Trump’s McDonald’s Stop Exposes Corporate Media’s Contempt For The Working Class

In predictable fashion, America’s morally and ethically bankrupt legacy media are melting down over former President Donald Trump’s visit to a McDonald’s franchise this past weekend.

The media-wide freak-out started shortly after the former president, donning an apron and his signature red tie, worked alongside McDonald’s staffers in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, on Sunday. While cooking french fries, Trump greeted customers at the drive-through and poked fun at Kamala Harris’ unsubstantiated claim she once worked at the popular fast-food chain.

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

Queering the Past

Apparently every important figure in history was LGBTQ.

Gender identity studies has unsurprisingly become a booming enterprise in academia, which in the modern world is home to some of the most inane ideas in human history. To justify the existence of these departments, academics focused on sexual orientation and gender have found it useful to stir up a little controversy here and there. The most recent such provocation is the notion that the semi-mythical warlord/king Arthur, a central figure of the founding of Britain, the epitome of knightly valor and prowess, and arguably the most legendary hero in all of Western literature, may have been LGBTQ, according to a Welsh county council.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Why we need more ‘polarisation’

The real divide is between the people and the elites.

I’d like to spend the time I have mounting a trenchant defence of polarisation – or at least what is often called ‘polarisation’ by our political and media classes.

The narrative that is constantly being spun at the moment is that, as of about 10 years ago, politics was… perfect.

It was consensual. It was moderate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

Euthanasia in the Castle: Inside Europe’s Museums of Nazi Medical Crimes

On a visit to Hartheim Castle, a 400-year-old Renaissance fortress not far from Mauthausen concentration camp, I found myself examining a skull-measuring device from 1940. The sinister metal calipers and two measuring scales are on loan from Vienna’s Museum of Natural History; across from the glass display case is a 1930 poster from the UK Eugenics Society featuring a strong, tall man scattering seeds in a field. It reads: “Only Healthy Seed Must Be Sown: Check the Seeds of Hereditary Disease and Fitness by Eugenics.”

Nearby is a 1927 American movie poster: “Youth has its fling—and then comes the burning question—Are you fit to marry?”

h/t Sweetpea

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

IQ-screening is the latest frontier of baby engineering

An American start-up is now offering embryo screening for IQ, plus “the other naughty traits everyone wants”, including sex, obesity, and propensity to mental illness. The company, Heliospect, is the latest in a wave of offerings that promise parents the power to engineer their own offspring: a prospect that raises a host of new philosophical, political, and interpersonal questions. Meanwhile, the origin of the story, in footage recorded as part of an undercover investigation by the Guardian and “antifascist” doxxing ring Hope Not Hate, points toward a new conservatism of the Left — albeit one that will likely prove as futile in the face of technological change as its Right-wing predecessor.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Comrade Kamala? It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

The dreary Kamala Harris has taken to calling Donald Trump “fascist,” most recently in an interview this week with a popular radio host. She is not the only one—Gen. Mark Milley, who headed the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Trump’s presidency, has done the same—but this is the kind of silliness that the ruling class tells itself about any right-of-center politician who threatens their settled picture of the world. They say it of Viktor Orbán and other European leaders of the untamed Right. They said it of Trump in 2016 too, of course; somehow, America got through his presidency without brownshirts taking to the streets, or grabbing the Sudetenland.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", Election 2024

LILLEY: Toronto marathon frustration just the latest example of traffic chaos

Andrew Mayer’s frustration with Toronto traffic is a perfect example of what residents and visitors deal with every single day – non-stop bedlam.

The Kitchener man was supposed to run in Sunday’s Toronto Waterfront Marathon but didn’t make it to the starting line due to traffic.

I am convinced that the traffic mess is deliberate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Geoff Russ: Trudeau’s DEI foreign policy a laughable failure

For too long, this country’s foreign policy has been misguided by outdated and idealistic views of the world beyond Canadian shores.

The Hogue Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Canadian democracy has not yet concluded, but it now appears that China and India may have both stuck their hands into our elections, and worse. The potential for this should have been foreseen years ago, and strong safeguards should have been placed against it.

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

Liberal MPs seek ‘reflection and change’ with letter calling on Justin Trudeau to step down

OTTAWA — More than 20 and as many as 40 of the Liberals’ 153 members of Parliament have signed a letter calling for Justin Trudeau to step aside as party leader, one of their number said Monday, with some believed ready to make the case at a national caucus meeting Wednesday.

Publicly, however, many are holding their cards close, refusing to divulge either the letter’s contents, its signatories or its organizers.

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

24 reasons that Trump could win

This election remains extremely close, but Donald Trump has been gaining ground. One of my pet peeves is with the idea that this is Kamala Harris’s election to lose. I could articulate some critiques of her campaign, but if you study the factors that have historically determined elections, you’ll see that she’s battling difficult circumstances.

So, today’s newsletter simply aims to provide a laundry list of factors that favor Trump, with many links to evidence in previous Silver Bulletin posts and elsewhere. These are in no particular order.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

High grocery and rental costs plaguing Canadians, new survey finds

High grocery and rental costs are squeezing lower-income Canadians even as inflation trends downward, a new survey suggests.

A slight majority (51 per cent) of respondents in an Angus Reid Institute survey said it is a challenge to keep up with their household food needs. This proportion hasn’t changed much since it rose to this level in late 2021, the non-profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation said in a news release published Monday.

The number of surveyed Canadians who are struggling with costs climbed to two-thirds (65 per cent) among those whose annual household incomes are less than $50,000.

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

DND didn’t apologize to sexually assaulted employee because Ottawa Citizen would write about it

Management of the Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services declined to apologize to an employee who was sexually assaulted in Latvia because they didn’t want the mea culpa reported on by the Ottawa Citizen, newly released documents reveal.

Kristen Adams, a civilian who worked for the welfare services group, was sexually assaulted by a NATO soldier during her shift at the canteen operated by Canada for troops in Latvia, according to military police records.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", WTF?