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Given Republicans are always in the minority you do need the support of moderates. You can only cheat and gerrymander so much. Or did you mean you think Republicans have managed to incorporate Orange Jesus anti-democracy activists into enough key states so that they will ensure those states always show Republican majorities in future? They will, in other words, 'find' the votes that Orange Jesus needs just like Putin's boys in Ukraine did with that recent 'referendum'.

I was but I would also say that transplanted Asians, Arabs and Indians would be at the very least nonplussed by men saying they were women. I doubt there's a lot of support or respect for Trudeau's transgender rules among these communities. Or for preferred pronouns. Trudeau incorporated transgenders into several pieces of legislation with Bill C16. Withdrawing that bill would remove transgenders from whatever actual laws might protect them from discrimination. Though given the ideological tilt of the Supreme Court I'm quite sure they'd step in to overrule the government and simply write transgenderism into the legislation anyway. But none of that would affect the crazy person with the big fake boobs.

It's more like in favour of democracy. Most Americans want intelligent gun control and want women to have an abortion if they want to. As for criminals running 'amok', I merely included the support for the death penalty to show the hypocrisy of the anti-abortion crowd. Either you value human life or don't. The Catholics, at least, oppose both the death penalty and abortion. I am no liberal. I'd support Republicans if they knew how to get stuff done. They don't. They're both incompetent and don't reflect the will of the people. The only thing they accomplished when Orange Jesus was their president was bigger debts and deficits. I could even excuse their corruption if they actually got stuff done. But it took Joe Biden to get an infrastructure bill even though Orange Jesus admitted one was desperately needed.

Only if you include children. Their policy opposing even reasonable gun control measures is stupid on too many levels to go into. Their policy on abortion is incoherent. Why would a party that valued human life also be pro death penalty? And the laws they've brought in so far, banning abortion even in incest and rape cases are cruel - and stupid. Nor have I seen any effort by them to cut the deficit/debt in the last thirty years other than by saying "Let's get rid of Medicare and social security!" and other bullshit like that.

100 million Americans do not belong to the Republican Party nor vote Republican. And it's a little hard to say they're devout when they worship Orange Jesus, who is a fornicating, gambling, lying, cheating, stealing, adulterous man who does not believe in any God but himself. Republicans are stupid on gun control, on abortion, and on taxation and deficits. In particular, they keep cutting taxes, which keeps raising the debt. They're also kinda stupid on immigration. And they're completely bought and paid for by America's billionaires and corporations.

You haven't done a single thing to show I'm wrong, Ben. Nor can you. I'm unaware of any major body or group or even any important cleric who is off side with the common, everyday, mainstream interpretation of Islamic law. And again, Ben, you haven't done a thing to show me wrong. That wasn't the question, Ben. The question was which of the 50 odd Islamic states treats Muslims and non-Muslims, men and women equally under law. But even so, Indonesia is what you're putting up? Just to start with, blaspheme is illegal in Indonesia. Women have to wear a hijab in parts of the country. There are strong islamist terrorist groups who bomb churches and murder Christians. Gender mutilation of women is legal and about half of the women in the country are estimated to have had it done to them. A pew poll showed 72% of Indonesians support Sharia law being the law of the land. This is your most un-islamist country?

Maybe to Trudeau and the media. Not to anyone I know except one niece who's too woke for her own good. The Republicans have dumb policies, and are too corrupted by money. And yes, I know the Democrats are too, but the Republicans are obviously worse. They also have dumb policies and worship Orange Jesus, who doesn't believe in the real Jesus, and is the dumbest Florida man ever. I don't want Florida Man back in the white house.

Trans has got nothing to do with this case. And anyway, what has the charter got to do with transgenders?

It would be wiser to sell it when the prices are very high, especially if you want people to shift from coal to nat gas, which is far less of a pollutant. Not to mention it would be quite helpful in saving Europe from Russian energy blackmail. We could use some of the profits to build some of those small nuclear plants and thus help convert our power grid away from fossil fuels.

Is it your contention that a sailing ship can somehow transport energy across to Europe? We're not speaking about means of propulsion here, you know. The question is on exporting energy.

And is currently building 200 coal plants with hundreds more on the drawing boards.

Mining REMs is extremely bad for the environment. China doesn't worry about that, of course. But doing it in the US or Canada would be much more expensive due to all the measures which would have to be undertaken to minimize pollution.

They are? There weren't terrible hurricanes twenty and thirty and fifty and a hundred years ago?

One of those elephants is the fact that a strong industrialized economy relies on cheap, reliable energy. Right now we're trading that advantage to places like China and Russia, who are using their growing richest to arm and attack us. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/gwyn-morgan-net-zero-has-been-a-boon-to-dictators

No known renewable energy source is transportable across oceans. So your question is irrelevant.

Yes, if only America had the wisdom of Germany they too would be basking in the same benefits of full-bore pursuit of renewable energy the Germans now anticipate this winter.

And redistribute income from western countries to the developing world.

He doesn't even have to attack transgenders. He can say, as most who have commented, that such an outfit is completely inappropriate without regard to the gender of the wearer and then condemn the cowardice of the woke school board in not removing that person.

Not in classrooms. These are very sexually conservative societies, on the whole. Especially the ones who are source countries for immigration to Canada.

Yes, thank you for the history lesson. Meanwhile in the twenty first century they are a party full of crazies and completely corrupted by money.

Uhm, no it's not. I concede, however, that I had accidentally overestimated your understanding of the English language. I will try to be even more obvious. It's not a judgement, Ben. It's a factual statement. You need to learn the difference between the two. And please, try to calm down. You're getting upset again. Approximately 99.99% of Muslim scholars and clerics, you mean? I don't believe 'some' is a proper synonym for that. Well, Ben, to start with, you've misunderstood the distinction between referring to Islam the religion and referring to the level of observance from its followers. Second, I'm not aware of any secular Muslim nations. But perhaps I'm not entirely up on some of the very small, out of the way ones. Please do find me a secular Muslim nation where Muslim and unbelievers enjoy the same status under law and where there are no laws against blaspheme, homosexuality, apostacy and such, and where women enjoy the same legal status as men. Again, Ben, you've misunderstood the difference between reading and listening. There is no sound to reading unless (and I accept this is probably likely) you have to sound out each word as you run your finger across the screen in order to read. But the sound you hear is your own voice.

My statement was not an opinion. You don't get to disagree with it unless you can show it's wrong.

This is an Americanism. Yes, in the US the putative conservatives party is definitely beholden to the rich. But that's not the situation in Canada. The Liberals are the party of the rich and corporate Canada and always have been. The rich don't want to waste their money on parties which are usually in opposition and powerless. The Liberals are in power about 80% of the time so that's where the money goes.