17 minutes ago, BerndD said:

We don't need it anymore. With the letters CAMERONI there is a clown emoji already and the CAMERONI emoji has its own clown avatar.

Cameroni must be quite old, and not used to using the Emoji function. Probably preferable for him to use that, rather than posting calling for killing and enslavement of entire peoples.

🤡

North America is quite interesting these days.

Both Canada and Mexico have two of the best leaders in the world now and the USA clearly has one of the worst and relative to his power in the world, the absolute worst.

It's embarassing being an American these days.

Edited Friday at 07:19 AM4 days by Jingthing

And he's trying again! 😃

The embarrassment in the WH takes time off from furiously trashing Canada on TS to head down to NASA HQ to give a speech about "space stuff", but goes off script almost immediately and starts ranting about Venezuela, wind mills, Iran etc.

But contrary to the usual bunch of mouth breathers that normally stand behind him, these (involuntarily present) people all have three figure IQs, and the silence is deafening.

Houston, we have a moron!🤣

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On 8/27/2026 at 11:45 PM, Cameroni said:

Figures show the number of people living unsheltered has more than doubled in recent years – an increase of 107% between 2020-2022 and 2024. In Ontario alone, a report published in January by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario identified 85,000 people experiencing homelessness in the province in 2025. First Nations, Inuit and Métis people continue to be grossly over-represented in these numbers.

https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/resources/newsroom/two-years-after-landmark-report-renewed-action-needed-homelessness-continues

No doubt the masses of unemployed that Carney will be creating with his misguided posturing policy will further double and triple the number of homeless in Canada.

Poor Canada.

I think if you take the time to research on homeless numbers per the % of the population, you will find USA and Canadian numbers for homeless are very similar as a % of each country's population. Your failure to research and post that - indicates a clear bias. I guess it must be a massive surprise to you to learn there are homeless in the USA, else you would have noted such.

10 minutes ago, oldcpu said:

I think if you take the time to research on homeless numbers per the % of the population, you will find USA and Canadian numbers for homeless are very similar as a % of each country's population. Your failure to research and post that - indicates a clear bias. I guess it must be a massive surprise to you to learn there are homeless in the USA, else you would have noted such.

It's hardly the same, the United States has a population of 342 million people. Canada's is 41 million. It is much easier for Canada to provide social services than for the US. You're comparing apples and oranges.

16 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

It's hardly the same, the United States has a population of 342 million people. Canada's is 41 million. It is much easier for Canada to provide social services than for the US. You're comparing apples and oranges.

That argument actually flips economic reality on its head.

A larger population provides economies of scale, meaning the United States has a vastly larger tax base, deeper capital markets, and lower per-capita fixed administrative overhead to fund large-scale infrastructure and social programs. If anything, sheer scale gives the U.S. structural advantages in mobilizing resources.

I suspect the real reason Canada's homelessness rates remain comparable — rather than significantly worse — despite Canada having a smaller economy is precisely due to its government social systems, healthcare integration, and provincial safety nets, which step in to prevent wider destitution.

On 8/27/2026 at 10:01 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

And Trump, don’t forget your idle Trump.

Well he's only out these days because of his extreme level of impotency. However he still may get the occasional peep show from Nat, but he has to be content with leaving the mushroom alone.

The upside is at the young gals are now safe once again, at least from him

Edited Sunday at 02:03 AM2 days by spidermike007

11 hours ago, oldcpu said:

That argument actually flips economic reality on its head.

A larger population provides economies of scale, meaning the United States has a vastly larger tax base, deeper capital markets, and lower per-capita fixed administrative overhead to fund large-scale infrastructure and social programs. If anything, sheer scale gives the U.S. structural advantages in mobilizing resources.

I suspect the real reason Canada's homelessness rates remain comparable — rather than significantly worse — despite Canada having a smaller economy is precisely due to its government social systems, healthcare integration, and provincial safety nets, which step in to prevent wider destitution.

Social services are not about "economies of scale". Countries like the Netherlands and Luxembourg always have better, cleaner hospitals, because programs are much easier to implement in small hospitals. Less to oversee. Real countries with large populations cannot implement some measures, as there's just too many people to do so.

Canada is sitting on 51 trillion USD of assets. That it has such a high number of homeless is remarkable.

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Maybe the US is a sinking ship,

I'm not sure that it isn't.

30 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

That it has such a high number of homeless is remarkable.

They are mostly all in Vancouver as it would be difficult to be homeless in the winter in Winnipeg or Sakskatoon.

43 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

I'm not sure that it isn't.

They are mostly all in Vancouver as it would be difficult to be homeless in the winter in Winnipeg or Sakskatoon.

According to Maureen Owens, 11.2% of Canadians experience some form of homeless, with about a million Canadians getting the full "no shelter" experience.

https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/articles/homelessness-and-housing-in-canada-a-human-rights-crisis

That is really extrarordinary, if one considers Canada has 51 trillion USD of assets.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/trump-reignites-trade-wars-as-americans-opinions-of-tariffs-continue-to-drop-150941686.html

Trump reignites trade wars as Americans' opinions of tariffs continue to drop

Americans are taking a very dim view of President Trump's trade wars, with clear majorities telling pollsters they do not support the president's tariffs and they believe their costs are being driven up as a result.

The contrast with Canadians' views is stark. North of the border, Canadians appear not just OK with tit-for-tat tariffs, they say they are ready to endure economic pain to make a point.

About 58.7% of Americans disapprove of Trump's approach to trade and tariffs, according to the Silver Bulletin, which has analyzed over 20 polls this summer that asked Americans their views on the topic. Just 34.5% approve. 

That's a jump of over 18 percentage points since the beginning of Trump's second term, in just one of the economic issues pulling Trump's approval rating to second-term lows.

10 hours ago, Cameroni said:

According to Maureen Owens, 11.2% of Canadians experience some form of homeless, with about a million Canadians getting the full "no shelter" experience.

https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/articles/homelessness-and-housing-in-canada-a-human-rights-crisis

That is really extrarordinary, if one considers Canada has 51 trillion USD of assets.

That statistic misinterprets the Tamarack Institute report, which actually refers to lifetime prevalence—meaning 11.2% of Canadians have experienced hidden housing precarity or couch-surfing at some point over the course of their lives, rather than representing active, daily street homelessness. So that is nonsense to suggest 11.2% of Canadians experience homeless at one time. Pure nonsense.

Also , citing a multi-trillion-dollar national asset figure confuses private wealth and macro-level balance sheets with actual liquid government cash. A county's total national assets belong to millions of private citizens, corporations, and pension funds — and are largely tied up in the very residential real estate values driving the affordability crisis — meaning the government itself, does not possess a multi-trillion-dollar pool of disposable funds to direct at will.

In short - both nonsense points.

32 minutes ago, oldcpu said:

That statistic misinterprets the Tamarack Institute report, which actually refers to lifetime prevalence—meaning 11.2% of Canadians have experienced hidden housing precarity or couch-surfing at some point over the course of their lives, rather than representing active, daily street homelessness. So that is nonsense to suggest 11.2% of Canadians experience homeless at one time. Pure nonsense.

A nonsense point, the Tamarack Institute report is very clear. It says 11.2% of Canadians have experienced homelessness. Nobody said anything about "active, daily homelessness".

33 minutes ago, oldcpu said:

citing a multi-trillion-dollar national asset figure confuses private wealth and macro-level balance sheets with actual liquid government cash. A county's total national assets belong to millions of private citizens, corporations, and pension funds — and are largely tied up in the very residential real estate values driving the affordability crisis — meaning the government itself, does not possess a multi-trillion-dollar pool of disposable funds to direct at will.

No, it doesn't. I am very clear how that asset figure is made up, and 33 trillion USD are natural resources Canada has. Much of those is sold every year giving Canada plenty of tax revenue. Nobody suggested it was "actual liquid government cash", a nonsense point made by you.

However, the 51 trillion USD asset figure for Canada is accurate, and whilst it does indeed include assets owned by corporations, funds and citizens, it illustrates how obscenely wealthy Canada is. And yet it lacks the will and ability to protect its citizens from homelessness. Which is rather sad.

It feels like the resistance is starting to accelerate. Mark Carney made a heroic effort at resistance, and perhaps he is setting a positive trend.

Sweet resistance. Just say no to the insatiable pig.

President Trump makes demands. When the other side does not give him what he wants, he escalates with bombastic threats of crippling punishment. The other side surrenders.

Except that Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, evidently has not read the script. His refusal to buckle in the face of Mr. Trump’s trade ultimatum even at the cost of retaliatory tariffs has flipped the narrative of the president’s second term. Instead of giving in, Mr. Carney is testing whether defiance is a viable strategy against Mr. Trump.

The age of capitulation that defined Mr. Trump’s return to office may be starting to fade. World leaders and domestic institutions are, in some cases at least, showing less willingness to submit to Mr. Trump’s will. European leaders have refused to join his war with Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel flatly rejected his Gaza plan. Gulf Arab states forced him to abandon plans to charge a shipping toll in the Strait of Hormuz.

Universities and law firms are rebuffing his directives rather than signing on the bottom line. Bond markets are rebelling against his fiscal policies. Even the ABC network, whose $16 million payment to settle a Trump lawsuit was seen as an early example of yielding to the president, has discovered that it did not buy peace and is now suing his administration for threatening its broadcast licenses.

But even among Republicans, there are some worrisome signs for the president. Although he has successfully punished several prominent Republican lawmakers he deemed disloyal by rallying his MAGA base to defeat them in party primaries this year, G.O.P. voters have rejected Mr. Trump’s endorsed candidates in 10 nominating contests, including six in August alone. Polls show his support among Republicans slipping.

“I think that recent weeks have been somewhat of an inflection point,” said Norm Eisen, a former Obama White House lawyer and founder of a group called the Democracy Defenders Fund, who has been waging multiple court fights against Mr. Trump. “At home and abroad, pro-democracy forces and everybody else are standing up to him with much more widespread vigor.”

To the extent that there has been a shift, Mr. Eisen said, it owes in part to overreaching by Mr. Trump. “Trump has been his own worst enemy,” he said.

“Greenland was a turning point, in part because it was an attack on the sovereignty of Europe itself and Europeans began to understand at that point there was simply no end to Trump’s rapaciousness and to his demands,” said Jeremy Shapiro, a former State Department official now at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Leaders across the world are watching. Mr. Shapiro said they “mostly now believe that backing down in the face of Trumpian aggression or insults only encourages more demands.” He added: “I think Carney is setting the template for how they will respond to future Trumpian tariff threats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/politics/trump-polls-tariffs-carney.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

We have a secret weapon

3 hours ago, Cave Johnson said:

We have a secret weapon

No you don't. The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 guarantees freedom of passage through the Wellend Canal. Additionally a toll, or charge, cannot be levied on US flagged ships but not Canadian vessels. It was technically a treaty between the US and the UK.

I haven't followed this thread too much.

People hate Trump so much that Carney must be in the right?

It seems barking mad for a small country that relies on the US so much for trade, a country 10 times bigger and more powerful, not to placate the US.

6 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

I haven't followed this thread too much.

People hate Trump so much that Carney must be in the right?

It seems barking mad for a small country that relies on the US so much for trade, a country 10 times bigger and more powerful, not to placate the US.

Canada a small country. eh?

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Canada a small country. eh?

Yeah, ... compared to the US ...

mostly empty land mass doesn't count.

Edited Sunday at 11:35 PM2 days by save the frogs

8 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Yeah, ... compared to the US ...

mostly empty land mass doesn't count.

Sure thing.

Don't mess with Canada.

Lot's of good comments here. My favorite is: after Greenland is ours, we just absorb everything in between all the way over to Alaska.

4 hours ago, Cave Johnson said:

We have a secret weapon

Don't yall worry bout marine traffic, it's part of our future Greenland Expansion.

1 hour ago, Roadsternut said:

No you don't. The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 guarantees freedom of passage through the Wellend Canal. Additionally a toll, or charge, cannot be levied on US flagged ships but not Canadian vessels. It was technically a treaty between the US and the UK.

Agreements with the excited states of merica don't seem to be worth much.

10 minutes ago, Cave Johnson said:

Agreements with the excited states of merica don't seem to be worth much.

I'm not sure what possible benefit there is to the United States in breaking this particular treaty.

This treaty is not the weapon you think it is. 80% of traffic through the canal is via Canadian flagged vessels versus 7% US flagged.

1 hour ago, NedR69 said:

Lot's of good comments here. My favorite is: after Greenland is ours, we just absorb everything in between all the way over to Alaska.

Someone else on my ignore list, Never interacted, but I'm not sure this fellow is too pleasant.. No a typical American.

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Yeah, ... compared to the US ...

mostly empty land mass doesn't count.

It sure does when it contains one of the world's greatest concentrations of precious natural resources, and the highest quality lumber coming from boreal forests, on the entire planet. You are grossly misinformed, and too partisan to see the forest beyond the trees.

Edited Monday at 02:08 AM1 day by spidermike007

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

It sure does want to contains one of the world's greatest concentrations of precious natural resources, and the highest quality lumber coming from boreal forests, on the entire planet. You are grossly misinformed, and too partisan to see the forest beyond the trees.

Saskathewan has the biggest Potash reserves in the world (used for fertilizer), I think.

But you need military to protect your resources.

And / or diplomacy towards other bigger countries that want them and can hurt you.

6 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Saskathewan has the biggest Potash reserves in the world (used for fertilizer), I think.

But you need military to protect your resources.

And / or diplomacy towards other bigger countries that want them and can hurt you.

Why are all MAGA's such warmongers?