Macron inviting Trump to dine at Versailles, the symbol of populist rage against out-of-touch, corrupt elites. Le troll, c'est magnifique!

This cannot be real

Let's do the math, guys. Here is my answer to the post below. Imagine your country spends $2 trillion more than it earns every year, and has done so for decades. That's why it owes $39 trillion. Now someone says: "Just take all the billionaires' money and we're saved." Add up every billionaire's everything houses, companies, stock, all of it and you get $8.4 trillion. That pays off about a fifth of the debt. Once. Then it's gone forever. Four years later, you're back to broke, and you've got no billionaires left to raid. And most of that $8.4 trillion isn't cash; it's ownership of companies. Try to sell it all at once, and the price collapses, taking everyone's retirement savings down with it. ( A stock market crash and then a depression) The debt isn't a "rich people" problem. It's a "we spend more than we make, every single year" problem. Seizing a one-time pile doesn't fix a yearly hole.

To everyone who has reached out over the last few days, especially those who are angry about the direction of Ontario and Canada, I have a request. Channel it into resolve. Have some faith that this campaign can win. Give yourself a reason to hope. I want to ask my supporters to hold themselves to a high standard in public. Treat people with respect. Show no prejudice. Assume good faith where you can. But do not mistake this as a call for silence. Be loud. Make jokes. Be clever. Be optimistic. This campaign does not need to scold people into agreement. Let’s persuade, build, and to give people a reason to believe Ontario and Canada can still win. (And for critics, please have the maturity to understand that I don’t control which people say what online). - - - The standards we see in public life are not much different from the standards we collectively tolerate. If we want better politics, we have to practise it too. That includes being respectful of the @OntLiberal and the people involved in it. Throughout this process, they have been professional and courteous. Especially the grassroots, who have been so welcoming as I’ve traveled the province. We have so many good people in Ontario. From every background. From every community. I’ve never had more faith that the future here is going to be incredible. Whether you’re a long time Liberal, a new one, or a “Lombardi Liberal”, you are welcome in the big coalition I want to build to take down our ineffective and tired government. I’m not running against the Liberal party, but to lead it. Not to defend its past, but to give it a future. I never expected a red-carpet rollout, nor should I have. The truth is that I still have much to prove. I have not yet earned the trust of many Liberals, and some of my critics and skeptics have every right to be skeptical. That is healthy in a democracy. I know I need to get better as a speaker. I know people will notice my lisp. I know a platform is not everything. Politics is also about trust, judgment, discipline, and the ability to bring people with you. But I also believe ideas matter. Serious ideas deserve serious debate. Criticism made in good faith will be met with good faith. In the campaign ahead, we will put forward a vision for Ontario that offers a REAL CHOICE. People will agree with much of it. Some will disagree with parts of it. That is exactly how it should be. I have strong convictions, but I do not claim to have a monopoly on good ideas. I will keep an open mind. I am prepared to have my views challenged, clarified, and improved. That is the point of democracy. And on a personal note, I am genuinely grateful to have this opportunity to participate in it. - - - I also want to make something clear. I have been consistently underestimated throughout this entire endeavour. I hope that continues. People are looking at this race through the lens of traditional politics. I am not. So don’t expect me to become typical. I will continue to be myself on this platform. I will continue to say what I think. And yes, I will hit back on bad-faith when it makes a point. Without apology. This campaign is built on simple beliefs: ideas matter, people are hungry for solutions, and Ontario can still win. Let’s own the future. 🚀 (Whew that became long)

I don’t understand this economy. Nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents, yet nursing home aides rely on food banks. Daycare costs so much it can consume an entire paycheck, yet daycare workers often need second jobs to survive. College leaves students buried in debt, while professors struggle to afford housing. Everything we need is astronomically expensive, and yet so little of what we pay seems to go to the people actually doing the work.

Lol Anthropic made such a big deal about their model being “dangerous” because they thought the only result was gonna be hype something something preventing China from something.

brother who never texts back dropped this in the family gc after saying nothing for months

Housing advocate Eric Lombardi joins Ontario Liberal leadership race ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/…

This is the fatal flaw in the modern socialist diagnosis. They quote Marx as if he lived under the same monetary system we live under today. He did not. Marx lived under a gold-standard world, where money was anchored, prices often fell, and real wages eventually rose as productivity advanced. Today’s worker lives under fiat money, permanent deficits, central-bank intervention, credit expansion, and currency depreciation. That changes the entire diagnosis. The worker is not only competing against the capitalist. The worker is competing against a monetary system that destroys purchasing power. Wages rise slowly. Assets reprice instantly. Housing inflates. Food inflates. Insurance inflates. Taxes rise. Debt service rises. Then socialists look at the damage and blame “capitalism.” But much of what they are attacking is not productive capitalism at all. It is financialized creditism, a system in which newly created money and credit flow first into assets — real estate, stocks, land, and speculation before wages ever catch up. Workers are not poor because billionaires magically “stole” every dollar. Workers are falling behind because their wages are paid in depreciating currency, while asset owners are protected by leverage and inflation. Marx diagnosed class conflict under a hard-money industrial system. Modern socialists are trying to apply that diagnosis to a fiat-credit asset bubble. That is why they keep missing the real disease.

In Ontario, it's easy to overlook that we're living in an era of managed decline. Prices are high, but not exorbitant. Jobs are scarce, but not entirely out of reach. Incomes are stagnant, but they aren't falling. Life is difficult, but not impossible What happens when this quiet suffering compounds over decades? The gap between where we are and where we should be grows every year, until one day we look around and the world looks very different than the one we imagined for ourselves. The Ford years have been a disaster. The other Liberal contenders offer no real alternative. But with Eric's candidacy, we finally have the chance to do something about it. I support Eric for OLP leader because he is the pragmatic visionary who can help us escape managed decline and thrive.

NEW: Public schools spend $700 billion a year. Tech companies, private equity, and Wall Street all want a cut. They get it through revolving-door relationships with school administrators, and kids pay the price. We dug into it.

In Denmark, McDonalds workers make $25 an hour and, if they are over twenty, the company starts paying into a pension plan for them, and in addition they have a full 6 weeks of paid vacation. Now how much do you think this costs customers? The Economist looked into this and found out that the Big Mac costs 76 cents less than it does here. Don't believe the lies that raising the minimum wage would force prices to go up.

Highly highly recommended reading by @ronmortgageguy

IMO with regular use of the North Trans-Canada highway over many years, it is some the truck drivers who tail, speed and seem unaware of the rules of the road that cause the majority of issues for drivers.

It would appear Nvidia is literally doing an Enron. Specifically, it has reinvented the Chewco Maneuver: Create fake "third parties" to absorb unwanted liabilities, fund with your own capital to prime the pump, then get rubes (retirement funds) to eat the risk.

Michael Jackson had 3,000 dancers auditioning…and he picked HER. This Sri Lankan Odissi queen brought 2000-year-old temple fire to the “Black or White” video and absolutely cooked MJ on the highway 😤 Nobody talks about this part… but it’s lowkey one of the coldest cultural moments in music history. Look at her explaining how thrilling it felt . ❤️

If You're Me & Call Out Evil Doers & General Fuckery & You Name Names There Will Be LAWYER'S LETTERS Yep, when I call out Evil Bastards & their wrong doings about half the time you will get a threatening letter from their Lawyers My constant response is: Please Fuck Yourselves

They did, it was called America

As Muslim communities across Canada celebrate Eid al-Adha, we reflect on the values of devotion and humility that this occasion represents. Wishing all those celebrating a meaningful and peaceful Eid al-Adha with family, friends, and community. Eid Mubarak!