Parsad

Because board members are ruining existing threads as they move like parasites from one thread to another spewing political garbage, I will be automatically be doing 30 day member bans for any new political comments festering any threads. Trolls will also be dispatched quickly! Cheers!

If you can pay for business class without flinching, then you are definitely comfortable. Even then, depending on your psychological makeup, you still might flinch. I'm comfortable, but I still bristle when I see business class flight prices, so I generally go in the middle...premium economy! If I get an upgrade... great, that's icing on the cake! You still get priority boarding, lots of leg room and shoulder room, plus you pretty much get all the food and alcohol you want on the flight. And they still give you a pillow and little duvet! Then again, I didn't have any problem dropping $12K for two nights at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver the weekend before Christmas for a 3-bedroom Gold Level Suite and a fully catered and serviced Christmas Dinner for 14 people in our suite's dining room. It was awesome! I'm ok spending a lot of money on experiences with my family. Even my nieces and my nephew had their own little dining area off the living room where they had their own server for the evening. Plus they had that Home Alone 2 sundae...16 scoops of ice cream with all sorts of toppings and syrups! And the hotel threw in the Christmas tree for my living room! We've been doing this for about 10 years...on a much smaller scale when I had less money...but this was the grandest year...Fairfax's return in 2024 was worth celebrating! Me personally...I still shop at Walmart because I like a bargain! I'm incredibly frugal except when it comes to experiences. I would rather spend money on something like this than a Rolex or some other material object. Cheers!

Not entirely. The U.S. banks and most foreign banks operating in Canada (outside of HSBC which is now part of Royal Bank) operate as Schedule II banks, not Schedule I. So there are restrictions on what lines of business and what they can offer Canadian consumers. Essentially they are only half banks, like Trump is only half human! Cheers!

+1! Cheers!

Guys, stop trolling otherwise I start dunking! Cheers!

Let's see how this ages in 4 years. Cheers! https://www.cbsnews.com/video/robert-lighthizer-tariffs-60-minutes-video-2025-02-02/

Basically, the more ass-kissing of the King you do, the lower the tariff rate will be. That's always been his primary motivator...narcissistic asshole that he is! Cheers!

They plan on running the U.S. the same way! Cheers!

Try using updated information...100 fold decrease in casino money laundering since the government took measures to crackdown on it. Cheers! https://financialcrimeacademy.org/the-vancouver-model-canadian-casinos-and-money-laundering/

I didn't vote for Biden or Trudeau...I also didn't vote for Trump! Cheers!

That's just human nature...look at all the shit being thrown around today on this thread by both sides. Has nothing to do with being jealous, but aghast at the stupidity of each side. Cheers!

That's awesome! One of the best political cartoons I've seen in the last couple of years! Cheers!

Yes, without Twitter the U.S. would have fallen into chaos and communism! The woke left cabal would then be able to have babies murdered by cross-dressing drag queen migrants who take a knee before the Super Bowl and want all guns melted into a giant block of metal formed into the image of Nancy Pelosi sticking a bottle up Donald Trump's butt! Cheers!

You read a lot into that! Maybe those guys were just thinking it was stupid to pay that much...not much there...pretty simple. And at the end of the day, they were perfectly happy with their Bud Lights! Cheers!

Pull back maybe...but he's not known to pull out! Eric! Tiffany! Cheers!

Frankly, I have less of a problem with Elon than I do with Trump. Wait till those two come to blows...and it will come! Cheers!

Yeah, I don't think we'll see that unless the tariffs are prolonged or we see a recession...both of which are very possible. Cheers!

+1! Yup, just a tax grab to bolster revenue. Doesn't affect the personal or corporate tax rate, but will fill the coffer with as much American money as foreign money. Although Trump's retail products will take a hit...but MAGA cult followers will pay anything for what he's selling...they've already bought in to the Art of the Steal! Trump's also willing to sell his followers a couple of bridges! Cheers!

+1! Hilarious! Cheers!

Yup, catastrophic for Canada. But it would also be very costly for the U.S. to retool all of their refineries to Permian oil. In the mean time, the Mid-West would be suffering for probably close to two years! Cheers!

Yes, and Trump would have minimized inflation during the pandemic...just like egg prices are dropping right now under his watch! Geez!

Actually during that period, the U.S.' expansion into other countries and growing its military industrial complex contributed to its massive growth and success. The last 20 years was similar but it was the technology industrial complex that lead to its success. But this isolationist, nationalistic behavior is probably going to have the opposite effect. Good luck!

Hahaha! https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt As you said, don't be like the Europeans...first admit you have a problem, then you can fix it! Cheers!

US inflation was down to 2.9% in 2024. Also, if things are so fucked up, how do you explain such low unemployment and a hot economy in the U.S. under Biden? Don't confuse the facts...you don't deal well with the truth! Cheers!

It looks pretty much on par until the pandemic. So you've cherry-picked 4 years out of 157 years of history! Cheers!