Parsad

Let's not just blame Facebook. It's media in general...extreme partisanship in the media...distrust of authority (be it left or right)...doubts about the integrity of leaders (be it left or right)...distrust of experts...lies by leaders (both sides)...leaders protecting their own (both sides)...etc. A lot of reasons outside of just Facebook. Cheers!

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Neither side is able to simply just call a good idea a "good idea!" It's always from a partisan point of view. And it's certainly not just the left criticizing the right...it goes 100% both ways. A sad tragedy that probably holds a country back. Cheers!

Same vaccines, different countries, same results. This whole argument has been disproven over and over and over again...around the whole effing world! Same with the argument that it increased deaths and side effects in children. Round and round the science-denier lunatics go! MRNA vaccine is now being used to tackle other illnesses that we thought had no treatment or cure. Cheers!

Spek, I'm guessing you are being facetious, but there are minority groups all over the world being prosecuted. In a predominantly black country, undergoing political and economic strife, I'm not sure there isn't some targeted attacks happening on whites. While I'm sure Trump and his team are exaggerating the depth of the problem, I certainly think there might be one there that the world may be discounting. Now Cubs, et al pitting whites against non-whites, is just stirring up the same pot. I'm not against any persecuted groups being given refugee or asylum status (white or non-white), and I think the libs and conservatives pitting these atrocities against one another is just insanity times two! Cheers!

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Have you seen me put any ads or pictures up looking like Chris Hemsworth?

The whole Arab/birther movement thing were lies started by Trump. Lies become fact, and then remnants of those lies remain in voter's heads. It's like a defense lawyer bringing up something completely disallowed by the judge, withdraws the reference, but it is too late when stricken from the records, because the jurors have already heard it and are thinking about it. Trump thrives on lies becoming fact, then those remnants stay in people's heads long after they've been debunked. Cheers!

I used to worry about this stuff, until Japan hit over 200% debt to GDP and nothing happened. Even with the drop in ratings, increased debt and recent drop in the USD, it is still the reserve currency of the world by far. More in demand than gold, crypto or any other currency. Now that may not be the case if they don't start being more fiscally responsible or spur GDP growth over the next decade...so it is something to worry about, but probably not as threatening as many make it seem presently. Cheers!

People whose name begins with "Doo" shouldn't throw stones! I kid Doo, I kid! Probably smells more like urine...pee-pee tape and all. I'm pretty sure Putin has it...both the tape and the cologne! Cheers!

Who is designing these ads...the man looks like he has a body like Chris Hemsworth! This is the real Trump body: Maybe he has a funhouse mirror in his dressing room! Cheers!

Fairfax Completes $900M Senior Notes Offering: https://www.fairfax.ca/press-releases/fairfax-completes-us900000000-senior-notes-offering-2025-05-20/?utm_source=press-release&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Tue+May+20+2025&utm_campaign=Fairfax+Completes+US%24900+000+000+Senior+Notes+Offering Cheers!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-asks-us-maintain-stability-074518540.html Cheers!

LOL! Life's too short to become an old crank! Cheers!

Doo has a point...so in every Western newspaper and media outlet, including Fox and NY Post, they called it nothing but the Persian Gulf War for years. Yet somehow in your years in Saudi Arabia, they called it nothing but the Arabian Gulf. You must have been watching nothing but Al Jazeera! Even Wikipedia has numerous names for it, but none are "Arabian Gulf War". Cheers! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

LOL! You make me cry! Cheers!

Isn't the right doing exactly the same thing, but including firing masses of real people as well? Cheers!

You just need to slow the debt down and allow GDP to catch up. Canada balanced their budget in the late 80's, and just by doing that and minimal payments down on the debt, debt to GDP dropped dramatically over a decade. So even $400-$500B in tariffs annually going towards the debt and a balanced budget would improve the United States fortunes in the years to come as GDP grows. Cheers!

Yeah, this is pointless, since they are raking in billions in other ways. And not only Trump...Congress is allowed to trade on insider information. So, if the gift goes to the country, I have no problem with it. It's all the grift that happens where the individual or his family is benefiting directly or indirectly. Cheers!

It's 30% against China, and I suspect those considered the worst offenders will be higher than 10% as well. China is $500B in imports alone, so roughly $150B. Total imports into the U.S. in 2024 at $3.4T. If you assume a 15% average tariff, you are looking at least $450B. It will still make a small dent in paying down the debt or offsetting the annual deficit. Cheers!

Do you guys mean up (+) from the bottom or from where you were before the drop began? For example, S&P500 is now almost exactly where it was at close December 31st, 2024. I'm up 18% from the bottom, but only up about 6% YTD. Cheers!

We knew this was the plan from the beginning. Long-term, it will probably actually work as tariffs (as low as they will be at 10%), will generate hundreds of billions annually...not the trillions they were talking about. But even if they just raise $750B a year, eventually balance the budget, that $750B will slowly reduce debt to GDP as GDP grows and debt grows much slower. It worked very well in Canada (not tariffs, but a balanced budget and reduction in debt to GDP) for over a decade. I hope to see it again here in Canada under Carney. Any DOGE savings, and cuts elsewhere will be used to offset the tax cuts...the hole would have been even bigger if they didn't make those cuts. Eventually, the tax cuts and tariffs will drive more business into the U.S., including manufacturing, production, facilities, etc and that will grow GDP and tax revenue. Cheers!

Yeah, but they weren't bastions of woke pussies back then! They used to hunt with automatic machine guns, drink kegs at frat parties, only let in Jewish minorities (and that was only if your name didn't sound Jewish), and didn't subsidize degrees for anyone...you better have money, bitch! Cheers!

I don't have any problem with the plane. I just think it's a gift as President, and should belong to the country. Replace an old Air Force One with the new plane. No need for it to sit at Trump's library...and you save taxpayers a shitload of money...not to mention improve the security of Air Force One. There should also be some maximum...maybe there is already and I'm not aware of it. But any state gifts (not fundraising, lobbyists, etc), but gifts from sovereign nations, the President should be allowed to keep the ones below $5,000...they go to the their home or Library. Any gifts over $5,000...stay in the White House or state museums. Cheers!

LOL! Cheers!