‘This town is dead’: Haitian migrants flee Ohio amid Trump deportation threat

A message circulating on a Haitian WhatsApp group in Springfield, Ohio, lists the best destinations for those fleeing the town in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win.

All of them are states run by Democrats who could provide sanctuary for Haitians worried about being deported following Mr Trump’s election victory: New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts and California.

It is believed that thousands have left for those states in the weeks after polling day. More of Ohio’s sizeable Haitian population is preparing to follow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

BALLINGALL: Tone-deaf Trudeau evades tough questions in heavily-curated appearances

When it comes to political messaging, one rule is paramount: adapt or fade into irrelevance.

This week, we witnessed a striking contrast between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre’s media strategies, offering a masterclass in what to do – and what not to do – when it come to engaging with modern audiences.

Let’s start with Trudeau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

Democrats had just absorbed a crushing defeat in the 1994 midterm elections when President Bill Clinton’s very liberal labor secretary, Robert Reich, ventured into hostile territory to issue a prophetic warning.

Struggling workers were becoming “an anxious class,” he told the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, two weeks after Republicans led by Newt Gingrich had gained 54 seats in the House and eight in the Senate. Society was separating into two tiers, Mr. Reich said, with “a few winners and a larger group of Americans left behind, whose anger and whose disillusionment is easily manipulated.”

“Today, the targets of that rage are immigrants and welfare mothers and government officials and gays and an ill-defined counterculture,” Mr. Reich cautioned. “But as the middle class continues to erode, who will be the targets tomorrow?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party

Colby Cosh: Mark Carney’s big non-reveal

Ignatieff but without the charm.

On Dec. 30, I got word that Mark Carney, a fellow who had occupied an uncertain role in momentous events for the past few weeks, had published a year-end op-ed over in the inferior national newspaper. I started hearing about Carney’s piece right away from wiseacre friends, ones who probably don’t realize how any writer shudders a little at such catcalling. (“What are they saying about me out of earshot?”) One of them called it a “perfect, featureless cube of unmeaning,” and another compared it to an “odourless, impenetrable vapour cloud.” I actually ended up setting aside Carney’s op-ed, saving it for a couple of days as a little treat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Jamie Sarkonak: Immigration needs to work for Canadians, not rule-breakers from abroad

You know things are bad in Canada when the country can’t even bring itself to deport what are obviously fake refugees.

This was the development earlier in December, when a federal judge decided last month to call off the deportation of an Eritrean family who claimed asylum status in Canada — despite already being citizens of Sweden. The judge did so because she figured the family’s children would suffer “irreparable harm” if they were made to move during the school year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why the FBI Chokes on the T-Word

Whether the bureau designates an Islamist attack “terrorism” depends on a dubious judgment that it was inspired by “false” Islamic teaching.

Turns out that Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept Islamic scripture on, of all places, his internal profile page at Deloitte, where he was working as a “solutions specialist” — which sounds eerie now in light of the “solution” he had in mind when he rammed a rented Ford pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in the first hours of the new year, killing 15 and injuring dozens more.

A major housecleaning is in order.

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

In Two Attacks, a Pair of Unraveling Lives and Remaining Mysteries

It was New Year’s Eve and Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a Houston military veteran whose life was coming apart, climbed into a rented pickup truck and drove east toward New Orleans.

As he made his way across the Gulf Coast swampland, the native-born Jabbar simultaneously recorded a series of videos he would soon post to social media in which he swore his allegiance to Islamic State and declared his intention to commit mass murder.

The city he found at the end of his journey was heaving. Fireworks illuminated the sky over the Mississippi at midnight. On Bourbon Street, where locals joke there is no such thing as “last call,” revelers were packed shoulder-to-shoulder, throwing back hurricanes and daiquiris. The New Year’s Eve party had been supersized by the Sugar Bowl New Orleans was hosting the next day between two of America’s most storied college football teams, Notre Dame and the University of Georgia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted interrorism, Terrorism - Domestic

The Rotherham cover-up: Why did so many turn a blind eye?

You all know what I mean by the word ‘Rotherham.’ In The Spirit of Terrorism, Jean Baudrillard observes that there is no true synonym for ‘9/11’ – no one refers to the ‘World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks’ or the ‘Bin Laden attacks’, but just to the date itself, typically in its abbreviated form. Perhaps, he suggests, this is because the events of that day were so shocking, and so significant, that they must be described abstractly. We cannot find the right words.

There is no true synonym for ‘Rotherham’, either. ‘Child sexual exploitation’ (CSE) is the sterile term favoured by most institutions. ‘Child sexual abuse ring’ or ‘grooming gangs’ is more common in the media. None of these terms are satisfactory.

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

It’s not just Tesla. Vehicles amass huge troves of possibly sensitive data.

Elon Musk’s willingness to share information about the Cybertruck explosion has highlighted how much data cars collect — and left some drivers uneasy.

Video footage and other data collected by Tesla helped law enforcement quickly piece together how a Cybertruck came to explode outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.

The trove of digital evidence also served as a high-profile demonstration of how much data modern cars collect about their drivers and those around them.

Data privacy experts say the investigation — which has determined that the driver, active-duty U.S. Army soldier Matthew Livelsberger, died by suicide before the blast — highlights how car companies vacuum up reams of data that can clear up mysteries but also be stolen or given to third parties without drivers’ knowledge. There are few regulations controlling how and when law enforcement authorities can access data in cars, and drivers are often unaware of the vast digital trail they leave behind.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Walt Disney Corporation: The journey from Fantasia to transgenderism

I found myself watching Walt Disney’s Fantasia last night. As always, I was struck by the dazzlingly beautiful hand-drawn cartoons and by the Art Deco charm and kitsch, both of which I love. But what struck me this time was how the movie perfectly encapsulates an extremely normal time in America, one friendly to science and faith. It is the antithesis of what the modern Disney company has become.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

ACCOLADES FOR EVIL: Hillary Clinton and George Soros received the highest US civilian honor

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aroused a standing ovation from the crowd as she received her medal. Clinton was accompanied to the event by her husband former President Bill Clinton, daughter Chelsea Clinton and grandchildren. Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were also awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor in a White House ceremony.

h/t Patti Jo

They got drunk and pulled names from a hat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Elon Musk and Muslim Rape Gangs

There’s a strange self-loathing that the elites have for their own countries.

Is it too much to ask for a little gratitude? America, a declining superpower thanks to the indifferent and self-serving ministrations of a corpulent elite, is still great. Not as great as she was. Not as great as she can be again, but great enough that everyone who wants to be anything wants to come here to make something of themselves. Great enough that even people like Elon Musk want to come here. Not Canada. Not rape-gang Britain. Not energy-depleted Europe. Not commie China. Not caste-class India. The one and only United States of America.

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

BOWYER: This is how dictatorships start

One thing has become clearer over this holiday season. Canada’s current political crisis presents a disturbing parallel to the erosion of democratic norms, typically associated with authoritarian regimes. As Chrystia Freeland’s resignation letter pointedly noted, “a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence.”

Yet the stark reality is that neither she nor an increasing number of Liberal MPs believe this government maintains the moral authority to govern.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government