Terry Newman: Why Amsterdam’s chilling pogrom could happen in Canada

Thursday night, videos showing Israeli soccer fans being ambushed over a period of several hours around Amsterdam appeared on social media, many of them proudly shared by the assailants themselves, echoing how videos of the October 7 attacks were similarly shared. Some attackers rode scooters while assaulting their victims. Mobs chanted anti-Israel slogans, proudly sharing videos of the assaults where they chased, kicked and beat Israeli citizens, after which, some celebrated. Sixty-two people were arrested. All but 10 were quickly released. All of this, on the eve of Kristallnacht. Like the Netherlands, Canadian society at all levels has failed to take a strong stance against antisemitism and to prevent what’s happening in Europe from happening here. That needs to change now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Michael Taube: The lefty media’s unhinged reaction to Donald Trump’s victory

Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election was a remarkable accomplishment — so much so, it should serve as a massive wake-up call to the Democratic party and the political left. Their dislike (or hatred) of Trump was irrational. And their ideas, policies and proposals were clearly out of touch with today’s reality.

There was plenty of TDS in “right-wing” media as well.

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Culture Did A Way Better Job Of Signaling Trump’s Win Than Broken Polls

I don’t study politics, but I do study culture, and there have been some signs that a cultural shift leading to this election result has been brewing for years in America. Most of the professional political analysts just completely missed it.

Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

About Tolerance: These irrational lefties need help.

Why do self-described tolerant people hate so much? In the wake of this historic election, a very definite majority of Americans voted for Trump. Even in California, Harris voters are bound to trip over a closeted Trump voter. Why does the Trump voter have to remain closeted? Why, if a Trump voter is in the majority, does he feel the need to hide? The answer is that the Kamala Harris voters are not at all tolerant. They’re vicious and spiteful creatures who spew venom on their perceived enemies.

And these intolerant people are why Kamala lost. They need to look in the mirror. But first, let’s look at them:

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

No, Trump’s Win Is Not a “Nightmare” for Europeans

Make no mistake—behind their forced congratulations, most European leaders are in a state of shock and horror about Donald Trump’s historic election as the 47th president of the United States of America.

In private, many probably share the lunatic view of Britain’s Labour foreign secretary, David Lammy, who once called President Trump “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath.”

The current mood at the top of the European Union was captured by Politico, bible of the Brussels oligarchy, whose pre-election headline warned that the return of the populist ex-president would be “Europe’s Trumpian Nightmare.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Politics has been colonised by fanatics and bores

Labour MP Dawn Butler’s attack on the new Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, might have been demented, but it wasn’t surprising. Butler is a figure immersed in a simplistic ideology derived from critical race theory, which insists that everything can be explained in terms of race. Her rhetoric over the years – and her infamous retweet last weekend, suggesting that electing a black woman as leader of a right-wing party in a white-majority country represents the epitome of white supremacy – might have appeared deranged to the rest of us. But it was entirely in keeping with a certain unthinking, obsessive, monomaniacal mindset.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists"

Where Are the Missing 11 Million Voters?

As of this writing on Friday, Donald Trump’s popular vote total stood at 74,269,316. By the time you see this article and click on that link, however, that total is certain to be higher. Trump’s final popular vote total has now exceeded his official 2020 total of 74,225,926. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has 68,800,347 popular votes, a steep decline from Old Joe Biden’s 2020 total of 81,286,454.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

We Won and We Need to Act Like It

In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the once and future president.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The U.S. election shows that sometimes the people get it wrong

A landslide, some call it. A sweeping victory – or, if you are so disposed, a stunning defeat. What could it all mean?

But wait a minute. Before we delve too deeply into the Meaning of It All, let’s be clear: To call this week’s presidential election a landslide, or even a significant majority, is complete nonsense, an artifact of two well-known distortions in how the U.S. counts the votes.

Is this Coyne? TDS is like late stage syphilis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Trudeau not ready to deal with border after Trump win

Are we ready for a return of Roxham Road but on an even bigger scale?

With the election of Donald Trump on Tuesday, there is no doubt that Canada’s beleaguered immigration system will likely face an influx of people heading north to claim they are refugees fleeing the United States.

I bet she shows up at Roxham.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Trump victory hands hedge funds $1.2bn win from bet against renewables

Investors running bets against renewable energy stocks have racked up profits of more than $1.2bn from the heavy sell-off that swept the sector in the wake of Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory.

Arrowstreet Capital and Qube Research & Technologies were among firms that had built up short positions against companies such as Norwegian hydrogen firm Nel and German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex, according to data group Breakout Point.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Election 2024

David Polansky: Neither Canadian nor U.S. media understand America

The great novelist Saul Bellow once wrote: “I have developed a certain sympathy with Canada. It’s no easy thing to share a border with the USA. Canada’s chief entertainment — it has no choice — is to watch (from a gorgeous setting) what happens in our country. The disaster is that there is no other show.”

Unfortunately, despite countless hours of American media consumption, many Canadians understand their neighbor surprisingly poorly. The latest program to capture attention here, as elsewhere, was of course the U.S. general election, which Donald Trump won for a second time, much to the consternation of the pundit class in particular.

Random TDS …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

What do the Democrats need to reverse their fortunes? More bread-and-butter issues, less Oprah, say some

More bread and butter and less Oprah.

That’s what some strategists suggest is needed to fix a demoralized Democratic Party recovering from its electoral thumping on Tuesday night.

The finger pointing, recriminations and soul searching has begun in earnest in the wake of the U.S. election, which saw former Republican president Donald Trump soundly defeat current Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris. Some Democrats are now calling for a reckoning within the party to determine what went wrong and what needs to change if they want to win future elections.

The CBC supported Trudeau based on his hair and selfies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024