Quote from: Brent on May 30, 2024, 02:32:48 PMA Seadunce classic. What a baphoon.

Seamoron has no entagraty. 

Quote from: Oliver the Second on May 30, 2024, 07:37:02 PMWith the rampant inflation, lack of housing, massive immigration, wars raging and anti-Israeli protests going on I doubt the average American is overly concerned about some guy paying off a hooker.

Oliver, I know Biden is the scariest most destructive president the US has ever had. On top of the damage you mentioned, he has done what no other president has even joked about-weaponizing federal agenices to persecute his political enemies, Kennedy included. His team has used his office to bully an independent mass media into not reporting stories unfavourable to the Democratic Party in the middle of an election.

Biden's presidency is a an example of how a nation can descend into authoritarianism. Trudeau has done the same in Canada.

This is huge. Quebec was the last bastion of Trudeau support. It is over for him and the Liberals in the next election.

Poll finds Poilievre's Conservatives ahead of Liberals in Quebec
Leger poll also finds Tories tied with Bloc in terms of popular support

Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives are tied for first place among voters in Quebec and ahead of Justin Trudeau's Liberals?

Ben voyons donc!

It may sound impossible, but the latest Leger poll for Postmedia not only gives Poilievre's Conservatives a massive lead nationally, but a position they haven't held in Quebec in decades. According to Leger, the most accurate pollster in the last two elections, the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois are tied at 29% voter support in Quebec with the Liberals behind at 26%.

In the last federal election, the Conservatives took just 19% of the vote and 10 seats; that's the same number of seats they took in 2006 with 25% of the vote. The Conservative support is most often concentrated in the Quebec City region and places like the Saguenay, but could see them land extra seats if they were to land 29% support and come out ahead of the Liberals.

By comparison, the Liberals took about 34% of the vote in Quebec in the last election and took 35 seats.

Nationally, the Leger poll puts the Conservatives at 42% support to 23% for the Liberals and 18% for the NDP. The Conservatives lead in this poll among men and women, in every age bracket and among rural, suburban and even urban voters.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/poilievres-conservatives-ahead-of-the-liberals-in-quebec

Quote from: Oliver the Second on May 30, 2024, 07:23:26 PMI might be a problem if anyone were paying attention to it, which nobody is. It changes nothing.

That is the optimistic opinion.

Welcome to how the Dems buy elections 101.

Biden's all-of-government vote-buying scheme

To bet on the upcoming presidential election, don't just rely on polls. Look at the billions of taxpayer dollars President Joe Biden is pouring into "community organizations" in "disadvantaged communities" to tip the election scales.

The community organizer who became president, Barack Obama, was a master at machine politics, using federal tax dollars to turn community organizations — left-wing not-for-profits — into a fifth estate. Their staff, paid using taxpayer money but not tied to government rules, could hit the streets at election time and build turnout. Biden has scaled up Obama's playbook, using billions of dollars instead of mere millions.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) made headlines last week with the discovery that in December 2023 the Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $50 million "environmental justice" grant to the Climate Justice Alliance. Capito is distressed to learn that the Climate Justice Alliance vows "the path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine."

In fact, the Climate Justice Alliance serves up a full agenda of radical activities, including fighting "political oppression" and "placing race, gender, and class at the center" of its climate solutions.

But $50 million for the Climate Justice Alliance is a drop in the bucket.

Had members of Congress read the Inflation Reduction Act before passing it — a novel idea — they would know the law provides $2.8 billion to the EPA for environmental and climate justice block grants," (Section 60201). That's a license to hand out walking-around money to many political activists, not just the Climate Justice Alliance.

Another recipient: the New York Immigration Coalition, which describes itself as a "coalition of immigrant and refugee organizations" pushing for more government services and political clout.

Same is true of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, another recipient. The words "climate" and "environment" don't appear anywhere on these groups' websites or literature.

Lawmakers may have assumed the money was for climate improvement, but the IRA's fine print allows the moolah to be used for "facilitating engagement of marginalized communities in Local, State and Federal public processes, such as advisory groups, workshops, rulemakings." Translation: elections.

How easy is it to get the dough? Piece of cake. The EPA says it wants to "alleviate much of the burden that the federal grants process places on small, resource-constrained community-based organizations supporting underserved communities and marginalized populations." In short, no jumping through hoops.

The money can only go to a disadvantaged community or a southern border town. There are 27,521 disadvantaged communities on the census map, according to Biden's "Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool," which targets non-English speakers, people with diabetes, and other factors that mostly correspond to heavily minority populations. These communities customarily vote Democratic.

Adding eligibility for border towns is an interesting twist. As waves of migrants overwhelm resources in these towns, Democrats are growing divided over Biden's open border policies. Money may shore up support.

During his first week as president, Biden announced the Justice40 initiative by executive order, requiring that 40% of many types of federal spending — not just EPA grants — must go to these "disadvantaged communities."

The Department of Energy is spreading money to these "disadvantaged communities," using what it calls "community benefit plans" and promising that application requirements will be "intentionally flexible."

The playbook started with the Affordable Care Act. The ACA, or "Obamacare," authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hand out "community transformation grants." Community Health Councils, a typical recipient, pledged that its mission was to advance "social justice." It distributed 65% of the money to partner community groups that promoted "voter engagement," conducted "one-on-one education in the streets" or led tenants' rights, anti-fracking and anti-drilling efforts. And you thought the ACA was about covering the uninsured.

A decade after Obama, Biden is tasking every agency and department of the federal government to promote voter engagement.

Biden's community grants pale in size compared to the student debt cancellation vote-buying that now totals $620 billion. But the community grant money lands directly in the hands of political activists who know what to do with it.

Tell your congressional rep to read the bills before voting on them and strip out these provisions for community giveaways that make a mockery of democracy.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/mccaughey-bidens-all-of-government-vote-buying-scheme

Quote from: Thiel on May 30, 2024, 05:43:40 PMAngel drawers, what did I tell you about consistency. You are contradicting yourself Sweetie.

You can't talk about weaponization of the dollar being a major problem and then turn around and support more of it. I find it cute, but others will say it gives you a credibility problem. Understand Sugar plum?

Precisely. This is what the writer was referring to when they said Biden has weaponized the dollar.

Let's not pretend this verdict is not a serious problem for the Trump campaign.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 30, 2024, 07:08:48 PMI'll be out there bright and early Election Day chopping at the bit to cast my vote for the conned and victimized felon. 100% proud of my choice too

*spits.  You filthy fucking cockroaches

Biden sees a glitter of hope.

US stocks dropped for a second day of the short trading week on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average declining by more than 300 points as Treasury yields continued to spike.

An auction of seven-year Treasury notes was met with weak demand, marking the third sale of US government bonds this week to spark fears of oversupply amid forecasts of higher-for-longer interest rates.

The sell-off in the bond market comes ahead of two important data points for investors as they try to assess the path of interest rates for the rest of this year. On Thursday, first-quarter GDP will see its first revision, with expectations for growth to be lower than initially reported for the first three months of the year.

More importantly, on Friday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis will publish the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure. Price increases as measured by the personal consumption expenditures index are expected to be on par with March figures, rising 2.7%, according to economists' estimates. However, a surprise to either the upside or downside could have a big impact on stocks and the broader market.

Quote from: Herman on May 29, 2024, 10:27:08 PMSeamidget got a bad case of the squirts, or 'diaria."

He should tip his caregiver a couple of colons and get her to login for him so he can lash out at us in an incoherent manner like an eight year old with Tourette's. Apparently our current login process is to complicated for him.

Quote from: Lokmar on May 30, 2024, 09:59:49 AM"Chris the nigger" Damn, caught in a brown on brown hate crime! Wait, brown peepoe cant be RAYCIS! 

You mean Democrats cannot be RAYCIS.

Without a doubt, Bidenomics has been a disaster for American families, with no relief in sight as the November election approaches. Yet, Joe Biden and his supporters have done everything they can to gaslight and spin their economic disasters and the country's overall economic malaise into a cause for celebration.

One cheerleading Democrat after another has tried to manufacture an alternate reality. Pay no attention to your skyrocketing bills. Never mind the tech layoffs. Inflation? What inflation? Perhaps the most outlandish spin so far comes courtesy of Brian Beutler, a senior editor at the New Republic, in a Substack essay titled, "Biden Beat Trumpflation and the Trump Crime Wave."

Beutler tries to bend reality from the start. "Trumpflation" — really? When Joe Biden took office in January 2021, inflation was running about 1.4% annually. In fact, under Donald Trump's tenure, then-Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen said at one point that inflation was too low. And in May 2021, after Trump was out of office, Yellen, now helming the Treasury Department, said she didn't see any inflation problem ahead.

While year-over-year inflation measures peaked under Biden in June 2022 at around 9.1%, cumulative increases since he took office are nearly 20% as measured by the Consumer Price Index, with the real impact felt by consumers even more severe.

Speaking of his liberal friends, Beutler laments, "I don't know any who doubt my premise: Republicans would love to inherit this economy. They'd brag about how it became good the moment they took charge, and they'd quickly reap the political spoils." We have already established that the author and Democrats are both decoupled from reality, but wanting to inherit this economy? My goodness.

Nobody wants to inherit this economy.

Biden has not only fueled massive inflation but also embellished economic growth figures, which are now declining, with the first quarter GDP coming in nearly a percentage point lower than expected.

Growth in large part has come a result of the government running massive deficits. The U.S. deficit-to-GDP is currently around double the historic average. It is highly unusual for deficits to be that large when the economy is showing growth. More tax receipts should cut deficits. In an unfortunate turn of events, the Biden administration has done the opposite — it used deficit spending to create growth, something that has been done at an incredible cost to taxpayers, with interest rates near 15-year highs.

This has created a national debt nearing $35 trillion with interest expense at a $1.7 trillion run-rate. If nothing shifts in terms of spending or interest rates, debt service will soon become the largest individual government expenditure.

It gets worse, believe it or not. The Biden administration has weaponized the U.S. dollar, and we are now facing an acceleration of central banks and governments trying to reduce their dependence on the dollar as a reserve currency, which will ultimately make financing the U.S. government more expensive.

Americans are also contending with record-high household debt and a dwindling personal savings rate, coming in at less than half of the historic average for the first three quarters of the year, ending March 2024 at 3.2%.

On top of that, key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, including the lower individual tax rates, begin to expire at the end of 2025.

Whoever wins in November will need to contend with addressing that as well.

While living in a fantasy world is the Democratic Party's strong suit, let me say that nobody, and I mean no one, should want to inherit this fiscal mess. That is reality, and there is no way to spin it.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 30, 2024, 09:48:40 AMOh wait.. that's not Trump it's just another phony BLM supporting democrat


Remember when I told you guise that scumbags on the left will ALWAYS accuse others of exactly that to which they themselves are guilty?

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rep-gabe-vasquez-used-racial-slur-2004-phone-call-former-colleague-report

Biden has got so many free passes over the past five decades of spewing ignorant racism from his sewer.

And look at Canada. Trudeau has a long history of racial taunts and he accuses the leader of the Conservative Party of courting racists.

Quote from: Shen Li on May 30, 2024, 12:55:04 AMCanada is so screwed. A change of government will certainly help, but it won't fix everything.

That is the cold hard reality that nine years of arrogant economic incompetence and authoritarianism has put us in. Canadians will get some immediate relief when Pollivere is pm. The carbon tax will be history. Bills C-49 and C-60 will be repealed. Same with C-10 and C-18.

It will be trickier reducing the bloated size of the federal government. One of the biggest expenses under Trudeau has been interest on the debt. There will be fierce opposition to reduce wasteful spending.

Immigration will be another issue that it will be hard to restore sanity.

Quote from: Shen Li on May 29, 2024, 11:49:39 PMSeamunchkin's caregiver must've given him too many liquefied prunes.

He can't figure out how to login, so it makes sense he can't change his own Depends.