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#1
Politics / Re: US election 2024
Today at 07:54:05 AM
Minutes after the jury returned a guilty verdict in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, an influx of donations to his presidential campaign as an apparent show of support caused his donation page to temporarily become unavailable.
#2
Politics / Re: Bidenomics
Today at 07:50:02 AM
Quote from: Shen Li on May 30, 2024, 10:45:32 PMI read an op-ed in the Singapore Straits Times about this.
The actions against Russia were one of the most blatant examples of the US weaponizing the dollar I have ever seen taken by an American administration in a long time.
#3
Quote from: caskur on Today at 12:11:23 AMJoe, the left are no longer the left of the old days where their main concern was for working men's rights. They have gone completely nuts and they are using us because it's about power now.

I not saying the right is better either... we have two extremists and both extremes are causing a great divide. We have to recognize it and we have to be clever about it..  I see Trump as being closer to middle ground because he isn't one of them power hungry politicians but a man who wants to work everything out... I could be wrong but I don't get that feeling.

I feel he did more right things than wrong things... what do you think?
First of all, Joe is an attention starved troll. He knows left and right no longer exist in North America.

The people who are voting for Trump would have voted Democrat in the eighties. The Democrats are the party of billionaires and woke corporations.   
#4
Quote from: caskur on Today at 02:53:18 AMOn youtube a 1.5 hour speech of him talking to Minnesota people he outlined what he is going to do...

Apparently Biden undone a lot of things he made law. He is going to ban children being given hormone treatment for starters.

Let me find it...hang on. Watch in your own time and it is worthwhile.

It's pretty good. I like the casual way he delivers.

Caskur, this is how Biden should be trying to win the election. Have an electable platform that you can confidently convey to voters. Biden doesn't have a winning platform so he is trying to win by misusing the FBI and DOJ to persecute his main opponent.
#6
Quote from: Dove on Today at 02:14:08 AMWell if you know what "dismantling democracy" actually means when they say it....it makes sense.

 They are panicking because Trump can start investigations into all the criminal and horrible shit that has been done. The Bidens...Fauci...Clinton's.

 Imagine the covid investigations.
Dove, there is no need to respond to Joe. If you do, don't be serious because he isn't.

He has derailed political threads at least least one hundred times with the same lame post you responded to.

He craves attention, but in my opinion, he does not deserve any.
#7
Quote from: Brent on May 30, 2024, 02:32:48 PMA Seadunce classic. What a baphoon. :crampe:
Seamoron has no entagraty.  :crampe:
#8
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.
#9
Politics / Re: Pierre Pollivere
May 30, 2024, 07:33:09 PM
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

#10
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.
#11
Politics / Re: US election 2024
May 30, 2024, 07:24:29 PM
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
#12
Politics / Re: Bidenomics
May 30, 2024, 07:19:46 PM
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? :smiley-hug003:
Precisely. This is what the writer was referring to when they said Biden has weaponized the dollar.
#13
Let's not pretend this verdict is not a serious problem for the Trump campaign.
#14
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.
#15
The Flea Trap / Re: Money Sense
May 30, 2024, 10:21:50 AM
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.