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Well in the end he did win tho. they failed. Their goal was to have him gone - he wasn't. Meh - just about every president does. But - as i did note people around him may take hits but he doesn't as a rule. Sure - and i mentioned that. I think that had more to do with the absolute nutbar candidates they fielded. But either way - again, not HIS loss. He's been looking at indictments since he was elected. It was russian collusion then it was going to be over issues in ukraine, then it was going to be this and that and everything from obstruction of justice to collusion, blah blah blah blah. But - he pretty much always wins. And he hasn't been convicted of anything yet. I don't much like the guy and as a person he's what i'd refer to as 'bad casting', but the fact is the guy is under constant attack and threat of criminal charges and has been for years and he makes al capone look sticky. He wins a lot and it is not wise to underestimate his ability to do so. I don't have much faith that they'll nail him with anything of substance here. We'll see. Yeah - i think its when you win I think those losses weren't trump losing. I said right off the bat people around him frequently don't win, but he tends to. Those loses did nothing to hurt him personally. Meanwhile he got his way on lots of trade deals, he pretty much got his way in office, The guy wins a lot. We'll see if he does here.

Did he run in the midterm "thingie?" No? LOL - c'mon, at least make it challenging You mean the election that i mentioned? You're not very good at this are you. Which 60 cases did trump himself lose?

We'll see the details and there can always be a surprise but based on what's been leaked so far we know it's involving the 'creative bookkeeping' around the stormy daniels payout, which means there's only a few angles they can come at it as. The election financing ones are extremely weak tea. There is a possibility somehow they've got some sort of perjury charge but that would be the only thing with much meat on it where he might actually go to jail for more than the afternoon. We'll see.

quite possibly, but it sounds more like we disagree on what winning is. Trump wins a lot. Aside from the last election he tends to win just about every fight. Some of the people around him lose, but he's pretty teflon. We'll see if this time he wins or loses. The charges are a little flimsy, and if he beats them and walks away it may very well improve his standing. If he loses, we'll see. If he does any jail time i think that's over for him. If he just pays a fine and moves on then if anything he'll turn it into publicity that's positive.

To be honest, i think it's got more to do with nobody really caring about this. Most of the other things were political and he could really sell the 'evil dems corrupting the system' thing and people got worked up. But - it's like "yeah, you banged a hooker outside of politics and did bad tax things - you deal with that". I also don't think they believe he'll lose. Or that he'll go to jail if he does. So it just doesn't have the emotional investment I think republicans will say "well it's just trump haters trumping up trump charges - we'll let him beat them and stay out of it". If he loses that's not great for him and if he wins they can say 'well sure, we knew it was all bullcrap, that's dems for ya". and then it becomes a selling point.

No, he's won quite a bit. No russian interference, no successful impeachment. No criminal charges for a dozen things the dems SWORE he'd be charged on like the classified docs, etc. He's won and won and won. But - nobody wins forever. Not even spider man.

Honestly - i was absolutely stunned. I never thought we'd see each other as canadians turn on one another like we saw then and still see now. it destroyed families and ended long term relationships. Honestly - i feel like canada died during that stretch. I have seen disaster and hardship strike canadian communities and always people came together to help out. Hell there's a play about it for what happened during 911. It's literally our thing. Not this time. People at people's throats. Firing people. And my personal favorite - a COMMON position that "We'd rather see people get no medical treatment and die than be treated by an unvaccinated nurse". Like - oh my GOD you MUST be kidding. Personally i'm in a high risk group so vaxxed and boosted. But - i would never condemn ANYONE who felt it wasn't the right idea for them. Covid tore us apart as a culture and a people and i just don't see that ever healing again. Justin managed to literally kill the Canadian identity we all knew best - that Canadians stand together in tough times. We don't anymore.

the problem is you won't get to make that decision - judges will. And judges would never do that to a 'poor misunderstood killer' like the defendant. It's not his fault you know - it's the system. Remember - these are the people who said locking him away for life was 'cruel and unusual' punishment

You. It's basically all you've done here. Every conservative is a nazi. Lie. Antifa isn't violent. Lie. The democrats don't condone or excuse violence. Lie. Conservatives were against freeing the slaves - lie. In fact i can't think of any of your posts which didn't have at least one - most were nothing but. And on top of it every conservative is a nazi. And if someone leaves the democrats, it's because they were a nazi. Nazi nazi nazi. You don't have a political position - you have a compulsive lying and self delusion mental heath issue that's serious.

Sure you do. See - the one person who left your clan is instantly a nazi. You see nazi's everywhere. Everyone who's not part of your tribe is a nazi. The whole world is nothing but nazi's unless they agree with your specific beliefs. That's not a political position - that's a sign of mental health issues.

Sure. Now - one might argue that locking people up to keep the public safe is also a form of social engineering. But - the problem is that the current social engineering is more like social experimentation and it's being done at the expense of the innocent and the victims and those they leave behind or who count on them. And that's the problem. Social experiments with mass murderers or those who are CHRONICALLY violent are highly questionable ethically. We SHOULD be weighing the safety of the public and the rights to the victims to justice as much as we do the rights of the victim - especially with sentancing. Fine if you want to make it hard to convict to protect the wrongfully accused, but once he's been found guilty then the victims and the people in the community SHOULD matter. But while judges occasionally pay a little cautious lip service to that to sound like they care.... the vast majority do not and don't apologize for that. If the public has to suffer in order to make sure the 'criminal victim' mass murderer has his rights then so be it and they'll sleep like a baby that night. I don't know what the answer is. Other than hope the CPC gets in and then cheats and stacks the judges benches with as many right leaning lawyers as they can find, which is what the liberals did on the left. "Electing" judges comes up once in a while - remember we elected trudeau. Three times. I doubt it would be much different with judges. This woman doesn't want to blame the killer and the killer killed her son for god's sake.

They did. And more for turning people against each other over vaccines. Remember just a few weeks earlier trudeau was insisting nobody would be pressured or forced into getting a vaccine. Then they did some polling and when they triggered the election the FIRST thing he said was those evil non vaxed people have to go. That's his other favorite thing - creating division and hatred. I literally watched families and long term couples break up over this. My family was a little more sane and we only had one anti vaxer (he's passed now, not from covid). But - again and again i saw people at other people's throats over it. I don't know that we'll ever heal those rifts. But - it won votes.

Han Dong - " i am stepping down to fight the allegations made against me". Han Dong Fighting Allegations - " YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL ANYONE!!!!!!" Anyway - good luck. This kind of thing has gone to court more than once and it never ends well for the Han Dongs of the world. If anything the libs will be pissed about it because when it fails it'll just propell this back into the public's eye. Anyway - the liberals actually HAVE the actual transcript of the meeting, if there's no evidence there that he did this they could just release it anytime and we can all decide for ourselves. Unless there's something to hide.

Never. That's not within their power. Well i'd go with stupid to be honest. Or just overstating what she intended -a premier CAN question whether something is in the best interests of justice to pursue and can make those in charge think it over before proceeding. That's not really wrong to do either provided they don't pressure them (gosh - i hope your department doesn't lose funding over this, etc) or pressure the wrong people. But she can't provide amnesty. Now - if you had asked which premier promised a little more than they could deliver before getting elected - the answer is 100 percent So, yeah.

Well, cerb is over now. ti was always supposed to be short term, but the gov't ran it far longer than they should have.

Lets just say they don't lose sleep over it. Like many of our institutions the legal profession has been taken over by those on the left. Lawyers spend a lot of time in our left wing universities to get their credentials and judges are made from lawyers. And for whatever reason those on the left REALLY favor the criminal and don't care about the victim. So they don't spend one second thinking about 'what if this guy kills again, is this fair to that person'. Nor do they think "wow if this guy kills again will that reflect on me", because they're protected. Which is why there was no pushback when justin passed laws making it easier for criminals to get out on bail, and why justin's gov't didn't push back as the courts dismantled harper's criminal reforms. And this is the PREDICABLE result - but they don't care.

Who did harper hire that was convicted of fraud?

Well cerb didn't make people want to work from home, being forced to work from home for 2 years made people want to CONTINUE to work from home. That's a problem but it's not the biggest. At the end of the day even slackers need to eat so they would reenter the workforce at some point. The problem is during covid a CRAPLOAD of people retired. They were either at that age anyway or just about and a lot of them sold their larger houses for shittonnes of money, moved into smaller places (or to newfoundland because cheap) and took their retirement early That left a very large labour shortage. I hear it from almost all of my contractor companies. It's getting a LITTLE better now but it was REALLY bad - like unbelievably so. The problem isn't immigration per se. Regardless if it's "slackers" or retirement -we both agree there's a shortage. And targeted immigration can help. But - that does NOT take into account the housing shortage. Or the medical services shortage OR the other shortages we have. And that does create issues.

Did you actualy read that story? Despite the headline NOWHERE in the story do they claim or offer any evidence it's due to immigration. They note we allow immigration and then ,note that we don't have enough people for the jobs we've got so employers are looking at automation. Complete swing and a miss there. C'mon. At least read the stories. Give me something that's at least got SOME sort of indication that wages are down due to immigration directly with some sort of facts beyond just a headline. this one is even worse - it specifically says that wage growth lags because of a lack in productivity. In other words it's showing that slow wage growth has nothing to do with immigration. I've seen some actual studies and none of them point to lower wage growth due to immigration. Here's the only thing i've seen so far in a few studies. It can sometimes LOOK like average wages are impacted but they're not. Here's how that works. Employers prefer canadians. THey have ties to the community, they speak better english, they have common culture etc. They would RATHER pay more and get a canadian. So if they hire a recent immigrant the immigrant tends to get paid less, they don't have a track record, their education isn't the same, etc etc. So - if a canadian gets 50 dollars an hour and an immigrant gets 40 - the AVERAGE income is 45. Now - i f you hire TWO immigrants then its 40+40+50 / 3 =43.33 dollars per hour. OH NO WAGES FELL!! But of course they didn't. And the Canadian is still getting paid the same. So as we increase immigraiton it may LOOK like wage growth slows down - but really that's not the case. Wage growth issues seem to be mostly tied to productivity. We are falling behind badly in productivity and that is accelerating. And that means 25 dollars of labour here gets a business less actual work done than 25 dollars worth of labour in other countries. And THAT is our biggest issue. Not immigration.

Yeah they were. Who told you that? Where did you think the roads came from? You think they all had the traffic lines and stop signs etc we see today? Not to mention they've had to bail out the car industries many times. And they absolutely did get involved in oil and gas infrastructure. And we notice when they don't - how's that keystone pipeline that the gov't opposes going? Turns out that ran across a lot of gov't land. When gov'ts have been open to it and have given up the access to gov't land - no problem. You are 100 percent wrong there - the gov't played a large role in that. And looking to Canada our whole country was built on the promise of the gov't building railways and eventually roadways. So - in effect that's a good example. Gov't didn't invest in cars - but because it invested in other things cars really took off.

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No. There are specific laws regarding that which protect the justices, police and other such agents.

That's not WRONG entirely - but it's not quite right either. Gov'ts do badly investing IN things, but they often hit the mark when they spend money to support an industry or make it easier for that industry to bloom. The oil industry in alberta would be an example of that - gov't didn't invest but the feds did offer massive tax rebates and other incentives for companies to expand exploraton etc and we got the great oil booms of the 90's etc. In this case, the gov't could do a number of things to help the EV industry without ruining it. Investment in infrastructure, reduction of costs for certain things, these could actually have some sort of positive impact. If done right obviously, as always the devil is in the details.

I haven't seen any compelling evidence of foreign workers lowering the wages. Most "studies" along those lines that i've seen were severely flawed and the raw data says otherwise. But i can't argue with you at all when it comes to housing and resources like medical resources (which is in crisis every bit as much as our housing). We simply can't bring in people faster than we build homes or support resources. It will lead to serious social unrest.

Sure. I haven't seen anyone claim or suggest she's not great at the job. As you suggest that's not the issue. There's an old saying: "It's not enough to be pure, you must be seen to be pure". And that's the problem here, even if she can do the job in an unbias fashion, even if she's come up with some means of recusing herself or the like where appropriate, at the end of the day the public HAS to see this as a complete conflict and it absolutely erodes her credibility and worse the credibility of the office in the eyes of the public. Fair or unfair, she should never have accepted and he should never have offered.