Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[IKnowNothing]

Dave has stated many times what got him started on commenting on politics. Are you aware of his personal story?

Yes he is making money from his content. If he has fans and followers so be it, thats good. If people don't like what he puts out, they stop following and stop watching, and he loses money. Where is the problem?

The CBC gets $1.4 billion dollars of TAX payers money without our consent as far as I am concerned, and they put out biased trash.

I honestly don't care. I'm sure it's an appropriately gripping tale of hardship caused solely by the LPC, leading to an epiphany and a true calling of being a youtube crusader for truth.

I'm sure you believe that it's a coincidence that all these supposedly great sources of independent political insight are posting videos with the same tone, the same visual template, the same approximate (and incredible) posting cadence, the same incredible breadth of supposed expertise beyond their educational or professional backgrounds, advancing the same political agenda, with just enough variance in specificity to make it seem like they're disconnected. That's your prerogative.

But railing against the bias of the mainstream media while gobbling down at the firehose of a blatantly partisan and coordinated for profit info space? Hilariously ironic.

 

[Altair]

And I’m sure Sweden will very respectfully sell us a fighter that will do fine for some of our less intensive fast jet missions, but that stands to quickly get our pilots killed if we get into a real scrap with a technological peer, or simply needs to put jets overhead into contested airspace- say, to support our soldiers on the ground who are defending against a Russian push west.

Does Canada have a use case that the gripe would satisfy? As best as this infantry/cop idiot can tell, I think so. But that’s not all of what we need and I see nothing out there except F-35 that can give Canada critically needed capabilities on a reasonable timeline. And a token squadron of 16 won’t cut it.

Part of asserting our sovereignty is standing up to trade bullying. Another part of asserting our sovereignty is showing our allies a credible military capability that can kill people and break there shit in defence of the national interest under the lawful direction of the civil authority. If we’re going to do that latter, let’s do it without our pilots getting snuffed out quite as readily if we land in major combat operations.

So here's where I need to try to square the circle, so to speak.

The Gripen E/F performs reasonably on par with the Rafale, the Eurofighter, super Hornet, F 16

So I guess I'm supposed to somehow believe that France, Germany, Italy, the USA, the UK, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the list goes on and on, all these operators of all these different fighter aircraft are willingly and deliberately putting their pilots in death traps by not going full fleet F35.

Yes, including the USA, who will continue to fly the f 16 and super Hornet until the 2040s.

See the issue I'm having here?