benefit which can help people navigate the system and wait times. JFC I never said that. I said only the very rich could afford to pay for care out of pocket with no insurance. Everyone else pays for insurance and pays thousands of dollars a year more than Canadians. I honestly don’t know how many more different ways I can say that so you understand.

Oh gosh well if you occasionally talk to Canadians you must be more more knowledgeable than ACTUAL Canadians. 🙄 Next time you talk to talk to one, ask them point blank if they would prefer the US system. Canadian healthcare is by far the most popular policy in Canada and has been for generations, right across all party lines. It’s true, it’s not perfect and the cult of austerity which has haunted North America since Reagan-Thatcher has left it insufficiently funded to the point that there can be long waits in ER for non-urgent conditions. It needs improvement but few people want to scrap it altogether for an American system where you’re out of pocket thousands more if youre healthy and tens of thousands more if youre not and denied care altogether if you have can’t afford what is needed

That’s not true at all! You’re just lying now because what Ive said isn’t convenient for you. Or you’re just doing that thing you right wing nut-jobs always do where you just lobotomize yourself delete it from your memory. How do you just blank your memory like that? Tell me is it a knitting needle through the eye socket or do snort bleach or what? I’ve provided you the numbers repeatedly. I’ve explained to you that Americans some form of coverage doesn’t mean they can afford healthcare. You’re so uneducated in the topic you think “having coverage” means they have comprehensive coverage comparable to Canadians but as Ive tried to get through your thick skull, it doesn’t. Not even close. Not even for the best and most expensive insurance plans. That’s why I told you there are 60 million underinsured Americans, nearly a third of Americans can’t afford healthcare even if they have insurance because all many can only afford shitty insurance that doesn’t adequately cover them if they can afford insurance at all, to which you basically replied “umm derp me no get it, me change subject!!” I am getting frustrated because ONCE AGAIN you wade in a topic that you know very little about and get in way over your head then you try to bluff your way out with your characteristic bullshitting, lying and personal attacks To reiterate: 1) Unless they’re very rich, Americans will have to buy Health Insurance 2) Americans who buy Health Insurance pay more for coverage than Canadians pay in healthcare taxes and private supplementary coverage 3) Americans who have Health Insurance still have less coverage than Canadians, many have such poor coverage they still can’t afford access the healthcare they need or go bankrupt as a result 4) Americans who pay for drugs and healthcare services pay more for the same service than Canadians

The TAPV wasn’t requested by the Army, DND decided that Army requirements for a Coyote replacement and MRAP replacement could be merged into one vehicle that’s not ideal for either role. The LTV is neither a combat platform nor an admin vehicle, those are not the only 2 options. Again you have no objections to light infantry using MRZR whey would you object to this is just a sturdier MRZR that can carry am entire infantry section

It’s certainly not a “new low”, but is yet another example of how dishonest and desperate the Trump campaign is that they use AI to fake support of popular celebrities, thinking it will get them votes from the celebrity’s fans.

Ok you’re proving yet again you have no idea what you’re talking about and are just making shit up again. Regarding the problem of Americans without adequate healthcare coverage who can’t get the care they need or go they count and they’re part id the problem You can’t just arbitrarily declare that somehow they don’t count in this discussion because it’s inconvenient to your uninformed opinion Ok so now the goalposts are moved again, now to discuss all taxes not just healthcare costs. While there are high tax jurisdictions in the USA and some very low ones, I don’t think anyone would disagree with a general statement that the tax burden in the US is generally lower than in Canada. But that’s going to vary depending on the amount and type of income, jurisdiction and so on. I’ve seen older studies suggesting Canadians in general pay 5% more tax. Chat GPT thinks its “5% to 10%” more including EI, CPP, etc. Now that’s before you factor in US health insurance premiums Now note that Canadian health insurance is included in this figure but US Health insurance isn’t. Chat gpt says that on average, Americans spend 7% to 10% of their annual income on health insurance premiums which roughly puts them on par or even slightly worse off than Canadians. Plus since you’ve expanded the topic beyond health care while we pay more taxes we also get more and better public services with fewer if any out of pocket costs: from transit to education to safe drinking water to air traffic control to maternity/parental leave benefits to just being able to access services through a service Canada or Service Ontario website or office..meanwhile USA is still very analog and fragmented and any public service funded is shitty by design. And we have better social outcomes as result with less crime and poverty social ills, etc. Unless you’re on a FN Reserve anyway Americans pay A LOT MORE. Not a little more. At every stage. Twice as much or more just to have coverage, 2-3 times more on average for drugs or for care when they receive it. Famously US has allowed price gouging US drug companies to jack the price of insulin, a drug they didn’t invent or develop, to US to $300-$400 or more while in Canada it is still only $30. That’s a 10x price increase and it’s not the only one. US did the same with epipen and then there’s the shit that Martin Shkrelli dirtbag pulled when he bought up a live-saving HIV drug and increased the price by 5,000% (BTW, all that price gouging was defended and protected by Republicans in the name of “free market”). All this to say Americans pay a HELL of a lot more. Not “a little more” *sigh* you really can’t follow along can you? Let’s try this again: Go through these ine at a time ok ? Have someone read it to you if it’s easier 1) Unless they’re very rich, Americans will have to buy Health Insurance 2) Americans who buy Health Insurance pay more for coverage than Canadians pay in healthcare taxes and private supplementary coverage 3) Americans who have Health Insurance still less coverage than Canadians, many have such poor coverage they still can’t afford access the healthcare they need or go bankrupt as a result 4) Americans who pay for drugs and healthcare services pay more for the same service than Canadians No you’re confusing paying for health insurance with paying for healthcare. See above. LMAO you don’t get it at and you’re so twisted and turned around you have confused yourself and true to form you’re lashing out. One more time: Only rich people can afford health CARE. Everyone else INCLUDING YOU has to buy Health INSURANCE because paying directly for care is unaffordable. Canadians buy their health insurance through a public single payer system which costs you significantly less than Americans’ private system In our system, someone else will get treated before you if they are sicker than you, not because they’re richer than you and can pay for a VIP line.

There are and always will be tasking and missions that require troops to operate on foot which is why light infantry exists As for your claim that this requirement was invented by the liberal government and not the army itself, not only does it lack evidence but you’ve been provided evidence to the contrary. Don’t let your rabid Trudeau Derangement Syndrome lead you astray. There are more than enough reasons to criticize them heavily on the defence file without having to fabricate crazy irrational ones.

Clearly he is not actually “wishing” for that to happen to Vance He’s obviously saying if Vance would not hold such beliefs if such a thing had happened to his daughter. “Oh yeah? Let it happen to you and then see what you say” is a common expression people use

No. Dismounted forces will be conducting the taskings that call for dismounted forces. The vehicle is just what they will use to move long distances in, instead of walking or school buses. Why is that so hard to understand?

Because only light infantry can fight from tenches, from inside buildings, in forests and other terrain where heavy vehicles can’t go. And light infantry can deploy faster. You can’t surge mech infantry into theatre in a matter of hours so LI is the surge force. It’s not unheard of to attach LI Bn to a mech brigade. Itself a combined arms force where different assets have different roles. As for the MRZR I’m not sure what it’s future is but it was found to be too light a platform for weapons, the .50 in particular was completely unusable because the vehicle bounced too much Can your light off-road vehicle handle a .50 cal? ..,The battalions have in general given the capability favourable reviews. The MRZR-Ds have proven the Army’s concept of getting soldiers and gear to a target more quickly and in better condition than if they had hiked in on foot. But the off-road tests revealed the need for a sturdier platform to navigate obstacle crossings in wetlands, forests, and other difficult terrain. … https://canadianarmytoday.com/can-your-light-off-road-vehicle-handle-a-50-cal/ Notably the new LTV currently has no weapons capability, and is only being used for mobility. I assume that’s because it’s an interim vehicle that they will still be evaluating tactics and refining their requirements for the actual LFE vehicle they will finally acquire. I think people just don’t understand the vehicle’s mission and purpose. All the criticism centres around the expectation that it will be used like LAV or Bradley

No this came from the army not politicians they have been talking about acquiring thai capability for quite a while and evaluating different vehicles. I even posted an article about it from Canadian Army Today in this thread once where they fast-tracked a limited interim vehicle acquisition for Latvia, which is what this LTV is. AGAIN I will point out that US Army developed this vehicle and has purchased 2,500+ for 82nd Airborne and I believe also 101st Airborne Tactical vehicle on the fast track by Chris Thatcher If you are among the handful of companies considering submitting a proposal for the Light Tactical Vehicle (LTV) project, know this: If you don’t have vehicles in your warehouse ready to be shipped in the next months, put the brakes on your submission. Product availability and ability to meet the Army’s delivery schedule are two of the critical criteria for a rapid procurement project that will acquire up to 108 off-road vehicles for the brigade in Latvia. Since 2017, the Army has been kicking the proverbial tires on a tactical vehicle for the light infantry battalions, as well as reconnaissance, intelligence, electronic warfare, and other light units — a rugged four-wheel platform capable of transporting dismounted troops and their gear closer to an objective. …. While LFE remains ongoing, the Army has determined it will need light tactical vehicles in Latvia for dismounted sub-units and platoons within the mechanized battalions that will make up a significant portion of the Canadian-led multinational brigade. And, it will need them delivered, with trained operators, for a NATO exercise in November. Consequently, LFE is now being conducted in two phases. Under the LTV project, the Army will acquire up to 108 vehicles in the coming months, for delivery in early August. The legacy LFE project will then acquire up to 222 more vehicles in the coming years, informed in part by feedback from the units employing the first batch in Latvia.…. https://canadianarmytoday.com/tactical-vehicle-on-the-fast-track/ Tactical Mobility for Light Forces Dec 23, 2020 La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher When Canadian Army Light Forces next deploy into a conflict zone, it could be on a fleet of four-wheeled, lightweight, off-road vehicles. A request for information (RFI) went out to industry this fall to help the Directorate of Land Requirements project team fine-tune a capability that would help light infantry reach off-road objectives far quicker and easier than by foot. “I’ve written the statement of requirements (SOR) for this vehicle based on feedback from the user community and the Canadian Army Land Warfare Center (CALWC), and it will go out along with the RFI to gauge how much of it they can meet and at what cost,” said Major Tony Ross, the project director for what is known as Light Forces Enhancement (LFE). https://canadianarmytoday.com/tag/light-forces-enhancement/

It is for use outside the wire and offroad, as well as airdrop, air mobility which is why the original more civi version wasn’t up to snuff and they had to remaster it. I don’t think that guarantees it will see battle damage though. Look at the current Polaris MRZR ATVs that light forces currently use as your point of reference. This is like a MRZR that carries an entire infantry section

Well that’s some revisionism you got going on there. 1) The exponentially growing demand for electricity especially clean electricity has been widely known and foreseen for well over a decade. It’s not something that was just realized yesterday, which is why all those renewable contracts were created in Ontario and around the world Infrastructure takes years to build yo you don’t just build it to meet today’s demand but demand years in the future 2) The technology has not changed so much in six years that hundreds of millions of dollars had to be spent to scrap projects already signed and then desperately restart them a few years later with the completion goal ten years further on 3) To the extent that tech has evolved and prices have improved, it’s because renewable projects like the ones short-sighted Ford cancelled continued to thrive and grow exponentially in the rest of the world, even in the fossil fuel industry’s puppet states like Texas and Alberta and the Arabian Peninsula. The world was moving forward and Ontario along with it, until Doug came and started moving backwards, touting legacy energy sources that are increasingly becoming less relevant year over year. Now he’s desperately trying to catch up. 4) While it remains to be seen what subsidies Ford will offer, his recent willingness to generously subsidize EV facilities and his frantic rush to double renewable output in 10 years suggest there will be more subsidies to come. 5) The canceled contracts in 2018 included a variety of renewable energy types, including wind, solar, and bioenergy. While wind and solar were the most prominent, the cancellations affected a broad spectrum of renewable energy initiatives in Ontario. 6) Ford didn’t just cancel some “expensive” renewable energy projects in 2018, he paused the province’s renewable development entirely and built gas plants instead. The percentage of Ontario energy from non-emitting sources dropped by 5% as a result. Of note, Doug’s current plan also includes “recontracting” of existing renewable providers, something he could have explored 6 years ago I will remind you Ford once said he would tear down every windmill in the province if he could and he also ordered the removal of EV chargers from GO Stations. Ford was an anti-renewable ideologue who is only now coming to accept what “the left” has been saying for decades. Conservative new epiphanies are often just decades-old liberal ideas that have finally found their way to society’s most thick-skulled members: abortion, same sex marriage, climate change, renewable energy, cannabis, Iraq invasion, just some examples of where conservatives were the last to get on board. Oh yeah when the Supreme Court ruled you couldn’t beat your kids with an object like stick or a belt I seem to remember them getting mad about that too. But I digress. That would be stunning development and I think extremely unlikely

Being “used in a conflict” doesn’t mean it’s being used on the battlefield or in the presence of the enemy, it just means it’s in theatre. As you surely know, not every piece of equipment in theatre is intended for the battlefield. There’s Light Infantry fighting in trenches and forests and built-up areas in the Ukraine conflict now. They have a role to play and this vehicle helps them move and reposition quickly. Also note that this is an interim vehicle and that the CF is still looking for a permanent vehicle under a different Light Forces Enhancement Project which I believe could potentially be more of an actual combat/assault light vehicle.

I also mentioned another 60 million underinsured. That’s 90 million total. You’re shifting the goalposts. You mentioned that they save “a buttload” in taxes. Look. A perfectly healthy American who consumes no healthcare at all pays thousands of dollars more just to have coverage compared to a similarly situated Canadian. You want to layer in out of pocket costs for Rx drugs, again Americans pay 2-3 times more for the exact same Rx as Canadians and just about any other service that a person pays for out of pocket costs more in the US. An X-ray, crutches, you name it. Sometimes WAY more. So you don’t want to go there. The fees Canadians pay for private coverage is usually nominal and coverage is usually optional…you mentioned you pay $75 a month, I pay nothing for mine The only scenario where an American pays less is a very wealthy and healthy American who doesn’t need insurance and who doesn’t use much healthcare. I’m not wrong about anything once again you can’t follow the plot. Just because Trump is confused and rambling these days doesn’t mean you have to copy him. 😃 To recap once again: unless you’re very rich you will pay more for health insurance and health expenses in the US than you would in Canada, including healthcare taxes. Yes they do, for major procedures it’s been reported over the years, such as here and here. Keep in mind as I said the main reason is not that the treatment is worse but because Americans are less likely to access primary care so their illness is more advanced by the time it’s detected and treatment commences, and they also get less care after treatment Yes wait times are bad I never said otherwise and we’re still clearing a pandemic backlog I believe. But wait times are triaged and urgent needs get top priority so that alone doesn’t offset the other issues. But that’s the whole point you totally gloss over the fact that the only people who could afford healthcare are rich people. The “someone else” you mention are the working class people in the USA THE AVERAGE AMERICANS are the ones who benefit. The only people who can afford private healthcare are rich people the people who “suck up the resources” are the majority of the rest of the population. The way insurance works, the bigger the risk pool, the cheaper it is for every member in that pool. Public insurance pools your risk in the biggest possible pool. Private insurance would break it up into tiny pools which would mean higher premiums and more restrictions on coverage. Dude you don’t get it. I REJECT THE PREMISE OF YOUR QUESTION Why? Because 1) the “someone who can afford it” in question is only very rich people. YOU can’t afford it. Most Canadians can’t afford it, even those with high salaries. Most Americans can’t afford it. Public policy is for the benefit of the public, not it richest 1% 2) The “someone else” who you accuse of using up the healthcare is the majority of the population, including YOU. Perhaps it is unfair that a member of the 1% has to be inconvenienced by waiting his turn among the common folk and having to let those with more serious conditions go ahead of him. But in practice what you propose is that we common folk should be made worse off so that the 1% can have even greater convenience in life. 3) Claims of people giving up their health or life are greatly exaggerated. The vast majority of people have no loss of either while waiting and the longest waits are for non/urgent procedures like knee surgery

So another ill-informed right wing policy to turn back the clock for no reason except “pwn the libs” comes to light. Years of progress lost and millions of dollars wasted for nothing. Now he’s basically admitting Wynne was right on this file all along

Doug Ford shifts direction on wind power in Ontario 6 years after scrapping projects, PC government reopens door to green energy One of Doug Ford's first acts as premier of Ontario, just days after taking office in 2018, was cancelling more than 750 renewable energy projects, including a large wind farm that was already partially built. Fast forward to today, and Ford's Progressive Conservative government is poised to oversee the biggest expansion of green energy that the province has seen in nearly a decade. Ontario has laid out plans to procure an additional 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2034. By comparison: the capacity of all wind power projects currently installed across the province totals about 4,900 megawatts. The move makes for one of the most dramatic policy shifts from a government that has had its fair share of U-turns. The expansion is driven by the anticipated rise in demand for electricity in Ontario — as well as the demand from many companies that the electricity supply be as emissions-free as possible — along with falling costs of producing wind and solar energy…. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-wind-power-green-energy-doug-ford-electricity-1.7297217

Meh I saw that. The complaints he raises are years old. Taylor fails to mention that the early deficiencies have since been addressed and that the US Army since went on to purchase 2500 vehicles afterwards. Also this is not a combat vehicle it is light infantry mobility vehicle When light infantry are marching on foot or riding ATVs they are not armoured or sheltered I don’t hear anyone complaining about that.

Thos same problems exist or are worse with private insurers. With Medicare, what’s covered and how to submit the claim is not a mystery. With private insurers, rules change all the time and can be different from one patient to the next and even from one doctor to the next. Doctors hav also complained that they get the runaround from private insurers, having the same claim denied repeatedly before it is paid, due to adjudicators allegedly having secret caps and quotas to meet when it comes to approvals amd denials. Some big reasons that some docs will only treat patients with private insurance and don’t want medicare or medicaid are: - They want to cater to wealthier higher “class” patients so filter out those who only have government benefits -They want to bill at rates higher than Medicare allows -Since they inevitably end up having to chase patients to settle fees not covered by insurance, they want patients with more coverage than the standard Medicaid 80/20 - They belong to a HMO or private network where treating out-of-network patients is prohibited or less lucrative.

No it’s not, it’s nearly 1 in 3 Americans, which is why healthcare expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. Yeah in charity facilities filled with homeless police and drug addicts And in many states medical charities will set up tents in country fairgrounds and uninsured people line up for days just for a chance to be seen by a doctor it’s like a UN program third world country. No, wealthy “self-insured” individuals who choose not to have insurance are counted separately. And besides that would be statistically insignificant number in a country of nearly 90 million uninsured or underinsured The average American pays more for health insurance than Canadians pay in healthcare taxes. In 2023, the average annual premium for employer-sponsored health insurance in the U.S. was about $7,911 for single coverage and $22,463 for family coverage in addition to out of pocket deductibles and copayments when care is needed. Meanwhile the conservative Fraser Institute estimated that the average Canadian family paid about $11,885 USD in taxes ($2,975 per person assuming family of 4) for public healthcare in 2023, which they stated includes all income taxes, sales taxes, and other indirect taxes that contribute to healthcare funding. Given that FI is a right wing anti-government pro-privatization group that often puts out exaggerated statistics to support its ideology, we can rest assured their numbers are not understated. Ok I’ll just confirm that I know you’re obviously joking when you say that but it’s worth pointing out that in USA your insurance decides what hospital you can go to (if you want to be covered) and your employer decides what insurance you can have and all the hospitals bill excessively. Meanwhile I don’t think Canadian hospitals are gouging public insurance like that firstly because they receive “global funding” for stuff like aspirin and other general supplies and for the things they bill for rates are negotiated and controlled. Same in Canada. The people with the long ER waits are not the people who are dying, they’re people with minor injuries or illnesses like needing stitches or a broken arm set. Still, these times need to be improved. Again the statistics show that for the exact same illnesses and treatments, Canadians have better healthcare outcomes than Americans. A big reason for that is the huge disincentives Americans have to access primary care meaning they miss opportunities for early diagnosis, prevention, and less complicated treatments. Even many good plans have deductibles that don’t kick in until you’re several hundred or several thousand out of pocket. Americans die because having to spend $250-$500 for an annual physical checkup just to be told everything is fine means many Americans don’t even bother getting one until they start to feel so ill that spending that kind of money is worth it. Often their illness is far more advanced by then and more drastic interventions are needed and/or post-treatment recovery is more complicated. And then once your insurance coverage limit is reached you’re discharged whether you’ve fully recovered or not. But not before they’ve found ways to bilk your insurance for everything under the sun that they think they can get paid for So your question has 2 faulty premises: 1) That the person “who can afford healthcare” represents the average American when in fact it doesn’t Only relatively wealthy Americans can afford healthcare. The rest can only afford healthcare as long as they don’t get seriously ill or injured. 2) That excess deaths are occurring Canada when in fact they are occurring in USA

He doesn’t at all look Castro, he looks like Pierre and the only wannabe dictator on this continent is the guy who promised to be one on Day one Just because you didn’t vote for him and don’t support his policies doesn’t make him a wannabe dictator The problem with your ilk is that your beliefs are based on your emotions rather than rational thought. assign everything that generates negative emotions to anyone whose policies you disagree with: “I don’t like Islamists therefore he’s an islamist, I do think like atheists therefore he’s also an atheist , I don’t like pedophiles therefore he’s a pedophile, I don’t like pineapple on pizza therefore he likes pineapple on pizza”

So you’re endorsing a nonsense conspiracy just to “pwn a lib” in an internet forum. You’re nothing if not consistent.