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That's right, and historically it is the case. That is how it is supposed to work. During elections we all pick sides that we feel best represents the interests of the country, we have it out and consider the positions of all of the parties involved and consider the quality of the people representing those parties, the parties present their platforms and voters make it final decision as to what they feel is best. Once that is over then everybody is supposed to look at each other and say a decision has been made, thank god we live in a democracy, we have to respect the results and move forward united. And that is traditionally what has happened. (ok not in ireland but everywhere else). But these days It feels like the democrat voters are less like voters and more like fans for a British rugby league. If their team loses they want to burn the stadium down and get into fist fights with anyone who is on the other side. Democracy ends badly unless all of the parties involved are teaching their people that it's critical to respect the results. Polling show that every election the losing side in the US has left and less faith that the elections are free and fair. That cannot end well Actually there was some fascinating research done with regards to polling and targeting specific groups in regards to this. What they found out was that a significant portion of the democrat vote comes from what most people would consider Elites, High income earners or academics. It turns out these people are isolated from the average democrat and are 100% completely wrong about what they believe average democrats care about and live in their own little ideological bubble where they convince themselves that some of the topics the democrats pursue are the most important topics to average people when they are absolutely not. So what we are largely seeing Is that those who are still staunch democrats are often (not always but with some regularity) Those who are able to exist within an echo chamber bubble that is disassociated with the real needs and concerns of people by and large

You may read in the news that there was a 5.1 earthquake in the lower mainland today. However after scientists reviewed the data they realized it was just Herbie grinding his teeth reading your comments You have to stop bugging him like that, it's seismically irresponsible.

Would you say you're a bit of a competition rifle Robo? Because you're certainly easily triggered

First off they didn't make him immune from prosecution, they said that prosecution would have to happen within the confines of impeachment. Second off it was only for those things that were directly typed to his presidency. He wouldn't be off the hook for rape for example and thirdly that wouldn't cover things that happened when he wasn't president. Didn't you follow this whole case at all with regards to presidential immunity? I feel like you may have grossly misunderstood what happened

Ummm..... you realize that's the democrat side right? FOS LIES!!!!!!

Well they are your fantasies you keep bringing up so I'm sure that's what I look like in your mind when you are daydreaming your fantasies as you do I don't think of you at all really.

That much we can agree on. I think we should show respect to American people if not trump or the American government, but not out of fear. We're in a good position as far as that goes, america is bigger and stronger than we are but trump has midterms. And the American people wants stability and prosperity after the years of inflation and out of control spending, they don't want war. If war happens and it affects them trump will be in danger Which means we don't actually have to win a war with the Americans. We just have to hang on long enough and do enough damage that we don't lose. And we can do that

Well, the chance to fight it was during the election. And they had tons of chance, like I said trump announced that this was his specific plan in detail naming musk directly back in September. Now the democrats had a choice. They could come out with a strong fiscal policy and lay it out in front of the voters and explain why they felt that that was dangerous and offer an alternate solution on how to achieve similar results in a better fashion or make the case that it was unnecessary to do so, and had a discussion and a debate about why they felt their plan was better and why Americans would be stronger under a democrat-led fiscal vision. Instead they giggled, and when they stopped giggling they switched to calling all Republicans Hitler and Nazis and that was basically the sum total of their entire campaign platform. Oh, and screw god. That was it. Sorry, but elections matter. They had their voice. They had their chance. They had scads of money far more than trump. They had every opportunity to put forward an alternate vision and chose not to specifically. Maybe someone could make a solid argument that there are severe problems with this. Maybe someone could point out a downside that's just not worth it. I've mentioned one or two concerns with it myself. But the time to make that argument was during the election and they absolutely failed to do so. Now they have to live with the result and it's undemocratic and ignorant of them to pretend otherwise. It's like ordering the steak and screaming at the waiter that they didn't bring you the lobster

It is ridiculous how much truth there is in that. The same people who had no mercy and destroyed the lives of so many thousands of people with an air of moral superiority and a complete disrespect for the rights of others are now the same people who are saying it's not fair to let people go for policy reasons. The same people who cry that we should be thinking of the people impacted couldn't give a flying fig for the people who were impacted by their unethical and ignorant policies. And now the tables have turned. As I warned some on this very board would be the case one day, while they insisted "it's over and nobody's every going to think about it again and we don't have to have a discussion of whether it was right or not." Well. Too late now.

this is one of my favorite things you do... say stupid things but in a sarcastic way, then when you're busted try to pass it off as humour and when you can't try to pretend you were serious all along... but still dangle the posssiblity maybe you werent it's like watching a cat chase a lazer pointer, doesn't know which way to go Mike H does the same thing but hes' much more refined about it. You're just blatantly obvious so it really doesn't work well. And btw there IS actually a difference. Wealth inequality grows MUCH faster under the libs. In fact peak inequality happened in about 2000 2001 under the chretien-martin liberals. Now honestly i don't have a problem with wealth inequality as long as everyone's gaining ground. the fact the wealthy gain ground faster is to be expected and tends to cause everyone else to gain ground too. More billionaires means more millionares means more upper middle class and makes the middle class better off and the poor better off. But there is a problem when the middle class and poor stagnate while the upper class and billionares continue to climb. It's almost ALWAYS a result of bad policy fighting the natural market forces, because otherwise everyone grows. Which is what tends to happen under conservative gov'ts. So while it's hilarious to watch you pretend to laugh, we all know you're furious and sad that once again the left has proven toxic to the very people it claims to stand up for.

Musk provides thousands of jobs, has made many people millionaires, and has increased the flow of wealth while at the same time promoting environmentally friendly products and spreading access to the internet along with education and access to information that goes with it. What exactly did you think people needed protection from?

And? Frankly it's not true when you say that but let's say it was for a moment. Your side made this confrontational. Your side spent half a year calling everyone who didn't see things your way Nazis and deplorables. You made this all about hurting the other side rather than talking about the people in fact kamala's entire campaign ignored the people and focused on getting the other side. This is just another step in this education we've been talking to you about whereby you reap what you sow. All your side talks about is how everyone else other than your side whether they be trump supporters or even just liberal leaning people who happen to not like the current woke democrats are evil bad people and you're going to get them. If they've decided to get you instead out of a sense of self-defense and self-preservation, then once again that's your doing. Maybe you better think about that during the next 4 years. In the meantime no one's listening to your whining

Here's the thing. Trump announced in September he would form this group and that musk would be in charge of it. He had musk front and center after that and never hid this. This is part of his mandate. This is not something he came up with after the fact and just brought in randomly that he didn't have the Publix blessing on. He won the electionFair and square, both in popular vote and in the college. He didn't win it by being rich, his opponents had vastly more money. He didn't win it by cheating at the ballot box as we suspect happened in 2020, and everybody knew what they were getting with him. People have to absolutely respect that this is as much of a mandate for a political action as it gets. This is literally the will of the people. Unlike some policies this is unequivocally what he said he was going to do. They need to get over it. They can assess what's happened and make their choices at the midterms if they wish. But this is what he ran on

Of course they do. The pecking order is me at the top, then maga, tree sloths, road kill and then democrats and the woke. Maga isn't even close to the bottom It seems like there's nothing after maga to you because you're actually at the bottom looking up so it's confusing

No, that's not how it works Honestly at this point it's still within the margin of error. It's something he'll have to keep an eye on but it's definitely not cratering. At best you could say it MAY be slightly down. Not surprising, when you DO things rather than just talk you're always going to pee off someone. The question will be will people see a positive difference in their personal lives from all the things he's doing, or will they see no difference or a negative difference? and the second part of that will be how soon. If things get a little worse in the very short term but then start getting noticeably better then his approval ratings will go up. If however he does all this and inflation starts to go up, and or the job market starts to sag and unemployment climbs, or the like, then people are going to get pissed as they did with biden. He's got midterms not too far down the road, so he'll be hoping that business investment, job creation and lower inflation shows up within the year. I think he may have a problem there if he keeps going at the pace he's going, there's a lot of uncertainty out there at the moment.

Doesn't that mean we have to show up if we expect it then? I'm just not convinced that hostility is entirely the way to go

California battery storage grows rapidly, but blackouts still a risk - Los Angeles Times How California's Power Crisis Works | HowStuffWorks Electricity imports account for approximately 30 percent of total system electric generation each year LOLOL you don't even know how your own state works Cali doesn't generate enough power from renewables at all, and regularly has black outs and brown outs, and that's WITH importing more than 30 percent of it's power. So yeah. Sounds like if it's hot there it's the forest fires

So i DO look like trudeau! Wow. Well i'm off for a haircut and to change my socks. That's a good way to get shot these days.

It actually is what you said LOLOL That's what makes it so damn funny You're complaining about the wealth divide growing under the conservatives when it's growing even faster than normal under the liberals and he's absolutely right you say it'll change under the conservatives you mean exactly the way it is today ROFLMAO! You just say stuff without realizing how absolutely that crap crazy you sound sometimes. Imagine trying to sell that the conservatives are going to do something that the liberals are doing worse than the conservatives ever have The conservatives would actually be an improvement. Wealthy people get wealthy under the conservatives but the poor and the middle class ALSO go up. Under the libs, the poor and the middle class suffers and only the wealthy go up. Income inequality in Canada rises to the highest level ever recorded: Statistics Canada | CBC News

14 out of 50. Well I guess we will see what the lawsuit turns up depends on how you look at it. It's equally fair to say he's an unpaid consultant. I don't know how much experience you have with labor law but 99% of it is how you present and phrase things. Is he an employee? He's not getting paid. Is he an independent consultant working with the agency? Is he the agencies press person? But you've gotten in trouble in the past for unequivocally stating something is or is not legal only to have it thrown in your face later when it turned out you were wrong. Even I, who clearly have more experience with the law than you, very very rarely make absolute statements like that. But I do know a couple of things, number one it won't be criminal so the penalty will be that they have to have congress appoint him or follow a procedure or have someone else appointed. But by then I suspect he'll be done the lion's share of his work. And two, even if it is found to be procedurally wrong they'll either correct it and he will be in or they will point someone else who will be in and will ratify everything he has done to date which means nothing will change. The only way there's anything significant about it is if somehow this drags on past the midterms and during that time there is a power change in the house and in the senate

That actually is pretty bad. If anybody else lost a third of their seats we call it a disaster. But it gets even better than that, it was their leaders seat. The leader couldn't even hold on to her own seat. They went from a fringe party to a fringe of a fringe I feel like maybe you've made my point for me enough already.

This is the thing. After the trump Trade war started to happen justin Trudeau radically changed his tune. His priorities changed everything changed suddenly he loves Canada. Poilievre delivers his speech and it's exactly the same as the last 100 speeches he's given. Slight emphasis on patriotism but almost indistinguishable from what he has been saying all along. At least Trudeau was able to keep his story straight from one crisis to the next where it would change again, Carney can't even keep his story straight from one interview to the next. The liberals are nothing but opportunists. They have no interest in Canada they only have interest in power and lining their pockets.

You're going to go broke then

True, but the democrats aren't in power now so we're safe from that.

Yes but you see conservatives were in power before and they probably will be again so it's still their fault even tho it's been liberals for the last 10 years. Yeash, don't you know anything? And yet the majority of Canadians are sick of the woke Which means you're wrong. You live in an echo chamber bubble where you can convince yourself that up is down, left is right, and black is white, and then you wonder why you get killed at the next zebra crossing. The left is toast. People have realized if you vote woke you go broke.