Author: Blazingcatfur

After Trump’s Massive Victory, Why Should We Bother Listening to Pollsters Again?

This was supposed to be the tightest U.S. election in living memory. So tight, in fact, that we were told it could take days for the winner to be declared. Yet within just hours of polls closing, it was clear not only that Trump had won, but had won big.

The now-president-elect easily passed the required 270 electoral college votes. He also retook control of the Senate, is now on track to win the popular vote, and could also win a majority in the House of Representatives. That’s a fairly clean slate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Cory Morgan: With Trump’s America-First Focus, Canada Should Quit Shooting Itself in the Foot on Energy

Canada’s general wealth has been in a sharp decline when compared to the United States for over 10 years. In 2013, GDP per capita in the United States and Canada was nearly equal at US$53,000. Today, GPD per capita in the United States is nearing US$82,000 while Canada remains stagnant at US$53,000.

To make things worse, Canada’s federal government plans to put a punitive emissions cap on the oil and gas industry while President-elect Donald Trump is talking about imposing trade tariffs of 10-20 percent on goods coming into the United States. Canada could be heading toward an economic cliff.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters"

White women send a message to Democrats: Don’t patronise us

Millions rallied behind Donald Trump as they rejected appeals they viewed as condescending and out of touch

Lisa Neisler rolls her eyes and scoffs. She is thinking about a campaign advert featuring the actress Julia Roberts, in which women were encouraged to vote Democratic in the secrecy of the voting booth. In the ad, conservative white women are portrayed as wanting to do “the right thing” and vote for Kamala Harris but are too afraid to tell their intimidating husbands who support Donald Trump.

“I was appalled by that commercial,” Neisler, 53, a nurse, says. “I love my husband, I respect my husband. But he doesn’t tell me what to do or who to vote for. I didn’t lose my intellect when I married him.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

Your Morning TDS: How misogyny, racism and character impacted Trump’s return to the White House

Kamala Harris’s loss this week to Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, had me thinking about sexism, race and the issue of character.

It’s now clear that the cost of living, crime and border/immigration anxieties soured voters on the Democratic party, Biden and Harris. She carried that baggage to a humiliating defeat. But as several pundits and everyday citizens also declared before and after election night, “America just isn’t ready for a female president.”

Toxic misogyny runs deep and is so bred into the body politic in the U.S. that it can’t be discounted as impacting Harris’ fortunes significantly.

She seems nice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, Trump Derangement Syndrome

‘God is not a white man’ declare Church of England clergy in Jesus diversity drive

Church of England clergy have declared that “God is not a white man” and are working to make images of Jesus more diverse.

Diocese across the country are reviewing how biblical figures should be depicted as part of a drive for “racial justice”.

Clergy have been urged to question whether images of Jesus truly “reflect diversity”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Terry Newman: Why Amsterdam’s chilling pogrom could happen in Canada

Thursday night, videos showing Israeli soccer fans being ambushed over a period of several hours around Amsterdam appeared on social media, many of them proudly shared by the assailants themselves, echoing how videos of the October 7 attacks were similarly shared. Some attackers rode scooters while assaulting their victims. Mobs chanted anti-Israel slogans, proudly sharing videos of the assaults where they chased, kicked and beat Israeli citizens, after which, some celebrated. Sixty-two people were arrested. All but 10 were quickly released. All of this, on the eve of Kristallnacht. Like the Netherlands, Canadian society at all levels has failed to take a strong stance against antisemitism and to prevent what’s happening in Europe from happening here. That needs to change now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Michael Taube: The lefty media’s unhinged reaction to Donald Trump’s victory

Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election was a remarkable accomplishment — so much so, it should serve as a massive wake-up call to the Democratic party and the political left. Their dislike (or hatred) of Trump was irrational. And their ideas, policies and proposals were clearly out of touch with today’s reality.

There was plenty of TDS in “right-wing” media as well.

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Culture Did A Way Better Job Of Signaling Trump’s Win Than Broken Polls

I don’t study politics, but I do study culture, and there have been some signs that a cultural shift leading to this election result has been brewing for years in America. Most of the professional political analysts just completely missed it.

Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

About Tolerance: These irrational lefties need help.

Why do self-described tolerant people hate so much? In the wake of this historic election, a very definite majority of Americans voted for Trump. Even in California, Harris voters are bound to trip over a closeted Trump voter. Why does the Trump voter have to remain closeted? Why, if a Trump voter is in the majority, does he feel the need to hide? The answer is that the Kamala Harris voters are not at all tolerant. They’re vicious and spiteful creatures who spew venom on their perceived enemies.

And these intolerant people are why Kamala lost. They need to look in the mirror. But first, let’s look at them:

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

No, Trump’s Win Is Not a “Nightmare” for Europeans

Make no mistake—behind their forced congratulations, most European leaders are in a state of shock and horror about Donald Trump’s historic election as the 47th president of the United States of America.

In private, many probably share the lunatic view of Britain’s Labour foreign secretary, David Lammy, who once called President Trump “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath.”

The current mood at the top of the European Union was captured by Politico, bible of the Brussels oligarchy, whose pre-election headline warned that the return of the populist ex-president would be “Europe’s Trumpian Nightmare.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Politics has been colonised by fanatics and bores

Labour MP Dawn Butler’s attack on the new Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, might have been demented, but it wasn’t surprising. Butler is a figure immersed in a simplistic ideology derived from critical race theory, which insists that everything can be explained in terms of race. Her rhetoric over the years – and her infamous retweet last weekend, suggesting that electing a black woman as leader of a right-wing party in a white-majority country represents the epitome of white supremacy – might have appeared deranged to the rest of us. But it was entirely in keeping with a certain unthinking, obsessive, monomaniacal mindset.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists"

Where Are the Missing 11 Million Voters?

As of this writing on Friday, Donald Trump’s popular vote total stood at 74,269,316. By the time you see this article and click on that link, however, that total is certain to be higher. Trump’s final popular vote total has now exceeded his official 2020 total of 74,225,926. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has 68,800,347 popular votes, a steep decline from Old Joe Biden’s 2020 total of 81,286,454.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

We Won and We Need to Act Like It

In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the once and future president.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The U.S. election shows that sometimes the people get it wrong

A landslide, some call it. A sweeping victory – or, if you are so disposed, a stunning defeat. What could it all mean?

But wait a minute. Before we delve too deeply into the Meaning of It All, let’s be clear: To call this week’s presidential election a landslide, or even a significant majority, is complete nonsense, an artifact of two well-known distortions in how the U.S. counts the votes.

Is this Coyne? TDS is like late stage syphilis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?