Capitalism is fine, as long as it is properly regulated and not allowed to run amok. We are about to learn a very hard lesson yet again about the folly of allowing companies and individuals with money to do whatever they want. We never seem to remember the lessons of the past.
Musk's Musk Rats got the stodgy law-abiding IRS commissioner to retire this week (he had refused to release American tax return data to Team Musk) and the social-climbing deputy Commissioner-cum 'Acting Commissioner' announced last Friday after hours that Team Musk was more than welcome to examine 700,000 random folks' tax data, no problemo, just Hispanic surnames and a few...very few...senior management folks of companies competing with various Musk entities!
Sounds just about right. We are returning to the Guilded Age of robber barons who rape and pillage the economy, leaving nothing but disaster behind.
Is it possible Britain might rejoin the EU?
You have my sympathy.
It's unlikely to happen in the next five years, but it's always possible. Things have gone downhill quite a lot since we left. Maybe if we get back to where we were in 1973 people might be keen to rejoin. Right now there is a significant majority who think it was a mistake to leave.
Americans are safe here no matter how pissed we are, unless this shit escalates...
Really? From off the record comments I've heard from friends a CBSA,if you've got plates from Red states, be prepared to get a vehicle search when crossing. Trump support stickers/flags and you might get turned back. Cops I know have told me 58km on the highway, you're getting stopped. My area is #13 on the list of affected cities in all of Canada. Yah were not fucking happy here. Americans who visit can expect a less than joyful response.
They are safe from physical harm is what I meant.
the Head of State title is, nowadays, more just an honorary thing with Canada, Australia and NZ all doing their own things even as Charles remains titular 'Head of State'... as I see it, this was more about letting trump know Canada has the King on their side and, given how much trump loves to tout his closeness to royalty, that's no small thing.Prudent move - and a not so subtle message to /dig at King Charles.
They best not mouth off to me up here about how "great" Trump is.....
hmmn... Charles has always been big on diplomacy, same as his mother, and I'd think (as someone who emigrated from there) that he'll be more concerned with at least attempting to keep trump more in line with Europe on the war since things would certainly go easier if trump were against russia's ambitions here. Europe, and I include the UK, has so much to lose if russia wins by the USA cutting off support and even, potentially, actively supporting russia with arms, troops, sanctions.... Because Europe sees the dangers, it is on Charles' shoulders to attempt to sway trump's actions. Success isn't guaranteed.Yeah, I know.
I meant it was more of a personal dig and a message that Canada, a sovereign member of the commonwealth, is less than happy about King Charles inviting DonOld while he is being hostile towards Canada.
I think King Charles cares what Canadians think of him, and it may be enough for him to manufacture a reason for “uninviting” DonOld.
We shall see.
Canada became a country with it's own Government in 1867, in 1931 Canada gained full legal autonomy. In 1982, Canada adopted it's own Constitution, up until that point citizens of Canada were under the British constitution.
Well that's not true, Farage has had plenty to say. He and Trump may be personal friends and have a fair degree of political common ground but they're very different personalities. Farage criticized Trump's pardoning of the Capitol rioters, he gave Vance short shrift over the "random countries" comment and he made it clear to Musk he would not tolerate a loose canon like Tommy Robinson rattling around his deck.
UK is being railroaded back in to the EU's orbit by our rotten government. That's pretty much how the EU and its supporters work - devious, duplicitous and underhanded.
On the day that Trump and Vance set up Zelensky for a full-scale humiliation, Nigel Farage was asked for a comment but refused to give one.
Try to rewrite that so it means something.
This brave soy-milk addict is totally correct. Most Americans did not vote for Trump! If that sounds oddly...incorrect, congrats you did not learn math in the U.S.! You see, math is a forbidden, taboo subject not suitable for the American Edumacation Model. The mission of the Dept of Edumacation is clear - to create a citizenry of very well behaved boys, meaning girls. You see, the male without or "sans" government interfer...I mean, education, is a powerhouse of determination, grit, a free-thinking. Enter The DOE, a.k.a. Mother-guilt, whose motto is "How Dare You!". What the DOE doesn't kill outright the APA picks up via it's Holy Bible, the DSM which stands for Definitely Shaming Males. Happily, the letter writer can honestly claim to be free of anything manly and we celebrate that. In a stunning theoretical advancement by Dr. Gay, former President of Harvard and Plagiarist Extraordinaire, the storied President of DEI's favorite Community College ranked enviably at or about the median, masculinity has been officially declared a mental illness. So boys who are male are mentally ill while boys who think they are girls are The Future of The Nation. This development is not surprising given it was based on the Executive Order of one Joseph R Biden, America's Greatest Paedophile and Chief Dementia Officer. This is the admin that convinced the softest of Americans to call Jan 6 a "insurgency" because as we all know, history's most successful insurrections were done with no weapons. Weaponless insurrections are the definition of this mythical phenomenon and Jan 6th is unique only in the thousands of mythical deaths it caused. Truly Jan 6th caused the deaths of BILLIONS...of brain cells in those who bought in to the messaging of our finest journalist, the good folks at MSNBC. I know my journalism, I studied at the Maddow Institute, thank you very much, under the stern tutelage of Professor's Emeriti, Dr. D. Lemon and J. Reid. I earned my doctorate, my dissertation (awaiting publication) titled "The Mastery of Race Baiting - A Treatise on the Softening of the American Cortex" in which I coined the term "master-race-batory behavior" a form of compulsive sexual pleasure gained by repeatedly subjecting one's cortical structures to the intense heat of climate change thereby ushering in the Ice Age. Because nothing screams heat like an Ice Age. Do not fall for the "Trump mandate" lie. I might have were it not for the philosophers of The View. Thank God for the reasoned pontification of one Whoopie Goldberg a.k.a. The Oracle of Phart. Her predictions as we've seen, are spot on. If Trump gets into office? Slavery will be reinstated (clearly that has occurred) as well as the building of Concentration Camps which, I know my neighborhood has many popping up, they bought out all the Dollar Generals, demoting every one of them to Captain Quarters, company slogan "Give Us Three Cap'ns You Git Yerself a General". Still, I find it difficult to be alarmed. Sure, as a white male it saddens me to see my reproductive rights disappear but then again, liberal women are just "too pretty" what with their natural, blue hair and the attractive nose-ring, signaling their rightful status as cattle. But these are not your ordinary, climate hating cows! No, liberal women have are empowered to hold in their gaseous...gases... which is why they all look so...relaxed. This person bravely penned this letter to the world, and had the courage to sign it An American - obviously educated by the U.S. Dept of Edumacation, this person is not sure WHICH America, who could know, what with the 21 to choose from.
