A Sucker Punch From Your Neighbour/Friend?
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You mention cowards , fools ,, thiefs , liars and tyrants ... that pretty much covers them all .... there is nobody left ...
So vote John Q. Nobody
Because Nobody is the exact opposite of all those things ...
I prefer a SA in my handguns. The G18 has the option to shoot semi as well though. In 'fun' mode you will have an empty clip in less than 1 second, so unless you intend to put all 19 in one target, shoot it semi, take your time, and take down multiple targets. JMOOh I would be happy to share also ... as I could only handle 2 at a time ... For this type of application I would favor full automatic hand guns example Glock G18 9mm ... very effective light and easy to use... normally only available to police ... normally is the key word
My son and I were members of a local gun club for about 3 ish years where we learned the basics of gun play ... so fun
Now I gotta get my wife and daughter educated
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We shouldn't let him live in our heads. Just be informed without being consumed by his antic.
I get what he is trying to do. Bring manufacturing back to US. So everything is made in the US and now a $2k TV cost $3k+. How many of his peoples can afford it? Shopping at Walmart is not such a bargain anymore when everything is made in the USA. We are not going to buy their stuff because they are an ass and it would be expensive with the tariffs slap on their products. Every other nations will likely slap a tariff on it as well. So if a C9 SR cost as much as a C8 Z06, how many of us can afford it? This is just a simple example and I know there are other factors.
At the end of the day, he is in this so he can scraped the income tax, himself and his rich buddies will benefit the most.
I get what he is trying to do. Bring manufacturing back to US. So everything is made in the US and now a $2k TV cost $3k+. How many of his peoples can afford it? Shopping at Walmart is not such a bargain anymore when everything is made in the USA. We are not going to buy their stuff because they are an ass and it would be expensive with the tariffs slap on their products. Every other nations will likely slap a tariff on it as well. So if a C9 SR cost as much as a C8 Z06, how many of us can afford it? This is just a simple example and I know there are other factors.
At the end of the day, he is in this so he can scraped the income tax, himself and his rich buddies will benefit the most.
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China imposes retaliatory tariffs on Canadian farm and food products - National | Globalnews.ca
China announced retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian farm and food imports, after Canada imposed duties on certain Chinese-made products in October.
globalnews.ca
I think it is time for us to shed ourselfs of American policy that hurt us against China. We don't have to aligned ourselfs with them anymore in economic relationship. Time for our goverment to wakeup and stop hurting our producers. I vaguely remember Biden anounce this tariffs against China in regards to EV. Of course we get drag into it and to support their policies. Lets not pick a fight with the world 2nd largest economy. They are the largest import of our pork procuts and $5 billion canola imports. We can't afford to shoot ourself in the foot. We have minerals/energy that they want and sell to, so we don't need to depend on the US as our main customer.
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Just in case you haven't heard enough yet, here is Claude Malhuret's speech in the French Senate 5 days ago. A longer read but worth it.
“President, Mr. Prim. Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers, My dear colleagues,
Europe is at a critical turning point in its history. The American shield is crumbling, Ukraine risks being abandoned, Russia strengthened.
Washington has become the court of Nero, a fiery emperor, submissive courtiers and a ketamine-fueled jester in charge of purging the civil service.
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States. Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose more customs duties on you than on his enemies and will threaten to seize your territories while supporting the dictatorships that invade you.
The king of the deal is showing what the art of the deal is all about. He thinks he will intimidate China by lying down before Putin, but Xi Jinping, faced with such a shipwreck, is probably accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.
Never in history has a President of the United States capitulated to the enemy. Never has anyone supported an aggressor against an ally. Never has anyone trampled on the American Constitution, issued so many illegal decrees, dismissed judges who could have prevented him from doing so, dismissed the military general staff in one fell swoop, weakened all checks and balances, and taken control of social media.
This is not an illiberal drift, it is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy. Let us remember that it took only one month, three weeks and two days to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution.
I have faith in the strength of American democracy, and the country is already protesting. But in one month, Trump has done more harm to America than in four years of his last presidency. We were at war with a dictator, now we are fighting a dictator backed by a traitor.
Eight days ago, at the very moment that Trump was rubbing Macron’s back in the White House, the United States voted at the UN with Russia and North Korea against the Europeans demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Two days later, in the Oval Office, the military service shirker was giving war hero Zelensky lessons in morality and strategy before dismissing him like a groom, ordering him to submit or resign.
Tonight, he took another step into infamy by stopping the delivery of weapons that had been promised. What to do in the face of this betrayal? The answer is simple: face it.
And first of all, let’s not be mistaken. The defeat of Ukraine would be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic States, Georgia, Moldova are already on the list. Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin.
The countries of the South are waiting for the outcome of the conflict to decide whether they should continue to respect Europe or whether they are now free to trample on it.
What Putin wants is the end of the order put in place by the United States and its allies 80 years ago, with its first principle being the prohibition of acquiring territory by force.
This idea is at the very source of the UN, where today Americans vote in favor of the aggressor and against the attacked, because the Trumpian vision coincides with that of Putin: a return to spheres of influence, the great powers dictating the fate of small countries.
Mine is Greenland, Panama and Canada, you are Ukraine, the Baltics and Eastern Europe, he is Taiwan and the China Sea.
At the parties of the oligarchs of the Gulf of Mar-a-Lago, this is called “diplomatic realism.”
So we are alone. But the talk that Putin cannot be resisted is false. Contrary to the Kremlin’s propaganda, Russia is in bad shape. In three years, the so-called second largest army in the world has managed to grab only crumbs from a country three times less populated.
Interest rates at 25%, the collapse of foreign exchange and gold reserves, the demographic collapse show that it is on the brink of the abyss. The American helping hand to Putin is the biggest strategic mistake ever made in a war.
The shock is violent, but it has a virtue. Europeans are coming out of denial. They understood in one day in Munich that the survival of Ukraine and the future of Europe are in their hands and that they have three imperatives.
Accelerate military aid to Ukraine to compensate for the American abandonment, so that it holds, and of course to impose its presence and that of Europe in any negotiation.
This will be expensive. It will be necessary to end the taboo of the use of frozen Russian assets. It will be necessary to circumvent Moscow’s accomplices within Europe itself by a coalition of only the willing countries, with of course the United Kingdom.
Second, demand that any agreement be accompanied by the return of kidnapped children, prisoners and absolute security guarantees. After Budapest, Georgia and Minsk, we know what agreements with Putin are worth. These guarantees require sufficient military force to prevent a new invasion.
Finally, and this is the most urgent, because it is what will take the most time, we must build the neglected European defence, to the benefit of the American umbrella since 1945 and scuttled since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It is a Herculean task, but it is on its success or failure that the leaders of today’s democratic Europe will be judged in the history books.
Friedrich Merz has just declared that Europe needs its own military alliance. This is to recognize that France has been right for decades in arguing for strategic autonomy.
It remains to be built. It will be necessary to invest massively, to strengthen the European Defence Fund outside the Maastricht debt criteria, to harmonize weapons and munitions systems, to accelerate the entry into the Union of Ukraine, which is today the leading European army, to rethink the place and conditions of nuclear deterrence based on French and British capabilities, to relaunch the anti-missile shield and satellite programs.
The plan announced yesterday by Ursula von der Leyen is a very good starting point. And much more will be needed.
Europe will only become a military power again by becoming an industrial power again. In a word, the Draghi report will have to be implemented. For good.
But the real rearmament of Europe is its moral rearmament.
We must convince public opinion in the face of war weariness and fear, and especially in the face of Putin’s cronies, the extreme right and the extreme left.
They argued again yesterday in the National Assembly, Mr Prime Minister, before you, against European unity, against European defence.
They say they want peace. What neither they nor Trump say is that their peace is capitulation, the peace of defeat, the replacement of de Gaulle Zelensky by a Ukrainian Pétain at the beck and call of Putin.
Peace for the collaborators who have refused any aid to the Ukrainians for three years.
Is this the end of the Atlantic Alliance? The risk is great. But in the last few days, the public humiliation of Zelensky and all the crazy decisions taken in the last month have finally made the Americans react.
Polls are falling. Republican lawmakers are being greeted by hostile crowds in their constituencies. Even Fox News is becoming critical.
The Trumpists are no longer in their majesty. They control the executive, the Parliament, the Supreme Court and social networks.
But in American history, the freedom fighters have always prevailed. They are beginning to raise their heads.
The fate of Ukraine is being played out in the trenches, but it also depends on those in the United States who want to defend democracy, and here on our ability to unite Europeans, to find the means for their common defense, and to make Europe the power that it once was in history and that it hesitates to become again.
Our parents defeated fascism and communism at great cost.
The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century.
Long live free Ukraine, long live democratic Europe.”
-Claude Malhuret speaking to the French Senate Tuesday March 4 2025. You have just read the transcript of a speech that will live forever in the history books.
“President, Mr. Prim. Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers, My dear colleagues,
Europe is at a critical turning point in its history. The American shield is crumbling, Ukraine risks being abandoned, Russia strengthened.
Washington has become the court of Nero, a fiery emperor, submissive courtiers and a ketamine-fueled jester in charge of purging the civil service.
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States. Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose more customs duties on you than on his enemies and will threaten to seize your territories while supporting the dictatorships that invade you.
The king of the deal is showing what the art of the deal is all about. He thinks he will intimidate China by lying down before Putin, but Xi Jinping, faced with such a shipwreck, is probably accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.
Never in history has a President of the United States capitulated to the enemy. Never has anyone supported an aggressor against an ally. Never has anyone trampled on the American Constitution, issued so many illegal decrees, dismissed judges who could have prevented him from doing so, dismissed the military general staff in one fell swoop, weakened all checks and balances, and taken control of social media.
This is not an illiberal drift, it is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy. Let us remember that it took only one month, three weeks and two days to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution.
I have faith in the strength of American democracy, and the country is already protesting. But in one month, Trump has done more harm to America than in four years of his last presidency. We were at war with a dictator, now we are fighting a dictator backed by a traitor.
Eight days ago, at the very moment that Trump was rubbing Macron’s back in the White House, the United States voted at the UN with Russia and North Korea against the Europeans demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Two days later, in the Oval Office, the military service shirker was giving war hero Zelensky lessons in morality and strategy before dismissing him like a groom, ordering him to submit or resign.
Tonight, he took another step into infamy by stopping the delivery of weapons that had been promised. What to do in the face of this betrayal? The answer is simple: face it.
And first of all, let’s not be mistaken. The defeat of Ukraine would be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic States, Georgia, Moldova are already on the list. Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin.
The countries of the South are waiting for the outcome of the conflict to decide whether they should continue to respect Europe or whether they are now free to trample on it.
What Putin wants is the end of the order put in place by the United States and its allies 80 years ago, with its first principle being the prohibition of acquiring territory by force.
This idea is at the very source of the UN, where today Americans vote in favor of the aggressor and against the attacked, because the Trumpian vision coincides with that of Putin: a return to spheres of influence, the great powers dictating the fate of small countries.
Mine is Greenland, Panama and Canada, you are Ukraine, the Baltics and Eastern Europe, he is Taiwan and the China Sea.
At the parties of the oligarchs of the Gulf of Mar-a-Lago, this is called “diplomatic realism.”
So we are alone. But the talk that Putin cannot be resisted is false. Contrary to the Kremlin’s propaganda, Russia is in bad shape. In three years, the so-called second largest army in the world has managed to grab only crumbs from a country three times less populated.
Interest rates at 25%, the collapse of foreign exchange and gold reserves, the demographic collapse show that it is on the brink of the abyss. The American helping hand to Putin is the biggest strategic mistake ever made in a war.
The shock is violent, but it has a virtue. Europeans are coming out of denial. They understood in one day in Munich that the survival of Ukraine and the future of Europe are in their hands and that they have three imperatives.
Accelerate military aid to Ukraine to compensate for the American abandonment, so that it holds, and of course to impose its presence and that of Europe in any negotiation.
This will be expensive. It will be necessary to end the taboo of the use of frozen Russian assets. It will be necessary to circumvent Moscow’s accomplices within Europe itself by a coalition of only the willing countries, with of course the United Kingdom.
Second, demand that any agreement be accompanied by the return of kidnapped children, prisoners and absolute security guarantees. After Budapest, Georgia and Minsk, we know what agreements with Putin are worth. These guarantees require sufficient military force to prevent a new invasion.
Finally, and this is the most urgent, because it is what will take the most time, we must build the neglected European defence, to the benefit of the American umbrella since 1945 and scuttled since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It is a Herculean task, but it is on its success or failure that the leaders of today’s democratic Europe will be judged in the history books.
Friedrich Merz has just declared that Europe needs its own military alliance. This is to recognize that France has been right for decades in arguing for strategic autonomy.
It remains to be built. It will be necessary to invest massively, to strengthen the European Defence Fund outside the Maastricht debt criteria, to harmonize weapons and munitions systems, to accelerate the entry into the Union of Ukraine, which is today the leading European army, to rethink the place and conditions of nuclear deterrence based on French and British capabilities, to relaunch the anti-missile shield and satellite programs.
The plan announced yesterday by Ursula von der Leyen is a very good starting point. And much more will be needed.
Europe will only become a military power again by becoming an industrial power again. In a word, the Draghi report will have to be implemented. For good.
But the real rearmament of Europe is its moral rearmament.
We must convince public opinion in the face of war weariness and fear, and especially in the face of Putin’s cronies, the extreme right and the extreme left.
They argued again yesterday in the National Assembly, Mr Prime Minister, before you, against European unity, against European defence.
They say they want peace. What neither they nor Trump say is that their peace is capitulation, the peace of defeat, the replacement of de Gaulle Zelensky by a Ukrainian Pétain at the beck and call of Putin.
Peace for the collaborators who have refused any aid to the Ukrainians for three years.
Is this the end of the Atlantic Alliance? The risk is great. But in the last few days, the public humiliation of Zelensky and all the crazy decisions taken in the last month have finally made the Americans react.
Polls are falling. Republican lawmakers are being greeted by hostile crowds in their constituencies. Even Fox News is becoming critical.
The Trumpists are no longer in their majesty. They control the executive, the Parliament, the Supreme Court and social networks.
But in American history, the freedom fighters have always prevailed. They are beginning to raise their heads.
The fate of Ukraine is being played out in the trenches, but it also depends on those in the United States who want to defend democracy, and here on our ability to unite Europeans, to find the means for their common defense, and to make Europe the power that it once was in history and that it hesitates to become again.
Our parents defeated fascism and communism at great cost.
The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century.
Long live free Ukraine, long live democratic Europe.”
-Claude Malhuret speaking to the French Senate Tuesday March 4 2025. You have just read the transcript of a speech that will live forever in the history books.
It would be intersting to know how many people truly realize just how serious a situation the world is currently in on many fronts . The days of the mutually assured destruction deterrent seemingly no longer applies . Very troubling to say the least . I'm sure there are many viewers of this forum who recall the threat of necular war in the early 1960's when the " Cuban Missle Crisis " was unfolding for example . I find the current climate to be much more concerning . Have we not learned anything about common sense in the interim ? Apparently not Im afraid .
Claude Malhuret (French pronunciation: [klod malyʁɛ]; born 8 March 1950) is a French physician, lawyer and politician who has served as a member of the Senate since 2014, representing the department of Allier. A member of Horizons (HOR),<a href="Claude Malhuret - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Malhuret#cite_note-1)"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a> he has presided over the centre-right The Independents – Republic and Territories (LIRT) parliamentary group in the Senate since 2017.
Previously, Malhuret was Secretary of State for Human Rights (1986–1988),<a href="Claude Malhuret - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Malhuret#cite_note-nytimes_com-2)"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> Mayor of Vichy (1989–2017),<a href="Claude Malhuret - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Malhuret#cite_note-3)"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> a member of the National Assembly (1993–1997) and of the European Parliament (1989–1993).
You can't win a nuclear war, but too many are willing to annihilate the earth because it's merely a stepping stone to the afterlife.
It's these zealots that I'm afraid of.
Putin has threatened to use Nukes if Ukraine is allowed into NATO. Would he? Who knows, but he is arrogant enough.
Or psychotic enough . The Big Three also have those new hypersonic missiles these days . Wont be shooting them down if they start to fly . As I'm sure I stated before its my grandchildern Im concerned about more than anything . If the Orange Menace by the grace of the Gods were to become number 5 , the first since 1963 , things might go back to some version of sanity but Im not holding my breath .
Thank's, a little bit of google did helpIn your opinion ... your english may not be the best .... but you said that pretty dam well ! ...
Reading the various posts here leads me to believe that you guys are way smarter than I .... CDNZ said it well that we should not let this demon dickhead occupy too much of our thoughts ... however kinda hard given the current state of affairs ...
But here is my question ... watching CP24 tonight I saw our illustrious premier talking tough again ( like the rotten orange really cares ) ... but mabe he might in this situation .. so as of today the province's 25 % surcharge on electricity takes effect ... and good old Dougie says that if Putin's bag licker hits back he is considering cutting the power to these states all together ... that would obviously affect hospitals , long term care facilities , schools, law enforcement agencies , computers, home owners , ( some of whom require in home medical services eg. dialysis ) businesses, and even traffic lights etc etc...
Now Dougie flips the switch and electricity is cut .... would donnie dickwad ... consider that an act of war ? ... claiming national security is being compromised ... could that push him to send troops across that " imaginary line " ? hes looking for any excuse to do stupid things . He's already screwing Canada for reasons known only to him and his " boys "
Kinda makes me nervous ...
But here is my question ... watching CP24 tonight I saw our illustrious premier talking tough again ( like the rotten orange really cares ) ... but mabe he might in this situation .. so as of today the province's 25 % surcharge on electricity takes effect ... and good old Dougie says that if Putin's bag licker hits back he is considering cutting the power to these states all together ... that would obviously affect hospitals , long term care facilities , schools, law enforcement agencies , computers, home owners , ( some of whom require in home medical services eg. dialysis ) businesses, and even traffic lights etc etc...
Now Dougie flips the switch and electricity is cut .... would donnie dickwad ... consider that an act of war ? ... claiming national security is being compromised ... could that push him to send troops across that " imaginary line " ? hes looking for any excuse to do stupid things . He's already screwing Canada for reasons known only to him and his " boys "
Kinda makes me nervous ...
Dont sell yourself short amigo , you are obviously smarter than at least 200,000,000 of our neighbours .... Couple of issues regarding the power tax or cutting it off altogether is what would the response be and the second is the not inconsiderable loss of revenue for the province . Not that I disagree with the action . The grid both there and here is somewhat flexible as to where it can be directed but they would definitely feel it .
He won't cut it.
Hi Boss. I am sure your English is just fine. I took my time in composing the post because I do like to express my thoughts accurately. As to your comment about being polite when speaking of Trump, you have not sat with my wife and myself when we have to watch his antics on the nightly news, they are definitely not flattering nor suitable to be heard by children. Thank you for reading my post and taking the time to comment. Have a great evening. Elbows up and buy Canadian.