Labour is sending almost 100 current and former party staff members to the US to campaign for the Democrats in swing states.
Activists from Sir Keir Starmer’s party will spend the next two-and-a-half weeks canvassing for Kamala Harris in four key battlegrounds ahead of the US election on Nov 5.
They will target Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which are all seen as crucial to Ms Harris’ path to the White House.
h/t Mauser
The country’s recent actions are anything but neighborly.
Canada, our neighbor to the north as it is sometimes called, evokes mainly pastoral and benign images: vast timber, mineral, and other oil and gas resources; the mighty Canadian National Railway featured in one of Gordon Lightfoot’s ballads; the splendor of the Banff resort and the glacial Lake Louise; famous hockey teams taking slap shots from the blue line; Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and his Alaskan Malamute named Yukon King; U.S. and Canadian military personnel working seamlessly for North American air defense; and a quasi-European and liberal socialist culture, with a hint of smugness.
But is Canada really all that neighborly?
America’s decline was a generation behind Europe. Now we’re where Europe used to be.
Why are Hamas rioters running around major cities? American cities are now also populated by unemployed grad students who alternate between sitting in cafes and throwing firebombs at police in their hip districts and mobs of foreign migrants squatting entire neighborhoods. The native working class is sinking into despair and drug abuse in the rural and industrial hinterlands even as those areas are being overrun by third worlders who dominate the local economies.
In 1968, the film Planet Of The Apes ended with the then-shocking shot of a half-submerged Statue of Liberty, revealing that the future dystopian world was none other than our own. The revelation has been part of Western consciousness for quite some time. The Bible continuously warns that if the Land does not have its Sabbaths, the Lord will impose them. It is a fixture of Western consciousness that some day the West, like every other civilisation, will die.
Every Victorian reader understood allusions to The New Zealander, a rhetorical figure in Thomas Macaulay’s 1840 essay. He was a traveller to a long-vanished civilisation, and gazes, uncomprehendingly, on the ruins of St Paul’s Cathedral. At around the same time, Marx believed that capitalism was a necessary stage of decay, from which communism could come into being. We see his prediction proved correct — in Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela and, now, in the United States. But his vision was of decay-into-perfection; rather than into chaos, savagery and dissolution, which we see to be the case.
On a number of occasions over the past few months, US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has declared her support for the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel. Last month, Harris said: “We must have a two-state solution where we can rebuild Gaza where the Palestinians have security, self-determination and the dignity they so rightly deserve.”
The majority of Canadians prefer Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the U.S. election, but support for the former Republican president has increased here, especially among young men, according to a new poll.
The research, conducted by the Environics Institute in Toronto, also found that more Conservative Party voters prefer Mr. Trump than during the last U.S. presidential campaign, in 2020.
You know it’s the right thing to do when Coyne poops himself.
Jesus H Christ:
– 36% of young (18-34) Canadian men would vote for Trump over Harris.
– 44% of Conservatives would.
– 48% of Conservative men (vs 31% who would vote for Harris).Today. Not in 2016, when they might not have understood fully what he was about. But now, after all… https://t.co/JMpQO7vRSG
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 14, 2024
Lingering anger from Joe Biden’s staffers at him dropping out of the race after a relentless campaign from Democrats to oust him has led to tension with Kamala Harris’ campaign team, a bombshell report reveals.
Biden, 81, has appeared to undercut Harris at least four times in recent weeks during the critical final stages of the 2024 race that could be one of the closest in history.
He made a surprise White House briefing room appearance during one of her rallies and praised Ron DeSantis’ response to the hurricanes that devastated his state, while she accused him of playing politics.
The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website, published a note from its editor on Saturday acknowledging that two election workers in Georgia did not engage in ballot fraud in 2020, days after the publication settled a lawsuit brought against it for falsely reporting that they had tampered with election results.
For several decades, political and social commentators have noticed a phenomenon, colloquially known as the “Big Sort,” in which individuals and families have reorganized themselves into local communities along political, cultural, and religious lines. This idea first came to prominence with Bill Bishop’s 2008 book, The Big Sort. Since the convulsions of 2020, and especially since the widespread adoption of remote work, this sorting has intensified.
DETROIT/WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday will propose making all interest on car loans fully tax-deductible and taking steps to prevent Chinese automakers from selling vehicles in the United States, according to excerpts of a speech seen by Reuters ahead of remarks in Detroit.
Trump will say at the Detroit Economic Club he plans to impose new tariffs to prevent Chinese automakers from building cars in Mexico and exporting them to the United States, part of an effort to appeal to autoworkers in the battleground state of Michigan.
Trump also will say he will formally notify Mexico and Canada of his intent to renegotiate a North American free trade deal to address concerns about Chinese vehicles, according to the prepared remarks. Vice President Kamala Harris has also said she plans to invoke the renegotiation provision if elected.
The reaction to this should be fun. h/t Mauser
There are many reasons for Americans to remain angry about the terror attacks of 9/11 in New York City, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon. What galls me the most, however, is that the perpetrators used our own planes to kill so many and do such damage. That painful fact adds, as they say, insult to injury.
Citing conventional wisdom or an “appeal to authority” will reach out and bite you every time. The proverbial “appeal to authority” in an argument only works when the “authority” is credible.
The conventional wisdom that the 2024 presidential race is razor-close is based on polls. Frankly, pollsters themselves are warning us not to trust their work.
“There are a lot of sh***y polls out there,” said John Anzalone, who has done polling work for Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. And, added Greg Strimple, a Republican pollster, many hardcore Donald Trump voters aren’t responding to polls at all, especially online polls.
An Ipsos poll says 66 percent of Americans support the deportation of illegal migrants, which is a central promise of President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.
The September 20-22 poll of 1,29 adults shows that 90 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of independents support the popular policy of “deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally.” The policy is also favored by 47 percent of Democrats.
An Afghan national allowed into the US shortly after the Harris-Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was charged Tuesday with plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was living in Oklahoma City on a Special Immigrant Visa as he took steps to stockpile AK-47 rifles and ammunition to carry out an attack on US soil “in the name of ISIS,” according to the Justice Department.
h/t kiki9
The federal government is finally acknowledging that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has been too lenient in issuing visas, and that our asylum system is being abused.
Last month, Immigration Minister Marc Miller admitted that Ottawa needed to do a “stronger job” of preventing people who had been given visitor visas from taking advantage of our overly generous policies. He had previously acknowledged that the immigration system had gotten “out of control” and he’s called overseas police checks “unreliable.” He has also said it was “alarming” that increasing numbers of international students were claiming asylum to stay in Canada, and he has drawn attention to India, “where we are seeing people exploiting the visa system.” India was already the main source country for both permanent and temporary residents in Canada; it is now also a source of migrants who are “not legitimate asylum claimants,” according to Mr. Miller.
Mass immigration = Vote harvesting
The Liberal Party means you harm.
