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How raw milk could convince the Amish to put Trump back in the White House

Scott Presler, a giant of a man at 6ft 5in tall, his lustrous hair falling in great waves down to his waist, is wearing runners’ shorts showing off his long, tanned legs and what appears to be a smidgen of lipstick. The flamboyant, one-time chairman of Gays for Trump has given himself a new task: to persuade Pennsylvania’s 80,000-strong, strait-laced Amish community to vote for Donald

Trump and in doing so, return the former president to the White House. It seems a tall order.
As he does every Friday, Mr Presler is manning his stall at the Green Dragon market, an Amish fair in the heart of Lancaster County, where horses and buggies can be as commonplace as the motorcar.

Can’t say I had this on my Bingo card.

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

Canada’s Unproven Mass-Grave Scandal

Progressives want to outlaw ‘denialism,’ but no actual remains have been found.

Progressives want the state to monitor truth in the public square, and some would give government the power to punish dissent from approved narratives. Last month Hillary Clinton proposed criminalizing speech she labels as “propaganda.”

Any first-year law student can tell you why that won’t fly under the U.S. Constitution. But in Canada protections for those who question conventional wisdom aren’t nearly so secure—even if the truth is on their side.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania", WTF?

The Dark New Greta Thunberg and Our Celebrity-Industrial Complex

Way back in the ancient time of 2015, Matt Drudge found himself befuddled about why he was suddenly seeing actress Amy Schumer everywhere, when he didn’t find her particularly funny, insightful, or enjoyable. “Who is Amy Schumer? Where did she come from? Why is she being force-fed on population?” (The actress is Chuck Schumer’s cousin, and looking back I wonder if Drudge was implying that family connections were a driving force behind her then-burgeoning fame.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, WTF?

‘Rings Of Power’ Season Two Isn’t Even Worth Hate Watching

Siege engines are not stealthy.

Relatedly, it is time to pull the plug on Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation. There was much to complain about in season two of “The Rings of Power,” but the nadir might have been a squadron of siege engines rolling out of the woods in a surprise attack against Eregion. This might seem a minor quibble given the failures of plot, characterization, and dialogue that have plagued the series, but it encapsulated the show’s complete indifference to even basic competence.

I was certain that MAGA hating racialized gay elves was the way Tolkien himself would have envisioned the story.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood, WTF?

Woman Who Tried to Smuggle 29 Turtles Wrapped in Socks Pleads Guilty

A woman pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 Eastern box turtles, a protected species, that were individually wrapped in socks inside a duffle bag as she tried to paddle in an inflatable kayak across a lake from Vermont to Canada over the summer, officials said.

The woman, Wan Yee Ng, of Hong Kong, was arrested in June at a rental residence in Canaan, Vt., as she was about to enter into the kayak with the bag on Lake Wallace, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont.

The Chinese are like locusts there isn’t an animal they won’t kill for food or “medical” potions or powders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

B.C. NDP could be punished for its policies on crime

After being arrested, a British Columbian can successfully sue the police for making racist or other insulting comments, “even if the mental distress is not very serious,” now-B.C. Premier David Eby wrote in 2007.

And even if you are being legally arrested in the act of stealing a car, Eby wrote, you can later go to court for thousands of dollars of compensation if you are bitten by a police dog.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Ontario First Nations accept $47.8 billion child welfare deal after intense debate

After two days of lengthy and contentious discussions in Toronto, Ontario’s First Nations have ratified a $47.8-billion child welfare reform agreement with Ottawa, which has been in the works since 2016.

Ontario’s largest confederation of First Nations, the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), voted to ratify the agreement, followed by the Chiefs of Ontario (COO) on Thursday afternoon. A third and final vote will be held at the Assembly of First Nations meeting in Calgary next week.

This grift has to end.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada, WTF?

‘Trump is the only hope for peace’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza

That the Trump campaign would open an office in Hamtramck, a tiny city of around 28,000 people north of downtown Detroit, less than a month before the election, speaks to a particular curiosity of the 2024 presidential race.

About 40% of Hamtramck’s residents are of Middle Eastern or north African descent, 60% are believed to be Muslim Americans, and the city has an all-Muslim city council.

Last week, as Israel was expanding its war into Lebanon and continuing its daily bombardment of Gaza, scores of locals – many immigrants from Bangladesh, Yemen and other Arab- and Muslim-majority countries – lined Joseph Campau Avenue to attend the official opening of Trump’s office.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Election 2024, WTF?