The hidden feud behind Musk and Bessent’s White House shouting match

It is an open secret around the White House that many in the Trump administration are desperate to see the back of Elon Musk.

While the president himself still holds great affection for the world’s richest man, who bankrolled his election victory in November, many in the cabinet have wearied of the mercurial tech billionaire.

A row last week between Musk and Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, in which the two men went “chest to chest” in an expletive-ridden shouting match outside the Oval Office, is only the latest in a string of confrontations between the Tesla boss and senior Trump officials.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump World

Whether it’s Carney or Poilievre, the next PM must clean house in the federal public service

The costed Conservative election platform released this week largely eschews the hyperpolarizing language that had defined Pierre Poilievre until recently. The word “broken” shows up seven times in the 30-page document, but nowhere does the Tory platform apply that descriptor to Canada as a whole, as Mr. Poilievre had been endlessly doing until the federal election campaign began. Rather, the platform refers to “broken” Liberal promises and our “broken” immigration and health care systems. Hard to take issue with that.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Police ‘misled minister’ about violent threats by trans protesters

The Metropolitan Police has been accused of “misleading” a minister over violent placards at a trans rights protest.

Officers from the London force told Dame Diana Johnson, the policing minister, that no threatening signs were on display at Saturday’s demonstration in Parliament Square. This led her to insist in interviews that there was no evidence the law had been broken.

In fact, several were visible, including two with hangmen and slogans such as “the only good terf is a —- one”, implying gender-critical feminists should die.

No different than in Toronto where police have surrendered to the mob.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

This election, I’m voting for Gaza. But please don’t call me a single-issue voter

I am prioritizing parties’ and politicians’ stances on Gaza when I vote in the federal election on April 28 — but please, don’t call me a single-issue voter.

As a Palestinian Canadian, Gaza feels like the best test I can use to gauge a politician’s actual commitment to human rights. The core principle behind human rights is that they are universal (apply to everyone) and inalienable (cannot be taken away). Over the past 18 months, I have watched Israel violate just about every human right that I learned about in school, while so many Canadian politicians stayed silent. If a politician isn’t willing to fight for the human rights of Palestinians, how can we trust they’ll defend Canadian rights? You might think our existing laws safeguard your rights against those who would take them away, but I’m sure many Americans thought the same thing about due process, too. Things can change fast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, Islamization of the West

Experiments to dim the sun given green light

A government research group will explore whether Earth could be cooled by bouncing away sunlight

Research into whether the sun could be dimmed to combat global warming will be given the go-ahead by the government within weeks and £50 million is expected to be spent on experiments and analysis.

The geo-engineering techniques that will be explored include spraying aerosolised particles high into the stratosphere to deflect a small fraction of the sun’s energy away from the Earth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Poilievre pledges to scrap electric vehicle sales mandates if elected

HALIFAX — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if his party is elected, it will scrap Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandates.

Canada has mandated that 20 per cent of all new vehicles sold must be electric by 2026 and 100 per cent by 2035.

Electric vehicles made up just shy of 12 per cent of the Canadian sales in 2023, but government rebate programs meant to encourage people to buy EVs came to an end in January.

Winner!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Election 2025

SLOBODIAN: Carney’s leadership could trigger ‘Miss Me Yet?’ yearnings for Trudeau

Voters didn’t demand much substance when they handed Justin Trudeau that 184-seat majority in 2015.

Despite a decade of steady decline during three terms of his leadership that brought Canada to the brink of ruin, history could repeat itself in the April 28 federal election. If polls are believable, newbie politician Mark Carney who returned to ‘save’ Canada after years abroad is positioned to head a Liberal majority government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Unsung Heroes: For the Last 6 Months Amish Volunteers Quietly Rebuild Devastated NC Town

Recovery and rebuilding efforts from the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene on towns like Chimney Rock, North Carolina has largely faded from the headlines and the public’s awareness.

Over the past 6 months, however, a team of 2,000 volunteers from the Great Needs Trust, a Pennsylvania Amish community, have been quietly and steadily rebuilding the town’s homes, businesses and bridges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Islam Is Incompatible with Democracy

In studying historical events, there’s a tendency to apply a “what if” analysis. This involves pondering “what if” some other influence had intervened and whether it could have resulted in a more favorable outcome.

For example, what if Colonel George Custer had waited for the reinforcements which were already on the way to assist him before charging into the Battle of the Little Big Horn? Or what if the captain of the Titanic had opted to hit the iceberg straight on rather than trying to glance off its side? Or what if a German soldier during World War I named Adolf Hitler had been killed on the battlefield rather than merely wounded?

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

Canada election is Carney’s to lose in contest turned on its head by Trump

Every election, the message from exasperated pundits and pedants is the same: Canadians don’t actually vote directly for their prime minister.

But on a rural intersection south of Ottawa, residents could be mistaken for thinking otherwise.

Hammered into the freshly thawed mud and gravel are campaign signs for the Liberal leader, Mark Carney, and Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, at the only place in the country where the dividing line between parties is as literal as two signs facing off on opposite sides of the road.

But what will your neighbors do?

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

The dangers of the political gender gap

Young women and men are gravitating towards opposite political extremes, with potentially explosive consequences.

Throughout history, poverty, class and economic self-interest have driven radical political movements. The Bolsheviks harnessed the anger of impoverished workers and peasants to create a movement that controlled the world’s biggest country for seven decades. The Nazis came to power due to both the Great Depression and resentment towards a small but economically nimble Jewish community.

Today, extremist politics is not bubbling up primarily from the economically disaffected, as occurred both in medieval and modern times during periods of upheaval. The self-professed radicals of our age seem more driven by their own inner cultural angst and disturbed psychology.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Culture, Culture Wars

Why Greater Toronto Could Decide Who Wins Canada’s Election

The Conservatives had enjoyed a lead over Liberals in the region largely because of rising housing and food costs. But President Trump’s tariffs have shifted the equation.

A year of rapidly slumping poll results for the Liberal Party that has governed Canada for nearly a decade was bad enough. But then there came the almost unthinkable: a defeat in a special election in downtown Toronto, the party’s longtime electoral fortress.

The defeat last year, many analysts believe, triggered the chain of events that led to Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister and the federal election that will be held on Monday.

Voters in Toronto had been vital to keeping Mr. Trudeau and the Liberals in power through three elections. So the loss of a Toronto district — held by a prominent Liberal for 28 years — to the Conservatives was a stunning blow and an omen of worse to come in a general election.

Not so fast Katie Telford’s typist…

This will lose more Carney support than is gained.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Election 2025