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Trump going to jail... "so unfair"!
ironstone replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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?? -
Trump going to jail... "so unfair"!
ironstone replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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.
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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.
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Trump going to jail... "so unfair"!
ironstone replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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? -
Trump going to jail... "so unfair"!
ironstone replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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.
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Increased Immigration not needed, will hurt workers
ironstone replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Can this happen here? Not all cultures mix together perfectly all the time -
Trump going to jail... "so unfair"!
ironstone replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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. -
Trump going to jail... "so unfair"!
ironstone replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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. -
Trump going to jail... "so unfair"!
ironstone replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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) -
Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
ironstone replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
I did post a link earlier about the CO2 emissions from the shipping industry vs those from ICE cars. Here's another one. The 16 biggest ships produce more pollution than all the cars in the World | LNG Transfer I'm wondering why they are focusing almost totally on ICE car owners and doing little or nothing about shipping. Maybe it's the usual thing, go after the low hanging fruit approach. Fighting alleged man made global warming might be done in a smarter way than just going after cars. If the 16 biggest ships in the world produce more emissions than ALL THE CARS IN THE WORLD, surely it would be smarter to refit a relative handful of ships for a fraction of the cost and go nuclear. Why Now Is The Time For Nuclear Cargo Shipping - CleanTechnica -
Canada Must Exit Climate Agreement Immediately
ironstone replied to Zeitgeist's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
An interesting article on CO2 emissions. But if CO2 drives temperature... - Climate Discussion Nexus All kinds of very interesting videos on climate change. From the 97% consensus myth to the guru of climate change Greta Thunberg. Video - Climate Discussion Nexus- 386 replies
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Canada Must Exit Climate Agreement Immediately
ironstone replied to Zeitgeist's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
I'm quite certain that even with that tax rebate for that average family of four, they are falling behind overall because of the massive increase in the price of gas which has caused prices of just about everything else to go up. $745 dollars right now pays for about half of the gas that it did a year or so ago. I'm on the side that thinks we should pull out of the Paris Climate Accord.- 386 replies
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Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
ironstone replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
Ok got it. China is still building coal plants on a massive scale because they don't have a viable replacement for an energy source at this time. I wonder how much of their energy needs could have been met with a cleaner source of energy like natural gas? I have no problem with anyone wanting to own an EV of course but I don't want to give them a big subsidy when buying the car either. It's astronomically costly to force people to buy these things when we don't have the infrastructure to support it nor the electrical capacity. The world should not want to be reliant on China in any way. Mining executives warn Ottawa about dependence on China for strategic minerals amid deteriorating relations | National Post -
Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
ironstone replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
So we shouldn't bat an eye about China's massive reliance on coal because that's useful idiot mentality? And we shouldn't bat an eye about most of our solar panels and wind turbines coming from China? Most of the rare earth minerals are going to be coming from..you guessed it..China. And once again we should not be concerned? Canada will likely lag behind here too because aren't environmentalists strongly opposed to mining on Canadian soil? From a global perspective are you more concerned about Canadian or Chinese emissions right now? -
Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
ironstone replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
Why is F1 not completely using battery power now with not an ICE engine to be found in any of their race cars? Why not build totally battery powered F1 cars while keeping all the races the same distance and number of laps? What is stopping them? -
Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
ironstone replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
Since global warming is ostensibly a global problem I'm still left wondering how much Canada's actions will offset the rapidly rising emissions of China. They won't. The fight against global warming rests entirely on western style democracies. Wow what a shock, didn't see that coming. China is still building more and more coal fired plants on it's own soil, not to mention they are financing and building hundreds of others in other countries. Commentary: China is building 184 coal plants - Guess what that will do to carbon emissions? - Canadian Energy Centre I'm not suggesting Canada do nothing either but does anyone seriously think China is going to watch and emulate Canada? -
Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
ironstone replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
I think this link says more about F1 than just the race cars themselves. The Logistics behind F1. How Formula 1 teams transport their… | by Roshni Iyengar | The Speedbox Chronicles | Medium The Gigantic Carbon Footprint Of Formula One - CleanTechnica -
Given how pathetic the MSM is I actually think they approve of where the country is at now and what Biden's done but they are also very concerned about their party being able to win the midterms and in 2024. It's not really up to Biden whether or not he runs again, it's up to his puppet masters. They have to find some new face to distract the American public from Biden's dismal record as president. Dana Perino summed it up nicely in that Biden and his team at the White House and the MSM complain that it's merely a problem of communication and Joe has to get the message out more. But of course Joe Biden is the last person in the world anyone would want to go out and speak more. I have sympathy for Biden's daughter.
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Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.
ironstone replied to Boges's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
This has to be the ultimate in hypocrisy! A Formula 1 driver shows up at the Canadian Grand Prix wearing an anti oilsands shirt. While his team is sponsored by a Saudi oil company. What an complete hypocrite and then some!! F1 driver Sebastian Vettel arrives at Montreal Grand Prix in anti-oilsands T-shirt (msn.com) Yet another example of an elite telling us "Do as I say, not as I do". Hey Vettel! What's the total carbon footprint of Formula 1?? Where are those EV Formula 1 race cars? -
You say Republicans have packed the court. Fair point but when have either the Republicans or Democrats NOT put in nominees that would tend to favour their side? Packing the court is one thing but expanding the court for the sole purpose of getting your way is another. Here's something else to consider about Democrat appointed judges vs Republican appointed judges: Liberal Supreme Court justices vote together more than conservatives (usatoday.com) The voting record of said judges tends to indicate that Democratic judges do not stray from their ideology nearly as often as their Republican appointed counterparts.