This week my thoughts travelled back a few decades to a long drink of a man I knew well. Sam was rail thin with a shoe-leather face and big, working hands. The smile lines on his face were deep and gave a hint of a big heart and generous soul.
Sam was from Arkansas. He was a working man his whole life. Of course, he was a Democrat.
At last, it appears that the Party of Chaos got its fondest wish: it aborted itself in the 2024 election. “Joe Biden” was the coat-hanger it used: this miserable, grifting, now-senile hack politician who will be remembered only for driving his country to the verge of ruin. And for what? All in an effort to cover-up a long train of crimes and abuses against the American people perpetrated by a permanent bureaucracy gone rogue that was the party’s partner-in-crime. And now it’s over.
Random TDS …
“F*ck the government”
This libtard is suggesting they start protesting the election by… putting a mask back on.
You can’t make this up, folks. ♂️ pic.twitter.com/fW5ETuGxT6
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 10, 2024
Ahead of Remembrance Day, poll suggests most Canadians don’t know much about their history
As people gather to remember those who fought and died to protect this country in past wars, a new poll suggests many Canadians know little about their country’s history.
That’s likely because high school students in most provinces and territories are not required to take a Canadian history class before graduating, experts say.
Many Canadians are in the dark about the people who helped build this country and the seminal moments that define its past and could inform its future, according to an Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Historica Canada — the educational charity best known for producing the Heritage Minutes.
The SAS will mount its biggest security operation in London in more than forty years due to the threat of a terror attack at the National Service of Remembrance.
They will be at the Cenotaph watching over the thousands of veterans, members of the public and dignitaries who will meet at Whitehall at 11am.
It is understood to be the largest deployment in London since the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980 – though exact numbers have not been disclosed for security reasons.
h/t Patti Jo
All the president’s men: Donald Trump’s support from the manosphere is clear, even if it’s confounding
What do a mixed martial arts promoter, social-media stars, an attempted assassin, and a golfing legend’s genitalia have in common?
They all played some role in securing Donald Trump’s re-election.
Trump’s ability to win over men — particularly younger white and Latino men — was key to his successful campaign.
With the votes now counted, the influence of the manosphere — and Trump’s ability to appeal to traditional concepts of masculinity — in sending Trump back to Washington is coming clear, even if it is confounding.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has won Arizona and its 11 electoral votes, The Associated Press said on Saturday night, flipping yet another swing state and bringing his final Electoral College tally to 312. With his victory in Arizona, Mr. Trump has now won all seven of this year’s battleground states.
Mr. Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in Arizona is a reversion to the state’s traditionally conservative status: It has voted for a Democrat only twice since the 1940s, including in 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. eked out a win over Mr. Trump by just over 10,000 votes.
A state of the art Leopard 2 tank is destroyed in a brief moment by a cheap drone. All of those people arguing for more tanks have to explain how they can be defended not just in the future, but right now https://t.co/VWFslcUAjf
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) November 9, 2024
h/t Mauser
A former Ontario teacher has been given the go-ahead by the Ontario Court of Appeal to bring a defamation lawsuit against the Waterloo Regional District School Board (WRDSB).
Justices Benjamin Zarnett, Patrick J. Monahan, and Renee M. Pomerance on Nov. 5 dismissed an appeal filed by the school board of an earlier court decision in favour of Carolyn Burjoski. The teacher had launched a defamation lawsuit for an accusation by the school board chair that her remarks were “transphobic” when she spoke at a board meeting questioning the age-appropriateness of some books in school libraries
On Remembrance Sunday Pro-Palestinian supporters cause outrage as the block Tower Bridge.
In WW2 they would have been likely to have fought with the Nazis. pic.twitter.com/o6xSLHKeAU
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) November 10, 2024
Donald Trump made the first official hire of his incoming administration, announcing 2024 campaign co-chair Susan Summerall Wiles as his chief of staff.
The president-elect’s transition team is already vetting a series of candidates ahead of his return to the White House on 20 January 2025.
Many who served under Trump in his first term do not plan to return, though a handful of loyalists are rumoured by US media to be making a comeback.
WTF?
America needs to sadly declare an immediate mental health crisis.
Not just for the existing mental health crisis but also now TDS.
I’m dead serious.
Trump will remain dignified & try to unite The Country, you already saw his somber magnanimous Victory speech, but a lot… pic.twitter.com/kjecX4fDoI
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) November 6, 2024
Douglas Murray speaks more for Britian than any politician
I couldn’t have said it any better every word is how I feel !! pic.twitter.com/OffeElnxlg
— WeGotitBack (@NotFarLeftAtAll) November 10, 2024
The Labour Day long weekend was anything but restful for Bruce Rodgers.
His phone started buzzing on the Friday night and didn’t stop, with dozens of emails and calls all asking the same thing: Why had air cargo imports to Canada suddenly ground to a halt?
As executive director of the Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association (CIFFA) — the industry body for the national network of cargo handlers — Rodgers is used to dealing with the fallout from labour disruptions, accidents or even natural disasters. But not mysteries.
OMG!!! @mommyrn88 IS THE BEST!!! pic.twitter.com/3ERzUk7IxG
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) November 9, 2024
At about 7.30pm on Friday, three days after he clinched his re-election as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump walked into the soft, golden light of his Mar-a-Lago club bearing a magnanimous smile, and basked in a wave of applause from around the dining room.
Under the crystal chandeliers, frescoed walls and marble pillars sat a coterie of those closest to the man who was, again, about to be the leader of the free world. Eric and Lara Trump, his son and daughter-in-law (she is co-chair of the Republican National Committee), were celebrating their anniversary. Roger Stone, one of his confidants and a fellow convicted felon, sat at a table with Tulsi Gabbard, a reformed Democrat and part of the transition team.
In Brighton yesterday, a pro Palestine protester goose stepped and did Nazi salutes to a group of Jewish people & not a single @sussex_police did anything.
Appalling. Do British police only spot racism if the culprit has a Union flag wrapped around them?
pic.twitter.com/YkluPIOHAg— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) November 10, 2024
It’s this the same useless “Police Liaison” Twit telling this poor man it’s illegal to sing Hymns in Public??
ENGLAND
'You're not allowed to sing church songs outside the church grounds'
Christians harassed for singing, in bizarre altercation with police officer pic.twitter.com/fNXVKap0lH
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) January 29, 2024
