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A former poster by the name of Wings perhaps? Yeah...he was out of control LOL Hey...what do you know???!!! Olympic Airways that airliner in the thumbnail is. True. But it has been quite civil. The problem posters that would have helped to derail and devolve are all gone. Well...despite all that is going on right now in your country, at least the New York Yankees couldnt resign Juan Soto!!! THAT is a good thing, non? Phoque the Yankees!!! But he still stays in New York and signs an incredible 15 year 765 million dollar contract with the Mets. Hey...at least sports in the USA are not bankrupt. Well...at least not financially. (bankrupt that is)

Yes! We are quite fun and friendly and welcoming to strangers (Non-Greek people)...

I wrote this post on November 7 because I saw MY investments rise in accordance to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk's wealth also rise... I am not complaing. But I will repeat. I wonder if the poor people realize what it means to vote for rich greedy people to lead them when these types of rich people NEED to keep them poor...

I wanted to respond to this. But then said no more politicall talk for good. The investments part that is but then I also negelected to say good for you for your investments and thoughts about EARLY retirement. To coincide what I wrote to @G. David Felt, I too have had investments made recently and those have SKYROCKETED. I sold my restaurant and got a very big amount for it. I also inherited most of the money back when I bought out my ex-partner when he passed away. So with both amounts of monies, I invested more or less 2 years, that money stayed stagnant but when Donald J. Trump won the elections, that money INSTANTLY grew. Like about 40%. THAT is HUGE making ME a VERY VERY big amount of money. Of course that is all relative as I havent touched it and it could very well go down. But this is how the game is rigged for the very rich. Nothing economically transpired before Trump won. And the same ole same ole situation was there when he won. Now why would my monies grow IMMEDIATELY 24-48 hours after he won all the way to now to grow to an astonishing 40%? VW is losing money and is quite dangerously close to folding. Nissan is said to fold in as soon as the next 12 months. Investors are giddy that Trump won? You mean, slick snake oil salesmen are giddy that one of their own is in charge of the chicken coup... My wife and I joke often the last month that we should become Trumpsters now. I wonder though, if poor people that voted for Trump, if their fortunes have change for the better as drastic as mine has?

It will be very bad for the next 4 years that will lead to be very very VERY bad for the 4 years after that. Unless you are a very very rich person. Trump and Republicans in general, work for the rich folk. Tax cuts for the rich and incredible amounts of wiggle room for corporatons to cheat lie and steal were his masterpiece achievements during his 1st presidency. Masterpieces because NOBODY really noticed what he was doing. Inflation hits because of Covid and because his policies were for the rich and were masterfully blamed on Biden... His 2nd presidency will be more of the same... Trump is not so much as incompetent as he is a con man working for himself and the very few allies he chooses. He most DEFINETELY knows how to run a business. Its just NOT in the accepted conventional way of producing profit for everyone involved sharing the wealth that a profitable business usually does. Its the fact that he runs his businesses like mafia bosses do. 1. A long term business for crooks like Trump and mafia style organized crime syndicates do is that they keep 1 or 2 or 3 businesses running smoothly as fronts so they could clean dirty money. Dirty money acquired from all kinds of illegal activity. 2. The other businesses that they keep are disposable. They run them to the ground ON PURPOSE frauding people and insurances and whatnot. They will open and close businesses at will. This is to what you refer to as a failed business man. The thing is, he and he ALONE pocketed plenty of money while closing his businesses up. Some of his businesses went bankrupt and so he didnt pay ANY creditors, but the money he received from money lendors of all kinds went somewhere. And that would be into his pockets. He ONLY pays to entities that he can't willfully AVOID paying. A fast example. With the help of crooked evaluaters, he inflated the value of some of his utmost valuable properties and businesses that he NEEDS to keep to continue the fraud cycles, he got glorious amounts of monies to start other businesses. Got investors to invest. Again, great amounts of monies. And then, the project that he deemed not necessary, well, he bankrupted that project. Never paid construction companies, investors lost their investments etc... But ALL that money that that so called failed project and HE and the Trump organization ALL got that money. Only to start up another project with the same fraudulent practices to defraud investors and construction companies and the like. He treated his presidency the first time around like this too. Led MOST governmental spendings unto HIS personal businesses. Found himself immune to any accusations since he has presidential immunity and so forth. All kinds of accusations of this. Of course he denied. Fake news and witch hunts he called those. But dont make the mistake in thinking he does NOT know how to run a business. He ABSOLUTELY knows how to get financing to defraud OTHER business men BECAUSE he knows the INS AND OUTS of running a business. He chooses to do it the illegal way its because its probably more profitable and easier and faster money to do it this way...

Fair enough. But its because its the way you want to discuss things. Dont use semantics and gotcha moments... You know well enough that "fighting for your rights" does NOT mean what you tried imply for me... Yes. And women fought hard for that. And women STILL, in some circumstances, dont get EQUAL pay... But...are you gonna deny that Harris might have lost a part of the vote because MAGA is in vogue and some of these phoquers that voted for Trump dont want women to lead them? Women have to fight for those rights again it seems. And the irony is that some women, MAGA women, dont seem to mind it one bit that MAGA men want them to be barefoot and pregnant again. And they want that too. They dont seem to want an education or career. Which is fine. Its ALL fine and dandy, but Ill tell you one thing, my daughter does not want to be a baby machine. She wants to have a career. She is getting an education. She does not want to depend on her husband for her end of days because if the husband dies an early death, she wont have any means of monies coming in. And THAT mentality was established IN the 1950s as husbands then used to beat their wives and womnen couldnt leave their marriage. And hence WOMEN's rights and FEMINISM on the rise in the 1960s. Oh...BTW..she wants to have children, but she wants to have childen on HER (and her husbands) terms... And if she might have been gay, she is not, she would want to adopt or have a semen insemination if her partner would want that. Yeah...we discuss such topics. Its not aboo. Its an educated thing...that liberals seem to have... But that is where the rights of an individual to have those options have been taken away by UNEDUCATED MAGA people. Somebody has to fight for those rights again... Trudeau fights for those rights but Canadian extreme rightist folk hate him for it... Its not a time thing. Its an EDUCATION thing. Or a lack thereof. Or it could even be a dictatorship thing... Definetely both in reality. Trump did say that he LOVES the uneducated... Trump DID convince an insurrection on a perfect DEMOCRATIC election. Trump DID say he wants to be a dictator. Even if its just for one day, he said... 1 day becomes 2. 2 days becomes 3... Hopefully that is not his intentions though... Its not a time thing. Its a Republican not funding education for the last 50 years thing. And THAT is NOT a conspiracy thing either. It really IS a Republican thing to want to cut school funding in the most poorest of places in the US... And then we take away their jobs and convince them that unions are shyte and then we get a leader to yell, lets make America great again when in reality, uneducated people voted in politicians that were against their own good and the cycle continues. How in hell do MAGA women agree that they get to be baby machines. Agree to get no education, because they agree to be family oriented at an EARLY age, and they have to rely on cheatin', drunkin' abusive god for nothin' men? And Ill stereotype because ANYBODY that got bamboozled that the elections were stolen, with NO proof, and to go try to overtake a democratic institution by FORCE..well, you GOT to be a drunkin' no good for nothin' man to do such a thing... many like that pghoquing idiot. And he is no old timer either... A Gen X LOSER!!! No education. But you had nefarious individuals egging him on besides Trump... And there is NO excuse for Gen Xers, millennials and Zers to be losers like that. But that is what happens when a population has NO education...

Nah. NOWAY! THAT is just an excuse for people to behave badly... It has NOTHING to do with taboo or anything. Who the phoque actually does what the bloody bible says anyway? NOBODY has EVER done what the good Lord has told us to do. Which is to be good little children. Like EVER in the HISTORY of the Judeo-Christian religion. Which mostly is the Jewish Faith anyway... All that we have in the Western world is just fragmented branched off parts of the ORIGINAL Jewish Faith. It is branched off and fragmented BECAUSE NOBODY has EVER followed what Jehova has been saying to us. INCLUDING the JEWS themselves... Oh...the Muslim religion is ALSO a fragmented branch of the original Jewish Faith. And those followers too, dont really follow what their good book the Koran, tells them to do. Oh...you do get some goodie two shoes in ALL religions that follow their good books to a tee, but some of those the nefarious religious leaders use those goodie two-shoes to manipulate and bad things happen... So here we are, talkin' about how same sex marriage got normalized recently and it was taboo before so it will take 2-3 generations to get acceptance... You actually believe that? PLEASE... Them bible thumpers have probably experimented with ALL KINDS of sexual acts that would make a Hindu person with knowledge of the Kama Sutra blush. All kinds of sexual innuendo keeps on creepin' up from the bible belt. From pedophile priests to ironically, homosexual senators that cheat on their wives getting caught in a hotel room with either a gay lover or gay prostitute. All kinds of sins goin' on down that bible belt area... Nah! Its deeper than that. An anecdote... In MY experiences with bible thumpers of the Greek Orthodox kind. These are one of the most gossipy people on the planet. And they will use that gossip to try and DESTROY their neighbours. (Other Greek families) Some of these husbands cheat on their wives. They will STEAL from their business partners. The wives, are not innocent. They will cheat on their husbands. Some of these Greek people I have met when I was young or now, are some of the most hatefull people I know. But they will ALWAYS shine God to you. Sound familiar? Yeah... Its not because its taboo from religion. Its that Bible thumpers of ANY kind are full of self hate and vitriol. And if they have nothing better else to do, that self hate just continues on inside them. Generation after generation until one generation cuts that cycle and gets a damn education...

You stand up and intervene, when you are INFRINGING on SOMEBODY ELSE'S rights? THAT quote that @G. David Felt said is what you missing and trying to pin on me by me saying you gotta fight for your rights because somem perverse person will take it away from you. ABORTION and the right to have one. Women fought HARD to get that right. They fought and WON i only to have a few morons take THAT right AWAY from them... Problem is, the same with Gay marriages, and I know you know (a you, 'you'), is that your (a general 'your') rights end where mine (a general 'me') end... So when your religion (a general you) tells YOU not to get married to same sex because its a sin, well, YOU dont get married to a same sex person... But I, do NOT follow YOUR religion so PHOQUE OFF!!! And I will FIGHT for MY right to MARRY andbody I want to. Same sex or opposite sex. The person who is sooooo religious does NOT get to be religious for his neighbour. And so the quote from you ( a you 'you') Is just a perverse way you (a you 'you) of trying to undermine my argument... In other words, a group of people shouldnt be trying to TAKE AWAY rights from ANYBODY. THAT does NOT equate to: My right NOT to like same sex marriages because MY God says so, so Ill FIGHT to take away YOUR right to same sex marriage. The right for individuals to marry which include the LGBTQ community, does NOT infringe upon ANYBODY else's rights. So those folk who OPPOSE same sex marriages, well, NOTHING has been taken away from them. Therefore they do NOT get the right to fight to take away somebody else's rights and freedoms. And if you (a you 'you') misunderstood my point about fighting for rights, well, hopefully it is now more clear. But I hope you dont think that I am such a doofus to confuse such sensitive definitions of rights and freedoms for individuals...

THAT would be sooooo wrong, dude. You would be correct that its not a bald eagly cry. But that screech is not by a falcon either. Its from a red tail hawk. Learn your birds, loser!!!

I do NOT know... I do NOT understand on how we are STILL having these discussions. Its tiring is what it is. But again, if we dont fight for our rights, for whatever those rights are, those rights COULD be taken away from us. Good luck in Polievre taking away Gay marriage in Canada. It aint happening. Polievre is quietly against abortion too. But good luck in taking that away in Canada as well. But...in the USofA though. Abortion WAS taken away from women... The most so called free-est country in the world where freedoms are flying high with the eagles... But that would really be a falcon cry I believe. So fake freedoms. And therefore abortions were taken away soooo easily. This is why I said to you, you gotta worry about your freedoms. You are too lax and they get taken away without you even noticing it.

Sadly no. Our extreme right wing agendas are slightly different than yours. Ours are coming from young folk more than the old. And coming from a different place. I dont mean location. I mean a different emotional reason and Id say this is coming from Gen X and younger. I had a discussion in the summer with a 21 year old. Half Italian/half Greek kid. Good kid. But he told me his mom and dad and himself will not be voting for Trudeau, butn for Polievre because they are all fed up with the LGBTQ rights and all because its in "our faces all the time". They dont agree with gay marriage...blah blah blah... Theyn blame all the his/her/them/they on the left and on Trudeau...yada yada yada. He even went as far as denouncing abortion... Sound familiar? And this is in Quebec dont forget. Probably the most liberal places in ALL of North America... I had to bite my lip but I felt like telling him...so...dont marry another man if Catholic church doesnt allow you to marry another man and certainly dont get an abortion then if Catholic church does NOT allow you to get one... He is straight by the way. Same ole talking points that we've had this past decade it seems. Its like as if we entered 1424 or 1524 all of a sudden and not 2024 heading into 2025... Like I wrote to @Drew Dowdell's post. Trump released extreme right ideologies and hatred. He made THAT in vogue. And it will NOT go away anytime soon I dont think... No more political talk from me. I promised it a couple ofm days ago and I just now broke that promise. No more. Because this should be a site for fun. And we will definetely need fun because in the real world, it wont be so much fun. Trump likes to rule with miserably words...

I said this on the Nov. 27, 2024. Today, its the Dec. 4, 2024. It didnt take long to start dividing... And he aint even President yet. All the Trudeau haters out there blame Trudeau and side with Trump. I bet that all the Trumpsters out there believe all that Trump says about Canada and about Trudeau. But we will replace Trudeau but our next Prime Minister will not have better results. Trump divides. Hell, Trump divides his own phoquing family... What a looooong 4 years this is going to be. I want to believe this. I soooooo want to believe this. But some other charismatic a$$h@73 will eventually take his place. A younger one. Someone who could really have the time to take away rights and freedoms for his own gain... The cat is out of the bag. And that cat aint gonna go back into that bag. Trump released extreme right wing hatred and behaviour upon us. One could hope. One could hope.

Yup. With the next elections. And the worstn thing is, everybody that I talk to all seem to hate Trudeau. Yet...in reality, Trudeau has done nothing so bad that deserves so much hate other than the extreme right ideology is kicking in.

I didnt really have a choice to use a modern Camaro. I didnt want to either but I wanted to do a 2024 version of Simon and Simon. I know I know... I could have cheated... The 2017 ZL1 would be the nicest of ALL mdern Camaros from the 5th and 6th gens. But I wanted to give the Camaro one last goodbye so I used it to coincide with a modern take of how a current Simon and Simon show would feature.

Unfortunately, that is how democracy fails. When you dont want to worry about…well…about your rights. It takes EVERYBODY in the village to protect democracy. I understand where you stand. But that kind of attitude and you will be kissing your freedoms away. This is what happens when too many dont worry about it and one nefarious individual with minions attempts to steal several rights away.

Im wondering how on earth can 1 ceo be paid 56 billon dollars? Im having trouble understanding a 56 million dollar salary so Im having quite the time right now trying to figure out a 56 billion dollar one. A judge refused to let the company pay him that much and he, the ceo in question, through a tantrum. I guess he threw a tantrum because his plan to feed the hungry with that 56 billion dollar salary was thwarted. Not even with the help of open source accounting could he ever do anything to help... Like there is nothing he could do... And Christmas is...JUST around the corner. Poor little Tiny Tim. And poor ole ceo. He might just get a visit from the Ghosts of Christmases past, present and future. Sad story. Sad sad story indeed.

Common buddy. (Im saying that with my utmost sincerity) You know the last statement (the bolded part) you made NOT to be true. Americans especially, have worked very very hard to earn their rights and freedoms since 1776. (The birth of your country) And along the way, many many battles have been fought to ensure freedoms for their citizens. And I do NOT mean war battles but those too have been fought to ensure rights and freedoms in your country. The one good thing about America is that you HAVE freedoms and if you, in general you, dont cherish and continue to fight for those freedoms, you will INSTANTLY lose those freedoms and then you wont be able to live a happier life... Its one of those things that you dont know what you;ve got until its gone... Last time I checked, the right to vote and the right to contest and the right to propose and the right to thought right to express an opinion is alive and well in America. And the ONLY way to ensure the survival of said rights is that you HAVE to worry about it and you HAVE to PARTICIPATE in your freedoms to ensure they continue to exist. This is what is called living in a democratic nation. And in fact, it is your DUTY to particpate... Yes CCAP, you actually DO have the power to change shyte in YOUR country. American rights and freedoms in your constitution PERMIT you that right. I wrote a list above on what rights you have. In the US, you have legal channels that you could go to, to ensure that your rights and freedoms stay alive. Women burned their bras in the 60s to fortify their equal rights to man. Rosa Parks defied a bus driver so she sat wherever the phoque she wanted to sit to ensure black people not be second class citizens. Just a few examples. Some battles took a while to win. Some are STILL being fought DESPITE major progress because their is STILL a long ways to go, but the right for RIGHTS is PROTECTED in your country. And hopefully you could see what is happening now politically in your country, democracy is at a very fragile place. And you HAVE to care because if you turn a blind eye to it, it will disappear. It might not be with Trump. It might be in 2 elections from now with an even MORE brazen politician than Trump. But if too many American citizens have a laisser faire attitude, then start kissing your constitution good-bye.