Posts by Gman

No new AMD cards for me on launch !!

My shop couldn't spare me even one, even though they typically have always accommodated me. the owner of Memory Express and his brother are guys I trained and issued their firearms license safety courses - there is a mandatory safety course for both non restricted and restricted firearms up here, separate courses and it's often a 2 day event every 5 years for everyone. Being an accredited instructor for the course back in the day in Alberta, I'd frequently cut the BS from those courses and teach certain people all they needed in one day instead of two, and spend most of the time on the range instead of sitting in a classroom.

Plus I've spent 10s of thousands with them since 1996 when they had just one store instead of 20-ish nationwide. But, that's how few cards they received, only a very few, and those went to people up the food chain from me. Should have one or two in a week they said, so we'll see.

I just built a new system, and have a similar secondary box to what you're thinking about Hawker.

New system is an AMD 9800x3d CPU - Gscholz would jump for joy as I converted to AMD, my first AMD system since the Pentium 200s were around, and AMD came out with a "233" that was a whopping 33 mhz faster than the other IBM clones at the time. Intel/etc ever since, until December 2024.

Anyhow, it's fast, mild overclock (just the stock AI overclock with the XMP memory profile/etc), 64gb 6000 CL32 ram, I had a 5090 which was borked and had to be returned, in the meantime I'm "stuck" with a 5080, which actually isn't as awful as the reviews have made it out to be, in terms of bang/$. Seasonic 1200 PSU, 8 TB total of 4x2tb M.2 drives. Monotec case/360 cooler, new kids on the block in my local store, not a terrible case to build/work in, I'm actually impressed, as it wasn't expensive, and was...available.

I picked up a couple new monitors too, I've been primarily using the LG 4k 27" gaming units, they've been the highest rated 4k 27" gaming LCDs for a few years. However, with the advent of the new OLEDs, I got an Asus 32" PG32UCDM 4k 240hz Gsync OLED monitor (best, also the most $$$, by 33% or more, so that part sucks), and a 49" MSI OLED widescreen.

Still using the Varjo Aero for VR, also using the Quest 3, and I've found it to be surprisingly good, exceptional even, considering the cost of entry for the Oculus/Meta headset.

Still setting up all my HOTAS, I have..well, a ton of it, so I'll post pics of that once I'm satisfied with the layout. Still having unboxed the 49" either, it's going into action this weekend.

Enough of my usual BS, Hawker, very good system you've putting together. As I said, I have a similar system that I use for gaming on my office TV and as a secondary home theater/browsing unit. 14600KF (overclocks incredibly well, 14700k are usually very similar in that regard, just a bit faster), 64gb RAM (for playing multiplayer DCS you NEED 64 instead of 32 or you get frequent stutters on some maps), a 4090 GPU, and the rest is just the usual suspects. It'll get the 5080 once my 5090 returns to duty.

Considering the prices you can pick off the 14600 and 14700k(f)s up here, I recommend to almost everyone locally to go that route if they are trying to maximize their $.

I'm on the waitlist for a couple 9700xt cards myself, just to try them out in the third box (wife's/nephews/nieces), as it's still running a 3090. From all reports so far, you should be really happy with the 9700xt, if AMD is smart and prices it well, they'll seize a ton of the market IMO with that card.

Prelim pics, more coming once I get more in place. I'll deal with the wires/cables once I'm happy with placements/etc, doing that shit early means redoing it, a lot.

The Russians would be more likely than the Chinks, but both have too much retardation in their genetic code to overcome IMO.

Giving China Taiwan in order to avoid a war with China isn't something I care about much one way or the other, but it'd mean the USA having to go full isolationist as abandoning an ally to which promises were made would mean few if any countries in the future would trust America. Might be for the best anyway. China really has always wanted the Eastern parts of Siberia/etc. They've long considered it a resource area that they can take not just for both the minerals/oil/gold/etc, but for more space, something at a premium in a country with 1.6 Billion chinks, even if they are tiny people mostly. So a war between Russia and China is as much or even more likely than one between China and the USA, unless Taiwan is invaded.

Doug Ford (Premier of Ontario) is threatening to shut off the electricity to the entire state of New York (they got most of their electric power from Canada) along with several other states in the area. I'm praying he does, not because I want New York to freeze (I'm sure Storch wouldn't mind some cold Yankees), but because it's an overt act of war. I'd be one of the ones waving the US flag as the invasion forces entered Canada, welcoming them at the border.

Canada can also fuck the USA over, big time, in the short/mid term, by shutting down the pipelines shipping the Western Canadian Select heavy crude oil that America needs to function, as it represents 60% of the US energy imports. The US strategic stockpile/reserves would be enough to optimistically function for a year without those imports, but the use of them and market disruption would be...catastrophic to say the least. Drill baby drill will take 10 years by the most optimistic estimates, more likely 20, to even begin to replace that oil, plus a large percentage of US refineries are built to refine that Canadian heavy crude, and changing that to finer grade refining isn't a fast or cheap process. Venezuela does produce a lot of heavy crude, but they are far away, no pipeline distribution, and moving that much oil by tanker - again, not simple or cheap. Not to mention giving that $ to Venezuela isn't exactly a popular idea considering their government is about as stupid as Canada's.

So, I'm hoping the retards running the show up here shut down both the oil and electricity. Not because I want America hurt, but because it would be a legitimate reason for the USA to seize Canada, and force at least the good parts of it (West) to become a state, or at least a protectorate or whatever like Puerto Rico is. Yay!

I've always found Slug's fascination of Vanilla Sky interesting. It's probably the only Cruise film I've never seen.

In your honor Sluggo, I'm going to watch it this week and see what the fuss is all about.

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Ahhhhhahahahaa

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/poli…rder-security/ar-AA1ykXKl

I know right! Fucking awesome, Trump make that fuckhead bend the knee. Trudeau is getting what he deserves, and Trump is literally saving Canadians, not harming them. Hearing some fuckhead leftist Canadians cry in the last few days, as well as booo the US anthem at events - angers me that there are so many short sighted foolish people in my country. Luckily my Provinces are sane, mostly. Can't wait to join the USA. Or move there.

When Pierre Poilievre takes the PM office, you'll see a FAIR deal worked out with the USA, and we'll fucking NUKE China and their cartel in Vancouver, which is poisoning our citizens on top of all the other BS China does with their asymmetric warfare they've engaged us all in.

Trump is stomping on every leftist fuckhead in the world. EU is next, South Africa too. My GP doctor is a South African as was the one before him, my father had a ton of South African friends, and Trump called out the fucking terrorist ANC Nigger government in South Africa for attacking white people in every way they can. Just WAIT until this develops more, you'll see the commie news networks lose their fucking minds when Trump outright calls the ANC black people racist. He came so close today to saying it, but it's going to be uttered by him soon. That'll be a funny day. You can only hide the truth so long...

Well Well Well. This journo has begun exposing Trudeau and the Liberal - Chinese- Crime connections for the public to see. I've heard bits of this from friends and a couple relatives in the RCMP still, but nothing like what this video just dropped.

TLDR is that Trump has a valid point about Fentanyl, turns out Canada, out on the West coast, has been a base for the CCP to manufacture Fent and then distribute it into the USA. Mexico too. They import the legal precursors and then go about it here in Canada, and launder the money through our real estate market and casinos. 10 minutes is enough to get the gist of it, even 2 or 3, but this video pretty much makes the case for the tariffs, as well as a case for treason against Trudeau, the liberals in Ottawa, and the British Columbia government too. Incredible the amount of corruption at the highest level.

Storch is right.

I will say though that Poilievre is about the best we can hope for in a Canadian Conservative politician, especially now, these days. I do wish Alberta and Saskatchewan would just say "fuck off" to Canada, now as much as ever. Also, Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith is labelled a Nazi 1000000 times over by our media, which means Storch would really like her. She's absolutely center-right, or even right-right. She's not the most..."nuanced" person, which is a fucking good thing IMO. I like her, a lot, and again, so far as a Politician goes, we could do a lot worse.

She's the ONLY one also who has decided to go to Mar-a-Lago on her own hook so far as t he Premiers go (IIRC) and forge a personal relationship with the new President of the USA, and also is the only one who has said that retaliatory tariffs are just counterproductive. I mean, she COULD, literally FUCK the USA, right up the ass, by switching off the 5 or so million barrels a day flowing South through the pipelines in her Province, which would cause an immediate crisis in the USA, spiking gas prices immeasurably, and causing shortages like nobody in this world and society has EVER seen, making the OPEC thing 40 or 50 years ago or whatever look like a day in the park. Of course IMO Trump would take military actions then I think, as it would cause the rapid destruction of the USA's economy/markets (Canada's too of course). I mean there is really NO other place the USA could buy and ship in that much oil that it needs, its entire infrastructure is set up to receive WCS Canadian oil, refine it, and then distribute throughout the USA as well as selling bits of it back to Canada (crazy, I know, but that's what happens) and other countries. There isn't enough free tanker ships in the world to replace even a percent of that. The largest supertankers in the world, of which there are few, can only carry 1/2 to one day of what the pipelines move to the USA. Most tankers of typical size would mean the USA would need dozens+ a day, and that would also put the refineries and all their businesses out of work, and the downstream stuff they do, etc etc and etc. Then figuring out how to move all the petro from ports to where it needs to go. What I'm saying is that if Trudeau ran Alberta he would absolutely threaten, and likely execute, and switching off of the flow of oil/gas from Canada to the USA.

Sadly, you're correct. It's depressing AF losing your country.

Americans take note - don't let this happen to you.

DON'T.

edit - you Ninja'd me. I agree and have thought the same thing, that this is a calculated strategy by the Trump admin to attempt to MAGA other countries in the world, and Canada being the closest, and not just in distance, is naturally the best place to begin. Hope it works...

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Tar sands oil is shit and nasty stuff, and is more than a bit more expensive to extract and refine.

That is why it is cheaper.

It's really not "that" much more to refine into finer grade fuels and products, and a ton of US refineries are set up to do so, and have been for decades, what with getting 50% of their oil from Canada's tarsands. It's also EASIER to refine into diesel, you know, that kinda important fuel that sort of powers...the entire USA. Extraction - that depends, directional drilling in Texas for sweeter grades isn't exactly cheap, plus the exploratory costs involved are orders of magnitude higher than the tarsands mines.

Also, the trade imbalance between the USA and Canada - if you remove the oil from the equation, something the USA again gets a massive, massive discount on, the USA has a trade surplus, not deficit, with Canada, so the whole thing is sort of a false equivalency. The USA needs to buy (for now, until the drill baby drill thing starts paying, and that'll be a decade before it can even come close to replacing the tarsands, if ever) over 1/2 of its oil from Canada, and uses that in the equation for the trade deficit. Yes, the deficit is higher than its been in a LONG time, but it isn't a quarter of a trillion like Trump said, it's averaged about 70$B for the last few years. Also after the C-o-hink V-id-irus, the USA turned to Canada for a HUGE amount of more material, energy, and even labor shortages, which pumped the trade imbalance up, a huge factor in the imbalance.

As I said though, Canada has screwed the USA on other commodities and resources through past deals, and I don't blame Trump one bit for trying to balance that out.

Also, even if you take the worst case for Canada's "numbers/data" on the trade deficit, it's nothing compared to the ones the USA has with China, the EU, and Mexico. Like not even close.l

The reason this is happening is PERSONAL though IMO. Trump hates Trudeau, and he can get in line. This IMO is the best "fuck you" he can give Trudeau, since Trump was instrumental in his fall from power, I think he wants to give him the death blow, and then kick his ass right off the map. I just hope it doesn't spiral into a nasty trade war, if Canada retaliates tomorrow on oil exports to the USA with tariffs of Canada's own, your gas prices are going to double or more in the next week in the USA. Not to mention any $$ you have in the market is going to take a shit kicking.

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I don't think the US would stand by and let China get a foothold in Canada.

Me neither, I'd be gone before that happened anyway, but there are a LOT of leftists/communists here that would welcome the CCP/ChinkChinkPee control, and not consider the US reaction, or just not care. Such idiots, it's baffling to me.

So far as the USA's gripes, Bush gave our PM Harper some pretty unreal concessions to Canada on wood, plus the stuff with automobile manufacturing (that's almost ALL in the Eastern part of the country and controlled by the super-left). There are a ton of other issues where a better deal for everyone should be worked out. Canada and the USA can both make out fine...not just fine, but be the powerhouse of the world. This tiny Province I'm in right now produces a majority of the world's potash, uranium, shit like that. Not to mention the grain/agriculture of the Western Provinces, it's bonkers how much our land can and has, and will produce.

With our oil reserves and the fact that we don't really need to go looking/drilling for a pile of it here in the tarsands, then the USA's potential with oil. Plus Canada has HUGE natural gas output potential, as strong partners we would FUCK UP the entire world in terms of powerhouse economics. Hydro energy in Quebec too, the problem is the super left frog fucks in Quebec like to virtue signal how woke and environmentally conscious they are by NOT producing energy, while buying it instead from the fucking ragheads and not their own country and people. Canada is SO fucked up right now, it's beyond bizzarro world. I could rail for hours, and I'm not all that knowledgeable either Gina, I just hear others that are just blowing their stacks constantly at the insanity Trudeau and his government brought to this nation.

IF anyone was ever to do a paper in the future showing how modern day socialism is just mased full on communism and tyranny, they would need to look no further than Canada starting 2015 or so. SO FUCKED.

IMO Trump is SO right. People think it's some funny joke he's making about taking over Canada. Best thing that could happen would be for the border to come down, Canada adopt the US currency, our super nation then also claims Greenland and starts building bases and ports there. We also move in, in force, to the artic which is/was mostly Canada's already, and stake a claim by force (bases) rapidly there too.

We could use Mexico as sort of a reverse of Game of Thrones and the "Wall and beyond the wall", going South instead of North from us, where we can send criminals to stand guard all day in a long line right along the border wall while paying their "debt", and just essentially wall of Mexico and tell them we'll talk again someday if they get their shit together, otherwise not one person goes in or out, and have a nice day Amigos. edit - oh ya, and any leftists in our new country that cause any issues whatsoever are given a trial, and sentenced for treason, and the sent to the wall.

Sorry guys, haven't slept for 2 days and I'm going nuts right now I think.

If you're a Nipficiando Storch, you'd like our garage over the years. The Lexus LCs (we've leased 2) are phenomenal, and Jess drove our GTR mostly for years and years, that car got 85,000KM, so like 55,000 real distance, put on it in just 6 seasons of summer only driving (like 5 months up here really). I've posted some pics before of it - most badass Jap car for the $ ever made IMO.

Sure, there are cooler cars to me, 240z is something on my list to get before I'm done, and maybe another rotary. I'd love it if Mazda got the balls to put another rotary in a Miata, and that the Miata was just a smidge bigger inside for me. Don't know if you've ever driven a newer ND Miata Storch, but man, what a car for the money. Same with the BRZ Jess just had. Zoom Zoom.

Old pic, only had the Viper for a short time, but it was a fun car for sure. The GTR we kept longer than anything, she drove it in her stupid autocross for years too.

When Trudeau came to power investment literally fled Canada. We've been on a downward trajectory ever since.

One complicated matter Trump never mentions however - 40% of the US strategic oil reserves and 60% it its imports are factored to be in Alberta/Canada. close to 2 million barrels per day is imported to the USA, and a lot of Eastern Canada repurchased that petroleum after the US refineries process it. The Canadian oil is priced a LOT lower than the regular WTI pricing. It is a BIT more expensive to process, but everyone in the petroleum game knows the USA has been getting a MASSIVE discount on oil from Canada for decades.

I fear the retards running Canada (we wouldn't be facing any tariffs at ALL if Polievre was the Prime Minster right now instead of the Trudeau communists), will retaliate vs the USA by cranking the Western Canadian Select oil up to West Texas Intermediate price, thinking that's an "aha! gotcha!" smart play - not realizing it's beyond even the stupidity of not just fixing what Trump is asking for, which is simple common courtesy and sense in the first place.

Canada's government is SO stupid, it's such a simple thing to move WITH Trump's requests, not against them, but doing so would among other things would a: stop their letting in of hundreds of thousands of pieces of shit in Canada in the first place, b: piss off the Chinese hands that feed them, and c: lose their virtue signaling points on the world stage.

I do feel that in terms of "fairness", which Trump has rightfully railed about regarding trade with Canada, that he should be including the WCS vs WTI oil pricing - and notice how not once has this ever come up when he speaks about the issue - because that's the one, singular thing, where Canada isn't the screw-er, it's the screw-ee.

I hope Canada collapses and my Provinces join the USA. I'll literally record myself dancing a jig and post it here, even if it just looks possible to happen, hah.

Last thing - China. Those little Chicom Chink bastards are waiting in the wings. That's the one BIG fear I have. That a trade war fucks Canada up so badly and so quickly, that letting the Chinese move in to "save" Canada will look like a good option. They've already bought up, or tried to, lots of the areas that could have a lot of bitumen up North. Trudeau has allowed battalion sized Chinese troops into the country 2 times to train already. Imagine China being able to build bases in Canada? They'd LOVE to get access to our resources and territory, it'd be a wet dream for them to start parking their shit right next to the USA. I think most pussies up here would rather become Chinese puppets than freeze and starve. Faggots.

Ya, I know, never going to happen, but it is my nightmare scenario, and in this world now, nothing will surprise me.

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It has 471 hp and 398 torque but only 4.7 seconds 0-60? My M3 is only 420 hp and 295 torque and is a half second faster. I would think they weigh about the same so I wonder if BMW is understating the engine performance. The raw v8 sounds are all the more fun with the top down. What are your thoughts on the rag top? One of the reasons I went with the e9x series was the only model that had both the v8 and a power hard top which most people don't realize it folds up like a transformer into the trunk. Is the rag top a bunch of compromises or just fine?

The LC500 convertible is a car I've only sat in once, never driven, but it looks incredible with the top down, again, massive attention getter in terms of aesthetics/looks. It's a beautiful car IMO. Not sure on the rigidity effects other than the vids I've seen reviewing it. I'd drive one, for sure though, the sound must be fantastic in it with the roof lowered, as that's the big, big feature of the LC series IMO, its sound.

Your gen of BMW M3 is a great car, those E90 hard top convertible cars are great. I know I've read others saying that they have dyno'd theirs and it outputs more to the wheels than BMW publishes, BMW does that with the inline 6 turbos too, reviewers were astonished with the new Supra's numbers they were getting with its BMW powerplant I remember a few years back when it debuted. Have you done the rod bearings in yours Rabbit? I really like hard top convertible cars, the latest gen RF Miata with the hard top convertible is a cool car too I've mulled over in the past, mainly because of that roof feature.

I like the various LS motors in the cars I've had, but I have no brand loyalty with it and am not nutso over it or anything. I looked at and drove a couple Mustang GT350s (not the R just the 350) a couple years ago and really liked that car. Love the sounds it makes, great suspension for a Mustang, that flat plane motor howls, one of the best stock sounds from a car under $100k IMO. It performs well, and its transmission had a better feel than the regular GTs I've driven.

Immediately thought of you my Floridian friend.

Knew-some on board Marine 1. Hahah. Ahahaha. Hahahahaha. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Splat. Semper Fi!

1:45 in the video. BTW you guys should watch this dude, he's former RCMP but don't hold that against him, he crucifies Trudeau, and is obviously a huge DJT proponent.

We love NA V8s in this household.

I picked up a 2014 Camaro SS convertible in the spring of 2024 - didn't end up getting to drive it much, but this year I plan to. It was hard to find a 6spd manual one that was in decent shape with low enough miles, took a couple years to find one I liked enough. Our primary summer car has been until this past fall, a Lexus LC500, V8 NA powered unit, great, great engine, fantastic sound too. Miss both of those LC cars we had. Might go IS 500 this year too, we'll see, that one isn't up to me and I'll probably get outvoted. Both of the LC cars we've leased got INSANE attention. Like constantly, it's a rare car, I still don't get why, as it's really a bargain for what you get these days, and it has IMO the best factory exhaust sound of any sports car short of something like an SVJ Lamborghini or something like that.

The IS 500 has a very similar powertrain, but it's a 4 door, and you can pick a 2023 off up here for $40k USD or so with very low mileage. The Japs at Lexus/Toyota made a fantastic performance V8, IMO for a stock factory engine it can run with the LS/Ford stuff in a lot of categories. There are SO few manufacturers that are making NA V8 RWD cars now, and I'm jumping on those I like while they are around. I've owned a LOT of LT1/LS V8 cars too, 97, 98, 2002 Ram Air Firebirds, 2006 Corvette, 2010 Camaro SS, and now the 2014 car which I've barely driven, as I was in the hospital 2 days after parking it in the garage FFS. Just wanted a cheaper convertible to see if I even like the roof down, and for the $ it's a great car, $24k CAD(so almost free in USD) with 30k miles on it.

If I end up liking the roof down, then I'll also be looking for a 2006 Chev SSR as well, NA v8 in it too. Always loved that weird truck/convertible thing, it's a pretty rare truck too, so fun for the local car show nights. The 2006 has a bit better engine output/etc than the earlier couple years it was made, and they are rare, and usually astronomical $. I blew such a great opportunity for one a few years back, but went after a Trailblazer SS instead (because I talked myself out of the convertible thing), which I'm sure anyone bothering to TLDR this knows it has the LS2 out of the C6 Corvette, and that deal ended up falling apart as well.

Fun thread, you guys have and have had some cool rides. Where is that Lazs character anyhow, he had a truckcar with a built engine in it didn't he, along with his bikes?

Same old story, Boroda realizing how bad his military sucks, it having been proven now, by being annihilated by a bunch of untrained rag tag guys defending their country with shoulder fired infantry weapons given to them by the West. Just a fraction of the Western military's weapons and technology literally destroyed the vast majority of Russia's first line units and their equipment.

Now imagine if even a single Western nation brought its air power to bear on Russia, and its experienced, trained, and equipped land forces - Russian forces would be obliterated. I mean again, look what Ukraine did with what, 3 Patriot batteries, some artillery, lots of shoulder fired AT/ A2A missiles, and some ammunition.

So of course, Boroda being embarrassed knowing this is true, and that his mighty Russian military is all bark and no bite, resorts to the old shtick of "watch for the contrails".

Yes, the contrails would fly both ways, what with the USA having 2 to 4 SSBNs deployed every day, the UK and France having them as well, plus stealth/low observable aircraft that can literally roam Russian with impunity dropping nuclear bombs/missiles with ease. Yes, Russia could use nuclear weapons, technology that they STOLE from the USA because their own inbred scientists were too stupid to build their own - luckily the failure rate for complex Russian weapons is very high, it makes a nuclear exchange with Russia almost winnable.

Mig 23 is deep in development at Razbam too, or was at least.

Zero is coming as well. As is a full fidelity F15C, which will be good times.

Poor Red team - F16C, F18C, F14, now full fidelity F15C, Typhoon, F35, Tornado is coming too. Mig 29 full fidelity is coming as well, that's my favorite fighter of all time, for some good reasons and a good story about a smoking hot girl in a Mig29 shirt at an air show when I was itty bitty, 18 I think.

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Kiev in 3 days is your invention. We don't want to demolish our own country.

LMAO!!

Have you lost your mind? Just look at the dozens and dozens of cities you and your cross eyed inbred orcs have destroyed already. It's probably closing in on a trillion in damage and hundreds of thousands of lives. You already demolished 1/3 of it, dumbass. Stop drinking brake cleaner, like many good Russian soldiers did/do to get wasted.

Since when does a country still remain a Russian possession merely because it was part of the Soviet Union? Lots of former Soviet republics left and became their own nations, lots joined NATO as well. So do they all remain Russian property by your logic still? Or is it just because you're half Ukrainian that you feel that Ukraine is part of Russia still?

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Anyone who wants war is a dangerous insane fuck.

You Americuns over the pond just don't realize it.

Then why did your mongoloid cross eyed president invade Ukraine? Doesn't that make him a dangerous insane fuck, by your definition?

Or are you going to pull the typical Russian tactic of just outright lying and gaslighting, saying that it wasn't an invasion, and that Ukraine actually invaded Russia, the world is just seeing things backwards and inverted.

IF we can get Poilievre in and he can form a majority government, we still stand a chance as a nation. Be tough slugging though once he's in to fix all the damage done since Trudeau came in 9 years ago now. One thing that will be interesting is that the Block Quebec party, the only party allowed to be a one Province federal party (wtf ), will likely be the official oppostion of current polls are right. That means the official oppossition will only be worried about their one fucked up frog Province, not the country, which might complicate things.

Best outcome IMO still is for the 3 Western/Central Provinces, or at least AB and SK, to say fuck you to confederation and start a new 2 Province protectorate in alliance with the USA, use US currency, passports, all of it. Two richest Provinces with more oil and grain than almost every US state with the exception of maybe Texas, with a combined population of around 4ish million. Be so great for the US economy, and even better for AB/SK. Plus the people here will vote 80% Republican, which would be a good thing for the electoral college, haha.