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It’s not just the shortage of money it’s the people. Besides that would just be a replica of the Blue Angels.

Yeah that’s pretty much what Ive observed too, having previously worked in a company that had unions (I was not in a union). That said, many companies deserve unions the way they mistreat and take advantage of workers. Being a keener who finds other ways to be useful when the assembly line stops, completing more pieces than your peers or running parts instead of Joe doesn’t earn you any additional recognition or pay. IMO Unions are not ideal in workplaces where workers need to make discretionary effort in the day to day activities and they are notorious for resulting in terrible and rude customer service in roles that are public facing. In a unionized workplace, the employee-employer relationship is intentionally adversarial by design, with each side agreeing to only provide the contractual bare minimum without exception. The employer has less power over its workers which provides workers with additional job security, pay and benefits and redress of grievances compared to non-union equivalents. The trade-off is as you listed above. Not to make every thread about the US election but it’s interesting to see that for the first time ever, the historically anti-Union Republican Party had the president of the Teamsters speak at RNC where he gave denounced corporate elites and union-busting to largely silent and confused audience. One political commentator joked that he must have attended the wrong party’s convention by mistake

2 Albertans accused of threatening to kill Trudeau, Freeland, Singh Men from Edmonton and Calgary are accused of threatening to kill some of Canada's top government leaders. On May 10, Mounties were alerted about a threat to kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Mason John Baker, a 23-year-old Calgary resident, was charged on June 6 with uttering threats against a person contrary to section 264.1(1)(a) of the Criminal Code. In a separate investigation, Mounties learned on June 7 that YouTube user Garry Belzevick, 67, allegedly posted threats to kill Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh. Belzevick, from Edmonton, was charged on June 13 with three counts of the same offence as Baker. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/2-albertans-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-trudeau-freeland-singh-1.6973203

MAGA Crowd Melts Down After Mike Pence Says Something Reasonable Former Vice President Mike Pencemanaged to put Donald Trump’s most rabid followers in a tizzy on Monday after he made a social media post that was, well, reasonable. In his post, Pence thanked President Joe Biden for making “the right decision” and “putting the interests of our Nation ahead of his own” by ending his presidential campaign. He also said Biden’s departure from the campaign and the assassination attempt on Trump suggests that it’s time for “leaders in both parties to project calm and send a message of strength and resolve to America’s friends and enemies.” For those who didn’t really follow poltics before 2016, Pence’s post harkens back to the type of reasonable “we’re all Americans” statement that politicians would make when their rivals made their exit from public life. But this sort of statement declined after Trump was elected president and proceeded to ignore this and other accepted political norms (such as conceding an election after you lose or attending the inauguration of the person who beat you). As might be expected, Pence’s reasonable statement caused some of Trump’s MAGA fans to have F-bomb-filled meltdowns over his graciously thanking Biden for his service to the country.

What a load of made up crap. Republicans are Pro-pollution, pro-mass incarceration, anti-consumer, anti-worker, anti-woman, anti-black, corporatist AT BEST….and that’s before we get to the ACTUAL Nazis amd klansmen who also vote republican.

Of course not. The entire made-up claim that VPs have magic powers to crown themselves winner of the election no matter anyone else says or thinks is just bullshit that dumbass MAGA conspiracy kooks invented after Trump LOST Seriously how stupid does someone have to be to believe that after the American founding fathers crafted all these elaborate checks and balances and rule upon rule to preserve democracy, they decided any VP can just randomly cancel the election results based on nothing but their own personal whim, AND that the founders then wrote nothing about what should happen next if such a thing happens? Even though such a thing is not even possible, the mere fact that so many MAGAS wanted and hoped for Pence do such a thing is proof they’re undemocratic fascists who want to seize power by any means possible, democracy be damned.

They are and I gave you the link to the conservative magazine where it was published Don't project Republicans’ actual behaviour onto others.

The book says humour doesn’t work on conservatives, which is no surprise. Conservative “humour” is laughing at an old man getting his skull fractured with a hammer for being a “liberal” or a woman getting killed in a tragic workplace accident involving a “liberal” actor. There are experts who have said similar things about Trump’s ramblings. If Biden has anything other than old age it’s not “fairly progressef”. My wife’s father died this year after nearly a decade of dementia Biden is nowhere near that. While there are rumours he has parkinsons its not fact, just wild speculation. He can still give speeches for example but can’t debate and take questions or speak extemporaneously to the level expected of a president. There’s a freaking laughing smiley face in the post how much of a clue do you need? You’re the only one who needed to be told the obvious. LMAO Meanwhile back in reality Republicans are already test driving an end to term limit so there can be “Trump 2028”: And during Trump’s first term he claimed he would serve for more than 2 Trump 2028 The Twenty-second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve nonconsecutive terms—and on democracy itself. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-2028/ Trump Says He Will ‘Negotiate’ Third Term Because He’s ‘Entitled’ To It Sep 13, 2020 President Trump said Saturday that he plans to “negotiate” to run again in 2024 if he wins reelection in November, his latest in a series of comments that have alarmed critics who say he has little regard for constitutional boundaries. Key Facts During a rally in Minden, Nevada, Trump predicted he would win reelection and carry Nevada, a state he lost narrowly in 2016. “After that,” Trump said, “we’ll negotiate,” asserting that he’s “probably entitled to another four after that” based on “the way we were treated.” The comments echo ones Trump made during a rally in Wisconsin in August, in which he stated he would win four more years and “go for another four years” because “they spied on my campaign,” likely referencing his unproven “Obamagate” theory…. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/09/13/trump-says-he-will-negotiate-third-term-because-hes-entitled-to-it/ But like I said by 2028 Trump will be older and more decrepit than Biden is now so probably will step down if he’s still alive That lame joke doesn’t even make sense

Their data says that regardless of whether they included in their write-up. 2.1 projected for 2025 is higher than what is projected for other countries.

IT. WAS. A. JOKE. He doesn’t have dementia or Parkinson’s, he’s just old and slow, which I agree is enough to make him unfit. That’s debatable LOL! IT. WAS. A. JOKE. Don’t hold your breath. He’s been whining about deserving “at least” 3 terms since his first term and some of his supporters have already started floating the idea of ending presidential term limits. Realistically the only reason they won’t push it is because Trump will be 82 by then and probably clearly unfit for office But never underestimate the cult of Trump. He could be in a permanent vegetative state and the GOP would probably still prop him up weekend at Bernie’s style and run him on the ticket while the faithful Trump worshippers trample each other just for a chance to touch his robe 🤣

Trump is 78 years old, and he will officially be the oldest candidate on the presidential ballot in US history as Biden was only 77 back in 2020. Back then Republicans said that was too old, there ought to be an age limit, nobody that age can possibly be trusted to run the country. I guess in hindsight they were actually right about something or once. What’s with Republicans and their ancient candidates they’ve running i the last 3 elections does he wear diapers? 😂

…and now he’s endorsed Harris U.S President Joe Biden drops out of the 2024 race, endorses Harris https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/u-s-president-joe-biden-drops-out-of-the-2024-race-endorses-harris/article_c7e77640-4577-11ef-8ed0-87c8e174c3cd.html

The name for the Democratic candidate on the November ballot simply needs to say “Not Old and Not Trump”.

Yes. Because your original claim is ridiculous. There’s no shortage of anti-biden lunatics on social media that’s their natural home. What minimal fake news factchecking happens there isn’t Biden. Meanwhile Musk is now personally censoring and banning people from Twitter if they offend his period politics or ego. The reason they failed is because the vote was along party lines as expected and there was not enough of a majority. But it’s clear he did so the things he was accused of: withholding Ukraine aid in exchange for non-existent dirt on Biden and inciting Jan 6 attack. From your own link: “Barr’s letter didn’t say what Mueller learned that fell short of a crime about a broad range of Trump associates who had Russia-related contacts. It also didn’t answer why several of those people lied to federal investigators or Congress during the Russia probe since there wasn’t any direct coordination going on.” It is a fact they discussed releasing Hillary’s hacked emails and terms for a Trump presidency to stop supporting Ukraine’s resistance to Russias proxy invasion. Lacking further details due to obstruction it was unclear if either of those or others constituted a crime First let’s be clear the letter said; “We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails … are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.” Second Biden didn’t get them to write and sign the memo. Your own link says Morrell, one of the intelligence officials, got his colleagues to sign. Third let’s set the record straight that other Russian disinfo about the Bidens has been proven such as Alexander Smirnov, a key source of Republican accusations was exposed as having fabricated his claims and working with Russian intelligence. Your link is to an opinion piece in a conservative newspaper. Nothing in the actual set of facts proves he was spied upon and nobody was charged with that. Amd Sussman was acquitted. Yeah so? That doesn’t contradict any of what I said. SCOTUS took issue with the specific legislation that was passed, which they claimed was outside presidential authority. So Biden took another route with a smaller program that was well within his authority and has nothing to do with the SCOTUS ruling, which is why it actually happened Huh? Qualified it? The arguments about special prosecutors that Trump lawyer made have tried before in previous cases and were thrown out. Cannons ruling is just another example of Republican judges ignoring all past legal precedents to achieve their own personally desirable outcomes. Tjat is Cannon’s new made up argument. As one legal expert pointed out: What are the regulations under which special counsels are appointed? Special counsels have been around for decades. From the 1970s until the late ’90s there was the independent counsel statute, which provided for a much more independent special prosecutor than what Attorney General [Merrick] Garland authorized in this matter. The Supreme Court upheld the statute in Morrison v. Olson, but it expired in 1999. After its expiration, DOJ implemented its own regulations providing for the appointment of special counsels who possess functions similar to U.S. attorneys. In 2020, in an Appointments Clause case involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Supreme Court essentially reaffirmed Morrison v. Olson as a valid exception to a general rule about appointments. What surprised you most about the decision? One very surprising thing is how Cannon deals with the Supreme Court precedent in United States v. Nixon. There’s a sentence in that 9-0 opinion which resolves this issue entirely. The sentence says that Archibald Cox, who was one of the prosecutors of Nixon, was appropriately appointed pursuant to the statute. And you would have thought that would have ended this inquiry. Cannon does something I think I’ve never seen a district judge do before, which is that she looks into the history of the Nixon case, decides the issue wasn’t particularly briefed, and as a result determines that a sentence in a Supreme Court opinion that was decided 9-0 was, in fact, “dicta,” which means that it is not binding in subsequent cases as legal precedent. And as a result, she as a district judge was entitled to disregard it. I’ve never seen a district court conclude that a portion of a Supreme Court opinion is not binding; that was a first for me. In my seminar at Harvard Law School, I teach that portion of the Nixon opinion, and the beginning of it is essentially whether the matter is justiciable and whether the case is properly in the court, partially because it’s an intra-branch fight — it’s two parts of the executive branch that are litigating against each other. It was important to the court to point out that the special counsel was validly appointed and validly in the court, because if they thought he had not been, then the matter would not have been justiciable. The entire first part of the Nixon opinion is really about justiciability…. An appeal in the 11th Circuit would take roughly a year to decide. If Trump is elected president, after his inauguration he will certainly order the Department of Justice to dismiss the federal cases against him. The Department of Justice would then dismiss those cases and there would not be an appeal. If Trump is not elected, there’s a strong chance that the 11th Circuit will reverse Cannon’s decision. Whichever way the 11th Circuit ruled, I suspect the issues would then be decided in the Supreme Court. I’m not going to predict what the Supreme Court would do. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/07/what-the-judge-was-thinking-and-whats-next-in-trump-documents-case/ In other words another criminal republican president already tried and failed with that argument a half century ago

How about some examples or evidence to back your claim? It’s certainly been true of every fascist so far. Scholars place fascism on the far-right of the political spectrum.[6][5][7] Such scholarship focuses on its social conservatism and its authoritarian means of opposing egalitarianism.[ … To appeal to Italian conservatives, fascism adopted policies such as promoting family values, including policies designed to reduce the number of women in the workforce—limiting the woman's role to that of a mother. The fascists banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion in 1926, declaring both crimes against the state.[153] Although fascism adopted a number of anti-modern positions designed to appeal to people upset with the new trends in sexuality and women's rights—especially those with a reactionary point of view—the fascists sought to maintain fascism's revolutionary character, with Angelo Oliviero Olivetti saying: "Fascism would like to be conservative, but it will [be] by being revolutionary."[154] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#:~:text=Scholars place fascism on the,authoritarian means of opposing egalitarianism.

LMAO what???! Not my my dumb rule, your dumb argument

Sure it does. All fascists have been social conservatives obsessed with their definition of “traditional values” and “traditional culture” and traditional gender roles where women have a duty to be submissive housewives and men are expected to be the macho unchallenged “head of the family”. Every fascist regime also has enjoyed the support and collaboration of the financial/industrial economic elite.

Trump supporter Elon Musk Trump the criminal There is no crime called collusion and he wasn’t charged with any crimes related to it. . It is a fact that his campaign colluded with Russians and lied about their secret meetings. The purpose of the Mueller investigation was to determine if any of that collusion violated any actual criminal statutes Ot is also a fact that the investigation found that was Trump White House obstructed the investigation and it is also a fact that his attorney general protected him from Obstruction charges Those people wrote and signed that letter on their own. Another false narrative. Trumps people wee meeting with Russian envoys and intelligence agents. Thos contacts were monitored and the Trump campaign officials were interviewed about their activities, in other words they wee told that their activities had been noticed by intelligence officials Not sure what exactly this refers to but Trump himself was not spied on Once again your lack of knowledge and understanding is on full display. . SCOTUS didn’t forbid him from finding any way of forgiving any amount of student debt. Thats not how courts work. Divided along partisan lines, SCOTUS ruled that the president didn’t have authority to amend a particular piece of legislation, period. It also noted that a number of conservative states rely on predatory lending to students as a source of income and the legislation in question would unfairly deprive them of that profit. However the Biden team noted they were still able to forgive a significant amount of debt and interest within their existing authority simply through EO, which had been their “plan B”. They are in full compliance with SCOTUS. More lies. In 2022, Biden was asked by a reporter how he can assure allies Trump wouldn’t come back to power. Biden’s exact quote was “I’m making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next President again.” In addition, the novel ruling of special counsels by a Trump loyalist the very first day after the assassination attempt will likely be overturned because special counsels have been used for decades, there is nothing illegal or unusual about the one prosecuting Trump.

Its true if Obama had a son he would look like Trayvonn Martin, whose killing was justified because he had facebook photos of him wearing a hoodie trying to look cool. Who was shot dead despite have not committed any crimes after he confronted a grown man following him. This republican myth is that before Obama there was no racism or that black people gladly accepted racism as their burden to bear due to the moral failings of their people, and that black people are so unintelligent they don’t know what’s going on or what’s in their best interest and will believe whatever democrats tell them. That’s a perfect example of Republicans’ racist views

Make up whatever bullshit you want, “punch a nazi” started after Charleston where multiple ACTUAL right wing Nazi groups marched and paraded in the streets including a night-time torch-carrying march chanting “jews will not replace us”. Others gave speeches in their Nazi regalia and red MAGA hats And then one of them drove his car into crowd of “left wing” counter-protesters killing a woman Besides you can’t make general comments about all liberals based on ANTIFA….I know you righties love to do that…..anymore than I can make comments about all conservatives based in the ACTUAL Nazis supporting Trump

Laura Loomer Cheers Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s Death in Racist Rant Laura Loomer, a white nationalist and Donald Trump’s one-time favored pick for a campaign role, sparked outrage on social media by metaphorically dancing on a Black Congresswoman’s grave. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a progressive voice in Congress who fought for civil and women’s rights, died Friday evening at 74, shortly after she announced she was battling pancreatic cancer.

So the Republican Obama lynching effigies were legitimate hateful right/wing threats? What about the “Hang Trudeau” T-shirts and hoodies?

Yep. What typically differentiates fascism from other types of dictatorship or authoritarianism especially left wing dictatorships is its strict social conservatism and its close ties to industrialists, business leaders and tycoons.

That’s not rewriting history it’s establishing history that Republicans don’t like and only in recent years have started revising. The south has always been conservative and the most racist part of the country. True today, true 150 years ago. There was a time when Democrats were the party of rural America and urban labourers (just as in Canada CCF/NDP were the party of rural Canada). The Republicans wee the party of industry commerce and heavily centred in the northeast. Socialism, the welfare state, etc that Republicans typically associate with today’s “left” barely even existed in the 1800’s at least not in North America and didn’t become relevant to American politics until well into the 20th century. The division was urban/rural and industry-labour. Given that, and Lincoln being Republican, the racist, staunchly conservative southerners wee Democrats who believed civil rights and desegregation were socialist plots to destroy American capitalism First they split from the Democrats to form the “States Rights Democratic Party in protest of Truman’s desegregation of the military. The leader of this party, Strom Thurmond, a KKK member and grandson of slave owners would later become one of the longest serving Republican Senators. Thurmond joined the Republican party in 1964 in protest over 1964 Civil Rights Act. Republicans Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon sought to capitalize on this. Nixon aid Kevin Phillips told the New York Times in 1970 that "Negrophobe" Whites would quit the Democrats if Republicans enforced the Voting Rights Act and blacks registered as Democrats. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats#:~:text=Some southern Democrats became Republicans,and Mills E. Godwin Jr. Bullshit. Conservative policies divide people by race and ethnicity. Republicans like to say this, basically implying that non-white people aren’t intelligent enough to understand the real issues or their own interests…the inferior races have all been fooled , if only they’d understood that only their white saviours in the Republican Party can truly set them free.