sharkman

This sounds perfectly reasonable without some context, or further analysis. August, how do you feel about the Chinese police stations that were on Canadian soil? Does that seem like foreign interference of some sort? Or what about the reports of Chinese military being allowed to conduct drills on Canadian soil? In your judgement does any of this raise a red flag?

Yeah, his troubles are mounting. I suppose I'm bringing up an old issue that didn't get much attention from the media at the time, but the appearances of an alleged fixed leadership race could taint the party. Denying 3 applicants who lawfully applied to enter the contest to protect one candidate's chances to win? They better hope all loose ends were hidden well. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-six-candidates-make-the-cut-to-run-for-federal-conservative-leadership/ "The party’s leadership election organizing committee was responsible for verifying whether candidates had met the requirements to raise $300,000 and collect 500 nomination signatures by April 29 in order to stay in the race. But committee chair Ian Brodie declined to explain why Mr. Etienne, Mr. Bourgault and Mr. Abraham did not make the cut." ... "Mr. Bourgault said the party told him he “did not meet the registration fees and compliance deposit” which together amounted to $300,000. But he said his team submitted well above that: $367,453 before the deadline." If this is true, it's a disgusting abuse of power. Do we really have to become as unethical as the Liberal party has been? If Poilievre was such an amazing leader he should have been given the chance to win the contest fair and square, not have the result fixed just to make sure Canadians got the "right" result. The last thing we need is another PM with a tainted past.

And of course it shouldn't be too difficult to determine whether the disqualified Conservative contestants were treated equally or not. For instance, the 300,000 amount to run that suddenly had a requirement of an extra $45,000 tacked on at the last minute. Simply look at the records. Did all of the contestants who qualified have this $45,000 added on, and if so was it at the last minute or were they given plenty of time to raise it? Scratch that, the records may be inaccessible or oops, got erased somehow. A reporter would want to contact the cancelled contestants and the ones who qualified, do a little digging. Like this: https://www.saanichnews.com/news/campaign-life-coalition-calls-abbotsford-leadership-hopeful-cancel-culture-victim-314957 "Fonseca said that additional fees were added to the $300,000 and that was the reason Abraham was disqualified. “What they told us is that the party tacked onto the total donations a 15 per cent administration fee that candidates would have to obtain on top of the $300,000, making the real total that a candidate had to raise $345K or even $353K, depending how it’s calculated,” he said."

“The report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a key Canadian intelligence oversight body, says there were "two specific instances where [People's Republic of China] officials allegedly interfered in the leadership races of the Conservative Party of Canada." Most of the details regarding the allegations in the NSICOP report have been redacted.“ https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7223518 There are probably a lot of juicy bits in the redacted material. But it’s time for the Canadian media to revisit the 2022 CPC leadership race. Because there should have been more contestants than the official number allowed. 3 applicants were disqualified who had similar platforms to Poilievre, and no doubt would have divided his support. The reasons given for disqualification were nonsense. That race was dirty. Look up G. Abraham. Its said that Poilievre won’t even read the report. Where there is smoke, there usually is fire.

I was speaking in generic terms of the E. Jean Carrol defamation ruling that awarded 83 million. And yes I know that's not a conviction. Since that's your only response to my comment then you obviously can't see the big picture here. Why don't you go chase after Robo's tail some more.

Wow, the paranoia runs deep. Let's see. He's convicted of sex crimes and what was the other one again? 34 counts of something or other. He's fighting off a financial judgement that he was not allowed to appeal, or had to put up the money first in order to appeal, kind of like you have to sign the bill to find out what's inside(That's a Pelosi special). But wait, there's more! The dude is also rigging the presidential election, just LIKE LAST TIME!!! 2016 was fixed! 2020 was as pure as the driven snow even though Trump was involved, but watch out! We hear this time he's really going to fix it! Unless of course, he loses, in which case it was pure as the democrat snow again. You people should really just listen to your paranoia, it's jaw dropping.

So how long after the sentence is rendered will Joe pardon his son? And then "resign" under the firestorm?

Unfortunately you are being fed a line of complete bunk. Trump did none of that, or almost none of it. I notice that you didn’t care enough to comment on Biden’s crimes that were ignored by the “justice” system. And of course no comment on Hunter’s crimes. Well to each his own I guess.

He will probably get an air slap on the wrist. This will be an excellent illustration for anyone who is starting to wake up in the US. You know, something’s wrong with the border/the Biden Administration/the Justice System/the economy, but they just can’t quite put their finger on what it is. Then they see Trump convicted for his lawyer taking out a loan to pay off an accuser, while Hunter gets off for gun crimes. And they think to themselves, didn’t Joe have classified documents unsecured in his garage when as a VP he had no right to hold such documents? But Trump gets into all kinds of legal trouble for having them, but he was president? I’m telling you, this Biden administration is going to come apart at the seams, and there won’t be enough undocumented immigrants in the world that could re-elect him.

People that wore face diapers shouldn’t throw stones…

This could be the election virus, the one that "forces" heavy mail balloting and looooooong counting delays. If they can get Trump in prison, get this virus rolling with restrictive lockdowns and curfews and keep Biden away from the mic, it might be enough!

A lot of exposed secret alliances and freely singing whistle blowers would have to happen first. I can’t imagine this happening in the current political climate. But hope springs eternal. Let Justice be done though the heavens fall.

So you’re a Trump fan now? Don’t hold your breath.

Vivek is a plant, and Trump has sniffed him out. For the 4 years during his administration he was hiring and then firing plants. Trump will probably go with his son as VP.

The president of Iran died today in a helicopter crash. Let's see how much of a paper tiger Iran turns out to be.

No, I still work, though once we are through this upcoming economic downturn, I’ll have the freedom to flip a coin over it. Speaking of which, I hope you are prepared for it as well. Funny thing, my wife and I went down to a place called Ocean City on the coast in WA last summer. The key note speaker was a retiree from Boeing, oddly enough. Got up every morning at 3:30 to make his shift, for 30 years. Raised a family and retired early. Really amazing guy.

Wow, you've been really busy on this forum. Did you lose your job or something?

No no. I’m talking about Japan. Not the USA. Japan. And I’m not American but Canadian. What I’m presenting to you is that Japan is in economic trouble. I’m asking you if you still think they are fine with their dangerous debt to GDP ratio, now that their Yen is the lowest it’s been since whenever, and has dropped much further than it was during our last conversation last February. You have responded that Japan can issue bonds, and I thought I pointed out that bonds are not working for Zimbabwe and Argentina. In other words, bonds are not the answer. Weaker nations are getting into serious difficulties, let’s see if the contagion spreads by the end of summer.

You seem to be suggesting that Japan can sell bonds to solve their issues. How has that been working for Zimbabwe or Argentina?

Dear August, you said this in response to my comment below, which you quoted: “Let me throw some numbers at you. US debt to GDP is at 128%, and climbing. No nation has ever been able to come back from 130%. They go bankrupt.” I responded that we should watch and see what happens to Japan. Have you seen what’s been happening to Japanese currency? Because it looks like they are in real trouble now.

Good find, pretty hilarious! I note that in this mornings news, it’s being reported that leader after leader is calling on Israel to show restraint. Don’t respond. Let cooler heads prevail. The media is not reporting on any condemnations of Iran. It kind of tells you the lay of the political landscape these days.

And they have just crossed a line... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68810053 "Iran has launched drones at Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday night. It said the wave could take hours to reach Israel." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-cargo-ship-seized-1.7173115 "Earlier Saturday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The move came days after Tehran said it could close the crucial shipping route and warned it would retaliate for an Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria."