Michael Hardner

1. Unlike Trump, I don't have the ego to push dumb ideas as miracle solutions. 2. Two state solution is on the books as the agreed upon direction for many nations, observers, commenters including from Israel. 3. Just because I disagree with an insane idea, doesn't mean I owe you my own insane idea. It's not serious. If it were, his own team wouldn't be disagreeing with it.

This isn't a serious idea. Let's just say that and move on. Trump's own people are walking this back...

I don't disagree. That's a lot of the reason we got here. But an immature public, who lets vested interests fight to a standstill will bear the cost of putting immature individuals in n charge of fixing things quickly.

Do I?

Anecdotal? If it were, then would my vocabulary be so excellent goat Barber Mambo dogfoody ? 🙃

Have you ever worked in an alternative arrangement? There are lots of examples

This counterpoint proves the need for cross analysis of these pieces.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/05/republican-ire-usaid-finds-an-unusual-target-politico/ Some counter points including a correction to the $8 million figure.

Besides falling prey to the urge to belittle, another sign, you should be using the ignore feature, you accepted the premise. There is no way to know if people are needed in their jobs or not, in such a short time. And for intelligence, a lot of times only the top people really know what's going on due to the importance of secrecy. Nobody knows what's needed or not. Kind of like the brain. You can cut out chunks of it and nothing happens. But would you trust Elon Musk to be your brain surgeon?

Great post. 👍 Effectiveness means agility also. We have a moment now, a spark of unity. Our political elites need to wake up and realize that they need to work together for a short time to restitch our institutions together and to especially stop making them.... Yes Men to the deputy ministers. We can have it all. Even the feeble pre-industrial country of Vietnam was able to stand up against the behemoth when it counted. It's not just the government, it's all Canadian institutions that reflect a slow and ineffective top-down structure. Most of us have never known anything else.

My take is that the populists ists have a better understanding of politics, and can capitalize on that, Politically, by breaking conventions and exploiting New Media in a way that the old guard cannot. The problem is that politics is more than winning elections. Big problems need deep thinking, and collaboration with the public as well as experts. Slogans don't solve big problems.

What he should have said is: the culture wars are divisive and pointless. Let's move on.

Instead of shutting down Canadian sources, I would rather they force the Hedge Fund that owns all Canadian newspapers to sell. That's a pretty clear conflict of interest for their editorial boards, I would think. The Toronto Sun actually said... Trump may be wrong most of the time, but his comments sting because they point to Canada’s potential to do better.

If you can isolate the variables that are causal, with respect to decline in all network television then that's a valid approach. But, again, we have: cable, podcasting, radio, and Radio Canada to consider. And - no - I have no idea how they're faring.

This is a narrative that tends to put all CBC content in the same pot: TV, radio, cable, podcasts, sports... not to mention Radio Canada in Quebec. I don't have a strong feeling that a "large portion", presumably a majority, are aggravated. Pollara does an annual poll of trusted sources and they come SECOND nationally after The Weather Network. I just don't see a lot of hard data on this. https://www.pollara.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Trust-in-Media-July-2024-final.pdf

This ALL started in 2015... 😂

He's tied for my favorite Herbie. Tied with that Volkswagen number 53.

Does anyone like this gentleman? 😂

The lawsuits are already being filed, and this will just continue to jam the system.

@Chrissy1979 You might have something here. That last post lacked articles, making me think that they're not composed properly or with a dictionary lookup. In any case, the logic is flawed. If people respond to a trade war from a foreign country by saying those who fight it are not patriotic. Doesn't make sense.

If you read the study, this is true. I'd be open to talking about what this means in a separate thread...

I feel like this is a great approach because the money will be spent on Shore

Scrolling through the thread. Thinking... What the? Then I come to your post. That's enough time spent, thank you for your service robot.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/us-workers-pronouns-emails-deadline-trump-order If I put he him in my email signature, I can't work for the US government Cancelled! 😮

Maybe you can finally see why discussing with ardent Defenders of this ghost-like ideology is useless.