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So you're ok with anyone walking up to a voting station , no photo ID, no proof of any kind required and being allowed to cast a vote??

Voter ID Requirements | USAGov It is possible to still vote with a provisional ballot. Birth certificates, utility bills, bank statements. Now you're going to say many people have absolutely not one single piece of paper to help identify their identity. If they have nothing at all to verify identity then what prevents them from voting again and again? There has to be limits on who can and cannot vote if they can't prove who they are. I'm guessing you were/are strongly in favour of vax passports for people. How about showing a form of ID before purchasing a gun? That's reasonable isn't it?

I'm not sure if PP was totally wrong on his stance on the Bank of Canada. I'm no expert on crypto but one of my coworkers was up to over $250,000 from an investment of less than $10,000. That was before the market tanked though. Perhaps the appeal was that it was more or less outside of the control of governments. I think it's easier to understand when we invest in something more tangible, real bricks and mortar companies.

I asked you if you feel that asking for ID during the voting process is a form of voter suppression.

Can you be specific? When you say you want voting to be more inclusive and easier, does that mean you are opposed to voters being required to show proof of ID? Asking for ID is not a form of suppression, it's perfectly reasonable. To your second point I think you would probably be upset if the Trump Republicans wanted to take complete charge of the election process wouldn't you? "We have no issues period when it comes to elections( Canada)" Not exactly. LILLEY: Thousands of Canadian voter cards sent to dead, non-citizens | Toronto Sun

Misogynist or not, are Americans better off now after over 2 years of Joe Biden's Bernie Sander's type presidency? Are things better in the US? How about the impact of Biden's foreign policy so far? Right now, better or worse compared to Trump's term?

That's a pretty weak link. I read it as the Republicans wanting to make the voting process more secure while the Democrats position would make it less secure. Requiring ID and purging voter rolls of dead people and duplicate names makes perfect sense. It's also not unreasonable to allow only American citizens to vote. Newt Gingrich - Gingrich 360 - The Democrats Do Not Want Voting Integrity Asking for proof of ID is not voter suppression.

How did they want to make it more difficult for people to vote? And could you explain how it relates to the integrity of the voting process?

Trump held a lot of rallies with standing room only and people waiting outside hoping to get in. Biden also held rallies that were not quite as well attended to put it politely. I guess they were genuine because attendance of 2 people is still a rally, but technically the smallest rally possible. For the upcoming midterms I don't think the Republicans should take it for granted that they'll win big either. The Democrats have a plan which could allow them to pull off an upset even if Biden's poll numbers are still in the toilet at that time. Yes, Biden Is Hiding His Plan To Rig The 2022 Midterm Elections (thefederalist.com) They basically want a federal takeover the states role in elections.

I haven't really seen any solid debunking of the Biden diary but the MSM is pretty much ignoring it. For the Trump haters, how do you feel about the diary and it's contents? Given the undeniable fact that Biden is very touchy-feely with females and children what it written in this diary is extremely plausible. Or do you dismiss it outright? Just like Hunter's laptop has to be Russian disinformation?(<<<totally legit)

There have been sitting presidents before that were notorious womanizers. Bill Clinton, JFK. Even Biden has had an accuser which may have been the moment that the me too movement died. Her name was Tara Reade. And no it doesn't make it right no matter what side it's on.

1. Manchin and Sinema faced an awful lot of heat from within their own party for not marching in lockstep with the leadership. 2. Hillary is still always in the news. She tours and gives speeches. She still talks about the 2016 election being stolen. There are even rumours that she will run in 2024 since Biden won't be allowed to run again. She just won't go away?

I agree with you that Trump did crow about the stock market success during his presidency. Many Americans have money invested in the stock market and when it does well, they did well. Joe Biden is not crowing about the stock market success now under his presidency. ? Trump bragged about the stock market and Joe Biden does not like to talk about it at all. Why do you suppose that is??

Sometimes the two main parties have members that are unpopular or not perceived as loyal to the cause. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Simema faced a lot of heat. How about Tulsi Gabbard? She was pretty much called a traitor by Hillary. We have politicians in Canada that can seamlessly switch from one party to another, like Jean Charest.

Background checks can be a step in the right direction to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people. But people can lie when filling out the forms and face no consequences. Hunter Biden did it. He has a long history of drug use which should be a giant red flag and he had no problem getting guns. I'm really not sure about arming teachers and I'm certain many of them wouldn't be comfortable carrying a gun.

I would wager that it's primarily younger kids that are throwing garbage from their cars. Also I doubt my neighbors would throw out litter where they live. Smokers are bad too, butts literally everywhere.

There are some things that seem to be missing from the Jan 6 show trial. Why was there such a huge lapse in security? And while they keep saying there is no evidence of fraud they do not talk about stacking the deck against the Republicans. J6 Committee Focuses On Fraud Claims, Ignores Tactics Used To Rig 2020 Election (thefederalist.com) If the committee was truly non partisan they would have had real Republicans in the mold of Jim Jordan on there to ask real questions.

I live out in the country and everywhere I see garbage in the ditches. Plastic bottles, beer cans, coffee cups and the list goes on. The crazy thing about the environmentalists is that they give countries just like India and China get a free pass. They are not held to the same standards as we are.

Biden was handed a pretty good situation when he took over. Operation Warp Speed gave the vax ready to go. I think Trump was right on a number of things. He was right to actually want to secure the southern border. He was right about NATO members not paying their fair share. He was right about wanting to bring back manufacturing jobs to the US and had some success in doing so. Most of all, he was right on energy having the US being energy independent with oil and gas. He was much better overall on foreign policy. Think of Afghanistan under Trump and now under Biden. The Taliban is stronger than ever and armed beyond their wildest dreams. He was correct that the strongest economy in Europe should absolutely not get their energy from Russia. He was right to want to build up the US military(with actual weapons). Biden is building up the military with gender pronouns. Trump did spend way too much time on Twitter. Not everyone he picked turned out to be the best but it must be said that Biden has completely surrounded himself with a very weak team. Trump did increase the debt. Perhaps the thing Trump should have done on the first day of his term was to fire every single Obama appointee. You mentioned his call about wanting to "find" 11,000 votes. The Democratic party has often had the ability to "find" votes to turn the tide in elections that they were behind in. John Ashcroft absolutely had a Senate seat stolen from him in 2000 when a state judge ordered polls in heavily Democratic St. Louis to remain open for an extra three hours. Republicans didn’t even hear about it for another hour. Despite an appellate court striking down the ridiculously lawless order, St. Louis was given an extra 3 1/2 hours to kick out tens of thousands of additional votes. Ashcroft lost the election by 49,000 votes. A week after the 2004 Washington state gubernatorial election, Republican Dino Rossi was up by 3,492 votes against Democrat Christine Gregoire. Then Democratic King county began finding “misplaced” ballots, eventually producing more than 10,000 of them. Hey, guys! I found another box of ballots under the sink! So that’s another 800 votes for Gregoire. Oh wait — you’re not going to believe this … You found more votes? Bingo! 600 votes for Gregoire. An examination of the records later showed that about 1,800 more ballots had been cast than there were voters who had requested them. Notwithstanding the miraculously appearing ballots, Rossi won the recount a few weeks later, but his lead was cut to 42 votes — easily within stealing distance. Democrat Christine Gregoire demanded a hand recount, and that put her ahead by 129 votes, whereupon she was promptly declared the winner. Washington voters overwhelmingly believed the election had been stolen and wanted a revote. Democrats didn’t care. Nothing was ever done about the flagrant vote fraud. Washington now has 100 percent mail-in-ballots and no Republican has ever again won the governorship. In 2008, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota won his 2008 reelection bid against challenger Al Franken by 725 votes. But for weeks after the election, Democratic precincts kept “discovering” new votes for Franken. Can anyone make the argument that Americans are better off now under Biden?

Nobody can deny that Donald Trump has faced more intense scrutiny and more flat out hate(from the MSM) than any other president in modern history. He was constantly investigated by federal agencies that were mislead and weaponized. He says exactly what's on his mind and he's brash. He's been called every name in the book and even been compared to the worst dictators in history. A Russian agent, Putin's pawn. All without substance. The US was in much better shape when he left office than it is now under Joe Biden. Why is there so much hate directed at Trump? His personality? Is it because of his policies? I can see how his personality would bother people but his policies on the whole were better for the US than those of Biden. Biden is a failure and his poll numbers are in the toilet but there isn't anywhere near the same amount of hate directed at him.

More bad news for the Disney corporation. Their latest woke movie did very poorly at the box office. Boo hoo!? Disney's Latest Woke Film 'Lightyear' Bombs In Box Office - And Liberals Are Clueless To The Reason (thepatriotjournal.com) I believe they edited some things out for certain parts of the world that would have offended audiences there. But for those markets Disney ranks raking in money ahead of pushing their woke agenda.

Can this happen here? Not all cultures mix together perfectly all the time

The people that chose to riot on Jan 6 all made very stupid decisions but they were in the minority. Jan 6 was not a coup or an insurrection planned by Donald Trump either. The use of violence as a means to an end is unacceptable by any side but I will point out that the use of violence seems to be accepted by the left. There were so many riots over the years by and from the left with BLM/Antifa with very little in the way of repercussions. They occupied, they burned down an awful lot of buildings and did not hesitate to use physical violence. If they actually got charged, they would get ridiculously low bail and a very light slap on the wrist. I did mention names of Democrats that to this very day publicly state that they had elections stolen from them. I am not a lawyer but there clearly are some with more legal knowledge than I have that believe Trump's actions were legal and constitutional. It's a pretty safe bet that if the roles were reversed and the Democrats tried the same thing the MSM would be praising them for their efforts.

In no way am I a fan of CNN lol. That clip is from Mark Dice's channel on Youtube. And yes, using the word stolen to describe an election will bother some people but it seems to me it only applies to one side since the Democrats challenge election results far more often. And many of them use the word stolen or illegitimate as well but without any negative attacks from the MSM. Think Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams. It's as though it's the end of the world if a Republican challenges election results but it's almost the norm for Democrats to do it. Quite a double standard.

I believe I posted this elsewhere on here in another topic but Van Jones himself states that what Trump tried to do was legal and constitutional . And there have been times when the Democrats objected to the Electoral College vote certification. Since 2001, Democrats Objected 3 Times to Electoral College Certification (dailysignal.com)