Ah! I didn't know he had accused his wife and daughter with the Canadian Prime Minister... Posted on Twitter no doubt.

I guess Duck really has had its D replaced with a C in the White House these days.

What's Moscow Mitch going to do? He's just a turtle.

And to think, we could have solved this problem if ONLY the US didn't kick this guy out of New York:

I come from Germany, we elected Hitler. To be honest, Trump is the symptom, not the problem. The problem with the US isn't going away any time soon. EVERYTHING is politicized in that country.

I feel like if I went to the US and opened a door for a woman, that some right-wing guy would yell at me for bowing down to the matriarchy, while a second left-wing guy would yell at me because it's sexist to women to open doors for them... to the washroom.

So what you are saying is that the individual comes first....except when it doesn't. The problem I have with your argument is that it is entirely arbitrary and subjective. Like, you agree that individual freedom needs to be limited in some circumstances, but the only thing that makes those circumstances fundamentally different than the others is that you kinda feel like drawing a line there and not somewhere else. As soon as you insist that you are willing to throw out massive benefit in the face of a minor cost, you have invalidated all objectivity in your standards unless you advocate for uncontrolled freedom which you have made clear you don't wish to do.

This has ceased to be an argument. It is just you talking about how you feel...

Rather than making a joke, I'll say these are the problems:

1. Political messiahs - they're cancer. It doesn't matter if they're left or right, all cancer is bad. People getting behind Bernie Sanders because of a few slogans and because "he's been doing this for like 100 years, he deserves it" is not really a good way to choose a head of state: no more than men receiving swords from strange women in a lake. That's when Democracy is broken, IMO, when people are voting for personalities rather than issues. People saying "Bernie is the only who can make positive change, everyone else is bought/corrupt" shows a tremendous amount of cult-of-personality. So even though I think Bernie is one of the top ones to vote for, some of his fans support him for completely the wrong reason; Tulsi Gabbar had some similar followers, I think those are the same people, they just switched cults - they must follow some weird news site or podcast. That has to stop.

2. Politicizing EVERYTHING has become a major issue that has caused governance to lose focus. It's become so pathetic that people are even politicizing commercial products? Remember all those losers who made "Gamergate" a scandal, where some chick broke up with her boyfriend and they accused her of sleeping with reviewers to get high review scores for her free indie game and made it into some giant movement, comparing the magnitude to watergate. That sort of shit needs to be shamed for how pathetic it is.

3. US government has too much power. Executive orders? Why are these allowed? Also, government-mandated global minimum wage makes no sense. Governments should ONLY be there to take part in the negotiations with Unions to establish financial compensation regulation.

4. Corporate ownership and money in politics is a major issue; it should be a finable offence for corporations to partake in political speech or to have any role in financing it; basically, it is a problem that people who decide to be mouthpieces for corporations have access to such large amounts of free money... SURE corporations will give money to progressive candidates, but for the most part, it is the other way around (and this is a separate issue from my disagreement with Warren and Sanders banning corporate money from their own campaigns. I understand the symbolic nature of it, but it's strategically retarded and counterproductive since money DOES influence elections, and progressives refusing money means a weaker voice). But that's just the first step, there's a lot further I would personally take it. Personally, I am anti-corporation in general. I'm a libertarian on the far left (albeit, one who thinks US people who identify as libertarians yet advocate for pro-corporate, laissez-faire and anti-environmental policy are counterproductive fools) I think corporations should be illegal since they're really a conspiracy against the people by the wealthy investors (Adam Smith pointed that out). Governments are meant to protect people against the upper class, not protect the upper class against the people. Corporations should be banned from political speech.

Anyway, I'm ranting. 

Last thing to fix the US political system: put in UBI and legalize cannabis. Don't VAT/GST tax it like Andrew Yang suggests, IMO that's a stupid taxation system that takes too much money away from the general consumer. Tax automation, but at the same time encourage its implementation. That will seriously mellow out the whole situation.

The U.S. and other strong nations try to keep any weapons that could be a significant threat out of the hands of enemies who may very well want to use them against her or her allies. These same countries however seem to think they themselves are so righteous, that they don't need to adhere to those same rules. Considering how they get away with it, since much of the world seems to agree because it allows themselves or the 'World Police' to keep them safe, it's hard to fault them for thinking that way. Along with how America has conducted herself with such power. If she wanted to, lady liberty could have remained in a constant state of civil war, or even put the British Empire to shame by now in terms of forcefully acquired landmass if she really wanted. That is not the case however.

Back then they didn't have things like welfare. Back then if you couldn't cut it for whatever reason, you were basically on your own, and it was actually tough to survive. So ya, a gun back then was necessary to take down who you had to, just to get by, if you couldn't by non aggressive means. Not to mention the scumbags who wouldn't bother being useful even if they could, because shooting first was much easier. The problem today is those weapons already exist and are everywhere, so getting a worthy amount back in a country like America is a waste of time without a proper safety plan to go along with it. As long as bad people can get a hold of guns and have an even easier time deciding to use them since they know no one else is armed, aside from the police, nobody is giving up their gun as a self defense device.

Well part of the argument was constantly feeling unsafe, so if everyone having a gun makes everyone feel safe as you suggest, problem solved right? Is there more to take into account? Not quite that simple?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of those people did indeed go to Gabbard, which is why as much as I actually dislike her I favor her staying in the race. She keeps the crazies away from Bernie, so I'm not looking forward to her dropping out and her fans potentially coming back and undermining our cause with their fanatacism. Bernie's my first choice, but his record is only one reason for that. If I might defend him a bit, he, unlike most other "political messiahs" doesn't cultivate that cult of personality. In fact, he often diminishes his own importance, such as his slogan "Not Me, Us" which I appreciate because I think that is precisely why Obama didn't get as far as he wanted. I really do believe that Obama believed in hope and change, but ultimately failed to bring about that hope and change because he stopped being a community organizer and tried to bring the parties together by sheer force of will, which wasn't going to happen with McConnell at the helm. I think once he saw how that worked out, he became jaded and began to think that neoliberal technocracy was the only thing that moved the needle at all in politics, so he just stuck to that. Inevitably, in our representative democracy, the individual in the office is the one ultimately pulling the levers of power, but in order to wrest those levers from the opposition and actually pull them, it takes good political organizing. Obama had that skill and used it to get into office, but then stopped using that skill. So many politicians do this, but Bernie's strategy seems to depend on continuing to organize his political movement and keep people involved in the political process after he wins. It's that "Not Me, Us" attitude that makes me think he's not just another political messiah cancer. Honestly, the way so many people talked about Hillary, and now Biden, as the only ones that are "electable" and thus the only option actually seems like the more prominent example of political messiahs. Hence their slogans "I'm With Her" and "Ridin' With Biden" (though the latter is more his following than an official slogan).

Non-proliferation isn't simply something that the US imposes on its enemies, it also attempts to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of its allies. The issue is that nukes are too dangerous even in the hands of our allies and there is too high of a probability of something going wrong either with an accident or with the escalation of conflicts.

So, apparently, as per CNN I could only guess... The Canadian PM is getting some action from Trumps wife and daughter, apparently, and this is a good thing, because Trump and his 'toxic masculinity' are so highly regarded and welcome by, everyone? Hmm...

Trudeau and his paying millions to terrorists who kill Americans and his 'legit' dealings with large corps like SNC Lavalin? Don't forget we Canadians are so great our budgets balance themselves and we actually speak with dignity for all peoplekind...