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@bondjames already broached the matter in his usual sensible, even blunt manner.
@CR Your comments a while back regarding Texas gun laws were illuminating. I believe you said you had three guns yourself.
This is what makes America great. The Texas gun laws clearly make sense for Texas.
But they would make no sense up here, as there is really no tradition or precedent or demand for such laws in Ontario. I am ok with our gun control. I allow it might be rather restrictive on hobbyists and such, but the rules are relaxed for long-gun owners in rural areas.
I live in a major urban centre. Our criminals and gangs are armed to the teeth with illegal weaponry. We have shootings every weekend and scattered during the weekdays too. The shootings can happen anywhere. The bad guys move around, but there is no call here for the citizenry to be armed with legal weapons. It's just how we roll. We don't need them or even want them. At least there is no groundswell or demand.
But Texas is a different place, with a whole different history and cultural reality.
That's what makes America great. It is a union of 50 unique states. It is not a one-size fits all.
Gun laws, health care regulation, education policy, family law etc can vary from state to state.
I do trust that Trump and his team will be more inclined to a decentralized approach to government.
Meantime, the federal government does have a huge responsibility on matters of national sovereignty.
Trump will at least make effort to deal with illegal immigration. The rule of law needs to be upheld.
And to those who think they can flee to Canada ( although I do realize most of it is just noise) please be advised, we are a sovereign nation!
You can't just come here. We do not have open borders.
I need a passport to cross into the States and my documents to get back in
There is process! You must qualify! We do enforce border control! We have immigration policy. We do deport illegals and those who have outstayed their visas.
Whoopi you are on notice. You too Cranston.
Harrumph!
Cher- Jupiter awaits. Pack your bags!
This is a major point that people no longer will accept.
It's happening in Europe too. Even in Switzerland and most simply don't understand why they have to work their fingers to the bone while immigrants get laid out the red carpet by the left social welfare industry.
The system is forgetting its own people.
In October 2015 the Swiss have given 30% of their vote to our right wing conservative party! An unprecedented election result. For comparison the second highest percentage was 19 for the left social party and 17 for the economy liberals.
Thanks man.
Yeah it's just amazing how I literally did not trash anyone on here for supporting Hillary but I voice my opinions and I get personally attacked. If you live in Canada obviously things in Texas are incredibly different.. I have older family members who live in New York and they were so confused to why we had guns in Texas. It's just how I was raised. Not everyone is a redneck or hillbilly. I live in a really nice town, my families house was on a few acres.
Driving to work every morning I see about 20-50 deer just wandering around so naturally we have issues with coyotes and other wild animals.
I have not touched a gun since 2012 and I do not go to a gun range to randomly shoot. In Texas the big thing to do is to go deer and dove hunting which is something people in other states would normally not do on a seasonal basis. I also know for a fact that not many people on here live close to Mexico. My dad is a roofer and works a lot near the border and it is literally another world. They have tanks that drive around with swat teams every single day and you hear gunfire a lot. The cartel is notorious for using chainsaws to behead people near the border and are extremely dangerous.
Even though my town is nice and far from being a bad part of town, we do have issues with drugs and cartel members every now and then.
We just had a guy kill four people a block from my house, ,car jack a man and then set an apartment complex on fire near a high school. It was a Mexican with cartel ties. Our town is normally pretty quiet but I don't know anyone else on this forum who has things like that happen to them.
Isis celebrates Trump's victory. http://www.vocativ.com/374892/isis-is-happy-trump-won-the-world-is-on-the-verge-of-exploding/
Told you once & I'll tell you again: you lay down with pigs & you'll eventually get up awfully dirty. Personally, I'm with the Beatles:
Revolution and Revolution #9. I always wondered what happened to #s 2-8?
They like to tell you the election is won, in the bag etc. Translation: they are scared.
It happens up here too. Our populist Mayor elected in 2010 made Pluto apoplectic. The vitriol and hysteria campaign almost rivaled what we saw this year in the USA
We were told he can't win,noise, noise, noise, much mouth-foaming.
Then the people went to the polls, and he won easily, by 10 points over the Pluto candidate.
When Pluto starts telling us it's in the bag, that's a good thing.
From the very beginning the media from left to right made fun of Trump, didn't take him seriously, ridiculed him, insulted him etc.
They claimed only uneducated racists and sexists would vote Trump.
This had to backfire. This is simply a job not well done by the media. It's almost funny to read the many columnists and journalists take on Trump's victory today.
Some, only a few, actually have understood the signal and message. They are questioning their own role in all of this and what they should have done better.
Sadly a lot of the journalists still think this is all a mistake of the Republicans, Trump himself or the stupid imbeciles that voted for Trump.
I know many people who actually were so fed up with the constant lecturing from the media that they hoped Trump would win. I had some very interesting conversations today where I work, quite surprising.
Of course there shouldn't be a blame game. But everyone involved should question their own role in all of this and try to make it better next time.
Trump does remind me a lot of Rob Ford. Same kind of populist message, and incredible support from the people as a result. He should study the Ford experience to ensure that he doesn't fall into the same traps that befell the late Mayor of Toronto. The opposition will be trying to get him at every chance they can and he can expect a tough run with the liberal media.
All those who support him, I just want to say one last thing then I'm never commenting in this thread again: If or when he f*cks up, and the world has suddenly become a significantly worse place, I don't want to hear you say anything. You will have put that into motion, it will be your fault that it happened. You stood with him now, and you had damned well be standing with him when he rains hellfire down on all of you.
Yeah I looked outside and have not seen any horseman apoclyptical or otherwise
What befell the late Mayor of the T-dot is he had a booze and crack problem.
Mind you, so did his opponent in the election, but he had been on the wagon for a while. The worst of it was behind him.
I think Ford was OK. He worked his ass off and wasn't intimdated at all by opposition media and political vultures.
Problem with poor Robbie, is that he didn't clean up, post-election, so naturally he made headlines and then the crab got him, so he couldn't run for re-election after he'd cleaned up.
Trump won't have that problem. He doesn't drink at all. He's not a recovering lush.
He just doesn't drink or do drugs.
What Trump has to do is get to work, put a good team in place. He's got a mandate.
And I would also recommend give Melania lots of visibility.
@peter re ROFO. I loved the guy! Gregarious friendly people person. I loved his Respect for Taxpayers & Stop the Gravy Train mantras. He walked the talk. Got some good work done while in office IMO. Ditched some punitive taxes, got a lot of stuff privatized, most notably garbage collection (sure don't miss those garbage strikes, that you used to be able to mark on your calendar), reduced government bloat and counselor entitlements. Real big on customer service too.
I expect this to be the political equivalent of Die Another Day, the colourful, mockable failure that allowed for a complete U-turn afterwards. Will Trump be like Nero, after whose death Romans realised they would never allow anything like this to happen again? I hope not, for that would mean that America will burn first, with the fires unjustly linked to a certain targeted minority...
Trump getting a second term is not impossible. So better brace yourselves for 8 very long years of Republican dominance in politics.
I heard Trump may appoint The Newt and Giuliani to his cabinet. Well, if that's the case he should take Sarah Palin as well, she would fit that group quite well.
Where did that come from?? Yikes!
Historical fact, maybe?
Have you read the history books? How can you make parallels?
Will Trump alter the constitution and rule forever.
Will he build concentration camps for Jews?
Will he form a civil police that will hunt for opposition??
It's actually quite insensitive towards survivors of those times, yes there are still people alive from that time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-simpsons-donald-trump_us_5822fd7fe4b0aac6248865d0
Still, he is elected. Accept it.
When Switzerland turned far right in October 2015 we didn't complain. And believe me we have a Trump too, a life long business tycoon who is a populist in the worst sense.
And yes he was elected into highest office, but removed again after four years, which also only happened the second time in Swiss history. Usually our head of states can stay in power as long as they want and then retire. That's tradition here and it has worked so far.
The Founding Fathers, in their immortal wisdom, didn't really trust a straightforward democracy. They reasoned it'd be too easy for a charismatic to seize the reins of power by appealing to the emotions of the crowd. That's why they instituted the Electoral College, theorizing that a better-educated elite would be more trustworthy than the unalloyed will of the people. Nice going, F.F.!
Here's Jefferson -- not Thomas, but his Airplane -- at Woodstock, for "three days of fun & music" (& political propaganda):