All_Pro_Bills

Most Americans when asked to commit to a sacrifice amounting to the slightest of an inconvenience would say "no thanks". And as of yet, there is no recession despite what many alarmists are claiming. A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP. The PCE number out today shows inflation coming down so stagflation is also off the table for now.

I'm sure we'll manage to survive.

Big source of tax revenue for the government from oil sands and the target of "carbon capping" environmentalists and liberals in Ottawa. We'll trade New Hampshire and Vermont for Alberta and a 2026 2nd round pick.

A lot of this is American companies that moved production out of the US and established manufacturing and assembly operations in Mexico and Canada, and outsourced production to other nations such as China. I can't believe the cost of labor and manufacturing is significantly cheaper in Canada. Yet Trump makes an exception for imported auto parts for Ford and GM. When he should be applying pressure on them and other fortune 500 companies and not national governments. My employer has moved thousands of IT jobs to India while also importing thousands more foriegn workers under the claim they cannot find domestic workers with the necessary skills. That's bull. Also moving business operations to Ireland for low corporate tax treatment. Moving call centers to Asia and the Carribean. The culprit isn't Canada or Mexico. It's American corporate executives, hedge fund shareholders, and big wall street money.

Don't fool yourself on carbon tax and credits. It won't be just industrial polluters. It will be everybody else from farmers, home owners running a furnace and AC unit, people charging their EVs from the public grid, and anybody gassing up their vehicle and blowing out CO emissions. To the delusional nutjobs on the fringe of environmentalism, respiration (breathing in and out) is pollution. Every single person will be issued a carbon footprint value and be "taxed" on the amount of CO2 and other "pollutants" they emit. When you buy a product like a new dishwasher you'll be issued a surcharge for the amount of carbon emitted to build the unit. That's the plan.

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Except for the far-left populated with conspiracy theories of some impending dictatorship (which I do not see any chance of happening) here in The States, I don't hear any serious conversation on the idea of the US taking military action against Canada or Greenland. In my view the culprit is a lot of inappropriate rhetoric out of the administration. I also don't believe there's any plan or understanding between the US, Russia, and China to look the other way while they each take aggressive actions to take over territory. I do see China's motivation to take over Taiwan and Russia's desire for some provinces of Ukraine but in each case its not the need for more land or territory. The idea Russia has designs on taking over the European continent is comical. They simply do not have the economic or military resources to pull that off. Russia's aim in Ukraine is a buffer zone between them and NATO. Taking over Taiwan has been a historical goal of the communists in China since the revolution and I see Trump's objective as a 21st century version of the Monroe Doctrine but the execution of that plan has been a disaster using confrontation where cooperation would be more effective. One fault in his strategy is he seems to view everything as transaction rather than taking a systemic view of things. I see the main objective being to eliminate China's influence and footprint in the Western Hemisphere. Canada is seen as a country where the CCP wields a very high level of influence over the government and the country. How true this is or to what extent is debatable. I do see some issues with trade, tariffs, regulations designed to eliminate competition, and support protectionism. My view of free trade is a mutually agreed to exchange between 2 parties without any interference from the government(s). Any real free trade agreement should be about 2 or 3 pages long. But such a view is unrealistic given the circumstances where governments are involved. I think both sides need to concede and compromise but the environment for that may not exist at the moment. As for America itself, I see the political divide as a battle between two Americas. But not the left vs. right struggle everybody tends to focus on here and in the media. Its between America the country and America the empire. They are not constituted in of the same physical territories or interests and the empire is not just geographically America. It is worldwide with many interests in many places. Most so-called MAGA people are more concerned with the interests of America the country and don't want to play world cop and get involved in constant wars while liberals are more concerned with the interests of the Empire. I don't believe the majority of either group realizes the distinction. The left sees MAGA as illiterate hillbillies and rubes easily duped into believing outrageous things influenced by mis and dis information. While the right sees Liberals as snooty over-educated idealists that look down on anyone that doesn't hold the same enlightened world view as they do.

All this judicial malpractice is the result of the Democrats being furious and angry that they are no longer in command. And having more or less no other outlet to obstruct the administrations actions to dismantle their system of control, short of employing street violence. The aim is to goad Trump into doing something "authoritarian" to prove their constant assertions that his objective is some dictatorial regime. Its not like its some big top secret. Its obvious. So far he refuses to take the bait. At some point the SCOTUS is going to have to crap or get off the pot and rule on this judicial activism.

As a native of Western New York I've visited Canada many times and always found the people up north to be hospitable. Whether it was on numerous trips to the Canadian side of the Falls, up to Toronto, or a couple trips to Montreal. But as an outsider viewing the coming national elections I see Canadians making the same mistake twice in the likely result of electing Mark Carney as PM. A lot of it the result of justified anti-Trump backlash which has presented a skilled and polished politician in Mark Carney an exploitable opportunity for the Liberal party to maintain power. This guys government is going to be a disaster for Canadians. Carney is a former central bank governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. At the Bank of Canada he led the effort to sell all of Canada's gold reserves. His primary allegiance will not be to Canada, or the interests of its citizens. He's a hard core globalist and Canadians that would like to transfer more of their nation's independence and sovereignty to international and multinational organizations will be very pleased with his administration. Others, wanting their government to look out for the interests of Canada and Canadians will be very dissatisfied. By the end of his term Canada will more resemble an over-regulated EU state.

To me "no one is above the law" means regardless of your views if you have to say it you know it's not true.

The judge aided a criminal suspect to evade capture by law enforcement. That's a crime and being a judge does not provide an exemption to disregard the law. The constitutional issue is judges disregarding the law. Not the administration randomly going after judges "they don't like" as some democrats are saying. As usual they miss the initial act and focus on the response.

What I'm tired of hearing from the same people that cheered on the Biden adminitration ignoring and violating immigration and Customs requirements for entry into the country and what amounts to permanent residence along with their preposterous claims they couldn't stop millions from crossing the border is the insistence that after due process and law we're waived to allow 20 million to cross is their sudden insistence that law and due process must just as suddenly be strictly followed. The objective is to flood the courts with millions of cases to adjudicate so the courts cannot operate to allow everyone to stay.

I think those names are a reminder that to this point, Beane/McDermott have done one thing, and one thing only, that previous regimes didn't. That's to find a franchise QB. A league MVP player. But we're already 1/2 way through his career with no championships to show for it yet. 8 years later with the same issues and problems since day one. Can't stop the run against physical offenses and can't hold a lead in criticsl spots. Let's hope this season is different with the group of free agent signings and draft picks.

TJ Sanders is a solid player but he sounds like another Ed Oliver type of DT. Maybe they should have gone with Alfred Collins picked 2 spots later by the 49ers? Or maybe stayed at 56 and 62 and gotten the same result as the trade up to 9? I think Beane panicked after the 1st round run on DTs. And missed an opportunity to be patient and let the board come to him instead of chasing a specific position. At 30 Chicago took Turner, a similar DT. If he wanted to get back into the 3rd round they could have dangled 3 or 4 of those 4, 5, 6 round picks we kept hearing they didn't need in front of other teams. I hate to say it but I don't think the Bills are every going to close the gap with the Chiefs by doing the exact same thing at the draft. It's like baby steps vs something more extreme. They have a couple holes, more or less the same problems every year, and never make that radical big change in strategy to fix it. This is bold and aided by hindsight but the way the board fell staying at 24 and 30. Amos at 24 and a DT at 30 and bundled some later picks to get into the 3rd for Edge help. And transformed the secondary to a big strength. Amos and Bedford at the corners, Hairston at nickle, move Taran Johnson to safety paired with either Rapp or Bishop. I think that would be a top 5 group on the back end. Now today everyone is screaming for the predictable WR pick. Who on the roster is a 4th or 5th rounder going to replace? I think it would be better to pick 5 330 lb DTs and hope one of them works out.

SSA sends private and confidential communications such as notification of changes in their benefit amount to the Social Security recipients e-mail address and/or US mail address of record. No elderly person is going to have to sign into or access X. When I see stories from some outlet that says we "learned" something and it sounds stupid I usually wait 3 or 4 days until its typically exposed as horse crap.

I'm not objecting to due process. But what legal actions and procedures constitute sufficient due process? It requires some examination of specific "use cases" or specific situations or circumstances. So for starters, can we agree that individuals that entered the United States without following the law pertaining to required Customs and border procedures (so called get-aways), or provided false information about their identity or their reasons for entering the country, or failed to show up at scheduled and required hearings or check-ins with immigration, or committed a crime while in the United Statue, or lied about past criminal violations in other countries or are attempting to avoid criminal prosecution in those countries for violations such as murder have violated the law and once it has been established those violations have been committed a valid deportation order can be produced and due process is satisfied?