GasBandit
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It would!Bernie vs Paul. Two nearly diametric points of view. C'mon... C'mon guys. That would be awesome.
It would!Bernie vs Paul. Two nearly diametric points of view. C'mon... C'mon guys. That would be awesome.
I feel like that is exactly what I said would happen years ago back when we all were arguing about the voter ID crap. I hate when I'm right.
Elizabeth may was involved in the 2008 debates as well.Meanwhile, up in Canuckalstan, we're getting ready for an election, too. At the moment, most are convinced current Prime Minister Stephen Harper will DEFINITELY NOT get re-elected. He's run this country into the shitter in the last 8 years and made Canada an international embarrassment for almost everyone involved.
Right now, it's really a toss-up between the other three parties. Trudeau is a popular choice, partly because his dad (Pierre Trudeau) was arguably one of the greatest Prime Ministers in Canada's history. And his overall platform is getting a lot of support. But the Mulclair and the NDP are getting a lot of support for their platforms. And Elizabeth May is showing a lot of people she has what it takes, too, after the recent 4-way debate where the Green Party was invited for the first time in history. If anyone of the four shined more than the others in that debate, it was May.
There's also talk of the three parties forming a coalition. I'm not entirely what that means, to be honest. I think it means all three have close to equal power and no one person is the most powerful. I think? I'm not big into politics, so a lot of this stuff goes over my head.
There's an image rolling around Facebook right now that sums up each of the party's promises and platforms. It's kinda big, so I'm gonna spoiler it.
Let me rephrase that: he makes me ashamed to be a Canadian.Elizabeth may was involved in the 2008 debates as well.
Also, she shouldn't be. They struggle to get even a single seat, and have no credible chance of forming the government. She is a obnoxious person who wastes time supporting her party's fringier supporters - like when she tabled a bill this year for the government to open up a 9/11 Truther Commission. She tried to backtrack, saying that MPs are required to file all bills they are petitioned for, but that's not true (and would be insane), it is in fact done at the MP's discretion: of which May has little to none.
Furthermore, Canada was just ranked the most reputable country in the world - under PM Harper. To say we're an international embarrassment under him is pretty hard to swallow.
As an American, I don't even know who Harper is. I thought you guys had a king.To say we're an international embarrassment under him is pretty hard to swallow.
Well I didn't vote for him! /MontyPythonHolyGrailReferenceAs an American, I don't even know who Harper is. I thought you guys had a king.
Here's her drunkenly randomly in a 'poor attempt at humour' at a Press Gallery Dinner http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eli...-failed-attempt-to-be-edgy-on-khadr-1.3069089Let me rephrase that: he makes me ashamed to be a Canadian.
And I honestly didn't know any of that about May. Yowza.
As an American, I don't even know who Harper is. I thought you guys had a king.
Eh, there are a LOT worse things politicians have done.Here's her drunkenly randomly in a 'poor attempt at humour' at a Press Gallery Dinner http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eli...-failed-attempt-to-be-edgy-on-khadr-1.3069089
In one state. In Iowa she's still far, far ahead. Women especially, are lining up behind Hillary. The funniest thing is, they are both going to be at the Iowa State Fair this week. It'll be interesting to see who steals the show.According to the Boston Herald, Bernie now leads Hillary 44% to 37%.
Well that looks like absolute and definitive proof.The tumblrinas and media are falling for the false flag op pulled on Bernie in Seattle. They were teabaggers.
P.E.T. was probably the worst disaster to happen to this country ever. Virtually everything he touched had turned to disaster. It would be a 10 page post to explain everything that has gone wrong as a DIRECT result of acts he put through or things he did. "Just watch me" being one of the least serious.Trudeau is a popular choice, partly because his dad (Pierre Trudeau) was arguably one of the greatest Prime Ministers in Canada's history.
And though it's apparently the longest election campaign we've ever suffered through, it'll be over before the American primaries. Hell, if we wind up with a Minority government, we could have two elections before they get through this one.Meanwhile, up in Canuckalstan, we're getting ready for an election, too.
Where there is a will, there is a way. I've seen emissions places closed here and shifted to private businesses, so DMV closings didn't seem like a stretch to me. Still, this is worse than even I at my most pessimistic could have predicted.Yeah, my insistence that voter ID wasn't an undue burden was sort of implicitly predicated on the idea that the state would NOT be closing all but 3 of its ID office branches.
Yeah, as I said, I don't follow politics closely, so I was just going by what I heard.P.E.T. was probably the worst disaster to happen to this country ever. Virtually everything he touched had turned to disaster. It would be a 10 page post to explain everything that has gone wrong as a DIRECT result of acts he put through or things he did. "Just watch me" being one of the least serious.
But I'm just an Albertan who lived through the 80s. Fuck Ontario and your P.E.T. worship. His son is an entitled brat who is used to a fan club. Put the Biebs up there and the result would be the same: all shine, no substance.
What's wrong with democracy in a nutshell: even intelligent people can't always be bothered to keep up, and vote based on what they hear/read in the media...who are rarely actually neutral, but like to claim they are.Yeah, as I said, I don't follow politics closely, so I was just going by what I heard.
But Washington did that first. We're always a few years behind the Americans.Anyway, Canada is far from an international embarrassment. If we laugh with Canadian politicians, it's with your druggie mayor
The supposed onus of this when it all started was that she kept her emails on a private server instead of on a government one... something she was allowed to do at the time. They (and probably she, because she'd have dumped it in the meantime if she did) had no idea she had ANYTHING on it until they started looking through it in a fishing expedition to pin something on her. Of course, it's apparent now that she probably did have something on it but we'll probably never know exactly what it is.The FBI is investigating because she had top secret stuff on her private server. Of course, the government really can't get too pissed about that right now considering the state of THEIR server security! But I'm not sure what she did was legal.