Trump, not surprisingly, doesn't agree https://www.thestar.com/politics/fe...cle_a1887bcc-5f1e-44b0-a331-465dc0975469.html
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PM Mark Carney's Canada
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Richard White
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I swear that man has Dementia.
urbanclient
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What American senator doesn't show at least the early signs of cognitive decline? The median age of the US Senate is 65 years old as of last year, with 6 out of 99 over 80 years old and 66 out of 99 over 61 years old. The House is not much better.
Age and generation in the 119th Congress: Somewhat younger, with fewer Boomers and more Gen Xers
The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years, while the Senate's median age is 64.7 years.
www.pewresearch.org
Richard White
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Age and generation in the 119th Congress: Somewhat younger, with fewer Boomers and more Gen Xers
The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years, while the Senate's median age is 64.7 years.
There's a big difference between a senator and president. Senators don't speak for the entire country while the President does.
PL1
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You can find a lot of people on line that deal with geriatric patients that claim Trump has frontotemporal dementia. I have no idea, and honestly unless congress is going to do something about it, it doesn't really matter
Richard White
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urbanclient
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Fair. My point is that the whole US federal government is wracked by out-of-touch, mentally impaired, geriatric puppets. The office of the President eventually being occupied by one of their ilk is not entirely unexpected.
Put in another way: Obama is the only president born after schools were nominally desegregated by their Supreme Court.
Back to the earlier topic, Trump saying stuff like 'Canada lives because of the United States' just proves Carney's point: out with the old world order and in with Realism.
The old world order was the US being idealized as a benevolent, fair, and just hegemon.
True. And you know who else had cognitive decline? Biden.
Forgot where I read this, but the (highly dubious) sentiment from some Americans is that the Democrats talk a big game to the working class and inevitably underdeliver with neoliberal policies; the Republicans are more likely to tell you they're going to screw you over. They openly say they'll cut taxes for the rich and gut welfare-type spending.
"Democrats can't be trusted. Republicans lie less". Covering up Biden's decline is a scandal. Lichtman's Keys were right. But he failed to apply them correctly.
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picard102
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If I was young I probably wouldn't chose the party that's just making up slogans, who's only plan is grievance politics without solutions.
Towered
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Yeah...we need to decouple from that basket case as much as possible.
Mihairokov
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I won't be handing out flowers here but he's not totally wrong - much of Canada's neoliberal existence, including our underspending on military, is thanks to the US being world police and the major geopolitical force for the 20th century. Outside of a few select points (Iraq, as one) we broadly side with the US on most points, or did until this year. Aren't we still supplying the IDF with arms? Our Venezuela statement was weak. Carney's done well in the last week and I expect to see more action from him to divest us away from the US but we obviously need to tread carefully.
Everything else he said was wrong, obviously. Broken clock and such things.
Richard White
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This I can agree with.
Canada needs to stop relying on the US for everything. Before them, it was the British Empire that they thought would come to their rescue.
We need to stop coddling people, build up our armed forces and make our trade deals without US support. If the US does not like it, too bad. I get they are our largest trading partner but if we keep being beholden to them, we risk being left with nothing when they back out.