Carney will say “elbows up” then offer the USA concessions.

The 50 per cent rate is being imposed in response to what a senior administration official described as Canada’s retaliation against U.S. trade policy and its discrimination against U.S. motor vehicles, dairy and alcohol.

Funny, because just about two days ago he said it was a response to smoke. It’s almost like he’s a demented old man who can only remember he’s angry but not what about.

I hope you’re not saying you were aware of this. Stay where you are and the authorities will be with you shortly.

The amazing thing about responsibility for right-wingers is that they can preach about it endlessly because it’s always someone else’s.

I’ll give you three guesses.

It means if we want them to stay nice and keep letting us be our own country, we have to fix the effects of climate change without mentioning either its existence or the USA’s massive ongoing contributions to it, while the USA goes on trying to increase fossil fuel use and shut down renewables. Otherwise the USA will say “Look what you made me do!” and annex Canada. In other words, “We’re the USA and we are assholes in more ways than you could possibly imagine.”

Israel is the country of rape, torture and genocidal mass murder. That’s its reputation in the world now, and we all see it clearly.

Dems

spine

I think I can see the problem here…

They have plans for winning the midterms even if the people don’t vote for them.

That and religion.

Not sure you can say religion is a conservative value in itself. Some forms of religion lend themselves to conservatism, because of the values they espouse. But you’d have to look at those particular values to find the conservatism, not just a blanket “religion”. I suspect you have a particular form of religion in mind. Are Wiccans conservative? Buddhists? Satanists?

As for the rest, it’s environmentalism, not conservatism. You’ll find fewer conservatives who want to conserve ecosystems than non-conservatives. Conservatism doesn’t mean conserving stuff in general, and in fact “keep stuff” would be either meaningless or foolish as a philosophy.

Conservatism’s distinctive feature is that it wants to conserve entrenched privilege, wealth, and power structures. And where those are harmful, oppressive, or exploitative, it wants to conserve the harm, the oppression, and the exploitation. Conservatism towards power implies a destructive attitude to many other things.

Unsurprisingly, right-wing media is lying, claiming that these were lefties:

some conservative media outlets have seized on aspects of the story to imply that the plotters were actually bad seeds of the far left. One of the alleged plotters, an article in the Federalist argued, “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein”.

Also, Donald Trump does protect child predators connected to sex offender and former best buddy of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.

Some prospective migrants complain about high immigration in their own countries or what they see as declining living standards, he says.

Worried about immigration and poor living standards? Become an immigrant in Russia! Conservatives aren’t great at thinking things through.

Because the alternative is to criticize Israel, and that’s so impossible for him to consider that he’d sooner hand the UK over to fascists.

There’s always Green. We need a serious campaign to promote the only popular party that’s offering anything different.

Iran and the USA were in the middle.of negotiations and very near an agreement when Trump and Netanyahu started this war, killing the Ayatollah and many of the more moderate Iranian government officials who might be more amenable to an agreement. It’s not just a hypothetical but something the USA has done already.

He kicked all the remaining left wing out of the Labour Party at a time when left-wing policies were very popular with the members. He has overseen some pretty regressive social policy, particularly in catering to transphobes. He’s a liar and has no charisma. He put Peter Mandelson back in a powerful position though he was known to be a bad guy and an Epstein associate. He has taken Labour to the right, abandoning its base while offering nothing but more of the vaguely Thatchery stuff the UK has suffered from for decades. He committed the government to more austerity than even the Tories had dared to implement, at a time when poverty is a massive problem in the UK. He handed chunks of the NHS to Palantir. Conservatives don’t like him and left-wingers don’t like him and no one trusts him. He’s been so uninspiring that the electorate is sleepwalking towards fascism. Plus there’s the Israel thing and the crackdown on anyone who expresses sympathy with Palestinians. It’d be quicker to list what he has done right.

Edit: This video shows why he was so unlikeable:

https://youtu.be/9qNZyOO3ESI

How Trump has predicted Iran deal 37 times since March without one materialising

That was published a few days before his latest announcement.

Women’s rights and Transgender rights are in conflict

Some of us would strongly disagree with this fundamental premise of yours. You state it like it’s a solid basis on which these matters should be debated, but it’s actually a controversial point that could only emerge as the conclusion of an argument. It needs justification at least.

Maybe there wasn’t one.

One way to do that would be to stop the endless misdeeds.