This is why I love and support Vivek!

[Biggie Smiles]

Just like how he's being prosecuted in New York for "over inflating" property values to secure loans, a "crime" for which there is no complaintant and no individual or corporate entity that has been defrauded.

And a crime which is IMPOSSIBLE to commit against any major lending institutions such as the ones allegedly defrauded as these institutions have entire departments dedicated to nothing but the processes of appraising property value and analyzing risk

When you see libtards cheering this shit what's really happening is they are revealing to you just how incredibly stupid they really are

And we havent even delved into the fact that you have a NYC judge doing his own appraisals of properties literally a thousand miles out of his jurisdiction or the fact that each and every one of these alleged victims was paid back every penny of the loans which are in question 

[JOE]

I love how leftists and dems get to riot and destroy and occupy capital buildings and shoot at senators and use explosives and that's barely talked about

 But the minute Republicans and right wingers so much as start a protest everyone clutches their pearls and goes hysterical.

 Like we are all supposed to sit down and shut up. But the dems and left can be as violent and destructive as they want. They can burn down towns and murder children.

 It's only insurrection if the opposing party protests.

Y'know Dovey Dear, I don't like any of them on the Right or the supposed 'Liberal Left'. They both need to clean house. I don't care much for Biden or Trudeau in my country either. The political leadership and the people who run for office seem rather weak these days. So ifya think I'm being hard on Trump, I'm just as hard on the Left too.

Truth be known, the USA and our country too needs a true New Deal like that FDR did in the Great Depression/1930s. Capitalism needs real reform, wealth needs to be re-distributed, if anything to keep it alive and so we don't turn into some feudal world. The capitalist system now is a joke.

Some things I'd change if I could:

1. Tax the Ultra Rich. If not when they are alive, then most certainly when they die by allowing them to choose where they would like to leave their money. Roads, schools, hospitals, whatever. Impose a higher tax on the ultra rich such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and the other super rich. They can't take their money with them when they die anyway. And passing it all on their children only creates another dynastical monarchy, which is precisely why the US was formed in the first place. To be free of them an redistribute the wealth back to the people which were the colonials back then.

2. Punish the Land Hoarders. So that anyone owning more than one home and vacation home pays significantly more than the average family who are just trying to live in one house and provide for their children.

Foreinstance, the US should force people like Larry Ellison to give up the Island of Lanai so that other Americans can own it too. Just one man owns over 97% of that Island. Ellison doesn't practice traditional capitalism. He practices gluttony and excessive greed.

3. Punish companies that send their labor overseas to cut costs at the expense of Western jobs. But provide them with incentives to bring the jobs home.

4. Force feed the 3rd world with contraception so they don't flood our borders/the West. Yes I believe border controls are needed, but they have to work on the population explosion from those 3rd world countries too so they don't try to stampede into the richer ones.

Our world is severely overpopulated and our resources are diminishing. Even hard core conservatives agree with me on that.

[DKG]

I know I am going to regret responding to an obvious troll post, but it's Christmas and I am feeling charitable.

Capitalism needs real reform, wealth needs to be re-distributed, if anything to keep it alive and so we don't turn into some feudal world. The capitalist system now is a joke.

On this Joe is correct. True free enterprise does not exist anymore. As governments in both Canada and the US have grown larger and more powerful they have encroached on all areas of society that used to be independent of the state.

They have annexed(indirectly) corporations and made them agents. They take more taxes from the people and give them to corporations to produce goods and services the central government wants rather than what consumers demand. They pressure businesses to hire who they want rather than the most capable for job vacancies.

1. Tax the Ultra Rich.

In Canada, I read before Trudeau took office the top ten percent paid fifty five percent of all taxes. That figure has grown even more skewed in the last decade.

In the US, in 2018 after Donald Trump's tax reforms that eleiminated the SALT deduction for high income earners, the top 1% of income earners—those who earned more than $540,000—earned 21% of all U.S. income while paying 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 71% of federal income taxes.

Income from taxation has gone up steadily, but it hasn't translated into more and better "roads, schools, hospitals, whatever." Instead it goes to crony capitalism in the form of the IRA, CHIPs and Biden's infrastructure plan which is loaded with green grift.

2. Punish the Land Hoarders. So that anyone owning more than one home and vacation home pays significantly more than the average family who are just trying to live in one house and provide for their children.

This is strange. Who punishes and how? Housing is not a federal responsibility in either Canada or the USA although both Biden and Trudeau have interfered with local and provincial/state jurisdiction with green building rules that have added thousands of dollars to the price of each dwelling.

3. Punish companies that send their labor overseas

Donald Trump must have been your favourite president. This was one of the areas where I strongly disagreed with the forty fifth president. Companies didn't pay for those tariffs, American consumers did.

I realize the idea is to bring production lines back to the US. That is a big gamble betting on companies to spend a fortune closing production lines in one country to build new production chains in another.

4. Force feed the 3rd world with contraception so they don't flood our borders/the West.

New colonialism. Good luck with that.

Her's a crazy idea, but it proven to work. incentivize developing coutries to build their economies. We know from examples in Asia that the better educated and more prosperous people are, the lower the fertility rate.

[DKG]

The American federal government wasted $900 billion dollars. Does anyone seriously think they need more revenue? Does anyone trust Ottawa or Washington with more revenue? If you do you are easily duped.

[Brent]

The American federal government wasted $900 billion dollars. Does anyone seriously think they need more revenue? Does anyone trust Ottawa or Washington with more revenue? If you do you are easily duped.

As a traditional socialist, I used to be a strong proponent of taxing the hell out of billionaires. But, then I asked myself why most billionaires want higher taxes on themselves. It is because most of that money will come back to them in grants for something prog governments want--usually green junk.

Now I don't know what is the solution. If rich progs are telling us it's good for us, we can be sure it is good only for rich progs. 

I want reduced class sizes, road improvements, and of course improved health care. I guess the only real solution is a moratorium on immigration.

[Shen Li]

Can't say that I disagree however....of course congress was gonna block and complicate anything Trump wanted.

 He did things I strongly oppose like the banning of bumpstocks and some overspending.

 I voted for him in 2016. 2020 and if I can ill vote for him in 2024.

He doesn't seem to know how to work with congress. Even when he had a majority. Makes sense, he's not a politician. He's an anti-poliitician.

[Shen Li]

The American federal government wasted $900 billion dollars. Does anyone seriously think they need more revenue? Does anyone trust Ottawa or Washington with more revenue? If you do you are easily duped.

I think I understand people like Joe. He is an older guy born in Canada. He remembers when this was a pragmatic nation that had citizen's interests at heart. Sadly, that is no longer the case.

For almost 10 years now, Ottawa has taken more money and freedoms from Canadians. Are we better off? Of course not. The result is that this country that I was so proud of in the 90's when we immigrated here is in rapid and probably irreversible decline.

Giving Ottawa more money is about the worse thing you could do. The more money they get, the worse off we have become. Higher tax revenues doesn't trickle down to us.

Give them less money and we will prosper and be freer. It happened in the 90's and disposable incomes soared and infrastructure was superior. Of course, it doesn't matter how smart Ottawa becomes with our money if you take in 1.5 million immigrants in a single year. We can't possibly afford that.

[DKG]

I think I understand people like Joe. He is an older guy born in Canada. He remembers when this was a pragmatic nation that had citizen's interests at heart. Sadly, that is no longer the case.

For almost 10 years now, Ottawa has taken more money and freedoms from Canadians. Are we better off? Of course not. The result is that this country that I was so proud of in the 90's when we immigrated here is in rapid and probably irreversible decline.

Giving Ottawa more money is about the worse thing you could do. The more money they get, the worse off we have become. Higher tax revenues doesn't trickle down to us.

Give them less money and we will prosper and be freer. It happened in the 90's and disposable incomes soared and infrastructure was superior. Of course, it doesn't matter how smart Ottawa becomes with our money if you take in 1.5 million immigrants in a single year. We can't possibly afford that.

He only posts in discussions like this to troll and get under people's skin.

[Shen Li]

He only posts in discussions like this to troll and get under people's skin.

Maybe, but there are older Canadian born people that still think governments in this country have their best interests at heart.

[Thiel]

The Colorado decision harkens back to the Reconstruction era, a section of the Constitution, of the 14th Amendment, that doesn't ever mention the word president and requires somebody to have been involved in insurrection or rebellion against the government.

[Thiel]

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. announced Thursday he will introduce a measure to restrict federal funds to states that block candidates' ballot access as soon as Congress returns to session early next year, after Maine's secretary of state decided to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot.

The senator drafted the legislation, the Constitutional Election Integrity Act, in response to a similar decision that was made by the Colorado Supreme Court last week to bar the former president from appearing on the Colorado ballot.

[Thiel]

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, one man called for protesters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. That same man will not spend a day behind bars. If the federal prosecutors had wanted to prove that Ray Epps was a federal asset that day, they couldn't have done a better job.

Ray Epps first appeared on the government's most-wanted list days after January 6, 2021, but was promptly and mysteriously removed. That led to speculation that Epps might have been a government agent. Dozens of videos surfaced over the past three years showing Epps involved in behavior that, under the January 6 rules, should have resulted in an armed pre-dawn raid, pretrial detention, multiple felony charges, and ultimately, years in federal prison.

[Herman]

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, one man called for protesters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. That same man will not spend a day behind bars. If the federal prosecutors had wanted to prove that Ray Epps was a federal asset that day, they couldn't have done a better job.

Ray Epps first appeared on the government's most-wanted list days after January 6, 2021, but was promptly and mysteriously removed. That led to speculation that Epps might have been a government agent. Dozens of videos surfaced over the past three years showing Epps involved in behavior that, under the January 6 rules, should have resulted in an armed pre-dawn raid, pretrial detention, multiple felony charges, and ultimately, years in federal prison.

I aint heard of him.