Canadian Political Events

moot point! There's a reason for the recent uptick in articles/mentions/speculations on whether or not a sitting president can pardon himself! 

of course there's always the weasel-around where Trump claims he's unable to continue and the "25th amendment" shifts Pence into the Presidency... and pardons flow from there!

by the by:


Here’s what 12 experts say about whether President Trump can pardon himself

No it doesn't explain everything, but it might explain why more men go into engineering and more women go into medicine etc.

It might, but a professor should know about things like cause, correlation, and such.  This kind of speculation doesn't help the argument at all.  If there are differences in physiology that could explain inclinations to areas of knowledge, the assessment and analysis must be fathoms deeper than what he offers here.

If you agree with his thesis, even, he's doing it a disservice by presenting it with only surface level evidence.

 

Which of the toxic cesspool hate bots on Twitter are you Waldo?

member squiggy, my post offered you several aspects to comment on; yet, somehow you could only rise sink to this level. It gives me pause to wonder are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVKo9vwIaY

That's ridiculous wilbur. Most raw materials can be imported into Canada at a much lower cost than Canadians can produce them.

However, I will say that it needs to be said with some qualifications. Nuanced to a level that's above your understanding on social responsibility.

I dare say that China could get a cargo ship full of lettuce here cheaper than Canada can provide us with it, and before it even wilts!

It doesn’t matter, if your currency drops they will cost more than they did before because they are imported. All those imported raw materials will cost more because our money is worth less. How do expensive imports help the Canadian economy if we don’t have domestic sources to replace them? It will cost our farmers even more to produce their goods. Their imported equipment will cost more. Oil is priced in USD so the diesel they use to run their equipment will cost more  and they will be less competitive? The same will go for other industries. Fishers and truckers will pay more for their equipment and fuel and the costs will all be passed on to you. How does any of this help the Canadian economy or the standard of living of Canadians?

Mayors in the mining country, who once supported Democrats, say the party no longer advocates for the working class

that letter was signed by 6 mayors... apparently there's a total of 20 mayors (20 towns) within the so-called Minnesota Iron Range area. What happened to the other 14 mayors, hey? Wait, what's this - a counter from the United Steelworkers Union (USW District 11):

Recently, Vice President Mike Pence visited Duluth, Minnesota for a Trump campaign rally. Pence claimed that President Trump stood for American jobs, workers and miners and has made America great again.

On August 28th a group of six mayors from the Iron Range wrote an endorsement of Trumps reelection. Our union believes those mayors are misguided and don’t fully understand the nature of the economics of the industry or the iron range. Just drive down the main streets of Virginia and Eveleth and count the shutdown businesses. It hardly seems like the “roaring back to life” that these mayors describe.

Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.

Our nation is in the deepest crisis since the Great Depression and 74,257 people in Minnesota have tested positive for COVID-19; 1,814 have died. President Trump refused to acknowledge the threat posed by the coronavirus, mobilize resources or show leadership in the face of the global pandemic.

As a result of the pandemic, almost half of the workers at the Iron Range's mines were laid off. USS Keetac is still idle and its 260 employees on layoff. Yet somehow, the president and Republican- controlled Senate don’t care enough about Keetac workers or the other 16.3 million Americans who are unemployed to extend enhanced unemployment benefits through the end of the year.

The Trump administration did impose tariffs on imported steel. But for many workers, it was too little and too late. Since January 2017, 7,900 workers in the steel industry have lost their jobs due to shutdowns or cutbacks, including the shutdown of blast furnaces at USS Great Lakes Works.

So far this year, steel mills in the United States have operated at an average of 66% of capacity during 2020, steel production is down by 20% and steel prices are at their lowest point since President Trump took office.

President Trump has allied himself and his administration with the wealthy and powerful and against workers and the most vulnerable in our society.

He’s championed tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, increasing the federal deficit to record levels, but he’s failed to deliver the infrastructure program to rebuild our nation’s crumbling bridges and roads. He has worked to undermine collective bargaining, workplace safety, environmental safeguards, the Affordable Care Act, government ethics, congressional oversight and voting rights.

Contract negotiations in the steel and iron ore industry were difficult in 2018 and are likely to be difficult again in 2022. The companies will seek to divide us and demand cuts and concessions. Our nation and our union need a leader in the White House that supports working people and labor unions.

Vice President Joe Biden has long been a friend of workers and our union. He will fight to raise the minimum wage, expand access to affordable health care, stabilize multiemployer pension plans, defend Medicare and Social Security and preserve and expand civil and labor rights.

The USW is proud to endorse Joe Biden for president, as he seeks to put our country back on a path toward shared prosperity through responsible leadership.

Democrats used to be the party of the middle class.  Now they’re the party of the wealthy and elites.

  geezaz member Shady! Now do Republicans... the party of???