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Why Trudeau and Harris face similar troubles with voters

As the US presidential campaign nears the finish line, Canada’s prime minister is facing the threat of a snap election being called at any moment.

Justin Trudeau is under intense pressure to step down as leader after nine years in power. His Liberals have been trailing the Conservative Party by a wide margin in the polls for months.

US Vice-President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is in a deadlocked race against Donald Trump as she makes the case for why a Democrat deserves another four years in the White House.

A large segment of voters in both countries are feeling a sense of malaise, telling pollsters they think their respective country is moving in the wrong direction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

Mexico sues American gun makers; the Supreme Court grants cert

In 2005, the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which for the first time in American history acknowledged the Second Amendment recognizes the unalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms, was three years into the future. Anti-Liberty/gun cracktivists were pushing their latest strategy: suing gun makers for the third-party acts of people about who they had no knowledge and over who they had no control for misuse of their lawful products. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, USA

‘Buckle up’ for a second Trump presidency, former U.S. ambassador tells Canada

Kelly Craft, Donald Trump’s former ambassador to Canada, says the country should prepare for what could be a more antagonistic bilateral relationship with the U.S. if her old boss wins Tuesday’s presidential election.

Trump’s focus on building up American manufacturing and making NATO allies spend more on defence means Canada would need to make some policy changes to stay in America’s good graces, Craft said.

“Canada, they need to buckle up, The whole world needs to buckle up because President Trump will continue his policies from 2016. We are going to make America great again and we will be bringing it back to where it was under the Trump presidency,” Craft told Radio-Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Star publishes 4037th “Trump Bad Man” article

The worst parts of American politics are creeping into Canada. Here’s why

It is the question bedevilling progressive-leaning people north and south of the Canada-U.S. border throughout this raucous, election-filled fall — how has the race against the conservative right become so close?

You hear it from people voting for Democratic contender Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential vote. How on earth is Donald Trump, a convicted felon, an election denier, the man who inspired a mob to stage a deadly riot on Capitol Hill four years ago, even a serious contender?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump had some bad moments and some oddly friendly ones — but here’s what will really matter if Trump is re-elected

OTTAWA — Word came unexpectedly in January 2017 that President Donald Trump wanted to talk to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Officials scrambled to connect the two leaders and racked their brains: what urgent matter had they not foreseen?

I doubt Trump will much care knowing Junior is on the way out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

How Rumble went from a family-friendly Canadian startup to a megaphone for U.S. election deniers

Steven Crowder has big plans for election night. The far-right commentator says he will livestream his show on the video-sharing platform Rumble until a winner is declared.

Crowder, who routinely airs debunked claims of voter fraud, believes that could take days or weeks, potentially making his the “longest-lasting election night livestream in internet history.”

He is promising the Nov. 5 show will highlight “election anomalies coast-to-coast,” reported to him by “undercover” journalists and volunteer poll watchers.

In a nutshell CBC sought out a bunch of far-left censorship proponents to validate their narrative.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Because Shut Up!", Canada, USA, WTF?

DEI Is Crushing Military Recruitment

Veterans worried about the quality of leadership are counseling young family members not to join up.

The veteran community has lost faith in the country’s national-security leadership. The military is a family business—80% of volunteers have a family member who served. Three years into a recruiting crisis, however, the Pentagon hasn’t specifically surveyed this core constituency to determine what’s going wrong.

Pew surveys in 2011 and again in 2019 found approximately 80% of veterans would advise young people to join the military. We recently commissioned a demographically representative YouGov survey of 2,100 veterans. Our data show the share of veterans recommending military service plunged 20 percentage points in five years, to just 62%.

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

Global Threat: The Biden-Harris Administration Is Enabling Iran to Become the Next Nuclear State

One of the most alarming features of the Biden-Harris administration is its permissive stance towards Iran’s nuclear program. When this administration came into power, they promised that they would effectively address and curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Yet, nearly four years into Biden’s term, US Secretary of Stare Antony Blinken announced that Iran is “probably 1-2 weeks” away from having nuclear weapons — and that was in July.

Iran is now just a technical step away from acquiring a nuclear bomb, and these advances have been taking place while the Biden-Harris administration has done not a single thing to stop or even slow them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA, WTF?

Trump ordered the overthrow of the Venezuelan Maduro regime in 2019 — and the CIA botched it -report

For the world’s crummiest anti-American dictators, sometimes it’s not just the art of the deal for them in relations with President Trump. The left has criticized Trump for talking to dictators for deals, but now it’s obvious that Trump as president was willing to do more than just talk.

Actually, Trump could play as hard and dirty as the dictators do — no deals, pal — and in his first term, he did.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump, USA, Venezuela, WTF?

Great Britain Is Neither Great Nor Free, and Might Not Even Be Britain for Long

Benjamin Franklin, an Englishman born in the colonial town of Boston in 1706 but who chose to separate himself from the rule of a tyrannical British government as one of our American Founding Fathers, once wrote that “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”

Franklin understood well the depth of the depravity that the government of his ancestors was capable of. Very little about its current manifestation would surprise him.

But the British tyranny of Franklin’s time was at least intended to serve the interests of the British people, however that might be interpreted. It’s far more difficult to make a case that this is still true.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

The Biden-Harris Administration, a ‘Ceasefire’ and a Palestinian State

The Biden-Harris administration appears still obsessed with a supposed ceasefire and a Palestinian state.

President William Clinton, and, after him, President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry also tried to create a Palestinian state. Now President Joe Biden with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan seem to be trying to do it again.

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

The Battle of Unrwa: America Could Be Forced To Choose Between Defending Israel or Backing the United Nations.

Who will the next president and Congress side with in a brewing, increasingly hostile battle between the United Nations and Israel?

On Monday the Knesset enacted by a sweeping majority a law that in 90 days will bar the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from operating in Israel, Gaza, and West Bank. The act is raising a global backlash.

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

FBI investigating as ballot boxes go up in flames in Vancouver, Washington

Ballot boxes in Washington State and Oregon were set alight by the same culprit damaging hundreds of votes, the FBI believes.

Footage of the blaze in Vancouver, Washington shows smoke billowing from a red drop box as a uniformed officer scrapes at the smouldering remains of voter slips.

Hundreds of ballots appeared to be reduced to ashes and local media reported that only a handful were saved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA, WTF?