Moonbox

There was no logic. You should have stopped there. The conflict of interest is obvious, and the failure to report wasn't an oversight. That's pretty much the definition of below-board. There's not much of a conversation to have there. Clarence Thomas hilariously fails any professional code of conduct test out there. I've already said it, but bank tellers and data-entry clerks are held to a higher standard than he's held himself. In a lower Court, he'd have been brought up on disciplinary proceedings a long time ago, but the Founding Fathers likely didn't anticipate someone so cartoonishly self-interested and unscrupulous to end up as one of the Supreme Court Justices, and there aren't many mechanisms to deal with that after the fact.

The implication of this sort of "logic" is that a Supreme Court Justice is somehow subject to lower ethical standards of professional conduct than the meekest government pencil-pusher, who in many cases would be required to self-disclose gifts as low as $100 to avoid conflicts of interest (or appearances thereof). It's too bad Bob Menendez didn't get your treatment on his bribery scandal. What's a few gold bars and a bunch of money stashed in the walls between longtime friends? 🙄 He recently helped strike down the Chevron Deference, something that cost his buddy Koch billions over the years and that his network of businesses and non-profits have campaigned against heavily. What a pleasant coincidence their friendship has been.

No. I just posted a (not even comprehensive) list of other various gifts and handouts he's received from his billionaire buddies, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars at least. If it was above-board then he would report it, and would recuse himself from decisions involving his "friends" or the causes they promote. Justice Thomas, sitting at the pinnacle of the US legal system, demonstrates a cartoonish lack of professional ethics, and holds himself to a lower standard than the average bank teller.

Yes, that's how I knew that it was nothing more than a low-brow opinion piece. What were the specific criticisms against Minister Joly? Go back to the article and post it here. 🙄

Went on vacations with his rich friend...there's a downplay if I've ever seen one. Which "rich friend" are we talking about? Justice Thomas has a surprising number of billionaire friends, who've paid for upwards of 40 destination vacations, ~25 of which were on private flights. That says nothing of the hundreds of thousands he's been gifted by various schemes over the years (forgiven loans, free tuition for his nephew at $72k/y, billionaires buying the house his mother lives in etc... No evidence that anyone bought him....just a lot of money going from billionaires to a Supreme Court Judge who's publicly complained that he doesn't get paid enough. Do you smell the smell? I smell the smell.

There's also this. I don't like his trashy copy-pasted article, so (by default) I like authoritarian communist countries. With logic like that, we don't have to prevaricate on labels. This is a low-intelligence poster.

If you say so. I just think it's a really shitty attitude, and don't see how you can critique other people's politics when you've more or less declared that the only thing you care about is what you get from the government. If you allow everyone else (like the RoC, or even the rest of the world) that same runway, who are you to criticize big polluters etc? At least you're staying on-brand. The RoC has to pay for all of the junkers their owners' have walked away from? I'd say track down the owners and fine them.

I don't even think these posts count as "thoughts". They're like word scrambles. Reagan Galicia Andrew Coyne Salisbury Steak Cold War is Over

Useless post.

Go outside. Pounding your keyboard in your basement is not how people are supposed to spend their summers. 🤡

Well you've made that abundantly clear. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme. That's an interesting attitude considering how many winters you've spent on EI on the RoC's dime over the years. 🙄

...which in this case, is the RoC. Probably not, but I'm an equal-opportunity critic of subsidizing non-viable business/communities. The government just gave $10B to build a battery plant an hour and a half away from me, and we'll likely never recover that investment. Much like the Ontario government did with solar subsidies over a decade ago, that industry only existed because of subsidies, and it disappeared when they ended. It's dumb.

The gem that keeps delivering. 🤡 You say that right after commenting on mine. 🙄 If you don't want people calling out your incel lifestyle, try going outside sometime. Emoji spam ranting all day, every day, is not how you break that cycle.

Most of what Putin says publicly is bluster and balogna. The problem is that he's been so public and adamant on his demands and his ability to achieve them, that falling short will be a humiliation. The problem for Russia is that the war was a disaster to start. Short of a quick, clean victory, there's no scenario where Russia is better off than before Feb 2022. Their consumer economy is devastated, and their "growth" is entirely based on unsustainable, deficit-financed military spending that adds no value. The worst part about all of this is that whatever territory they do take, they've devastated and can't afford to rebuild. The whole thing has been a fiasco for them. At this point I start to wonder if a stalemate is the goal. Putin can't afford to lose the war, but I'm not sure he can afford to win it either. It was a joke. Even the Kremlin is calling it a war now. The one thing I definitely underestimated when the Russian army faceplanted was the cowed servility of the average Russian peasant. To go two years insisting that this was just "a special military operation" when everyone knew better was a joke in and of itself, but the Russians just sort of went along with it anyway.

Neither can Putin, insisting on Ukraine capitulating territory that Russia doesn't even control (fully or otherwise). Europe will support them, even if Trump does not. I have my doubts about how willing/able Trump would be to cut and run as well, given how most of the Republican Party is firmly on board with aid to Ukraine. It's not a war. It's a special military operation. 😐

Losing at what? 🤣 I saw you uselessly ranting (again) and made fun of you, and that triggered you into more useless emoji spam ranting. There was no debate. You're literally too dumb to debate. Funny, coming from the website's pre-eminent incel. I hope your ant farm keeps you good company. 👍

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"The best way to convince people that you're not butthurt, is spiral out into emoji spam and insist the other guy is getting butthurt. " -CdnFox You weren't making any points, smooth-brain. You were just ranting. 🥱

Me tribe GOOOD. You tribe BAAAAD. -CdnFox

It's funny how often he seems to find/come across these articles from Druthers.ca... That's one way to spend your advertising dollars...I guess. 🤣

Pork barrel politics and subsidies are always appreciated by those getting the money, aren't they? Not sure what you're talking about here, but are we pretending the fishing industry hasn't been heavily subsidized for decades?

You could say that's in spite of, rather than because of. That is, of course, unless you're saying that where you live gets a lot of government money on account of the indigenous pandering. In that case, good for you I guess. It's not so grand for the RoC.

They both keep saying they're open to talks. The conditions they place on those talks (particularly Putin) make that a laugh. It's already disastrous for Russia. Half a million more casualties and two more years of debt-financed military economy for a country that was already spiraling into demographic decline is going to be bad bad bad.

Treaties do? 🤔

No. I'm not putting any more effort into this than you did, copypasting this balogna rant.