TreeBeard

How will God punish Canada? Why would He? Matthew 22:21 "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's"

No, I find it sad and pathetic.

Says the person with 50 posts in the topic about an American being shot in America by other Americans.

They’re pretending to be Canadians abroad to absolve themselves of the guilt and consequences that being American is bringing these days. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/travel/american-travelers-canadian-flag-jacking “There are almost no places in this world where you can parachute in, say you’re from Canada and not be welcomed,” he said. “The same cannot be said for Americans. The solution is to fix your own house, not to come to ours and put our clothes on.”

Why cry about it here?

Seems a little childish/cowardly to be mocking people on another part of the internet.

You’re equating highly skilled Korean workers, in the US legally, building a battery plant with Tim Hortons workers in Canada? Did you hit your head recently?

Oops? They looked Mexican, maybe? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/trump-foreign-workers-welcome-south-korea-arrests President Donald Trump has said foreign workers sent to the United States are “welcome” and he doesn’t want to “frighten off” investors, 10 days after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested at a work site in Georgia. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment. “I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land,” he wrote.

@boges was “left”? They seemed really conservative to me. Seemed to support Ford and the more “progressive” conservative policies.

There’s good people on both sides.

Both are free expression?

I didn’t realize this was a respectful memorial thread where anything political shouldn’t be uttered for fear of disrespecting the deceased. You seem to engage on a range of topics in this thread too though

So you say…. I guess you’re only bothered by my (so-called) lies, not the lies peddled by propagandists like Kirk? Those ones are good lies? Why would that bother you if you’re a fan of Kirk’s lies?

It seems Kirk was never bothered by what might, or might not, be factual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk#Political_positions_and_activities Promotion of falsehoods and conspiracy theories External videos Charlie Kirk ~ The Conservative Forum ~ 9-8-2015 on YouTube (Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley) (at 2:10–3:20) According to Forbes, Kirk was known for "his repudiation of liberal college education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories".[48] Kirk promoted the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and described universities as "islands of totalitarianism".[5][49][50] In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk stated that he had applied to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and was not accepted.[10] He said that "the slot he considered his went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew.[5] He told The New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it.[5] He told the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been told",[4][51] while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.[51] In July 2018, Kirk falsely claimed on social media that Justice Department statistics showed an increase in human trafficking arrests from 1,952 in the year 2016 to 6,087 in the first half of 2018. He deleted the tweet without an explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out that the false 2018 number had originated on the conspiracy site 8chan.[52][53] In December 2018, Kirk falsely claimed that protesters in the French yellow vests movement chanted "We want Trump". These false claims were later repeated by President Trump himself.[54] Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud,[55][56] as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.[48] In defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirk falsely stated that, during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, it "took President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to declare a public health emergency.[57][58] In fact, when the Obama administration acknowledged the WHO's declaration of a public health emergency on April 26, 2009,[59] there were less than 280 cases of H1N1 infection reported in the U.S.,[60] and the first confirmed death (of a Mexican toddler on vacation) occurred the next day, April 27.[61] The WHO projected 1,000,000+ U.S. cases on June 25, after declaring a pandemic on June 11.[62]

If that’s a conspiracy theory (it certainly sounds like it is), will you feel silly later that you believed it?

When?

“Guns cause homicides”. Sort of? More guns makes it much easier to have more homicides. The evidence is really clear. https://rockinst.org/blog/more-guns-more-death-the-fundamental-fact-that-supports-a-comprehensive-approach-to-reducing-gun-violence-in-america/#:~:text=More guns equals more death,there are more gun deaths. The Evidence In a scholarly review of the relationship between gun prevalence and homicide almost 20 years ago, Harvard researchers concluded that available evidence supports the hypothesis that greater numbers of guns corresponds to higher rates of homicide.[1] In the years since, the evidence has strengthened at every level of analysis. Further, the hypothesis that more guns equates to more deaths has been supported using many different ways of measuring gun availability and access. First, having a gun in the home increases the risk that a person will be the victim of a homicide with a gun or commit suicide with a gun.[2],[3] This is true regardless of storage practice, type of gun, or number of firearms in the home.[4] Put simply, if there is a gun in the home, it is easier for a person to pick it up and use it against a family member, intimate partner, or associate in the midst of a conflict. Similarly, people are more able to attempt suicide during a moment of crisis if a firearm is accessible in the home. Suicides are also far more likely to be completed with a firearm than any other means.[5]

Wrong once again. Lying? Or just really ignorant? USA has 3.5 times more guns per capita than Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country

Don’t a lot of Christians think God will burn non-Christians as well? This seems like a common religious viewpoint. Do you also want to deport Christians who believe in a literal hell?

Seems like someone who calls anyone a patriot and a hero for bailing out the would-be assassin meets my definition of cheerleading. Why would you think that he wasn’t cheerleading the attempt on the old geezer’s life when he makes those comments?

I have no problems. Didn’t know who the guy was until he was shot. I guess I have about as much sympathy for that fella as you do for a handful of North Korean civilians murdered by the Navy Seals. No big deal. We just have different perspectives on who should get our sympathies. If one is going to cheerlead a hammer attack on a politician’s geriatric husband, is it surprising when they get caught up in the exact thing they’re fomenting? I don’t find it surprising.

“By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out…” -Kirk Why would he call someone a hero and a patriot for bailing out the would-be assassin if he didn’t like what the guy did?

There has been a decline? In what?

The fella who was killed today thought Pelosi’s attacker was a hero. So I guess I can’t drum up a lot of sympathy for someone like that. Still…. Don’t kill people. I don’t think he should’ve been killed. But, if one is going to turn political (attempted) assassins into heroes, is it surprising when they become the victims of a system they themselves perpetuate? …right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk thinks a man who is set to be charged with attempted homicide should be allowed out on bail. “Why has he not been bailed out?” Kirk said Monday on his podcast of the man who allegedly beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s husband Paul with a hammer last Friday. “By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out, I bet his bail’s like thirty or forty thousand bucks.” With a smirk, he added: “Bail him out and then go ask him some questions.” Early last Friday morning, Berkeley resident David DePape, 42, allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi, 82, at the San Francisco home he shares with with Speaker Pelosi. Unable to locate the latter, who was not on the property, DePape was heard to ask, “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?” Police officers said that as they arrived on the scene, they witnessed DePape beating Paul Pelosi with a hammer. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/