Politics

[Hunt anything]

Disagree. That's way to much time to hide stuff, shred papers. I bet every agency is burning up the old shredders as we speak. We need evidence to start punishing those involved

Good point but good forensic accountants would be able to ferret a lot of that back to light I would think.

 

[Wheels]

No wonder there is a common narrative across the media. It is paid for out of the same pocket.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1887501752213409919

 

[Tbitty]

The Reckoning..... We shall call it The Reckoning!

 

[mdwest]

It would appear that the American taxpayer hasn't just been funding and subsidizing overtly liberal media outlets domestically...

we're also paying for foreign liberal media outlets that routinely attack conservative ideals and policy..

 

[VertigoBE]

Brilliant summation, I'm afraid. Andrew says it better than me.
Andrew Coyne.....
“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.
The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.
There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.
The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.
At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.
At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.
The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.
Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fuelled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.
Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.
We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?”
Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.
All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”
Written by Andrew Coyne.
Andrew Coyne is a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail and a regular panelist on CBC's The National, who has previously worked with Macleans Magazine (Senior Editor) and the National Post.

What a clown that Andrew Coyne.

 

[WAB]

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It would appear that the American taxpayer hasn't just been funding and subsidizing overtly liberal media outlets domestically...

we're also paying for foreign liberal media outlets that routinely attack conservative ideals and policy..

I hope we don’t just shut it down and let bygones be bygones. There needs to be some accountability for this crap.

 

[Wheels]

Looks like this could be one of the ways the government laundered money and why the Ukraine war was so important for Congress and the Biden Administration to maintain. $249m from USAID with an undisclosed payee.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1887283216463106297

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Brilliant summation, I'm afraid. Andrew says it better than me.
Andrew Coyne.....
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Andrew Coyne is a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail and a regular panelist on CBC's The National, who has previously worked with Macleans Magazine (Senior Editor) and the National Post.

One of Trump’s great accomplishments has been causing journalists in the US and abroad to drop their masks and show how they replaced the reporting of facts with their own opinions decades ago.

 

[cwpayton]

completely disagree. all the people freaking out about what trump is doing, relax, he is just throwing out a big number or bold idea out and waits to see what happens.

in canada and mexico, hmmmm, worked pretty good. oh yeah, venezuela and columbia too.

in Gaza, all it does is bring attention to the other arabs that do not want their "Palestinian brothers" in their country. so do Palestinians come home to rubble and more hatred of jews? if even a small portion of trumps idea works, it is a relative win.

hang in there and see how this goes, i guarantee, this is not the end of the story!

I certainly hope your right and I admit ,I get alittle bent out of sorts when it comes to getting involved in the sand box. the whole idea seems out of character for Trump.

 

[cwpayton]

I don't know but the memes would be epic

Lets try "the gulf of America diplomacy"

 

[cwpayton]

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yep I like that better.

 

[steve white]

His countrymen should head his message.

Trump needs to remind Castro Jr. and his replacement that unless they stop with the Woke military nonsense and start rebuilding their military they will either be booted from NATO or the US will withdraw.

Canada has the luxury to spend too much on socialism because we spend so much on defense.
And they are a parasite of that strong defense we provide.
Freeloading, knowing we will come to their defense.

It wasn’t that long ago that Canada had a strong, proud military. Any quality members left are very demoralized by social engineering and no funding.

Ooohhh, that was for YOU, Longwalker!

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

What a clown that Andrew Coyne.

I can’t find anything online to suggest he’s some sort of genius. He has a background in economics, he comes from a privileged Canadian family, and is cousin to Justin Trudeau’s half sister. Just a typical member of the class of journalist who thinks they are the smartest men in the room and that everyone should follow their lead. He’s the sort who is baffled that millennials and zoomers have started getting opinions from podcasts rather than traditional journalists when the simple fact is that if all journalists can offer now are opinions, they can be found anywhere and with far less pretentiousness.

Longwalker doesn’t like Trump (that’s how this 2500 page thread was born) so he found a journalist who agrees with him and who wrote a long-winded opinion piece about it.

 

[Brent in Az]

No wonder the democrats are screaming loudly behind the microphones.
The lefts USAID pet projects,and slush fund money, are being exposed and terminated.

 

[Datchew]

Stay tuned. USAID is just the beginning of shoes to drop.
They are definitely poking several hornets nests of Deep State usurpers

Wait a minute... I thought the deep state was just a "vast right wing conspiracy."

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I can’t find anything online to suggest he’s some sort of genius. He has a background in economics, he comes from a privileged Canadian family, and is cousin to Justin Trudeau’s half sister. Just a typical member of the class of journalist who thinks they are the smartest men in the room and that everyone should follow their lead. He’s the sort who is baffled that millennials and zoomers have started getting opinions from podcasts rather than traditional journalists when the simple fact is that if all journalists can offer now are opinions, they can be found anywhere and with far less pretentiousness.

Longwalker doesn’t like Trump (that’s how this 2500 page thread was born) so he found a journalist who agrees with him and who wrote a long-winded opinion piece about it.

Reading your post, the word that comes to mind is "astute"...

 

[Datchew]

Just gonna put this here.

 

[VertigoBE]

Anyone worried about the recent pace of AI development?

 

[Wheels]

I guess Netanyahu gifted this to Trump.