— Feature, Musings —05.12.2024 02:27 PM
— Feature, Musings —05.12.2024 02:27 PM
“We can’t have a change in government soon enough.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
Warren,
Well, if I was Hamas and holding hostages, I certainly wouldn’t be keeping them hostage in Rafah or anywhere else in Gaza. The terrorists are smarter than that. Unfortunately.
Warren,
Trudeau as usual has it backwards: by abstaining on UN membership for Palestine, we proved our total insignificance and incredible naïveté. Palestinian UN membership presupposes that all of Palestine is not governed by bona fide terrorists. Until that happens, Canada has no business voting Yes or even abstaining.
Warren,
Yup, something has to replace the PA in the West Bank. They lost the internal war to Hamas in Gaza, so they’re not the right actor to govern internally a combined entity covering the West Bank and Gaza. One hell of an international pickle.
But a permanent peace between Israel and Palestinians is impossible without a two-state solution. Everyone knows that intellectually, but no one can stand the thought politically. In short, events will one day shove it down the throats of both Palestinians and Israelis. Otherwise, it’s a cold or hot war between them until the end of time. That’s REALITY.
For 75 years we’ve shoved a two state solution down the throats of the Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel has said okay. The Palestinians (and Iran) have said no.
Hamas charter Article 13.
“Initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are a waste of time and a farce.”
And Likud, under Netanyahu, has provided Hamas extensive access to funding (via Egypt and Qatar) in order to exploit the division further and draw support away from the more amenable PLO. A successful strategy, until it (predictably) blew up in everyone’s face.
There’s no angels in these governments.
a) the PLO is not more amenable. Judge them by what they do, not what they say.
b) so called progressives urged Israel to try to deal with Hamas (including via Egypt and Qatar). Look what it’s gotten Israel.
c) How much money has made it to Hamas from Trudeau’s government (via UNRWA)?
d) didn’t Joe Biden waive sanctions on Iran allowing one of the key sponsors of the Oct 7 attacks (Iran) to receive $10 billion?
e) And Biden (we don’t negotiate with terrorists) arranged for release of $6 billion held by South Korea in return for release of 5 US hostages held in Iran? (Reference Reuters)
The money was released to Qatar, which is now supposedly blocking the transfer to Iran at the request of Biden (wink, wink)
“Progressives” are only to blame for Netanyahu’s deal with the devil in the fantasy realms of far-right media. Downright laughable. Smotrich was one of the biggest proponents of bolstering Hamas in 2015, because it would keep them fighting with Fatah and continue to weaken global support for a two-state solution.
People are welcome to prosecute anyone associated with UNRWA for crimes against humanity should evidence be produced that they committed crimes against humanity. Given that nobody seems to want to produce said evidence beyond “we said so,” and the long running right-wing policy in Israel long before October 7 is to condemn UNRWA simply for perpetuating the very notion that Palestinians are refugees, the credibility of any IDF claims here are suspect AT BEST until evidence is shown otherwise.
Whatever Biden’s doing is a different matter entirely.
Peter,
What you don’t get is that Hamas was Netanyahu’s de facto ally in Gaza until that idiot ultimately got played. Bibi wanted a divided Palestinian community and inter-Palestinian fighting to ensure that a two-state solution never came about. Period, end of story. And then Hamas took full advantage of Netanyahu’s stupidity and attacked to murder Israelis and other Jews. In short, Netanyahu did zip to weaken Hamas in Gaza, and that only helped them to prepare for their terrorist massacre of innocent civilians. That makes you know who as morally culpable as Hamas is.
Hamas and the PLO continue to reject the two state solution.
How would you propose to get them to accept a two state solution?
Progressives, such as Fred Hahn and all the river to the sea protestors, also reject a two state solution. Just listen to what they are saying.
But maybe Hahn, Columbia students, and the rest of the river to the sea protesters are actually far right?
Free Palestine? i.e a violent, theocratic, misogynistic, homophobic society intent on killing all Jews, gays, etc is what they’re supporting.
Peter,
That is not my understanding. The PA and Mazen still support a two-state solution at least theoretically but things get hung up on the right to return with compensation. The latter two are negotiating positions. Everyone knows that a right to return to Israel proper is forever non-negotiable. That would mean the end of Israel as a Jewish state. So, in the end, it will all be about land swaps and access roads. By necessity in order to maintain Israeli security, the second state will be swiss cheese on the ground. Nothing else is practicable.
We’re governed by the pathetic and the foolish, desperately clinging to their lucrative jobs; knowing all the while their parties (Liberals and NDP) will be obliterated on the electoral judgment day.
And so we wait until October 2025.
Tru-anons gleeful about this video today in their attempt to trap Pierre on the capital gains issue. It is laughable. It is not the flex they think it is. Three lies in it for starters.
1. the tax rate the nurse pays
2. the difference between marginal tax and total tax
3. the percentage of people it impacts.
https://x.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1790021255845773705
Martin,
Only THREE lies from the Trudeau Liberals? Boy, they must be slipping.
This is the big problem. People like me can’t properly advise clients because Justin is playing games with the legislation in order to try to set a trap for Pierre. It is beyond the pale. I can’t even properly make a decision on my own behalf. Of course, I will be fine but if we get no more information, I will need to take a step that will cost me a not immaterial amount of money. If we have certainty, that is fine, I will take my lumps and will not be happy. But if I take the step and Justin and his fellow travelers say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjYoNL4g5Vg&t
…and I didn’t have to, who do I see about that?
“Unfortunately, there is no draft legislation available to answer the detailed and excellent questions that are being posed. For example, will estates (specifically, graduated-rate estates) be afforded the $250,000 threshold? Will elections be available to enable people to trigger dispositions before June 25, 2024, instead of actually having to trigger actual dispositions? How will capital gains reserves be treated if such gains were triggered during a period where the inclusion rate was 50 per cent? How will loss carry-forwards be treated?”
https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/taxes/trudeau-capital-gains-changes-delayed-scrapped-moody
For a tax system to work it not only has to be fair but it has to be seen as fair but because of Justin’s ridiculous Let That Be Your Last Battlefield fight to the death with Pierre, we are all victims. It is negligence what Finance is doing. The UHT and bare trust fucks ups were inconvenient and a pain in the ass but this is now real money and brought to us by the same incompetent people.
This is a massive change just like 1971 and 1994 but in those cases, we had competent Liberals in charge so we had some certainty. These boobs are not PET or Chretien Liberals.
This is such a good podcast and this episode in particular is an example of why podcasts are eating into the territory of traditional media.
Not sold on the notion that any extremist Arab nations / people / organizations what have you really want to fight with the West exclusively. I think the fight is just with anyone supporting Israel.
Sean,
They’re big talkers but don’t have a prayer going against western governments. And they know it.
Meanwhile, is anyone else surprised that the right-wing wackos in the national unity cabinet didn’t convince Netanyahu to nuke Gaza?
Re Trudeau; John Ivison writes, “A common complaint is that Trudeau makes brazen commitments that he knows he can’t, or won’t, deliver upon.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ivison-another-warning-about-trudeaus-absence-of-principles
Is Ivison calling Trudeau a liar (in Parliamentary approved language)?
Ivison quoting JWR, “she said she was angry that she believed Trudeau ‘was an honest and good person, when in truth, he would so casually lie to the public and then think he could get away with it.”
Ivison; “senior ministers report that they rarely talk about their portfolios with their boss”
So what is Trudeau actually doing?
Travelling, wining and dining, and vacationing on the public dime (sorry, at $6000/night).
He’s also doling out hundreds of millions to family, to friends, and other Liberal insiders.
Peter,
Careful. Think libel alert.
?
It’s that last sentence.
Trudeau doesn’t dole out money to family, friends, or Liberal insiders?
Justin should sue for that. It would be funny to watch. And I would kick in to the defense fund.
Peter,
You need direct causation to argue that point. The Government of Canada is not Justin Trudeau. Again, not an argument I would make DIRECTLY on a public forum.
Martin,
The toll is not worth it. I wouldn’t wish it on Peter or anyone else. We aren’t in Bernier territory here, as regards the merits of a theoretical lawsuit.
Warren,
Hum, this Prime Minister gets an F on follow-through. Maybe LeBlanc has news on when HimselfTM is finally going to take a walk? Is no news still good news?
Ronald,
PMJT might take a walk …. next Spring.
Showing no signs of exit, stage right.
He has nothing else to do.
Psst, hey Justin, wanna buy a bridge?
Peter,
He just did. And it needs one billion in repairs. This should have been done ages ago. It needs to be a bridge crown corp like so many others.
They bought it for $1.
They expect to spend $1 billion over the next 25 years on maintenance.
Me thinks that Trudeau just wanted a one billion dollar headline, to help his image in Quebec.
Peter,
In French we can this de la récupération. The Canadian government and CN have been at war over the bridge for decades. Meanwhile, ongoing maintenance was not the top priority. Translation: it’ll cost one billion because of the previous maintenance regimen. In short, do you vote for a party that formed government during much of that time? I wouldn’t.