‘F–king stubborn’ Biden may refuse to go despite exit speculation as Pelosi joins mutiny: insiders

MILWAUKEE — A “f–king stubborn” President Biden is still refusing to relinquish the Democratic nomination, sources close to the 81-year-old president told The Post Thursday — despite speculation that he may step aside this weekend after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined mutineers urging him to retire.

Axios’ Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen — two of the best-sourced and most respected political journalists in Washington — reported Thursday that “several top Democrats” believe the commander-in-chief is under such intense pressure that he will indeed step aside.

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Ontario insists EV subsidies not wasted as Ford Motor Co. plans gas trucks for Oakville

The Ontario government is insisting that billions of dollars spent attracting electric vehicle manufacturers to Ontario have not been wasted after the Ford Motor Company announced it would produce a gas-powered truck at a plant originally meant for zero-emissions vehicles.

On Thursday, the American auto giant said it would produce F-Series Super Duty trucks at its Oakville Assembly Complex beginning in summer 2026, with an electric version to follow “later this decade.”

h/t DS

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Israel rejects Palestinian state in blow to Biden

Israel’s parliament has voted in favour of a resolution rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, in a sharp rebuff to mounting US and Arab pressure.

The vote on Wednesday came a week before Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will visit Washington, where he is due to address Congress. Democratic lawmakers sitting in the US legislative body have been critical of Israel over the war in Gaza.

Joe ain’t in charge of nuttin.

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Michael Taube: It’s up to Pierre Poilievre to clean up Trudeau’s NATO mess

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) set a target in 2014 for member states to earmark two per cent of their national GDP for defence spending, noting that allies below this level would “aim to move towards” reaching the guideline “within a decade.”

Of the 31 NATO member states, only one still hasn’t met this reasonable target. Take a wild guess as to which country it is.

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UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy refuses to say he was wrong to call Trump ‘neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’

David Lammy has refused to say whether he was wrong about Donald Trump, after previously calling the former US president a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.

The Foreign Secretary said Trump had the “thickest of skins” after he was challenged over comments he made as a backbench MP in 2018 and if it could affect UK-US relations if the Republican nominee wins November’s presidential election.

Mr Lammy told BBC Breakfast: “Donald Trump is the biggest, in many ways, of political characters we have at this point on the planet.

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Former safety minister wants ‘protective zones’ for MPs’ offices as threats increase from that vote bloc the Liberal party covets

Marc Miller Pallie Love Recipient

OTTAWA – Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino is calling for the creation of “protective zones” around political constituency offices to shield members of Parliament and their staff from a rising tide of threatening behaviour.

Mendicino, a Toronto Liberal MP, said under the plan anyone who intimidated or otherwise harassed people within the buffer zone of perhaps 50 to 100 metres would be subject to harsher criminal penalties including jail time.

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Truth, One Billboard at a Time

No child has ever been born in the wrong body. It’s a simple message—the true ones usually are. Yet in our muddied times, this statement has become so controversial so as to prompt a Canadian father to lay down a stable career in finance to take to the streets wearing a sandwich board to make this, and other similar proclamations of basic truth, known to the world.

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Throw in the Damn Towel!

On President Biden, the tragic Ali–Holmes fight, and knowing when to quit.

As he battles an effort in his own party to get him to step aside after his disastrous debate performance, President Biden likes to use a boxing analogy: “When you get knocked down, you get back up.”

But there is another lesson he should take from boxing, which is that at a certain point, it is better to stay down.

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Trump attempt: why didn’t they shoot?

Much has been written about the Secret Service’s failure to secure the rooftop of the most obvious sniper hide in the area of Donald Trump. There are two possible conclusions: (1) From the lowest ranking agent present, to present supervisors, to the Director, the Secret Service (SS) is unbelievably incompetent. Or (2) the SS at some level or levels, perhaps on its own or acting on direction from above, was doing all it could to create vulnerabilities with plausible deniability, vulnerabilities they hoped someone would exploit to kill Donald Trump. A related possibility is they were creating those vulnerabilities while someone was simultaneously working to ensure someone exploited those vulnerabilities.

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Donald Trump delivers heartfelt call for ‘unity’ and recounts harrowing assassination bid in RNC speech

Former President Donald Trump took the stage in the final hour of the Republican National Convention Thursday and delivered a deeply heartfelt, and harrowing, address just days after he miraculously survived an assassin’s bullet — vowing to heal and unite the country.

The powerful speech, which he wrote after his terrifying near-death experience, was a departure from his usual bombastic and brazen rhetoric. He only referred to his political foe, President Biden, by name once — but avoided any of the sneering nicknames he has used to denounce the president in the past, such as “Crooked Joe.”

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Biden’s Team Deliberately Kneecapped Trump’s Security To Allow An Assassination Attempt

Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well, because it needs to be said: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice aforethought created the conditions that led to an attempted assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is not currently in the midst of a violent civil war.

They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed. And they did it repeatedly, over many weeks and months.

h/t DS

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WTF???

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Ireland’s anti-immigration protests are turning more violent

It would have been reasonable to assume that the relatively poor showing for anti-immigration candidates in Ireland’s local elections last month, like the unexpectedly strong performance by the governing coalition, marked the beginning of a decline for Ireland’s nascent populist movement. But yesterday’s serious disorder in Coolock, a working-class community in North Dublin, proves that the issue is very far from defused.

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Leading ‘Trump Russia Hoax’ Propagandist’s Wife Indicted As Foreign Spy

Max Boot – a big fan of ‘forever wars’ who laundered Trump-Russia conspiracy theories through the Washington Post – is married to a South Korean spy who used to work for the CIA, and is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (now on ‘administrative leave) – according to a new indictment revealed on Wednesday.

h/t Mauser

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The Secret Service Was Created to Stop Leftist Terror. It Became the Left.

“The strength of our organization,” Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle argued in the 2023 report, lay in, among other things, “seeking out the boundless benefits of diversity.”

The Secret Service offers “leadership training on how best to support LGBTQ+ employees” and “training on unconscious bias” which is the idea that all white people are innately racist, and tries to guide more “more inclusive decisions” while “increasing empathy” for minorities.

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