Kamela Harris is the star in the 2024 sequel of this 1979 classic movie.
I’ve found it fascinating that in both national polling as well as social media posts from actual friends of mine who are staunchly liberal, Kackles Harris (and Tampon Tim) enjoy a popularity that is incredibly puzzling to rational, thinking adults (aka conservatives), even though this pair have yet to say or post anything firm and substantial in policy but only to copycat Trump on the idea of eliminating taxes on tips.
Our society has been sapped of meaning
I set off last Wednesday on a three-week road trip around the United States. I had high expectations drizzled in nostalgia, since I was repeating a project I’d done exactly nine years before: the idea, then and now, was to talk to people about the American Dream. I was hoping to get a sense of the mood of America ahead of the November election.
In that spirit, my first stop was Scranton, a city in northeast Pennsylvania. The downtown nearing dinner time was empty except for professionals dashing from cubicles to cars, and the destitute hiding in nooks from the lingering heat, emerging only to ask for money, either via long lies or by pleas to my empathy.
My motel, a run-down, squalid place that at $45 a night was still extortionate, was at least social, with the buzz of a long-term residency, which was what it was for everyone there but me. My fellow guests were outside smoking and drinking in the only fresh air and view they had.
Silencing critics of Islamism will embolden the extremists who make Muslims’ lives hell.
The riots that followed last month’s Southport stabbings have justifiably shocked the UK. But as with all crises, where some wish for the return of peace and order, others see the opportunity to push an ideological agenda. One such group of opportunists are those who want to legislate against the manufactured crime of ‘Islamophobia’.
As if two-tier justice were not bad enough, Britain is third tier in the global index of free expression.
The fundamental principle of democracy is that change is effected peacefully by a vote at the ballot box, thereby removing the need for violent kicks to a sensitive area. Ineffectual or negligent governments can be removed and replaced by those more willing to enact the will of the populace. Unfortunately for Brits, the ballot box is now a one-way street: guaranteeing ‘Labour lite’ or ‘Labour full strength,’ whichever way you vote in this two-party, one-party state. That only leaves recourse to freedom of speech, should one wish to object.
Who did this ?? pic.twitter.com/6uvQKA5GIb
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) August 15, 2024
Related: Poll: Large Number of Britons Support Anti-Migration Political Violence
The Trudeau Liberals are channeling Captain Louis Renault as they react in shock to problems with Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. Movie fans will know Captain Renault as the corrupt police chief in Casablanca.
After Captain Renault barges into Rick’s Cafe — more of a nightclub and casino — Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, walks up and asks on what grounds his establishment is being shut down.
“I’m shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here,” Captain Renault says.
A very good thread explaining the Liberal and NDP treachery.
Short thread time: How on earth did the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers nearly triple in 2022?
TL;DR – The federal government made some massive changes a mere 13 days after the Liberals and NDP signed the Supply and Confidence Agreement. pic.twitter.com/PrQ6XeJ1xT
— Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 (@MikePMoffatt) August 10, 2024
Like counterparts around the world, Canada’s youth are struggling, victims of a weak economy and a rising cost of living crisis. Whereas boomers rode an unprecedented wave of prosperity and higher living standards, younger Canadians, particularly those under 30, are now more pessimistic about the future than older generations.
These realities suggest severe consequences for the rest of us, and for our future. Younger voters were once seen as the driver of a progressive takeover of all institutions. But today younger voters are, if anything, headed in different directions, with some, notably single women, headed to the left while men, in almost all countries, moving decisively to the right.
Video footage circulating on social media shows two female Montreal cops get completely owned by a male suspect they tried to arrest.
Dude saw it was only two female cops and took his chance pic.twitter.com/ACNPm1zxue
— Idiots Caught In Camera (@IdiotsInCamera) August 13, 2024
Toronto police say they have made 32 arrests and laid 158 criminal charges following a nearly year-long investigation into a Toronto street gang that was allegedly using Canada Post to distribute drugs to other provinces.
Police made the announcement at a news conference on Thursday where they provided details on ‘Project Foxxx.’
The 11-month investigation targeted the alleged activities of the ‘Jamestown Crips’ street gang. While that gang has historical roots in the Etobicoke area, police say that their alleged crimes span well beyond those borders.
What is your reaction to her bold proclamation about seeing the USA collapse and fail? pic.twitter.com/rYd8MDGs6C
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 15, 2024
Wyt women often slide back into wytness and if that makes no sense, then you’re in luck because a wyt woman is here to explain. pic.twitter.com/ouq8CPbPlg
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 15, 2024
One of the quirky delights of the era of Late Liberalism is watching Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller play the hard-nosed mafia “cleaner” trying to create a semblance of order after a decade of flawed Liberal immigration policy. Miller has now been handed a case of high political temperature with the July arrests of accused father-and-son terrorists from Toronto who were supposedly preparing a murder rampage. The father, who obtained Canadian citizenship sometime after 2015, has been identified as having a documented background as a torturer for ISIS; the son is not a citizen.
Vancouver pro-Palestinian leader praises ‘heroic’ October 7 massacre on Iranian TV
"I spoke about the brave, heroic Oct. 7 operation"
Charlotte Kates tells Iranian TV – in Tehran – how she glorifies Hamas' Iran-backed terror & violence in Vancouver.
Samidoun, which she helps lead, is linked to the banned PFLP terror group. (Credit: @MEMRIReports) pic.twitter.com/FEcXqO7ELK
— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) August 14, 2024
Canada is so fecked.
Not so long ago we went to politicians for politics and comedians for comedy. Today, like many others, I watch politicians for amusement and listen to comedians for their political insights.
Whenever I want cheering up, I watch Kamala Harris riffing on a theme of her choice, or sometimes a Labour politician trying to explain why a woman can have a penis. By contrast Joe Rogan analyses political questions better than any of them, as does Noam Dworman, of New York’s Comedy Cellar.
Rowan Atkinson on free speech a few years ago, “When I heard of some of these more ludicrous offences & charges I remembered that I had been here before, in a fictional context…” 👏🔥 pic.twitter.com/BMuPcN4vf7
— Elena (@Xerendipitist) June 4, 2023
The Washington Post’s Fatal Force tool can be useful, but its mistakes reinforce a false narrative.
According to Fatal Force, the Washington Post’s police-shooting database, Virgil J. Wolford, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by police on April 30, 2018. Except he wasn’t. Wolford, Jr. was, in fact, non-fatally shot by the Columbus police after stabbing a woman and pointing a shotgun at officers. In 2019, he received a three-year prison sentence (which he appealed, and lost, in 2020). He died in his home in April 2023.
Any police use of force, especially deadly force, is a grave matter. But the reason that videos of police shootings tend to go viral is that they are quite rare—and the unjustified or even questionable use of deadly force is rarer still. Our calculations—based on the annual average of police–public contacts from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Police Public Contact Survey in 2015, 2018, and 2020, and on the annual fatal shooting counts of the Post database—show that police use force of any type in less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all 911 calls. Less than 0.002 percent of police encounters each year result in a fatal shooting by police.
There are two economies in Canada right now. In one, employment rebounded smartly after the pandemic maelstrom in the spring of 2020, recovering lost jobs by September of that year. In the other, it took until November, 2021 to rebound.
In one, the number of jobs has jumped by 18 per cent between February, 2020, and last month. In the other, the number of employees has risen by a third of that amount, just 6 per cent.
That first economy is the public sector; the second is the one that has to pay for the rapid expansion of the first – the private sector. The most recent data from the Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada underscore the outsized growth in the number of public sector employees, particularly since the onset of the pandemic.
Will this ever happen or will it become yet another perennial unfulfilled wish of Canadian conservative politics like defunding the CBC or right-sizing immigration?
Paris. June 9. 8pm. The results of the European Parliament elections were made public. in In France, the party of President Emmanuel Macron garnered 14.6% of the vote, 8 points less than in 2019; the French population had turned away from Macron. The Socialist Party came out with 13.8% of the vote and Rebellious France, a far-left party, 9.89% of the vote. The moderate right party, The Republicans, received only 7.25% of the vote and continued to slide towards insignificance. The right wing National Rally received 31.3% of the vote, 10 points more than in 2019, an extremely high result for a long-marginalized party.
