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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 11:34 am
(October 13, 2021 at 10:58 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (October 13, 2021 at 9:17 pm)Jehanne Wrote: At least he did not try to run for US President.
I mean, if we're picking and choosing celebs..wish he would have. Something tells me that kirk wouldn't have been quite as much of a shitlord.
I think that Bill Shatner would have been an amazing President!!
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 11:46 am
(October 14, 2021 at 11:34 am)Jehanne Wrote: (October 13, 2021 at 10:58 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I mean, if we're picking and choosing celebs..wish he would have. Something tells me that kirk wouldn't have been quite as much of a shitlord.
I think that Bill Shatner would have been an amazing President!!
He’s a furriner.
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 12:04 pm
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(October 13, 2021 at 10:58 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (October 13, 2021 at 9:17 pm)Jehanne Wrote: At least he did not try to run for US President.
I mean, if we're picking and choosing celebs..wish he would have. Something tells me that kirk wouldn't have been quite as much of a shitlord.
I believe that that would be called damning with faint praise.
And yes, he's from the "People's Republic of Canuckistan", so he can't be prexy.
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 12:25 pm
(October 14, 2021 at 12:04 pm)Fireball Wrote: (October 13, 2021 at 10:58 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I mean, if we're picking and choosing celebs..wish he would have. Something tells me that kirk wouldn't have been quite as much of a shitlord.
I believe that that would be called damning with faint praise. 
And yes, he's from the "People's Republic of Canuckistan", so he can't be prexy.
I always felt that was a silly rule. Most countries don’t require their head of state to be a natural born citizen. Seems like you’re cutting yourselves off from a huge pool of potential candidates.
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 12:29 pm
(October 14, 2021 at 12:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (October 14, 2021 at 12:04 pm)Fireball Wrote: I believe that that would be called damning with faint praise. 
And yes, he's from the "People's Republic of Canuckistan", so he can't be prexy.
I always felt that was a silly rule. Most countries don’t require their head of state to be a natural born citizen. Seems like you’re cutting yourselves off from a huge pool of potential candidates.
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Considering the people that do run for the office here, we would be better off to import someone from somewhere else. It seems we have run out of decent choices.
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 2:15 pm
(October 14, 2021 at 12:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (October 14, 2021 at 12:04 pm)Fireball Wrote: I believe that that would be called damning with faint praise. 
And yes, he's from the "People's Republic of Canuckistan", so he can't be prexy.
I always felt that was a silly rule. Most countries don’t require their head of state to be a natural born citizen. Seems like you’re cutting yourselves off from a huge pool of potential candidates.
Boru I suspect that the original intent was to keep a person from the UK out, presuming that local talent would be more loyal, or something?
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 2:26 pm
(October 14, 2021 at 2:15 pm)Fireball Wrote: (October 14, 2021 at 12:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I always felt that was a silly rule. Most countries don’t require their head of state to be a natural born citizen. Seems like you’re cutting yourselves off from a huge pool of potential candidates.
Boru I suspect that the original intent was to keep a person from the UK out, presuming that local talent would be more loyal, or something?
Possibly. Time for a change, at any rate.
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 2:36 pm
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Said the foreigner.
Canadia is the odd man out on this one in the new world..it's almost like we all had something in common in our relationship with europe, which had, for reference, seen agents of one country install leaders in another who were expressly loyal to their own instead of the country they lead, up to and including kings.
Thinking about it today, I doubt it does much of anything, what with the majority of our politicians being globalists of one stripe or another (no matter what they tell the rubes who vote for them). If I were to change it, I'd say that a person from anywhere could be president here, so long as all of their money lived inshore.
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 2:42 pm
(October 14, 2021 at 2:36 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Said the foreigner. 
Canadia is the odd man out on this one in the new world..it's almost like we all had something in common in our relationship with europe, which had, for reference, seen agents of one country install leaders in another who were expressly loyal to their own instead of the country they lead, up to and including kings.
The first president of Ireland was half Spanish and born in the US. Wasn’t an issue.
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RE: Shatner Launch
October 14, 2021 at 2:45 pm
We had to include a clause for our own first presidents....seeing as how they were recently british.
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