I have a pretty, damn good joke. Where I come from that gets you pretty far.
The Canadians I know have great a sense of humor.
Blame Biden
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The Canadians I know have great a sense of humor.
There you go. I'm fine with Baier and Cavuto. I don't watch Hemmer much because he's a morning guy, I think. I don't think he's as political as you make it him out to be. If memory serves me, Hemmer and MacCallum are devout Roman Catholics that have expressed their disdain for abortion. There are times when I see their Roman Catholic compassion come through to the audience.
(Whether I agree with them or not, I don't hold any animosity for someone's position on abortion either way. For the record, it's an ugly, ugly business between a woman and her healthcare provider. FYI, I'm pro-choice.)
If you read the WSJ, you certainly see that there position greatly differs from CNN. I encourage everyone to open up their minds to diverse opinions.....opinions that clash. For the record, I think all cable news is infotainment. I think CNN and MSNBC try to out-progressive each other to capture that segment of the audience. I think moderates are not that loyal and committed of a viewer. It's not worth it for networks to fight for this segment.
Strangely, I'm not a loyal viewer. Perhaps, I'm a moderate Republican who likes to fuck with people's deeply-held world view. If you notice a lot of people here, like to post what Tucker said or what Hannity said in response to my posts. Like what one commentator says about world events is my guiding force. It's kind of childish to think in binary terms and not discuss policies and positions one on one. Jousting with Beaver above, is fun. It works out my brain and rhetorical skills.
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As hard as it may be to believe I was at one time a very conservatives and there were many very principled conservatives. The values espoused by what passes for the GOP has nothing at all to do with reals conservatism. IIs only guiding principal is whatever the leader says however remote from conservatism that may be. I have no problem with anyone's sincerely held beliefs whether or not I agree with them. What I abhor is the dishonesty and hypocrisy of todays GOP. both of which have become the bedrock of the party. that is not to say there are not dishonest and hypocritical Dems but the difference in number is quite staggering. it is clear from all of the e-mails which have recently been released that none of the Fox people or senior Trump people really believed the big lie. They exploited the "uneducated" who are more susceptible to lies coming from the highest office in the land.
Fox News or senior Trump people do not speak for the entire Republican party. In fact, the Republican party is a confederation of various factions just like the Democratic party.........and the Liberal party, the NDP and the Conservatives. Some in the Democratic faction are completely fucked up as well, but if you are comfortable with expanded government and national self-loathing you might be fine with the Democrats.
Cable news is not a reflection of that complexity.
What's very hard for Canadians to understand is that many Americans of all income levels don't always believe in expanded government. For example, Valcazar and a few others will say Republicans dramatize culture wars. But what do you know, every damn time Democrats get into office it's this culture issue and that culture issue. If they would just focus on bread and butter issues, the Democrats wouldn't piss off so many people.
So see, if we don't talk about specific issues, the discussion devolves into Republicans are evil and Democrats are angels or vice versa.
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Not factually correct.
CNN Exclusive: New text messages reveal Fox's Hannity advising Trump White House and seeking direction
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Fox's Sean Hannity exchanged more than 80 text messages between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden's January 2021 inauguration, communications that show Hannity's evolution from staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump's election lies to...
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I disagree with you assessment of his influence. He controls a sizeable number of very committed supporters who either control or influence the primary process in many states. Even though they may be a minority they are very committed and can determine the outcome of the primaries. With loyalist now securing the nomination they indirectly promote a trump agenda which boils down to the aggrandizement of the leader. Many GOP then fall into line because they would rather elect morons like MTG eta all then vole for a Dem regardless of policies. Add to that his acolytes who are using the big lie to pass measure which suppress the vote of people who may tend to vote Dem, redrawing electoral maps to eliminate black precincts like in FL and other gerrymandering and you have the party led by a cult leader.
What Canadians cant understand is how the GOP which whether you agreed with them or not was a party of principled conservatism has devolved into a cult whose policies have nothing at all to do with principled conservatism, eschew democracy,, and the without any sense of irony continually characterize anything they do, however, socialistic, as conservative. Fascinating from an anthropological point of view.
I believe the adjective "entire" is the operative word.Not factually correct.
CNN Exclusive: New text messages reveal Fox's Hannity advising Trump White House and seeking direction
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Fox's Sean Hannity exchanged more than 80 text messages between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden's January 2021 inauguration, communications that show Hannity's evolution from staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump's election lies to...
Everyone tows the party line in the GOP.
The only variation is how deep you back all the conspiracy shite and replacement theory nonsense.
Conservative Americans. They all have phone landlines going to their trailers too. The cable line is a status symbol and some of the Uber elitists have two phone lines so it doesn’t interfere with their aol dial up while they watch televangelists and kiddie porn
CNN has Cable.
Cable News Network, Inc.
Ever heard someone say they were going to tape a TV show to watch later and there's no tape involved?
Haven't read all the responses, just one or two. One has to use a little intelligence, and I don't see much in the above post.
Inflation. A significant amount of inflation has to do with things outside the control of whether Biden or Trump were in power. The bottlenecks in shipping leading to high prices. However, Biden and the Democrats definitely made it worse with government spending by flooding the economy with money. A certain amount seemed reasonable when covod hit and both the Democrat and the republicans sent out lots of cheques. Trump could be partly blamed on policy as I remember him near the end pushing for larger cheques just before he left office. The Dems followed through. Then they wanted to spend way, way more but were stopped by Joe Manchin.
High energy prices are a big part of inflation. Trump was always pushing for more oil production and other types as well including coal and natural gas. The Democrats and like-minded people in other parts of the western world have been doing their best to stifle these things as well as shutting down nuclear power plants. That leads to higher energy prices and adds to inflation. You pay for when you buy your food. You also help pay for Russia's massacre at this very moment every time you use energy, or something that took energy to produce.
The wall was being built and laws were passed because of trump to reduce illegal immigration. It was on a significant downward trend. Almost immediately after the democrats got in power, they changed rules. The Wait in Mexico policy was cancelled(although later re-instated by court order. Policy changes like that make it more attractive for illegal immigrants to make the trek to the US border. No point making a dangerous trip if it won't work.
It had been a full year since Biden was in office when Ukraine was invaded. This of course was the second invasion with the first one being in 2014, when Biden was vice-president. Coincidence? Perhaps, but there is no doubt that Putin made many calculations before launching this invasion and one would definitely be the anticipated reaction. The reaction is 2014 appears to have been bearable in Putin's mind as he was willing to do it again. But, one can never know for sure if things would have been different with Trump still as president.
The current administration is obsessed with their woke agenda. Ensuring that no ones feelings ever get hurt by microaggressions take prominence among all the other aspects of it. While nice to new military recruits who might never have made the grade otherwise, tyrants see softness as advantageous. As Churchill is quoted sometimes:" “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." Nice doesn't work with leaders like Putin, it entices them to do more.
Ukraine policies did change. Trump put sanctions on nordstream 2 pipeline while Biden removed them, possibly giving a tyrant the belief that he could get away with more and more. Messaging matters when your opponent has to make a final decision.
I think the issue with the Afghanistan withdrawal was the way it was done. Why would billions of dollars of equipment get left behind. It had the appearance of being chased out, instead of what trump might have done, go out with guns blazing if required. One wonders if any final decisions were made in Putin's mind upon seeing this.
But, based on the end of your post, I think you have made a decision and then work to cherry pick what will appear to back it up..
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So definitely to be avoided, then.
Good warning.
They do, though.
Fox is pretty well known for having the news agenda set by the operatives.
The news part does make its editorial focus decisions based on what narrative the higher ups want to focus on. What they don't do is massively spin or comment on those reports in the news bloc the same way they do in the editorial bloc.
I expect the Dems to lose the midterms as well without something large disrupting the race over the summer.
No. They do speak for the current dominant faction within said party and the movement it is part of.
True. The makeup of those confederations/coalition and how broad their variance is within the same tent varies (and we may not agree on how much) but there is no modern political party that isn't a coalition to some extent. (Even moreso in a system that pushes towards a two party structure.)
No argument.
Why would that be hard for Canadians to understand? "How much government involvement in what areas and at what level" is a fundamental discussion in most Western democracies, with a wide range of opinions holding supporters.
That you believe the Democrats drive the culture wars is one of the weirder blind spots you have.
That's silly.
The US would be a vastly better place if the GOP wanted to talk issues beyond culture war.
They mostly don't, thought, because it isn't politically beneficial for them.
Wow it's not common to have an intelligent rebuttal on here but hats off to you for actually answering my questions and forming a solid argument. A few things though:
Inflation : Biden inherited a mess just like Obama did and the only way out then was to spend to cover the losses of the previous administration and initiate new programs to get the economy rolling. Not aware of nuclear plants being shut down under Biden.
Biden to my.knowledge didn't stop any energy production. He did shut down an incompleted pipeline. His vision of the future is for low pollution and less dependence on fossil fuels which makes America energy independent and not reliant on OPEC or Russia etc for their energy needs. Trump cut oil.production by 1 million barrels per day. Biden did not cut it anywhere near that and I believe Biden has now signed more drilling permits than Trump.
Immigration : was worst under Reagan and bad under GWB. It was much better under Obama. Trumps wall was supported by nobody. The gop voted against it because they knew it was a very expensive useless symbol. Trump.pulled 5 billion from the military budget to fund it. Biggest waste of money in history of united states
Trumps immigration numbers went way down due to covid just like the economy. Biden going back to Obama policies should not have been expected to.cause a surge in immigration.
Trump was totally against the nordsteam sanctions and was forced to go along with it by the GOP. Putin knows full well that Trump is easily controlled by him but Trump is also not the.one for determining America's involvement with the Ukraine and sanctions etc. This is the work of the senate and DOD. The president has very little.control over this unless it is declared
a threat to national security.
As for Afghanistan, all the left behind equipment was junk. It was fox.hyperbole that led conservatives to believe that it was worth original cost when in fact it was worthless. Trumps negotiation was perhaps the worst in history; give back a country to the same.people that you spent 20 years and trillions of dollars to keep it from, for.absolutely nothing. Don't even let the government you instilled in on the negotiations. Just had it over to the terrorists along with 6 billion in cash thst was sent there.
Overall your arguments are fairly.well constructed although some.of.your premises are taken out of context
I believe most economists will state that spending was required to prevent things getting much worse than they did in 2020. The spending ewas done and voted for in a bipartisan manner and signed by trump. But the spending continued after trump left even though the economy was recovering quickly. That adds to inflation. And they are still trying to pump more massive spending(stopped by Sinema and Manchin).
The loss of reliable energy is specific to the Democrats as a whole and parties with like-minded green policies. Oil/gas/coal are global and when countries like Germany close down many nuclear power plants, they have to replace it with something. Much of that is natural gas or oil. More demand equals higher prices.
Biden like Trudeau attacked the oil/gas industry with regulations. That doesn't mean they stopped current production, but they slowed down or stopped future production, some of which in the case of Ranada could be coming on line now. Biden made an executive order halting oil and gas leases on public lands and waters. When investors see a hostile environment, they go elsewhere. Until recently, that included Russia which welcomed them as they trapped the westerners into financing his war due to gullible voters believing activist groups, some of which appear to have been financed by Russia.
Not sure what you mean by trump cutting oil by 1 million barrels a day but he did ask Russia and Saudi Arabia to temporarily lower production back in 2020 when there was way more than was needed and prices were very low. That sort of cut can be reversed in a very short period of time, as compared to the situation we have now that involves a significantly longer period to actually create the oil producing sites. As an example, in Canada, oil companies prefer to just give the big profits to shareholders like me instead of going through the hostile environment of trying to get government approval. But your hard earned money is what is going into my bank account as a significant investor in Canadian oil. Thanks. If trump and Harper had stayed in power, there would be a lot more oil being produced which would allow us to cut off russia, have lower energy prices and less inflation. And Canada's debts(even if they had spent as much as trudeau would be way less because the massive amount of money rolling in(perhaps for more hospitals).
I took a look at drilling permits and you are correct about an increase over trump. There was a steep increase during his first three months in office followed by a steep decline. Perhaps it took a while to replace people and implement new policies. Government is big and it can tale a long time for congress to approve new leaders on agencies such as EPA and maybe BLM.
I'm sure illegal immigration was bad under GWB and Reagan. That is why Trump said that he was going to change things from the Washington elite, both republican and democrat. There was huge support for the wall. That support was and still is from Trump's supporters and voters. In addition, at a time when Covid put so many out of work, it was providing thousands of good paying jobs as an infrastructure project. Consider it as money being injected into the economy but paying people to work instead of not to work. According to US government statistics, migrant encounters dropped significantly when Trump got into office, likely based on his rhetoric. But groups determined to increase illegal crossing created caravans, etc and border crossings increased significantly peaking in May 2019 then drops off with new policies kicking into effect including several central American countries agreeing to take back their citizens. Now with Biden, a big upsurge.
I don't know all the details about how the sanctions came to be except that under Trump, they were implemented(while at the same time, he was offering American natural gas as a replacement, while under Biden, they were removed. Partisans will always make their fraudulent claims such as the lies about collusion(now debunked) but I can guarantee you that Putin would not have been happy with the US with trump as president sanctioning Nordstream 2 and would have been quite happy when the US under Biden removed sanctions.
A lot of that equipment is junk because the US destroyed(or de-militarizes) it as they knew it was going to be left behind. Of course, one can argue that once de-militarized, it was junk. Over 70 MRAPs.
Trump campaigned on getting the US out of wars. Afghanistan was a low level war. In the end, they were never going to end that war, the tribes in that area have been fighting each other and foreigners for centuries. You can read Winston Churchill's very first book to see what it was like 125 years ago and the parallels. The US achieved its goals just months after attacking the Taliban. That was kicking them out of power. But all the fools who thought that we should implement our western ways of human rights on a people that would never implement them kept us in for years. The noble goal was to demonstrate that you support terrorists the way the Taliban did, you lose it all. Now they are back in power, but likely with lesson learned. I have no problem with the Taliban and their harsh rule. That is the way these people are. As long as it doesn't extend into providing aid to people who will attack us way over here, thats good enough for me. Perhaps in a thousand years or so, they will slowly move into a culture with more human rights. Trump knew it was a never-ending war and worked out a way to get out. The Afghan government at the time was never going to survive as they don't have enough popular support because they way people think over there is different than how they think over here.
I didn't proof read my replies as it is late. So there may be mistakes. But the bottom line was Trump and the republicans were way better than Biden. I think you mare the one taking things out of context.
Inflation is global, the causes are more likely leftovers from covid shutdowns. Chip shortages, container ship backlog and now fuel and food worries from the Ukraine war. Its not the result of spending which likely only added about 1/10% of GDP anywhere.
War and climate change. Coal needs to be cancelled and Russia's oil/gas cancellations are echoing globally.
Again, those prices are high right now but food prices are going to be the bigger issues later this year. Ukraine supplied 25% of the world's grains for export. India is in the midst of record heat that will likely wipe out a massive amount of their production. The Canadian prairie wheat production was down massively last year due to drought and California is figuring out whether to quit pumping water or quit generating electricity off the Columbia.
There were 90 million refugees globally last year. Those numbers will go up massively this year with Ukraine and more climate change crop failure. US immigration increases were triggered by corrupt governments and climate change, specifically Guatemala. Nobody is doing anything about either of those issues in South America so there will be more immigrants headed to the US. No domestic policy in the US will change that.
Violence in Afghanistan is down 90% over the occupation.
Now the big issue is food, with climate change caused crop failure compounded by western countries, including Canada, refusing to send aid because its the Taliban.
