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[steve white]

The latest on a pet peeve of mine... I was right all along, they flew them in on the pretext of relieving pressure on border crossings, then claimed illegal crossing were down, duh, if you fly them in instead!

They now admit, that most of this was fraud ridden baloney, most of the so called vetting was a joke, and the whole thing was part of the Biden scam to flood the country with illegals.

We find out more everyday just how crooked the Biden admin really was. The worst ever!

MSN

Maybe the Obama years were the most corrupt, just better at hiding it....

 

[deewayne2003]

It is not just posturing. He shut Ukrainian intel off making them defenseless to cruise missiles. That night the Russians hammered them killing many civilians. Trump expressed outrage and turned the intel back on the next day. To me, dead civilians is not posturing. At the very best it is completely inept foreign policy.

Agreed, but Zelenskyy is equally to blame with his antics as if he has leverage…. He tried the public opinion manipulation trick like Chuck Schumer and it worked equally well for him.

And no amount of bitching will change how things unfold for the next 4 years

I learned that after November 2020

Zelenskyy should have shown up in a suit and signed the minerals deal OR relied on his neighbors in the EU to pick up the slack.

 

[WAB]

Agreed, but Zelenskyy is equally to blame with his antics as if he has leverage…. He tried the public opinion manipulation trick like Chuck Schumer and it worked equally well for him.

And no amount of bitching will change how things unfold for the next 4 years

I learned that after November 2020

Zelenskyy should have shown up in a suit and signed the minerals deal OR relied on his neighbors in the EU to pick up the slack.

One does not excuse the other.

 

[Red Leg]

Agreed, but Zelenskyy is equally to blame with his antics as if he has leverage…. He tried the public opinion manipulation trick like Chuck Schumer and it worked equally well for him.

And no amount of bitching will change how things unfold for the next 4 years

I learned that after November 2020

Zelenskyy should have shown up in a suit and signed the minerals deal OR relied on his neighbors in the EU to pick up the slack.

Antics as you describe them should be irrelevant. No individual in power, whatever the nation, has any right to personal animus. His or her only focus should be national interest. Unfortunately, we seem to have a president with an abjectly loyal following, at least with respect to international issues, incapable of separating the two.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Canadian election called today for April 28th

Early Polling shows a 48% chance of a liberal majority.

Poll Tracker

If an election were held today, who would win? The CBC News Poll Tracker is your guide to following the polls. Get the latest numbers and analysis on where the political parties stand from Éric Grenier.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca

All the gains the conservatives had made in 2024 have slipped away thanks to a needless trade war and the shortsightedness of the average Canadian voter. I hope if carney gets elected he takes the time to thank trump in his election speech for giving the the liberals a common enemy to rally against and taking the Canadian voters mind off the last 3 terms of liberal policy gun grabs gender politics and carbon taxes. When Vance demands Carney says thank you he honestly should god knows trumps earned it.

 

[wesheltonj]

Canadian election called today for April 28th

Early Polling shows a 48% chance of a liberal majority.

Poll Tracker

If an election were held today, who would win? The CBC News Poll Tracker is your guide to following the polls. Get the latest numbers and analysis on where the political parties stand from Éric Grenier.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca

All the gains the conservatives had made in 2024 have slipped away thanks to a needless trade war and the shortsightedness of the average Canadian voter. I hope if carney gets elected he takes the time to thank trump in his election speech for giving the the liberals a common enemy to rally against and taking the Canadian voters mind off the last 3 terms of liberal policy gun grabs gender politics and carbon taxes. When Vance demands Carney says thank you he honestly should god knows trumps earned it.

And was Ontario and Quebec really going to vote for conservative candidates, I doubt it.

 

[fourfive8]

Maybe the Obama years were the most corrupt, just better at hiding it....

And a praise slathering, fawning media didn’t hurt either.

 

[Brent in Az]

Canadian election called today for April 28th

Early Polling shows a 48% chance of a liberal majority.

Poll Tracker

If an election were held today, who would win? The CBC News Poll Tracker is your guide to following the polls. Get the latest numbers and analysis on where the political parties stand from Éric Grenier.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca

All the gains the conservatives had made in 2024 have slipped away thanks to a needless trade war and the shortsightedness of the average Canadian voter. I hope if carney gets elected he takes the time to thank trump in his election speech for giving the the liberals a common enemy to rally against and taking the Canadian voters mind off the last 3 terms of liberal policy gun grabs gender politics and carbon taxes. When Vance demands Carney says thank you he honestly should god knows trumps earned it.

So...if all else fails, blame it on Trump? ... .. LOL.
Was Trudeau, elected in 2015, Trump's fault also?
You might as well blame Trump for the extinction of the dinosaurs while you are at it
If you want to hurl blame at your election outcome, just look to Canada's big city liberal populations.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

And was Ontario and Quebec really going to vote for conservative candidates, I doubt it.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say cbc election polling is probably more accurate than your doubts. Which had the conservatives leading by 20 points prior to the trump war. Comfortably in majority territory.

 

[WAB]

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say cbc election polling is probably more accurate than your doubts. Which had the conservatives leading by [emoji[emoji6][emoji6]] points prior to the trump war. Comfortably in majority territory.

What’s distressing is that the average voter actually believes that the liberals will do a better job managing a trade dispute than the conservatives.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

What’s distressing is that the average voter actually believes that the liberals will do a better job managing a trade dispute than the conservatives.

As I said before short sighted, lobster prices have dropped dramatically in the last week to ten days almost 50%. The sentiment around the wharves is that the liberals are looser with the purse strings if a stimulus package is needed. A sentiment I’m sure is being echoed in other industries, prime example of short term thinking doing long term damage.

 

[mdwest]

Stimulus get paid by someone.. they aren’t free…

Short sighted indeed…

Canadas debt to GDP ratio is already one hundred and seven %… it doesnt have the economy to do much of anything.. whether we are talking about improving defense spending, or going toe to toe with the US in a trade war, much less provide stimulus packages.. without borrowing the money to do it… which ultimately makes things much worse, not better..

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Stimulus get paid by someone.. they aren’t free…

Short sighted indeed…

Canadas debt to GDP ratio is already one hundred and seven %… it doesnt have the economy to do much of anything.. whether we are talking about improving defense spending, or going toe to toe with the US in a trade war, much less provide stimulus packages.. without borrowing the money to do it… which ultimately makes things much worse, not better..

Compounded by the fact it is not needed for the lobster industry. We make 80% of our income from the the last Monday in November until the 21 day of December( the last day airfreight can be shipped and make the Christmas market). The other 5 months of the season are the gravy not the meat.

 

[Red Leg]

Permanent war economy and the Military industrial complex. I would urge those with whom this resonates, to study economics - maybe just a little. It makes one less susceptible to this sort of propaganda from the left - or at least it was the left until a couple of years ago when a third of the republican party became de facto members of Code Pink - and seemingly just as blatantly ignorant.

During the World War II, the US was spending just over 40% of GDP on the military. That is a war economy. During the Cold War, the US was spending approximately 8-10% of its GDP on the military. Today, it spends just under 3.5%. Neither of the latter represent anything remotely like a "war economy," but facts like that are irrelevant to those people more interested in what they feel and want to believe rather than reality (another set of what were until recently leftist traits).

Secondly, hauling mothballed equipment out of storage and prepping it for deployment is not the sort of thing that interests the defense industry in the slightest. On the other hand, a trillion dollar new fighter program or multi-trillion dollar missile defense shield, those are the opportunities that excite investors in the defense industry. Those are two Trump initiatives announced over the last two days - maybe his ever trusting followers can figure out how to blame Zelensky for that?

By the way, Trump is also demanding that NATO nations spend 5% of their GDP on defense. I wonder if that will include the US?

Boeing Wins U.S. Air Force's NGAD F-47 Fighter Contract | Aviation Week Network

Boeing has won a contract to develop the F-47 next-generation combat aircraft for the U.S. Air Force which throws a lifeline to the company’s struggling military aviation business.

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Top Pentagon contractors poised for gains as Trump pushes missile shield expansion

The proposed “Iron Dome for America” system is heavily reliant on space-based sensors and potentially controversial space-based interceptors

spacenews.com

What's wrong @Brent in Az? No pithy response? Maybe insult me, because there is no logical explanation for the nonsense underlying that meme when Trump and Hegseth are committing trillions to the evil military industrial complex over the next decade compared to Zelensky's paltry 65 billion in actual defense outlays? Like Ukraine, it may be the right thing to do, after all, most 401 K's among the typists here certainly will benefit, but it does make the meme and the irrational thinking behind it rather ridiculous doesn't it? Unfortunately, those blindly supporting any political faction or leader are almost always inevitably blind to such self-reflection.

 

[steve white]

Pity the intellectuals who actually learn from history--they are still doomed/frustrated to watch the rest of the uninformed population repeat it.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

What's wrong @Brent in Az? No pithy response? Maybe insult me, because there is no logical explanation for the nonsense underlying that meme when Trump and Hegseth are committing trillions to the evil military industrial complex over the next decade compared to Zelensky's paltry 65 billion in actual defense outlays? Like Ukraine, it may be the right thing to do, after all, most 401 K's among the typists here certainly will benefit, but it does make the meme and the irrational thinking behind it rather ridiculous doesn't it? Unfortunately, those blindly supporting any political faction or leader are almost always inevitably blind to such self-reflection.

I’ll see your war monger and raise you number fetishist, he accused me of having a strange compulsion for numbers because I sighted facts he couldn’t dispute. That’s where I said enough was enough and added him to the ignore list.

 

[Red Leg]

I’ll see your war monger and raise you number fetishest, he accused me of having a strange compulsion for numbers because I sighted facts he couldn’t dispute. That’s where I said enough was enough and added him to the ignore list.

Probably wise. Sadly, I still find the entertainment, and particularly the educational value, somewhat compelling.

 

[Red Leg]

The future of the United States.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1903634161266532769

 

[gbflyer]

The future of the United States.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1903634161266532769

Quite the education system we have here.