[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[Valmy]

That Besent guy looks like the biggest tool I've ever seen in my life.

His ferocious detachment from reality while pretending to be some wise calm leader is remarkable. He is the kind of guy mad kings would surround themselves with, so he fits perfectly with this administration.

[Valmy]

He always lies.

That is just what American leaders do. They just make shit up. And despite everybody knowing they are wrong, everybody pretends as if they are right.

It is an Emperor's new clothes type situation. It sort of reminds me of what I used to hear about the Soviet Union. "Oh yes Comrad Brezhnev big economic growth."

Elon Musk's way of just saying stupid shit like "by *date really soon* we will have achieved *thing they are nowhere close to doing*" and then his stock instantly jumps 5% is the new normal.

[crazy canuck]

Progress on decoupling from the US. From the Globe

India has long viewed Canada as the "younger brother" of the United States, slow to approve foreign investment and major projects, but this perception is changing under Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Indian high commissioner to Canada says.

Ottawa and New Delhi are preparing to launch talks on a comprehensive trade deal as the Prime Minister makes plans for a March trip to the Indian subcontinent, his first.

The high commissioner, Dinesh Patnaik, said in an interview on Tuesday that in India's view Mr. Carney has been carving out a more independent role for Canada, including with his much-lauded Jan. 20 speech at the World Economic Forum.

First Europe, then Canada for India.

Some Americans must be really tired to win.
Healthcare costs rising, no checks from Doge, no checks from tariff money, no tax credit for a car purchase, no tax cuts for everyone and a cut to social security benefits, but a gift tax exemption up to 30 million$ per couple so the average American can leave a little something his children.



At least, my friend Admiral Yi is satisfied that the US military budget is going way down now that they don't have to care about European and Canadian freeloaders.   
Ah, half a trillion increase on this side.

Well.  Time to bunker up.

Nice way to sum it up.

[viper37]

It's an equal mix of funny and sad watching established immigrants jump on the most recent hate-the-new-immigrants wave, somehow unaware that they were in the same bucket just a little while earlier.

Was Lucky Luke every popular in English Canada?

I still have some albums here, Le Pied Tendre, notably.  Tenderfoot.

The animation does not seem as funny as my childhood book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vWY68meh5o

Reminds me of that.  British aristocrat arrives in the far west and becomes so well integrated that in the end he joins the other cowboys to "welcome" a tenderfoot once he realizes it's his old nemesis from London.

[viper37]

Viper seems to forget that Grallon was a big supporter of camps.

Not really just an "Anglo" trait but if it helps you all sleep at night to think you are somehow better (as your government must constantly invoke the Notwithstanding Clause) go ahead.

I did not say it was an Anglo trait about "immigrants".
Only about immigrants from the Indian subcontinent because there aren't that many here.

Let's raise the topic of Arabs/Muslims and it'll be different.  Or Africans (Sub Saharan Africa).

We are a welcoming society, far from the portrayal of English media, doesn't mean we don't have morons, to the left and to the right.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

in a later, much later, comic the Tenderfoot goes to Klondike to find his butler btw.

[viper37]

in a later, much later, comic the Tenderfoot goes to Klondike to find his butler btw.

Never saw that one.  I'll have to find it.