Speaking of which, did you know that Canada self-destructed after embracing left ideology?
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I think we did in fact fuck up. Pace of immigration from 2021 forward has been absurd, such that almost 8% of the population is here on some sort of temporary visa. Population has grown faster than the economy, so inevitably GDP per capita suffers. The vast majority of the new entrants in the last five years would not have met qualifications a decade ago. In some cases (Ukrainian refugees, for example), that is inevitable. The refugee system has been swamped, even before the current wave of dubious claims.
The worst part of that is that for the first time in my life, there is no consensus on immigration. For generations, it has been seen simply as a good thing, immigrants came, built new lives, and contributed. By increasing the pace of that to what many see as unsustainable levels, the Liberal government broke that consensus. As many around the West have seen, once those questions enter the mainstream, the whiff of sulphur is not far behind.
That said, an enormous portion of that wave of immigration happened on student visas, and a very large percentage of that occurred in Ontario - where universities and colleges facing austerity-style education spending from the provincial government flung open the doors for all the international student tuition they could harvest. Hard to blame that on left ideology. At least in Canada, crappy public policy is not the exclusive preserve of left or right.
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Oh, I’m not disputing that you screwed up. It’s the “left ideology” crap that I take issue with.
Many idiots will fall for it.
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This is kind of a bugbear of mine, but in both the US and Canada the student visa is a non-immigrant visa - by definition temporary, with no pathway to permanent status (although in reality a physical presence may make some perm pathways more viable to pursue). Yet it gets lumped into the immigration debate. In reality a country could have the most maximally strict anti-immigration rules in place alongside liberal student visa quotas and it not be in conflict. Other than it is the same sort of people, coming from the same sort of countries, there really isnt a good reason to combine the two issues in the same conversation the way it typically happens.
I’m going to stop there before I go into my diatribe about how Biden didnt face an illegal immigration crisis but an asylum crisis which is something that presents completely different stresses and to an administration and gives them far fewer options in responding given the ways the asylum laws, woefully outdated laws, are written.
I know some people will say that just semantics, but it’s not. They are distinctions that have very real policy implications. Ignoring them produces the same sort of sentiment about how we needed Brexit so we could eliminate the free movement bullshit of the EU…and get kick out the Pakistanis
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Incredible stuff
https://x.com/MattBelloni/status/1993364494790410381?s=20
Trump likes Rush Hour so now one of the most MeTooed guys who got MeTooed out of Hollywood is getting his comeback to do #4 with Paramount
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Just because something isn’t surprising, doesn’t make it less awful.
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I’d wager Kushner was involved too.
Fucking pricks
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Yet the MAGA cocksuckers are still at it!
They’ve just directly ripped you off, you utter morons!!
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Nailed it.
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Maybe the chance to be racist in public is worth it to them, who knows 
Just like the Brexiteers “got their country back”
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At minimum this should be a reputation destroying initiative. It did not just fail on its own terms (at least the publicly stated ones, and its definitely worth considering if that was just a front for other hidden goals), but it did so for exactly the reasons the people who know anything about government said it would. The problem was not the implementation, but it was based on a false premise that only someone who knew nothing about government could believe, or someone who was lying about what they pretended to believe. It is s textbook case of what happens when someone who doesnt know anything and is too arrogant to think there is knowledge to gain outside of their expertise. Or at least it is if you take the initiative on face value.
But there are reasons to not take it on face value. There are genuine national security implications for lots of the shit that went down and very serious questions about how much of this corporate espionage. People should be in jail for this, and that very possibly includes Musk himself.
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It’s actually close to treason. The only reason why it isn’t, is that you have to be at war for it to be treason. Morally, it is treason though.
I don’t think so.
Witkoff, and even Kushner, are acting desperately closely to what would be considered as foreign agents.
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Agreed. I think Witkoff must be said to be one. Kushner is at least borderline in his dealings with the Gulf states and Israel.
I don’t know the technical law paragraphs like you though (haven’t googled), so I don’t know how it is with charging people for this etc.