CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Monday’s taping of The Late Show in an attempt to help him reverse his collapse in the polls by labeling his Conservative Party opponent, Pierre Poilievre, “Canada’s Trump,” which naturally means he is, in Colbert’s eyes, a fascist, nativist-xenophobe.
Man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump at Florida golf club
A man accused of lurking outside Donald Trump’s south Florida golf course on 15 September with a gun – and allegedly writing about his desire to kill him – was charged on Tuesday with attempting to kill the Republican presidential candidate.
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was indicted on five counts in south Florida federal court: attempted assassination of a major political candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, assaulting a federal officer, felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He was first charged with federal firearms crimes after his arrest.
The media are desperate to make us forget Crooks and Routh.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs’s approval ratings are the lowest of any premier in Confederation, according to the Angus Reid Institute. When he launched his re-election campaign Thursday, Mr. Higgs needed to pick on someone even more unpopular.
Luckily for him, there’s Justin Trudeau.
Every politician in Canada is running against Mr. Trudeau, except Liberals, who are running away from him.
This is extremely curious: “Prosecutors had to prove Alissa was sane….The defense did not have to provide any evidence and did not present any experts to say that Alissa was insane.”
H/T kiki9
As Parliamentarians spar over a DOA non-confidence motion and the prime minister chats with late-night host Stephen Colbert, the drama Canadians should really be watching is Season Two of the Hogue Commission on foreign interference. From a clueless Liberal party apparatchik to the Speaker’s refusal to prioritize issues of national security, it is the best spy show going — if only Canadians would tune in. So here are the highlights from the latest instalments.
In both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, pollsters underestimated Donald Trump’s level of support. Using 538‘s election day polling averages, the Democratic candidate’s national lead over Trump was 3.9 points lower than the polls predicted in 2020 and 1.8 points lower in 2016. This pattern looks set to continue with Kamala Harris in 2024, and part of the issue stems from how pollsters estimate turnout.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! @fancypants_s https://t.co/O2TlBa4KwH
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) September 25, 2024
From 1994 until 2009, I traveled regularly to Peru and for seven of those years essentially lived in its capital city, Lima. In his entertaining book Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend, Patrick Symmes provides a description of Lima circa 1996 and dubbed it “Scorch”.
It certainly matched my 1994 experience. During 25 years of anarchy, those Peruvians who could, shipped their kids and cash overseas and allowed their homes to become covered in graffiti. The municipal governments stopped maintaining parks and there was an explosion in the rat community in every empty lot in the city.
NEW: Former CDC Director Robert Redfield endorses Donald Trump, admits to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he "got everything right."
RFK Jr. explained how he was appalled to find out that Redfield, who he was extremely critical of, was endorsing Trump.
"Robert Redfield, who I really go… pic.twitter.com/sBNJ0fDh7E
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 25, 2024
Swiss police say they have opened a criminal investigation and arrested several people after the suspected death of a woman in a so-called suicide capsule.
According to local reports, the capsule, named the Sarco Pod by its inventor, was used for the first time on Monday afternoon in a forest close to the German border in the Swiss town of Merishausen.
Justin Trudeau Makes Shocking Admission on The Colbert Show pic.twitter.com/AHVPiQg6Ht
— Danny Polishchuk (@Dannyjokes) September 24, 2024
H/T Mauser, Patti Jo and Auntie Pollie
Canada’s Conservative party will make its first bid to unseat prime minister Justin Trudeau this week, the latest attempt in its decade-long aim of restoring the Tories to power.
Buoyed by favourable polls, a cost of living crisis and an increasingly unpopular prime minister, the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, will introduce a motion of non-confidence in the minority government: a long-shot bid to force the government to call an election.
The move, which lawmakers will debate on Wednesday, is doomed to fail, with smaller parties agreeing to temporarily support the incumbent Liberal party.
France’s new interior minister has pledged to expel illegal immigrants who have “broken in” to the country amid moves aimed at toughening law and order.
Bruno Retailleau also called for a coalition of willing EU countries to compel the European Commission to tighten its immigration laws.
His pledges for a harsher response to asylum claims, violence against police, radical Islam and drug trafficking were said to reflect the growing influence of Marine Le Pen’s hard-Right National Rally (RN).
American politicians are stepping up pressure on Canada and Mexico to stop imports of goods made by forced labour.
In public remarks, some have already noted statistical evidence that Canada has not done any of the enforcement it promised to under the new NAFTA.
Now they’re putting it in writing. And they’re tying the issue to future trade negotiations, with the continental trade agreement up for review starting in 2026.
Trudeau’s government loves human exploitation, they import indentured servants by the millions.
Justin Trudeau tried to put on a jovial face when he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night. But the prime minister’s pledge to “fight climate change” while “continuing to invest in people” rang hollow with voters at home.
He speaks as if this is just something that's happening to us all — some natural phenomena — and he's doing his best to respond to events that are outside of anyone's control. "We lost a little ground over the past decades on building housing, so…" https://t.co/pkVQF4zXwD
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 24, 2024
