Moonbox

It’s not supposed to be a cat 5 when it lands. the peninsula looks like it’s going to get washed away (goodbye, John’s Pass), and the lower lying areas are going to get mega flooded, but Tampa will recover. It’s a cool city.

Canada spends something like +$300B a year on healthcare alone.

Why would you brag about giving a 62% raise for workers? I don't know the specifics of their last contract and how long it's been since they had their wages increased, but unless it was like 10 years or something, then a 62% raise is...a lot. Caving to monopolistic infrastructure union demands is not great politics...usually.

I saw the thread title, saw who posted it, and had a good laugh. I didn't even need to read the OP.

Yes, that's really basic "economics", like saying the answer to the following equation: X= 2+2[(3 / y^5)*(z)] is 4, because 2+2 = 4. You're absolutely right that 2+2 =4, and I suppose that is basic math, but it's not really algebra, just like what you offered above isn't really economics.

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.

At they had the tradition and the Book to rave about. Now it's just whatever random shit the clown parade is talking about online...

The mine that the locals wanted to keep open, and that was their primary source of employment? You're proving my point here, bud.

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.

Why are you calling him Hillbilly? I thought he was the couch-f*cker.

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. 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?

That's not a value. That's "me me me me me". Two year-olds have that down pat already.

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. 🙄 Who do you figure is hiding from you, exactly?

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. 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.

The Obama economy was great before Trump took over too. Run from the truth.

According to the Hindustan Times... You're not doing yourself any favors with this sort of silliness. 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. 🥱

There was nothing objective or defined about this little rant. 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. 😆

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. No, sorry. I do have actuarial tables though.

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. Your partisan double-standard for fit-vs-unfit is your hang-up.

Which is why I challenged your other points of criticism... 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?

I'd just got done answering that... Who's sealioning now? 😑

No, it's nothing like that at all. 😆 As you make clear with goofy analogies like the one above. 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.

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*

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. 🤷‍♂️

Umm: Get it? You're not explaining why. You're just explaining that you're outraged. Take a stab at it, or don't. *shrug* You mean you won't.