J.C.MacSwell

It will never be perfect, but a well thought out mix of regulated private and public enterprise will generally give substantially better results than just private or just public...though often the "well thought out" part is tainted by lobbying and less than fully honest politics.

I know you would agree this should backfire. But won't this backfire? Even if you assume the voting Republicans are into crap like that doesn't Trump hope to win the general election?

Trump? Cheapshot? Surely he was just concerned for her marriage.... Seriously though...on what planet is this good politics? Perhaps there's more to Trump than meets the eye:

Politician makes major blowhard gaff on campaign trail: "Former President Donald Trump used a rally in South Carolina on Saturday to attack rival Nikki Haley in her home state — and to mock the absence of her husband, who is deployed overseas. “Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away. … What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone,” Trump said at his rally in Conway, his first visit to the state this year. Michael Haley is deployed in Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard in support of the United States Africa Command, his second active-duty deployment overseas." ... "Notably, former first lady Melania Trump has not joined her husband for any public campaign events since his presidential announcement in November 2022 and has not appeared alongside him at any of his court appearances." https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/politics/trump-south-carolina-primary-haley/index.html Oops. Sorry. It was Trump and it wasn't even murder...nothing to see here...carry on.

No one in their eighties should be allowed to run unless they are in a coma, because they might come out of it with policies better than Trump's....

It would certainly be a detriment to processing information at the level required if you struggled to recall parts of that information.

The POTUS needs a fair bit higher bar to reach than the ability to properly function in society. Biden is still capable, and it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to be a member of congress,IMO, but I think it's a reach to assume he can be fully competent as POTUS for the next 5 years. That should be the expectation of anyone asked to vote for him in November, except for the fact that he also has the great attribute of not being Trump.

While not generally pronounced, some mental decline starts well before 35, the minimum allowable age to be POTUS. An optimum between mental sharpness and experience surely exists, with both Trump and Biden well past it.

I will say that I think 65 is too young an age to young to be incorporated into law. It is certainly dependant on the individual in regard to decline vs experience at that age. I also think with regard to INow's point Blinken has surrounded himself by very capable people for the most part. (and unlike Trump, generally for better reasons politics aside) But that's not enough to make him Presidential material at his current state of decline IMO. (though I do think he's done better than I expected so far)

It is alive and well and part of your constitution. You already have a law prohibiting anyone under 35 from running for POTUS that no one seems to complain about. But IMO the real problem is your population with voting rights and their lack of respect for democracy. In a perfect world (read as "any reasonable world") neither Trump nor Biden would get anywhere near the Presidency.

Nikki Haley's only 52...just sayin' 😁

Something something about digging up the icbm missile silo in my backyard and my cold bloody hands...

However close and wherever it comes down to, some voters that aren't already committed are going to make the difference and decide the outcome. How do Trump's current actions, which seems to control the GOP's current actions, make those open to voting either way look more favourably on Trump or the GOP than they would otherwise? How is this considered so easy to spin rather than likely to backfire?

Or just enough to claim it should be...

I can see him expecting 2/3 of the GOP to be pretty damn stupid...they're acting like it...but how will this get him elected in November

So Trump figures it's a good idea to personally and pretty much overtly put a stick in the spokes of any substantially improved potential border deals and then blame Biden for the lack of improvements? How dumb does he expect the voters to be?

So...about 10 times as long as any foot touches the ball? No wonder they're up in arms!😄

I guess "Wanktank" might sound too much like a collection device...

I would have guessed it had something to do with insufferable cold rather than heat...

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that at the coming Super Bowl only Law enforcement will be allowed in with guns. Kind of like most towns in the "Old West". "Tombstone had much more restrictive laws on carrying guns in public in the 1880s than it has today,” says Adam Winkler, a professor and specialist in American constitutional law at UCLA School of Law. “Today, you're allowed to carry a gun without a license or permit on Tombstone streets. Back in the 1880s, you weren't.” Same goes for most of the New West, to varying degrees, in the once-rowdy frontier towns of Nevada, Kansas, Montana, and South Dakota. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/ Somehow everyone buying tickets seems to agree it makes sense..,Go figure!

His point still stands though, as a substantial part of the intent of the Second Amendment, which needs to be considered by your Supreme Court. Fortunately (or not?) Canada doesn't have that in our constitution so we don't need to consider it for that purpose (though we still need to protect ourselves from potentially oppressive governments and our Guarantees of Rights and Freedoms attempts to do that differently). Personally, I prefer gun control despite the potential of an oppressive government, in part because I think any advantage of citizens having guns to overthrow an oppressive government is more than offset by the fact that a subset of said citizens with guns could take over a democratically elected government and form a more permanent and oppressive one.

This particular youtuber is primarily motivated by his support for Ukraine and this video is no different with his frustration at the stalled American support. It describes very clearly the politics and reality of the use of immigration issues and why he feels nothing will be solved on that front. Probably nothing particularly new to most here and I'm sure others might have a different take but though politically independent I think he more blames the Republicans for the current impasse:

It would be nice to think that even though it's Iowa, 49% are at least able to avoid the Trump Kool-aid enough to consider voting for others. Also Haley didn't have the political machinery in place to get the vote out despite the weather, That may have stopped her from coming second. She needs to take a big step forward in New Hampshire.

Interestingly Alberta has one of the higher Ukrainian populations of the Canadian Provinces at almost 10%.

Is it not 33 for Trump and 67 for Biden?