The Lock

You know... I'm anti-Trump, but if I get paid $250K, I'll gladly be on his side for one evening.

I agree. It should be whatever works for us while Demko heals. Anything beyond that is just silly speculation. I say we let Silovs and Lankinen show us what they're all about while we await Demko's return.

I don't see the point of being negative about things outside of our control. Sucks that we're starting the season with injuries but injuries are going to happen at the same time. If anything, this will indicate what kind of depth we have. If we can't survive this early on then we probably weren't going to be a cup contender anyway.

We should say the same thing about every Canucks loss. "6-1 for the Oilers? Canucks won by default because the Oilers cheated!"

There's a lot of Twitter accounts out there to watch out for unfortunately. I too noticed who had posted it and contemplated saying something. One of those accounts I've seen spreading Russian propaganda from time to time so you know what side they are on.

Sure, but that still doesn't mean I'm about to ruin a good time if that kind of stuff doesn't get brought up. II don't care if it's here, in Germany, or wherever. There's a time and place for everything. If I get more curious about that stuff, I'll research it. I don't really buy your version of it to begin with to be honest.

Only if it gets brought up. I'm not exactly about to ruin a vibe if you know what I mean.

Yeeeeap! Except I'll be in Stuttgart instead of Munich. Hanging out with German friends basically.

I mean, we did just come from 2 old guys duking it out to 1 old guy duking it out with the vice president of another old guy. The result is Harris has an uphill battle still because people are going to connect her with Biden. So when you say you don't trust that side, I get it. I also get the frustration when it comes to what some leftist channels will say about Trump. There's a lot of youtube videos I see where the title's like "Oh we got him! He's done for!"... and then it's some much smaller thing: clickbait basically. However, despite all of this. I'd much much rather see Trump lose this election, not because I like the democrats, but because I think the republicans need to rebuild. They need a wake up call. They're too far right at the moment and the only thing keeping them in contention right now are the extra voters they get just because its Trump. But, like I said, I think that's going to happen. Think of it this way: 2020 showed that Biden can beat Trump. Biden's not popular but he still won. This means there are that many people in the states who hate Trump, and this was 2020. This was before he started crying spilled milk about the 2020 election. This was before Jan 6. This was before all of the court cases. This is before roe vs wade. Because of all of these events, there's objectively going to be more people now against Trump than there was in 2020 if we just look at recent events. Even in the primaries, Trump was not exactly showing that republicans are all united with Trump. Instead, we're seeing the opposite. Meanwhile, Biden was getting 90%+ votes in the Democrat primaries. And sure, there's 2016 when people were expecting Clinton to win; however, the fact that constantly gets brought up means that people are constantly getting reminded of it. This means that's likely to have the opposite effect and will likely make people get out and vote. Now, obviously there's also the polling, but I've openly stated here that I believe polls are just for the media to get clicks with. Hopefully though, you see I'm not speaking of things out my butt.

The ironic thing is I'm on a trip to Germany in like 2 weeks. lol

Yeah. One of the things that happen when I have talked with "Trumpers" in the past is almost immediately they start talking about Trudeau. Like it's THE whataboutist thing to do for them. And when I tell them I'm not a Trudeau supporter either.... talk about wind out of their sails in a way. lol

So just to show I'm not entirely some leftist... I don't expect Trudeau to be reelected. I also don't expect Trump to be elected in November. I'm not looking at things from a "leftist" standpoint when I say these things. I'm looking at it more from looking at the pulse of each situation.

Haha, it's all good in the end. I respect the fact that you're willing to speak your mind and also willing to accept criticism. There's far too few people these days willing to do both. As you've probably seen, I'm also willing to speak my mind. lol I just think it's easy to get wrapped up in the whole left vs right stuff so much that it makes it easy to become more extreme and start connecting dots that don't exist.

How about this? I see a lot of people still radicalized overall because of Trump and I hope you one day see it for what it is. I don't expect you to see it now. I even expect you to look at this very post and roll your eyes. Simply put: I expect you to see my post and think I'm just "some lefty who has no idea what he's talking about." But that doesn't mean I can't at least try and reach out and hope America becomes less divided in the future. I bet we can at least agree that Trump won't do that. There's just too many people against him.

The fact that you need to single out Democrats as if Democrats are the issue rather than just talking about society (essentially making this a political issue rather than a general issue) makes you just as ignorant as the people you're portraying. At the very least, this is how you are coming off as right now. I'm fine with the history part. Singling it out to make it seem like it's left vs right with all of this is just plain stupid.