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What really divides America

The Midterms aren’t a battle between good and evil

Reading the mainstream media, one would be forgiven for believing that the upcoming midterms are part of a Manichaean struggle for the soul of democracy, pitting righteous progressives against the authoritarian “ultra-MAGA” hordes. The truth is nothing of the sort. Even today, the vast majority of Americans are moderate and pragmatic, with fewer than 20% combined for those identifying as either “very conservative” or “very liberal”. The apocalyptic ideological struggle envisioned by the country’s elites has little to do with how most Americans actually live and think. For most people, it is not ideology but the powerful forces of class, race, and geography that determine their political allegiances — and how they will vote come November.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

They’re Redistributing Wealth, Not Fighting Inflation

Biden threw a party to celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act on the White House South Lawn even as the latest figures showed that core inflation has continued to rise. Grocery prices had the steepest increase since 1979. Rent prices shot up again and medical costs are escalating.

Even the most loyal media lapdogs could hardly stand this festival of lies. CNN cut away from Biden’s masque of red ink to show what was happening to the stock market. Reuters acidly headlined its coverage, “Biden celebrates ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ as food, rent prices climb”.

So what’s there to celebrate?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Bill Maher Suggests Dumping Kamala Harris from 2024 Democrat Ticket: ‘She’s Not Very Popular Anywhere‘

Bill Maher has floated the idea of dumping Vice President Kamala Harris from the 2024 Democrat presidential ticket, noting that she remains deeply unpopular across party lines and is a “bad politician,” to boot.

On Friday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian praised President Joe Biden, saying he will likely be the party’s nominee in 2024. But he suggested the president’s running mate remains up in the air.

Pity it’s such a rare event.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Accused Waukesha Christmas parade killer Darrell Brooks to represent himself at trial

The man who allegedly plowed through a suburban Wisconsin Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring 62 others, has decided to be his own lawyer when his trial starts Monday.

Darrell Brooks is facing 77 charges for the Nov. 21, 2021, Waukesha Christmas parade rampage, including six counts of first-degree murder and 61 counts of felony reckless endangerment. He’s pleaded not guilty.

Each murder count comes with a mandatory life sentence. He’d originally been hit with 83 counts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTerrorism - Domestic, USA

How America Fills Canada’s Cultural Vacuum

However much we strive to denounce and scoff at Americans, the simple fact is we need you.

Canadians have a lingering insecurity that most people outside the country aren’t aware of. Unlike the United States, which actively shrugged off its British overlords, Canadians gradually — and legally — evolved into an independent nation. Canada’s steady march towards self-government required constant wrangling, incrementally seeking to prove its worthiness, and therein lies our deepest fear.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trans Army officer accused of conspiring with wife to provide medical info on senior military officers to Russia is released on home detention with NO BOND: Wife also free on $500,000 unsecured bond

The US Army’s first trans officer has been freed on home detention with no bond after being charged with conspiring with her wife to pass military secrets to Russia.

Major Jamie Lee Henry, 39, and Johns Hopkins doctor Anna Gabrielian, 36, were indicted of using their secret security clearance at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg to steal the records from the base’s hospital, according to the Department of Justice.

The pair are now both back home, with Gabrielian freed on a $500,000 unsecured bond.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

US navy sailor acquitted of setting fire that destroyed $1.2bn warship

A military court judge on Friday acquitted a US navy sailor charged with intentionally setting a fire that destroyed a billion-dollar warship and injured dozens onboard.

During a nine-day trial at California’s Naval Base San Diego, military prosecutors argued that 21-year-old Ryan Mays ignited the USS Bonhomme Richard on purpose in the summer of 2020 because he was upset that he had dropped out of Navy Seal training.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

‘It’s 50 meters away, ma’am!’ Kamala Harris is dumbfounded as she uses binoculars to view North Korea from DMZ (which is right in front of her!)

Vice President Kamala Harris used binoculars to view North Korea from the demilitarized zone, hours after she claimed the US had a ‘strong alliance’ with the enemy.

Video of Harris’ visit to South Korean on Thursday shows the vice president, accompanied by US soldiers, marveling as she looked into North Korea.

‘There’s something about seeing it… with your own eyes,’ Harris comments. ‘And it’s so close.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

James Madison’s Home to Become Site of Massive White Guilt Monument

“We want to make this a national monument to the ‘Invisible Founders,’” said the Rev. Larry Walker, a trustee at Montpelier, the home of James Madison, father of the Constitution, in announcing plans to build a national slavery monument right on the grounds of Madison’s home. The Montpelier board is planning on a massive scale: “Our memorialization project is not going to be limited to a bench and a plaque,” Walker declared, as the board compared the projected monument to the Lincoln Memorial. If this thing is built, future visitors to Montpelier will come away with one overwhelming message: James Madison was an evil man who enslaved other human beings.

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

Submarine Spy Couple Enters Guilty Plea, Again

After a federal judge threw out Jonathan and Diana Toebbe’s previous deal, the Maryland couple agreed to the possibility of a longer prison sentence.

The Maryland couple who tried to sell sensitive submarine nuclear propulsion secrets to a foreign country again pleaded guilty on Tuesday, accepting the prospect of longer prison sentences after a federal judge threw out their original deal as too lenient.

Under the new deal with prosecutors, Jonathan Toebbe, 43, a former Navy nuclear engineer, could serve 27 years or longer in a federal prison. Diana Toebbe, 46, his wife and a former teacher at an Annapolis, Md., private school, could serve more than a dozen years.

Funny how The Times leaves out this little tidbit – Libs Betray America: Submarine Spy Couple Radicalized by Anti-Trump #Resistance

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEspionage, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

China: The ‘Massive’ Threat

In an unprecedented move, the head of the FBI, Christopher Wray, and the head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, the MI5, Ken McCallum, came together in July to warn against the “massive” threat that both intelligence services consider China presents.

“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security, and by ‘our’, I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” Wray said in a joint address by the two directors at the London headquarters of MI5.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

House Republicans sound the alarm over a China-linked food mill near N.D. Air Force base

Dozens of House Republicans told the Biden administration they fear a Chinese company’s purchase of farmland near a military base in North Dakota will imperil national security.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, Florida Republican, sounded the alarm about the Fufeng Group’s purchase near Grand Forks Air Force Base in a new letter signed by 50 colleagues and sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. They fear the company will be too cozy with the communist government in Beijing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Who are the Oath Keepers and why are they on trial?

Members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, will go on trial after jury selection begins on Tuesday in one of the most high-profile cases stemming from the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Among those being tried is the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes, who is charged, along with four others, with seditious conspiracy – plotting to oppose the transfer of presidential power. They have pleaded not guilty.

The trial in Washington could be the most significant 6 January case yet, given the seriousness of the charges and the potential to answer a key question: to what extent was the storming of the US Capitol planned in advance?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA