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A drunkyard, and a rapist. Kicked out of two veterans groups for sexual and financial misconduct.

If you would like to talk about Liberals, please keep it real. Going off on a tangent about liberals killing children is ridiculous, and so bizarre that you will have a hard time finding a rational person to debate with.

Carlson is also a traitor to his country, pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, while comparing America unfavourably to Russia. His show on FOX, consistently pushed false narratives.

Amazing that South Koreans have bigger balls than Americans do, when it comes to protecting democracy.

Now that Biden is out, and Trump and his cronies are coming in, I suspect that the Chinese will eventually invade Taiwan, especially if Trump's protectionist policies tank the US economy.. The US will be in no position to do anything, in the worst case scenario of Trump's new policies causing outrage in America to the point that the people start to revolt.

Very interesting read. It certainly explains why Carlson is the way he is. It also explains why he seems to have contempt for liberals (Mommy issues?). People who are rejected by their parents, often develop deep seated psychological issues, especially rejection issue, and may explain why Carlson is more or less, shameless.

The recently fired Fox News host said he learned to not care what critics think of him because his artist mother left him and his brother at a young age after making it pretty clear she didn’t like them Before Tucker Carlson’s shocking ouster from Fox News Monday, observers sometimes said he owed his massive success on the network and in America’s extreme right-wing circles to his unique ability to be shamelessly provocative. A 2022 New York Times profile of Carlson described his on-air technique as “gleefully courting blowback” for touting racist, white nationalist views or for being one of the “most visible and voluble defenders of those who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol to keep Donald Trump in office.” The more Carlson doubled-down at Fox, the more his millions of nightly viewers embraced him as an “aggrieved” partner in their perceived “victimhood,” the Times said. In interviews over the past few years, Carlson has suggested that he developed his extremely thick skin for cable news success because of his mother — or rather, because of the terrible thing his mother, former San Francisco socialite-turned-artist Lisa McNear Lombardi, did to him as a 6-year-old. “I bitterly hated her,” Carlson said in a 2019 podcast interview with right-leaning comedian Adam Carolla. That’s because, Carlson said, his “nut case” mother initially raised him and his younger brother in a “bizarre,” early ‘70s counterculture milieu of drug use, partying and lax supervision. She then rejected him and his brother after their TV journalist father filed for divorce and successfully sued for full custody, claiming she was an unfit mother. Lombardi thereafter dropped out of her sons’ lives, and Carlson said he never heard from her again. In interviews with Carolla and ex-Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Carlson acknowledged that being rejected by one’s mother can cause deep, psychological wounds. He said he probably could have grown up deeply insecure, unable to trust others or feeling undeserving of love. But Carlson said the experience actually taught him a valuable life lesson — that he can’t control what other people think about him. He said he’s not inclined to give haters any “emotional control” over him. “Our mother was not a fan of us and was pretty direct about it, and obviously that hurts when you’re little,” Carlson told Kelly on her podcast. “Then I realized that you can’t control it,” Carlson continued. “Your mother doesn’t like you, OK, boo-hoo. You know it sounds really terrible, but I think in later life the lesson that I internalized from that … is that you just kind of have to be happy with who you are.” Carlson also spoke to Kelly more directly about how his mother’s rejection steeled him to be impervious to the opinions of critics who say he uses his powerful position in U.S. society to wantonly disseminate false information, conspiracy theories and bigotry. “Criticism from people who hate me doesn’t really mean anything to me,” Carlson said. “I really don’t care. I care what the people I love think.” “But some random (organization or person), like the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) or the partisan who runs it?” Carlson continued. “Like I don’t care. I’m not giving those people emotional control over me.” If that’s Carlson’s position on so-called haters, then perhaps that’s how he’s processing Rupert Murdoch’s rejection of him. Reports say the decision by Fox News to fire Carlson came directly from the billionaire media mogul who helped make him the face of his network. Last year, the New York Times reported on how Murdoch personally praised Carlson whenever he doubled down on a controversial position — usually with the expectation that the host’s counterattacks would yield explosive ratings. Presumably Carlson also is having to steel himself for what Kelly alleged this week is a full-on effort by the network to destroy his reputation as it tries to justify firing him. On her podcast, Kelly accused Fox News publicists of leaking stories to the media about possible reasons for him being fired. The stories include damaging allegations that the host oversaw a toxic workplace culture, disparaged female colleagues with the use of a vulgar term, was too ultra-religious for Murdoch’s taste or was a loose, irresponsible cannon who couldn’t be controlled. From the way Carlson tells it, he’s overcome much worse — the original psychological wound inflicted by his mother, who reportedly only left him $1 in her will when she died in 2011 of cancer. Among other things, Carlson said his mother’s abandonment motivated him to devote himself to being a loving husband and father to his four children and to stop drinking when he was younger when he realized his use of alcohol was getting out of control. There’s one theory, put forward by a report this week in the San Francisco Standard, that Carlson’s on-air antagonism towards West Coast liberal elites stems comes from his desire to reject the values of the outwardly free-spirited Bay Area woman who gave birth to him. In her way, Carlson’s mother also designed her life around rejecting her own privileged San Francisco background, Business Insider reported. Lombardi’s mother was a cattle baron heiress, Mary Nickel James, whose ancestors owned 3 million acres of ranch land across four states. Lombardi debuted in San Francisco society and studied architecture at UC Berkeley amid the counterculture turbulence of the 1960s, according to Insider and the New York Times. She met and married Richard Carlson, a successful local TV journalist, in 1967. Tucker Carlson was born two years later at San Francisco’s Children’s Hospital, the Standard said. His brother, Buckley, with whom he remains close, was born two years later. The couple moved to Los Angeles when their boys were still young. Carlson told Kelly and Carolla that the family lived in Laurel Canyon, in the same neighborhood as the Eagles when it was “a wild time” in the country. Carlson’s “cruel” and “abusive” mother participated in the wild times, “doing real drugs around us when we were little,” he told Carolla: “She was a full-blown nut case.” Richard Carlson took his sons to San Diego when he was offered a job as a local news anchor and filed for divorce. In petitioning the court for custody, he claimed that Lombardi could not be trusted to supervise their children because she frequently used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine, the New York Times reported. A few years later, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, an heiress to the frozen-food fortune, who adopted both boys, the New York Times said. Carlson credits his father and stepmother’s love with helping him to put his relationship with Lombardi behind him. Lombardi meanwhile stayed in Los Angeles for a time, where she became a member of famed British artist David Hockney’s entourage, Insider reported. She also began producing her own works, contemporary sculptures that were exhibited in galleries across Los Angeles. Lombardi was in a relationship or married to another Hockney acolyte, British sculptor Mo McDermott, and the two shared a small Hollywood studio for nearly a decade, Insider reported. But the relationship was tumultuous, and the two drank heavily. Lombardi eventually met and married another British artist, Michael Vaughn, in 1989, and the two split their time between the South of France and South Carolina. People who knew Lombardi in Los Angeles told Insider that they couldn’t imagine her being a mother, given that she was “arty,” “bohemian” and never seemed to be content. In interviews, Tucker Carlson said he totally lost track of his mother until he heard from a relative in 2011 who told him she was in France and dying of cancer. The relative said he should go see her. Carlson said neither he, nor his brother Buckley, were inclined to disrupt their lives to go visit a woman they didn’t know. Carlson told Carolla his brother said, “You know my son’s got a soccer game.” Carlson replied: “I feel feel the same way. I don’t know this person. This sounds cold but I had already made peace with this over many decades.” Carlson told Kelly he long feared that receiving news about his mother’s death could trigger an avalanche of long-suppressed emotions. But he was relieved that hearing about her didn’t turn him into “a wreck.” “I didn’t fall apart,” he said. “I went out to dinner. I mean I felt sad for her but she wasn’t apart of my life.” source: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/28/tucker-carlson-how-early-rejection-by-hippie-san-francisco-mom-made-him-shameless/

How mature. Meanwhile, they will try to think of a more appropriate name for the less educated FOX viewers, since a significant amount of their viewers have less than a Grade 12 Education, and would not understand the reference. "Poopy Pants" Trudeau.....or perhaps "Smelly Justin" Trudeau would be more appropriate.

You tried your best, RussianFox. Now pick up your check, from your Russian handlers. Whatever you say, RussianFox.....lol.

Platforms like this forum and Twitter are not the best way to gauge Canadian public opinion. Trump's favorability rating is under 30% in Canada. I would imagine perhaps 1 in 10 Canadians would be in favour of joining the United States. However, this forum is infested with MAGA hyenas, sprouting off nonsense. One may get the opinion that Canadian's cannot wait until Trump "liberates us" from our "tyrannical communist government. by listening to these Kremlin-backed MAGA accounts.

She said more fentanyl is coming in from Canada than Mexico, which is a lie, and even she knows it. Saying we have a "serious fentanyl problem," when Mexico is exporting the majority of fentanyl and meth to America, is pretty ridiculous. Especially when violent Mexican Cartel gangs are controlling the product. I'm not the least bit surprised that you would sellout your own country, even when it's Mexico that attacks Canada.

Mexico president says Canada has a 'very serious' fentanyl problem Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is not escalating a war of words with Mexico, after the Mexican president criticized Canada's culture and its framing of border issues. "I fundamentally believe that many conversations, when it comes to diplomacy, are always better when they remain private," Joly said Monday during a teleconference from Brussels. The rift between the two trading partners started with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's declaration that he plans to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all goods from both countries unless they stop the flow of migrants and illegal drugs into the U.S. Several federal and provincial officials in Canada responded by saying the issues at the Canadian border are vastly different from the Mexican border. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for example, has voiced concerns that the level of Chinese investment in Mexico goes against the economic-security goals of Ottawa and Washington. Some premiers have called on Canada to negotiate a trade deal with Washington independent from Mexico, ahead of the 2026 review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, which replaced NAFTA during Trump's last tenure in the White House. In a Monday press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico "must be respected, especially by its trading partners." She also noted that Canada has "a very serious problem with fentanyl consumption," more than Mexico, and possibly as a result of some drug-decriminalization measures. "We are not going to fall for a provocation of which country is better," she said, chalking some criticism from Canada up to political pandering. "Mexico should not be used as part of (Canadian) electoral campaigns," she said. Yet Sheinbaum also said Canada "could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has," saying her country has civilizations dating back thousands of years. Asked to respond, Joly said she is reaching out to Mexican officials after speaking with the U.S., including about the "very important trade agreement" that includes all three countries. "I know there has been many conversations in Canada about how we can work together and how we can, at the same time, protect our interests," she said. "We have a positive relationship with Mexico, and we need to work with the country; that's definitely my goal." source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mexico-president-says-canada-has-a-very-serious-fentanyl-problem-1.7131981 ---- Good lord. She has really lost her mind. About 0.2% of illegal fentanyl comes over the Canadian border to the US, compared to 99.8% that comes from Mexico into the United States. Nobody cares about Mexico. Stay in your lane, lady.

Very strange that so many countries in the World are rising up, and fighting for democracy. While the so-called "greatest defender of democracy" is watching the safeguards, to protect the democratic institutions that made America great for centuries, is eroding. Yet nobody is doing anything about it. MAGA loons don't care about people, or society.

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It has a lot to do with our healthcare system being superior to theirs, RussianFox.

The fertility rate is not going to increase above 2 children per family anytime soon, if ever. It has little to do with thriving economically. In fact, economic prosperity is inversely related to fertility. The poorest countries in the World have the highest fertility rates.

The fertility rate of Ireland has dropped to 1.5 children per family, according to the most recent statistics I could find: https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2024/november/fertility-rate-continues-to-drop-sharply-in-ireland/ Mexico is a impoverished third World country, so it i not uprising that they ahve a high fertility rate. Income and the number of children a family has are usually inversely related.

I am not sure exactly what the Palestinians were thinking with the Oct.7 terrorist attack, I am 100% positive they did not expect Israel to raze the entire region. Classic case of FAFO. Incidentally, I watched a documentary of Osama Bin Laden recently, about his final years. It was a very interesting documentary. It pretty much stated that Bin Laden lived his final years deeply regretting the 9/11 attack. Perhaps he was misinformed, but he underestimated American resolve and military strength. Apparently, Al Quada was under the impression that after 9/11, the Americans would withdrawal from the region (Middle East), and he never anticipated the United States to launch a prolonged attack on Afghanistan. He certainly never expected the Americans to hunt him down in the mountains of Pakistan, and kill him.

That is only noticeable for Indigenous people, who have, by far, the highest birth rates in Canada. For second generation Muslims, it drops off significantly. Many Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc) have very low fertility rates. Philippines is the only large Asian country above the 2.2 replacement rate (2.7).

Tell that to the tens of millions in America who lose their life savings, when their insurance only provides coverage up to a certain amount. Let's face it, the richest Americans have access to the best health care in America. Working class or poor people do not. That sure explains why Canadians outlive Americans by 4 years, and the gap has only increased in the last decade. Wait times....wait times....yawn* What do you think about actual ranking of health care, RussianFox? Of the 11 countries on the chart, America rates last in: -overall care -access to care -affordability -efficiency -equity -health care outcomes Once again, the United States spends over twice the amount on health care, per capita than Canadians do, and we still outlive them by four years, and all you can up with is wait times? Norway, Germany, France, and Sweden are all ahead of both countries, and have Governments that are more to the left than us. However, that would ruin your narrative, that "lefties ruin the healthcare system."

Germany had a very weak military in 1933.

In other words you do not.

In fairness, all countires on Earth have a declining birth rate. Can you think of a first World country that has a birth rate of over 2.2 children per family? Fertility rate by country: France 1.8 United States 1.7 United Kingdom 1.6 Australia 1.6 Germany 1.5 Canada 1.4 Japan 1.3 Italy 1.3

I sure hope the Americans have the courage to rise up against Trump, if he ever tries something like this, but I doubt it.