O/T:- Trump Presidency 2.0 [hic sunt dracones]

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Originally Posted by Mud Pie

so are you a Russian or a MAGA trapped in a Canadian body?

not going to feed the troll beyond this, but even your equivalency is dumb and duplicitous. The realistic UK comparison would be if 30% of Yorkshire voted to become Pakistani and invited in Pakistani troops to protect their claim while they separated from the UK cuz any vote is democracy duh. Makes total sense to me.

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If your 30 percent reference is to the rough proportion of Albertans who wish to be American, then I obviously agree that their desires ought to be trumped by those who wish to remain as Canadians. It is then up to the federal and provincials governments, and would be governments, to decide how much they wish to woo the remaining 30 percent with favourable policy promises in order to win their votes.

That seems about as reasonable a system as we can get. But I am certainly open to considering other ideas if you have any.

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Originally Posted by Jampie

What was Biden doing that contravened the constitution? And why wasn't it challenged in court if so?

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Biden cancelled billions in Student Loan debt. the Supreme Court ruled he did not have this authority, he ignored them and did it anyway.
He's a link for you - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/desp...-millions.html

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Originally Posted by MarcusCole

Biden cancelled billions in Student Loan debt. the Supreme Court ruled he did not have this authority, he ignored them and did it anyway.
He's a link for you - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/desp...-millions.html

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Did you read the article you posted?

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Originally Posted by Article

The Supreme Court?s conservative majority in June ruled that President Joe Biden didn?t have the authority to cancel student debt for millions of Americans.

He?s still trying.

In what one legal scholar described as ?a very direct confrontation with the Court,? Biden held a press briefing from the White House just hours after the justices issued their verdict.

?Today?s decision has closed one path,? the president said. ?Now we?re going to pursue another.?

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That isn't ignoring the supreme court and "doing it anyway" ala Trump. That's accepting their decision and finding another (legal) way forward.

Note to board: The ? issue in the quotes above is due to quoted unicode characters not existing in the font the board uses. If the board moves to a more modern font the issue will vanish.

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Originally Posted by Jampie

Note to board: The ? issue in the quotes above is due to quoted unicode characters not existing in the font the board uses. If the board moves to a more modern font the issue will vanish.

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But it did not use to happen; I'm blaming Musk.

Things like this are the reasons why people voted for Trump. You couldn't make it up.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive...004021093.html

How many more racist skeletons are there in the Democratic Party closet?

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Originally Posted by Jampie

Note to board: The ? issue in the quotes above is due to quoted unicode characters not existing in the font the board uses. If the board moves to a more modern font the issue will vanish.

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This happens to me here too, but I notice that other users such as OldPie above are able to use apostrophes just fine. Any idea why they can but some of us cannot?

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Originally Posted by andy6025

This happens to me here too, but I notice that other users such as OldPie above are able to use apostrophes just fine. Any idea why they can but some of us cannot?

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I can use quotes and apostrophes too: " ' etc all good. But I noticed when I pasted the article text it had the problem, which is what tipped me off.

Might be something like apple devices using a wider unicode set, would make sense to me. I am on PC/windows here. You apple?

So basically, my PC sends the oldest ASCII ' or " symbols when I type, but a different machine is using more stylsed newer ones, and this website's font doesnt understand the new symbols so shows them as ?

If it showed them as boxes I would've figured it out a lot faster but this font must be mega old heh

Actually, that's not it. The different characters part is correct but it's not the font. The board itself is converting the unknown characters when we post.

Might be old school input cleaning. The board probably needs to update its forum software.

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Originally Posted by Jampie

Actually, that's not it. The different characters part is correct but it's not the font. The board itself is converting the unknown characters when we post.

Might be old school input cleaning. The board probably needs to update its forum software.

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I am using my iPhone. If I use my MacBook I do not seem to get the issue. I have been learning to type around it by trying not to use contractions, if I remember, possessive nouns or quotation marks.