Moonbox

Refugees, family+ etc. Last time I checked, something like 25% of new immigrants to Canada were reunification applicants. I don’t know what the percentage breakdowns are beyond that, but I have to admit I rankle at the idea of bringing a new immigrant’s elderly parents over from wherever. We don’t need any more elderly folk in Canada…we have enough. ?

Yeah I don't get it. I liked the Harper approach to immigration better. 500,000/y is a mental.

You're the only one who's cheered and hoped for anyone to get hurt here bud. ?

Yet Tucker Carlson, who's pants-on-fire never go out and whose lawyers have argued "no reasonable person" should believe what he says is the news, is who you trust for your news. ? Hopefully you're taking that with a side-order of Alex Jones, just to complete the picture of a truly gullible and dimwitted ape.

We can believe the guy’s attorney, or we can listen to Tucker Carlson barf out of his anus. Being the deluded muppet you are, you choose option 2, every time.

Sadly, yes.

Nobody was happy with the GST, and people were pissed with Chretien for keeping it. That said, Chretien/Martin undertook the biggest program spending cuts in Canadian history. You have to give them credit for that, no?

The search function is just trash. The post is still there. Either way, there's the "context" he keeps talking about. ?

She may have made the party worse off, but the PC's were toast federally with the Reform coming to split the vote and a decade of built-up resentment. Brian Mulroney may not have been our best PM, but he was nowhere as bad as people make him out to be. He was dealt probably the worst hand a Canadian PM has had in 75 years with something like 40% of every budget dollar going to pay interest on Pierre Trudeau's debt and bloated service spending.

It's a bit of a toss up, but Justin's probably worse on account that his dad was actually smart, in his own way. Justin is a name, a face and an ego, and little else.

He didn't remove it, and there was no context. He says, "I didn't cheer any of this." and then proceeds to tell us he hopes that Russia destroys Ukraine utterly in the same f*cking post. You literally couldn't write something stupider.

No, he wasn't. He was allowed to go into a halfway house 14 months early, on account of good conduct in prison. Even the dude's attorney has gone on record saying Tucker Carlson's "footage" had absolutely nothing to do with his release. You certainly are, lol. Once again, here you are parroting Tucker Carlson like a gullible ape.

Europe tried to have Russia as an ally, much like they tried and failed with China. The hope was that the opportunities that western markets represented would help open the country up from outside. Instead, Vladimir Putin and his pals used European trade to line their pockets. Russia is still a poverty-stricken shithole outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and Putin's political opponents all end up dead, in exile, or in jail. Lesson learned, I guess.

My point is that is that it's more clownworld logic to talk about NATO weakness while a small country is fighting of everything Russia has with NATO's hand-me-downs.

Uh huh, uh huh. Are you literally the dumbest person that's ever graced this forum? I think you might be.

My point is that you're dumb if you cite random hooliganism in one place as indicative of some greater truth.

I don't think it's very surprising. I liked him and voted for him and live in Ontario. He didn't do anything terrible, while Justin has been a joke. Those are the only two PMs that basically a generation of Canadians even knew, so for anyone under 30 who isn't extremely interested in politics, it was a two option contest, with one of them a dud. ?

Speaking of weakness, what does it tell us that Russia faceplanted in an invasion of a country 1/4 its size?

No doubt you are, but delusional coping is good for nothing but laughs at your expense. Large scale NATO expansion being a signal of weakness is batshit nonsense, but here you are trying to argue exactly that. ?

See: FLORIDA MAN https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-with-cat-denied-entry-by-fla-strip-club-arrested/

I hope we're not related. It takes a special kind of warped mind to conclude that NATO is falling apart as it adds new members that had resisted joining for 50 years. It doesn't get much dumber than that.

NATO growing = falling apart

Here's what you're working with:

Which is very much what I'm driving at when I say that focusing on the top 20% smoke and mirrors. The focus should be on the very top of the ladder. Not even remotely. It's like saying anyone can own a Lamborghini.