Author: Blazingcatfur

Buying Twitter was Elon Musk’s $44bn gamble. It might be working

Two years after the takeover the platform ‘X’ is losing billions, but it’s still setting the political agenda and has had some success in promoting his libertarian views

There was nothing inevitable about this year’s biggest news announcement being posted on X.

When President Biden stood down by sharing a letter on the Elon Musk-owned social platform on July 21, he upended American politics. But Biden also confirmed something else.

Almost two years on from his takeover, Musk’s eye-wateringly expensive $44 billion (£34.2 billion) gamble to transform Twitter into X has not undermined the fundamental relevance of the site. What leads the nightly news and splashes on front pages across the globe still usually appears first on X.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oligarchy"

Paris Olympics: a smug spectacle of wokeness

Is anyone else bored of ‘queering’? Everything’s getting ‘queered’ these days. We’ve had ‘Queering the Curriculum’. ‘Queering the Arts’. And my personal favourite: ‘Queering Palestine.’ This entails academics ‘unpack[ing] the multiple intersections of queer politics and the Palestinian struggle’. Hot tip for these profs: if Hamas ever invites you to discuss your theories, don’t agree to meet them on the high floor of a building. ‘Queering the Pavement’ is the only thing they’re interested in.

I haven’t watched the Olympics in years because it’s such a scam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Weimar", "Peak Woke"

Princess Leia’s Star Wars bikini fetches $175,000

A gold bikini worn by the late Carrie Fisher in Return of the Jedi has been sold for $175,000 (£136,000) at auction.

The Star Wars costume is one of the most famous outfits in film history.

It includes a bikini top, bikini plates, hip rings, an armlet and bracelet.

Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the films, said she thought director George Lucas was “kidding” when he showed her the bikini.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Hamas sends hostage torture video with direct warning to Israeli minister

Hamas is filming the torture of Israeli hostages in an attempt to force Israel to ease conditions for Palestinian prisoners.

In one video, members of the terrorist group directly address Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister who controls prison policy, two Israeli officials told The Telegraph.

The video shows hostages being tortured while Hamas warn that harsher conditions for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are affecting the well-being of hostages in Gaza.

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

Michael Higgins: The woke barbarians and their Olympic faux pas

It wasn’t barbarians at the gates that caused the downfall of one of the world’s greatest empires but the uncivilized savages within that led to the slow decline of Rome.

The glory that was Rome eroded with the weakening of its culture, its institutions and its way of life. How could the empire exist when the people could no longer define what it meant to be Roman?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Jury in Coutts murder-conspiracy trial expected to begin deliberations this week

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – A story of femmes fatales, government conspiracies, the devil, and an armed invasion leading to a dystopian future has been playing out for seven weeks in a Lethbridge courtroom.

This week, jurors in Lethbridge, Alta., are slated to begin deliberating the fate of Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert.

The two are on trial in Court of King’s Bench, charged with conspiracy to commit murder at the Coutts, Alta., blockade in early 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

With Trudeau’s Liberals in trouble, is Mark Carney the answer?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals remain deeply unpopular, currently trailing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives by as many as 17 points in the polls, after more than a year of lagging behind.

If an election was held today, the Conservatives would likely trounce the Liberals and cruise to a majority government, with polling aggregator 338Canada projecting the Conservatives would win 212 seats, based on the current polling data. The Liberals would win just 74 seats.

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

How Trump’s promise of mass deportations could affect Canada’s border

It was 2017 when Canadians first began to hear of an obscure border crossing near Hemmingford, Que., that was witnessing an unusually high number of illegal crossings on foot.

Large numbers of Haitians, many of them families dragging heavy suitcases, were flying from homes in Florida and New York City to upstate Plattsburgh, N.Y., and then taking a taxi to the tiny farming community of Mooers, N.Y.

Roxham Road would soon become a major news story and a political issue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, USA

Heads should roll over the electric car fiasco

Policymakers have wasted billions chasing a net zero pipe dream. It is time they were held accountable

Profits at the German auto giant Mercedes plunged on Friday as sales of its slick new range of electric vehicles (EVs) went into freefall. Porsche abandoned its sales targets for battery-powered cars amid waning demand from customers. Ford is losing nearly $50,000 (£39,000) on every EV it sells, while Tesla’s profits dropped 45pc. Meanwhile, battery manufacturers such as Germany’s Varta are getting wiped out.

Over the last few days, it has become clear that the EV industry is on the brink of collapse. Hundreds of billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been pumped into this industry by political leaders and the subsidy junkies that surround them – and it is surely time they were held to account for the vast quantities of taxpayer cash that has been wasted.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Anti-Catholic Kamala

Catholics cannot allow her to take over the White House

Donald J. Trump is not a Catholic. He did, however, appoint a majority Catholic Supreme Court who overturned the disastrous Roe v. Wade. His immigration policy is in keeping with the Catholic Church’s teachings on national sovereignty and cultural identity. He has condemned the current administration’s persecution of traditional Catholics. American Catholics are increasingly coalescing around Trump and his no-nonsense policies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"

GUNTER: Parks Canada’s wokeism doomed Jasper

Bureaucracy and environmental wokeism did in Jasper.

Wait for it. There will be an onslaught of accusations that climate change is behind the devastation that occurred in the lovely mountain resort in Alberta.

Environmentalists, academics and the current Liberal government have blamed the Fort McMurray fire in 2016, the Lytton fire in 2021 and last summer’s Quebec fires on climate change. Why not blame it for Jasper 2024, too?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"