Moonbox

He's not worth hating, or taking seriously. He's an edgelord bullshitter with opinions on everything, and mostly things he doesn't know anything about.

Because they aren't? The first step in recognizing Trump's batshittery is that most of what comes out of his mouth is absolute balogna. Whether it's because he believes everything that comes into his muddled head, or he's just a compulsive liar is up to you, but he's full of shit 99% of the time. Much has been made by the Orange Blob about Canadian dairy tariffs, but are you aware that there is a zero-tariff maximum that the US is allowed to export to Canada under the USMCA (the best trade deal ever written in history...the one Trump negotiated), and that the this maximum is never reached? Those tariffs aren't paid by anyone. Reciprocal? Nonsense.

About as well as anyone could "prove" Biden was. The evidence, I would argue, is pretty compelling for both. Biden looked lost and barely aware of his surroundings. Trump looks deranged and unaware of his reality. One is senile. The other is batshit. That's the best that America could come up with over the last 12 years.

Okay. Does a world exist where both are unfit?

The funniest part about all of this is that the overvalued dollar isn't even a problem. Being the world reserve currency is one of best things going for the US, but you're right that it's a drag on their exports. That Fat Orange slob is like a little baby throwing a tantrum. He wants to have his cake (world reserve status) and eat it too (sans the trade deficit that world reserve status causes almost by default). 50% aluminum tariffs now! No! Make it 400%! THAT will show us!

Wrong about what!?!? 🤣 The fact that a mineral deal isn't a security guarantee? I'm not ignoring what you're saying. I'm laughing at it. This "factual observation" you're trotting out in front of us is anything but. The final outcome of a peace deal could make Ukraine stronger, or it could be forcing Ukraine to roll over and let Putin get away with everything he's done. It could be something in between, but calling it "factual observation", or assuming it as a given, is as ridiculous as everything else that the MAGA donkeys try to rationalize.

How long is this old rag of an argument going to last? Why don't you blame Obama while you're at it? The cause of the current market chaos is singular, and the odds of a Trumpcession increase daily.

Yes, I know what I said, so where's the obfuscation? That's your playbook! We're still waiting for an actual argument against the above, beyond just repeating Trump's foolish claims. No, that's just MAGA clownworld logic. What you're trying to make people believe is that drastically weakening Ukraine's fighting position by freezing aid, and handing Putin a massive propaganda edge with his retarded comments about Zelensky being a dictator and starting the war, Trump is somehow paving the path for a stronger Ukraine. What you're saying is absolutely retarded. 🤡

That's the funny part. I haven't dug in at all. While you've been mewling about goalpost shifting, my point has been clear all along. Mineral Rights aren't security guarantees, and it's retarded to pretend they are. Like the deluded muppet you are, however, as long as Trump is saying something, you'll try and warp reality around yourself to square it up in your brain. What Trump wants is the problem - which is to help his buddy Putin. Everything he's said and done has been to help Putin, and make things harder for Ukraine. Those are facts. Yeah, which Trump apparently accomplishes by making Ukraine weaker. GREAT LOGIC! See above. 🤡🤡🤡

Where did I say it was a substitute for "any other" security guarantees, as you claimed? I can play these retarded word-games too. Like the US was arming Ukraine prior to Putin's invasion (or rather Zelensky starting the war, according to Trump LOL). The point is, that "backing them" can mean anything, and it's not a security guarantee. There's those farcical mental gymnastics again. I don't even know how you can take yourself seriously saying this shit. Halting military aid to Ukraine only makes Ukraine weaker, and Russia stronger. Those are facts. That you're trying to argue otherwise is absolutely pathetic, and it further highlights why nobody can take you seriously. 🙃

Actually quoting what I said is fine. Making up what I'm saying is your problem. When you try to make the debate about what you want my point to be, rather than what I'm telling you it is, you're just arguing with yourself. Can you provide the quote where I said that? No, because It doesn't exist. Even when you're engaging in these useless word games, you're still making shit up. 🤡👌 "Backing them" doesn't mean the US will sail the 7th fleet into the Straits of Taiwan and support them in the event of an invasion. No, what's really stopping China from invading is that taking an armed-to-the-teeth mountain fortress with 1,000,000 reservists via amphibious assault would be a bloodbath - juice not worth the squeeze. I'm not ignoring it, I'm saying that it's deluded MAGA clownworld nonsense. As expected, and as we're seeing, everything Trump has done thus far has weakened Ukraine's position and strengthened Russia's. That's the reality. That's a fact, and you're left coping and rationalizing about how Trump "just wants peace". You sound just like Nationalist now. 🤣

Nominally, yes, and I'm sure that helps you wrap yourself in your comfy Trumpian fantasy. Relatively speaking, adjusted for inflation and GDP growth, federal revenue is down, while expenses have grown with a growing (and aging) population. Four years from now, when the tax cuts have blown up US deficits further, when the goofy tariffs don't pay for anything and Elon's clown parade at DOGE don't deliver anywhere near the cuts they say they will, you'll still be blaming Biden! 🤣

No, it's just you throwing up your ubiquitous smoke-screens - your pedantic deflection and obfuscation because you can't actually debate the subject matter. Instead of arguing the actual point, you want to argue about my verbiage. It's pathetic, and just further highlights your lack of intellectual credibility. A retarded one, yes. That's the point. Economic "partnerships" are not security guarantees in any way shape or form. Russia has offered the same to Trump, highlighting how the USA can get mineral access to Ukraine with or without future Ukrainian sovereignty. Now that Trump has shown his true colors and is making life easy for Putin, you've come full circle and are now repeating Nationalist's reasoning. I don't think anyone here is surprised how quickly your convictions on Ukraine evaporated once your Orange Messiah started pissing all over them. 🤡🤡🤡

As usual, the only argument you can provide is insisting on a dumb straw-man. Your characterization of my claim is completely bogus, and as usual, even after clarification, you can't move on and actually argue the point. It's just deflect, deflect and obfuscate with you, every time. This isn't an argument. This is just repeating the retarded claim. Economic partnership provides no security guarantee, just like Chinese investment in Mariupol didn't prevent that city from getting flattened. Donald Trump's "negotiating for peace" so far has amounted to nothing more than weakening Ukraine's position. He's done Putin nothing but favors, and that isn't strawman. 🤡

By broken, you mean the strongest in the world? That's not what's broken. It's their government and their politics that are. There are two sides to finance: revenue and expenditure. US news media and politicians have been able to delude their voters into the myth of trickle-down economics for the last ~40 years, and the results have been predictable. Trump's 2017 tax cuts led to record-low (non recession) revenues, and he's about to compound the problem and make it far worse. The rich have become far richer, the middle-class has been squeezed, and US federal finances are a looming disaster. This is self-inflected pain.

LOL nope! The context is that Ukraine didn't want to sign a deal with no security guarantees, and the Trumpian Circus tried to claim that getting mineral rights were somehow American security guarantees. Your typically useless and pedantic deflections over verbiage don't address the absurdity of those claims, or the fact that you can't actually offer an argument about it! Because if history has taught us anything, the best way to negotiate with bullying dictators is to strengthen their position and hobble their opponents, right!? Those fumes you're huffing? I want some too! 🤣👌

True enough. Trudeau came in with a mandate and promise to expand infrastructure and get the debt under control. Instead, he waffled on any hard choices and expanded the public service by...whatever dumb percent it ended up being.

That's how it works. When you're a minority in opposition, you don't have much sway. Until some of the cowards and sycophants in the Republican House start pushing back, the Democrats have zero power. That's not likely going to happen until the consequences of the Orange Blob's circus percolate through.

You didn't explain anything of the sort. European troops positioned in Ukraine would be a European security guarantee, and have nothing to do with US mineral rights in Ukraine. It's telling that you frame it like that. You understand it was dumb/wrong, but you minimize it as if it doesn't matter. In reality, this is a huge propaganda win for Putin, one that will be played and replayed in Russia for as long as this war goes on. It wasn't just a dumb accident. Why would Putin tell Trump to pound sand? Everything Trump's done so far has helped him. Trump gift-wrapped an enormous moral and propaganda victory, legitimizing his actions on the world stage while at the same time yanking the support Ukraine needs to stand up to him. Putin couldn't have a better friend than that! 🤣👌

Everyone is at least a little partisan. Many are very partisan. Some are hyper-partisan, and are almost always on-brand with whatever slurp they consoom. Finally, there are the truly deluded - the witless cultists that will believe and justify almost literally anything coming from their chieftain. I suspect robo is talking about the last, and there are many of them even in Canada. For what it's worth, I don't think that describes you.

I'm not sure what else you're expecting? They've just had their politics, agendas and their status rejected in favor of the Orange Blob the American public didn't even really like the first time around. They've a lot of shit to figure out.

It's not any type of security guarantee, and the fact that Trump and his administration are proposing otherwise is farcical. Uselessly reaching with more of your limp word games doesn't change the above, nor the fact that (as usual) you don't actually have an argument to make about it! 🙃 That was the point. You weren't making one. "Trump has said many things?" Okay. We're talking about the retarded, outright lies he's been telling, and the only thing we can get back from you is "that was stupid but...(here's how I cope with the cognitive dissonance)". At any rate, it is pretty funny watching you scrambling for these goofy answers, realizing in your subconscious that everything Trump has done so far in his search for peace has helped Russia and hurt Ukraine's ability to defend itself. He's now: 1) Declared Ukraine started the war, and that Zelensky is a dictator, thus handing Putin a massive propaganda win. 2) He's halted military aid. 3) He's halted intelligence sharing just a start. What steps has he taken against Russia? 😆

True enough, and I don't think we will? I hope not? I really like fresh fruit... The frightening thing here is that even if companies and governments see the need to start spending on new export terminals at ports etc, these would extremely expensive and take years to come online. Worse, however, is that tariffs can be dropped at any time, erasing the need for these investments after costs are sunk. Rough stuff.

Yes, but a publicly funded broadcaster delivers information. When the service itself is politicized, it's a different kind of argument. Cancer treatment, for example, doesn't care what your political leanings are and has no comment for it. No? I'm saying that cable/broadcast TV is dying, and quickly, so efforts are better spent focusing on where the audience has gone. First, I don't think I've joined the calls to dismantle the CBC, have I? Second, lots of places don't have public broadcasters and they handle emergencies just fine.