Moonbox

No, that's only in clownworld bud. The borders of Ukraine were drawn in the 90's.

They invaded their own territory. Got it. 🫠👌

For your friend, sure. He obviously wasn't very well off to begin with. The calculus on when to take CPP very much depends on your individual situation. Some people want to work until their 65 because they'd be bored otherwise, but they make so much money that most of their CPP would be lost to taxes if they took it at 60. Some people didn't save enough money and will have to eat cat food at 80+ if they retired at 60, so they work longer and take CPP later. Some people have poor genes and nobody ever lives much past 70. Some people have the opposite problem, and everyone lives to 90+. The optimal time to take it might be very different based on that alone. Generally, I suggest people take CPP as soon as they retire. For every 5 years you wait past 60, it takes 9-10 years or more to break even, and if you die before that you've clearly lost.

Good one. You couldn't have done a better job proving you had no response or counter-point if you tried. Like a Russian car, you break down at the first sign of a challenge. "Ur such a putz..." 👏

I reckon that we absolutely will not. Your obsession with Galicia is weird, because it's clear you don't actually know much about Galicia or the area around it. You liken it to some sort of multi-cultural utopia when in reality it was subjugated and oppressed, unstable and destitute. I don't think anyone uses this word anywhere, nor should they. Because the Ukrainians invaded Russia and are annexing their territory? 😑

Totally man, totally. As everyone knows the hallmark of a happy person is spending all day, every day, fighting people on the internet with 30-40 posts a day. Just...?

We have no idea who made the video, other than that the algo fed it to you in your sad search for anything that might support your clownworld viewpoints. We also know that you're too stupid to consider and filter the information you consume. The only thing that matters is that it's telling you what you want to hear. Turkey is leaving NATO, right? The Youtube/Rumble/Twitter video told you so! ???

They're speaking Ukrainian? That's what's important to you with this video? That it's a poor-quality compilation posted on Rumble and sourced from Telegram doesn't raise any questions? Of course not. It's inconceivable that the Russians would post misinformation in Ukraine in...Ukrainian I guess. I'm afraid this isn't just a gullible problem. This is a deeply, deeply unintelligent man.

Freeland has the public eye and has been front-and-centre. Aside from Carney, the rest of them are nobodies - tokens and talking heads. Melanie Joly is a hottie so she gets some camera time, but I don't get the impression she's setting policy, and even if she was it would be as the Foreign Minister for a PM who's done nothing but embarrass himself and Canada internationally. Carney is a heavyweight, but he's been out of the public eye too long and a lot of people don't know who he is. He'd also be taking over a sinking ship. If he ever does run, I suspect it would be 2 elections from now. He's the sort of very different Liberal the party would need to rehabilitate and reimagine their image, and would offer something that Trudeau never could: A brain.

Interesting take, considering the article shows two people that were clearly preferred over Trudeau, and one of them hasn't been part of the Canadian political landscape for 10 years and a lot of people (especially younger folk) wouldn't know at all. I think what this article actually shows is how badly a job Trudeau has done and how deeply unpopular he is. Chrystia Freeland is not popular, but still twice as popular as him. Mark Carney has been out of the arena for 10 years, but is still almost twice as popular. Anita Anand is a nobody, but comes up in the news often enough that she's not far off Trudeau in popularity. That's pathetic. On Poilievre: A significant portion of respondents, 46 per cent, also did not want Mr. Poilievre to lead the Conservative Party. However, more wanted him to stay on as leader, at 32 per cent. Twenty-two per cent said they had no preference or were unsure. The numbers are in line with how he has polled since December, 2022, suggesting that the Conservative Party’s significant ad campaign has done little to change opinion of their leader, said Mr. Nanos. “It’s not an embrace and a massive endorsement of Pierre Poilievre, and the Conservatives, it’s more of a rejection of the Liberals and Justin Trudeau.” A bigger question to raise, I think is who would want to lead the Liberals in the next election? Sounds like a sucker's job to me.

Where did you get that from? Was it Youtube? Russia Today? Straight out of the mouth of Orange Man? What were you right about, exactly? Turkey leaving NATO? ?

Says the Trumpy election denier, and the Putin parrot. ? Like I said, you just parrot what Putin says without a thought. Anyone with a brain understands that he has zero credibility whatsoever, but dumb-dumb Trumpy election deniers believe whatever orange man tells them to. ?

Even if I knew nothing, I'd still be better informed on the topic than you. It's not what you don't know that's the problem, in your case. It's what you think you know, but that just ain't so. ?

Russia's economy is fine, according to smoothbrain, which is whatever the Kremlin is saying. Smoothbrain doesn't actually know anything about the Russian economy, or how they've managed to prop things up after being sanctioned so heavily. Smooth-brain complains about interest rates and inflation in Canada, while inflation in Russia was almost 12% last year, 7% this year, and that the interest rates are +15% to prevent the collapse of the ruble and try to tack down on inflation (16% this year) . If the Russian economy is "just fine", then Justin Trudeau is a great fiscal manager as well, because all the government needs to do is run massive deficits and you can always count on Justin for that.

B-bu-bu-but papa Putin says so!

Why did your loan officer take your rosary? They're not called loan officers anymore anyways. Rather, they're called poorly paid clerical input monkeys, who may or may not have completed highschool and who will almost certainly not still be working there next year.

Poor little brainlet is lashing out because he embarrassed himself reposting his youtube feed...again. ?

and yet they're negotiating the purchase of US fighter jets and Sweden's accession to NATO as we speak. ?

Progress to what though? What are we trying to accomplish for Canada? Right now it looks like we're bringing in 500,000 immigrants per year that we don't have housing for, and offering them preferred status for jobs in a burgeoning bureaucracy that's not providing value and is helping drive us off a fiscal cliff. You are right about one thing though, and that's that Justin Trudeau has no vision beyond what he thinks will help get him elected, and his focus on identity politics and virtue-signaling over more important secular concerns shows us where he thinks he can get votes.

This is just the latest in a long list of self-inflicted humiliation for this clown, and what's especially funny is how quickly he believed it and tried to share it, when it was so easily and casually proved false. A 10 second "Did Turkey leave NATO?" search could have saved him the embarrassment, and this is what makes him such a tool - how easily he duped by his youtube feed, over and over. You don't know where I get my news from. This is just your default response to anything that doesn't fit your worldview. "reee MSM fake news reee!" ?

I'm not opposed entirely to affirmative action and diversity hiring, but in such a way where it might be a tie-breaker for qualified candidates or something. The way it's handled in the public service bureaucracy is retarded, in that being a gay black muslim with only one leg puts you ahead of everyone else as long as you meet bare minimum competency. That's what we end up getting in our public service as a result - bare minimum competency and accountability, often with people whose job it is to serve the public not being able to even communicate properly in that language.

Again, your lack of self-awareness is hilarious. Your first post in this thread was picking a fight, and having that pointed out triggered your default state of yap-yap-yap, complete with your programmed "aww muffin" response. ??

Just the other day one of our resident geniuses was gleefully cheering in the international politics section about how Turkey had decided to leave NATO . This was based on a freaking Youtube video he saw and reposted here. It never occurred to him to check elsewhere. It was what he wanted to hear, so he believed it without a moment's consideration. That's what happens when the rubes get all of their news from Twitter, reddit and Youtube etc...

Your lack of self-awareness is, as always, hilarious. ?

You mean no one should be fooled. Lots of people, however, evidently are. It's crazy to me how easily a...certain type of person is fooled by low effort, low-IQ propaganda.