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The DUmpster / Re: Canadians have a new name for the US
« Last post by Old n Grumpy on September 02, 2026, 01:47:04 PM »And they will still come to Florida in droves towing their trailers behind them! 


Sounds like someone doesn't want Talarico's views exposed or talked about.
Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.
Hill: “How is it not?”
Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is! That is not white supremacy.”
Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Foster: “I've actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy? … What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?“
CNN seems to think some nothing burger story about Talarico saying capitalism can be oppressive is more important.
Stoooooopid question time. Did anyone on DU offer evidence that the image was created by an actual Canadian and not a false-Maple-Leafing Dem Party operative? The image has no artist info, and the DU OP lacks a source link.


CBS News faced heat from the far-left Monday over a report about past comments Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed made about 9/11 ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack.
"As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack," CBS News wrote Monday.
The report cited El-Sayed's deleted social media posts, including some from 2020 comparing the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 to the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. Another post from Sept. 11, 2021, first uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon, read, "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."
However, many of El-Sayed's supporters and other liberal critics expressed outrage linking El-Sayed to the forthcoming 9/11 anniversary.
"What an insane headline," far-left commentator Hasan Piker reacted on X. "This is why the [new Paramount owner David Ellison] bought CBS and put Bari Weiss in charge."
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"Despicable anti-Muslim woke right garbage from the house CBS account," "The Bulwark" podcast host and MS NOW analyst Tim Miller wrote.
A federal judge on Aug. 31 halted a Virginia state law designed to limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pending a trial, saying a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration against the state is likely to succeed on its merits.
Judge Robert E. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday issued a preliminary injunction to block Virginia from enforcing the measure because the law “directly regulates the conduct of federal law enforcement” and may violate the intergovernmental immunity doctrine that prevents states from interfering with the operations of the federal government.
“The public interest and the balance of equities favor an injunction because ... frustration of, and interference with, federal statutes and prerogatives in the enforcement of federal immigration law is not in the public interest,” Payne added.