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OT: American Politics

MindzEye said:
Is she really?

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She cleans up okay on camera, sure.
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Meh. Standard GOP blondie. They have an an army of them fanned out thoughout the media ecosystem.
 
Remember when Trump fired all those US attorneys a few months ago. Yeah, they still havent hired any of the replacements. Not one.

Oh and no Deputy Secretary of state, no deputy secretary of defence, no assistant secretary of state for europe, and hundreds of other critical positions still not hired.
 
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File this under: Can't make this shit up

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/20/donald-trump-protest-rallies-speech-237431

President Donald Trump’s lawyers argued in a Thursday court filing that protesters “have no right” to “express dissenting views” at his campaign rallies because such protests infringed on his First Amendment rights.

The filing comes in a case brought by three protesters who allege they were roughed up and ejected from a March 2016 Trump campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky, by Trump supporters who were incited by the then-candidate’s calls from the stage to “get 'em out of here!”

Lawyers for Trump’s campaign have argued that his calls to remove the protesters were protected by the First Amendment. But the federal district court judge hearing the case issued a ruling late last month questioning that argument, as well as the claim that Trump didn’t intend for his supporters to use force.

The ruling cleared the case to proceed into discovery and towards a trial.

Thursday’s filing by Trump’s campaign lawyers asks the judge to pause the proceedings and allow Trump’s legal team to appeal the ruling to a higher court “before subjecting the President to ‘unique’ and extraordinary burdens of litigation.”
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Sure looks like the sitting POTUS is about to get sued, and probably lose....
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

Time to make canada great again

https://www.google.ca/amp/news.nati...big-boy-pants-and-make-canada-great-again/amp

The interview demonstrated Trudeau’s inability to counter the essential truth of President Donald Trump’s assessment that Canada has not been acting honourably. Pointing to Canada’s attempt to manipulate cross-border dairy trade, Trump had threatened on Tuesday to “make some very big changes or we are going to get rid of NAFTA for once and for all,” and Micklethwait noted that every Canadian family pays several hundred dollars more for their milk bill per year to protect Canada’s dairy industry.

Trudeau ultimately conceded Canada’s dairy protectionism, albeit with much-deserved awkwardness, since Canada’s dairy quota system has been Canada’s shame since it was introduced in 1970. The quota system makes milk prohibitively expensive for poor families, it denies Canadian consumers the right to purchase diverse cheeses from around the world and it destroyed Canada’s once-great cheese industry, whose many small producers capitalized on milk surpluses to make world-famous cheddars — Ontario alone once supplied England with half of its cheddar cheese imports.

Over the decades, the dairy lobby’s hold in Canada’s corridors of power was unshakable, surviving intense pressure in numerous trade negotiations under numerous governments. But its hold is shaking today. Under pressure from Trump, Canada may finally do the right thing for the Canadian consumer and the Canadian economy by removing this albatross, and forcing Canada’s politicians to put on their big-boy pants. Many are now noting the irony that Trump’s desire to make America great gives long-suffering Canadians hope for an end to the dairy quotas.

Trump’s blunt talk and uncompromising stances are also highlighting other failures of Canadian policy. Trump expects Trudeau to put on his big-boy pants with respect to NATO, too, where Canada has never honoured its commitment to contribute our share of military spending — two per cent of our GDP — to the defence of the free world. Instead, while Canada pays lip service to the need to stand strong in Ukraine and the Middle East, we contribute just half as much as pledged, leaving our own military in disrepair and expecting the United States to pick up the difference and to be our protector.

Canada has a sense of entitlement that Trump, in his undiplomatic way, is exposing. His plan to renegotiate NAFTA — and to walk away from it if the renegotiation didn’t serve America’s interests — was widely met in Canada with indignation and outrage, as if we had an entitlement to the U.S. market. True to form, we also responded with praise for the glories of free trade and contempt for America’s backward turn to protectionism. Yet Canada remains one of the West’s great bastions of protectionism, barring foreign ownership of banking and other major sectors and unable to achieve even internal free trade among our provinces, despite 150 years of trying. The provinces themselves don’t accept the provisions of NAFTA, cannot be bound by them and haven’t honoured them.

Until Trump began a rescue of our energy sector by approving the Keystone XL pipeline, the federal and provincial governments were so inward looking, and so beholden to provincial politics, that they couldn’t even muster the courage to proceed with much-needed pipelines to either the Atlantic or Pacific that would allow Alberta oil to flow to European and Asian markets.

Canada wasn’t always a snowflake country. In the previous century, we were far more self-reliant — economically successful, despite the American protectionism that we then faced, and confidently entering both world wars long before the Americans. We wore big-boy pants then. So did our farmers. Trump may force us to wear them again.
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Re: OT: Canadian Politics

Travelling in Europe, it's astounding how cheap milk and cheese was. I was in Germany, and cheese there is at least half the price it is here, often cheaper. I mean, even Baby Bells, which are about the most expensive cheeses they have, are half price to what they are here.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

UWHabs said:
Travelling in Europe, it's astounding how cheap milk and cheese was. I was in Germany, and cheese there is at least half the price it is here, often cheaper. I mean, even Baby Bells, which are about the most expensive cheeses they have, are half price to what they are here.
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In fairness, a lot of agricultural products are heavily subsidized in the USA and Europe, which helps keeps prices down.

But by having absurdly high prices in canada using this dairy cartel, Canadians are subsidizing dairy products simply by purchasing them.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

Yeah, if trump can somehow kill supply management in canada I will be eternally grateful.

Overpriced,low quality dairy products here is a disaster.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

I don't disagree with the point about our dairy industry needing reform, but the tenor of the article is full of shit.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

MindzEye said:
I don't disagree with the point about our dairy industry needing reform, but the tenor of the article is full of shit.
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Read Lawrence Solomon's climate change denial columns to really see a tenor that is full of shit.
 
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