Six Trump voters on why they’re backing him in 2024

Donald Trump arrived in Washington as a political outsider in 2016, upending US politics, reshaping the Republican Party and engaging previously disengaged voters.

He became the first president to be convicted of a crime and still falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen from him.

But he continues to draw strong popular support on the issues that top voter concerns, such as the economy and immigration.

Six of his supporters explain his enduring appeal as he makes his third White House run.

Tlaib declines to endorse Harris at UAW rally in Detroit

Detroit — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the presidency Friday at a United Auto Workers union rally as Democrats made a late appeal to get union voters to the polls.

Tlaib, one of few high-ranking Democrats who have not endorsed Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, was among the speakers for the UAW’s rally on the lawn of Solidarity House in Detroit. Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, has been critical of the Biden administration’s stance on Israel’s war on the militant group Hamas in Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that killed mostly civilians.

Dead-heat poll results are astonishing – and improbable, these experts say

The US presidential election campaign enters its final weekend with polls showing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in seemingly permanent deadlock and few clues as to which of them will prevail on Tuesday.

At the end of another unruly week that began with Trump’s racially charged rally in New York’s Madison Square Guardian and was punctuated by celebrity endorsements, misogynistic comments and insults about “garbage” being levelled left and right, the Guardian’s 10-day polling average tracker showed little change from seven days earlier, with voter loyalty to their chosen candidate appearing relatively impervious to campaign events, however seismic.

Nationally, Harris, the Democratic nominee, has a one-point advantage, 48% to 47%, over her Republican opponent, virtually identical to last week. Such an advantage is well with the margin of error of most polls.

H/T DS

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Jordan Peterson interview: ‘We are weak in the West compared to the Islamic fundamentalists’

What has fame done to Jordan Peterson? Eight years ago he was a clinical and research psychologist at Toronto University, highly cited but publicly little known. Today he is a conservative mega-star, a YouTuber with 8.3 million subscribers and two best-selling books, (including his 2018 book 12 Rules for Life) that push self-improvement, of the “make your bed” and “stand up straight” variety.

He promotes a rugged and self-confident masculinity. Many young men love him. A fellow in my gym couldn’t name the chancellor, but he knows who Jordan Peterson is.

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CSIS hiring for diversity within ‘all levels’ of agency

A recent job posting from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) explicitly states the agency is hiring summer co-op students based on diversity.

CSIS told the Western Standard the DEI policy is in place because the intelligence agency believes it appropriately represents Canada’s population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", "Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", Canada, CSIS, WTF?

DEI Is Crushing Military Recruitment

Veterans worried about the quality of leadership are counseling young family members not to join up.

The veteran community has lost faith in the country’s national-security leadership. The military is a family business—80% of volunteers have a family member who served. Three years into a recruiting crisis, however, the Pentagon hasn’t specifically surveyed this core constituency to determine what’s going wrong.

Pew surveys in 2011 and again in 2019 found approximately 80% of veterans would advise young people to join the military. We recently commissioned a demographically representative YouGov survey of 2,100 veterans. Our data show the share of veterans recommending military service plunged 20 percentage points in five years, to just 62%.

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Trio of Polls in Key States Give Harris Slight Edge, but More Accurate Private Polls Reportedly Tell a Different Story

Vice President Harris has some reason to feel better about the so-called Blue Wall states in the closing days of the 2024 election from public polling.

However, private polls– commissioned at great expense by the campaigns and kept confidential–are reportedly not showing new momentum for the vice president. Private polls are believed by the statistics community to be more accurate.

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Assisted suicide is being used to relieve people of poverty, isolation and social suffering. This is not OK

This, from a report issued by the Ontario chief coroner’s office on how medical assistance in dying (MAID) is being carried out in this province:

Mr. A, “a male in his 40s,” was suffering from inflammatory bowel disease. He also had “a history of mental illness, previous episodes of suicidality, and ongoing alcohol and opioid misuse.” No one offered him treatment for his addictions, but a psychiatrist gave him information about MAID. He was approved for death under what’s known as “Track 2” — cases where death is not reasonably foreseeable. A MAID provider personally drove him to the place where he was given an assisted death.

“If you establish and apply the principle that you can kill ‘unproductive’ fellow human beings then woe betide us all when we become old and frail!… it is only necessary for some secret edict to order that the method developed for the mentally ill should be extended to other ‘unproductive’ people.” ~ Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen

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Global Threat: The Biden-Harris Administration Is Enabling Iran to Become the Next Nuclear State

One of the most alarming features of the Biden-Harris administration is its permissive stance towards Iran’s nuclear program. When this administration came into power, they promised that they would effectively address and curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Yet, nearly four years into Biden’s term, US Secretary of Stare Antony Blinken announced that Iran is “probably 1-2 weeks” away from having nuclear weapons — and that was in July.

Iran is now just a technical step away from acquiring a nuclear bomb, and these advances have been taking place while the Biden-Harris administration has done not a single thing to stop or even slow them.

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Five cities, including London, driving human trafficking in Canada: Report

London ranks among five metro areas in Canada that together account for nearly half of all human trafficking reports in the last decade, a new snapshot of the crime shows.

There were 570 cases of human trafficking reported to police in Canada last year, down slightly from 597 in 2022, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday.

Despite the slight decrease in the latest human trafficking report, cases have been on the rise for the past decade, with more than four-fifths recorded in large urban areas, the report said.

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The Craziest Talk Radio Scandal You’ve NEVER Heard About

Somewhere in the Tampa Bay area is a man named Brent H. I’d like to use his last name because he’s been a (quasi) public figure for a long time, and frankly, he deserves the recognition. But I probably shouldn’t: I think he left radio to pursue other interests, and I want to respect his decision.

But Brent H. has some jaw-dropping tales to tell, because he was a producer and on-air talent for two of the craziest, lewdest, most controversial shows in the history of talk-radio, “The Howard Stern Show” and “Bubba the Love Sponge.”

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Charges dropped against woman filmed pulling Pro-Palestinian protester’s hijab as the Hamas supporter’s chant a call to genocide

Crown prosecutors have dropped assault and harassment charges against a woman who pulled the hijab of a protester at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ottawa in May, saying it needed to balance the public interest in prosecution and the reasonable prospect of conviction.

As part of the reasoning given for withdrawing charges on Thursday, assistant Crown attorney Moiz Karimjee said the Crown considered a number of factors, including that the victim was chanting “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free,” which he said could be reasonably inferred to be “a call for genocide of the Jewish people.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Zelensky Criticizes Western Allies for ‘Zero’ Response to North Korean Troops

So ronery!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday lashed out against the “zero” response of his Western allies to reports that thousands of North Korean mercenaries are preparing to fight on Russia’s behalf.

“Putin is checking the reaction of the West … And I believe that after all these reactions, Putin will decide and increase the contingent … The reaction that is there today is nothing, it is zero,” Zelensky complained to South Korean broadcaster KBS in a televised interview.

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