Author: Blazingcatfur

Gay ‘Dr. Who’ actor may have driven away half the show’s audience

Dr. Bitchy Bitch

In 1963, the BBC debuted Dr. Who, a show about an earth-friendly alien who zooms around time and space in his “Tardis,” a spaceship disguised as a 1960s-era police callbox. In every episode, he has exciting adventures with his female sidekick and often saves mankind from bad aliens. The original show was retired in 1983, only to be rebooted in 2005. Along the way, the Doctor periodically “regenerated,” allowing new actors to replace the old ones. The latest regeneration is a woke, black, gay guy. When audiences felt he failed in Dr. Who-ness, he told them not to watch…and it appears that 50% of them promptly turned off their sets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Civilisational Decline Is A Choice

The aphorism attributed to Mark Twain about travel being anathema to “prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness” could not be less true. Having visited various cities in the past year, I find I hunger for home the furthest from it I go—no matter how mismanaged my rainy little archipelago is at the moment. Despite politicians pronouncing themselves democrats, our bureaucratic systems obfuscate accountability. But looking to places like the United States or Japan provides a sobering reminder that everything in politics is a choice. Staying aware of this fact allows us to resist resignation to civilisational decline and allocate blame accordingly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", Decline & Fall

“I Don’t Regret It”: Palestinian Student Whose Visa was Revoked for Boasting She Was “Full of Pride and Joy” at October 7th Hamas Attack

A Palestinian student who said she was ‘full of pride’ after Hamas launched its attack on Israel has declared ‘I don’t regret it’ after the Home Office revoked her visa.

Dana Abuqamar, 19, a law student at the University of Manchester, attended a pro-Palestine protest just one day after Hamas carried out its horrific October 7 attack.

During the demonstration, Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was filmed saying she was ‘really full of joy’ and ‘proud that Palestinian resistance has come to this point’.

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

Donald Trump’s multiracial populism

For all the cries of ‘racist’, Trump is attracting more black and Hispanic voters than ever before.

My favourite fact about Donald Trump is that he has actually made the Republicans a more – to use that cringeworthy phrase – ‘diverse’ party. Yes, the man accused of being the most ‘racist’, ‘xenophobic’ politician ever to lead the free world has been steadily gaining support among black and brown Americans.

The numbers don’t lie. ‘Trump’s shares of the nationwide black, Hispanic and Asian vote in 2016 were two, two and three points greater, respectively, than Mitt Romney’s in 2012’, notes the Wall Street Journal. ‘Even as he lost in 2020, Mr Trump improved on his own performance among these segments by four, three and five points, respectively.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Beverley McLachlin’s continued tenure on Hong Kong’s court is an ongoing disgrace

Beverley McLachlin has spent the past six years servicing the reputation of Hong Kong’s top court, while destroying the one she spent a lifetime building in Canada.

Had she decided, upon her retirement from the Supreme Court of Canada in 2017, to invest in a nice condo in Boca Raton and take up watercolour portraits or something, her legacy would have been set as one of the most esteemed and accomplished jurists in generations. She was the first woman and longest-serving chief justice of the Supreme Court; she was a professor, an author, and at times, a polarizing figure, but her fidelity to law and order, to democracy and fairness was without question. But Ms. McLachlin has torched that very legacy by renting out her reputation to a sham court operating under the thumb of Beijing’s repressive and authoritarian regime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Hong Kong

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s pledge of open access to government information lies in ruins

Among all of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s broken promises, the most cynical has been the abandonment of his pledge in the 2015 election campaign that brought him to power, to deliver open and transparent government to Canadians.

“Government data and information should be open by default in formats that are modern and easy to use,” the Liberals promised in 2015.

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

Josh Dehaas: Is there a Charter right to campus encampments? Unlikely

University administrators seem unsure about how to respond to anti-Israel encampments. Last week in Calgary, police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the occupiers. In Edmonton, police went in with batons over the weekend. McGill sought an injunction to clear its camp but on Wednesday, it was denied. In Ottawa and Toronto, administrators have opted for negotiations. One reason for hesitancy by some leaders may be concerns that giving the occupiers the boot would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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

Hijab Hoax school board investigating incident of alleged antisemitism at North York school following community rally

TDSB investigating incident of alleged antisemitism at North York school following community rally

The Toronto District School Board is investigating an incident that sparked a community rally outside a North York school Friday morning in support of a Jewish student.

In a letter sent home to parents Friday afternoon, Principal Katia Robles said the rally “was related to serious allegations involving students.” She said it was reported to administrators that “a small group of students were throwing stones, among other items, at each other at various times during the day” on Thursday. The letter does not specify further details about what happened or why.

Rally attendees, however, say that the student they showed up to support was targeted because he is Jewish and the victim of antisemitism and bullying.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ditto for Canada

Admitting Gazan refugees would be proof that Britain has a death wish

It was only a matter of time before the call came. Now Labour MPs, including Sam Tarry and Jess Phillips, are agitating for Britain to take in Palestinians fleeing Gaza.

Tarry, the MP for Ilford South, suggested that the Gazan people are “a highly skilled … and well-educated workforce” who could benefit the UK, while Phillips said “all of the Gazans that we resettled into Birmingham Yardley were actually doctors, and are bringing huge amounts of resources”. If that is the case, then surely Palestinians who can get out of Gaza can apply for skilled worker visas like any other immigrant trying to get into the UK?

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

The Myth of Student Protest

Student radicals turning out in droves to protest for Palestine seem to expect that their organized mass demonstrations will foment revolutionary change. They are inspired by the example of the 1960s, and the civil rights marchers and Vietnam War protesters are their muses. These were the heroes who put their bodies on the line facing fire hoses and club-wielding cops to bend the arc of history toward good.

At least that’s the myth they’ve been taught, sometimes by aged protesters themselves, or by student activists who morphed into professors and never left campus for the real world.

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

France is spiralling out of control

The prison van attack is just the beginning

The cold-blooded execution of two prison guards at a Normandy motorway toll on Tuesday has shocked France. It is for many commentators and politicians incontrovertible evidence of the ‘Mexicanisation’ of the Republic.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has told the escaped prisoner and his accomplices that they will be hunted down and punished, but it better be done quickly. With every passing hour that they remain at liberty it reinforces the image of a state that, in the words of Senator Bruno Retailleau, ‘has lost control’.

Other politicians are talking of a ‘war’. Eric Zemmour told an interviewer the country was engaged in ‘a civil war’, while Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the centre-right Republicans said that the ‘state is in the process of losing the war’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

How Can Joe Biden Win With This Demographic Shift?

Biden constipated

We’ve been covering Joe Biden’s polling problems for months now. Aside from matchup polling, there have been multiple polls that have shown him losing support from key Democratic constituencies: young voters, Hispanic voters, and, of course, black voters. In fact, things have gotten so bad for Joe Biden with black voters that CNN is having a hard time wrapping their leftist brains around it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President 10%"