Moonbox
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1 hour ago, eyeball said:
The old fashioned Bible-thumping conservatives were a little weird but nothing compared to the veritable Freakers Ball now spilling out of the Big Tent into the street.
At they had the tradition and the Book to rave about.
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3 minutes ago, eyeball said:
As ridiculous as a senior government also deciding to keep an asbestos mine open?
The mine that the locals wanted to keep open, and that was their primary source of employment? You're proving my point here, bud.
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12 hours ago, eyeball said:
I sure am. As I understand it there's plenty of resistance to more oil and gas development there that is railroaded over.
Not getting your way when you complain isn't "railroading". 🙄
Considering oil and gas is ~20% of Alberta's economy, they evidently support it. The existence of complainers somewhere doesn't make that untrue.
This is normal though. Towns employed by coal mines and coal fire plans support coal mining/burning, so we should leave them alone to make decisions at the local level, right? All that matters is local decision making?
No, that's ridiculous.
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Why are you calling him Hillbilly? I thought he was the couch-f*cker.
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2 minutes ago, eyeball said:
What governments did and allowed was every bit or more as selfish - take take take except it was more like an undisciplined 8 year old vs a two year old. The days of might making right have passed us by. Jurisprudence has matured and is changing everything and we still live in the middle of its generations long process.
This has little to do with the "values" you're touting. You've said before that all you really care about now is what the federal government can give and your community. I took your comment as more of the same.
3 minutes ago, eyeball said:There're a lot of good reasons for greater local management.
Greater local management...when it suits you, but not so much when it doesn't. You're not so much about local management when it comes to drilling for oil one province over, are you?
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1 hour ago, eyeball said:
Speaking for myself, they've taught me the value of reassessing my relationship with our senior governments - with a view towards negotiating something better and more appropriate to local needs and aspirations. It's a value I expect will take decades to sink in.
That's not a value. That's "me me me me me". Two year-olds have that down pat already.
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26 minutes ago, User said:
No, debt in and of itself is not inflationary... it is the spending.
That's not how economics work
Whether the government is spending the money directly, or it's being distributed to the private sector as tax cuts, the money is being borrowed and added to the economy. In Trumpo-world, I guess, numbers, math and accounting work differently. 🙄
28 minutes ago, User said:You guys are just absolute liars. This is why you hide from me, because I pick apart your BS.
Who do you figure is hiding from you, exactly?
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39 minutes ago, User said:
And? It was doing great after too.
Just highlighting the cherry-picking. You'll grant Trump the credit for the already-booming economy he inherited (but didn't create), and Biden all of the blame for inflationary mess he inherited. Somehow, the debt that Trump piled up via tax cuts and spending at the top/end of the economic cycle were not inflationary...but Biden's spending coming out of COVID is mostly to blame.
39 minutes ago, User said:What truth is it you think I am running from?
Hodad was the one who ran from the reality of Democrat spending during the Biden administration that took place beyond COVID relief.
He didn't. He pointed out the absurd, blind hypocrisy of criticizing Biden's deficits when Trumps were much, much larger, even after removing COVID spending from the equation.
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13 hours ago, User said:
The Trump economy was great until a global Pandemic hit. Yes, of course it works that way. You want to ignore reality and be dishonest.
The Obama economy was great before Trump took over too.
2 hours ago, User said:No, you are the one who runs and hides from the truth, that Biden and the Democrats pushed through massive Trillion-dollar + spending when they took over.
Run from the truth.
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1 hour ago, User said:
Trump is old, meanwhile, Biden is STILL president and has his wife running cabinet meetings...
According to the Hindustan Times...
You're not doing yourself any favors with this sort of silliness.
1 hour ago, User said:You folks don't get to be taken seriously while you ignore that Biden is still the President and the greatest political scandal of our lives is happening right now as Harris and everyone else just pretends he isn't fit for office anymore.
The biggest scandal of our lives is that an octogenarian was convinced he's was old to run again and he should step down?
I think I've seen everything I need to see here. Good talk. 🥱
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On 9/27/2024 at 3:45 PM, User said:
I can objectively define it. The man can barely walk, he needs staff to tell him where to go, what to say, when to say it. He walks onto the wrong planes, can't walk around the White House without Secret Service pointing out the doors to him. He had to be rescued from the press by the Easter Bunny.
There was nothing objective or defined about this little rant.
On 9/27/2024 at 3:45 PM, User said:And now you and others want to gas light us and play dumb so you can win an election.
You're gaslighting yourself. Your cringeworthy self-righteousness and outrage might be taken more seriously if you weren't doing everything you could to avoid addressing how ridiculous your own candidate is...in a thread about him. 😆
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38 minutes ago, User said:
It is not my partisan double-standard. It is yours. You are trying to have it both ways, that Biden is perfectly fit and fine to be President right now... but certainly not fit and fine to run for President.
I didn't say anything about perfectly fine and fit. 😆
I said he's too old, but that I have little worry he can hold things together until January. If he starts raving about dogs and cats being kidnapped and eaten by Haitians, I might re-assess.
Your double standard is your vague and nebulous definition for fit vs unfit. We both know how funny it would be if you tried to objectively define it, and how it would be even funnier if that lens was turned on the orange buffoon.
1 hour ago, User said:By the way, you have the Powerball numbers too?
No, sorry. I do have actuarial tables though.
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2 hours ago, User said:
So, your big argument is that Biden is perfectly fit to be President right now... but somehow you know that on day 1 of the next term, he would be unfit?
Now you're being ridiculous.
I thought he was a bad candidate in 2020 because he was too old. He's even older now. He's going to continue getting even older after the election, and will statistically be dead before that 4-year term finishes. The odds of him surviving to 2029 are bad, and the odds of him not having significant health problems over period are terrible. The odds of him having any problems up until January are very low.
2 hours ago, User said:The point I am getting at here is that no, you have not explained why he is fit to be President right now and then all of a sudden in a few more months he won't be good enough for you.
Your partisan double-standard for fit-vs-unfit is your hang-up.
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17 hours ago, User said:
I did not criticize merely flying him to the US.
Which is why I challenged your other points of criticism...
18 hours ago, User said:However, now that you mention it, it was not a very smart thing for him to do. There is about a 50/50 chance Trump and Vance win, if Zelensky had any politically savvy, he would have avoiding saying anything at all negative about either parties candidates and come up with a much more vague, polished political answer about what Ukraine needs and their desires.
I think you may have this backwards.
If JD Vance had any political savvy, he would spend less time squawking to his base and wouldn't publicly proclaim how he'd throw Ukraine under the bus, therefore removing any reason for Zelensky to remain vague. What do you figure Zelensky loses responding to Vance? Is Vance going to throw Ukraine under the bus...more?
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17 hours ago, User said:
The question was Biden vs Biden... not Trump vs Biden. Why didn't you want Biden for another 4 years?
I'd just got done answering that...
18 hours ago, Moonbox said:I thought he was a poor candidate in 2020 and too old to begin with. Now he's 4 years older and in obvious decline.
Who's sealioning now? 😑
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19 minutes ago, User said:
Improves anything?
That is like asking how a pilot who can't fly the plane anymore stepping down improves the flight.
No, it's nothing like that at all. 😆
19 minutes ago, User said:This is not a serious question or debate, you are just trolling with such obvious absurdity now.
As you make clear with goofy analogies like the one above.
19 minutes ago, User said:Why don't you support another 4 years for him?
I thought he was a poor candidate in 2020 and too old to begin with. Now he's 4 years older and in obvious decline.
Alas, we don't always get the candidates we want, and thus the choice we had was between slow and senile, vs deranged and senile. I'll take slow over deranged every day of the week.
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2 hours ago, User said:
Get what?
I just got done saying that your initial post did nothing but describe the events and how it made you feel, and your response was that I don't understand how it makes you feel? Weird.
How you feel is pretty irrelevant at any rate. Whether or not you can offer a credible and reasonable explanation for it is more interesting.
Zelensky isn't traveling on anything but a military plane to the US, considering he's a large target for assassination, so this is nothingburger criticism.
He visited a munitions factory in Pennsylvania that supplies Ukraine's war effort, and thanked the people there. I'd love to see you try to describe what the acceptable polling margins are for such visits, but we both know how ridiculous that would be.
Criticizing JD Vance for his shamelessly Pro-Putin positions seems like a weird thing to be complaining about as well, especially considering the stakes for Zelensky.
Feel free to address any of the above, or don't. I'll lose no sleep over it. *shrug*
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1 hour ago, User said:
That the administration, including Harris, all know he is unfit and they are ignoring it. You are ignoring. All because you want to win the next election.
As I said, you won't (can't? ) actually articulate how Biden stepping down in the twilight months of his presidency improves anything, or what colossal blunders he's apt to make. "Unfit" is a subjective term and judgement. As frail and diminished as he evidently is, he's still more "fit" than the similarly old, but raving buffoon who was running against him. I have little doubt that Joe Biden can hold it together and run a steady ship until the New Year, even if I didn't support another 4 years for him.
"Whatabout Trump?" isn't deflection. It's context for your criticism. While you repeat about Biden that "he's unfit, he's unfit, he's unfit", you're advocating for a muddled fool who humiliated himself ranting about illegal immigrants kidnapping and eating family pets on a televised presidential debate the whole world was watching. For anything but a die-hard Republican, that's a tough sell. 🤷♂️
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27 minutes ago, User said:
The first comment explicitly laid out what happened, with a link and everything. If you can't figure out how I feel about it by now... well, no worries. Move along, I have no interest in explaining farther to someone playing sea lion right now.
Umm:
42 minutes ago, Moonbox said:The first comment did nothing but describe what happened and how it makes you feel. Any explanation for why is missing. 🤷♂️
Get it?
28 minutes ago, User said:That is not why I am outraged.
You're not explaining why. You're just explaining that you're outraged. Take a stab at it, or don't. *shrug*
31 minutes ago, User said:I don't either.
You mean you won't.
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3 minutes ago, User said:
Off the ticket?
He is still President. If he is so unfit to run to be President, he is unfit to be the President right now.
Out of two unfit candidates, one was forced to abandon his re-election campaign and will transition out of power (peacefully and painlessly) within months. The other is rambling about cats and dogs being eaten, and you're arguing in favor of him being President for the next four years.
3 minutes ago, User said:Yet... just like you are doing here, you are refusing to accept this or be critical of it. You want this political scandal to play out for power.
What political scandal is that? Joe Biden isn't batshit crazy. He's just too old, and nobody wants to see him run again. After 3.75 years in office, I imagine you'd have trouble articulating the dangers of letting him quietly serve out the last few months of his term, or what purpose it serves to force his resignation immediately before the election.
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18 hours ago, User said:
There is no question. Feel free to read the first comment.
The first comment did nothing but describe what happened and how it makes you feel. Any explanation for why is missing. 🤷♂️
As I mentioned, JD Vance has been openly undermining Zelensky and Ukraine and advocating for "peace" on Putin's terms. You yourself have argued extensively against these sorts of ideas, so it's awkward that you're outraged Zelensky would answer interview questions about him in a negative manner.
19 hours ago, User said:As is your approach here. *shrug*
Perhaps, but I don't have to reconcile the contradiction of being pro-Ukraine while supporting a presidential candidate who openly admires Putin, and whose running mate is advocating for Putin's "peace plans".
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12 hours ago, User said:
Yes, Biden is clearly unfit... yet he is still President and you guys don't care.
Other than the fact that he was basically run off the ticket after his debate performance?
Who's the democratic candidate now?
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18 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
They don't. This was addressed right at the beginning.
Like you've been told many times, by many different people, you insisting on something doesn't make it reality.
Here you are now, having proudly puked all over your keyboard once again, but having said absolutely nothing useful. 🤡
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27 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
So the charter of rights and the constitution DOESN"T create rights? LOL Our rights of canadaians are not in the charter or the constitution but in the provincial laws and regulations?
The Charter and Constitution outline some rights. Statutes and Legislation outline others.
It's the second part that you can't quote, because it's make-believe. 🤡
Truth and Reconciliation
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I don't have a great answer for that, especially in the current environment. I'm just pushing back at the idea that local governments are any less prone to f*ckery, or that the only thing you should care about with the federal government is what handouts its offering you locally.