56 Replies to “August 22, 2025: Reader Tips”

    1. It’s well known that the Biden administration orchestrated the whole Nord Stream 2 affair.

      Joe Biden. “If Russia invades, that means tanks and troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer Nord Stream 2. We will bring and end to it.”

      Reporter “But how will you do that exactly?”

      Biden, “We will, I promise you we’ll be able to do that.”

      https://m.youtube.com/shorts/FVbEoZXhCrM

      1. I don’t blame him. The feral animals in human skin would have turned on him in an instant.

    1. Sweeden is a full NATO member now.
      The Grippens will be integrated, and Canada can help with that. (That’s the logical approach).
      F-35s are a boondoggle. Some estimate that including time / operational / maintenance costs you can keep 4 Grippens in the air to one F35.
      Lockheed Martin has made shameful errors designing this aircraft.
      Boeing has the contract for the F47, so….
      Canada’s broke.
      I think smart money locks up early F-47 bid and focuses on thriving energy / mineral / agriculture economy. In the meantime, Twin engine F-18s are still a formidable deterrent.

      1. How are you going to integrate those Gripens? Or rather, how much are you going to spend on trying to integrate them (and possibly not succeeding)?

        1. That is a Lockheed Martin / Saab problem. IFFs are apparently manageable but as to the rest ????
          LM is maintaining proprietary BS even over our armed services. (Literally right to repair issues.)
          I miss McDonnell Douglas.
          I’ll add here, that if Canada breaks up; well what then?

    2. Now that’s a model dialogue: “on the one hand… then on the other hand… then on the Grippen hand…”

      1. Well, the planes won’t be against each other. It’s a money / mission readiness thing. Grippens are faster / more agile and more adaptable. I think that’s what we all need from team Canada. But if you’re broke, or the country breaks up I don’t think even this should be a primary concern regarding trade.

    1. It is an extensive problem in the blue states. The Democrats really shouldn’t have brought it up. Greasy Gavin and the Fat Man from Illinois really shouldn’t want attention brought to this.

    1. Knowing our judges, he is likely to get sentenced to 1000 hours of community service working in a public elementary school.

    1. You should be saddened by the loss of quality education within the liberal arts and wish the institutional rot gone.
      STEM is not any better — trust the science!(TM) has hardly worked out well either.

      I remember well the discussions back in the 00s within conservative and libertarian circles about how the liberal arts could just die on the vine because STEM would always be ‘safe’, no need to heed any warnings coming from within the institutions that STEM was also degrading. Looking back, one could see how short sighted that really was.

  17. Canada is officially the stupidest country on the planet.
    Maybe on any planet.

    “According to the CBC, Quebec’s liquor board (SAQ) is sitting on $27 million worth of American wines and spirits. Since March, this stockpile has cost Quebec taxpayers $500,000 in storage fees.
    Some of the inventory must now be destroyed as it’s no longer sellable — and more could follow if it isn’t cleared soon.”

    https://x.com/FoodProfessor/status/1958826082670399978

      1. Not only that but who is the SAQ paying money to for “storage fees”? Wouldn’t the government own its warehouses?

        1. It might own the warehouses,. but the warehouses till have to be climate controlled to store comestibles and you have to pay unionized workers to maintain the place.

    2. They can make as much money selling Canadian stuff at full price rather than discounting it to get rid of it. Send it to a biofuel plant and add it to the distillation steam.

    1. Carney just announced Canada will drop all retaliatory tariffs for goods and services covered by CUSMA. Wait a minute. I thought anything covered by the free-trade agreement was exempt from tariffs? That is what the media has been telling me.

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