Moonbox

For someone getting paid to troll for Putin, you're pretty bad at it.

There are as many types of cancer as there are flavors of candy. We can't speculate on what it could or couldn't be. Sometimes cancer is discovered by simple blood test, and it could be the earliest stage, all the way to much worse. It could be stage 4 that metastasized in his nuts, for all we know.

China doesn't want a BRICs currency either, because they want everyone to use the renminbi, which they have control over. They are hoarding gold because the West (who they rely on for export markets) is souring on them at the same time they head into a debt crisis and need diversification. You were just posting about Evergrande insolvency, you dope. If you don't like what the small dogs have to say, then maybe India counts? India's foreign minister said, "there is no idea of a BRICS currency". Its foreign secretary said before departing for the summit that boosting trade in national currencies would be discussed. https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/what-is-brics-currency-could-one-be-adopted-2023-08-23/#:~:text=In July%2C India's foreign minister,national currencies would be discussed. Right? Who cares indeed? Except...you've been chanting about how big heavyweights like South Africa, Iran, Argentina have joined the BRICs and how important this is...except when what they're saying doesn't match up with your twitter regurgitations. 🤡

Well even 40% VE is more than none, which is what you were saying. Also, when you got it, your symptoms were minor, if anything. As far as the myocarditis is concerned, the research is suggesting that it's most likely from immuno-response related inflammation (thus not likely asymptomatic COVID). Had COVID, barely felt a thing, didn't miss any work. No, because the overwhelming majority of COVID deaths were amongst the unvaccinated. In the highest risk-group for vaccine side effects, and the lowest risk for death by COVID, COVID was still a bigger risk than myocarditis by a factor of 60-70x.

A study of Omicron infections in England found that VE against symptomatic illness was similar between those who received 2 doses of either ChAdOx1 or BNT162b2 followed by a booster dose of BNT162b2, specifically 62.4% and 67.2% given 2–4 weeks after the booster, falling to 39.6% and 45.7%, respectively, after >10 weeks "As a rule" doesn't mean much, in this case. 7000+ people died of COVID in the 18-29 range in the USA. 92 people died total of myocarditis post-vaccination, according to your posted study. If 7000 deaths means no severe illness "as a rule", then we can similarly say that the vaccines had no dangerous side effects...as a rule. It does not. The study's actual conclusion was: Further investigation into the underlying mechanisms of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis is imperative to create effective mitigation strategies and ensure the safety of COVID-19 vaccination programs across populations.

Russia isn't welcoming anyone. China runs the show for BRICS, and like everything else you post about, you don't even understand what it is. It's not an alliance. It's not a multi-lateral trade pact. It has no Charter, no ideological coherence and not only are most of its members not friends, many of them are straight-up enemies. As for a BRICs currency, keep telling us how imminent it is... 🤣 "Suggestions that the BRICS group of emerging market powers establish their own currency to reduce their reliance on the dollar aren’t under serious consideration and never have been, South Africa’s finance minister said." https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/brics-currency-was-never-on-table-south-african-finance-chief-says-1.1963130#:~:text=BRICS Currency Was Never On Table%2C South African Finance Chief Says,-Paul Vecchiatto%2C Bloomberg&text=(Bloomberg) -- Suggestions that the,South Africa's finance minister said.

Someone doesn't understand how geography works.

It still is. Ignoring all of the other dangers, side-effects and symptoms, COVID-19 infection is even more strongly associated with myocarditis than getting vaccinated, and at nearly double the rate. "Myocarditis risk depends on the age and sex of the vaccine recipient. It is most common in younger males—adolescents or young adults. The highest risk group is males between 12 and 17 years of age. And in that highest risk group, the myocarditis risk after the second dose, which is the highest, is 35.9 per 100,000 people. In comparison, the risk post-infection in that same group is 64.9 per 100,000." https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/qanda-what-causes-rare-instances-of-myocarditis-after-mrna-covid-19-vaccines/

Which is why their naval ships keep sinking in the Black Sea. 🤡 They have "elections-theatre". Why are you talking about Putin winning the next election and his +80% approval rating? In a country where Putin controls all of the media companies that do the polling and report on it, and where his political opponents all die or end up in jail, you somehow think these poll numbers are...what, exactly?

Is that why they keep having their ships sunk in the Black Sea? The fact that you think Russia holds free elections puts you squarely in the bottom 1%. There's really nothing else to say on this. Calling you a clown is generous.

Yes, his approval rating is almost as good as Glorious Leader's in North Korea. That you think this is remarkable is all the indication we need of how magnificently stupid you are. 🤣

Ukraine is split because it was invaded, not because it's not a country. Putin has ensured its national and anti-Russian identity now for generations, which is literally the opposite of what he'd aimed to achieve. Genius! That's not what you remember. That's the revisionist coping fantasy you've conjured up. Nobody had to howl about Ukraine beating Russia off their land, because they did that at the end of 2022, with the Russian army tucking its tail and running, and giving up around half of the territory they'd taken since the invasion started. Since then, their useless peasant soldiers haven't done anything but hide in trenches behind minefields, and as a result Sadimir Putin has had to revise his goals. "Full-scale invasion? Nooo!. This is just a special military operation! Now we have a land corridor to Crimea, and losing 90% of our pre-war army, and suffering 300,000+ casualties, and being cut off from our largest trading partners was all part of the plan!" 🤡

They all had crises to deal with. The Canada that Chretien took over was on the verge of a debt crisis and a currency collapse. He did what he had to in order to restore confidence. He is and he will continue to be reflected on positively for the difficult, unpopular and necessary decisions he made, contrasted with the instant gratification and populism of those that came after. Well if you have a solution to get the average voter interested in and informing themselves on politics and government finances, I'd love to hear it.

Except they have? So do the Russians. Look up the Rusich Group. 🙄 Which the Russian invasion has guaranteed. Great job, Vlad! 🤣👌 So was the Russian Federation. So was Belarus. If they're real countries, then so is Ukraine. 🙃 Maybe they can't. What they have done, however, is defeated the Russian invasion, humiliated the Russian military and forced them to rely on witless peasant conscripts hiding like rats behind minefields and in trenches, just to hang on what little territory they've gained. How many Russian soldiers lives is a square meter of Ukrainian dirt worth? (It's a trick question. Russian soldiers' lives have no value, as far as Mad Vlad is concerned).

That's a very facile argument, and implies that we can't judge anyone's record unless it's somehow spotless, no matter how much worse they leave things than when they started or how bad their policy is. Inextricably related, with the "long-term issues" relying on the resources that will be available to tackle them. Yes, here we are, talking circles around concrete issues while referring ambiguously to long-term "Problems" and a cryptic "lack of vision".

Goalpost-shift? That's all you've done here. The humiliating failed blitz on Kiev, the retreat from Kherson and Kharkiv (with its large ethnic Russian population), the bologna talk about removing Naziism in Ukraine, halting NATO expansion, that Ukraine isn't a real country and that it's actually part of Russia etc etc...These have all been discarded and forgotten in favor of the revised goals Putin's made up to save face. Now your cope is that a small land corridor to Crimea and roughly 10% of Ukraine's territory in the east is a successful outcome for 2 years of war, hundreds of thousands of dead/wounded Russian soldiers, the humiliation of their supposedly powerful military and the loss of their largest export market. Riiiiight. 🤣 Nope. Try and find me saying anything of the sort.

The answer is self-evidently no, since we've been running large deficits for the last 15 years, have rapidly expanded them since 2015, and have been financing our public spending for most of the last 50 years. If anything, budget health is what's constantly taking the back-burner, with voters content to ignore it and allow governments to kick the can down the road for future generations to pay. The debt is ultimately the number that matters, and it's what we pay interest on. The deficits are a just telling us how much better or worse it's going to get. If we account for the different level of governments that Canada has (but others don't) Canada's 9th worst, measuring up against fiscal basket-cases like Spain and Portugal. https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-debt.htm Okay, but that's vague and subjective, and doesn't give us much to discuss, does it?

That's the magic of your delusional clownworld reality. Even when you're WRONG, as long as you can find a guy on youtube or Redacted saying otherwise, that's enough to convince you that you're RIGHT. 🤡

Anyone not living in a deluded clownworld does. Common sense and events tell us that Russia tried and failed miserably to blitz the Ukrainian capital. Common sense and events tell us that Russia lost so many troops that it had to initiate conscription. Common sense and events tell us that they've lost so much equipment that they're dredging up T-62a tanks (built in the 50's) and having to rely on Iranian garbage-tech to keep their army supplied with ordnance. The only part of Ukraine that was mostly ethnic Russian was Crimean, fool, and that's only because they murdered and deported most of the population ~90 years ago. Donetsk and Luhansk were both over 50% ethnic Ukrainian and under 40% Russian. Listening to someone as deluded and uninformed as you talk about "intelligence" is a grand joke. 🤣

Isn't that a bit of a catfish question? The answer is no, obviously, but since it was the wrong question it doesn't tell us much. I'm not saying that you don't care about the budget. I'm saying that most of the comparisons understate the problem, and for various reasons. I've already mentioned CPP being included in the net debt calculation, which is a farce but other things that skew the comparison are things like not including health care or education related debt, which other G7 and OECD countries have on their national (rather than provincial balance sheets. That seems a uncharacteristically rhetorical.

Of course it was, but that was also the point. Badly mishandling the budget makes everything harder. Okay, but what numbers are those, and what do they really tell us? If it's net-debt to GDP, that comparison is extremely misleading. Who do you imagine is saying we do nothing?

I believe that Russia has lost, because they launched a full-scale invasion against a much smaller, much weaker and much poorer opponent, and in two years have only gained 10% of its territory. In exchange, Russia's army has been humiliated, its standing in the world is greatly diminished, and they've lost hundreds of thousands of their young men. What a victory. 🤣

What analogy is that? I really don't think Canada should be following the US's example, and not just because we don't have the luxury of sheltering behind the USD's reserve status.

How many of these big problems would you say aren't directly tied back to or constrained by the budget? The sad part is that is not hyperbole, or exaggerated. Trudeau has doubled our federal debt in 8 years, expanded program spending by an average of 7% per year over that span, and less than half of that can be attributed to COVID. As for our relative status vs the G7, it's grossly misrepresented by the net-debt calculations that the Trudeau Liberals keep waving around. TLDR on that is that it inflates Canada's net balance by the $700B in assets held within CPP and QPP, while not accounting for the associated pension liabilities. It's a peculiarity in Canada's pension system relative to the G7, but a useful obfuscation for the Liberals. No, I do not disagree that we have structural problems. One thing is for certain, however: Massive deficits and rapidly growing federal indebtedness make present and future structural problems harder to solve.

Some of it is, but some of it isn't. There are objective measurements that can be used. None of them are perfect or comprehensive on their own, but they can pull away the veneer of "subjectivity" when studied together. Both. CERB was needed and justified, but not at the level it was provided, nor for as long as it was. The amount of excess savings that Canadians built up while receiving CERB benefits is one of those objective measurements we can use, and it's something that the economists have commented on extensively. Evidently it is, because our ballooning public debt is barely a topic worth mentioning today.