@LPCapitalChi Have fun man. I find lottsa people visit Seoul during long layovers and like it, but almost no one I know gives Busan a second thought and thats a mistake imo. Only reason I mention!
@johnkonrad@JesseKellyDC@seanmdav United States, Cuba, Dominican, Haiti, Iceland, Japan [true tho, japan is legit aight], both Koreas, randomly(?) a lot of Canada, Chile and Argentina not scribbled... ok. Those are the legit countries to care about ๐๐๐
Ngl I enjoyed this post lol
You ever notice how every Rubio meme shows him getting more power and responsibility, and how Vance just has that fat headed mullet guy?
Memes are a really high level function that consolidate a lot of information into an easily remembered format.
You can do much worse than by picking your candidates from those who master the meme wars
It's funny watching Canadian legacy media wake from their stupor and wonder what happened "out of nowhere." Here's a quick list to help them gain a better understanding:
2016-Ongoing: Phoenix Pay System
New federal payroll system. Costs quadrupled mysteriously. More costs to fix the quadrupled costs. Actual cost unknown because spending wasn't tracked.
2018: Chrysler Bailout
Liberals wrote off a $2.6 billion loan to Chrysler for unknown reasons. No recovery of funds.
2020: WE Charity Contract
$912 million student grant program contract awarded to WE Charity. Contract cancelled when Trudeau's family were found to be receiving payouts from WE. $30 million in initial costs unrecovered.
2020-2021: COVID-19 Relief Overpayments and Suspicious Benefits
$27.4 billion in suspicious payments through programs like CERB and CEBA. $4.6 billion in overpayments, $1.6 billion to ineligible individuals, $6.1 million to prisoners, and $1.2 million to deceased people. $3.5 billion to ineligible CEBA recipients. Insider payments (corruption) and migrant housing accounted for another $1 billion.
2020-2021: Liberal Ventilators
$237 million on 10,000 ventilators ($23,700 per ventilator) purchased from Frank Baylis, a Liberal MP.
2020-2021: Unaccounted Pandemic Spending
$600 billion in unaccounted pandemic spending in 2020-21.
2021-2023: ArriveCAN App
$59.5 million paid to Liberal insiders GC Strategies on an app hobbyists recreated over a weekend. Estimated real world development cost: $50,000. GC Strategies received $65 million across 106 contracts from 2015-2024 and produced nothing.
2015-2023: McKinsey & Company Contracts
$209 million awarded to the Liberal insider corporation (Liberal ambassador to China, Dominic Barton was also managing director of McKinsey). Nothing of value was ever produced from this "partnership."
2015-2023: Infrastructure Projects Under Catherine McKenna
$187 billion spent on 20,000 projects. Money was untracked and disappeared. No projects completed.
2018-2024: Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
$29 billion disappeared under Liberal management.
2021-2024: Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
$400 million misused through conflicts of interest (186 instances), with funds going to Liberal insiders' companies. Conservatives called it the "Green Slush Fund."
2023-2024: Firearms Buyback Program
$67 million in costs. No guns recovered.
2023-2024: Electric Vehicle (EV) Battery Plants
$270 million lost on one plant as part of a $30 billion commitment.
2024: Cricket Protein Plant
$42 million lost on one facility.
$61.9 billion deficit, $21.9 billion higher than projected.
Interest costs $53.7 billion.
$300 million on passport redesign.
Plus billions funneled into Canada's perpetually failing state-funded media.
And this is just what's documented. Who knows how much money was laundered and embezzled into offshore accounts over the last 11 years.
During his time as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau's personal net worth grew from $7 million to upwards for $400 million on a $400,000 per year salary.
Canada might be poorer than Alabama but Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party definitely aren't.
Chad Southern Cone vs Virgin Europe
Chad Southern Cone ๐ง๐ท๐ฆ๐ท๐ต๐พ๐บ๐พ๐จ๐ฑ:
- Lives through โonce-in-a-lifetimeโ crises every 7 years
- Knows inflation personally, like an old enemy
- Keeps dollars, local currencies, crypto, gold, and favors diversified under the mattress
- Trusts people more than institutions
- Negotiates everything, rent included
- โCrisisโ means adapt, not panic
- Changes jobs, currencies, countries without identity crisis
- Understands rules as suggestions
- Laughs during economic collapse
- BBQs while markets burn
Virgin Europe ๐ช๐บ:
- Expects stability as a human right
- Shocked by 6% inflation
- Trusts institutions until proven otherwise (by disaster)
- Obeys rules even when they make no sense
- Needs paperwork to breathe
- โUncertaintyโ causes anxiety
- Savings frozen in one currency
- Calls adaptation โprecarityโ
- Waits for permission to act
- Believes systems will protect them
- Bureaucracy as lifestyle
- Protests politely on weekends
- Fear of breaking rules > fear of losing freedom