Author: Blazingcatfur

Pierre Poilievre needs to stay as leader of the Conservative Party. Here’s why

By now, it is pretty clear that the 25-point lead Pierre Poilievre enjoyed in the polls a mere four months ago had very little to do with him. He looked like a shoo-in to be the Prime Minister of Canada because he faced an extremely unpopular opponent and was catering to a very disgruntled electorate who were focused on their personal grievances. But remove the opponent, have voter’s concerns shift from past angers to future uncertainties and his massive electoral edge disappeared.

In fact, even when he was leading, it was evident that Canadians were not particularly enamoured with Poilievre the person — his favourability ratings never exceeded his negatives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Do British prisons really have an Islamophobia problem?

There is no question that Britain’s prisons are becoming more violent. Figures published last week show assaults on staff and prisoners at record levels. The Muslim charity Maslaha has claimed that force used by prison staff to quell the rising tide is fuelled by “Islamophobia” and is a result of the racialised policing of the landings across eight of the nine prisons it surveyed. Is this an accurate or fair representation of the problem?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Greenism is the road to ruin – and revolt

Tony Blair is running scared of a populist backlash that he himself stoked.

Not for the first time, Tony Blair is making life difficult for his party by saying something vaguely commonsensical. Ahead of the General Election last year, Blair felt moved to announce that only men have penises, forcing Labour leader Keir Starmer to meekly agree. Now, ahead of the local elections tomorrow, Blair has – in effect – declared many of the Labour government’s climate-change policies to be ‘irrational’. That noise you hear in the distance is Ed Miliband smashing up his ukelele.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Canada’s “Lost Liberal Decade” Just Got Longer

On Monday night, President Donald Trump single-handedly saved Canada’s Liberal Party from the electoral disaster predicted by pollsters for over a year. With 99% of polls reporting, the Liberals secured 168 seats in the federal election—just shy of the 172 needed for a majority government, but a stunning comeback for a party that, earlier this year, was expected to be nearly wiped out by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. It is the first time a Canadian government has earned a fourth mandate since William Lyon Mackenzie’s four consecutive terms from 1921 to 1935.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Tucker Carlson makes explosive claims about Michelle Obama in blistering new attack on former first lady

Tucker Carlson has claimed Michelle Obama hates her husband Barack, and that people like her, who aren’t happily married, are to blame for society’s collapse.

The former Fox News anchor made the blistering comments on The Megyn Kelly Show as he discussed the Obama’s much-talked about 30-year marriage.

Carlson said former First Lady Michelle ‘really dislikes her husband and it’s super obvious.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Tucker Carlson"

Canada narrowly missed a far-right prime minister. But we’re not in the clear yet

After a snap election, weeks of breathless campaigning and a surprisingly close race, Mark Carney has been elected prime minister of Canada. It’s a win for Liberals, who were rightly nervous that former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s poor performance and late-stage missteps might cost them this election. But Carney’s win isn’t as comforting as it should be, especially when we look at all the events leading up to it.

It’s no secret that over the last decade, Canada’s image as a welcoming, pacifist, melting pot has completely unravelled, revealing a rightwing underbelly that has seen the rise of the “manosphere” and a deepening of its influences on young people, as well as a sharp increase in anti-immigrant sentiment and hate crimes. When it came down to this election, it was Trudeau’s forced resignation and people’s ability to credibly accuse the Liberal party of spending a decade basically twiddling their thumbs while the cost of living soared, that pushed Canadians to the right and helped the Conservative party coast to a near win.

You can only find stuff like this at the Guardian.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

BROWN: We won’t quickly forget Ford’s betrayal

There are the scapegoats we expected following Monday’s disappointing result for Canada’s future generations — that appear destined to strain the ties that bind its very confederation — and then there are the ones many never saw coming.

The ‘boomer vote,’ as was feared, overwhelmingly prioritized Trump, tossing “making housing more affordable,” “growing the economy,” and “making Canada a better place to live” down the ballot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Colby Cosh: Craving stability, Canadians elected a perilously unstable government

I think we have to admit from time to time that Westminster-style parliamentary democracy can have a schizoid quality. Canadians voted in a general election last night amidst an atmosphere of looming dread and economic panic. We were obviously desperate for safety and stability: voters of the left-wing luxury-beliefs parties turned against their leaders, and toward Mark Carney, with the savagery and single-mindedness of Cossacks having a pogrom. (Sympathy for federal New Democrats isn’t a natural impulse for me, but hoo boy. Some of those riding totals, man.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Trump Didn’t Have to Humiliate ’60 Minutes’ Like This, but He Did It Anyway

President Donald Trump slammed CBS, Paramount, and the television show “60 Minutes” in a long post on Truth Social.

The president on Wednesday said his lawsuit against the three entities “is a true WINNER” and claimed they “cheated and defrauded the American People at levels never seen before in the Political Arena.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Trump’s De Facto Election Interference Ensured the Left’s Victory in Canada

Did Trump actually want the globalist candidate to win?

Canada’s Liberal Party, which appeared headed for certain defeat earlier this year, trounced the opposition in Monday’s elections.

This story’s exclamation point, if not the buried lede, involves Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre. He went from the man who would be prime minister to the unemployment line in a matter of months.

It’s what he wanted …

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025, USA

Forget the conclave – cardinals are already negotiating in Rome’s pizza parlours

One is partial to grilled calamari, another cannot resist spaghetti with seafood and a third confesses to a weakness for gelato.

As cardinals prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel in a few days to elect a new pope, they are engaged in intense discussions over plates of carbonara and bottles of wine in the Borgo, the village-like quarter of cobbled lanes, tiny piazzas and ornate fountains that lies just a few yards from the walls of the Vatican City State.

Think of them as “gnocchi negotiations”; perhaps “tagliatelle talks”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Stellantis to move some auto production to avoid U.S. tariffs

Automaker Stellantis is set to shift some vehicle production and revamp its parts supply lines to avoid paying tariffs in the United States.

The maker of Jeep, Chrysler, Fiat and other brands plans to move some pick-up truck production to Michigan from Mexico, and is talking with parts suppliers about transferring output to U.S. facilities to boost the American content in its vehicles and dodge the levies, said Doug Ostermann, chief financial officer of the Netherlands-based automaker.

We sorta dodged a bullet this go round.

68,000 job losses possible in Ontario this year due to U.S. trade war: report

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA