Is Trump right to fear election fraud?

Cheating has never looked easier

When I visited Mar-a-Lago in spring 2021 to see Donald Trump, his aides asked me not to raise the matter of the 2020 election. They wanted him forward looking and optimistic, not grousing about a past defeat. I didn’t raise the issue, but Trump inevitably did. The obvious irregularities that marked the 2020 election was his main theme that afternoon — as it remained for the next three years.

Trump saw the manner of his election defeat as a personal affront. Not only was the pausing of the ballot count on election night an assault on the constitutional rights of Americans, feeding suspicions that illegal ballots were being added to the tally to boost Joe Biden — but it was Trump who was the mark. He was cheated, and so were you, he told the 74 million Americans who voted for him, and they, too, felt the sting of a public humiliation. As I explain in my new book, Disappearing the President, Trump and his supporters were disenfranchised together in front of the whole world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, President Trump

King severs Duke of York’s ‘£1m-a-year’ allowance

The King has severed the Duke of York’s “£1 million-a-year” allowance in recent weeks, it has emerged.

In an updated biography about the monarch, author Robert Hardman revealed that King Charles has instructed his Keeper of the Privy Purse to “sever” his brother’s living allowance.

The new chapters of Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, serialised by the Daily Mail, includes a palace insider confirming that “the Duke is no longer a financial burden on the King”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

The Trump Betting Whale Speaks Out: ‘I Have Absolutely No Political Agenda’

The man who is betting more than $30 million on a Donald Trump victory wants you to know that he isn’t trying to manipulate the U.S. election.

“My intent is just making money,” the man, who called himself Théo, said during a Zoom call with a reporter from The Wall Street Journal earlier this week. He described himself as a Frenchman who had previously lived in the U.S. and worked as a trader for banks.

Théo’s huge wagers on Polymarket—a prediction market that isn’t open to Americans—drew broad attention last month after the Journal reported that four accounts on the platform had been systematically purchasing wagers on a Trump victory. The bets lifted Trump’s odds of beating Vice President Kamala Harris, as shown on Polymarket. Blockchain data showed that the accounts were all funded by the same crypto exchange, fueling debate about the motives of the “Trump whale” behind them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

TMU’s med school told to clean up their racist and dangerously lax admissions standards

Ford demands TMU’s new med school educate qualified students ‘regardless of their race’

Premier Doug Ford is demanding Ontario’s newest medical school educate qualified individuals “regardless of their race or background,” amid backlash over the school’s plan to loosen academic qualifications and screen out prospective students by race or status.

Toronto Metropolitan University’s new medical school in Brampton is expecting more than 5,000 applicants for 94 spots, of which three-quarters will be designated for students who are Black, Indigenous, or from “equity-deserving” groups. The latter include those who identify as LGBTQ, disabled, poor, and “racialized people.” It has also loosened certain common academic requirements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", WTF?

The Nightmare of America After Kamala Wins

In my last column, I wrote about America after a second Trump administration, but now comes the horror show – America after a first Kamala Harris administration, which is actually a second Biden administration, which is really the third Obama administration, only dumber. It’s unclear whether America can survive it. We’re strong. We’re resilient. But the infection is deep and when you get gangrene, the only answer is to start cutting.

Election guru Nate Silver accuses pollsters of putting ‘finger on the scale,’ lying to keep presidential race close

Polling guru Nate Silver lashed out at other survey junkies in his field for “cheating” in the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election — accusing them of recycling some results to keep the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris close.

The FiveThirtyEight founder said irresponsible pollsters were “herding” their numbers, or using past results to affect current ones, to keep Vice President Harris and former President Trump within a point or two of each other each time.

You can’t tell who’s winning this race

YOU CAN’T TELL WHO’S WINNING THIS RACE. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — There are some political races in which, if you go to a few rallies by each candidate, you get a pretty good idea of who is going to win. This presidential race is not like that. If you go to former President Donald Trump‘s rallies and Vice President Kamala Harris‘s rallies, you’ll have wildly different experiences, but you’re also going to find large crowds of highly enthusiastic voters who just love their candidate. The race is not only tied in the polls but is tied in the impressions of intensity and strength that each candidate’s events leave with an outside observer.

My heart says Trump and I believe Silver’s analysis has merit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

A tidal wave of immigration is swamping my country. It may not survive

Newsflash: Canada is in the process of falling apart.

No, it’s not because Quebec is once again threatening to hold a referendum on separation, although this may happen again in the coming years.

Our country is experiencing a series of crises because of the deliberate policy of mass immigration instigated by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government soon after its election in 2015.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

More Dolls Than People: This is What Population Decline Looks Like

America’s population decline is decently bad, but it isn’t so bad that you’d notice anything drastically different in our society. We’re all still groaning with impatience when full school buses make our morning commute a good 20 minutes longer, our playgrounds are still used, and, depending on where you live, it’s not all that rare to see moms at the grocery store with kids in tow.

In short, it doesn’t yet feel like we live in a childless dystopian world. That’s not at all the case in Japan.

Japan has a bit of a population problem. Not only is its fertility rate incredibly low (at 1.37 births per woman) but last year government data revealed that for every one person born in Japan, two people died. Those kinds of numbers are a problem for social flourishing, and it’s starting to show.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Trump, Harris, and the Role of Intelligence in Leadership

At Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan last Sunday, Donald Trump characterized Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the 2024 presidential race, as “a very low IQ individual.” At the same event, Tucker Carlson dismissed Harris as a “low IQ former California prosecutor.”

Trump’s and Carlson’s remarks tap into a broader discussion about whether intelligence is a critical factor for leadership. Both speakers implied that intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is a necessary requirement for presidential competence.

Imagine JD Vance as VP vs Kamality Jane.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Residential school report — a 1,000-page dissertation in ‘settler colonialism’

The executive summary is 270 pages long. It’s accompanied by a 638-page document titled “Upholding Sacred Obligations” and her previously completed 256-page study titled “Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience,” and that just about wraps it up for Kimberly Murray, the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Europe’s German Problem

Today, Germany embraces the ideologies of “green energy” and a zero-carbon society — a society that no longer emits CO2. Germans seem serious about ideology; they seem serious about everything. Once they buy into an ideology, it might be hard to change their mind.

This is how Chancellor Angela Merkel came to power (2005-2021). Many forget that she did not emerge from the extreme green left, although judging by her record, one might think so. She came, in fact, from the CDU/CSU, Germany’s “center-right” party.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

Why postwar rationing helped boost the health of baby boomers

The rationing that lasted for almost a decade beyond the end of World War Two took its toll on British morale, but it may have had a long-lasting positive effect on the health of baby boomers, a study has found.

People born during the years when sugar and sweets were rationed, which lasted until 1953, grew up to have a 35 per cent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and a 20 per cent lower risk of high blood pressure by the time they reach their fifties and sixties, researchers have discovered.

Carrot on a stick?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?